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Hello, and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines tonight: | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
Jailed for driving the wrong way up the M5 in Somerset. Police say | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Deborah Hunt terrified motorists and risked a massive loss of life. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
The plumber electrocuted to death at work. An inquest hears a faulty | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
socket was to blame. Also tonight: | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
The archaeological dig trying to help war-torn soldiers rebuild | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
their lives after Afghanistan. We have done some digging before | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
but, not so relaxed. And a new attempt to break the land | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
speed record. We meet the team and reveal the bike hoping to go down | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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Police have condemned the actions of a woman who drove the wrong way | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
up the M5 in Somerset, saying she played Russian roulette with | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
drivers' lives. Deborah Hunt terrified motorists as | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
she drove towards cars in the fast lane for 23 miles. She was twice | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the drink-drive limit. Today, she was sent to prison for nine months. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Steve Brodie reports. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Experienced police officers say they are astonished that the | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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actions of Deborah Hunt that July evening did not end in catastrophe. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Anybody driving the wrong way down a motorway is playing Russian | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
roulette. The only way to take the bullet out of the gun is not to | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
drink and drive. The message, I would say, is that if you drink and | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
drive you are putting yourself and other people in danger. Mrs Hunt | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
joined the motorway at junction 24 at Bridgwater, but to the terror of | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
other motorists she was driving the other motorists she was driving the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
wrong way, heading at 60 miles an hour directly towards oncoming | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
traffic. She kept going like this for 23 miles. Further up the M5, at | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Burnham-on-Sea, a police car had to swerve onto the hard shoulder to | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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When Deborah Hunt eventually ran out of petrol going off on the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
southbound carriageway on the M5, police officers but their own lives | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
at risk, jumping over the central reservation to find any arrest her. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
She ran out of petrol, and the officers travelling north in the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
direct -- in the correct direction stopped, crossed the carriage row | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
over the central barrier, ran to her, stopped, realised she snarled | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
of intoxicating liquor. She was arrested. -- she smelled of | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
intoxicating liquor. In court, her solicitor admitted the mother-of- | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
three had a serious drink problem and was suffering from stress. She | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
had recently been made redundant and was in the middle of a custody | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
battle. 43-year-old Hunt, from Langport in Somerset, pleaded | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
guilty to dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
without insurance. As she was sentenced, she wept uncontrollably | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
in the dock. Jailing Hunt for nine months, Judge Horton told her: "It | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
is unbelievably fortunate that no- one was killed or injured. You | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
caused terror to members of the public. I would be failing in my | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
duty if I did not give you a custodial sentence". She was also | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
disqualified from driving for 15 months, and will have to prove she | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
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no longer has a drink problem if she ever reapplies for a licence. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
A woman from Taunton has been released on bail in connection with | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
the death of a schoolgirl. 13-year- old Amy Hofmeister was killed when | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
she was knocked off her bike on Blackbrook Way in June. A local man | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
has already pleaded guilty to causing her death by dangerous | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
driving. This morning, Leanne Burnell, seen here on the left, who | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
was driving a separate car, appeared in court. She is charged | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
jointly with causing the teenager's death and will reappear in November. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
An inquest began today into the death of a Bristol plumber who was | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
electrocuted while at work three years ago. Danny Edwards had been | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
installing a washing machine at a block of flats in Clifton when he | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
died. Today, his family heard that a faulty socket was to blame. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Isabel Webster was in court. Danny Edwards had his whole life | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
ahead of him, and a baby on the way. On an internet tribute page, his | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
friends and family recall his "cheesy grin" and zest for life. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Danny was an electrician and in 2008 was working for Birakos | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
Enterprises Ltd, who were developing this block of flats | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
behind me. And it was whilst here, installing a washing machine, that | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
he was electrocuted and instantly killed. Today, his girlfriend and | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
the mother of his child, seen here in the middle, along with other | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
members of his family, attended the inquest to hear the circumstances | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
of Danny's death. His father told me they simply wanted the facts | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
established. We have been misled one way or another and we don't | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
know what actually happened on the day, so we want to get some answers | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
today. Peace of mind, as much as anything else, to know that Danny | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
