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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
Minister given a stern message to do more to protect vulnerable adults | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Thousands more recruits are needed for the army but out sourcing the | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
process to a private company is Fancy a day out of the office? | :00:29. | :00:42. | |
Will, when I was heading off for work I told my two kids what I was | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
doing and they knew all about the project and were very excited. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
The Chancellor comes to Avonmouth — And making city spaces a wildlife | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
Good evening. Not enough progress is being made to prevent vulnerable | :00:59. | :01:10. | |
adults being abused — that's the message given to the Care Minister | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
He was visiting Sam Sollars. Sam was a patient at the Winterbourne View | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
private hospital near Bristol, when the abuse of people with learning | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
difficulties was uncovered by the Here's our health correspondent | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
The Minister was invited to Taunton by Steve Sollars the father of Sam, | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
who he believes was abused while staying in Winterbourne View. Since | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
improved no end. But things are going well? Brilliant. He's doing | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
Sam's family did not want him to be filmed today, as they do not want to | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
bring back painful memories. Behind these walls festered a culture of | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
cruelty that bred cruelty, where inhumane treatment was inflicted on | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
themselves and weren't believed inhumane treatment was inflicted on | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
The private hospital is now closed and residents of similar large | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
institutions, like Sam, have to and residents of similar large | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
found more suitable accommodation closer to home, that is more homely, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
by next June. Since the scandal closer to home, that is more homely, | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
revealed, reports of abuse of former instance, in Somerset, two years | :02:21. | :02:33. | |
—— there were 516 investigations in Somerset. But according to the | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
charity Mencap not enough progress instance, Somerset County Council | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
have not yet responded to a Freedom of Information request made over a | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
month ago to find how they were Although we have had some responses | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
from North Somerset, places like Wiltshire and Gloucestershire have | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
not provided the information we requested. What we want to know | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
not provided the information we whether people have identified the | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
amount of residents affected by whether people have identified the | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
and whether they have started making measures to get those people out of | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
treatment centres and living in measures to get those people out of | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
community, like Sam. What will you be doing about it? I am constantly | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
putting pressure on the system to make sure that it happens, as it | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
should. Everybody is committed to this. We got a Concorde At that | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
should. Everybody is committed to the system signed up to. They must | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
deliver it. If they don't?If it doesn't work, if local commissioners | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
do not do what they have to, we doesn't work, if local commissioners | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Somerset County Council say there are now only 11 adults with learning | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
home locally by June next year. difficulties and there are plans so | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
home locally by June next year. The army has admitted to Points | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
home locally by June next year. today that a major project aimed at | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
reservists has had teething problems at its headquarters at Upavon in | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
The army's brought in a private company to help with the recruitment | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
drive but there's been a software glitch, as Scott Ellis reports. | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
The army has to save money and is cutting back on full time soldiers. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Meaning next year alone they have to recruit 10,000 reservists. The army | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
—— the Army is particularly keen to get hold of 18—21 —year—old. These | :04:21. | :04:33. | |
high street recruiting officers get hold of 18—21 —year—old. These | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
not seen as the best way of getting through. The Army is going online, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
using social networks, that will put youngsters onto an online recruiting | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
page. That is a big software project and they have brought in a private | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
Army letters into the recruiting centre, where soldiers and 200 | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
staff, handle new applicants. The there's a glitch. Capita's software | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
didn't work on the military computer system. Any project that is in | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
transition is going to be liable to, as you say, teething problems. We | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
know the problems that is the main thing. We can put things in place to | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
it work so that somebody who is work around those problems and make | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
it work so that somebody who is is we who are doing the work who | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
feel it. It's meant drafting in is we who are doing the work who | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
recruiting process. Everything should be up to speed within months. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
The Shadow Defence Secretary calling it a debacle. In a statement, Capita | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Army recruiting in general and reservist recruiting in particular, | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
The army admit the glitch is their fault. They'll hope all runs to | :05:39. | :05:56. | |
The army admit the glitch is their from now on. Without thousands of | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
