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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The headlines tonight: Fuelling the debate about the budget. The Bosses | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
of a coach company watch as the chancellor fails to cut the price | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
of diesel. The manufacturing company that | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
wants to recruit, but can't get the staff. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Practising for an emergency as one town on the Severn is identified as | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
being at risk of flooding. And agony at the gate for David | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
James as he punches a hole in Bristol City's efforts to avoid the | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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A tax cut for people on low incomes, a boost for aerospace, even a | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
mention for a west country celebrity couple. That's how the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
chancellor will hope his budget will be remembered here in the West. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Labour says the government is just helping its rich friends and | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
ignoring the soaring price of fuel. So when the dust settles, are we | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
better off or not? Here's Dave Harvey. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
A budget for business and for hard working families, that's what he | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
called it and I watched the chancellor in Taunton with both | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
today. This family firm runs coach trips. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
They've done so for 90 years. They buy a lot of diesel. A penny at the | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
pump costs the company �10,000 a year. In the summer, fuel duties | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
are set to rise by another 3p. When the chancellor stood up, they were | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
hoping he would axe that - he didn't. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
I do not propose to make any further changes to the fuel duty | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
plans already set up. So here's Stuart Berry's Budget. No | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
relief on that tax hike planned for his fuel bills, but a small drop in | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
corporation tax to sweeten the pill. On the downside, reduction in | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
capital allowances will cost us a considerable amount of money and | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
offset to a large degree any reduction in corporation tax. It is | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
there much a case of give to one and take away from the other. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Keeping those coaches on the road and in the right place, people like | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Sam Williams. With one daughter and another on the way, Sam works part | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
time in school hours, exactly the sort of person Mr Osborne had in | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
mind for this. People will be able to earn up to | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
�9,205 before they have to pay any tax. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Since she earns under 9,000 a year, from next April she'll keep it all, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
but on the downside, Sam and her husband will no longer get tax | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
credits for their children. That money, she swims and does | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
ballet each week. That contributed to those activities. Is it the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
budget for hard-working families? don't know about supporting. I | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
think they are going a little way to soften the blow on child tax | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
credit, but I am going to be worse off. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
As ever, there are swings and roundabouts. So who really wins - | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
companies, or individual tax payers? | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
On balance there was more for individuals and businesses this | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
time around, but he did not have a lot of scope to do very much with | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
nearly 1000 billion of public debt, there wasn't much room. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Well one firm in Gloucestershire is seeking more than a hundred new | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
employees as its exports continue to grow. Renishaw based in Wootton | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
Under Edge is a West Country success story, but it's struggling | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
to find enough skilled people to meet demand. Here's Sarah-Jane | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
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Bungay. You can create an effective quality | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
control basis around this type of equipment. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Renishaw makes intricate measuring tools As a consumer we may not see | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
them, but they're used in a vast array of manufacturing. Crucial in | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the production of the car you drive or even in helping the dentist to | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
keep your smile bright. A tiny sphere on the end of this | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
probe is taking measurements from the dental mould. That can then | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
produce a crowd which will be a snug fitting and as close to the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
size of your tooth as possible. Everything appears to be very | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
positive at the moment. We are seeing growth right across the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
world in the States coming back strongly but also a huge growth in | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
China and again in the UK. The innovation here is immense, but | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
there's a problem. In the last 10 years we have seen a | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
noticeable change in their education system that has not quite | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
in our favour. It is harder to find people who are committed am | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
competent in maths and the sciences. So while there are jobs on offer, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
recruiting the best people to fill them could prove as complicated as | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
some of the equipment which is produced here. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
A little earlier I spoke to the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
and asked him if there was anything in the budget for struggling | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
businesses here in the West. One of the interesting features of | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
the Budget is the extent to which the Chancellor and me are talking | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
about industrial strategy, supporting manufacturing. There is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
