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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Our headlines tonight: The bus driver who lost his cool. He's | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
caught deliberately ramming a cyclist in dramatic shots from a | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
roadside camera. Rest in peace. Flowers for the | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
priest killed in his own vicarage as police continue to question a | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
man. Beats College Green - the squatters | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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who've occupied a two million pound mansion. It is more than fair to be | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
here as the place is not being used and we are utilising the space. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
When they get it back, they will get it back better. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
And a warning tonight that the wonders of the Severn Estuary face | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
a serious threat over the next century. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Good evening. An incident of road rage that almost killed a cyclist | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
in Bristol. Bus driver Gavin Hill has been jailed for using his | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
vehicle as a weapon, when he deliberately swerved into cyclist | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Philip Mead. It all started after an argument in | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
the morning rush hour, but ended with a devastating result. Sabet | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
Choudhury is near the spot where it happened. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
It was a momentary act of aggression which has tonight left | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
the 29 year-old starting a jail sentence and a cyclist who is lucky | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
to be alive. It has raised many questions about the safety of | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
people on two wheels here in this cycling city of Bristol. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The moment when cyclist Philip Mead almost lost his life. An incident | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
of road rage that left him in hospital for two weeks. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
The judge said that the driver of the bus use the vehicle as a weapon | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
when he deliberately swerved into the cyclist. Mr Mead it did not | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
want to speak to us on camera, but the court heard that the incident | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
started on the Stokes Croft roundabout behind me when Hill | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
drove too close to the cyclist. Mr Mead then banged on the bus and | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
when it eventually stopped, he lent his bike on the front of it and | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
flicked the windscreen wiper while continuing to argue with the driver. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
What happened next defies truly defies belief. 29-year-old Hill had | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
been driving buses for 10 years with an excellent character. But | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
tonight that moment of madness has landed him in jail for 17 months. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
And his family left the court today in tears. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
The incident last year left Phillip Mead with a broken leg, wrist and | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
thumb. Of course the roads can be a dangerous place on two wheels. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
This was filmed by a cyclist in Glasgow to highlight the problem. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
I think cycle rage is caused when people threaten cyclists by the way | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
they drive. They make cyclists feel unsafe. If you have had a car come | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
very close the year, you get very scared. When you get scared, you | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
get angry. I think the way to get over it is for cyclists and drivers | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
to get on better, to be more courteous to each other, perhaps. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Bristol prides it's self on being a cycle city. Thousands use their | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
bikes everyday, but could incidents like this make them think again? | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
This was obviously a criminal act that went to court, but many | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
cyclists say they have evidence of near-misses that happen every day. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Let speak to Councillor John Rogers who is head of cycling policy in | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
Bristol. This must be shocking. How safe are cyclists in Bristol? | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Cyclists are very safe. Incidents like this bring the whole thing | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
into disrepute, but that was a criminal act and quite outrageous. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
The key message is that we have to respect one another. Make sure we | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
give plenty of room. Cyclists must also respect pedestrians. All motor | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
vehicles must be plenty of room. You say that about cyclists, but | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
many motorists would say that cyclists do not behave in the same | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
etiquette. All road users must act with respect. Certainly when you | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
have a cyclist jumping red lights or cycling dangerously. That is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
equally as dangerous, actually, it is not equally as dangerous. The | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
most dangerous is a ton of metal around year. One of the things that | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
cyclists always say is our council is doing enough to make it a | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
counselling City? A lot of places are just as dangerous. This | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
roundabout certainly it is a dangerous road junction. It is the | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
junction I came to do myself -- cycling less than with. The key is | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
to make sure you have plenty of space both inside due to the kerb | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
and outside to the other cars and vehicles. Thank you very much. A | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
very quickly, Philip Mead is very well and back cycling again. This | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
is an incident that sparked a lot of debate and you can join us on | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Twitter. The family of Reverend John | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Suddards, the vicar stabbed to death at his vicarage in Thornbury, | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
say they are devastated at the news of his untimely and shocking death. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Meanwhile, detectives are continuing to question a man on | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
