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colder. It could be short lived That is all from the BBC's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points krn West. Our main story: Are the Government | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
making shallow promises? As the water is pumped off the Somerset | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
levels, the Environment Security lands on sticky ground. We're | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
flooded yet again, he comes down, we get a few more pumps and apparently | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
everything is going to change. I hope it does change, because no`one | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
can go through this again. It's wrong. It's wrong. Ask what's being | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
done to stop this happening again. Also tonight, a year after the death | :00:32. | :00:47. | |
of a Bristol couple, by a repeat offender, calls for tougher | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
sentences for dangerous drivers The dangers of travelling abroad, to get | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
treated for lyme disease. And the mild weather affecting our | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
wildlife, harvest mice born in January. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Good evening, flood victims in Somerset have been promised by the | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
Environment Security that action will be taken within six weeks. Owen | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Paterson's been in the county seeing the relief operation. Many see at | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
parent lack of action as another blow. Local people say they're used | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
to empty promises and they'll believe it when they see. It the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
leader of the County Council said he was disappointed the minister didn't | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
come with money. And the euro MP, Graham watt wavment OK Shane Watson, | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Clinton Rogers, Winstone, said he was angered `` and the euro MP, | :01:36. | :01:48. | |
Graham Watson, said he was angered. They were preept for the Environment | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Security this morning. `` prepared for the Environment | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Security this morning. The roadside placards were a clue. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Why have you started doing this now? That's it, ignore the people. And | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
when he arrived on the flooded village of Moorland, he would have | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
been left in no doubt about the strength of the anger herement We | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
were flooded last year, where was he last year? What happened then? A | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
year on, again disaster strikes We're flooded yet again. This is | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
where the minister had come to see for himself the scale of the | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
flooding. Just one of the pumping stations operating day and night to | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
clear water from 65 square miles of flooded farmland. Three weeks on, | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the water is still hardly receding. In fact, last week, more houses | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
succumbed to the water. The victims were keen to know whether the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Secretary of State had come with an answer preferably money to help | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
them. A week ago, I was in a house with a grown man who cried in front | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
of me, because his house was under a foot of water. Do you think anything | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
you've said today is going to reassure him that you are actually | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
going to do something fast? I've many just said, I totally | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
appreciate... Are you going to do anything fast? To answer your | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
question directly, I have asked all the interested parties to give a | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
concrete plan in six weeks to provide satisfaction over the next | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
20 years. That may well involved dredging the two main rivers. It | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
will involve clear, long`term plans to hold water back long`term. 9 % of | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
James Winstone's farm is under water, has been for weeks. So was he | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
encouraged today? It's a step in the right direction. It's a positive | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
note. We're still going to be actively pushing until we actually | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
see the diggers and everything going on with the dredging. While the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
minister casts an eye over the historic diesel pumps working flat | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
out to clear the floot waters `` floodwaters, in a barn round the | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
corner, the future of farming was making an appearance. The question | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
is: What sort of future will that be? | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
The problems may be on the ground, but the full extent of the damage | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
can be better understood from the air. John Kay has been in a | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
helicopter today to get a full picture of what's going on. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
When you look out over the whole area and see how much of it has been | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
flooded, it really is an astonishing sight. There's the island community, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
and when you see it from the air, you realise just how cut off it is, | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
with little boats having to take people backwards and forwards. We've | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
seen homes entirely cut off as well, island communities in their own | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
right. Thousands of acres of farmland utterly submerged. How long | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
is it going to be before this land can be used productively again? The | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
flood water just goes on and on mile after mile. You lose a sense of | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
perspective really about what is a river, what is a field, almost where | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
does the coast begin. It's a very strange sensation seeing this part | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
of this county from the air. There are actually more helicopter | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
shots on our Facebook page as well. We move on to other news. A | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
three`year`old boy has died after being knocked down in the street in | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Bristol. The accident happened in Bedminster and involved a Land Rover | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
with a trailer. The boy was taken to Bristol children's Hospital but | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
doctors were unable to save him It was around 10. 15am when the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
