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from the Atlantic. Thank you very much. That's it from us. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Sarah Jane | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Bungay. Our main story tonight: Calls for the floods to be declared | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
a disaster. A calm beauty descends over waterlogged Somerset as a Euro | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
MP says the county should receive emergency funding. The extent of the | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
flooding is such there would be no doubt we would be granted the money. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
But help is on its way. We meet the villagers on dry land at last, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
thanks to a new boat. We'll be live from a community which has been cut | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
off for days. The others stories in the news | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
tonight: Battle of the booze. A charity turns from helping drug | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
addicts to alcoholics as drink becomes the bigger problem. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
How children who challenged authority had their behaviour tamed | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
by Everest. And: The old word from Wiltshire that may make it back into | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
the dictionary but what does it mean? | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
No idea! Has it got anything to do with horses? | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Good evening. The flooding in Somerset is so bad that the area | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
should be treated as a European Disaster Area and baled out with | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
emergency funds from the EU. That's according to a Euro MP who toured | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
the Somerset Levels today. Sir Graham Watson said the fund should | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
be used for long`term solutions to the flooding but today, at least, a | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
few victims got some relief. They were rescued from their village by a | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
boat hired by the council. Sally Challoner reports. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
Sunrise over the Somerset Levels. But while the views are stunning, | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
life here, at the moment, is less so. At least villagers from | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Muchelney have been able to get to the mainland today. They've been | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
marooned since before the New Year. Wonderful, finally! It's a relief, | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
just to know you can get in and out. We've had wonderful volunteers | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
bringing us things. They were here all day, at our beck and call. The | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
boat's been paid for by the county council but the local MEP says | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
that's a sticking plaster on a problem that needs major surgery. We | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
need to be looking at how we deal with water management and whether | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
taking decisions centrally to the Environment Agency is the right | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
thing, or whether we shouldn't be looking to setting up local training | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
boards with representatives from local landowners, councils and | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
landowners to make sure that locally, people who know the area, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
are taking the decision whether water goes. There's no arguing with | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
the need. This is the main road to Muchelney. Homes and business are | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
submerged, too. The clean`up bill is likely to be huge but there is | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
European money available. We have the opportunity to apply for | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
funding. We did so five years ago after the flooding in | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Gloucestershire. We got ?30 million to help us with the clean`up. I want | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
to see the government putting in an application within the ten week | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
deadline period and making sure that the people who have suffered are | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
getting some help in the clean`up. While some here are getting used to | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the attention their situation is getting, most just want life to get | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
back to normal. Well, Jon Kay is in Muchelney now. | :03:45. | :03:57. | |
The Department of the Environment has no plans to call on those EU | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
funds but supports the creation of internal drainage boards. I think | :04:04. | :04:19. | |
they are getting ready for a grim weekend. It is bizarre to think that | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
tonight, we are on an island in Somerset! We came in via this road | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
and that is, believe it or not, a road. The water levels have dropped | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
by three inches since we were here at the beginning of the week. That | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
cart was completely submerged on Monday. Those volunteers bringing in | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
supplies and posed for the people who live here. Water levels dropping | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
a bit but people are worried that they will not get out by the road | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
and they are expecting it to be the case for another week or so at the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
very least. Understandable that media and press are there. How are | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
there. How other locals dealing with that? We saw things come to a head | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
earlier in the week when people were angry that one national tabloid | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
newspaper sent in a glamour model with some beer cans for a publicity | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
stunt. Some people are fed up with the attention. They have been very | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
hospitable to us tonight and are putting us up. People hope that the | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
attention they have had in the media and people like the MEP will at | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
least mean they get what they want, which is better flood protection | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
around here. We will be hearing from some of those villagers in a special | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
programme at the later this evening. Give the villagers are best regards | :05:54. | :06:11. | |
as well as you can them tonight A 31`year`old woman from Bristol has | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
died after crashing on a snowmobile in Canada. Charlotte Mei Ling Lee | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