new reservists, the army will be application? Welcome to BBC Points | :05:58. | :06:19. | |
We need the fashionistas determined to look fabulous, have fun and | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
History preserved, a 200—year—old Bristol boat Yard gets funding for | :06:26. | :06:38. | |
A Wiltshire detective who ignored guidelines is to face disciplinary | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
action even though a murder suspect led him to a second body. He will | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
face a formal conduct hearing and could be sacked. He did not take | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
rest of Halliwell, the killer, to a police station to be read his rights | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
when he was arrested. Instead, highly well led him to the body | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
when he was arrested. Instead, another woman. Halliwell has never | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
stood trial for the first murder. Extra tours of Gloucester prison | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
ticketing mix—up left dozens of people disappointed. The jail was | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
closed at the end of March but demand for tours around it has been | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
high. 500 tickets were initially Gloucester's history festival. But a | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
mistake meant none were available to people who queued in person. The new | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
tours will run on the 21st and people who queued in person. The new | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
September. Times are tough but Britain has turned the corner. That | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
was the message from the Chancellor of this morning, touring a high—tech | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
A team of engineers are building what they hope will be the fastest | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
car in the world, topping 1000 miles George Osbourne went to see it and | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
business correspondent was the also. told my two young children what | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
business correspondent was the also. was doing and they knew all about | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
Just another excited dad, looking at a very fast car. They call it the | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Bloodhound, they want it to break the land speed record — topping | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
1,000 miles an hour. That the door to my office. Wing commander Andy | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Green is driving the project, quite literally. He will be in the cockpit | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
in the desert. But its not just literally. He will be in the cockpit | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
generation of engineers. —— this is not just. The 12—year—old at school | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
who is not interested in science right now, we are trying to show | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
that girl a piece of technology right now, we are trying to show | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
will bring it all to life so she can look at it, and her friends, and she | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
conceded that is amazing, how does that work? That first question is | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
the first step into understanding and being excited by science. What | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
we are doing is a one—off project but it is bringing together the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
things that Britain is strong that, like engineering and aerospace. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
things that Britain is strong that, Bristol, Aerospace is a job creator. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
It is high—tech, the future and British. Just the sort of thing | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
It is high—tech, the future and Chancellor wants to see more than | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
the British economy. When more yesterday, we learned that there are | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
more jobs but very few of them are in high—tech businesses. We're lucky | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
to have some cracking, diverse, high—tech engineering industries | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
around here. The truth is that over half of the jobs that are being | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
created are temporary. Most are half of the jobs that are being | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
low paid sectors. The more that George Osborne spends the recovery, | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
the more people will feel that he is out of touch with actually ordinary | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
people's lives. War—ravaged rates are low, jobs are being created | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
people's lives. War—ravaged rates underlying problems that will help | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
Britain create better paid jobs underlying problems that will help | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
careers. —— mortgage rates. That can struggling with tough pay. It has | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
been difficult. We have had to take difficult decisions. It is felt | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
been difficult. We have had to take families. There is a corner being | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
turned body long way to go. No talk of a rocket fuelled recovery. The | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Chancellor for too cautious to use those kind of metaphors. This is a | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Rolls—Royce. The Chancellor knows through but for many people, the | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
good times are still around the A last ditch attempt is getting | :10:30. | :10:41. | |
underway to halt the closure of several public toilets in Bath and | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
North East Somerset. The council has already voted to cut funding for 14 | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
But after thousands of people signed a petition demanding a rethink, | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
But after thousands of people signed won the right to have it debated. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Here's our political editor, Paul Here in Bath, the meeting has just | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
got underway and it is unlike any other. It is the first time ever | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
that Bath and North East Somerset have been forced to hold a debate | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
edition. They are expecting so many people but they decided to move | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
edition. They are expecting so many into a larger banqueting room. —— | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
headlines and forced councillors to take notice. For three days and | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
nights last month, campaigner Lin toilets in Twerton threatened with | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
closure. It is going to create a public health hazard, for one thing, | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