was not at fault in anything he did. If somebody was at fault, we want | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
some justice done so it does not happen to anybody else. Throughout | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the day, the coroner called up several witnesses. The jury heard | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
that the socket supplying power to the washing machine was faulty. The | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
live wire was connected to the earth socket, and the earth wire | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
was connected to the live socket. This made the washing machine a | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
death trap, and when Danny touched it the electrical current passed | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
through him, killing him. The Health and Safety Executive gave | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
evidence here this morning and say their own investigation into what | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
happened is ongoing. They will now wait for the jury to give its | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
verdict before they decide how to proceed. And that verdict is now | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
expected tomorrow. You're watching your regional news | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
programme, BBC Points West. Stay with us as there is much more | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
still to bring you tonight, including: Too exhausted to fly, | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
how experts in Somerset are bringing these birds back to life. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
And this is the bike that could break a British land speed record? | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
If it does over 220 miles an hour, it will. Join me later to find out | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
more. One of the West's highest-paid | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
council officials is losing his job. Wiltshire Council is making its | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
chief executive and another senior director redundant. Andrew Kerr had | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
been criticised for his pay packet of �189,000 a year. Our political | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
editor Paul Barltrop is here to tell us more. This is all a bit out | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
of the blue? A complete surprise. It has taken | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
staff and council colleagues very much by surprise. Andrew Kerr, no | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
stranger to controversy, his pay packet was huge and earlier this | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
year he was to a �6,000 pay increase on top. He did interviews | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
and faced the cameras and then decided he would not, not least | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
because the council has been tightening its belt and making | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
staff redundant. Fill us in on the background? | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
He had been in the job for just over a year-and-a-half, Wiltshire | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
council was a new creation replacing four district councils | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
and one county council, a very big council indeed and he was brought | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
in to head the whole council last year. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
We have heard he is highly paid, but he has huge responsibilities | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
and they are saying they can do without him, that is strange? | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
It is almost unprecedented for a council of this size, and �800 | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
million budget, to be without any senior figures at the top. One | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Liberal Democrat councillor today thought it was insane and would be | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
a challenge. Thank you for coming in. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Salisbury Plain may be the training ground for troops heading to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Afghanistan, but now it is also being used to help injured soldiers | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
recover from battlefield injuries, including combat stress. Soldiers | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
from One Rifles in Gloucestershire, who have been flown back from the | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
frontline, are helping with an archaeological dig on the Plain. It | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
is hoped being involved with the project will help them rebuild | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
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their lives. Scott Ellis reports. It could be some cutting tool? It | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
is very sharp. An Afghan veteran, unearthing | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
treasures on his old training ground. It is hard to comprehend. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
But just months ago all three soldiers here were fighting in | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Helmand Province. Now injured, each by a roadside bomb, they are | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
engrossed in an archaeological dig on Salisbury Plain. It is helping | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
on the long road to recovery. think about something else, not | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
about Afghanistan any more. We think about what we are going to | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
dig a pit, how long it has been here. It makes a big difference in | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
your mind. To do something like this and that at the landscape you | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
work on and suffer on sometimes it's quite interesting, to look at | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
it in a different light. Since deploying to Afghanistan in April | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
60 soldiers from One Rifles have been sent home injured. After | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
hospital treatment comes months of rehab. For a once active soldier, | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
it can lead to isolation and psychological problems. The Army | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
says even after three days on a dig, there is a change. I have seen that | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
a lot of them have come out of their shells, they have really been | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
keen and enthusiastic about the work they have done, when before | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
there were quite despondent, so we have seen a visible change in them. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
This one is classic early Iron Age... They are finding pottery and | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
animal bones here at Chisenbury Midden. It is known to be the site | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
of an iron age festival. The soldiers have been quick to learn | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the skills. But then there is a strong link between the Military | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
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and archaeology. Lieutenant General Pitt-Rivers is a big name in | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
archaeology and a Lieutenant- General. Ferrer others, they have | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
archaeological interests. soldiers will be here for a week. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Some may return to the frontline one day. Others may have to leave | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the services. That's the future. Right now, they are absorbed in | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