had been holidaying with her boyfriend in Quebec when the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
accident happened. Her family say she was a kind, gentle and loving | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
person. A nightclub boss from Cheltenham has | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
told a court he feared for his life after being kidnapped by three lap | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
dancers and their manager. It's alleged Curtis Woodman was attacked | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
because he owed the women tens of thousands of pounds. Our | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, was in court. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Curtis Woodman was asked today about what happened when the defendants | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
first confronted him outside his business in Tewkesbury. It was said | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
by the defence that they must have stood out like a sore thumb, with | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
two of them in mini skirts and high heels, one screaming for money and | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
accompanied by two unknown men. At one stage, Curtis Woodman told | :06:59. | :07:20. | |
the jury that he got the defendants to drive him to a house he was | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
renovating in Cheltenham that belonged to his father. He was | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
asked, "Why did you take them to an empty house?" He said, "After this | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
ordeal, I was in fear of my life. I wasn't thinking straight. And later, | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
I was driving around aimlessly. I was just biding time." | :07:37. | :07:46. | |
All six defendants deny the charge of kidnap and the trial continues on | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
Monday. Well, you're watching Friday's | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Points West with Sarah`Jane and David. The weekend starts here!Yes, | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
and we've plenty more for you in tonight's programme, including: 60 | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
years of TV forecasting. We'll have a few of our favourite bits from the | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
archives, plus the very latest weekend weather from Ian. | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
A drugs charity set up in Bristol 20 years ago to help teenagers hooked | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
on heroin says it's now treating mostly middle`aged alcoholics. They | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
claim it's because alcohol's cheap to buy and just as addictive. Scott | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Ellis reports. The 1990s on the Knowle West estate | :08:33. | :08:46. | |
in south Bristol. Distraught parents of teenage heroin addicts set up | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
their own support group, KWADS. Today, it relaunched with a sister | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
charity in Hartcliffe, these days treating mostly alcoholics. There | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
are lots of pubs closing, more people are drinking at home because | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
they are not always aware of the amount of units or volume they are | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
drinking, and it can so easily turn into dependency. Drink is so much | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
easier to buy from a supermarket and more affordable. High demand for | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
help to tackle alcohol addiction. The problem is the old KWADS lost | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
its funding, so the new charity has to raise ?200,000 pounds a year to | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
survive. Those who've been helped locally say its vital support's on | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
the doorstep. This is a working class a working`class estate with a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
lot of problems and people can't go miles. I didn't move out very far, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
so if this was miles away, I wouldn't have thought it was for me | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
or I was allowed to go there. To get into town and stuff like that, two | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
buses. I suffer great anxiety. To have the local service on my | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
doorstep was a massive bonus. Hawkspring will need generous donors | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
to survive but as KWADS proved, if there's a will locally, there's a | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
way and Bristol City Council says other charities have moved into the | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
area, geared up more than ever to help alcholics. | :10:19. | :10:36. | |
A team from Wiltshire has trekked towards Mount Everest in some of the | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
worst seasonal weather conditions seen there for 20 years. The group | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
wasn't made up of elite mountaineers, though, but teenagers | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
with behavioural problems. In a moment, we'll hear from one of them | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
and the expedition leader, but first, Zoe Gough's been looking at | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
their journey. The team set off in October, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
supposedly the best time for trekking in the Everest Trail, but | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
conditions soon changed and over 4000 feet, many adults were | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
suffering. As well as the extreme altitude, they also had to cope with | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
the worst October storm since 1 96, nearly bringing the expedition to an | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
end. They also faced dangerous avalanches with reports that people | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
have been killed days earlier. The team eventually reached their goal. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
They took in their own very special view of Everest. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Well, joining us now are the expedition leader, Alan Chambers, | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
and the head pupil from Springfields Academy in Calne, George Yeoman | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
actually know what I meant? Really challenging. It was an incredible | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
experience. You could not imagine doing something like that at my age | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
and being given the opportunity to do it. How old are you? 15. Couldn't | :12:08. | :12:20. | |
have been very easy leading this. It has been nearly a year. 65 pupils | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
from all around the country. A big challenge, just to get them away | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
from home and their normal comforts. What did being in the mountains | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
teacher about your behaviour? I was diagnosed with OCD a couple of years | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
ago, which means I wash my hands a lot, get anxious about certain | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
things, order. But being up in the world it is up there and the | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
