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Good evening and welcome to Points West. Our headlines tonight: The | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
revolving door at Bristol council. Barbara Janke quits. The 7th leader | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
to come and go in 10 years. Our mobility scooter is a menace? The | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
family of Bennett injured girl called for greater regulation. It | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
is the last thing we were expecting to happen. We were paying an going | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
there a transaction and not expecting to get mown down. Inside | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
the blood factory as their owners are needed for the Olympics. And | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
the long arm of the law around a long neck of a swan. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Good evening. They shot at the council house in Bristol tonight | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
after the resignation of the council leader just a week before | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
the crucial referendum on a city mayor. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
The leadership has changed seven times in 10 years. Barbara Janke | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
opposes a directly elected mayor, but a decision to quit has given a | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
boost to the Yes camp -- Yes campaign who insist Bristol cannot | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
go on with a revolving door of political leaders. | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
It has been a big job in sometimes turbulent times. 15 years leading | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
the Liberal Democrats, three spells in charge of the council, she is | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
about to turn 65 so has decided to stand down. It is quite sad because | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
I have enjoyed being the leader. I found it an enormous privilege to | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
lead such a wonderful city as Bristol and I am sorry to be giving | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
it up, but I have been doing it now for seven and a half years and | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
nothing goes on for ever. Bristol leaders don't. It is like a | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
revolving door at the council house. Diane Bunyan was in 2003 followed | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
by Barbara Janke. Then came Helen Holland and Barbara Janke's final | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
turn three years ago. That instability has many critics. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
think there have been 60 from leaders of the council in 10 years. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
If you have that degree of chopping and changing you do not get a | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
coherent policy, don't get decisions taken and there is a | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
general disenchantment in the way the city is run. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Excited is a big reason to say yes to an elected mayor. Today, | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
political differences mattered less. We work together on a rainbow | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Council. I was her deputy leader so we worked very closely. She is a | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
nice lady. We have never had a problem working together. We | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
disagree politically, but we have to get on and do the job for | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Bristol and our hearts were in the right place. This all means change | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
for Bristol. Straight after the referendum, Lib Dems will be | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
deciding on their leader who then has to be ratified by a full | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
council leader. By November the people of the city could be | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
choosing the first ever elected mayor. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
We will tell you where you can listen to a debate on the issue | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
later in the programme. A second man on board a boat which | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
caught fire in Bath earlier this month has died. The 30 year-old man | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
from Swindon was taken to hospital with severe burns. Stephen Phelps | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
who was 42 was also killed in the fire which broke out on a cabin | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
cruiser moored close to Pulteney Bridge last month. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
The family of a girl injured in an accident with a run away mobility | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
scooter is calling for drivers to have proper training. The nine- | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
year-old suffered a broken ankle when the vehicle crashed into her | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
in Clarks Village in Somerset. The swimming lessons are on hold, | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
she has had to give up her part in the school play. Akeyla Pike's | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
ankle broken by a runaway mobility scooter. It hurtled into the nine- | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
year-old as the family were paying for shoes in Clarks factory shop. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
would hate to see anybody else go through what we went through. We | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
were paying a not expecting to get mowed down. It was very painful | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
because it kept going into it. After it happened, she kept saying | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
she was sorry, but when it was happening she said she couldn't | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
stop it. The driver was in her seventies and was using her own | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
powered wheelchair similar to this one. We spoke to the family of the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
74 year-old today and they say she is still shocked and upset herself | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
about what happened in this store on Monday. Her daughter says that | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
her mother was stationery at the checkouts and the accident happened | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
when a cashier handed her some bags over the counter. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
The driver's family say the banks may have knocked the joystick of | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the wheelchair setting it off in the direction of the young girl | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
five yards away. The Pike family wonder if there will chair should | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
have been turned off and are demanding tougher controls over the | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
use of mobility scooter us. don't know what happened, we don't | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
know whether the lady could have taken control of the vehicle or not, | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
but it is nothing we will find out because the police would not get | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
involved. The law does need to change on that aspect. Mobility | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
scooter has can weigh up to 150 kilos and make 12 miles an hour, | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
but there is no need for training or insurance. In Norfolk and Dorset | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the police have introduced training courses after a spate of accidents. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
These drivers approved. In the village, it is quite easy to run | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
into someone when it is crowded. you are not used to it, they can be | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
quite quick. If you can't stop it, they cannot people. The government | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
