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Good evening, and welcome to a special BBC Points West tonight. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The headlines this evening: Claims that cuts at some council | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
recycling centres are causing a big rise in fly-tipping. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The troops who control unmanned spy planes in Afghanistan are honoured | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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by a World Cup legend. You get individuals parents and a | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
football match as you get individual heroics and bravery in | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
the army. Also tonight, the pedal-powered | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
submarine getting ready to take on the world. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
And Bristol's multi-million-pound M Shed finally opens its doors today, | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
celebrating the city's past and future. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
There has been a significant increase in illegal fly-tipping | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
following the first scheme in the country to charge for dumping your | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
waste. The project in Somerset started in April and has already | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
saved a lot of money. But, as John Maguire reports, many are | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
struggling with the changes. If it's Taunton, then it's not a | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Tuesday or Wednesday. Why? Because the tip is closed on those days. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Every one in the county now shuts two days a week, half day on | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Sundays, and at four other sites across Somerset you are charged per | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
visit regardless of what you dump. It is the country's first scheme of | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
its kind. And at almost three months old, it is already saving | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
money. But there are negatives, too. Illegal fly-tipping has increased | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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significantly. I think people have found it, getting used to the | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
changes, I don't think everybody has turned into a environmental | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
criminals overnight as a result, but some people have been | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
frustrated by the changes and have found other ways of disposing of | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
material. This rubbish dump is between Taunton and Wellington and | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
money is being saved by closing certain centres on certain days, | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
for example this one closed yesterday and today, but if people | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
do not like that and opt instead to dump their rubbish on the roadside, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
they are left in no doubt. Look at this sign. The message seems clear | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
enough. The threat of a jail term and a �50,000 fine is daunting, but | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
just a quarter of a mile down the road we found clear evidence that | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
some just don't care. Although, to be frank, this could have been left | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
here before the changes. One message not getting through, it | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
seems, are the days the tips are open. We saw several people who | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
turned up and were disappointed. live in West Buckland and to head | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
off at thes around there, fly- tipping all the time. I pity the | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
farmers who have to dispose of it. You think it has got worse? It has | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
definitely gotten worse. Yes, they definitely need to open this seven | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
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days a week, like it used to be. Local councils are being paid to | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
clear up the fly-tipping, and the system will be reviewed in three | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
months, but for now there are no plans to throw it out. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
In the last few hours, Avon and Somerset Police have told the BBC | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
that they have discovered a body in the Feeder Canal in Bristol. It is | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
thought to be that of the missing student William Appleby. The 19- | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
year-old from the University of the West of England was last seen at | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
the Motion nightclub near Bristol Temple Meads train station. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
The former chief executive of the Cotswold Water Park today pleaded | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
guilty to six charges of fraud at Gloucester Crown Court. 63-year-old | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Denis Grant embezzled hundreds of thousands of pounds by diverting | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
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funds meant for the Water Park into his own personal account. The judge | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
warned him he faced a long prison sentence, but agreed to release him | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
on bail because of his early guilty plea. The case has been adjourned | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
until July 19th. The Bristol DJ Roni Size has been | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
found not guilty of throwing his former partner down the stairs, | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
shattering her heel. The musician, whose real name is Ryan Williams, | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
did not want to comment as he left court after a jury cleared him of a | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
charge of causing grievous bodily harm. Jane Andrews had claimed he | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
pushed her down the stairs at his Bishopston home last July. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
England's footballing hero Sir Geoff Hurst has praised the work of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
West Country soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The 1966 World Cup | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
winner was presenting medals to service men and women who have just | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
returned from the frontline to their barracks in Wiltshire. Scott | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Ellis reports. For families and friends, these are | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the heroes of today. Soldiers from 32 Regiment Royal Artillery at | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Larkhill. They were about to meet another national hero from an | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
