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Good evening, welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
The headlines, death in a nightclub. A boy dies after buying drugs that | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
were allegedly openly on sale. The coroner at says the club's licence | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
should be reviewed. Going round in circles, Honda in | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Swindon decides not to put up windmills of goal. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Senseless drinking, the dementia patient who blames his illness on | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
too much alcohol. And the DNA tests that show the | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Gloucestershire big cat may be just A bright teenager who had just lost | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
his mother died after buying drugs at a Bristol might coupled up the | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
inquest into the death of Joe Simons from Bath show today he was | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
allowed into the Lakota club even though he was under-age. He bought | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
ecstasy which was allegedly openly on sale. In a message to the | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
inquest, Joe's dad attacked soft views on drugs. | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Joe Simons had the world at his feet. A GCSE student was heading to | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Oxbridge. Instead he collapsed into a coma and died in hospital. The | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
inquest into his death heard how Joe and friends from Beechen Cliff | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
School in Bath were in the habit of visiting the Bristol nightclub the | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Lakota to take ecstasy. But on 30th April last year, it ended in | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
tragedy. In written statements, Jo's best friends Gabriel | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Wheatcroft and Carl Hall told the inquest how they went to the Lakota. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Despite being under-aged, they were not searched and not asked to | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
provide ID. They said as usual, they bought ecstasy from dealers | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
openly operating inside the club. But after taking the drug, Joe | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
collapsed. He was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary where he | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
died in intensive care. Deputy coroner Terry Moore found he had | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
died from taking drugs. He said he was persuaded that police action | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
should be taken to prevent further deaths. And that he would be | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
writing to the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset concerning the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
licensing of the club. After the death, the Lakota had its licence | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
suspended and was close during a police investigation. No arrests | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
were made, and after a Bristol City Council Licensing Committee meeting, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the club was about to open again. We ended up with a root-and-branch | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
look at all conditions, the CCTV network, the security, the number | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
of security staff are. The introduction of a drugs dog on the | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
queue, it said travelled up and ways and means by means -- a drugs | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
dog on the queue. And the ways and means by which we could stop some | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
of the locations were dealing. Simons was a popular student, he | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
had already achieved nine a starchy sissies and was on course for | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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getting good A grades. -- AP star GCSEs. People are aware of the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
dangers of drinking too much alcohol, it is the way the message | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
hits home, on a personal basis. If they can hear that cannabis use | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
make some sketchy, that seems to hit home, but just saying it is bad, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
it does not. At the time of his death, his father, a deputy head | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
teacher, said Joe should never have been let into the club. He said in | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
a letter to a coroner that the drug culture had spread like a cancer | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
across the world. We tend to think that telling people about the | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
dangers is enough, but sadly, it isn't, he said. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
What have the police and the owners of the club been saying tonight? | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Avon and Somerset police say they cannot comment on what the coroner | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
has suggested until they have formally received his letter. The | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
owners have already put in place in my -- as we have heard a series of | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
new regulations, including sniffer dogs in the queue. Tonight we went | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
and said, what is your response to the coroner and they would not | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
comment. They have put new things in place. They have already been | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
punished once, because the licence was suspended for a few weeks. So | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
what can happen next? That is the interesting point. The chief | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
constable has been in his power to influence and shut down | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
establishment, he have to work in conjunction with the city council. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
The council say they will listen, one man told me they will certainly | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
listen to new ideas, especially those suggestions made by Joe's | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
father who made very eloquent statements in his letter to the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
coroner. It is a way -- the couple argued that they have put in place | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
the things the city council asked them to. But it table -- terrible | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
tragedy for Joe's family. An 11th person has appeared in | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
court charged in connection with allegations of ill-treatment at a | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
private hospital near Bristol. 27 year-old Neil Ferguson from | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Emersons Green is accused of mistreating a patient at | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Winterbourne View last March. The former support worker did not enter | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
a plea and is due at Bristol Crown Court next week. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
The jury at the trial of a former Scout leader from Somerset accused | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
of child abuse has been sent home for the night. David Burland based | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
his 33 charges. He claimed in court earlier this week that the alleged | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
victims had formed a conspiracy against him and denied the charges. | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
A serious threat is being posed by a new strain of MRSA, according to | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
scientists at Bath. They have been studying the difference between the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
typical hospital acquired infection and a more toxic strain from | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
America. Scientists say this new super bug could spread through a | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
healthy community. The concern is that a certain subset of these | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
communities trains is causing huge problems in the United States, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
where it is reported to cause more deaths than HIV. These strains are | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
