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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Bristol City score a planning victory at last. They get permission | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
to redevelop Ashton Gate ` but its not the result they really wanted. | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
Ashton Gate is great, but it is old. I would like a new stadium. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
The shocking abuse at a privately run hostel. But it's the taxpayer | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
who will have to pay the compensation. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Dial 999 and get a taxi ` how the ambulance service is using cabs to | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
ferry patients to hospital. And what a picture ` the world's top | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
wildlife photographers put their most stunning work on show. | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
Good evening. Bristol City are to get a brand`new home, but it will be | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
built at Ashton Gate. In the last hour, councillors approved the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
club's plans. After years of trying to build a brand new stadium on land | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
at nearby Ashton Vale, the club appear to have settled on staying | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
put. But this may not be the last twist in the tale, as Alistair | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Durden reports. Perhaps not the end. Maybe not. Councillors took just | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
under two hours to debate and approve these plans to redevelop | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Ashton Gate. In truth there was very little objection, it was a unanimous | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
decision. It is now leaves Bristol City with a decision to make, do | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
they go ahead and rebuild their current home, or do they continue | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
the battle to try and relocate to a new stadium at Ashton Vale. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
It is now four years since the Council gave the go`ahead for this. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Bristol City's brand`new 30,000 all`seater stadium on land at Ashton | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Vale. But the scheme was blocked by local campaigners when an inspector | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
said the site should be protected from development. That battle has | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
been running for the last three years and still isn't resolved. The | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
shenanigans that have gone on over the years has destroyed 1's faith | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
little bit in the system. If I had my turn again, and I knew that was | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
going to happen, I would say now we are not green to do that and we will | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
focus on Ashton Gate. And that's the alternative ` converting their | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
current home into a 27,000 seater venue with new stands, executive | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
boxes and a pitch capable of hosting Bristol City and Bristol Rugby Club. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
So to move or to stay ` it's an issue that divides the club's fans. | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Always preferred to stay here. This is our spiritual home. I prefer | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
Ashton Vale. A brand`new set up more space over there, hopefully | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
decent parking over there. Ashton Gate because of their history. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Ashton Gate is great but it is old. I would like a new stadium. Stay | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
here. Too much of planning wrangle the other one. Today's approval for | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Ashton Gate appears to mean the end of Ashton Vale. Points West | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
understands the football club and campaigners have been discussing a | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
compromise that would see houses built on half the site instead of a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
stadium. Bristol City insist no final decision has been made yet | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
between the two schemes, but with planning now approved, work on | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Ashton Gate's new look could begin early in 2014. | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
No comment from Bristol City about that compromise deal, nor from | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Bristol Sport Ltd, the company set up to run the business side of the | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
club. They chose to make a short statement after today's council | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
decision. It moves on, that is another step in the road. We now | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
need to enter into more detailed discussions with the councils and | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the various other documents. That starts tomorrow, hopefully we will | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
bring this to conclusion over the next few weeks. It pits the club in | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
a position to work the end of January, perhaps early February | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
where they can make a choice between the two schemes and the club can | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
move forward. So still some illegal protocol to follow. The plans will | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
not be rubber`stamped until early next year, but six years after | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
originally drying up those plans for a new home, it seems at last bricks | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
this `` Bristol City have a viable option to build some much`needed | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
brand`new modern facilities. Thank you very much indeed. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Compensation will be paid to almost 20 families following the scandal at | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
the Winterbourne View Hospital near Bristol. Vulnerable patients were | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
routinely abused and neglected there, and it only stopped after an | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
undercover BBC Panorama investigation. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
But not everyone has settled their legal claims ` and many say there is | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
still work to be done to help those affected. Dickon Hooper reports | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Closed but not forgotten. Winterbourne View Hospital is | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
synonymous with the abuse of its residents, but there may now be | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
closure for some of their families. Because they have reached a | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
financial settlement with the Department of Health. The terms of | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
that deal are absolutely confidential. We cannot tell you how | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