earlier generation. Here comes first, some people are on the pitch, | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
they think it is all Labour... It is now! -- they think it is all | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
over. A soldier's wife asked if Sir Geoff would do the honours. The | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
former West Ham forward said yes. So today, a Hammer was proud to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
meet the Gunners. I am filled with great sadness when I see the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
coffins coming in, draped in Union Jacks. It makes me very sad, as it | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
does my family. Every one of them I met today is a hero. Their job is | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
to make Afghanistan a safer place for soldiers on patrol. They fly | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the unmanned Hermes spy planes, which beam down battlefield | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
pictures from 10,000 feet. On one mission they spotted two enemy | :06:06. | :06:16. | |
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fighters burying an IED. We saw them digging, saw the device, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
prosecuted them when we were able to it. It saves lives as well as | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
man-hours, that is what we're out there to do, save lives. Thanks a | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
lot for giving me a great honour. In his speech, Sir Geoff praised | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
the soldiers' courage and team work. Praise indeed from one of the most | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
famous teams of all. Now, the reason I am alone in the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
studio tonight is that there is a brand new attraction in the West - | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Bristol's new multimillion pound M Shed museum. After years in the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
making, it opened with a grand ceremony just after midday, and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
since then there has been a constant stream of visitors. Imogen | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
is there this evening to tell us more. | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
Look at these traffic lights - they even work when you press them. Sir | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
John Somerton, an architectural historian, once said: "If I had to | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
show a foreigner one English City, I'd take them to Bristol, where | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
nearly everything has happened". And that is just what the M Shed is | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
trying to encapsulate. From the familiar, the Bristol Bus, of | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
course, to never-before-seen private photo albums. It is more a | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
personal history than official history. But enough talking, let's | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
have a tour. The music, by the way, is by the Bristol band Massive | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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attack. -- Massive Attack, who are Just putting you through, corner. - | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds | :08:18. | :09:03. | |
The road to completion for the M Shed has not been a smooth one. It | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
has cost �27 million to build, is two years late and �8 million over | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
budget. So today was as much a sigh of relief as a celebration. With a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
spectacular opening ceremony, the doors were finally opened to the | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
public, as Emma Campbell reports. It was not your average museum | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
opening. These acrobats are hanging from Bristol's historic trains to | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
re-enact the legend of the two giants who created the Avon gorge. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
But they were not the only things on a tight road. The razzmatazz | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
could not disguise the fact that M Shed is years late and millions | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
over budget. The council says it will still be value for Money. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
have to judge these things over years. We found problems in the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
ground pollution and piling which had not been anticipated, so there | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
was a cost overrun, which caused a time overrun, but what we have | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
ended up with is a fantastic state- of-the-art museum, cutting edge, | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
probably one of the best in the country, which will appeal to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
everyone in the city. It did not deter the hundreds of people who | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
queued in the rain to get a first look. And so far it is proving | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
popular. Within 1.5 hours of opening, it had 1,000 people | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
through the doors. Good fun, we got here about 10 minutes ago. Are you | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
having a good time? I like the air shelter because it had a bed and it | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
looked a rather cool. I like all of the old costumes and history. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
used to work for the company which built the cranes outside, we were | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
apprentices there in 19 did to one, so it is good to come and have a | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
look at them today -- in 1951. like this one, it is good to find | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
out about the history of Bristol. Plenty of the past inside, but | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
outside 150 Bristow eons of the future are marked the opening with | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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a song all about the city and specially composed for the occasion. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
From Banksy to Wallace and Gromit, it is all here with over 3,000 | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
artefacts. I am joined by Stephen Grey from Bristol City Council. Are | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
the contents of this museum worth the �27 million price tag? I would | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
say definitely, yes. If you compare it too many museums that have | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
opened this year, this is quite a modest expenditure. And it did as | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
you had hoped? It is everything I had hoped. I have worked on the | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
project for 13 years, but it is fabulous and it can only do great | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
things for Bristol. It is a great city and needs to have it story | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
told. Sue Furloe, you were a volunteer but initially had your | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
