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West. Our headlines tonight. The boat owner who went to the rescue of | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
a blind man after he fell into Bristol's docks. At the centre of a | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
political storm - a nurse who donated a third of a million pounds | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
to the Government in her will. tonight, remember this? | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
futuristic hovercraft which operated between Weston-super-Mare and Wales. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
And we were meeting some of the people helping to conserve plants | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
that grow right here in the West -- that is plants that grow only here | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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in the West. Good evening. A boat owner helped to save a blind man's | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
life last night after he fell into the water in the Bristol docks. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Jenni Britton was woken in the early hours of this morning by screams for | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
help. While the police and fire services watched from the dockside, | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
she went to his rescue using a kayak. Charlotte Callen has the | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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story. This is one of the quietest areas of the Bristol Docks. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Woman-macro heard shouting and saw a man clinging to the side of the | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
dock. Her quick thinking helped save the life of 48-year-old Robert | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
Jarvis. He was partially sighted. I decided to pop my kayak in the | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
water. And I got Robert to hang onto the front of the kayak. The Avon | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Fire and Rescue boat did finally arrive and pull 48-year-old Robert | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Jarvis to safety. He was taken to hospital and allowed home this | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
afternoon. It does take a few minutes to get here and to get the | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
equipment sorted out. Thankfully these incidents are pretty rare, but | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
when they do happen, questions are often raised about safety on the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
docks. There are railings surrounding most of the water down | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
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here. It is a case of being careful by the water. We can go round | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
putting in access for people to fall in and get out of. In the meantime, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Jenni Britton and her fellow residents down here in the Bathurst | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Basin are hoping for a quieter night down on the water tonight. A Bristol | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
pensioner who died last year has become the focus of an extraordinary | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
political row today. Joan Edwards left hundreds of thousands of pounds | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
in her will to "whichever government is in office." The money went to the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Conservative and Lib Dem parties - but after a day of mounting | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
pressure, they've now agreed not to keep the money for themselves, but | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
instead have passed it to the Treasury. Dickon Hooper has spent | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
much of the day in the fish ponds area of Bristol where Mrs Edwards | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
lived, and joins me now. Good evening. This is St John's Church, | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
where Joan Edwards was a regular right up until she died. She was | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
quiet and unassuming and she always sat at the back. Around the corner, | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
is her modest three-bedroom council house, described to me as a time | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
warp back to the 1920s. She was such a quiet, private person, friends and | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
neighbours say that they are surprised at the attention that the | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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story has got today in the national media. Joan Edwards stayed local all | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
her life. She'd lived here since she was a child. And worked nearby as a | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
children's nurse and midwife. But she kept herself to herself. Nobody | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
could no Joan Edwards well. She was a very private person. Today the | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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private became very public and very political. She had left hundreds of | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
thousands of pounds in her will to "whichever government is in office | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
at the date of her death" for them use as they may think fit. This | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sparked fierce media interest - and a political row - after the money | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
went not to the Government but to the Conservative and Lib Dem | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
parties. It's money neighbours say they had no idea about. It surprised | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
me. How she used to live over there. Just on an old age pension like | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
that. But she did better than that. Quite rightly, if you knew Joan | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
Edwards, and you saw her, he would not think that. The Government | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
parties have handed the cash to the Treasury, but the local MP would | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
prefer the money was spent, well, locally. It would be a nice gesture | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
if it was spent on something specifically related to the lifetime | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
of public service in the NHS. We've got Cosham Hospital brill new birth | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
centre - University of Western England training people - very close | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
by - rather than just being swallowed up and paying interest. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
That would be a nice gesture and close to her heart. What was close | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to her heart was privacy, and neighbours say she'd be appalled by | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
the attention her life and her death have received. No-one knows which | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
way she voted. People here are quite upset about what has been going on | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
today. She was such a private person. Nobody knew who she voted | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
for or what the political allegiance was but if there is a silver lining | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
to the story it is that party politics has been taken out of it. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
The money will go back to the Treasury which, of course, paid | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
their wages of Joan Edwards for all of those decades. She was a lifelong | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
public servant, and perhaps that is the best legacy that she can now | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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have. Now, the West may be known for its prowess in the aerospace | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
industry, but did you know it played a key role in the development of the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
hovercraft? 50 years ago, a hovercraft service ran between | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Weston-super-Mare and Penarth in south Wales. The model was an | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
experimental one and it ran for just one summer. Afterwards, the craft | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
was broken up so engineers could learn from it. Clinton Rogers has | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
