along the Wales-England border.

Tomlinson says he has been meeting healthcare workers and GPs who may end up being responsible for enacting new assisted dying legislation.Paul turned to her friend Dr David Montgomery, a former Tory parliamentary candidate and medical researcher.

Huddled against the cold in a park near Paul's Reigate constituency, Dr Montgomery argues it is difficult to accurately predict if someone has six months left to live: a key strand of the bill.“You can tell when people are very close to death."But the prediction of six months as an arbitrary figure which is going to be open to huge interpretation and therefore I suspect quite a lot of legal challenge."

Despite his concerns, Dr Montgomery says the trend of Britons going to Switzerland to die proves the UK must debate assisted dying."I'm not sure this is the way to have it," he says.

Paul says she votes by trying "to take some of the emotion out" of debates and bases her decision on "facts and evidence".

Her vote hinges not only on the principle but "how this would work in practice".A trial date is yet to be set.

Thousands of cannabis plants have been seized after an operation by police forces across the South West.Officers from Avon and Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit were involved in Operation Mille.

The scheme, which included almost 40 arrests, was aimed at tackling the growing threat of organised crime groups and their involvement in the illegal drug supply chain.Avon and Somerset Police acting Det Ch Insp, Matthew Lloyd, said the operation demonstrated what can be achieved "when police forces take a united stand".