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Welcome to BBC Points West with Imogen Sellers and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Our main story tonight: A crisis at the heart of Somerset Council. The | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Chief Executive has been off work for two months ` and the reasons are | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
being kept secret. I think whatever the problem is, it should be made | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
public because this is public money and I don't think it's right that | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
it's being kept secret. The BBC can reveal there's been a bust up | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
between the Chief Executive and the leader of the council. There are | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
calls for a public explanation of why the council's highest paid | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
official is not at her desk. The others stories making the news | :00:35. | :00:48. | |
tonight: A royal delivery on the NHS ` Zara Tindall has a baby at the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Gloucestershire Royal. Out on the streets ` the number of | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
people sleeping rough in Bristol has doubled in a year. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
And nerves of steel ` the West country athletes hoping to ride the | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
skeleton at the Winter Olympics Pressure is being placed on Somerset | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
County Council to explain why their Chief Executive hasn't been at work | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
since November. Sheila Wheeler, who earns a salary of ?160,000, was last | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
at work seven weeks ago. Now MPs and taxpayer groups are calling for the | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
council to come clean about her absence. Andrew Plant has the story. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
Somerset county council's most senior, and highest, employee ` | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Chief Executive Sheila Wheeler sitting next to council leader John | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Osman. But Mrs Wheeler hasn't been at work for almost two months and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
there's no official word on when she might be back. The BBC understands | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
it's due to a disagreement at the very top of the organisation. Now | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
local MPs are urging the council to tell people exactly why it's Chief | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Executive is not at work. No statement has been made by the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
council and members of the council have been gagged by a | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
confidentiality clause. With a salary of ?160,000 a year, her | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
absence could have cost taxpayers thousands of pounds. So far today, | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
all these Somerset county council press office will say is that Sheila | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Wheeler isn't at work and they can't say any more for legal reasons. So | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
we've come down to County Hall to see if we can find out a bit more. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
One former employee did speak to us. Well, I think there's this a | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
falling out at the top. I don't think it's right that she's being | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
paid while she's off. And this council confirmed there would no | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
explanations today. What can you tell us about Sheila Wheeler? | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Nothing at all. Why not? The matter was discussed at the last council | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
meeting in a confidential session so I'm not able to say anything at all, | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
other than that. Do you think taxpayers deserve an examination? I | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
can't say any more. The TaxPayers' Alliance has called the council was | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
moderate silence can be be unacceptable. Seven weeks is | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
excessive and it's important that when cases like this happen they are | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
resolved quickly to ensure fairness for those involved and the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
taxpayers, who are footing the bill. We tried to contact Sheila Wheeler | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and council leader John Osman but neither returned our messages. Which | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
means there is still no explanation for the absence of the county | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
council's most senior manager. Well, in her absence, Somerset | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
County Council has today proposed another ?18 million worth of budget | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
cuts. The Conservative`led authority says youth and community services | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
could be the worst hit, with almost ?1 million worth of cuts. Two | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
recycling centres could close, and the funding for sheltered housing | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
could be reduced by ?500,000 over two years. Council tax is set to be | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
frozen. Full details will be released next week. The number of | :04:08. | :04:19. | |
people sleeping rough in Bristol has doubled in the last 12 months. The | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
city council says benefit cuts and high rents are to blame. On some | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
nights, people are queuing for hours to get a space in the city's night | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
shelter. Our reporter Scott Ellis is there now. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
This is the emergency shelter in Bristol and if you don't get in here | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
for one of these beds, you are looking at a night in a car park or | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
at the bus station. They will feed you and give you a sleeping bag | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
before you go and they do have to turn people away. This afternoon, we | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
have seen people queueing from two o'clock. Bear in mind, the doors | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
don't open until 9:30pm. It does show, there is a big demand for | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
places like this and also, longer term, in hostels. What's it like? Is | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
bigger yellow cold. But you have to do it. Can I have a drink? Kirsty | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
and others slept in a city centre car park last night. The figures are | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
that there are about 40 people a night sleeping on the streets, which | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
is double what it was a year ago. That is a worrying trend. We know | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
that the night shelter tends to be full most nights, so we definitely | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
know there's a need more emergency housing. Despite emergency funding | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