been looking back through the archives. Points West pictures from | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
50 years ago. Yet the flying machine hitting the Weston beach looks | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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strangely futuristic. At the time it was was the world's largest | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
passenger-carrying hovercraft, and it was built by Somerset based | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Westlands. 70 people on board crossing a ten mile stretch of water | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
from Penarth to North Somerset in ten minutes. And it certainly drew | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
the crowds at Weston. Getting, it seems, almost dangerously close. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
John Crockford-Hawley remembers it well. He was just 16 when he saw the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
revolutionary hovercraft for the first time. In she came, with sand | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
blowing everywhere. It just arrived. And the only safety precautions | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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between the craft and us kids was a chestnut paling fence. It was a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
prototype, part sponsored by the oil giants Castrol, but commercially it | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
didn't take off and after its six-week trial it never returned to | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Weston. The white heat of technology, that was. It was very | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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expensive to run, which is probably why Castrol had to sponsor it. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
unquestionably, lessons learned from that design spawned the hovercraft | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
of today - like the one used by Avon Fire and Rescue - though some things | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
don't change. It is still the same thing it was 50 years ago. There are | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
no breaks, it is hardest year and there was no reverse. Essentially, | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
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it is one large and to slow you down and one to propel you forward. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
it works - as a rescue vehicle anyway. But 50 years on from this, | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
there is still no sign of a cross channel commercial service. Thank | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
you to everybody who contacted us with their memories of the | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
hovercraft. This is BBC Points West, your regional news, with Alex and | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Sabet. And we've much more still to come this evening, including: Could | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
this be the super-fast travel system of the future, that was actually | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
first imagined many years ago, here in the west? And the real-life comic | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
character. We meet the schoolboy from Bristol who has found fame on | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
the front page of the Beano. The unemployment figures came out today, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
and for the fifth month in a row, they've fallen in the West. Our | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Business Correspondent Dave Harvey has been crunching the numbers. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
a number eagerly awaited by employers, policy makers and those | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
looking for work - and here it is: Nearly 43,000 people in the West | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Country were out of work and claiming benefit in July. It's down | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
- and not for the first time. As you said, for most of this year | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
unemployment has been on the way down - five months in a row, lower | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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now than since 2008. But let's look at the bigger picture. You can see | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
that the numbers have been going up and down throughout the downturn - | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
but always higher than the pre-recession levels. Unemployment | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
doubled in 2008, and it's hasn't come back down yet. Still, things | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
are going in the right direction, and that may be partly because of an | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
army of home workers. People who have decided to set up shop at home. | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
Chris Brierley's been to meet one of them. Following my redundancy this | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
is when I started the business, and it is nice to be able to do what I | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
want to do. Louise is one of many people in the West ditching the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
daily commute for an office based in her own home. The lease on my | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
shopping Cirencester was coming to an end that it seemed like the ideal | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
opportunity to enjoy the first year of my married life and have a little | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
bit more time at home with my new husband. When I was at the shop it | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
was very long days with lots of things to do when I get home, and | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
now being at home I can be more flexible with my time, and have a | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
little bit more time for myself, and the overheads are greatly reduced, | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
and I can still do the same as I was doing before. There are 2.5 million | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
home-based businesses across the UK. People like Louise. That | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
accounts for one in 12 of us. In the points West region that number | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
increases to around one in six. That is 210,000 people. Then you come to | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the Cotswolds. And it goes up even further. It goes to one in four of | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
the people in this area, who have home-based business. Terry left the | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
City lifestyle for rural Gloucestershire 15 years ago, and | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
believes the trend will only increase. It is now much more | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
feasible for people in my situation to run a business, because we have | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
got e-mail, we have got Internet, we have got everything making it | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
possible for us. When it comes to funding home-based businesses, some | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
rely on their savings to get them started while others head to the | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
banks. 112,000 start-up business accounts, the highest number we have | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
opened since wrappings began. -- records began. There are even | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
college courses now being designed to cater for the market. This is a | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
new course that we have developed this year for business start-ups. | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Business and finance, communications and planning. With the figures | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
showing a constant rising of cottage industries, it's a trend likely to | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
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continue for the foreseeable future. 200,000 people then, working from | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
home. Obviously not all making cakes. We have landscape gardeners, | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
stonemasons, people who are good at their white, and recovered that | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
Honda story when 600 people had to take redundancy from the big Swindon | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
car factory, and many of them were taking to fitting kitchens and | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
