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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Our headlines tonight: The tragedy of a neglected toddler. Little | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Daniel drowned in a garden pond, his parents and grandmother are | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
guilty of not looking after him. New insights in the turbulent | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
marriage of Shrien and Anni Dewani. Another phone hacking story but | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
this time it's a drill that cuts hundreds of lines. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Happy birthday Bristol Zoo! We will be live here at a special party | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
with hundreds of people and Larry the Lima as they celebrate 175 | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
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Good evening. A little boy who was neglected by | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
his mother, father and grandmother fell into a pond and drowned, and | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
nobody noticed. Two year old, Daniel Rees-Smith, was at his | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
grandmother's house in Hanham when the tragedy happened. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Today, charges of manslaughter against his family were dropped and | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
they pleaded guilty to not properly caring for the boy. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Grandmother, Hilary Rees, who was looking after Daniel when he died | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
refused to comment as she left court. Daniel's mother, Charlotte, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
and his dad, Andrew Marshall, also wouldn't answer questions about why | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
the little boy was left alone. Daniel was discovered in the pond | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
late on the Friday evening of June 4th last year. He was rushed to | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Bristol's children's hospital where he was pronounced dead. He'd fallen | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
into this pond in the back garden of his grandmother's house in Mount | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Hill Road, Hanham. His parents were in the nearby Cross Keys pub while | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Hilary Rees was in left charge of the two year old. After his death | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
both Charlotte Rees-smith and Andrew Marshall left emotional | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
messages about their son on Facebook. In court they spoke only | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
to confirm their names, but Daniels' mother cried in the dock. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
The charges of child neglect covered a period between April 2009 | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and June 5th 2010 for both women and for Andrew Marshall just for | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
the one day - the day that Daniel died. In accepting the guilty pleas | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
to child neglect, Rupert Lowe for the prosecution said "This was not | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
an easy decision to make. But we took into account the public | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
interest". The prosecution then formally withdrew the charges of | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
manslaughter against all three defendants. The judge told the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
three that they had committed serious crimes and they shouldn't | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
take any indication from the fact he was granting them bail. All | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
three will be sentenced next week. A group of travellers have moved | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
into an industrial estate in Bristol. They arrived at the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Liberty Industrial Park over the weekend. A local businessman, who | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
rents a nearby unit, said it's the second time this year a convoy has | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
moved onto the estate. The travellers are due to be evicted | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
this evening. A new rehabilitation centre in | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Wiltshire for injured soldiers has taken in its first patients today. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
�17 million has been spent turning Tedworth House in Tidworth into a | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
specialist recovery centre. It's one of five centres being opened by | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
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the charity Help for Heroes across the country. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
The residents of 21 care homes in the West are facing an uncertain | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
future after today's news that Southern Cross is closing down. The | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
company is the biggest care home operator in the country. Our | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
business correspondent, Dave Harvey, has been looking at the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
implications. Dave, does this mean these homes will close down as | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
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well? The biggest question is just that, although Southern Cross is | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
getting out of the business, the homes continue. First of all there | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
are 21 homes across the West Country. This is Haven Lodge at | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Portishead. About 200 people live there. Paid for mostly by the NHS | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
and the local council. Mick is run by Southern Cross but it is not | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
owned by Southern Cross. Like all there of the homes, there is a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
landlord that owns the building. Up until now those landlords have | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
thought they could do better job of it, both for their shareholders and | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
themselves making profits, but also for the residents and relatives | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
providing better care by being part of Southern Cross. That has all | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
gone, Southern Cross are in deep financial trouble and they are | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
getting out and handing the homes back to the landlords. So the | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
landlords are left in the lurch, what are their options? Some of the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
landlords are care organisations and they will be trying to run | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
these homes themselves and do a better job of it. They will be | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
smaller, but others will try to sell them on. What is worrying is | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
this is Britain's biggest care provider and they run 750 homes | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
across the country. People are thinking, if they cannot make money, | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
how can people make an honest living and still look after people? | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
What should relatives be doing or thinking at the moment? All they | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
can do is contact the home and ask them what is happening. People are | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
desperately worried, but is the Government going to step in? MPs | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
are saying banks are too big to fail, but care homes are much more | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
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important. Ministers have said We will be watching to see if they | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
will keep their word. This is Monday's Points West with | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Alex and David. Thank you for joining us. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Coming up in tonight's programme: The new fuel at the Pump Rooms - | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