cuts, no hospital beds have been lost but people are asking for more | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
help. Like these magazine sellers at Positive Causes, which helps young | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
homeless people. 80% of my lads are vulnerably housed or homeless, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
whether that be sofa surfing, living in dense and bushes are things like | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
that. Dean says the problem is so bad that he wants to open his own | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
hostile, aware that having no place to call home is a barrier to | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
improving these young men's lives. `` his own hostel. I've got most | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
ability in my life. There is no stability. I'm bouncing here, there | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
and everywhere. If you're not going to help me with my housing, I'm | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
going to go into town and start taking stuff I need to get what I | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
want, to get clothes, food and sleeping bags, and to be able to | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
wash and do everything I need to do. So being homeless lead Thomas to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
crime but he's turned things round and is now an assistant manager at | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Positive Causes. The view here is that hostel and housing help is | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
available but the waiting list is getting longer. That's backed up at | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the Emmaus charity, where they say Bristol's housing problem is that | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
the worst it's been for ten years. And this is not a problem just | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
confined to Bristol. We've spoken to people who work with rough sleepers | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
in Bath and they say they are counting the numbers around about | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the 20 mark but are more used to single figures. So it does seem like | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
a doubling of the problem in Bath as well. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
She's 16th in line to the throne, but will be known as plain Miss | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Tindall. The daughter of Zara Phillips and Gloucester rugby player | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Mike Tindall arrived in the early hours of this morning at the | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Mother and baby are now said to be | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
doing well at home on the Gatcombe Estate. Here's Sally Challoner. | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
They wed two and a half years ago ` just weeks after Prince William and | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Kate Middleton. But I suspect their daughter's life will be somewhat | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
different to that of her second cousin Prince George. Famously | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
laid`back and declining a royal title, Zara Phillips opted to give | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
birth at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital ` the baby arriving in the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
early hours of the morning. The new family is now at home at nearby | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Gatcombe Park, the home of Zara s mother the Princess Royal. Locals | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
are delighted. Zara won a lot of hearts in recent years with her | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
horse riding. Horse riding is very much a part of Britain. It's the | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
core of our countryside. Peter Phillips has got two so I'll have to | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
catch up but we'll let her do the Olympics first. At Hartpury College, | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
where Zara competes in the annual horse trials, the news was also met | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
with excitement. Zara couldn't compete at our event last August | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
because she was in the early stages of her pregnancy but we're | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
absolutely delighted and we look forward to seeing her competing | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
again in August this year, and back on the road to Rio. New dad Mike | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Tindall, who was present at the birth. The former England captain | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
will miss this weekend's rugby fixture for current team Gloucester | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
` but has been tweeting with pride today. He thanked the hospital staff | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
and everyone for their good wishes and said it was the best day of his | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
life. His team`mate auntie at the moment ` most of them have already | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
left for France, ahead of their Heineken Cup match this weekend But | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the shop here doesn't sell these, which would make a nice gift. No | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
name yet, though. Any early suggestions locally? Olivia. It s | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
quite posh. Elisabeth, Victoria Quite posh. Ellie is quite sweet. It | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
doesn't sound to Royal. I would call it Rebecca after my best friend | :09:37. | :09:48. | |
Well, we can speak now to the royal biographer Penny Junor, who's at her | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
home near Malmesbury now. Thank you for joining us. Another very | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
exciting day for the Royal family, just months after William and Kate | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
became parents. But this little girl will have quite a normal upbringing, | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
compared to her cousin Prince George. You say that but I think | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Prince George will probably have a reasonably normal upbringing. But | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Prince George is fiercely in line to the throne and, therefore, will have | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
to have a lot of security. But about the mat, I suspect he will go to | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
normal schools. Zara's little girl I don't imagine will have security | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
and, I imagine, will be absolutely like the rest of us, except that | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
she's got some rather grand grandparents and great grandparents. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
Recess and was also a competitive rider and was back in the saddle | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
just four months after giving birth. `` Princess and. Do you think the | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
Zara will be the same? I should think so. She is fit and healthy. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
The fact she just popped into the hospital and had her baby and was | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
home in time with the suggests that she is really going to be out there | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
and I suspect she'll be back on her horse by the end of the week. Azara | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