suspicion of his murder. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Steve Brodie | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
reports. Today police were stepping up their | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
search for the weapon used in the murder of the Reverend John | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Suddards. The vicar of St Mary's was found stabbed to death in the | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
hall of his vicarage on Tuesday morning. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
As police continued to comb the area around the church for evidence, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
John Suddards family released a statement saying, "We are | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
devastated with the news of John's untimely and shocking death." | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Police are continuing to question the 43-year-old man arrested on | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Tuesday evening, on suspicion of murder. Tomorrow morning detectives | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
will have to apply to magistrates for a 24 hour extension if they | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
want to continue their questioning of the man. But by Saturday they | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
will have to either charge him or let him go. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
As flowers were left near the scene of the killing, the police set up a | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
mobile office in the town to help gather information from the public. | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
The murder of John Suddards has shocked not only the local | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
community here in Thornbury, but also fellow clergy from his | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
previous parish. He'd worked at St Nicholas Church in Essex, since | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
2001, before moving to St Mary's last July. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Like many in the parish, we are in shock. We never thought something | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
like this would happen to John. When people live alone, they are | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
very vulnerable, but it is a terrible shock and many people are | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
in distress here. And a district councillor in | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Braintree spoke of how John Suddards had poured all his energy | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
into his flock and how the vicar had travelled hundreds of miles to | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
marry his daughter after she had decided to hold the service in | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Cumbria instead of Essex. Out of courtesy they went to see | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
John to explain why they would not be marrying in the parish in which | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
they lived. Without prompting, John got his road map out and said, | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
would you like me to come up and officiate? I think we were | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
surprised that he was so willing to do that in some way. Not surprised | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
because generally he was compassionate and he cared about | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
people, but a volunteer so readily was, I think, a measure of his | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
character. As the flag on Thornbury Castle | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
flew at half mast. A service dedicated to John Suddards was | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
being planned for tomorrow evening. If the cordon around St Mary's | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
isn't lifted it will take place elsewhere. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
A court's heard today that a young woman was found slumped in a shower | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
room after breathing in toxic fumes from a newly fitted boiler. Zoe | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Anderson died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a house in Bath, which | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
was owned by her father - the founder of the Future Publishing | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
business. Andrew Hartley, a gas fitter, denies her manslaughter. | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Imogen Sellers was in court. Zoe Anderson has just been about to | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
start an exciting internship in New York when she was found dead at her | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
father's house in Sion Hill in Bath on December 28th 2010. Her | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
boyfriend Alistair Uleg searched the house before finding her in the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
shower room. He had tried to resuscitate the 24 year old, but it | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
was too late. She had been poisoned by fumes that had leaked from a | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
newly fitted gas boiler. The court heard that a second tragedy had | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
been narrowly avoided just days before Zoe died. A cleaner, Jackie | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
French, who had gone to the house while Zoe was away, was taken ill | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
and rushed to hospital. She had been cleaning the shower room where | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Zoe died when she began to feel dizzy and light-headed. She managed | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
to crawl to her phone and rang for an ambulance. But the court heard | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
how at that stage no one realised her symptoms were that of carbon | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
monoxide poisoning. Magazine tycoon Chris Anderson told the court he | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
had spent a pre-Christmas week with Zoe and his two other daughters in | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
New York, where he is now based. That was the last time he'd see his | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
daughter alive. Andrew Hartley, from Radstock, who fitted the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
boiler at the property on December 16 2010, denies manslaughter and | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
contravening gas safety regulations. Tomorrow the court will hear from | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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Mr Anderson's property manager. The You are watching BBC points west. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Still to come: Insulating themselves from higher bills, | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
communities in the West joined forces to reduce energy costs. | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
And how climate change could alter the shoreline of the Severn estuary | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
over the next 100 years. That is all to come. First, a group | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
of squatters have moved into a million-pound mansion with his very | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
own swimming-pool in the area of Clifton in Bristol. Some were | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
