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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. Our main | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
story tonight: A month under water. As the flooding on the Somerset | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Levels covers an area bigger than Bristol, locals demand action. It is | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
complete nonsense. Everyone except the Environment Agency knows what to | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
do and it needs to be done. But how much taxpayers' money should be | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
spent on the project? We'll be asking a former Agriculture | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
Minister. The others stories in the news | :00:33. | :00:44. | |
tonight: Hands up if you want to go on holiday ` a school arranges cheap | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
vacations to stop parents taking their children out of class. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Made in Britain ` the West Country company that's bringing work back | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
from China. And she's making everybody happy ` | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the teenager dancing her way through the streets of Bristol. | :01:03. | :01:15. | |
People living on the Somerset Levels are beginning to put together a plan | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
for their future. Yesterday the Environment Secretary visited the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
flooded areas and gave them six weeks to come up a solution. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
During that time, many of them expect they'll still be under water. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
But as their plight attracts national attention, it's hardly | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
surprising that not everyone is agreed on the way forward. Andrew | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
Plant reports. Worms, dead animals. After a month underwater, what's | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
washing up on this makeshift seashore is beginning to smell. We | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
are all in the boat together but none of us can use the toilet, there | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
is nowhere for the water to run It back fills into the garden. It's an | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
area bigger than Bristol ` 65 square miles. This is the Somerset Levels, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
acre after acre of green fields And this is that same area now. He has | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
given all of us six weeks to come up with a plan. Yesterday, the | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Environment Secretary came to see Somerset for himself And said he | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
wanted a plan in six weeks. So today in Weston, the first stage in that | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
process. Farmers, residents, drainage boards, councillors, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
getting together, discussing the options. Everyone it seems except | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
DEFRA and the Environment Agency know what the problem is. But many | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
here believe they already know what's needed. The problem is the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
drainage channels, the rivers, which are entirely man`made and they have | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
not been dredged for 20 years. They are silted up. For now, Presidents | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
are adapting to circumstances. It happened in the 70s but it was not | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
quite as bad. That was when they dredged the river. Getting from a to | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
B has become so difficult. You can drive down these roads and they seem | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
fine and then very abruptly they penned in fields full of water. It | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
means a two mile ten minute journey can very quickly become an | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
unexpected and unwelcome 45 minute adventure. And if things got much | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
worse, losing essential supplies is a real possibility. We have had to | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
do another 12 miles to get around. People depend on it. It isn't | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
everything, cooking, heating. Without that, they have nothing For | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
many, it will feel a very long six weeks until any plan is in place. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
And that, they say, is just the very first step. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
David Heath is the MP for Somerton and Frome and was Agriculture | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
Minister up until October last year. Good evening. The chairman of the | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
Environment Agency said today dredging would only make a small | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
difference to the problem. Do you think that is right? I think it | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
would make a substantial distance this macro `` a substantial | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
difference. But he is absolutely right to say that it is not going to | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
stop flooding on the Somerset Levels. Flooding will happen. The | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
issue is that it is covering more areas than we have ever known and it | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
is covering more households and affecting more people than ever We | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
cannot get the water away simply because the rivers are full. Because | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
it is an entirely man`made environment, a man`made landscape, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
unless you can pump into the rivers, the water is never going to | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
go. By dredging in that area, do you create problems downstream? Not if | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
it is done properly. It has got to... We have got to increase | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
capacity so we are way above where we are at the moment which is about | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
60%. If we do it, it is a start but it is only a start. We need to get | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
schemes further up the river working properly. We need to look at new | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
planting and management of the whole catchment area so we hold water up | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
more effectively before it reaches this area. Sorry to interrupt. This | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
story has now become national. It is getting a lot of attention. A lot of | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
radio talk today. Some people say, if you buy a house on the Somerset | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Levels, you know it will flood. Why should all of these millions of | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
pounds of taxpayers money be spent? There are areas in my constituency | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
that have never flooded in living memory. It is perfectly reasonable | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
to say there are not as many people living in Somerset than in a big | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
city. I understand the previous policy that money is spent on | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
protecting the maximum number of properties, but we deserve a fair | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
deal and we need whatever protection is available and that is the message | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