broke the mould Road came to Royal names ` will the couple be free to | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
choose any name they like? Any name under the sun, yes. They may be | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
traditional and go for Royal names like Alexandra, Victoria, | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
Elizabeth, but Zara herself has got a slightly unusual name and who | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
knows? They may do something completely but unexpected. Thank you | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
so much for joining us tonight. And if they're watching, good | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
evening. Maybe imaging would be nice! They could do worse! `` images | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
The Government says it's making almost ?7 million available to | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
councils to help them repair the damage caused by the recent floods. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
People across the West are still feeling the effects of the severe | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
weather. Today local authorities have been told they can bid for more | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
money to help affected communities, and repair damaged roads. Well, it | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
looks as if there's more rain to come this weekend, too. Ian, are we | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
going to see more flooding? It has the potential, it has to be said. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
And all`too`familiar symbol this winter. I'll give you all the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
details later. A former care worker has admitted | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
twice ill`treating a resident with dementia at a care home in Wraxall, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
North Somerset. It was captured on a secret camera installed at the | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Granary by Gladys Wright's family in 2012. Daniel Baynes also pleaded | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
guilty today to stealing her food. He denies a further count of ill | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
treatment and one of theft. Two former colleagues, Tomasz | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Gidaszewski on the right, and Januz Salnikow, also appeared at Bristol | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Crown Court, where they pleaded not guilty to ill`treating Mrs Wright. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
The family of the murdered Somerset women Catherine Wells`Burr say they | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
feel dismayed and angry that her killers could serve out the | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
remainder of their sentences in Poland. Catherine's boyfriend, his | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
ex`girfriend and her Uncle, who are all Polish, were jailed for 32 years | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
each in June. The Wells`Burr family have now launched a petition. Here's | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
Sarah`Jane Bungay. Catherine was a British citizen was | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
killed on British soil. We feel we've been really let down. Sick | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
white they sat through six weeks of a trial and thought justice had been | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
done when her killers were put behind bars. But then a website | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
revealed two of those who took her life have asked to be removed back | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
to their home country to serve out the rest of their sentences. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Catherine's killers have been told that could mean that Harris being | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
reduced by seven years each. Of course they are going to go back if | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
they are going to get years knocked off. It seems like the law here | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
doesn't count. Victims don't count. Not even to be informed. In June, a | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
jury found Catherine's boyfriend, his former girlfriend and her uncle | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
guilty of killing Catherine. She had been smothered before her body was | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
set light in her Rome car. The latest news is, her family say, like | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
a smack in the face. We are taking a step backwards instead of going | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
forward. We've got another fight on our hands. A constant battle, | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
really, and we thought it was our right as British citizens. This | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
afternoon, more than 3000 people had signed the online petition but legal | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
experts aren't surprised the killers could be moved. It's quite common | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
for the English jurisdiction to transfer prisoners back to Poland | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
and, indeed, for endless people who may be imprisoned in Poland or other | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
foreign jurisdictions to be transferred back to this country for | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
the top `` for English people. It's highly likely the authorities will | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
decide they should be transferred. This evening the Ministry of Justice | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
told us they couldn't clarify if the sentences would remain the same or | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
be reduced if the move to Poland happens. Catherine's family say they | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
will fight that in her name. The man in charge of local | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
government has made an outspoken attack on the West's biggest | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
council. Secretary of State Eric Pickles was campaigning in Wiltshire | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
` but what's unusual is that his criticism was directed at members of | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
his own party. Our political editor Paul Barltrop has more. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
He's a political big hitter who doesn't pull any punches ` and his | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
target was Wiltshire Council. Leader Jane Scott was told not to take a | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
controversial increase in her allowance. And the money earned from | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
car parking was condemned as excessive. In a council car park in | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Chippenham, he helped a Conservative parliamentary candidate kick off a | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
campaign to get them cut. Councils throughout the country are in the | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
process of reassessing their car parking charges. A lot of the old | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
familiar diktats that they had, when they were told by the last | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
government to ramp up the charges ` we've got rid of all that. Isn't it | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
for local people and the local council to decide, not for you to | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
come and put the boot in from on high? I'm here to help. The smile | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