digging up the past. The commanding officer of Wiltshire | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
soldiers who received campaign medals today praised them for | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
delivering "sterling results under demanding conditions" in | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Afghanistan. Third UK Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
are based at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire. They spent six months in | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
Afghanistan and today their friends and families watched them being | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
awarded medals for their work. I am really happy then made it here, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
it is great. It makes you really proud to get recognition for the | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
work we have done over there and to be part of it. Just pouty has been | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
there and represented his country, so proud of seeing them. It is real | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
achievement for him, very proud of him, yes. 120 medals were handed | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
out today. The regiment is unlikely to return to Afghanistan before | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
2013. The Bristol Centre for Deaf People | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
may have to close. The building in Kings Square is set to lose funding | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
from Bristol City Council. The local authority claims it doesn't | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
offer a good quality service, and it will be looking for another | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
provider. The centre has been running for more than 125 years. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Its chief executive said it had provided an "excellent service over | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the years" and added that he intends to "fight until the | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
decision has been overturned". A wildlife rescue centre in | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Somerset is working to save the lives of hundreds of seabirds | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
washed up by strong winds in Wales. The birds, mainly Manx shearwater, | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
were rescued off the Pembrokeshire coast. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
They have been taken to the RSPCA centre at West Hatch near Taunton, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
where staff are hoping to get them flying again. Clinton Rogers | :12:12. | :12:21. | |
reports. It may look painful, but this is | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
tough love for birds who, right now, would have no chance of survival on | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
their own. Stormy seas in West Wales and RSPCA volunteers are | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
literally pulling the young seabirds for the water. They had | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
attempted their annual migration to South America, but were battered by | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
strong winds and in the end were too exhausted to fly. We have got | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
18 in there. And so they were boxed up, nearly 250 of them, and taken | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
to the RSPCA's wildlife rescue centre in Somerset. Today they were | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
all being individually weighed and hand-fed. They need to be tube fed | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
because they feed in captivity, so they are all tube fed and it is a | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
fish soup that we are feeding them this morning. What are their | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
chances of survival? It should be really good. These are quite strong | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
birds, we have not really found any with horrendous injuries or | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
anything and that, so they should be OK. This is quite a logistical | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
operation for the RSPCA, but you have seen this before? Yes, it | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
happened in 2007 with 1,000 guillemots in the centre, and a | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
large number of seabirds at the centre before that, it is something | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
we are used to. It is now just a matter of building their strength | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
before they can be set free. Staff are hopeful the birds can be | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
released in the next few days. The plan is to take them to the West | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Somerset coastline and bring them in the direction of South America, | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
and then hope they find their way there. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Sport now and in football, Bristol Rovers are out of the Johnstone's | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Paint Trophy. They lost by three goals to one at League One Wycombe | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
Wanderers. Stuart Bevan scored a hat trick for the home side. Matt | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Harrold got Rovers' only goal, but it wasn't enough to stop them going | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
out at the first hurdle. So it will be Wycombe who play Cheltenham in | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
round two. Rovers have now lost their last three games in the | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
League and cup competitions. In cricket, Somerset's Craig | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Kieswetter has been given an appearance-based contract with | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
England. He qualifies for it after playing in two Twenty20 | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
internationals and seven one-day games for England this summer. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Meanwhile his Somerset team-mates are playing Yorkshire in their | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
penultimate Championship match of the season. They reached 140 -3, | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
batting first, needing to win to stay in the title race. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
In Division Two, Gloucestershire, chasing promotion, finished the | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
first day against Leicestershire on 235 for six. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
The Little Britain star David Walliams is falling behind schedule | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
in his charity river swim because he is suffering from "Thames tummy". | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
The comedian is trying to swim from Gloucestershire to London over | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
eight days. He set off from Lechlade on Monday and was hoping | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
to reach Goring in Oxfordshire by the end of the day, but the illness | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
has meant he hasn't got as far as planned. | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
It is a lot colder than I anticipated. And also it's just a | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
really long way. Policing, 140 miles... But it doesn't get any | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
easier. You go a mile at a time, and swimming a mile in a river is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