is considering legislation to make them safer, but scooter design and | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
street layouts may also help reduce accidents. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
As we have been hearing, The family in this case wants people who drive | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
motorised scooters and cause accidents to be called to account. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Earlier I spoke to the head of road safety for the Royal Society for | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Prevention of accidents and asks for his response. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
I think that very much depends on how they caused the accident. If | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
someone behave recklessly then the law should be applied the same as | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
it would to anyone else, but we have to remember that people using | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
their ability scooters are probably not in the best of health so | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
prosecution is not necessarily appropriate. What would be | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
appropriate? The best thing is to avoid this happening in the first | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
place so try to ensure that people using mobility scooter has have | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
been properly assessed and we are confident they are able to use them. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
You said, quite rightly, for many people it can be a lifeline, but | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
they can be very big, quite fast and more people are using them. Are | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
they safe in an environment like a shop? There are clearly risks. The | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
key issue is that many people who use mobility scooter has all become | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
housebound if they do not use them. We have to be careful that we don't | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
stop people using these mobility scooter has unless they are clearly | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
not safe to do so. We also need them to behave responsibly when | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
they are doing it. I am not suggesting the lady was | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
irresponsible, but there is always some level of risk. I suppose that | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
is a good point, if there is more regulation it could take away some | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
bodies life are in. Absolutely. That is why there is no compulsory | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
training all insurance because all of those things will increase the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
cost for people using their ability skitters and that might mean some | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
people wouldn't be able to do so. If that happens, they could be | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
stuck at home or in a care home. Should there be training for | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
everybody, because there isn't at the moment. There isn't, but they | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
should be. The problem at the moment is that we need to build a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
sufficient number of training providers and we need to be | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
confident about what training is effective. If you bought in a nor | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
now saying that mobility scooter has must be trained, an awful lot | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
of them would not be able to find a trainer in the first place. From | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
next year, police are going to be asked to monitor at accidents | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
involving motorised scooters, do you think this will help and how? | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Yes it will because it will provide better data on the number of | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
accidents that are happening. Where they are happening and he has been | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
injured. That sort of information helps to justify the cost of | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
responses such as regulation. At the moment we have virtually no | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
data are torn apart from cases recorded in the media such as this | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
one. Thank you very much for joining us. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
You are watching Points West. One more day to go and it is the | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
weekend! We are being warned it can be an extremely wet and windy one. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Ian will be here with the forecast shortly. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Along with the weather there is lots more to bring year including: | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
We look into the menace for motorists. Pot holes and the | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
special gangs out to fill them in. And for more than 100 use the armed | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
forces were based here in West Somerset yet they have never had a | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
war memorial. Today after years of waiting, the final designs for one | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
have been revealed. So that is all to come, but first, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
the agent from GEC HQ he was found dead in a back has been described | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
as a man with a world-class intelligence. Gareth Williams was a | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
protege he went to university when he was 16. He was central to return | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
to Cheltenham after a secondment to Cheltenham with MI6. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
The mathematics whizz kid he became an encryption expert. Gareth | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Williams entered Britain's world of intelligence gathering at just 21. | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
10 years later, his body was found in the bath inside a locked bag. As | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
the inquest continues, his former boss at GCHQ says he was considered | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
a prodigy, a private individual who shuns social gatherings but none | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
the less had a friendly sense of humour. Able to lighten the tone in | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
what was often an intense occupation. His body lay in his | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Pimlico flat for nine days, enough time to begin to decompose. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Toxicologists asked about the possibility of poisoning because he | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
lay undiscovered soda long, Test on his blood and body were unreliable. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Yesterday the landlady at of his flat said he wants tied himself to | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
his bed and had to call her husband for help. He had gone on secondment | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
to MI6. Before he died, he requested to return early to his | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
work at GCHQ. Mr Williams gained his qualifications early. He became | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
intelligence specialist before many had finished its education. A | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
decade of life live privately now or in death, the subject of intense | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
public conversation. His inquest continues. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
They are the pet hate of many motorists, now potholes have | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
attracted the attention of the government. And National Review has | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
published recommendations for councils and how best to deal with | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
them. At the same time, Gloucestershire is trailing a | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