said it all. After all, he's the minister who's slashed funding to | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
councils, offering little sympathy ` whatever their political persuasion. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Picking a truly local issue like parking charges, which gets people | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
really hot and bothered, is classic campaigning. But what's surprising | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
in this case is that the target was their fellow conservatives who run | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
the council here. They're not best pleased. In the cold light of day I | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
met the councillor in charge of finance. We make ?4.9 million off | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
150 car parks across Wiltshire and all that money goes to support bus | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
services. We put ?19.5 million into them. Busy car parks suggest many | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
shoppers aren't deterred. There s irritation with the intervention | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
from non`stop It frustrates me about some of the olives is that come out | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
of all the political parties on a high`level. You wonder if they've | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
ever been involved in local politics or spoken to anyone at a local level | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
as it doesn't seem to have any bearing on reality or common sense | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
and that is frustrating. Eric Pickles makes no apologies. Later | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
this month, he'll announce new rules expected to increase the financial | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
pressure on councils even more. The Winter Olympics begin in three | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
weeks' time. And there are some real local medal prospects. Alistair | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
Durden is here. Ali, high hopes ` particularly for the skeleton. I | :18:01. | :18:12. | |
think all the winter sports contain an element of daredevil about them ` | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
but skeleton tops the lot. This is what it looks like from an | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
athlete's point of view, this is what they see. Top speeds of 80 mph. | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
This lead is four feet long and they wind their way round all these | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
corners, with their chins to the ice. I don't know if you fancy a go | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
at that that's what they have to content with. We have a track record | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
of medals. Do we have genuine chances this time? | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Amy Williams has retired but Shelley Rudman is still going strong. She's | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
being out `` outshone at the moment by Lizzy Yarnold. Lizzy has just won | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
the latest World Cup series of events so that's four victories for | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
her this season. She is a real contender to get the love the gold | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
medal. Another solid performance from Shelley Rudman in her second | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
run of the day, meaning she finished in fifth place. Sochi will be | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
busy's first taste of the Olympics, while Shelley is eager to rediscover | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
her best on the biggest stage of all. `` Lizzy Yarnold's first taste | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
of the Olympics. Eight years ago, Shelley Rudman won | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Britain's only medal in Turin. Now the 32`year`old is gearing up for | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
her third games. Much has changed in her life ` she now has a daughter, | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Ella, who travels with her to competitions ` even doing the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
warm`ups! She's the current world champion, and back to her best after | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
missing out on a medal four years ago. I just thought after Vancouver | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
that I still had unfinished business with the sport and still wanted to | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
achieve everything possible. I set out to win the World Cup title and | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
then the world Championships and set quite a lot of goals for myself and | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
ticked those of us I went along Time was going past and I thought, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
"Saatchi is still there and I could represent Great Britain" . `` Sochi | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
is still there. Lizzy Yarnold started skeleton four years ago | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
joining the team based at the University of Bath, just after Amy | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Williams had won gold in Vancouver. She's been the stand out performer | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
in the World Cup series ` currently leading the world rankings. If I | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
could qualify for the Olympics and be there and represent Great | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Britain, it would mean everything to me. I'd be so proud. I hope to | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
perform at my best and I'm unbelievably motivated, so fingers | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
crossed I can get there. Dom Parsons is doing a Mechanical Engineering | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
PhD in Bath. Skills that come in handy for getting the best out of | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
his sled. Six years after impressing on a talent`spotting day, he's the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
best shot of the GB men winning a first ever skeleton medal. The | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
closer we get to the Olympics, the more everyone is talking about it | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
and the harder it is to focus on the upcoming races. But I've been | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
developing through the season so I hope to be as strong as I can be | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
compared. `` come February. Dom s currently 14th in the world | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
rankings, while Lizzy and Shelley are in the top three. Only gold | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
could make that smile get any wider. It's also a big weekend in Austria | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
for our bobsleigh athletes ` that's Trowbridge couple John Jackson and | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Paula Walker. John is the pilot and is looking to compete in the two`man | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
and four`man events in Sochi. Paula is also the pilot in the women's | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
event. They're both hoping to compete in their second Winter | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Olympics. Back in this country, Yeovil have | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
signed Leicester defender Zoumana Bakayogo on loan for a month. He's | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