pretty tiring. David has already managed to raise | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
almost quarter of a million pounds for Sport Relief. He did not look | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
too good, did she? He didn't! | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
But I am sure that will go up. Have you ever dreamt about breaking | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
the land speed record? A team of bikers from South Gloucestershire | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
are, and not just on four wheels but two. The racing team aim to | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
make the attempt next year on a specially adapted Harley Davidson. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Most of the men work at Airbus at Filton and have been working on the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
project for months. Tonight, all of them and their sponsors have been | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
invited to a garage in Bradley Stoke, where the bike will be | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
started up for the very first time. And our reporter Steve Knibbs is | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
there, too. I will not show you the bike yet, | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
we will keep that under wraps because there is a sentimentality | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
when it comes to land-speed records, especially British ones. Let's look | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
at some archive so did we have found. Back to the 1920s, Sir | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Malcolm Campbell, these are all Bluebirds here. Several years later, | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
he got a bit faster, over 400 miles an hour. This is classic footage. A | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
an hour. This is classic footage. A couple of weeks ago, his great | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
grandson Joe Wales with a team from the University of Bristol | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
unfortunately failed in their attempted an electric car to break | :17:07. | :17:16. | |
the record. But we are talking about two wheels. This is 1930, | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
Joseph Wright, and then a fast speed of 130 miles an hour, | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
breaking the land speed record them. Classic footage in its day, but | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
here is the bike hoping to get It looks fantastic, built in a | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
garage in Bradley Stoke. Let's talk to the man he will be in the Savoy | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
next year, Paul Anderson. The bike looks amazing. Tell us about the | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
record? The record is the British out right motorcycle land-speed | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
record. Two in either direction, then they take the average speed | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
and that is the record. It has been in place for 10 years, held by Jack | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
Frost, and the record is just over 222 miles an hour. How are you | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
making this bike go faster? We have raised the capacity of the engine | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
that 50%, it is 1.55 litres and we have added a turbo charging system | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
as well as many internal modifications, raising the power | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
from the original 100 horsepower to around 250 at the moment. Why do | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
you want to do this? Record- breaking is a British thing, you | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
mentioned all of the right names, but Campbells, it is a British | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
thing. Are you confident and nervous? Absolutely confident and | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
absolutely nervous at the same time! You will start it up in a | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
minute. Gary is a friend of yours who has been working on it as well. | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
Is he foolish? Absolutely, but we will still do it. Hundreds of hours | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
of work, but here it is now cost up a fantastic bike, it is capable of | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
the speed. You have to beat 222 miles an hour. What do you think | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
this can dip? 250. You are that confident? There is a reason you | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
think it can do that, aerodynamics. Let's talk to another member of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
your team, with his helpers. You will show us what the bike will | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
look like because it will look different in the future. Yes, it | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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Because we are developing some top- notch engineering technology. So we | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
developpe couple of aerodynamic things which will help us do that. | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
It will be available soon. You are used to working on aircraft, are | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
you transferring your expertise on to this? We are using the latest | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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It has been a great journey with them, it is great stuff. Good luck. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
We need to hear what this sounds like. If all goes well, they will | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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And that is the sound of the bike which, hopefully, in 2012 will be | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
going at least 223 miles an hour. Good luck. Back to use. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
We can hear you, but I doubt you can hear us! | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
One of the biggest hoards of Roman coins ever to be found in this | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
country has been brought home to the new Museum of Somerset. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
The world famous Frome Hoard was unearthed in a field in the county, | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
and there was a huge fundraising campaign to keep it in the area. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
It is about to become one of the main attractions at the newly | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
refurbished museum in Taunton where Amanda Parr has had the first look | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
around today. 400 million years of Somerset | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
history. Three years this has been in the creation. �6.93 million has | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
been spent and now the Museum of Somerset is truly fit to serve the | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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And one of the prize exhibits to be, the Frome Hoard. Found in a | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Somerset field by one Dave Crisp, who was out metal detecting. A | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
tantalising window on 3rd century Roman Britain. There are more than | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
52,000 coins in total. They managed to raise well over �400,000 to | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
clean them up and keep them. Plus �250 for the pot. And the story | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
only begins here. Hoards tend to attract popular interest but when | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