could there really be power hidden in slime? And fluke or future star? | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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We meet the schoolboy cricketer already breaking records at 12. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
A documentary being shown tonight will be making new claims about | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Anni Dewani's state of mind before she was shot dead on her honeymoon | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
in South Africa. The Channel Four Dispatches programme "Murder on | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Honeymoon" investigates her death, shortly after her marriage to | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Bristol Businessman, Shrien Dewani. He denies being involved in her | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
murder, although the South African authorities want him extradited to | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
stand trial. The programme tonight has exclusive access to Anni | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Dewani's family, and earlier I spoke to the producer, Dimitri | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
Collingridge, about tonight's programme. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
We are looking at the two sides of what the South Africans are | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
alleging happened and what Shrien Dewani says happened. We have also | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
spent a lot of time with Anni Dewani's family. They have told us | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
a lot about the relationship they had from their point of view. | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
do, you mention her family, I know you have spoken to her father. | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
Let's look at a clip of that. According to the family, before the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
wedding Shrien Dewani told Anni Dewani he did not believe in sex | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
before marriage. This undid him to her father. I said that you should | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
be very proud of that, what a nice boy. It is part of the Hindu | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
culture and they commented on that to my daughter. She would find that | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
funny, but according to Hindu culture it gives respect to the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
voice. There is new evidence to talk about | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
in the programme of her communications with her family | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
about her marriage, can you tell us any more? We understand she | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
discussed the possibility of divorce with friends and family. | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
She had on one occasion described Shrien Dewani as a monster. She | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
said of though he was a really nice guy, she wasn't happy with him at | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
all. That is what we understand. was she saying this to? Befriend. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
You also spoke to the lawyer of the taxi-driver accused of the murder. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
We have another club if we can look at that. | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
The taxi driver was never assaulted or tortured and there was never any | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
price placed on him. Independently of each other, they tell the same | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
story about a plot that was hatched to kill the female occupant of the | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
taxi. That, I believe some answers. Obviously he is defending his | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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client. Briefly, what's have Shrien Dewani's family had to say to you? | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
He is family and the husband himself have declined to comment. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Then there are lots of conflicting stories and they are all | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
allegations and they remained at unless there is eventually a trial. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
It is on tonight, and thanks very much for joining us. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
We contacted the publicist, Max Clifford - he's the spokesperson | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
for the Dewani family and is featured in tonight's programme. He | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
told us that the family say, "the South African police have declined | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
to interview Shrien. The matter is before the courts where all issues | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
will be raised and his name cleared". | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Engineers from British Telecom says they are working around the clock | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
to restore services to hundreds of homes and businesses in Gloucester. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Phone and internet connections were lost when drilling by Severn Trent | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Water cut through underground cables. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Claire Higgs isn't alone - far from it. At least 1,400 other homes and | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
businesses in Gloucester have been without their phone and internet | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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access for four days now. Are we going to get compensation | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
for it? Who knows. Dear thing you should get compensation? Yes, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
people like me on BT vision, we don't have an internet, we don't | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
have television challenge. My kids are missing out. For Claire it's a | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
costly inconvenience but for others, this doctor's surgery for example, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
it's causing real problems contacting patients and hospitals. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
It happened on Thursday when drilling for Severn Trent Water, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
which is working to improve Gloucester's flood prevention, cut | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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through eight BT cables. On this map on the side of the construction | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
site fence, details of what lies beneath from cable TV, two gas | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
pipes, electricity, water. That should tell engineers exactly what | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
is Underground. In Longlevens and near the city centre it seems there | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
are BT engineers everywhere working to restore the services. But some | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
can't afford to wait. It has caused havoc. I lost two deals because of | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
it at the weekend. Not being able to get in touch with customers to | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
make appointments so they have gone elsewhere to buy cars. Explain to | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
us what that dongle does. It gives me mobile broadband, so I have to | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
spend �20 to get mobile broadband so I can get in touch with my | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
customers. This is the culprit - the underground drill known as the | :11:51. | :12:00. | |
Aussie mole. Neither Sever Trent nor BT were available for interview | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
by us today but both are apologising and hope normal service | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
will be resumed as soon as possible - maybe by the end of the week. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
A campaign to make Frome the first town in Somerset to have a 20mph | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
speed limit on every residential street has been launched. Those | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
behind the "20 is Plenty" campaign say it would make the roads safer | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
and encourage people to walk and cycle. But critics claim it would | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