spreading germs and disease. People who have medical conditions and | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
spreading germs and disease. People the toilets quickly, if they do | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
spreading germs and disease. People have the toilets, what are they | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
going to do? Hundreds signed her paper petition. Thousands more did | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
so online. The cuts would save Banes £120,000. The council presently | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
so online. The cuts would save Banes 27 toilets. It wants to stop paying | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
alternative funding or provision has been lined up. Six others are facing | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
closure within months. The council made its decision earlier this year | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
— reversing it won't be easy. A councillors. The protesters joined | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
the protesters just outside before the meeting began. —— Lynne. She has | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
brought a string of people keen the meeting began. —— Lynne. She has | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
stress the need of public toilets for the elderly, ill and disabled. | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Realistically, the respect for the posters being overturned, it is | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Realistically, the respect for the Tory motion and the council is being | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
run by the Liberal Democrats. We have a sensible motion. What we | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
run by the Liberal Democrats. We trying to do is keep more public | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
toilets open, especially in the provincial areas. You know, these | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
are really important to our older residents, to those ill and infirm. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
These toilets get people out and about and back into the community | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
and let them be part of it. If they are closed, people will not think | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
about coming out and getting into town with ease. I think this is | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
about coming out and getting into really important issue that we do | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
need to win tonight. Bear in mind that on this council no party has | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
overall control. What it comes down to is what we labour and independent | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
councillors vote. Even if it goes against the Liberal Democrats, they | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
say they could simply ignore the Thanks very much. More on that | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
There's been a big increase in the number of homes coming onto the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
property market in the South West. The Royal Institute of Chartered | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Surveyors says it's the highest number of new instructions in the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
region since its records began. There was also a sharp rise in the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
number of would—be buyers, with There was also a sharp rise in the | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
agents reporting price increases Mums—to—be in Wiltshire should be | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
able to use the maternity unit in Trowbridge again from the end of | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
this month. The birthing centre Trowbridge again from the end of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
been closed for most of the summer because of staff shortages. Some | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
believed that was part of efforts to close it permanently. But the NHS | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
Trust that runs the centre has again said it expects the unit to reopen | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
fully, and aims to have it ready The future of one of Bristol's | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
historic boat yards could be secured with £4 million worth of funding. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
The Underfall Yard opened over with £4 million worth of funding. | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
years ago and is home to one of with £4 million worth of funding. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
world's oldest slipways. Laura Lyon You may not associate blacksmiths | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
Williams is the latest addition You may not associate blacksmiths | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
the Underfall Yard — which offers a one—stop—shop for boat owners. I | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
think it's brilliant there are all the skills in one place. Then, when | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
a boat comes out, they can actually immediately, surrounding them. Since | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
the Victorian age, the yard has supported Bristol's boat industry. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Until recently the machinery for opening and closing the floating | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
harbour was based in the Pump House. These are the machines that are | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
responsible for maintaining the sluice gates, the swing bridges | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
responsible for maintaining the lots of the harbour machinery. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
are still used today, even though, What's special is that some of them | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
are still used today, even though, like these, they were installed | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
are still used today, even though, the Underfall Yard opened in the | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
1880s. Some have been updated, like most recently, in the 1950s. As | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
1880s. Some have been updated, like Scheduled Ancient Monument, the | :15:33. | :15:33. | |
1880s. Some have been updated, like could never be redeveloped. But | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
1880s. Some have been updated, like million of heritage lottery funding | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
to add more workshops, protect its buildings and open a visitor centre. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
It's a gritty, working, exciting environment and we are going to | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
It's a gritty, working, exciting it like that. It is not going to be | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
a theme park. It is a real place where people can come and experience | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
real and exciting things. We're going to add the visitor centre | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
where people can learn about how the faltering harbour works, how the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Lord works, and understand a bit more about the heritage. Another | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
£500,000 needs to be raised by the yard's Trust so the work can begin | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