available to make his Championship debut away at Birmingham tomorrow. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Goals from all those matches, remember, in our Sunday evening | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
bulletin. Bath Rugby are guaranteed a home | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
quarterfinal in the European Challenge Cup after they beat | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
Bordeaux by 54 points to 13 at the Rec last night. Amongst the try | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
scorers was Fiji`born Semaysa Rokoduguni, who touched down twice | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
in his first game back from injury in almost two months. Today he | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
received his first call up to the England Saxons squad to face Ireland | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
next week. Unfortunately, he got injured. It just shows that our | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
medical department and strength and conditioning team can do great | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
things with the guys, bring him back stronger than he was. He is on top | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
of his game and it's great to have him back. | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
Gloucester wrap up their European Cup campaign away at Perpignan, and | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Bristol's final British and Irish Cup pool game is away at Leeds. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
They're already through to the quarterfinals. Just thinking about | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
Mike Tindall. Obviously not involved in Gloucester today but he is a | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
world champion, Zara is a world champion ` quite a lot of pressure | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
on the young girl as she grows up to pick a sport and be successful. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
She'll be her own person, I'm sure. Now, there was a time ` not so long | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
ago ` when the little red phone box at the end of the road was the | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
height of communication technology. Now, though, it's more of a museum | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
item. But in one village in Wiltshire, they want to change that | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
` and make their little landmark cutting edge once again. Jules Hyam | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
reports. The quiet Wiltshire village of | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
curtain. There has been a `` curtain `` curtain. There has been a church | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
of some sort here for many years and now there is a change because of | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
this. Public telephones and roll areas have been doing a hokey Cokie | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
` they put a lot in and then took them out. Here they have shaken it | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
about a bit. You notice it when you step inside. There is still a | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
telephone here but there is also an information screen and it's already | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
top for Wi`Fi. It will even send a little message telling people what | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
is going on in the village. They are respected around the world and kept | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
very good care of. But for some reason in this country, they've been | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
neglected and not kept very well and we feel quite strongly that they | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
need to be kept in use, doing what they were designed to do, which is a | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
communications tool, and kept looking good. This one does look | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
rather fetching. They are very proud of this year and they have even | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
given it an opening ceremony. It's ringing! Well, yeah, it's a phone! | :24:52. | :25:03. | |
We had to adopt it. There are times when mobile batteries flat. The | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
reception is not very good and there are elderly people who don't have | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
phones and wouldn't know how to use them. And adopted popular landmark | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
that really is now cutting edge Some soggy dogs around tomorrow | :25:14. | :25:25. | |
There may be some soggy dog walkers as well. Saturday brings the threat | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
of quite a bit of rain. Initially across west and southwestern areas, | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
it will transfer eastwards across the course of the afternoon, turning | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
more showery in nature. Sunday has frost, is and fog. A decent day | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
until you get further on into the afternoon, when we start to | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
reintroduce the threat of showers in the West. The Met Office has a | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
yellow warning out covering this area from about 4am, through all of | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
tomorrow. It's a broad area because we are hedging our bets on where the | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
threat of rain could cause disruption given pre`existing | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
sensitivities. We are highlighting Minehead, the Quantock is, down | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
towards Sidmouth. It wouldn't take much to shift that when further east | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
towards the Somerset Levels, which would be a good deal more | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
bothersome. `` shift the rain further east. Gradually, the rain | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
transfers its way eastwards as the day wears on. So if you start the | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
day without rain in the east, like Wiltshire, you will catch rain | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
eventually. I do stress the uncertainties in what is a competent | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
is a set of developments. `` complicated. Rain turning quite | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
heavy through places as it moves North westwards. It clears away from | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
many areas as we get towards daybreak. There will be a window of | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
dryer, cloudy weather as you come further east. He is the heavy rain | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
which is going to set in and install itself in this position. It could be | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
further east or further west. There is a lot of uncertainty but you get | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
the broad theme. It has potential to cause some trouble with 20 | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
millimetres during the day and, as it moves eastwards, it turns more | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
showery. Temperatures about eight or nine. A chilly start on Sunday but | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
it does look like a decent day. That's all from the Points West team | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
this Friday evening. Thank you for your company. We're off to wet the | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
baby's head. Just going outside will do the trick! See you on Monday | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
Have a good weekend. | :27:46. | :27:48. |