make little difference, after police said it's not practicable to | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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To be hunt continues for for alternative at fuel. This | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
alternative is green, slimy and lives in baking hot temperatures. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
For nearly 2,000 years, these Waters have been believed to cure. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Lurking beneath the murky depths, researchers from the University of | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
Baath believe they have a remedy for carbon-based of pollution. This | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
algae contains oil which can be used. We have managed to isolate a | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
clean-up seven species. We are looking at to see what sort of | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
temperatures they prefer, and what sort of products they make. If they | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
make oil, that is what we would make diesel from. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Does it have a practical future? The team say that although the | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
converting process is expensive, farming algae uses a less land than | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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crop based bio Fuels. Because our they are more sufficient, you need | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
a fraction of the amount of land to produce the same amount of fuel. | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
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Are they can accumulate in the region of 50% of their dry weight. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
It is potentially an efficient way of producing an alternative to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
fossil fuels. The team have much work to do to | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
identify the other species beneath the Waters, which could help power | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
the future. Who knows? One day, these ancient Waters could have | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
another claim to fame. A younger power lifter from the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Forest of Dean has been crowned a world champion at the Special | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Olympics in Athens. Myth and Fisher won a gold, silver and two bronze | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
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medals. -- Nathan and Fisher. Today, he came back to his gym. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
As a world champion and gold medallist, he is getting used to | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
the trappings of fame. On Saturday, he was guest of honour at a large | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
dinner. Today, he received a hero's welcome at the gym where he trains. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
He is obviously happy to lap up the limelight. We have known him a long | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
time, he is a tremendous young man. It is good for the club as well, | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Betty has achieved what he has. came through and conquered the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
situation. It was not only physical, but mental power. That is what we | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
all need. Nathan's achievements have been | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
outstanding. What makes the more remarkable is that he was born with | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
a condition which meant he could not walk until the age of three. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Not only that, before the condition there -- competition, he came down | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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with food poisoning and was on a drip. I am so happy. I have focused | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
my mind. I do my best. What he achieved his of the planet. Being | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
ill, on a drip, like food for 24 hours, goes out and performs lifts | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
of that calibre? Amazing. There is no stopping making. After | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
showing of his medals, he was soon back to training. This week, we | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
have 10 or 11 sessions. A lot of people want to speak to him, see | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
his medals and have a chat to him, congratulate him. It will be a busy | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
week. Nathan is now preparing for the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
British championships in the autumn. He will defend his title at the | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
Special Olympics in 2015. You have to be really focused to | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
get that fit. Now to another young man destined | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
for sporting excellence. In Somerset, they are busy doing their | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
research to see if 12-year-old Owen Price has set a new cricketing | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
world record. Coming in to bowl for Westlands Under 12s in Yeovil he | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
took a hat trick - that's three wickets in three successive balls. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Quite special for any bowler at any level, of course. But then in his | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
next over - he did it again! It's thought he could be the youngest | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
person ever to take a double hat trick. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
First wicket I bowled round his legs, second one straight through | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
the gate and it hit middle stump, the third one I bowled off stump | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
and it clipped the stump. By any standards Owen's figures make | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
impressive reading. Two hat tricks in two overs and he ended the game | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
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with figures of six for six. wickets in a row. Not bad? | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
No-one was more surprised than former Somerset batting hero Jimmy | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Cook, who now coaches the youngster at county level. Owen is Somerset's | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
under 12 wicket keeper. It just shows, he got six wickets in six | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
balls. He is a talented young boy, he can turn to bowling and he is | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
probably a good tennis and football player. We were surprised that he | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
bowls very well. Were you throw away the wicketkeeper gloves? | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
will stay as keeper. Are you telling me six in six was a fluke? | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Probably! Only last week Somerset's Arul | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Suppiah set a new world record by taking six wickets for five runs in | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
a 20-20 game. Now everyone is frantically | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
searching the record books to see if Owen at 12 is the youngest | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
player ever to take a double hat trick. It could well be the case. | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
We have not looked in detail added that it is possible. I think a 13- | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
year-old has done it fairly recently but he is only 12. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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Maybe he needs tougher opponents. Your foot was over the edge! | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Now, we are off to the zoo. There are not many institutions that can | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
claim to have entertained six generations of families, but | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
Bristol Zoo is one of them. Today it celebrates its 175th anniversary | :19:25. | :19:34. | |
with a big party. We took a sofa to the zoo to meet Terry Nutkins, who | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