accident happened, close to the junction of two busy Bedminster | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
streets. Officers are still investigating how a portable cabin, | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
being towed on a trailer by a 4x4, became detached hitting the | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
youngster, who was on the pavement. He was rushed to Bristol children's | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
hospital with serious injuries, but died shortly after. This evening, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
several bunches of flowers have been left here at scene of the accident, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
one says, "To our beautiful nephew, taken too soon." Another, "Rest in | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
peace. Our thoughts are with your family at this sad time." Parts of | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
Parsons Street and Hastings Road were shut for hours. The driver of | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
the Land Rover is helping with inquiries but not under arrest. A | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
liaison officer is helping the relatives of the little boy. | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
The wet weather, will it continue? Ian is here with a forecast later. | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
Have you seen the sign? A little bit of Hollywood glamour comes to | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
Bristol. But what's this sign all about and how did it get here? | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
All that still to come. First a 21`year`old man, who drowned in the | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
centre of Bath last week, has been named as Christopher Taylor. He was | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
a student at the University of bath where he was studying chemistry His | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
family live in Merseyside and say they've been devastated by his | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
death. A Wiltshire man has been sentenced | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
to 16 years in prison for murdering his wife. Friends say Debbie | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Simister was planning to leave her husband, James Simister, when he | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
killed her. Police found her body in the couple's home in Amesbury last | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
April. Now Parliament is tonight debating | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
whether to increase sentences for drivers who are repeatedly convicted | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
of dangerous driving. The debate led by a West MP, comes exactly a year | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
after Ross and Clare Simons died when serial offender, Nicholas | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Lovel, crashed into their tandem while the couple were out cycling. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
A year ago today, Ross and Clare Simons had just completed a course | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
of IVF treatment, when Nicholas Lovel smashed into them. The deaths | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
have left their families devastated. This time last year, we sat down | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
having a cup of tea with Ross and Clare, and we had a kiss and cuddle | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
from them when we left. Two`and`a`half hours later they were | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
dead. Serial offender Lovel, who had previously been disqualified 11 | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
times, was yet again driving without a license. He was found to have | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
taken a cocktail of drugs, including cocaine. He was jailed for | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
ten`and`a`half years, the longest sentence available to the judge | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
We've actually been told he's going to be released in May 2018. That's | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
five years. Five years for killing two innocent people, it's not | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
enough. Our laws have definitely got to be changed. Ross' father and | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
mother are determined that repeat offenders should face stiffer | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
sentences. Their campaign has already attracted 13,000 signatures | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
to a petition demanding new legislation. They now hope that | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
tonight's debate will put pressure on the Government to act. This was a | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
ticking timebomb this man. The offence that's he caused, the number | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
of offences that he caused meant that it was inevitable, as he | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
predicted himself, that he was one day going to cause death by | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
dangerous driving. Lawyers say that any change in the law must make | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
clear the difference between prolific offenders like Lovel and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
motorists caught up in a momentary lapse of concentration. It is | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
dangerous driving. But it is not at the threshold of this type of | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
offence. I think you need, in looking at these offences, to | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
discriminate between the two and legislation needs to be passed to | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
make them entirely separate types of offence. For the Simons, the birth | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
of a second grandson has given them one happy moment in an other`wise | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
grief`stricken year. The country's leading expert in lyme | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
disease has warned of the potential dangerous consequences of travelling | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
abroad for treatment. There's no vaccine for the illness, which is | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
spread by ticks and can leave people severely debilitated. Some | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
campaigners say they're not being taken seriously in the UK. And that | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
he have little choice but to travel to America for expensive treatment. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
Hi. Nice to meet you. Natasha Metcalf first became ill when she | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
was a teenager. I experienced night sweats and terrible concentration. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
After seeing more than 40 doctors, she was eventually diagnosed with | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
lyme disease in America. She was put on long`term antibiotics. This | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
doesn't come cheap. For lyme and my doctor in America so far, we | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
totalled it at about 11,000. Lyme is spread by ticks. It usually starts | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
with a rash and flu`like symptoms and can lead to neurological | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
problems. A short course of antibiotics should sort it out, but | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
campaigners, like Natasha, say they have little choice but to go abroad. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