starting to emerge in England, according to the Health Protection | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Agency, there are 200 cases in England but they are monitoring it | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
very carefully and we are in a much stronger position than America | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
would have been, because we know what it is and we know what to look | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
for. Honda has dropped its plans to | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
build wind turbines at its plant in student -- Swindon. It is a victory | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
for local people who had protested vigorously against the proposal. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Last year, Swindon council rejected a planning application for the | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
turbines, and today the company decided not to appeal against the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
decision. The original plan was for three, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
400 ft wind turbines for the factory near Swindon. When people | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
protested they were too close to their homes, the company proposed | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
two. Even so, there were huge objections. Feelings were running | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
so high, a planning meeting was held in the Wyvern Theatre to allow | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
everyone in. I thought it was a better place to side then, away | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
from residential dwellings. It will affect people's lives locally so | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
much and they are not taking anything into consideration. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
sound very angry. I am, very. the delight of residents, the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
council rejected Honda's plans. And today the company said it would not | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
appeal. We have taken into account the views of the community, and | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
these are very much split views. The community of residents, | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
councillors, businesses and local organisations. On the basis we have | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
taken the decision not to appeal the decision. The campaign group | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
won says it is a victory for local democracy. Even if wind power does | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
not for the future in Swindon, other forms of renewable energy | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
will. These solar panels have already been installed in a field | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
close to the factory. Honda says it will do all it can to reduce its �8 | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
million per year electricity bill. You are watching BBC Points West. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Another cold night. Still to come. The surfers hoping it -- hoping to | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
catch some waves on a disused football pitch. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
And refusing to be held down, the Dodoo players fighting for their | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
place at the Olympics. -- the judo players. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
We have got some rough and tumble to come! First, a public health | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
doctor in the region says up to one in five cases of dementia could be | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
caused by drinking too much. In rare cases, heavy drinkers can go | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
on to develop a form of dementia for known as Korsakoff's syndrome. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
As part of his series on alcohol, our health conversation -- | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
correspondent has been to make a patient suffering from brain damage | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
because of his lifestyle. Tom suffers from a form of dementia | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
even though he is only 57 years old. He was diagnosed four years ago | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
with Korsakoff's syndrome, which was linked to him drinking Herrod - | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
- heavily. At his worst, Tom had to be admitted to a specialist unit in | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
western suit the Mick -- Weston- super-Mare for year. Before going | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
on medication, he was doing very mixed up things and he was very | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
unruly. This form of brain damage is also linked to poor new kid -- | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
nutrition associated with alcoholism. Korsakoff's syndrome is | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
a chronic syndrome which affects the ability to absorb new | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
information. The majority of patients make a good recovery. | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
personality is still there, but not in abundance as it used to be. He | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
is just not the person he was. is the only specialist centre in | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
the West to help people of working age like Tom with dementia. Workers | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
who fear the real number of Korsakoff's syndrome sufferers | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
could be higher. As long as certain factors are in place for people | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
with Korsakoff's syndrome, they can improve and become quite well. They | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
need to abstain from drinking, and maintained a healthy diet. Although | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Korsakoff's syndrome is incredibly rare, with around 70 cases listed | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
as a cause of death per year, the scale of dementia caused by alcohol | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
is not. It is estimated that if heavy use of alcohol was seen as a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
possible contributory factor in more than one in five cases of | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
dementia. We have got alcohol- related dementia, the very rare | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
syndromes like course costs Syndrome psychosis, then we have | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
got brain damage from brain injury because people who drink heavily | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
often fall and banged their heads. They sustain very significant brain | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
damage. For people like Tom, there is some hope of recovery with the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
right treatment. But for the vast majority suffering from dementia up | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
because of alcohol, there is little hope. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
And in his final report tomorrow, Matthew will be looking at | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
solutions to this drink a cadet -- epidemic. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Workers at Astra Zeneca's Avlon site near Bristol are waiting to | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
hear how news of job losses will affect them. The plant employs 300 | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
people and manufactures several drugs, some of which are used in | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the treatment of schizophrenia. The drugs company has announced it is | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
cutting more than 7000 jobs over the next two years. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
There is better news on the job front elsewhere in the West, | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Morrisons has announced it is going to create up to 100 new jobs at its | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
depot near junction 23 of the M5 near Bridgwater. It is due to open | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
in April. The supermarket says if the company grows as predicted, it | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
will eventually create an extra 300 shops on top of that. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
Military wives and husbands in Wiltshire say they struggle to find | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
work because employers are concerned they will not stick | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
around for long. But now the wife of an army lieutenant who lives at | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Buckley barracks near Hullavington has decided to do something about | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
