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Good evening. A group of West Country MPs, including Defence | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Secretary Liam Fox, is urging the Government to put a stop to the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
National Grid's plans for a network of new electricity pylons. A 37 | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
mile stretch is proposed to carry power from a new nuclear power | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
station at Hinkley Point in Somerset to Avonmouth. But pressure | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
is mounting for the power cables to go underground. Wells MP Tessa Munt | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
lives on the edge of the Somerset Levels. If the new pylons are built | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
she'll visible from her garden. But she says this isn't just an | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
environmental argument. She's joined forces with Conservative MP | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
and Defence Secretary Liam Fox to claim it's actually cheaper long | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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At the moment we lose 7% of the energy taken from the source to its | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
destination on overhead lines. If we put it underground we would save | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
5% of the original figure. The costs are covered by putting them | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
underground. It's long been National Grid contention that the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
cost of burying 37 miles of cables from Somerset to Avonmouth would be | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
prohibitively high but in the face of public opposition it was | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
prepared to consider other options. What's not helped the arguments on | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
either side is that a study on the relative costs of underground | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
versus overground has been dogged by problems and delays, even the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
company commissioned to do it pulling out. But National Grid said | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
this afternoon it hoped to have study results to hand by the autumn | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
then it would be in a position to Taxi drivers in Bath claim they're | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
being harassed by local traffic wardens and are warning the city's | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Orange Grove taxi rank is too congested. One driver's put a | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
protest video on the internet, claiming he and colleagues have | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
been given tickets for stopping for just 30 seconds. Bath and North | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
East Somerset Council says the number of traffic wardens at Orange | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Grove is proportional to the traffic and that some of the city's | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
taxi ranks are left empty, while this one is often oversubscribed. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Turning to sport now. And in cricket, there's been more bad news | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
for Somerset just 48 hours after losing the final of the 2020 cup. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
In their CB 40 match against Essex, captain Marcus Trescothick was | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
taken to hospital for a scan after injuring his ankle. Somerset made | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
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251 for 5. Essex are currently on 134 for five after 23 overs. Just | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
one football result for you, Forest Green Rovers beat Bath City 3-0. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Reece Styche scored twice as Forest Green secured their first home win | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
of the season. Chris Stokes was also on target. It has been a | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
poignant day at the Castle Combe motor racing circuit in Wiltshire | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
as drivers returned to the track two weeks after one of their | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
colleagues died there. Pete O'Shea suffered a heart attack while he | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
was at the wheel. Today his team mates' cars carried Pete's name on | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
the side as a tribute to him. Aside from the usual pre-race nerves and | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
tension, for the Swift Cooper race team, this was to be an emotive day. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
On their three cars, the name of Pete O'Shea. He died of a heart | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
attack while driving here at Castle Combe just a fortnight ago. He was | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
53. It is the first meeting we have done without Peter being involved. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
It is a big shock to the team when Peter died. As a mark of respect, | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
our teams are a running his name on the car and the shamrock as well | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
because he is from Ireland. Also racing in the Formula Ford series | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
today, a team run by students from Wiltshire College who are studying | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
a motorsports engineering degree. We tried to make sure they go out | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
into the world of motor sport and know about every side of the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
business. It gives them a general grounding. And the practical skills | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
as well they will need. As well as the single seaters the crowd was | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
entertained by an impressive line up of supercars old and new. Owning | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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a Ferrari is one thing but being The weather has not been too bad | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
for Bank Holiday. Hello. We continue through the rest of this | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
evening on a dry and settled note. It is similar tomorrow with dry | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
conditions throughout. The reason for the settled conditions is the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
high pressure building in from the West. It continues to do so tonight | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
and tomorrow as well. Through this evening, player spells for Sam. | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
Something of a mixture. -- clearer spells for sum. By dawn tomorrow | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
morning, in the countryside go- getting down to eight Celsius. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
Tomorrow will start much like today with some areas favoured more for | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
the sunshine. There will be more cloud developing in the afternoon. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
The winds will be lighter compared with today. We will continue with | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
those conditions right the way through to the evening. Temperature | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
rise a degree or so up on today. As we look beyond that, it will | :05:48. | :05:54. |