scheme that tackles pot holes as soon as they are spotted. | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Last year, Gloucestershire County Council repaired 42,000 potholes. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
The year before, it was 90,000. Normally they sent out teams to | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
mark the roads and repair crews come back later. This time is | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
different. The idea is to get to repair more | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
potholes more quickly. There will be a dedicated crew and they will | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
be acting on information from the public and going out on a fine and | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
six mission. Today, Lynsey and Andrew are | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
working their way down this road repairing whatever they can as they | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
:13:15. | :13:17. | ||
I have marked out this pothole as a defect. Then we will fill in and | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
cut it out. This is all extra to the normal repair programme. It is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
our job to be as proactive as possible and make sure that we | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
react quickly. We also have the weather to contend with. We have | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
about 5,500 kilometres in Gloucestershire to deal with. We | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
need to operate as efficiently as we can. A repairing potholes is | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
costly, but so is leaving them. Drivers can easily damage | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
suspension, wheels and bodywork. To cyclists and motorcyclists they can | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
spell serious danger. But with budgets being squeezed, the | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
pressure is on to find better ways of tackling them. Bristol council | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
is thinking of pioneering a smart phone application which so shows -- | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
shows drivers wear pot holes are. The National Blood Service based in | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
south Gloucestershire says that it needs to increase blood stocks by | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
almost a third before this summer. We have events like the Olympics to | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
contend with. As part of its appeal it has given the BBC's special | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
access to its processing plant in Filton. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Filton, home to the largest blood manufacturing centre in the world. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Nearly half of all blood donations made in England and Wales end up | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
here where they are separated into different products, like red blood | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
and plasma. But during big national celebrations like the royal wedding | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
last year, not only is there a spike in demand with more overseas | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
visitors, but donations dip as people miss their appointments. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
That is why there is a big push are bound to get blood stocks up by | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
nearly a third by the summer. expect this year that we will have | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
about 1.2 million extra visitors coming into the country. We will | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
also have athletes taking part. We need to be prepared for every | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
contingency. What Jessica Smith was unprepared for was being diagnosed | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
by -- with about cancer by the age of 27. She had a young baby at the | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
time and was severely anaemic and needed blood transfusions every | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
week. I was so anaemic that my blood count was just half of what | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
it should have been for a woman of my age. When you are very ill, you | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
do not realise that the treatment you are having his life saving. My | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
family or give a blood now without question. When you have had | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
somebody that you have seen a survive just from having the blood, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
it gives you a whole new outlook. The there are nearly 2 million | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
blood donations every year. Today these people were giving blood. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
There are always people who need blood and it is a good idea. As | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
soon as I was able to donate I did. I have been donating ever since, | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
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this is my 89th donation. Helping to top up supplies that need an | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Olympic-sized boost before the summer. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
People in Watchet in Somerset are trying to raise money for the war | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
memorial. Despite its history as a garrison town for the Air Force and | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the army there has never been a local monument for those who lost | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
their lives. Instead, their names are scattered in several locations. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
Now a campaign is under way to change that. Chris is in Watchet to | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
tell us about it. Good evening. Watchet is on the | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Somerset coast. Around 4,000 people live here. It has a rich military | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
history. There are signs of it all over the town. You imagine a with | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
such a rich history of the armed forces in of the town that they | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
would be a war memorial here. But there is not. That is about to | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
change thanks to local schoolchildren. First, I have been | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
leafing through some of the news archives back at the BBC to find | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
out what it was like in 1938. progress of aviation is here at | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
Watchet. The coast at the start of World War II. Hundreds of service | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
personnel were based here in Watchet. They even got the chance | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
to fire live ammunition at unmanned aircraft, a remote controlled by | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
radio from the Somerset shoreline. This was a key instalment for the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
British war effort. According to local records, 55 men from the town | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
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died in both world wars. 60 years on, schoolchildren have been | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
:18:49. | :18:49. | ||
designing a suitable monument for the town. The winning entry... | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
is a cross with a puppy -- poppy on. Around it is decoration. Are you | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
pleased with it? Yes. Are you pleased that you one question mark | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
yes. The war memorial has also been chosen. It is next to the train | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
station for a reason. The troops used to march along the railway | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
line of by the railway station. They would get on to the trains | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
that would then take them away from the area. This would be the last | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
sight that they would have of Watchet on the way out. For those | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