Jo Kitching is a publisher by profession. She married a soldier, | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
and found working life did not fit with military life. She spent 10 | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
years we -- working freelance but missed working with colleagues. Now | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
she wants a job in property sales but cannot find a way in. I am | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
doing my own thing at the moment but I would really like the | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
opportunity to work for, in my case, an estate agent. That is willing to | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
take into account the fact that I might move and really, that should | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
not matter. The problem is that all too often, it does matter. That is | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
where Helen comes in. A lot of wives are losing confidence. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
set up her service to help people like Joe in the middle of January | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
and has already got nearly 600 subscribers. Times are changing | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
very fast. We are career women, a lot of us wants to work and a lot | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
of us are very skilled. It is not just about any money, it is about | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
empowerment. Not something that is easy to come by at the moment. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
These boards advertise lots of short term, unskilled positions, | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
but opportunities are scarce for professionals with unpredictable | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
long-term futures. I think they do think, they are only going to be | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
posted here for so much time, as an employer, and again, we are going | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
back to the fact that they really have to give the vacancy to the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
best person suited for the job. is Helen's experience that | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
employers do not always do that. She understands the pressures faced | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
by military spouses, and as one herself, she has every reason to | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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It is the question that wildlife experts have been waiting to be | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
answered for weeks. Is there a big cat roaming around Gloucestershire? | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
We have reported on suspected sightings across the West before, | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
like bees from nearly 20 years ago, but last month scientists took DNA | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
samples from a deer carcass thought to have been killed by a big cat at | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
Woodchester. Today they revealed they could not find any cat DNA, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
just blogs -- fox DNA. This month there has been an increase in the | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
number of people reporting seeing big cats across the county so | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
today's news has not meant an end to the story. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
It must have stalked it down the field. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
There is no doubt in David Wood's mind what he saw from his bedroom | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
window a couple of weeks ago. I saw a big cat. It was not a | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
normal one, it was a wild cat. It would have come from somewhere like | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Africa. If his is one of dozens of sightings in the area and hopes of | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
absolute proof for resting on the DNA analysis of this deer carcass, | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
killed, experts believed, by a big cat, but tests at the University of | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Warwick found only deer and fox DNA, but it has not dampened the spirits | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
of the investigators. People are seeing big cats. Eventually we will | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
get there but there is no race, it hit -- it is about raising | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
awareness. This by the lack of DNA evidence, it has captured the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
imagination of people in would Chester, so much so that last night | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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a public meeting was held. -- would Chester. Excited that they exist. | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
Concerned for people's safety. There are too many visual sightings | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
around here to say that there isn't. But also we were quite pleased that | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
the negative result came through, because we still have an | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
opportunity to study and understand what is going on. How did the big | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
cat get there if it is there? In the Sixties and Seventies it was de | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
rigueur for the rich and famous to have big cats as pets but the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976 meant they had to buy expensive | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
licences so many were simply released into the wild. The habitat | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
around Woodchester is perfect and the National Trust, who | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
commissioned the DNA test, have not ruled out further investigations. | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
City is something we might looking to locally. It has been a bit crazy | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
over the past couple of weeks but it is something we are thinking. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
The lack of DNA has focused minds and now people are more determined | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
than ever to try to prove the existence of Gloucestershire's big | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
cat. A group of judo players from you et | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
-- the University of Bath face a race against time to qualify for | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
London 2012 after changes at the top of British judo saw them frozen | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
out. After a bit of grappling the row has been sorted out but until | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
the final selections in May every match counts. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
Leaving your opponent on their back is the aim but at Bath's | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
performance centre these judokas are just getting back on their feet | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
up to two years in the wilderness. In 2009 British judo based its | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
elite training solo in Dartford. Last year Bath was welcomed back | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
but those who refused to move say that they lost out. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
I think the damage is left behind and they are used in the banking | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
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points as a criteria but I will not have any obviously. -- ranking. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Kate Walker did make the move to Dartford but injury saw her lose | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
her funding, failing to make the initial 27 and Olympic scored. Now | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
back at Bath she can change things. There are only a handful of | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
qualifying events left. I had to go to Dartford to try to get the | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
results I needed so that is why I decided to make the move, but I do | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
feel that at times Bath was unfairly treated. The pressure is | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
on. I have some catching up to do. The three of Bath's judokas did | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
finish outside the world top 100, the Olympic qualifying criteria. | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
Tom Reed is one of them. He is Britain's second highest ranked | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
player and he needs to go one better. At the moment I would be | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
