30/12/2013 BBC Points West


30/12/2013

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industry. We are back

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Good evening. With more rain forecast river levels

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are expected to rise again here in the West. Flood alerts have been

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issued for parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire and the Environment

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Agency will be watching Caerphilly to see if new flood defences put in

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place in the last year will stand up to their

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Steve Knibbs reports. The Somerset levels today, river

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flooding showing no sign of receding yet. Of course scenes like this

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aren't new, this was in the 193 s when the river at Athelney burst its

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banks. Back then landowners say at least the rivers were regularly

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cleaned out. They argue that neglect of water courses on the Somerset

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Levels over decades has led to flooding like this, last year the

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worst in living memory. Well now the Environment Agency is conducting a

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six`month experiment, dredging silt from a four kilometre stretch of the

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rivers Tone and Parrett and then seeing how quickly it all comes

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back. As sure as eggs or X, as soon as we

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stop doing any work the benefits will disappear quickly.

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But this isn't cheap, even dredging less than 10km on the levels will

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cost ?4 million, and local farmers are worried that the budgets won't

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stretch to helping the future. If they could claim it out now and keep

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on top of it every year, or every other year, it wouldn't cost a

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quarter of as much as it would now. As ever, money will drive the final

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decision and budgets are being tested right across the region to

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fix the recent weather damage. This landslip near Horseley in

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Gloucestershire today forced two families from their homes, the road

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expected to be closed for repairs for several days. Elsewhere new

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flood schemes are being tested, in Tewkesbury this new flood plain has

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been built by Severn Trent to offset land lost when new defences were put

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in to protect the Mythe Water treatment works. With many areas

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still under water and rain forecast flood alerts are still in force

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across the region it seems there's more chance now of the waters being

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topped up rather than draining away. Investigations are continuing into a

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Gloucestershire house fire that killed a man. The blaze started on

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Saturday morning at Westington in Chipping Campden. Much of the

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cottage was destroyed in the fire and an elderly man's body was

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discovered by fire crews. It's not thought the cause of the fire is

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suspicious. The fire had been spotted and three

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or four fire engines had gathered, and there was smoke pouring from the

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top of that building, out of the top of the house. From then on until

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1130 at night there were four or five fire range and cheer. `` fire

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engines here. Two men have been rescued off the

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coast of Somerset after their motorboat was caught in rough seas

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and strong winds. The pair were fishing almost a mile north of

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Watchet when a wave threw one of them overboard. He was airlifted to

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hospital with suspected hypothermia. It's been a festive period of mixed

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fortunes for our region's football teams. Here's Lizzie Way.

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Starting with Yeovil and it wasn't the best present for fans. They were

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beaten 5`1 at Huddersfield. It all started so well, Yeovil went ahead

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in the 14th minute but the lead only lasted nine minutes, final score was

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5`1. In League One Bristol City gave their bid to avoid the drop a boost

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as they beat fellow strugglers Stevenage. A 4`1 win lifts them to

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within a point of safety going into 2014. And centre back Louis Carey

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broke John Atyeo's long standing record for the highest number of

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appearances for City, when he came on as a late substitute for game

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number 646 in his Ashton Gate career. And Swindon drew 1`1 away

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Bradford, they fell behind early on but a spectacular second half

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equaliser from Alex Pritchard saw them pick up an away point in

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Yorkshire. In League two there was no such luck for Bristol Rovers

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they conceded all three points to Rochdale leaving them just a point

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above the League two relegation zone going into the New Year. And despite

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an eighty sixth minute goal Cheltenham were beaten at home to

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Mansfield losing their 11 match unbeaten record. The Robins were

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beaten 2`1 at Whaddon Road by a previously out of form Mansfield.

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In January, three students from the University of Bristol will head to

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the Utah desert to take part in an experiment designed to test how

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humans will cope with living on Mars. Their two`week stay will test

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everything from psychological stress to calorie`controlled diets. Andrew

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Plant has been to meet them. Training hard in the gym at Bristol

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University this young scientist is about to face some of the toughest

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conditions that planet Earth has to offer.

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It's a high altar chewed desert and the atmosphere is then, we will be

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carrying heavy equipment with us. This 25`year`old aerospace

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engineering student will lead a team of six as they live here, the Mars

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Desert Research Station. In the high, dry and low`oxygen environment

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of the Utah desert the most Mars`like conditions on Earth. Back

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in the labs in Bristol Michaela Musilova is part of the team. Her

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speciality, testing extreme life forms here to see whether they could

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have survived on Mars. An exorbitant `` an organism that

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lives on extreme conditions, on earth they are called, acidic deep

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down in the F, the pressure is high.

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Wearing. Spaces outside the station this is the type of building an

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early Mars colony will need to live in to survive.

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This footage taken from previous tests show just how harsh this

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landscape can be. And they'll be psychological pressures too. In the

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infinity of space personal space will be in short supply. With the

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curiosity Rover already roaming the surface of Mars it is hoped a human

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colony will not be far behind. The results here will help scientists

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understand how we'll cope with life on Mars.

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We could certainly do with some of that dry weather. Is the New Year

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looking any more settled? We have got a brief respite at the

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moment but showers pushing in overnight. New Year's Day, wet and

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windy, restoration hours. Showers overnight merged to form a long

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spell of rain which sweeps north eastwards. Try and bright weather

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for the afternoon. Temperatures not bad. Showers return in time for New

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Year's Eve. If you are out and about they continue until midnight and

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beyond. They set the tone for New Year's Day. Low pressure coming in

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from the Atlantic Ocean top 20 millimetres of rain which in itself

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isn't a great deal but falling on saturated ground adding to standing

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water, localised flooding, transport and travel problems again once ``

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once again an issue. Showers remain for Thursday and Friday, as do quite

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strong winds. The wind is also a feature for New Year's Day. No

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respite from the wet and windy conditions.

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That is it from us, there is more news on your local radio stations

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and the BBC website. We are back in the ten o'clock news, goodbye.

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Another day off strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. At least things

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are quiet at the moment. The rain has cleared off and the wind is

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lighter. There might be some ice in Scotland, but through the night the

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wind picks up, lifting temperatures, but more heavy rain pushing in. The

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rain band is not quite a significant us today, but it will leave surface

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water flooding. Some heavy bursts clearing Northern Ireland by first

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light. It reaches the east coast by the time we get to lunchtime, after

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a few morning showers. The wind is falling lighter, easing down from

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the gusty nature. A bit of sunshine through the afternoon. The

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temperature is a bit higher than they should be at this stage of the

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year. Some showers to finish the day in the West. They will push East on

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a blustery wind. Some of you will end the year on a dry note. The

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greatest chance of getting wet

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