that were fortunate enough to come back, this would be the first sight | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
that they would see. It is also hoped that when the tourists come | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
in they will spot the memorial from the carriage window and pay to | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
visit. And pay their respects. Just a few feet from the harbour to | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
my left is the old library which was saved from closure. This is | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
where the war memorial will go. This is a watercolour of what it | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
will look like. They wanted to be in place by 2014. But they need to | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
raise �18,000 to do it and they are at �3,000 at the moment. They have | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
some events over the summer where they are hoping to raise all of | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
that money. Always a treat to visit Watchet. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Traffic police have been grappling with some beautiful but potentially | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
aggressive customers today, they can peck, hiss, and even break an | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
arm with a flap of the wing. But they are being betrayed to deal | :20:34. | :20:44. | |
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with runaway swans in case they The traditional view of frontline | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
policing, fighting crime, dealing with the drunks, crashes on the | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
roads, but for the traffic police are working in a rural patch this | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
sometimes need a more softly-softly approach. It seems that swans are | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
proving a big problem when they end up in the middle of the road and | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
refused to budge. It causes road closures and tailbacks and officers | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
trying to dupe -- shoo them away. We are training up some of the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
officers to catch the swans and release them safely. We hope to | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
improve the safety for the public on the roads. It is not just about | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
handling the swans but also being able to protect and transport them | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
safely if they have been injured. Experts from the Wildfowl and | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
Wetlands Trust were more than happy to offer their advice. It is great | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
for us to be able to show the police have to handle them | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
correctly and that great for them to respond to things at the time. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
They've will not need us to come and help them out. The reality is | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
that these are wild birds and if they refuse to move, they will have | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
to be caught. That is the tricky bit. I was a bit apprehensive that | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
because they are powerful birds. We have been talked today that as long | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
as you are positive with them at it will not be a problem. -- has been | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
talk today. Confidence is the key thing. Now I have the confidence, I | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
will be happy to do it again. may not be the sort of training | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
that police in urban areas are used to, but it does reflect a life on | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
the beat in a patch famous for its wildlife. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Before the weather, it seems that our story about an accident | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
concerning a motor scooter has prompted some of you to write in. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Paul has e-mailed to say that to use a similar vehicle on a golf | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
course you need insurance. Romulus says that when she bought her | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
skewed on line she was given training by the company's | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
technician. Daniel has says that when his father was dying of cancer | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
they borrowed a mobility scooter for a friend of the family. He was | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
only able to use it a couple of times before he became bed-bound. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Requiring regulation would have taken their freedom away from him, | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
says Daniel. We have also had an e- mail from someone from Taunton who | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
does offer training to use them. It thank you for all of those. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Flood alerts have been in place around our region but they have now | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
been stood down. This picture taken of the River Stour shows that the | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
heavy rains are impacting the river levels. Is there more of this to | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
There will be more of this to come. I suspect the river levels will | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
rise again through the course of tomorrow. Heavy downpours are | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
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developing. Did you put grease on that for me? There is a discreet | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
line through the south-west which shows us where the showers will be. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
The met Office is sufficiently concerned that we have the yellow | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
warning in force for tomorrow. The showers will not really barge | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
through the course of the day. Western areas have primarily been | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
seeing the showers today. They will continue to seek showers through | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
this evening and tonight. Effectively there will be a dry | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
night through the eastern part of the region. Tomorrow will see a wet | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
start for the western parts of the region. Tomorrow will be drier | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
further southwards. Late morning, the convergence line of showers | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
will be up and running. Gradually that will feed further southwards | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
as we get later on into the day, there could be torrential thundery | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
downpours associated with that. They will be slow to move because | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
the winds will be lighter. As we head into the weekend, we are | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
watching the jet stream a loops, they are going all the way down to | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
the Canaries and then back up north. That will spin up an area of low | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
pressure and Sri -- Low pressure as we go to Saturday. Through Saturday | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
it will still be fairly benign with a largely dry start. Into the | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
evening and overnight into Sunday that there could be gales and there | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
will certainly be heavy rain. There will be have met Office warning out | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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As we have been hearing tonight it is just a week to go until | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
Bristol's big May oral vote. BBC Radio Bristol heard from the | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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