the reserve player so I need to be in a medal position every game | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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between now and the Olympics. Rugby, and Gloucestershire Number | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Rate Ben Morgan could make his England debut on Saturday against | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Scotland. He is one of five uncapped players on the bench for | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
the match at Murrayfield. He plays his club rugby at Llanelli Scarlets | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
and could have represented Wales but chose England a month ago. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
More details have been revealed on what is being described as the | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
world's first inland surfing lake, which enthusiasts want to build in | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Bristol. One of the country's leading | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
horticulturalists is now backing to Wavegarden. | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
It is hard to imagine on a freezing February morning but one day this | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
old football pitch could become a surfing lake surrounded by gardens | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
designed by the country's top horticulturalists. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
There will be a space where there is quite a fresh, exciting sport | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
going on, but said within some beautiful gardens. It is trying to | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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fuse together the blue and green. �5 million Wavegarden would use the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
latest technology to create waves on a man-made lake. Plans are at an | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
early stage and already concerns have been raised about the impact | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
on the land in the Avon gorge. Now the plans are being backed by | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
the former head of sustainability at the Eden Project and one of the | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
UK's leading horticulturalists, which -- who will be in charge of | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
the gardens, which it is claimed could become a tourist attraction. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
This is basically an old playing field. The biodiversity is not a | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
huge. We would examine what is out there and make sure we eggs -- we | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
enhance it. We know how important it is to help people recreate -- | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
reconnect with nature. It is incredibly important to bring | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
nature into the cities as much as possible, particularly for children. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
From this month, people are being consulted on the plans. Those | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
behind the project hope it could be open as early as next year. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Pretty cold environment out there. Over the past few days the chances | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
are you have been turning the heating up, putting on an extra | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
layer or even taking a hot-water bottle to bed. It has been very | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
cold. It looks like it will stay like | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
that for a while, with some snow forecast for the next few days. One | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
of the place is that always seems to be hardest hit is the village of | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
Yatesbury, near Calne in Wiltshire. They are getting used to the bitter | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
cold in and around the village of Yatesbury. It has been freezing | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
here for days and that will not change any time soon. Despite being | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
small, over the years it has earned its reputation as being one of the | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
coldest spots in our area. It is about 600 ft above sea level, one | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
of the highest villages between Bristol and London, but because of | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
the surrounding hills it is a frost pocket. There is often a big | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
difference in temperature between the village and a mile away on the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
main road. There is no official weather station here so many of the | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
facts and figures come from the home of this local weather report | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
it. The weather has fascinated him for years and he has been | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
monitoring it for a while. I have been a farmer all of my life and | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
every decision I have made has been dependent on the weather. You live | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
by the weather. It is your future, and sitting on a fat -- a tractor | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
all day you tend to gaze at the San and the stars. Last winter | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
Yatesbury was hit hard. The snow came and it stuck. Temperatures | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
were below freezing on and off for weeks. Compared to last year, this | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
winter has been a fair bit milder and there has been a lot less snow | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
but according to the Met Office we are officially in the middle of the | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
real cold snap, and that will not change any time soon, so wrap up | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
warm. From that frost pocket... | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
The producers thought it would be funny to put being on the roof | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
again for the night. You have your hat, that is the main thing. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
I was just perusing the aviation reports of the airfields around the | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
west country. They are all below zero. We are set up for what will | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
be the coldest night of the winter so far. We have had some | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
interesting pictures sent in of late. One of our cameraman at the | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
BBC in Bristol gave me a photograph he took earlier today. It is an | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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unusual ice spike which is growing out of his bird bath. If you get a | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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pinhole in the ice surface, it forces its way out of a whole. -- a | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
hall. -- out of the hall. It will be a dry day for sure and we are on | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
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to this area if dry pressure. -- Your barometers Mike Reed as high | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
as 1040 millibars. -- they might read. At least we are gradually | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
losing the wind chill. As this slack regime continues through the | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
night, so does the biting frost. Temperatures easily down to five or | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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six below zero. 10 below zero near Bristol. We start to introduce more | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
in the way of high cloud through the day. Not the clear blue skies | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
we have been seen, in fact anything but. But the winds will be light, | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
just as well, because that temperatures will just struggle | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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above zero. This is the focus of our attention, don't take the | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
graphics for granted but at some stage on Saturday we will start to | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
see some snow falling and there will be some districts of the West | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Country affected by that worse than others. We will start to firm up on | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
that through the course of tomorrow's forecast. Significance | :27:26. | :27:30. |