a big project to support research and aerospace industry which is | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
crucial for the Bristol area, in addition to supporting manufacture | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
during. Bristol is at the hub of a lot of creative industries such as | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
animation. They will benefit from additional tax relief. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Manufacturing generally, oil and gas industry, pharmaceuticals are | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
all given a big boost in the Budget. Things Cable talking to me earlier | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
about the tax break for Wallace and Gromit. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Let's get some reaction from Aardman. Sabet Choudhury is at | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
their headquarters now. There are certainly an error of | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
excitement here after the news of that tax credit from the Chancellor. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Miles boiler is the head of broadcast here. Thank you for | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
joining us. Great news for you, but is there an element that you are | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
holding the country to ransom by saying, give us incentive or we get | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
out of here? We don't like to characterise it as | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
holding the country to ransom, it is a business reality that | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
competitors overseas are getting subsidies from governments and has | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
made it impossible to compete on a level playing field. We were | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
considering having to offshore some of our production activities, but | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
it looks like, with this tax credit coming in, we went have to do that. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
What makes you and the animation industry so special? | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
Other industries have had this, the film industry already get tax | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
credits and the Chancellor announced tax credit for the Games | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
is distrait. Not just the media industry, | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
manufacturing, let's say. The case that we made his there is | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
a particular decline in animation in the UK which will effect what | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
our children see on television. There has been a decline from 80% | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
UK programmes to 20% UK programmes. Great news for Aardman Animation | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
and anyone here is a fan of those two gentlemen. It means their | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
history with Bristol will certainly continue for a while. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Dave Harvey is here. As with all budgets, there are winners and | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
losers. How has the West Country done? | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
As you saw, the mum in Taunton, lots of people like a on low | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
incomes keep �1,000 more tax free and another 1000 next year. That is | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
the biggest single increase. He did not put a hike on cider or beer. On | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
the other hand, things under the wire. That child tax credit being | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
withdrawn so again, Sam working part-time and her husband working | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
easily go above the threshold so they are losing that. A lot of | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
people find there is something coming in, but a little more going | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
out. What is the opposition response? | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
They called it a millionaire budget. As Stephanie were saying, this row | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
over the 50 p tax rate dominating. Plenty of ammunition for Labour. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Kerry McCarthy in Bristol told us at the same thing earlier. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
The problem with the Budget was that it was so skewed towards the | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
50 p tax cut but benefits 50,000 people �10,000 per year. Battered - | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
- they are not the people I was looking to help. I was looking to | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
help people on lower incomes and there was nothing to support them. | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
People being hit by tax credit cuts, no action on fuel duty, nothing | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
about cutting VAT which is what we have been calling for. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Disappointing for my constituents. With barely mention tax on be used, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
cigarettes, the things that normally budgets are all about. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
That is a sign of the times. People are much more concerned about jobs, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
income and inflation. Plans for a controversial nuclear | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
power station at Hinkley will be debated in public over the next six | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
months. Protesters say it would be dangerous and uneconomical. As our | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers reports, hundreds of people | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
turned up for the opening day. Appearing in public for the first | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
time - the four people who will decide whether new nuclear comes to | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
Somerset. French energy company EDF want to build two new reactors here, | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
next to the existing power station at Hinkley Point. If it goes ahead | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
it will be the first nuclear power station to be built in Britain for | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
two decades. Today, around 200 people turned up for the first | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
public meeting of the Infrastructure Planning Commission | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
- the government appointed group who will hear all the arguments for | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
and against and then make a recommendation. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Today marks the start of six months of debate on whether Hinckley see | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
the biggest civil engineering project the West Country has ever | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
seen should go ahead. It is what the commissioners won't be | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
discussing that is raising eyebrows in some quarters. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Anti nuclear groups say the whole process is undemocratic and flawed | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
and it will not allow them to challenge important issues like the | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
safety of nuclear power. That is the safety of raptors, the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
aftermath of the accident in Japan, the storage of radioactive waste | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