experience I have had, the change, culture, you have to get on with | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
things. The contract keeps going. It was letting go of all your worries | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
and anxiety and putting trust in the expedition leaders. That is what has | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
taught me to do, trust people and be more relaxed about things and be | :13:20. | :13:31. | |
able to relax. You are so composed. It's amazing what you have achieved. | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
actually know what I meant? I promise I'm not being rude! The word | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
"ganderflanking" is from Old English and originates from Wiltshire but is | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
rarely used these days. However a new campaign launched by BBC | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Wiltshire could see it being included in the Oxford English | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Dictionary, as Lizzie Way reports. The word is out there. The BBC | :14:02. | :14:16. | |
Wiltshire campaign to encourage use of the old Wiltshire word | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
ganderflanking has gone national. It comes from Gander and flank, which | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
is an old Wilts word for shirking. It's probably skiving! We would love | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
to see used, maybe on the international space station, maybe | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
it will get used in the House of Commons. I seek your guidance as to | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
the potential use in proceedings of the old Wilts word, ganderflanking. | :14:53. | :15:04. | |
I have sought help to use it. It will need more unselfconscious | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
usage, so instead of people talking about the word, it really needs to | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
have people using it. So are the people of Wiltshire using it enough | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
in everyday speech? No idea. Has got anything to do with horses? | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
Something to do with smoking? Gander? Having a look at something? | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Something to do with geese. Unsurprisingly, it's the experts who | :15:35. | :15:35. | |
know how to use it best. Bristol City's majority shareholder, | :15:36. | :16:10. | |
Stephen Lansdown, has wiped ?35 million of debt from the club's | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
books. City have just announced they made another big loss last year | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Alistair Durden is here with tonight's sport. So what does this | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
mean for the club? First, you're right. Another big | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
loss, nearly ?13 million. It would have taken City's debts to over ?55 | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
million, which is owed to majority shareholder Stephen Lansdown. But | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
he's converted ?35 million of that into equity by issuing new shares | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
and buying them himself. So the debt now stands at around ?20 million, | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
and the club insist the projection for next year's losses are much more | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
favourable. In other football news, Paddy Madden | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
has finally left Yeovil Town. Last season's top scorer and Wembley hero | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
has been out of favour at the club, not featuring since November. He's | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
joined Scunthorpe today for a fee believed to be worth up to ?300 000. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
And congratulations to Cheltenham's Mark Yates, today named League Two's | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
manager of the month for December. His side are away to Burton | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
tomorrow. Elsewhere, Swindon could give a debut to new signing George | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Barker. He's joined them from Brighton. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Rugby, then, and it's a very big game for Gloucester tomorrow, isn't | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
it? Yes. Their European Cup quarterfinal hopes are hanging by a | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
thread. If we look at the table that home defeat to Edinburgh before | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
Christmas really damaged their chances of making the knockout | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
stages. It means they have to win tomorrow against Munster, the | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
two`times European Champions who are top of the group. One man who won't | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
be lacking in confidence is Jonny May. The Gloucester wing was named | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
in England's Six Nations squad yesterday, reward for an excellent | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
first half of the season. When the England squad was ,Jonny | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
May was doing a different sort of training. The son of a Wiltshire | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
vet, he was putting his six`month`old puppy Nala through her | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
paces. She is something that I can come home and she's always pleased | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
to see me. For Jonny, there have been more good days than bad despite | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Gloucester's disappointing campaign. He's one of the country's leading | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
try scorers, catching the eye of the England selectors again. If huge | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
achievement. Something I have been working towards my whole life. The | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
funny thing is, once you have got one, you want more. I have been | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
working hard to kick on and keep improving. A team that has not | :18:56. | :19:07. | |
played that fluidly. I would definitely say he has international | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
quality. Jonny was brought up in Swindon, playing for Wotton Bassett | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
until he was 16. He's already played for England once during last | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
summer's tour to Argentina but his Six Nations ambitions are on hold | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
for a few weeks. The priority, lifting the gloom around Gloucester. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
It's an embarrassment. We've let the club and the city down. Munster are | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
coming to Gloucester and that is there an opportunity for us to repay | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the funds and show everybody we do care about what we do and we want to | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
be ploughed `` proud to be Gloucester. Jonny was a pole vaulter | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
at school, but it's his raw speed thats marked him out as a rugby | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
talent. Tomorrow he'll aim to give Munster the run`around before | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