much each family is likely to be getting, nor exactly which families | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
are involved. What we can say, though, is that a settlement was | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
reached without the NHS admitting any liability for what happened | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
here. And there are total of 19 families involved. The sums involved | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
will not be life changing but they will be sums that will enable | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
luxuries to be bought. They will enable them to have a bit of fun, | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
perhaps to balance out what they suffered at Winterbourne View | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
Hospital. But not everybody settled. Simon suffered badly, and his mother | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
is carrying on the legal fight. Simone is still being cared for in a | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
hospital setting far from her parents. A number of people are | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
still in care, could be described as almost cost ordeal in nature. This | :06:33. | :06:44. | |
man worked with Panorama. I am not completely sure about what all the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
barriers are to stopping a minority from living normal lives in the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
community. We have the ability to support all those individuals in | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
some kind of community setting where they will get some kind of life The | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
government says former residents are receiving safe and dignified care. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
But it is under pressure to make sure that is close to home and not | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
in hospitals. The compensation has helped. But it is not the end for | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
many who suffered here. And Dickon's here. You have been on | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
this from the very beginning. Another milestone today. But this | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
was a privately run hospital, the company was making a profit, who is | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
paying compensation? It has come from the public purse, from you and | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
me as far as I understand it. Nobody begrudges the families getting that | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
money, some people say they should be getting more. But there is a lot | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
of anger that the private company which ran the hospital and which | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
paid three and a half thousand pounds per patient per week to do | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
that, there is a lot of anger that they did not put their hands in | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
their pockets. But they have gone bust, into administration, after | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Panorama exposed their poor care at Winterbourne View Hospital, their | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
investors' confidence deserted. There was a legal case against | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
them, it collapsed, moved on to the NHS and ultimately, they have picked | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
up the tab. But don't forget, it is public money but the NHS for writing | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the checks for the hospital, so they pick up the tab when things go wrong | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
because they should have been perhaps a little bit more closely | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
involved. Is this the end of the taxpayers' bill? Some families are | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
still fighting for justice. You have to sue, go down the monetary route | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
to get change as well. So probably not. Thanks very much. | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
Senior executives have until the end of today to try and save a contract | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
with the Indian government. Three years ago Agusta Westland won an | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
order to build 12 helicopters for the Indian Air Force. But in | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
February the firm's Italian chief executive was arrested, accused of | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
bribing Indian officials to clinch the deal. The firm has robustly | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
denied corruption, but it's feared the deal will be cancelled. | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
Aside from the Bristol City stadium plans, councillors are also | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
discussing the South Bristol Link Road. Supporters say the ?43 million | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
road will combat congestion and improve business. Councillors are | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
being recommended to approve the three mile route which will connect | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Hengrove to the A370. But there s been opposition from protesters who | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
say it'll scar the green belt between the A370 and the A38. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
The family of a 23`year`old man who died after taking a legal high known | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
as AMT are meeting their local MP tomorrow to try to get the drug | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
banned. At Christopher Scott's inquest yesterday the coroner said | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
he would be writing to the government to stop the drug being | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
sold on the internet and in shops across the country. And the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Conservative MP for South Swindon, Robert Buckland, will now meet the | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
family to talk about their campaign. The way in which the drug is | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
classified means that attempts to try to change the elements or the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
compounds can be catered for by the existing law. Therefore, it is | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
really important we look at all the associated types of drug around it | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
to make sure we get as comprehends the balance as possible. To try and | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
end the tragedy that has confronted the family. | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
You're watching Points West with David and Ali. Good to have your | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
long. Still to come tonight: Protecting the bees. A European ban | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
on pesticides is now only days away, so why are some farmers still | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
unsure? And never work with animals? The | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
photographs that prove the old adage wrong. Those are amazing pictures, | :10:50. | :11:06. | |
but first, the Christian owners of a guesthouse who were ordered to pay | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