I'm not being offered any treatment here. Because I've done the | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
psychiatric route. I've done the ME route. I'm still sick. Everyone has | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
the same story. There's a big divide between those who can afford to go | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
abroad and those who can't. Where it all happens for your test? It is. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
But the leading expert on lyme disease in the UK says the evidence | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
for long`term antibiotics is shaky and their use can be dangerous. Once | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
you've treated the infection for long enough to eradicate the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
organism, any addition Alan I buy why theics won't `` | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
additionalantibiotics won't help. But it will reduce the effectiveness | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
of antibiotics. So you might develop a super infection that can be | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
extremely serious in some cases Serious? There are reported deaths | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
for people who have been given long`term treatment with intravenous | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
antibiotics, that was for lyme disease. | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
So, I travelled to America to put this to a doctor here. This is where | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
it all happens. Yes, this is it Raphael Stricker says he's treated | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
more than 2,500 people for lyme disease. Any treatment can be | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
harmful. You have to weigh the risk of this type of treatment versus the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
benefit for people who have chronic, debilitating disease. I think that | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
most patients who've been through this treatment would say that it's | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
definitely worth the risk in terms of getting better from lyme disease, | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
if you take long`term antibiotics. Patients say they're caught in the | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
middle. But there is now talk of sharing data on lyme disease across | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
the Atlantic and more difintive research into the illness. | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
Joining me now from Exeter is Stella Huyshe`Shires from the group Lyme | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Disease Action. Thank you for joining us. You have been diagnosed | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
with lyme disease. Were you taken seriously? Once I was diagnosed | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
yes. Or once I had a positive blood test. I was taken seriously. Not | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
everyone has a positive blood test. There are a lot of uncertainties in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the diagnosis of lyme disease. That is one of the reasons why people do | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
go abroad. Doctors are told that the tests are 99% likely to detect an | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
infection after the first few weeks, after the tick has bitten. But | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
actually that's not so. There are lots of very well recognised reasons | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
why people test negative. Sorry to interrupt you. What advice can you | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
give to people tonight, who may be watching, who might think, well I'm | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
not being taken seriously? First contact our e`mail support line We | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
have one line for the public. That is dealt with by patients and we | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
provide good quality information that can inform their decision and | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
their choices. We also provide an e`mail support line for doctors and | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
that's manned by our medical director, who is a consultant, with | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
experience of lyme disease and again, we provide good information | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
to the doctors to enable them to help interpret their patient's | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
symptoms an the test. Say some people are forced to go to America | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
for treatment, but there are obvious dangers. Can you advise them as | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
well? Yes, indeed, we can. We'd rather people were treated in this | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
country, and in fact, a lot of people are treated long`term in this | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
country. There was a case on the edge of Dartmoor where someone had | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
six months' months' treatment. Very much for joining us tonight. ( | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Matthew Hill also looked into the test that helped diagnose lyme | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
disease and his blood was tested in the US and the UK, with surprising | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
results. Can you find out what happened on Inside Out West, tonight | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
at 7. 30pm, here on BBC One. A new report claims that Bristol | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
lost more jobs in the recession than anywhere in the UK between 2010 and | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
2012. Today local business leaders and even a Government minister | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
rejected the research, but the group behind the report stood by its | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
findings. To help us make sense of these statistics, here's our | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
business correspondent. I tell you what, official statistics | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
can be pretty dull, but some can be genuinely shocking. Today's report | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
from an independent research group counted up the number of jobs | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
created or lost in different cities at the height of the recession. Now, | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
at the top, there you are, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, between them | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
they created over 250,000 jobs between 2010 and 2012. Every league | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
table has a bottom and look at that, that's where you'll find Bristol. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
13,900 jobs were lost in the city, we're told. Mostly in banking, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
insurance and retail. Does this make Bristol the hardest place in the UK | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
to get a job? No. Not even the authors think that. When you look at | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
the wider set of Kators. `` indicators, or the skills and | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
qualifications they have, or the business base, how big it is, how | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
many new businesses are generated, there's a stronger story for | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Bristol. On the one hand, in this particular indicator, it's the | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