next September and guarantee the survival of these specialist trades. | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
marathon will all, it is a very survival of these specialist trades. | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
way and not to be attended lightly. That makes the efforts of two will | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
tour fireman all the more impressive They are not only running one but | :16:34. | :16:43. | |
have already done a ten K and are doing a half marathon this weekend. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
They are Andy Webster and Mark Evans and have joined us in the juju in | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
their full gear. Tell me you're and have joined us in the juju in | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
going to run with this on, are? and have joined us in the juju in | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
like? Not easy. We are used to wearing it for a small periods but | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
not for more than four hours. Aymara son is going to take you ages. How | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
much sweat are you going to lose? A few pints. We are carrying back | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
much sweat are you going to lose? A to take extra fluid with this. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Obviously, the kit does not let anything out. It will get heavier as | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
we are running around. Feeling the weight of this... This alone weighs | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
And then the weight of this is extraordinary. Having run a half | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
marathon myself, I cannot imagine what that will feel like. It gets | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
heavier the more you sweat so there is that to contend with. As Andy | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
said, it does not release heat so we are going to be... Why are you doing | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
this? We are doing it for a charity that is a UK—based international | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
majority. Their aim is to provide training and by recruitment to | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
countries that are poorer than the UK. What I was going to ask is, | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
obviously, as you said, you were this kit for work, how much training | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
are you doing now? Training is very difficult because they both have | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
full—time jobs as well as being difficult because they both have | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
call for 120 hours per week. We difficult because they both have | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
managed to get out running on the road about 20 week. We have families | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
as well. Cramming it all and is quite difficult. Are not going to | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
wear your boots are you? Will be running in trainers! Good luck, | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
wear your boots are you? Will be We will catch you when you get back. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Growing old gracefully is something many of us aspire to. But a new | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
documentary featuring a lady from Bath is keen to show us that it | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
doesn't mean we have to become Definitely not. Fashion Fashionistas | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
is about ladies of a certain age who are still keeping up with the trends | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
and having fun along the way. Ladies like Jean Woods from Bath, who is | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
75, and has a definite sense of "Be yourself" is Jean's motto and | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
she most certainly is. With her trusty Doc Martens, every outfit is | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
picked, not with her age in mind but, with her personality. Really, | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
you see, I just think I am the same as I always was. It doesn't seem any | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
different to me. If I see something, obviously I wouldn't buy anything | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
that wasn't suitable for an older think, if by going to talk shop | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
that wasn't suitable for an older see something I think it is mine. | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
In the new Channel 4 documentary, something not to be afraid of but to | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
embrace. Jean and her co stars talk about how they haven't changed their | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
identity just because they are a little older. Jean still runs three | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
times a week and with a new knee in assistant. My son said to me, I | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
don't think you should be doing this. So I said, I can do what I | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
like. He said, but we are worried about the other knee. I said, I | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
like. He said, but we are worried see your point. But I carried on and | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
Jean's husband died. But despite her grief, she started again and life | :20:18. | :20:32. | |
wasting the rest of your life. This is what I felt. That is why I came | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
back to work and it is lovely. I am meeting people and you, you know, it | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
is a wonderful life. The poet Jenny Joseph wrote a poem, When I am an | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple. Joseph wrote a poem, When I am an | :20:46. | :21:00. | |
Bristol's women footballers host their last home game of the season | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
tonight — knowing that a win would set them up to take the league | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
title. The Vixens, as they're known, have three games left, including | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
tonight's visit by Birmingham. guarantee the title. The game kicks | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
off in a few minutes at the Stoke In cricket, Somerset have managed to | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
get a first innings lead in their crucial county championship match | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
against Surrey, at Taunton. The visitors lost their last two wickets | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
this morning without adding to their overnight score of 195. Somerset | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
then scored 260, thanks largely overnight score of 195. Somerset | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
half century from Nick Compton. overnight score of 195. Somerset | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
the close of play, Surrey were overnight score of 195. Somerset | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Bristol boxer Lee Haskins will defend his British Bantamweight | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
title against Jason Booth in Bristol on Friday eighth November. Lee won | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
the vacant belt back in April, when he beat Newcastle's Martin Ward | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
