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industry. We are back | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Good evening. With more rain forecast river levels | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
are expected to rise again here in the West. Flood alerts have been | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
issued for parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire and the Environment | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Agency will be watching Caerphilly to see if new flood defences put in | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
place in the last year will stand up to their | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Steve Knibbs reports. The Somerset levels today, river | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
flooding showing no sign of receding yet. Of course scenes like this | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
aren't new, this was in the 193 s when the river at Athelney burst its | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
banks. Back then landowners say at least the rivers were regularly | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
cleaned out. They argue that neglect of water courses on the Somerset | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Levels over decades has led to flooding like this, last year the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
worst in living memory. Well now the Environment Agency is conducting a | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
six`month experiment, dredging silt from a four kilometre stretch of the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
rivers Tone and Parrett and then seeing how quickly it all comes | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
back. As sure as eggs or X, as soon as we | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
stop doing any work the benefits will disappear quickly. | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
But this isn't cheap, even dredging less than 10km on the levels will | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
cost ?4 million, and local farmers are worried that the budgets won't | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
stretch to helping the future. If they could claim it out now and keep | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
on top of it every year, or every other year, it wouldn't cost a | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
quarter of as much as it would now. As ever, money will drive the final | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
decision and budgets are being tested right across the region to | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
fix the recent weather damage. This landslip near Horseley in | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
Gloucestershire today forced two families from their homes, the road | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
expected to be closed for repairs for several days. Elsewhere new | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
flood schemes are being tested, in Tewkesbury this new flood plain has | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
been built by Severn Trent to offset land lost when new defences were put | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
in to protect the Mythe Water treatment works. With many areas | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
still under water and rain forecast flood alerts are still in force | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
across the region it seems there's more chance now of the waters being | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
topped up rather than draining away. Investigations are continuing into a | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
Gloucestershire house fire that killed a man. The blaze started on | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Saturday morning at Westington in Chipping Campden. Much of the | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
cottage was destroyed in the fire and an elderly man's body was | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
discovered by fire crews. It's not thought the cause of the fire is | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
suspicious. The fire had been spotted and three | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
or four fire engines had gathered, and there was smoke pouring from the | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
top of that building, out of the top of the house. From then on until | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
1130 at night there were four or five fire range and cheer. `` fire | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
engines here. Two men have been rescued off the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
coast of Somerset after their motorboat was caught in rough seas | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
and strong winds. The pair were fishing almost a mile north of | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Watchet when a wave threw one of them overboard. He was airlifted to | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
hospital with suspected hypothermia. It's been a festive period of mixed | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
fortunes for our region's football teams. Here's Lizzie Way. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Starting with Yeovil and it wasn't the best present for fans. They were | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
beaten 5`1 at Huddersfield. It all started so well, Yeovil went ahead | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
in the 14th minute but the lead only lasted nine minutes, final score was | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
5`1. In League One Bristol City gave their bid to avoid the drop a boost | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
as they beat fellow strugglers Stevenage. A 4`1 win lifts them to | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
within a point of safety going into 2014. And centre back Louis Carey | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
broke John Atyeo's long standing record for the highest number of | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
appearances for City, when he came on as a late substitute for game | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
number 646 in his Ashton Gate career. And Swindon drew 1`1 away | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Bradford, they fell behind early on but a spectacular second half | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
equaliser from Alex Pritchard saw them pick up an away point in | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Yorkshire. In League two there was no such luck for Bristol Rovers | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
they conceded all three points to Rochdale leaving them just a point | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
above the League two relegation zone going into the New Year. And despite | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
an eighty sixth minute goal Cheltenham were beaten at home to | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Mansfield losing their 11 match unbeaten record. The Robins were | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
beaten 2`1 at Whaddon Road by a previously out of form Mansfield. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
In January, three students from the University of Bristol will head to | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the Utah desert to take part in an experiment designed to test how | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
humans will cope with living on Mars. Their two`week stay will test | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
everything from psychological stress to calorie`controlled diets. Andrew | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Plant has been to meet them. Training hard in the gym at Bristol | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
University this young scientist is about to face some of the toughest | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
conditions that planet Earth has to offer. | :05:00. | :05:12. | |
It's a high altar chewed desert and the atmosphere is then, we will be | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
carrying heavy equipment with us. This 25`year`old aerospace | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
engineering student will lead a team of six as they live here, the Mars | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Desert Research Station. In the high, dry and low`oxygen environment | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
of the Utah desert the most Mars`like conditions on Earth. Back | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
in the labs in Bristol Michaela Musilova is part of the team. Her | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
speciality, testing extreme life forms here to see whether they could | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
have survived on Mars. An exorbitant `` an organism that | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
lives on extreme conditions, on earth they are called, acidic deep | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
down in the F, the pressure is high. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Wearing. Spaces outside the station this is the type of building an | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
early Mars colony will need to live in to survive. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
This footage taken from previous tests show just how harsh this | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
landscape can be. And they'll be psychological pressures too. In the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
infinity of space personal space will be in short supply. With the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
curiosity Rover already roaming the surface of Mars it is hoped a human | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
colony will not be far behind. The results here will help scientists | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
understand how we'll cope with life on Mars. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
We could certainly do with some of that dry weather. Is the New Year | :06:50. | :07:03. | |
looking any more settled? We have got a brief respite at the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
moment but showers pushing in overnight. New Year's Day, wet and | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
windy, restoration hours. Showers overnight merged to form a long | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
spell of rain which sweeps north eastwards. Try and bright weather | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
for the afternoon. Temperatures not bad. Showers return in time for New | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
Year's Eve. If you are out and about they continue until midnight and | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
beyond. They set the tone for New Year's Day. Low pressure coming in | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
from the Atlantic Ocean top 20 millimetres of rain which in itself | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
isn't a great deal but falling on saturated ground adding to standing | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
water, localised flooding, transport and travel problems again once `` | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
once again an issue. Showers remain for Thursday and Friday, as do quite | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
strong winds. The wind is also a feature for New Year's Day. No | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
respite from the wet and windy conditions. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
That is it from us, there is more news on your local radio stations | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
and the BBC website. We are back in the ten o'clock news, goodbye. | :08:26. | :08:38. | |
Another day off strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. At least things | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
are quiet at the moment. The rain has cleared off and the wind is | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
lighter. There might be some ice in Scotland, but through the night the | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
wind picks up, lifting temperatures, but more heavy rain pushing in. The | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
rain band is not quite a significant us today, but it will leave surface | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
water flooding. Some heavy bursts clearing Northern Ireland by first | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
light. It reaches the east coast by the time we get to lunchtime, after | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
a few morning showers. The wind is falling lighter, easing down from | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
the gusty nature. A bit of sunshine through the afternoon. The | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
temperature is a bit higher than they should be at this stage of the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
year. Some showers to finish the day in the West. They will push East on | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
a blustery wind. Some of you will end the year on a dry note. The | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
greatest chance of getting wet | :09:42. | :09:42. |