bottom of the pile, but across a range of other indicators or other | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
areas we look at, it's a stronger performance. Indeed it's the | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
strongest performing big city outside of London. There are | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
something rather odd about this report. We're told nearly 14,00 | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
jobs were cut in two years. So what happened here? At the job centres? | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
Well more people signed on, yes but only around 2,000 more people. Now | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
not everyone who loses work claims the dole. But local business leaders | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
insist that figure, 14,000, is so big, it's probably wrong. What we've | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
seen on the ground hasn't been borne out by the numbers, particularly | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
around private sector jobs. So many fundamentals are in place here. We | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
are well connected. We have good industries set to grow. We have | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
universities which are very strong. We are in the south of the country. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
I think Bristol is performing well and I think it's set to do so. We'll | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
get another big number tomorrow ` GDP. It's a kind of health check on | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
the whole UK economy. Of course we'll bring the you West Country | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
picture here on Points West. That figure may well be positive, but | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
today's report reminds us that even though things are starting to pick | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
up, just a couple of years ago, business was pretty difficult, even | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
in a prosperous city like Bristol. Some sports news now. Yeoviltown's | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
manager say his side have what it takes to avoid relegation. Gary | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Johnson was speaking after going out of the FA Cup on Saturday. He was | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
encouraged by the performance and believes it will help them in their | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
quest to beat the drop. Away from the pressures of the | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
league, this was a bonus for Yeovil, aiming to make the fifth round for | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
only the second time. The away end sold out, with over 3,000 fans | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
travelling in hope and expectation. A draw, please. That would be | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
lovely. Have them back at Yeovil. And beat them! Yes. My head says | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
we're probably going to get beat, but my heart says you never know. I | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
expect us to win. Despite an even first half, a handball from Jamie | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
McAllister gave Southampton the chance to take the lead. Another | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
famous cup result might have been on the cards if this Luke Ayling shot | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
had crept in. But a second goal ended their hopes. Now it's all | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
about avoiding relegation. We compare it against Premier League | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
sides. They were magnificent as well. You have to give the credit to | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
them. I thought we played well. It's only for our benefit for the next | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
game on Tuesday. We have to be proud of our club. It's really a positive. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
I don't like losing in any game The lads are sfointed as well. `` | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
disappointed as well. We have to learn from these games. We have to | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
put on the first`half performance for two halves. If we can do that, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
at our level, in the championship, then I think we can get out of | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
trouble. That challenge continues at Derby tomorrow. | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Now, the vagueries of the milder weather are encouraging thousands of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
migratory birds to stay in Gloucestershire, rather than head | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
off to warmer climbs. Staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
Slimbridge say it's a record`breaking year for some | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
species. But the temperatures have encouraged one tiny mum to produce a | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
litter of seven harvest mice, get ready for the aawww factor. | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
We've got flocks of lapwing... Tucked away, this is the best seat | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
in the house to see the birds having an extended break in | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
Gloucestershire. The lack of ice means for many species it's warm | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
enough to stay rather than use energy flying elsewhere. The flooded | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
wetlands bringing in plenty of food and safe places to roost. The grass | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
has continued to grow through the winter on the milder days. The | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
grazing has been very good. There's lots of shallow water for the | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
species that specialise in that The main flocks are wading birds, | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
lapwing, golden plover, huge numbers of them swirling around the | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
redeserve. The flip side is that the famous swans are finding it warm | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
enough to stay elsewhere, so not many have arrived yet. With record | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
numbers of other flocks, such as 4,500 teal, staff are kept busy | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
trying to count them. Just trying to work with the waders, particularly | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
when they're settled. We wade through steadily, use a tally | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
counter to remember the numbers as you go through. You hope that | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
nothing scares them and they fly off. You have to start again. The | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
weather is keeping lots of birds here, it's doing a great job for | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
another wetland species that isn't going to be flying anywhere. This | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
really is the pitter patter of tiny feet and at only a few centimetres | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
long, seven baby harvest mice, born to mum, only six months old herself. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
They normally mate in the spring, but the warmth encouraged early | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
breeding. They're more than at home here. They were along before we | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
started planting crops. They survived in the wetlands and then | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