chasing down a regular place in the England side. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Bath will guarantee a quarterfinal spot in the Challenge Cup if they | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
avoid defeat to Newport`Gwent Dragons. And if you want to see | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
tries, Bristol host Aberavon on Sunday. When they met before | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
Christmas, Bristol won 78`0. Let's look at the modern pentathlon | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
now as they're based in Bath. The Olympic silver medallist Heather | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
Fell announced her retirement yesterday. Is anyone now going to | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
follow in her footsteps? We had Samantha Murray. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Samantha Murray won silver at London 2012 and the team as a whole have a | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
great track record. The women have won a medal at every games they ve | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
competed at, so expectations are high. The new season begins this | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
weekend in Bath with the first of two British ranking events. Heather | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Fell has been to meet some of those hoping to be the next success story. | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
After a relaxed post`Olympic year, the clock is ticking down to Rio. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Jamie Cook suffered the double misery of not being picked for | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
London and breaking his hand. After the Olympics, it was devastating. | :21:10. | :21:25. | |
Another athlete left spectating in London was Freya. She is still only | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
23. Missing out on the Olympic spot nearly saw her quit. I was very | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
angry. I don't know if I was angry with myself for the sport. I look | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
forward to Rio but also try and enjoy the sport because in 2011`12, | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
I lost that completely. That is what I will try to hold onto. I came into | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
the sport through the pony club but more recently, the focus has been on | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
finding good runners and swimmers. Joe Evans is one of the first wave | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
of hopefuls. Just five months after arriving in Bath, he took World Cup | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
bronze. My goal initially was to try make the finals. I didn't got a | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
medal. It's both good and bad because it means you have got more | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
pressure, but it means you have prove to yourself and everyone else | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
that you can do it. Jo has also proved a stronger men's squad. The | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
battle of the sexes is finally hotting up. And with all eyes on | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Rio, every jump, hit and shot really matters. | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
It's hard enough to be good one thing, let five! | :23:02. | :23:13. | |
A company in Taunton has entered the record books after building the | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
world's longest mobility scooter. It's called the Limo`mobilser. It's | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
ten foot long with room for three and its own minibar. Orchard | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Mobility built it for one of the managing directors of a company they | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
work with, who is retiring. Well, almost time to get the weekend | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
forecast, but before we do, we just wanted to mark the 60th anniversary | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
of BBC television forecasts and look back at just a few of our favourite | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
moments. Bit of nostalgia there. 60 years | :23:50. | :24:46. | |
since the first forecast for BBC in the days when you used a hand draw | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
the charts. Things have come a long way since then, but if we can bring | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
our graphics on, that's the old school version. We had innumerable | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
problems in the days of the magnet, and nowadays, we have replaced that | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
with computer says no type problems. As far as the weekend is concerned, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
it is looking like a glorious day tomorrow. If you're doing anything | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
outdoors, no problems whatsoever. After a chilly star, temperatures up | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
to respectable values. Another cold night on Sunday, more cloud around. | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
For the rest of this evening, patchy outbreaks of rain moving in. As we | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
had through into tomorrow, after a beautiful day, a case of looking to | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
the West for the tail end of the weekend as more rain moves in. Next | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
week, no chance of any of the cold snap saw Siberian blast that one | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
particular newspaper was making a hyperbole about. The spectre of | :26:03. | :26:12. | |
flooding issues has not been relieved as yet, though. As far as | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
this evening is concerned, at least the rainfall will not be of any | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
great significance. Moderately heavy bursts at times, or easing away | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
towards the second half of the night. Temperatures will drop | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
accordingly. We will get down quite widely to 1`4 Celsius. Another Met | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
Office yellow warning, like last night, for the threat of icy | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
surfaces. Aside from that, a glorious start tomorrow. Very little | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
in the way of ploughed around. What cloud we have or have no | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
significance. Instead, we continue with a good deal of sunshine. A cold | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
night starting to develop with frost and fog around. Prior to them, | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
temperatures tomorrow should get up to 6`8 Celsius. Similar story in | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
terms of temperatures being high on Sunday, but more cloud around and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
rain towards the end of the day Here's your outlook. The start of | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
next week, showers around on Monday, some heavy and thundery. We are | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
looking for that more persistent rain towards the end of next week. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
Not looking too bad for tomorrow, is it? | :27:35. | :28:12. | |
A tenth of a second could be the difference | :28:13. | :28:31. |