bathrooms. I would love to hear from people at home, if they are busy | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
working while they are watching points West. Tomorrow, A-level | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
students get their results. Those living University, what are their | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
job prospects? Things are better than last year, but it has been a | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
very difficult few years. Overall, youth unemployment has gone up | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
across the country. But in the West Country it is about 5% of under | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
24-year-olds who are looking for work, so that means that 95% of them | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
have got work, and when I spoke to a Bristol recruitment consultants this | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
morning they told me that the sun is coming out now. It is slightly | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
better. There are more jobs around and this time last year, but more | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
students coming straight from school with no experience, they have to get | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
their face out there, they have to be willing to accept jobs that are | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
perhaps not what they want to do long-term, and be flexible, and | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
accept anything they can't, just to get the right skills. --anything | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
they can. Police are appealing for witnesses after an accident on the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Portway in Bristol in which a motorcyclist was killed. The | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
21-year-old man died at the scene last night. A bus, two cars and a | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
cyclist were also involved, and the cyclist was taken to Frenchay | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Hospital. Over the years, modern architecture has raised more than a | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
few eyebrows - and the Georgian city of Bath is no exception. Now an | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
exhibition running at one of the city's museums is trying to show us | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
why we should learn to love the buildings we loathe! Here's Ali | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
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Vowles. Be honest, this is what most people expect to see when they seek | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
images of Bath. The Georgian architecture has made it a world | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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Heritage city. What happened after the Second World War made many | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
residents shudder. The post-war architecture of Bath is almost | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
universally hated by people who live here. We wanted to do something that | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
explained a bit more about how it came about, and what the ideas | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
behind it were. The opening of Bath University in 1965 stop being the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
great success and a perfect example of the new architecture. We were all | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
moving forward and looking to the future. Celebration in 1968 for | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Bath's first multistorey car park. But there was an outcry about the | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
destruction of Georgian buildings with dozens of tiny streets being | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
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destroyed. It was part of a process known as The Sack of Bath. This site | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
dominates and outrage as the finest urban site in the whole of the West | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
Country. It dominates it and outrages it. It was hard though, to | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
match beauty with business. I think it is this building in the city | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
centre that topped of the most loved building in Bath at the moment. Ruby | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
is what it was all about, brutal bosom. At the time it was respected. | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
In the guidebook, it is the place to go. That hotel is an absolute | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
shocker. It should be not down and replaced with something nicer. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
car park and the Hilton were not loved by anybody, I do not think. It | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
is not just about the ones that got built, but the ones that got away. | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
This was planned to be built close to Bath Abbey. And these were going | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
to be the new law courts, right next to the Hilton hotel. Like them | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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although then, many of these architecture, how about modern | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
transport? Yesterday in America, the multi-billionaire founder of Paypal | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
unveiled plans for a travel system which he claims could transport | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
people at up to 800 miles an hour. The Hyperloop would transport a | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
dozen or so people in individual pods through a tube. But he's not | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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the first to come up with the idea. Stuart Olds from Keynsham drew up | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
very similar plans back in 1984 when he was just 14 years old, and he's | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
brought in the drawings to prove it. Welcome, Stuart. The drawings look | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
very similar. Tell us how they are different. The comparison is not | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
much invisible but his design is a lot smaller with the tube to the | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
train itself. Mine was drawn up from a roller-coaster ride which I try to | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
improve on. Since then I have developed the idea to produce | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
electricity and further on from that, ideas to help the global | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
climate. It was a springboard for a creative mind. As regards Hyperloop, | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
do you feel a little bit gutted. Initially, I thought it was bad | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
news, but then I thought, it could work, so it gives me credibility for | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
my other ideas which could be looked at and taken forward and produce a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
new range of jobs in different industries. I have to ask about the | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
14-year-old Stewart. When I was 14, I was not coming up with ideas. | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
You've got a letter back from ten Downing St, didn't you? I wrote to | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
her just after she got ousted when she had more time on her hands. She | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
wrote back and she said to send it on to the trade and industry | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
Secretary. And I got advice from John major and from Michael | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
Heseltine. Since then I had been pitching ideas to lower levels. | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
this was you when you were 14? My dad was brought up on a poultry farm | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
and he came in with an idea to improve the speed lines. And being a | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
carpenter by trade, you always overcoming problems, so it has been | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
developing from an early age. carpenter, do you look at problems | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
and try and find solutions? It is almost like you just clash your mind | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
with certain things that it might overcome was up for example with sea | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