involved in the occupied protest, but say this is not an official | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
occupation. A setback in a leafy Bristol suburb, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
this 18th century mansion is quite aside. This is the main kitchen | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
that we use. It used to be universities students | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
cooking here. This was a halls of residence. Up until last week it | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
was on the market for just over �2 million. Complete with its own | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
swimming pool. We are not sure if we will fill it | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
More than a dozen squatters have now been here for more than a week. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
They say they are not part of the occupier movement. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
What gives you the right to be here? Because it is empty and there | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
are homeless people here so that have been sleeping on the streets. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Sleeping in a doorway when it is snowing is not pleasant. Do you | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
want to be here? Do I want to be here? I don't want to be in a | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
mansion, but contrary to that I want to be somewhere that I can | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
call mine. I am not just speaking to me I am speaking for many people. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
The house is owned by the Bank of Scotland he declined to comment as | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
did the family of the previous owner. So, what did the neighbours | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
think? Sum donated furniture while we were there, others went in for a | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
cup of tea. As long as they keep themselves to themselves, it is not | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
a problem. They have been quiet and there has been no problems. One | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
wonders where they get their money from to live that sort of lifestyle. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
He are be intrigued to find out how they found out the number of the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
gate to get in. I notice there was electricity their last night, so | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
where is the power coming from. is a great shame to the area. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Well, we don't know who they are or what they planned to do other than | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
to occupy somebody else's home. That criticism was echoed by the | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
estate and letting agents I had been speaking to. None wanted to | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
appear on camera because they were all worried that if they did, their | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
own properties might be spotted. They are all very concerned about | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
what is going on there. No doubt they will have sympathy with the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Government's view. It wants to criminalise and find squatters | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
because at the moment it is basically a civil offence to be | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
dealt with through the civil courts. I am joined by the local MP, | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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Stephen Williams. Have you any The eve you are genuinely homeless | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
then people will have sympathy but this �3 million house is not the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
sort of place people expect homeless people to squat so this | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
looks more like a stunt than anything. The House of Commons has | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
already looked at this issue and I voted along with most MPs to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
criminalise the occupation of other people's Dougherty and the Lords | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
voted the same way last night so pretty soon landlords will have a | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
legal redress. So you will be able to call the police. The s, at the | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
moment it is a civil offence so you have to go through the rigmarole of | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
getting a court order. As we saw on Cheltenham Road, the sort of place | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
people are more likely to Scott, in April last year, when properties | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
get Scotti, often antisocial behaviour can result. On the other | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
hand, there are something like 5,000 empty properties in Bristol, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
sitting doing nothing and there are people without homes. Isn't there a | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
moral case where these buildings should be put to use? Yes, there is | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
and the Government and City Council are doing good work on that. The | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
city council has end NT hence team who writes to people who sit on | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
properties that have not been sold or let out for a while, of trying | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
to encourage them to bring them back onto the market. That is the | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
way forward. But deliberately going into someone else's property and | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
using their electricity, occupying the property so they can't sell it | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
to someone else is not really using the programme. A lot of these | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
property owners, it is their assets or their pension or maybe they are | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
just moving house. Gloucestershire Police have | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
revealed that an officer found dead in his house -- car last November | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
had been arrested for alleged child pornography offences. Sergeant John | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Skilling, seen here in 2009, was head of the schools unit and gave | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
talks on cyber bullying in schools. He was found dead two months after | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
being arrested in September last year. His death is not being | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
treated as suspicious and an inquest will take place next month. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
This week and Points West, we are examining the rising cost of | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
domestic fuel, the soaring charges affecting all of us but almost half | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
a million people in our region currently living in fuel poverty. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Now an increasing number of communities are choosing to start | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
renewable energy co-operatives. They are joining together in an | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