for 100 years. The commission say those issues | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
have already been debated and decided. Here they want to discuss | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
local issues like traffic and the impact on local communities. And | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
the power company behind it say they're optimistic of getting | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
consent. We listen very hard for over three | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
years and developed a very strong application. Would you bet on it | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
happening? I am not a betting man, but I am very confident. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Once all the talking's done, it's likely the Energy Secretary will | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
say yes or no to Hinkley early next This Wednesday's Points West with | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Alex and David - all your local news, sport and weather from your | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
local BBC team. Coming up: We meet the beach volley player from | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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Gloucestershire hoping to net her Around 120 pupils and staff at a | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
school at the Bristol Brunel Academy are being offered screening | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
for TB. They're thought to have been exposed to a slight risk of | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
catching the infection, after spending time with the student | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
who's since made a full recovery. Medical experts stress it's | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
difficult to catch TB, but they want to ensure children and staff | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
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are offered tests. These were the terrible scenes in | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Cornwall eight years ago when flash floods caused incredible damage. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
100 homes and businesses were destroyed in a matter of hours. Now | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
the town of Lydney has been identified as having the potential | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
for a serious flood. How would we cope if it happened here? Today, | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
police ambulance, fire and volunteer rescue organisations came | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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together to test their response. A bright and calm morning was a | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
bitter blow for those who wanted extreme weather conditions to train | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
for a major flood rescue. First job - to arrange some casualties. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Special weighted dummies were thrown into the River Severn, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
quickly swept away by the tide, just as a person would be. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
In a real time incidents, our primary role would be to recover | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
casualties and to get those to a position where they would have a | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
good chance of survival. Maybe calling a helicopter, may be | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
getting them to an ambulance on the shore or maybe a crew on a lifeboat | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
maintaining Life Preservation. All of this is part of the exercise. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Every rescue agency likely to be called upon also gathered on the | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
river banks. The coastguard search team quickly found something. | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
hear me? From the equipment to the personnel to the vehicles, this is | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
designed to be as real as possible. So why Lydney? Well, the way the | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
hills and rivers converge on the town mean, although it's extremely | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
unlikely, a serious flood could happen. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Today is fundamentally around protects shown as much as we can to | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
the people of Lydney. I'll would like to stress that it is extremely | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
unlikely to happen, but once the risk is identified, it is incumbent | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
on us to plan a training exercise to resolve any issues. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
This is the first of a three day practical exercise. Everyone hopes | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
this sort of response will never actually be needed. If it is, these | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
rescue teams will certainly be prepared. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
A woman from Somerset who dressed as a man to fool a doctor into | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
prescribing her drugs, has been spared jail. Max Quiberon, a serial | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
bigamist who used to be called Emily Horne, pretended to be her | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
former partner. Laura Jones reports from Taunton Crown Court. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Long before today's sentencing, Max Accastes Quiberon was no stranger | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
to either the courts or the press. These pictures are from 2009, she's | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
about to find out if she's going to be sent to prison for bigamy. At | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
this point she had married 5 different men, but had never once | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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got divorced. What is your reaction? I think I should get a | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
divorce. Two years and two more husbands later, this time it wasn't | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
about bigamy though, but fraud. Quiberon had pleaded guilty to | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
dressing up as her current partner, to fool a doctor into prescribing | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
drugs for her own use. Sentencing Max Accastes Quiberon to | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
a community order, Recorder Johnathan Barnes said that she had | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
come terribly, terribly close to being sent to prison and that this | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
would be her last chance. He went on to say that if she came back | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
before a court again to face any further offences of this kind, that | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
he didn't have any doubt that the judge would send her immediately to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
custody. The former glamour model has | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
previously spoken of having had difficult times in her life and has | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
said that she just wants to make people happy. She will now be | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
electronically tagged overnight for a month and supervised and | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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supported by the probation service Control of one of the West's big | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