was presenting a special programme directly after Points West, about | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
the zoo. He has been reminiscing about Animal Magic, filmed in is | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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very studio. First of all, we are sitting on our. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
West sofa. We are privileged. Welcome back to Bristol Zoo. How | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
does it feel to be back? It is a great pleasure. It is great to see | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
all of the new enclosures and Hallett has changed over the last | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
30 years. It has. Reminders about them. It was 30 years ago that I | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
first came here with Johnny Maurice. He was the presenter of Animal | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
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Magic. He spent a lot of time here. I came along on a couple of | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
occasions, it brings back nice memories. Also, it is good to see | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
the way that the zoo has moved on in those last 30 years. Back in the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
day, the elephants would literally wander around outside the | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
enclosures. Yes. That was rather lovely, in its way. They used to be | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
rides on the llamas and elephants. The animals just walked around with | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
their keepers, chimpanzees. Then, environmental health and safety | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
came on board, and put an end to all of that. The thing that Bristol | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
Zoo have done is successfully breed animals in captivity and then -- | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
across multiple generations. Many zoos are now involved in releasing | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
animals back into the wild. Back in the day when you were here, it is | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
often quoted in television never to work with animals. There is footage | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
of Johnny Maurice with a gorilla which has just given birth, and | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
hands the baby to Johnny. That was the most wonderful piece of animal | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
footage in the world. Every time I see it, it makes me feel so soft | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
inside. Do not you think you had better support your baby's head, | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
Delilah? If you are so blinking clever, you look after him! OK, but | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
only for a moment! I say, he is quite heavy. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
I spoke with Johnny many times about it. Because he knew about | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
animals, he was quite nervous about that situation. Animals can change | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
rapidly. All of a sudden, the mother could have thought, what are | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
you doing with my baby? But none of that happened. It was just a | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
magical television moment. In the programme of looking back you have | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
been working on merit -- there are a lot of lovely moments, memories | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
of this place. Yes. A lot of older people, at my age, who were here in | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
those days, they remember Johnny with the elephants. The hosepipe, | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
the kids leaping and the water everywhere. It was all good, | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
natural form. The journey that Bristol Zoo has gone through, we | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
tried to get into a half-hour programme but we needed more. | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
tricky! There is so much more. love the zero, the animals and the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
World of animals. They want animals to be happy in the wild and in | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
these two. The animals are content. The zoo has a passion. It is | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
wonderful to reminisce with you about it, so thank you for taking | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
the time. It is a pleasure. Good to meet you, I hope you enjoy these | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
two. Definitely. That was such a treat! We go to | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
these do now. What is happening there? | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
There is a great party atmosphere at this special picnic for the | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
175th birthday of these two. It is for staff, former staff, family and | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
friends. Everybody is having a great time. There is so much | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
history in this place. If the animals could talk, they could tell | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
us a few stories. We will have to make do with the people. Over here | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
is the man who was the zoo director from 1974 till 2001. You remember | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
the 125th birthday, 50 years ago! What are your best memories of | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
these two? The most memorable is being here when an elephant fell | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
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over. That was chaotic. I always remember that day. It was an | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
amazing attraction back then, hundreds of thousands came every | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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week. In 1967, 35,000 people came. They do not get that in one month, | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
now. -- 35,000 people came every week. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
This man, John Partridge, what are your favourite memories over the | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
years? Everything is brilliant. The staff are fantastic. My first | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
memory of working here is starting with Samson, the silver back | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
guerrilla her. He was the father of the first baby gorilla born in the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
UK in 1971. I love that sort of thing. I have worked with elephants | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
and giraffes. We all remember Wendy the elephant. I worked with her for | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
20 years, off and on. I would walk around and introduce it to young | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
people. There have been a lot of memorable experiences. There are | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
plenty of events taking place throughout the summer, checkout | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
these two's website. What a nice look back. -- the zoo's | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
website. Tomorrow, dry for many with some | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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showers around. Tomorrow will essentially be a day of numerous | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
showers developing through the afternoon, particularly this area | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
of pressure over France. South Wiltshire and Dorset will see rain. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
A fine evening to come, Variable cloud around and balmy conditions, | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
light winds. The cloud will increase across southern districts | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
as the night wears on, but remaining drive. Tomorrow, a mild | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
affair. Starting with a good deal of cloud, but essentially dry, | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
sunny spells will develop. Into the afternoon, showers form over the of | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
plans of West Somerset. Probably over The Cotswolds as well. Some of | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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