concerns about the use of the building? It is more than I could | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
have hoped for because there have been so many people working on it | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
to have come up with brilliant ideas of stories to tell and ways | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
of displaying objects. It is fantastic. Have you had much | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
feedback from members of the public while they have been coming through | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the doors? I have been volunteering today and people have been coming | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
back to me as they leave just to tell me how much enjoyment they | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
have had out of it and house than they are by it, really. You were | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
here from the start, Stephen. How did the idea first come to be? | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Wherever I have worked in the country I have gone to the city | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
museum to get a sense of where the city has come from before I had | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
wanted to work there. I went to the City Museum and Art Gallery and | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
love it, but it is a British Museum and tells you nothing about the | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
city. Before that, I worked in Edinburgh, which had a beautiful | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
People story, and this was a city, I felt, which needed it story told, | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
and we are now able to do that. Thank you for joining us. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Still busy this evening, lots of families here. I will be back | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
shortly with more tales from the archives of Bristol. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
We look forward to that, thank you. Some more news now, and two nurses | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
who worked at the private hospital near Bristol featured in the recent | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Panorama programme have today been suspended from practice by the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Nursing and Midwifery Council. The disciplinary body placed an interim | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
suspension order against Sookalingum Appoo, seen here in the | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
BBC programme about Winterbourne View, and Blessing Hoyi. They now | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
face a full investigation into allegations of serious breaches of | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
nursing code of conduct. The High Court has ordered a | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
temporary halt to the closure of libraries in Gloucestershire. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
There were protests last November when the county council announced | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
it would withdraw funding from 10 branches as part of spending cuts. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Campaigners began a legal challenge and today when an injunction | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
stopping the council proceedings. There will be a further court | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
hearing next month. Opponents of a new stadium for | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Bristol City football club say they will meet soon to decide whether to | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
mount a legal challenge to the planned development. Last night, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
councillors decided a new stadium could be built on land at Ashton | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Vale, if the other half of the site is given over to a wetlands area | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
and town green. But some locals are less than impressed by the decision. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
This is just one area where feelings are running high, right on | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the edge of the proposed site. That is where they want to build the | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
stadium, you can see the tennis centre in the distance. Several of | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
the people I spoke to had strong views about having a stadium there. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
They did not want it and are not impressed with the way the | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
situation has been handled but did not want to appear on camera. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Others were more forthcoming. a piece one neighbourhood and to | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
bring those crowds of supporters here will be an like mad -- it is a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
peaceful neighbour at. We have a great view at the moment, parking | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
will be horrendous. Last night, councillors voted in | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
favour of a plan to split the site. They said the southern part did | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
meet the criteria to be a town green, where development cannot | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
take place. But the northern part could not be a town green, and the | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
stadium could be built there. This could be the end of the saga, but | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
those apposed to the development could still challenge that decision | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
in the courts and take the matter to judicial review. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
I'm joined by barrister Peter Wadsley, who specialises in | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
planning law. Good evening to you. Good evening. If they go for a | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
judicial review, how does it play out? They have to put in Britain | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
grounds of challenge, but in their evidence to support those unwritten | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
grounds, and that is served on the stadium, company and city council, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
who then respond in writing. That then goes before a judge who has to | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
decide whether there is an arguable case. That is just to get | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
permission for a judicial review? To go for a full hearing after that. | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
How long could this take? Certainly months, possibly over a year? You | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
are looking at a few months to get permission and, after that, it | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
depends on the state, particularly in London. I thought the planning | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
inspector had ruled that the whole site could be designated as a town | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
green, so how come the council came along last night and said only half | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
of it? Two things, the first that the inspector only advises the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
council, the decision is the council's. Secondly, the council | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