levels and global warming, we need solutions, to use the condensation | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
method with polythene over the ground, which condenses quite | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
instantly, so I thought, let's use that over deserts and industrialised | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
that principle and by doing that we can see -- keep sea levels and use | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
the sort to resell and eight the north Atlantic which would keep the | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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Gulf stream going. Brunel came up with a similar idea. He could not | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
keep the panel airtight because he was using leather and fat to seal | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
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it, and rats when the bling the fact. -- rats were nibbling the fat. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
If you were watching yesterday, you'll have seen the One Show's Mike | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Dilger dishing out tips on how to attract wildlife to your garden. But | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
while he's urging us to get birds and butterflies into our new BBC | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
rooftop garden, we think it would also be a good idea to have | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
something local up there, too. So what plants say Bristol - what is | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
unique to the West? Here's Jules Hyam. There isn't much that says | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Bristol more than this view - but for those in the know, it's not the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
bridge that's the highlight - it's all the wildlife around it. Hidden | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
in rocky cracks - and in the woodland - the Avon Gorge is home to | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
29 rare plant species - and several that exists no where else in the | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
world. The species that exist here involved separately from anywhere | :22:07. | :22:17. | |
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else. You have the Bristol Whitebeam. It is one of five species | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
that are found nowhere else in the world. The Bristol Whitebeam - with | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
its green and white leaves and its clusters of berries - is easy to | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
make out in a spring breeze. Less easy to spot is the Rock rose - | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
again extremely rare. It's the prime food source for the Silk Wave Moth - | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
and they too are found almost nowhere else but in this one and a | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
half mile limestone gorge. The problem with rare plants is that | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
they are, and as habitats change they can be forced out and then lost | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
the other. The University of Worcester botanic Gardens are not | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
just conserving unique and rare species but cultivating them. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
have gone out into the gorge and collected seeds such as the rock | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
rose, which we have sown, and you can see the seedlings coming up, not | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
quite big enough to fit into that rocky ledge, but when they grow, | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
label joined this, here, and if you look over here, you can see the | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
Bristol rock crests. -- cress. This is a very rare plant that grows only | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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in the gorge, which provides ideal conditions. And it's not just rock | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
cress and rock rose. They're growing Bristol onions, and they've been | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
across the West collecting rare and unique plant seeds. We have some | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
very special habitats that in turn support wildlife. If you want some | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
ideas about what you can do in your own garden, the website address | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
should be on screen now. That will give you lots of tips for what you | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
can do at home. And finally, congratulations to 11-year-old Harry | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Wilson from Bristol, who's been turned into a comic character on the | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
front page of this week's Beano. He was chosen to feature on his bike | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
alongside Dennis the Menace because he's a cycling ambassador for the | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
National Trust. He had to keep the secret for a whole week before being | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
able to tell his friends. When I knew, I felt very excited. I was | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
running around, and the excitement was fantastic. It felt really good | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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that I am actually in a comic. congratulations to Harry. Now, to | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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our own comic book super hero. In Clevedon, Gemma. If only I could | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
have superpowers to magic the weather to what it should be at this | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
time of year. The sun was blazing down over the Bristol Channel. But | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
not tonight, with the weather being distinctly autumnal. As it has been | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
for the bulk of the day. Taking a look at the forecast, we can see | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
from the word go this morning, clouds filling in medley from the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
south-west, courtesy of a couple of week weather fronts, bringing moist, | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
humid air. We saw a lot of showers coming in, some of those very light | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
and patchy in nature, but at times, merging to form longer spells of | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
rain. And we had some heavy downpours in the latter part of the | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
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day. Ten bridges around 17-18 -- temperatures around 17-18. And | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
tomorrow it will be even muggier still. But Friday, the best day for | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
sunshine, so a decent entered a week. -- decent end to the week. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Those week weather fronts that brought cloud and rain with them | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
today are edging away and tomorrow, for a time, it will be dry with some | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
sharp showers, although humid, then we have a weather system coming down | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
from the North West bringing heavy, persistent rain into Friday morning. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
For the rest of this evening, it is cloud that dominates and muggy | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
conditions. There will be very little difference between daytime | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
high temperatures and night-time low temperatures. Sunshine will break | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
through tomorrow, merging with muddy air coming up from the south, | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
pushing temperatures into the low 20s. That is what we want for this | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
time of year. But it will feel very sticky and not everybody enjoys that | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
type of weather. That weather fun coming in from the North West. And | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
heading into Friday, we are looking at decent spells of sunshine. But | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
make the most of those because it will be wet and windy on Saturday, | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
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