they are this big, the interest goes way beyond the local and the | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
story went absolutely worldwide, it was manic for seven weeks. It was | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
great. It is exciting, good to look at, but it contains a lot of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
information about Somerset's past. The museum sets the best of the old | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
alongside the new, the borrowed, and the joyfully-released-from- | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
storage. So the famous Low Ham mosaic gets a clean up, and is | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
reset with the ghost of Dido watching over the tiny tiles that | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
tell the story of her and Aeneas. The Bloody Assizes get their own | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
special room. In fact, lots of new Taunton Castle rooms have been | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
opened up for the first time. hope it will become a place which | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
the people of Somerset visit and are very proud of, because it tells | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
their story. And I hope in addition it will be a museum that attracts | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
people from far and wide which contributes very significantly to | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
the Somerset economy in some very difficult times. 400 million years | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
of artefacts, written records, film archive and interviews. Somerset's | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
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past laid before Somerset's people in new and thoughtful ways. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
The Heritage Lottery Fund aid for about three-quarters of this, their | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
attention turned to a Olympic projects and with the current | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
financial situation, staff here feel very lucky about the timing of | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
all of this. Now, three weeks remain to finish off the | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
landscaping before these its shiny new doors open for the very first | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
time. It looks great, doesn't it? And the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Museum of Somerset is one of the locations for a BBC History | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
festival on Saturday, October 15th. The event will include re-enactment | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
displays and talks about local history. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
And if the younger members of your family want to try making a model | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Roman Villa or a mosaic why not check out the BBC's Hands on | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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Time to turn our attention to the weather. Ian has a phenomenon to | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
start as with? Indeed, one that is not often seen. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
You tend to get better examples of this, but you get the gist. High | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
cloud with a hole punched in the middle of it, those streaks are ice | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
crystals which fall into the ground out of it. The reason you get this | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
is because at certain that was when the air is below zero, the cloud | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
droplets are not frozen but sometimes, including if you fly an | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
airliner to it, it disturbs it and it changes to ice crystals and you | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
get a perfect hole in the middle of it. Thank you to Margaret Webb for | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
that beautiful picture. More often seen is a lot of cloud, | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
which has been around of late. Courtesy of low-pressure which is | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
bringing a further swathe of rain across the Midlands and Wales tight, | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
some of that affecting some of our Northern Districts. Into tomorrow, | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
a broad flow of maritime air, effectively, which has sub-tropical | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
origins and is essentially quite warm and will bring with it a great | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
deal of cloud and some rain later in the afternoon. A fair amount of | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
rain still a bad at the moment, earlier showers more widely across | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
southern districts. We are focusing them into the Bristol Channel, this | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
has Gloucestershire in its sights and probably anywhere from Bristol | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
northwards. Below that, not so much through the course of the evening. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
The Met Office prediction catches that quite nicely as it focuses on | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
the eastern areas as the night wears on. Southern districts are | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
largely more dry. Anything but further northwards and again a | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
fairly breezy night. Quite mild, though, temperatures about 13, 14 | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow morning we start with a good deal of cloud around, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
particularly in the northern areas, where you will have a damp start in | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
the morning rush-hour. It might be brighter further south. A dry | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
interlude through the day and with this type of cloud cover, you might | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
even brighten things up a little bit and sunspots will be favoured | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
for that. In the afternoon, a warm front comes through with patchy | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
rain, the top of the Mendips will SOCA be to bat up, but it will be | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
patchy in nature elsewhere -- will soak a bit of that up. But it will | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
be inherently warm, temperatures nudging 19, 20, even with the cloud | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
cover, but break that up and you will get 21, maybe even 22. Yucel | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Clinton Rogers' report with the seabed and the RSPCA are having | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
their summer fare at West Hatch on Saturday from 11am, so to go along | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
to support them, because they do some fantastic work, not just for | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
seabirds but all animals. It is an unsettled flavour as we ran through | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
that part of the weekend. You can just see coming here what is left | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
of a hurricane, which will bring a windy day for us all on Monday. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
And somebody that you are still in regular contact with, and for the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
weather fans among do, Richard Anglin will be talking to Trevor | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
Fry on the radio tonight about life after the show, as if there is such | :27:34. | :27:38. |