say there is fresh evidence that entitles them to depart on the | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
recommendation. Do we know what that evidence is? It is evidence | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
that relates to the use of part of the side, but that is likely to be | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
challenged in any judicial review proceedings by the applicants for | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
the town grey. I suspect I cannot tempt you to give a personal | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
opinion on this, but what will the judge decide? I would have thought | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the applicants would be likely to say it was unfair of the council to | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
have dealt with it in the way they have, because the inspector heard | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
all of the evidence, cross-examined the witnesses, she has not had an | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
opportunity to pass upon the evidence and the council has made a | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
decision without going back to her. Do you think they will get | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
permission for a review? Yes, I do. Thank you. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Now it is time to meet another of our 12 for 2012 - West Country | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
athletes hoping to be part of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
just over a year's time. Today it is a young man who combines speed | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
and agility, sprinting over obstacles more than half his height | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
in size. Lawrence Clarke is one of the country's top hurdlers, and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
trains with an elite group of athletes at the University of Bath. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
He has already won a Commonwealth medal, and hopes to top that in | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
London, as Alistair Durden reports. Hours of practice for an event that | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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takes little more than 13 seconds to complete. A split second can | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
make the difference between winner and also-ran. The start is the most | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
important. If you are not there at Hurdle one, you will not be in the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
race. I have quite a rhythmic technique so when I get to top | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
speed I can hold it, but I take longer to get to top speed. There | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
are 10 hurdles, 3ft 6 high. His practice runs are filmed and | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
analysed so his technique is perfected. You keep the shoulders | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
square, it did a definite improvement on the last run. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
year-old Lawrence has just finished a degree in Bristol so is now a | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
full-time athlete in Bath. He has had a privileged upbringing - a | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
former Etonian, and heir apparent to his father's baronetcy. But he | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
says he has not had any financial help from his family, and has | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
strived to succeed on his own merit. My accent is firmly to some people, | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
you see it on Harry Enfield occasionally -- my accent is fun. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
But if you're not running well, you will get mocked for that and for no | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
other reason. When I came here, I was a shocking athlete, but since | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
then I have earned respect. Everyone in the group has an | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
international medal, so you are on a level playing field. Away from | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
the track, hobbies are restricted because of a risk of injury. The | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
shooting range is one way he can unwind. You can play lawn bowls, | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
clay shooting, fly-fishing, but I don't fish. An easy choice? This is | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
good for your co-ordination and focus. At last year's Commonwealth | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Games, he finished third behind two other English hurdlers, the first | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
time the country has completed a 1- 2-3 in the event. And he is coached | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
in Bath by Malcolm Arnold, who masterminded the careers of Jason | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Gardener and Colin Jackson. I gave him a month's trial and after about | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
30 seconds I said he could stay. He was very good. He is physically | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
very good, very quick, and is a very good competitor. He became a | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
nude -- European junior champion in his first season. His sights are | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
firmly on London 2012, and he needs to improve his personal best time | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
by just two-tenths of a second in order to qualify. If anyone has run | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
a race and lost by half a foot, they will know the half a foot | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
would have meant a lot. We will see what happens, but I should be able | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
to make the time. And he will have several chances to do that. Next | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
month's Under-23 Championships are his next big hurdle. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Before London 2012, one team in Bath is taking on the world next | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
week in a rather more unusual event. The Racing Submarine Team from the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
University of Bath is flying to America to represent the country in | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
the international submarine races. Lizzie Way went to meet them as | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
they tested out their boat. This is the British Racing | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Submarine team. And this is their yellow submarine. It is pedal- | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
powered, and today it went in the water for the first time. It has | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
been built by mechanical engineering students at the | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
University of Bath, who were up until 6am this morning making sure | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
it was water-worthy. Each one of them has learned the aspects of the | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
control, and each one of those individuals comes together as a | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
team, so bake take their engineering degrees and turn it | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