attempt to lower their bills. Over the last few years, the number | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
of people installing solar panels and investing in loft insulation | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
has gone through the roof. Now whole communities are looking to do | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
the same en masse. To help lower everyone's for fuel bills. The | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
community of Backwell in north Somerset is one of those. They want | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
to reduce energy costs and improve sustainability. They were | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
successful in their bid for what is called a local energy action fund, | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
provided to them by the Department for Energy and Climate Change. And | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
at Backwell's Parish Hall, they have been discussing the best ways | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
to spend the money. We know that oil will run out at some point so | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
we need to make plans as individuals but also as communities | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
for the future and for our children. It is really about individual | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
people and groups of people working together to reduce their own energy | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
bills. And not having to accept what the energy providers are | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
charging us. This village is one of dozens of neighbour has across the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Best who are setting up community co-operatives. In fact, this whole | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
chunk of north Somerset will benefit. Jon Gething runs Low | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Carbon Gordano, a group trying to tackle high fuel prices by | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
installing solar panels using renewable biomass and improving | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
insulation. We are not getting any renewables in our energy. There is | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
no one building renewables. If nobody else is then be better to be | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
to our cells. That is happening increasingly. People doing things | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
themselves. Why should we wait? We have got the resources, skills and | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
expertise. So it seems the high price of gas and electricity is | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
driving people to find other Energy Solutions, which Tara both cheaper | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
and greener. The creators of the Bristol based | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
finance company Hargreaves Lansdown have received honorary degrees this | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
afternoon from the University of Bristol. Peter Hargreaves was first | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
up to accept his doctorate. He started the firm in a bedroom 30 | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
years ago with his business partner Stephen Lansdown. Last week the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
company announced record profits. Stephen Lansdown is the majority | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
shareholder of Bristol City Football Club and the new owner of | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
Bristol Rugby Club. He is a great day for us. I cannot tell you how I | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
feel. Sort of chap and pleased and honoured, and a bit nervous. It is | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
a great experience. I am glad someone has noticed that we have | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
created one of Britain's most successful businesses. It is the | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
only FTSE company based in Bristol and it started with the Duke of bus | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
-- with two of us. Almost exactly six months ago, at | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Gloucester hit the headlines when rioting broke out in the Bolton | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
area of the city. At its height, police officers were brought in to | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
deal with the violence and more than 40 people were arrested. -- | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
Barton it. Today, though, people in Barton Street, say things are back | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
to normal and it is a nicer place to live. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
In August, the rioting that had started in north London and spread | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
across many other large English cities came to Gloucester. Windows | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
were smashed, cars damaged and a local shop looted when rioters, | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
many from outside the area, descended on Barton Street. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Today things are very different. There is no sign here of what | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
happened that night in August. The damage has been repaired. It is | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
peaceful. Local people feel they have reclaimed their street. Today | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
police officers are a constant and reassuring presence to people here, | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
who say the community spirit is now stronger than ever. The nice to see | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
you again. A Barton Street itself has changed dramatically over 30 | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
years. An incident by a few is not going to women are aware of life. | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
It may have done for a day. -- is not going to win in RAF live. Life | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
goes on as normal. More than 40 people were arrested following the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
violence. Half of them have been charged, mainly with violent | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
disorder or criminal damage. Many are now in jail and according to | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the police, Barton Street has bounced back. Things have returned | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
to the way they were that one night. That night was like a blip and | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
people have rallied together, shops have opened and this is a really | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
vibrant area and a really good place to live, work and be. So | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
things have returned back to normal very quickly. No one here will ever | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
forget what happened that night in August, and hope it will never | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
happen again, but people here say the community is stronger than ever | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
as a result of it. There is a warning tonight that | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
three-quarters of the shoreline across the Severn Estuary could be | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
lost in the next 100 years. The state of the Severn Estuary | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
reporter -- State Of The Severn Estuary Report say the huge title | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