damages after turning away a gay couple from Bristol have lost a | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Supreme Court challenge. Peter Bull and his wife Hazelmary, who run a | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
B in Cornwall, were found to have discriminated against Martyn Hall | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
and his civil partner Steven Preddy for refusing to let them stay in a | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
double room. Today their appeal was unanimously dismissed as Zoe Gough | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
reports. It was back in 2011 that Martyn Hall | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
and his civil partner Steven Preddy were awarded more than ?3,000 in | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
damages. After the gay couple were refused a double room at the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Chymorvah House. The devout Christian owners Peter and Hazelmary | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
Bull told Bristol County Court they'd operated a policy of only | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
allowing married hetrosexual couples to share a room for 24 years. But | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
the judge decided they'd broken equality laws. They asked the Court | :11:53. | :12:04. | |
of Appeal to overrule the County Court but the case was dismissed. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
And at the UK's highest court it was the same outcome. In dismissing the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
appeal the court was anxious to express that there is no question of | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the law treating one community, homosexual couples, more favourably | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
than another, people sharing the hotel keepers' religious beliefs. If | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
a homosexual couple running a hotel and denied a room to Christians | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
because of their religious beliefs, that would be equally unlawful. | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
After the hearing the Bulls said they were deeply disappointed and | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
saddened. We have no regrets about contesting this case, normal we ever | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
be ashamed of how `` our beliefs. We are not perfect people but we are | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
trying to do our best to live out our faith with consistency. And we | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
will continue to do that, what may. Mr Preddy told me the couple were | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
delighted with today's ruling. They said they also hoped it would have a | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
wider impact on British society Joining us from Salford to discuss | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
today's ruling is Wendy Hewitt from the Equality and Human Rights | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
Commission. Why on earth has this case gone this far and to the | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
highest court in the land? Well it is unfortunate, I think, because the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
original County Court upheld the law as it is, which is that if you are a | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
business owner offering a service to the public, it is unlawful to | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
discriminate on any grounds, race as well as sexual orientation, the Bull | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
family decided that they needed for their own religious beliefs to | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
appeal this right up to the Supreme Court. Of course, that has proved | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
costly. There are hundreds of B Bs across the West Country, small | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
businesses opening up their homes. Does this mean now that no one has | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
the right to say no, that anyone has to be allowed to stay? Yes, it does | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
mean that. In your own home, of course, you are perfectly entitled | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
to invite in who you wish to. But once you decide to run a commercial | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
venture, you have to abide by the quality law. The law is that you | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
cannot discriminate, you cannot refuse service on a number of | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
grounds, including sexual orientation. How much of a landmark | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
case is this? I think it is very important in confirming that people | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
cannot go above the law, be exempt from the law, whatever their belief | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
system is. Thank you very much indeed for joining us this evening. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Farmers in the West Country are calling for a last minute rethink of | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
a plan to ban some pesticides which are linked to bee deaths. They argue | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
it has no scientific basis and it will seriously impact on crop | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
production in the region. But bee keepers say the European | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
ban, which comes into effect on Sunday, is necessary and justified. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
Our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers has been hearing both sides | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
of the argument. They're the kind of chemicals used | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
widely on crops like oilseed rape. Neonicotinoids. Chemically they are | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
like nicotine found in cigarettes and they make crops toxic to bugs | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
like aphids. The chemicals are used mainly to coat seeds before they are | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
put in the ground, reducing the need to spray crops as they grow. But | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
from Sunday farmers who use them will be breaking the law. The ban is | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
based on the premise that the pesticide is harmful to bees. The | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
claim being that it affects their sense of orientation, they cannot | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
find their way back to their hives and then the daddy. But farmers say | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
the science is flawed and rely too heavily on laboratory tests, not | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
proper field trials. Science in a laboratory, force`feeding a lot of | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
boys `` a lot of bees, cannot be right. Do it out on the environment | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
and we will get some proper results. Unsurprisingly, beekeepers see it | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
differently, saying that with the bee population in serious decline | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the need for action is urgent. It is sad that we cannot find what because | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