into a system to beat the world. The team are flying out to | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Washington to represent the UK and will compete against countries from | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
all over the world. Only one person can fit in the submarine and so it | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
is all down to the power of one. the back, there are two toe clips | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
which I put my feet into, and using that I power the paddle at the back. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
There is a window so I can look straight down, designed for the | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
race because the race has a long line of fairy lights on the bottom | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
which indicate the course. There will be two submarines racing. One | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
of them is this, which has a propeller, but it comes down to | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
brute force and how quickly you can cycle. The other one mimics an | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
animal. It uses the same oscillating wings as a sea lion to | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
move through the water. It is tradition to launch submarines with | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
a bottle of beer, and the students today were only too happy to help. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
So, with the testing complete, the team are now confident they can | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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pedal their way to a winning podium. Wonderful, I would love to see them | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
in a pit stop. That's about it from me in the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
studio for now, but I'll be back with a round-up of all today's news | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
at 10pm. Now, though, time to join Imogen again at Bristol's new | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
multi-million pound museum. Where are you now, Imogen? | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
This is one of the highlights of the M Shed. The architecture of the | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
building has meant there are floor- to-ceiling glass walls on each | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
floor, giving you a magnificent view across the harbour. Not quite | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
the weather they hoped for the opening ceremony, and we will have | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
a full forecast in a moment, but as it opened to the public today I | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
thought we should find out what the public has made of it. Tina, what | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
did you make of it? It was fantastic, really, really good. I | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
was not expecting so many interactive things for the children. | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
We love it. It was great. What was the best bits? I liked the air raid | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
shelters and the bus. Did you like it, Oscar? I like it all. Is it | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
still a Friday, though? Yes it is still Friday! What was the | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
highlight for you, Nikkei? thought it was all good, lots of | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
interesting things to look at, some quirky things from the Bristol | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
Royal Infirmary. Some of the bits are quite macabre. What about you, | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
what did you like? There was nothing to not like, it was all | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
really good. With a seal of approval like that, you cannot go | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
wrong. The weather, however, tells a different story, so let's get the | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
It does no good down there, I will be making a visit myself. If I | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
chase -- it does look good. If I choose a day to get out, it will be | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
Sunday, because tomorrow looks quite right. We had a respite today | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
before the rain arrived this afternoon, and the rain will make a | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
gradual clearance but stays with us overnight and into tomorrow. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Another weekend of two hearts, heavy showers tomorrow and Sunday | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
is drier and brighter. It is because of the low-pressure that | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
tomorrow will be unsettled, heavy showers pushing through tomorrow | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
with a strengthening wind. So as we go through the rest of this evening | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
and night, still rein around as we saw at the harbourside, but it is | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
clearing, it will push away but heavy showers to follow right off | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
the back of that and the winds at the moment suddenly but they will | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
swing round during the night to come from the south-west and west. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Not particularly cold, though. But from the word go tomorrow, the | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
showers making their presence felt, frequent, intense, heavy at times, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
possibly a rumble of thunder. The down draft of the shower was | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
combined with the strong westerly wind means the highs will really | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
struggle. You will need a sheltered spot out of the breeze to get | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
anywhere need 16 and 17th -- to get anywhere near 16 and 17. Into | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
tomorrow evening, the showers continue, so if you have any at -- | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
if you have any evening activities planned, not the greatest evening | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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for it. It leads into a much better Sunday. Still holding on to that | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
keen West-south-westerly, and have a highs will struggle to get beyond | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
17, but it will feel warmer than Saturday in sheltered spots, and at | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
least staying dry. For the Festival of Nature at the harbourside, a | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
heavy shower on Saturday but on This is my friend, he told me off | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
because I did not ask him a question. He is five. | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
Now if you are planning to come down to the harbour this weekend, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
there is lots for you to see. The BBC's Festival of Nature is also on. | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
There is the chance to meet wildlife experts and presenters | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
from the Natural History Unit and Points West. And plenty of hands-on | :27:30. | :27:33. |