councils could change hands without the public having a say. South | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Gloucestershire councillors will vote this evening on whether to | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
scrap their cabinet. It's run by the Conservatives who | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
are threatening a walkout. Our political editor Paul Barltrop | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
reports on a row dividing a Council which used to be called a model of | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
togetherness. Election night last year and what | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
do we have? All three parties standing and smiling together. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
South Gloucestershire had a reputation for consensus and co- | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
operation - just as well because no one got a majority. The | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
Conservatives won most seats and took charge, but that could be | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
ending. These are the serious faces today of Labour and Liberal | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Democrat councillors who are forcing a vote to get rid of the | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
Tory executive cabinet. It is frustrating. We spend a lot | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
of time discussing this same issues that the executive might discuss, | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
but at the end of the debate we can't have a vote. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
There are times when the majority of councillors would not agree with | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
some of the decisions being made. Not many, but some and you cannot | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
imagine how frustrating it is to go back to your residence and say, I | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
am sorry, we agree with you, but there is nothing we can do about it | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
under the system. There are 70 councillors, but just | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
seven of them form the cabinet which makes the vast majority of | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
decisions. That would be abolished. There'd still be a leader, but much | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
power would be in the hands of committees of councillors from all | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
parties. Which is what most councils had in the 1990s. The | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
ruling Tories aren't happy. We do feel that the residents | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
should be the ones that have consultation. Tonight committee, if | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
they do make this change to the committee, we feel that it will be | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
a black day in the south Gloucestershire for democracy. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Tonight's meeting could go on late and be close. But if the vote is | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
for change, the Conservatives must then decide if they'll walk away | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
from running South Gloucestershire. Now, you've spent hours tending | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
your allotment, nurturing your home grown veg and then, just before | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
harvest, disaster strikes. Night raiders steal all the fruits of | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
your labours. Well, allotment holders in Swindon have got so fed | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
up with the moonlit thefts, they've called in the local police, who in | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
turn have gone all hi-tech in the hunt for the root vegetable robbers. | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
They enjoy the good life here. As with many allotments, there's a | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
waiting list, but growing your own here doesn't always mean you get to | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
eat your own. The biggest problem is the kids get | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
over in the site. Later in the season and they actually come over | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
and still the crops as well. The vandalism and the thefts occur | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
mainly when the growers have gone home for the night. So the police, | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
with money from the parish council, have come up with a far-sighted | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
solution - night vision. These are the night vision goggles we are | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
using. They are lightweight and sturdy and produce a really clear | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
image inside which is good for picking out individuals. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
It's a foggy night, this is what the naked eye sees, but PC Keys and | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
his specially adapted scope see this. To give you an idea, remember | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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his jacket and hat are black. people are hiding behind bushes and | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
sheds, it is possible to see them. Then we can direct troops to | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
intercept them all tackle them ourselves. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
They are used to the concept of police helicopters with night | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
vision goggles, this is their colleagues on the ground a cheaper, | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
but just as effective way of seeing in the dark. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Each pair costs around �350 cash from the council which they believe | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
is well spent as keeping a watchful eye on this community is now | :20:43. | :20:53. | |
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If they come after your cabbages, perhaps you should blow them arouse | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Bury. Football, and goalkeepers might | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
want to look away for the next few minutes. Bristol City's David James | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
had one of those moments where you just want the ground to swallow you | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
up. But he wasn't the only west country goalkeeper to be caught out | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
in last nights games. Goalkeepers tend to be judged | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
mainly by their mistakes - something David James has had to | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
deal with in his long distinguished career. But this wasn't a night | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
he'll remember with any affection. Sometimes the football pitch can be | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
a very lonely place. Manager Derek McInnes says that mistake set the | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
tone for the match, but the defenders surely had to take some | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
of the flack for Watford's second goal. Eight defeats in 11 now for | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
goal. Eight defeats in 11 now for City who are just four points above | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
the relegation zone, having played a game more than those below them. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Former player-manager Glenn Hoddle was a guest at Swindon and the man | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