finally getting through. I am very optimistic we are winning the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
argument within government and we will eventually see some real | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
support. We will have to help with local financing as well. That is | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
right and proper. But we do need government help and we need it this | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
year. Thank you very much for joining us. | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
A school academy in Bristol has come up with a way of discouraging | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
parents from taking pupils on holiday in term time. They're going | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
to negotiate directly with holiday companies to try and get cheaper | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
deals during the traditional school breaks. It's all part of a | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
Government`backed clamp`down on absenteeism. Scott Ellis reports. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Paul knows how to get a holiday bargain. He saved ?400 on a trip to | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Spain with his five`year`old son by leaving during school term time If | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
you do it in the holiday period in the summer, you have got to pay the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
extra rates. It is not really affordable for someone like me. The | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Government's clamping down on term`time holidays with ?60 fines | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
for absenteeism. This league table shows the number of fines issued | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
last year in our three worst`performing areas. Wiltshire, | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Bristol and South Gloucestershire topping the league, issuing five | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
fines every school day combined At the City Academy in Bristol, they | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
think direct negotiation with holiday companies could be the | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
answer. We are going to get on the phone to holiday firms that could | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
offer a special deal for parents in challenging times, help us and | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
support the education system by offering cheaper holidays. What do | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
you think they will say? I think some of them will say yes because | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
they have ethics and morals. The travel association ABTA says it | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
won't work. The only solution is a shake up of the school year. The | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
long`term solution is for schools to think about the dates when they take | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
their holidays, to change those states, to avoid very busy periods | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
and stagger holidays. Perhaps think of taking a summer break in June or | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
September. This is the way forward. Spread the demand. The city academy | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
says staggered holidays would be impractical for families and | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
employers. But the Government favours the idea. Paul avoided a | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
fine this time round. His school issued a written warning. Next time, | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
they may not be so generous and parents could eventually face | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
criminal prosecution. And not surprisingly, this topic has | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
attracted a lot of your comments. You can join in the debate on our | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Facebook page. Thank you for all of the e`mails as well. | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
No holidays for us. This is David and Alex with all your | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
local news, sport and weather. Two good reasons to stay with us. That's | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the spirit ` a campaign to save a berry in Gloucestershire that goes | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
into making gin. And I've got those happy feet ` the | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
young woman from Bristol taking her infectious dance moves to a high | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
street near you. Lots to look forward to. | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Now, it's a big night for Bristol author Nathan Filer. He's in the | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
running for the Costa Book of the Year which will be announced this | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
evening at a ceremony in London s flashy Mayfair. He joins us now | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Many congratulations. You were excited when you are nominated | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
before for Best first novel and this is the best short list of all, isn't | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
it? It is a good place to be. What does it mean for you? You said | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
before that it meant the world to you. How can this topic? `` top it? | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
It means the world and a half. As I said before, what I really want is | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
to show this story and I am proud of it and want to share it with people | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and being here means hopefully more people will read it. It is great to | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
be here. Also, I get to work a new suit which got married in on | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Saturday `` I get to where. Double congratulations. What a start to the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
year! How will you top this with your next novel? I think I have | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
peaked. It is very nice all the same. Have you practised your | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
acceptance speech? Do you want all run through? I have not practice. I | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
am not expecting to win which is not false humility will stop I have seen | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
the odds and I do not think I need to write one. But it is lovely to | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
have got this far. Many congratulations on the nomination | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
and the wedding as well. Thank you. How exciting. You scrub up well I | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
hope to announce the results of that in the ten o'clock news. | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
The Bishop of Taunton has added his voice to opposition about plans to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
re`house the next Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Right Reverend Peter | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Maurice says he believes neither the decision to buy a new home, nor the | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
way the decision was made, has been handled well. The Church | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Commissioners say the incoming bishop will have more privacy by | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
living away from the palace in Wells. Laura Jones reports. Who are | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
in favour of the proposition? The people of the diocese of Bath | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
and Wells aren't happy. Later this year, they're getting a new bishop, | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
the Right Reverend Peter Hancock. They're happy about that, but not | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
happy about where he'll live. Unlike most of his predecessors who have | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