the vacant belt back in April, when next fight will also be at the same | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
We've been getting quite excited about wildlife since the BBC Bristol | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
garden sprang to life. So before he got too busy with Autumnwatch, we | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
asked Martin Hughes—Games to take a look at what community groups are | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
doing to make city spaces more And while he was doing that, we | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
asked him to share some tips about I am on a mission to find Urban | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
here in the heart of the city? Front gardens, school playgrounds? Even a | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
prison. Maybe insects. But come gardens, school playgrounds? Even a | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
here. But these allotments were providing food, and let's face it, | :22:44. | :22:56. | |
is not just the food. This is a butterflies all around us. There are | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
bees buzzing around. We know how the —— how important they are. We know | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
that there is a fox said over there. Fox cubs. The place is teeming with | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
life. It has got food and it has got wildlife. But it has got something | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
else as well. For years, this end of loved and underused. Now, it has | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
been cleared, dried and kept dry with a solar powered pump. It is not | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
just allocated, it is shared. Dozens of schoolchildren and with learning | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
difficulties come in and do real work, growing produce and learning | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
overhear, they have left the water and created something really rather | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
special. This pond was created less than 18 months ago. Already, there | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
are snails, little frogs, there than 18 months ago. Already, there | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
lots of newts spilling around. Different species of water beetle | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
and even fish. Wait a minute, how did Fish get into this pond? Another | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
mystery. You can do this at home. You don't have to create an enormous | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
pond. You could get an all think and put that in the garden. I guarantee | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
that within a year, it will be full of wonderful wildlife. —— and old | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
sink. This is a bit of a surprise. When you start to look, there are | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
surprises everywhere. Bedminster, very much a residential area. Now, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
it is also home to a collection very much a residential area. Now, | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
currants, even fruit trees. —— full of plants. Are these small gardens | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
dotted around throughout the area? I think we have a now in Bedminster. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
They vary from a bit smaller than smashing. Look at these plums. Are | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
they ready to eat? Not quite. We tried them and they are still a | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
they ready to eat? Not quite. We sour. Who will happen? Will you | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
they ready to eat? Not quite. We jam? I think we will just eat them. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Local people can stop by and pick them. I really like the get up and | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
go off projects like these. If you have been inspired herself, there is | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
plenty of starter tips on the BBC The website is great. It has really | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
inspired me to help in the garden. Anybody who is the gardener will be | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
praying for rain and Ian has good It is marvellous. The rain has just | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
started to fall. With the timing that David would be pleased with. As | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
far as tomorrow is concerned, a similar devolution in the broad | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
sense. The fear window lasting about mid afternoon and rain arriving | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
sense. The fear window lasting about the late afternoon. In comparison | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
with today, tomorrow's we will be particularly the further south you | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
are. Here is a wider look. We are running these fairly weak fronts | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
across as, bringing patchy outbreaks of rain. Some of those will be | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
moderately heavy towards midnight and a legacy of clouds first thing | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
tomorrow. A window of some better, and in places brighter, whether | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
tomorrow before you will see that we've running in from the south—west | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
later on. It will bring the threat of some heavier, more meaningful | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
turned, or is turning, through this evening. The rainfall amounts will | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
vary. For some of you significant but towards midnight, some heavier | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
pulses. Leaving that low cloud, but towards midnight, some heavier | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
hill fog and murkiness at lower levels, tending to go out more | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
eastwards by first light. You could call it a warm night for the last | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
time of year. —— this time of year. Tomorrow, things will start to | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
Brighton. The cloud base is lifting and raking. There will be window of | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
fairly decent weather. Lunchtime looks quite nice. —— lifting and | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
breaking. Rain spreading of sweet eastwards throughout the afternoon | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
and late evening. The heaviest is further south, where you could be | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
accumulating an inch of rain. It will be less in the North. I would | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
caution, the last remnants will will be less in the North. I would | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
a while to clear, even through Saturday. Temperatures should still | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
get up to about 19 Celsius. The Saturday. Temperatures should still | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
of Saturday, once the fingers, Thank you, Ian. Dry humour from | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
of Saturday, once the fingers, He looks so happy. I am happy. | :27:39. | :27:39. |