who led them into the Premier who led them into the Premier | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
league 19 years ago saw them take a big step towards promotion from | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
League Two. They're now seven points clear at the top after | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
beating 2nd place Toruqay. Alan Connell's strike and a header from | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Oliver Risser making it 15 home wins in a row for Paolo Di Canio's | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
men - with room still for improvement. | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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15? Only 15? That is nothing. This is why we are at the top. The | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
target was to go up, our main target. | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
But Cheltenham's challenge is faltering. Promotion rivals | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Shrewsbury inflicting a fourth defeat in a row. England under 21 | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
keeper Jack Butland has been a star performer for the Robins, but this | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
fumble proved costly. Yeovil's Sam Walker was another red faced keeper | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
- beaten by this cross-shot from - beaten by this cross-shot from | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Danny N'Guessan. The Glovers five match unbeaten run coming to an end | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
at the hands of the League One leaders Charlton. Back in League | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Two. Matt Harrold's goal put Bristol Rovers in front at | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
struggling Plymouth, but they weren't able to hold on for the win. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
The Devon side grabbed their equaliser with just six minutes of | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
A beach volleyball player from Gloucestershire is making her final | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
preparations for the start of the sport's World Tour which could land | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
her an Olympic place. Denise Johns has spent much of her | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
life in America, but now calls Churchdown home. With most | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
tournaments taking place thousands of miles away she spends much of | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
her year abroad. Zoe Gough caught up with her packing for her next | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
trip. It's a life that really is lived | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
out of a suitcase. Denise Johns spends more months abroad than in | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
her adopted country. Home is her husband Jody's parents house in | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Gloucestershire. He's also aiming for the Olympics so time together | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
is scarce. It's tough and we do travel a lot | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
because there is no British indoor beach volleyball court. So far this | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
year we have been to New Zealand for almost two months and came back | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
to the UK for a couple of days and then went to Tenerife and then came | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
back for a couple of days. It is a lovely places that we travel to, | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
but it is taxing on you travelling constantly. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
Denise trains in Bath with partner Louise Boulton. Winning tournaments | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
is key and from April they'll come thick and fast. If they want to | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
return to Horse Guards parade this year. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
The test event for the Olympics was incredible. To see the support of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
the barons and really learn about beach volleyball and absorb the | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
sport. Questions have been raised about | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
non-Brits taking Olympic places, but Denise is proud to represent | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
the nation. I am a Brit. My dad is British and | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
his family are all over the UK. I grew up with the British customs, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Christmas crackers, saying Happy Christmas instead of merry | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
Christmas, I feel very British. I love being a run British people. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
They have been so welcoming and I really enjoy being in England. I | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
will definitely stay here. And what can be more British than a | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
cup of tea with the mother in law. What could be? May be an allotment | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
with cabbages and rows buries! Let's turn to the weather. It has | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Let's turn to the weather. It has been a lovely day, hasn't it? | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
It has been. Not like yesterday where we had a split, the cloud | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
broke giving us blue skies and sunshine. We got a 14 Celsius in | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
those places and tomorrow will beat that. It is shaping up to be the | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
warmest of the year so far. There is moisture on the way, but not | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
this big area of low, it is a weak front pushing up from a Europe that | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
will bring moisture Thursday night. Patchy and light. For the rest of | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
the evening, clear skies continue. The legacy of the sky is from the | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
daytime. The card will then Porsche in. Urban areas six and seven | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
Celsius. In the morning, the sunshine takes hold rapidly with | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
good spells on the way. A little cloudy over parts of the West, but | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
even decent sunshine in Somerset. The further north you go, 16 or 17 | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
Celsius. Pleasantly warm for this time of the year. Temperatures be | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
on what we would expect for this time in March. After that, cloud | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
will break and then in a few places, but in the wind we see the | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
beginnings of that front coming up from Europe. Patchy light rain that | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
could encourage a little further north but no inroads into the dry | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
ground. We have to wait for high pressure to move away allowing the | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
deep area of Atlantic to move in and bring wet weather. We will see | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
good spells of sunshine on the good spells of sunshine on the | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
weekend, but we still need to wait for the rain. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
We want the nice weather, but we need the rain. Thank you very much | :27:27. | :27:32. |