of it is insofar as isolating the chemicals being used, and to find a | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
substitute that will satisfy not only the farmers but beekeepers as | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
well. The British government did speak out against the experimental | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
two year ban ban ` but in the end accepted it. Farmers say it will | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
just lead to more crop spraying And they question whether it is | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
necessarily better for the environment. | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
The Mayor of Bristol has tried to reassure residents over plans to | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
close 22 public toilets. George Ferguson said the council had failed | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
to make clear that 19 others in city parks would stay open. The audience | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
were told things could have been a lot worse. We have gone through an | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
enormous exercise of trying to identify and take out those things | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
that would cause the maximum inconvenience and incense people the | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
most. Therefore, I found this a very positive first stage in the | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
consultation process. A Chinese lantern is believed to | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
have caused a large fire. It broke out in the early hours of Sunday | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
mornings at a caravan park. The lanterns were lit during a party | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
before drifting onto the site and causing thousands of pounds of | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
damage. A lot of memories have gone up in smoke which you cannot | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
replace. I am feeling sorry for people up there. | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
The number of 999 calls being attended by taxis instead of | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
ambulances has risen. New figures show that last year South Western | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Ambulance Service used cabs to respond to emergency situations more | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
than three times as often as in 2009. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
The research was carried out by the Labour Party which says A is in | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
crisis but are patients really being put at risk? Will Glennon's here | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
with more. If you dial 999 and ask for an | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
ambulance, you might be surprised to find a taxi turning up instead. The | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
figures released sure sometimes that is what happens. From April 200 , 35 | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
taxis were sent out to patients that have called to report an emergency | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
or an urgent problem. By that `` that number had risen to 158, more | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
than fourfold increase. Some taxis in these figures are called | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
alongside ambulances, or for less urgent cases. The Labour Party, who | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
obtained the figures, say they are shocking. People often need to | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
receive immediate medical care, they need trained professionals who are | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
able to spot patients' needs. Taxis are now being used instead of | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
ambulances in some cases. Nobody rings 999 and expect a taxi to turn | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
up. I do not consider it acceptable. This is a change that needs to be | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
stopped. What is the story behind these figures Gretchen Mark let s | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
put them in context, 158 taxis were sent last year. The ambulance | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
service took well over half a million 999 calls in total, and they | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
insist no patients were ever put at risk. Each case was carefully | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
assessed and a taxi was the best way to get the person to hospital. If | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
you dial 999 and it is a life`threatening injury, you will | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
get an ambulance. These are very low security patients, cut fingers, | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
spraint risks, welfare calls that we get as well. When a taxi is | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
appropriate, that is when we send them. They are only used in extreme | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
cases when the ambulance service is under pressure. There are no plans | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
to stop using taxis either. The service Toby today that if a taxi is | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
appropriate and it stops an ambulance being sent when there | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
isn't a true emergency needs, then they will keep on doing it. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Thank you very much. Let's catch up with some sport. | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
It was an evening of ifs, buts and maybes for our football teams as | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
they all drew last night. Bristol City took on high`flying | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Leyton Orient, Swindon travelled to Crawley and there was a West Country | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
derby as Cheltenham played host to Bristol Rovers. Damian Derrick has | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
the details. Two sides at opposite ends of League | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
One ` Leyton Orient in a position City had hoped to be before the | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
season had started. So it was no surprise when Orient took the lead | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
through David Mooney. But City fought back and shortly after the | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
break they levelled the scores through Sam Baldock. Then a moment | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
to forget for goalkeeper Elliott Parish ` this fumble handing Orient | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
the chance to retake the lead. But all was not lost as some good work | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
from Baldock forced the Orient defender to put into his own net to | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
earn City a draw. We were a threat all afternoon. Then they got their | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
reward is in the end for perseverance. I have not said that | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
to the many times this season. It was a frustrating and goal less | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
affair for Swindon at Crawley Town. Nicky Ajose thought he'd given them | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
the lead in the first half but it was disallowed. After the break he | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