moved into the corn crops. As we're changing the farming practices and | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
obviously, if you're that small a combine harvester can do a lot of | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
damage, so they're moving back into the wetlands, which is why we should | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
look after them. And babies are all in good health. I think, for once, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
stealing the show from the birds here at Slimbridge. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
Go on admit, it you said, aawww If you're out and about near the Avon | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
gorge today, you might have noticed something new, a new sign has | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
appeared, similar to the Hollywood star, in the his above LA. It's | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
being talked about all over social media sites. But no`one knows who | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
put it there. Or why. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
A bit of Hollywood glamour, if not Hollywood weather, in the heart of | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Bristol. The sign reading Bristolland and made out of white | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
plastic letters appeared on Wednesday and was noticed by bemused | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
commuters Thursday morning. It's still not publicly known who was | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
behind it. Today, though, I managed to speak to a man who knows the man | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
who did this, sadly, he wouldn't tell me his name. Even if he did, I | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
probably couldn't tell you, but he confirmed a few things: First, this | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
has nothing to do with Banksy. Secondly, it was done by a local | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
man, a Bristolian. Thirdly, he did it at midnight on Wednesday night in | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
the pitch black and the reason? Well, he just thought it would be a | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
cool thing to do. It's a tribute to the bigger and slightly more | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
glamorous version in the hills above Los Angeles which used to read | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Hollywood land, before dropping the "land" in the 1940s. This one isn't | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
here officially. This land is owned by the National Trust and is a Site | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
of Special Scientific Interest. How do they feel about it? They're | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
raising the profile of the Avon gorge. We can't complain about that. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
It is a special place. If it brings a smile to people's face when's | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
they're commuting into work, that's great. Walkers today seemed to feel | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
the same. It's fine. It shows that a lot of Bristolians are crazy and | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
like to do things that are different. The guy must be silly to | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
climb up here in the middle of the night and put a sign up like that. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
It's a gnaw Titian to the gorge It `` new addition to the gorge, it | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
should be left for posterity. , as the sun sets over the gorge, it | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
looks like our newest landmark is orto stay. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
`` is here to stay. He must have done it when it was dry | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
as well, a rare day! Talking about something new, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
appearing in the dark, new for this winter, were these scenes in the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Forest of Dean at 6pm. The snow starting to settle readily. It | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
didn't last. However that's the first time we've seen that through | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
this winter. What a change from this time last year, when this amount of | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
snow would have seemed insignificant compared to what we had. Tomorrow | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
the problems come in the shape of heavy showers around. There will be | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
drier, brighter interludes for some of you. Certainly everything of a | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
lottery, courtesy of low pressure over Ireland. Running around that | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
are bands of showers, which will tend to align themselves over some | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
areas for one hour, then they shift along and give a soaking somewhere | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
else down the road. It will be difficult to pin down the detail | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
until we see on the radar how they're developed. At the moment we | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
have heavy showers across parts of Gloucestershire. We continue with a | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Met Office yellow warning, in force through tonight, tomorrow, for | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
southern areas, where we have a greater problem of flooding | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
exacerbated by the showers as they come by. Hail with those as well. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Temperatures tonight between three to four Celsius. Should be fairly | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
typical. No threat of further snow for the rest of this evening, nor | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
indeed tonight or tomorrow. There could be hail in amongst all of | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
these. I would stress, some brighter, drier spells. Some of you | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
seeing more of that than others It continues through the course of the | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
day. It will be blustery under the showers. Generally speaking, not | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
quite as windy in a pronounced sense as it was today. About 10 to 15 mm | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
of rain accumulating. Over half an inch or so, less than an inch. Given | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
the problems we've seen earlier in the programme, it is an issue. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Temperatures are cool tomorrow. Six, seven Celsius probably quite | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
typical. Maybe eight Celsius in a couple of spots. It is getting | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
colder through the midweek. By Thursday we drag in an easterly | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
flow. On Friday there's the threat of heavy rain. We'll worry about | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
that later on. The weather hasn t been out of the news and doesn't | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
look like it wants to be. look like it wants to | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Thank you very much. You can tell it's mild. There's a fly in our | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
studio happily going around at the moment. That's all from us. We're | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
back with you in the Ten O'Clock news. Goodbye. | :27:24. | :27:27. |