waterway is affected by it goes to a Russian and flooding. Wildlife | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
experts have warned losing the shoreline would be a major disaster. | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
The imposing Severn Estuary. Along its banks, people live, wildlife is | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
sustained and economy thrives. Transport, tourism and recreation | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
rely on the waterway, bringing millions of pounds a year, but | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
there are now fears about his future. The seven history stretches | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
from Minehead to near Gloucester and today's report threatens | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
climate change effects. In the next decade, sea levels could rise | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
nearly half a metre and much of the shoreline could be eroded. They | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
could be a great impact on the wildlife and Habitat, also there | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
are concerns regarding rises in sea level and the associated flood risk | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
with extreme weather events. because of the River Severn's | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
massive tidal range, it attracts large numbers of migratory birds. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Experts here say losing it would be a disaster, so the river must be | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
allowed to expand. We are penned in here by flood defences that ten to | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
stay in the same position and and we are getting what we call coastal | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
squeeze. We are getting, inevitably, less into tidal areas. Places like | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
this are brain areas. They are earmarked as site Sperry can take | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
away some of the flood defences and have a potential for Al-Amin a more | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
natural tidal regime in those areas. -- 8... It will be a tricky balance | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
the. Be it is important we are ready to adapt and we think the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
best way to do that is to inform the public and practitioners alike | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
of what is outside on the estuary and what resources are there and | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
what issues we need to be tackling in the next 20 or 30 years. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
authors of the report say it is a crucial time for the future of the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Severn Estuary, a starting point for those who can come together and | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
shape its future. As the public as well as the big organisations, to | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
make sure this incredible natural resource is protected for future | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
generations. Now we have some rather exciting | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
news just before the weather. It is a special honour that is being paid | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
to Aaron Chris Vacher tonight. He is receiving a lifetime achievement | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
award from the Royal Television Society. He worked in the studios | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
for 28 years before retiring in December, making him the longest | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
serving anchor of any BBC regional news programme. Her pre-, we will | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
be able to bring him some pictures -- hopefully we will be able to | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
bring you some pictures of him receiving his award in the 10:25pm | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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news is possible. We are very proud. The mild theme continues through | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
tonight, tomorrow and into the first part of Saturday. Then | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
changes taking place, something a bit chilly up. We have the week | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
front pivoting around over parts of the British Isles. The air mass | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
temperature gives us a good indication of how the temperatures | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
will respond on the ground. The Blue starts to sing southwards on | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
Saturday. A temporary blip because next week we return to mild wet | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Atlantic air. We are expecting a dollop a generally than today | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
tomorrow. Little sunshine but it will be mild and we will be seeing | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
some patchy light rain or drizzle at times. If I'd run the sequence | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
through into tomorrow, for the time being, effectively a dry picture. | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
Beat France -- the weather fronts are being held at bay other than | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
this week one. The isobars are starting to tighten up by the end | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
of Friday so on Saturday it will be a more breezy story for us all. The | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
cloud cover has started to become more of a Beecher with each passing | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
hour into the afternoon and evening. At times that might bring some | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
patchy drivels in exposed parts. But a very little as we come | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
further eastwards. Certainly a milder night. Certainly no frost by | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
tomorrow morning. A good deal of cloud around. With that comes some | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
patchy light rain at times. That will extend its reach at times | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
further the East. Not much of it, though. Cloudy, mild for most of us | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
tomorrow, just a moderate breeze and temperatures on a par with | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
today. We may even reach 12 Celsius. I mention to changes on the way | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
into the weekend. On Saturday, with start the day mild and noticeably | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
breezy. Maximum temperatures probably around 11:00am or 12 noon. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
Some squally rain and then afterwards temperatures colder. But | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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There is a bit of a debate going on on Twitter, using the hash tag safe | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
cycling. I will bring you a bit of it. One person says, if the idiots | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
who ride bikes in towns had some respect for cars, accidents would | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
not happen. Another person says, Bristol prides itself on being a | :27:21. | :27:31. | |
safe cycle city? Not any more. Someone else says if it's cyclists | :27:31. | :27:36. |