also hit the post before team mate Nathan Clyne was sent off. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
It was the same result In League Two as Cheltenham and Bristol Rovers | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
battled it out at Whaddon Road. The home side had the better of the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
first half ` Jamie Cureton forcing a good save from Rovers keeper Steve | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Mildenhall. In the second half Rovers thought they'd snatched the | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
win when Lee Brown turned in this cross but it was ruled offside ` | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
both teams remain in the bottom half of the table. | :22:32. | :22:43. | |
You love photography? Yes, absolutely. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Some of the best wildlife photography in the world is about to | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
go on display at Bristol's M Shed. The international Wildlife | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Photographer of the Year competition is now in its 49th year and being | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
short listed in this competition is something to which photographers | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
across the world aspire. We sent Tracey Miller down to have a look. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
With eyes that follow you around the room, this lion cub was photographed | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
on the Kalahari. The images one of 100 of the best wildlife from around | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
the world. It could be a badger in Bristol, a polar bear, as long as it | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
is an original take on that subject then you have got a chance. There is | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
a wonderful one of our polar bears coming up underneath the water. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
There are millions of pictures of polar bears out there, we see | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
thousands every year, but that one is so different, I have never seen | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
anything like it, and that is why that was a winner. The competition | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
attracted 43,000 entries, a whole section devoted to young | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
photographers. This harvest mouse was captured by a 16`year`old, and | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
the winner, an amazing image of a crocodile with its hatchlings | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
clinging to her head. One of the most important ingredients is | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
patience. The Siberian tiger is one of my favourites, taken by a | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Japanese photographer who spent 74 days with a friend in a little hide | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
in the Russian Far East. It is like the size of a garden shed. Not all | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
the pictures are taken in exotic locations, this was taken of a nest | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
in the photographer's garden. The images are as diverse as the | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
wildlife they capture. The exhibition opens this weekend and | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
runs through until February. It will give you plenty of time to have a | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
look closely at these photographs. They will hopefully inspire you to | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
look very carefully at the wildlife all around you. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
They are just beautiful, aren't they? Astonishing pictures. Some of | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
them did not look real, so beautiful. 74 pictures `` 74 days | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
for one of the pictures to be taken. Time to welcome Ian for the weather. | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
A pretty familiar story as we head into tomorrow. These scenes will be | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
familiar for all of you across parts of the West Country, we can expect | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
cloud. Having said that, it will be a largely dry picture, a sprinkle of | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
drizzle perhaps, nothing more than that. Pressure remains high like a | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
balloon across the West of Ireland, this week cold front will do little | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
else but introduce a lot of cloud and a spot of drizzle, but it is the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
turning points to a change in the weather as we head towards Friday. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
For the rest of this evening, a lot of cloud across all of the West | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Country. Broadly speaking, it is a dry picture. Drizzle hero there | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Hill fog around. Its words the north`east, it will may take | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
temperatures of about five Celsius to start to get fog. Temperatures | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
for all of us tonight will be free of frost. Four to seven Celsius will | :26:00. | :26:11. | |
be typical. It will continue, hints of something a little bit brighter | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
in 12 spots, but don't hold your breath. A little bit of drizzle here | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
or there is that cold front comes south. Otherwise its influence will | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
be belly `` very muted indeed. Temperatures at eight Celsius, maybe | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
as high as nine or ten. There will be a change as we had through | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
towards Friday. A different type of late autumn weather because | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
high`pressure relaxes out to the West for a while, opening the door | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
to this area of low pressure coming down east of the UK. Notice how the | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
isobars are tightening up. It will brighten up, it will be breezy and | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
chilly, but it should be dry. Saturday looks like a beautiful | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
autumn day, but with this chilly northerly flow and high`pressure | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
starting to come back in, it will bring us back to square one as we | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
had to work Sunday into the start of next week. We will do a complete | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
circuit in weather types as we had through to the tail end of this | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
working week through what should be a very sunny and dry affair on | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Saturday, then back to cloudier and more benign type of weather into the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
start of next week. Thank you very much. Quick News | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
year, there is an Aston accident in Somerset. That's it for now. I am | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
back with an update at 10pm. Goodbye and thanks for watching. | :27:42. | :27:48. |