lived on site in the flat at the Bishop's Palace in Wells, he is | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
going to be housed elsewhere. This is what all the fuss is about. The | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
old Rectory. We understand the churches in the process of buying | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
this place as a temporary residence for the new bishop until the new | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
permanent home can be found for him in the town itself. The house is | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
thought to have been on the market for ?900,000. And the decision to | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
buy it was made by a group called the Church Commissioners. They are | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
responsible for managing the church's assets and investments | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
However, the decision and the way the decision was made have caused a | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
row. There are three bits to this. Firstly, where the bishop lives | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Secondly, where the Bishop works and praise. That is also important. And | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the fact he does that with his colleague, the Bishop of Taunton. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Thirdly, the Palace as a visitor attraction. You cannot take any one | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
of those out because if you do the likelihood is that you will on | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
balance the whole thing. That is the argument we put forward and said, | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
bring the Bishop in for three to five years, let us have that | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
consultation, locally and more widely, then make the decision. We | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
asked the Church Commissioners if we could interview them today. They | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
said no, but in a statement, they said that they had found the flat in | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
the palace to be inappropriate, with the bishop living in the midst of a | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
busy tourist attraction. Something the Bishop of Taunton who is also | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
based at the palace in Wells thinks is strange. There is an issue around | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
whether or not the Bishop has proven C in his living `based `` has | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
reversed the. That has to be taken into account with all of the other | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
issues around. I think the commissioners are being disingenuous | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
trying to push that forward as their particular case. The Bishop of | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Taunton is now considering raising the matter when the General Synod | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
meets in February. They'll then have just under four months to make a | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
final decision before the new bishop is formally enthroned at the | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
cathedral in June. The boy who died in a collision in | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Bristol yesterday has been named. He was three`year`old Freddie Hussey. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
In a statement, his family said it should never have happened and they | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
will never forget him. Investigations are continuing into | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
how he died after the incident in Bedminster. The driver of the car is | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
helping police with their enquiries but is not under arrest. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
The leader of Wiltshire Council has decided not to accept a rise in her | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
allowances which she had been entitled to. Jane Scott would have | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
been eligible to take a 40% increase following a council vote. It would | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
have seen this part of her income increase from just over ?37 000 to | :14:54. | :15:08. | |
more than ?52,000. Network Rail has warned that dozens | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
of railway bridges across the West may have to be removed and rebuilt. | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
It's to allow overhead power lines to be installed as part of the | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
electrification of the mainline to London. But Wiltshire Council has | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
claimed their work is already leading to communities being cut | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
off. Here's our political reporter Robin Markwell. Electrifying the | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
railway... This is how we'll soon be travelling | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
to London and South Wales. Electrifying the line will see | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
tired, old, diesel`powered trains replaced by a faster, more reliable | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
fleet. Journey times and carbon emissions will be slashed. Network | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Rail's Swindon HQ is the nerve centre for this ?1 billion project. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
The new broom at the helm is a Californian, fresh from electrifying | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
the West Coast Main Line and redeveloping Reading station. Good | :15:49. | :16:01. | |
to see you. I would be very excited about what is coming because it will | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
be much better than the system today. It will transform this great | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Western into the new era of more efficient delivery as we move | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
forward into the next decade. A souped`up version of this machine | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
will lay the overhead cables. It will work nights and weekends to cut | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
down on disruption to rail passengers. But it's those | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
travelling by road who are first noticing a difference. Dozens of | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
bridges are having to be rebuilt or replaced to allow the power lines | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
through. They've already started in Wiltshire and councillors say | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
they're running late. We have been very disappointed in the | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
preplanning. They have not planned the projects. They have not found | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
out about the conditions and the wildlife which has led to delays. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Communities are blocked from accessing the roads. There is a real | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
problem. We have had enough. That's disputed by Network Rail which | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
insists it has carried out the right surveys and has been open with | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
councils about its plans. It was the age of steam that put Swindon on the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
railway map. Now it is hoped electrification could restore some | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
of that former glory. We're all used to seeing "made in | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
China" on almost everything, but that may now be changing More West | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Country firms than ever are now bringing their manufacturing back to | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
the West from the Far East. We've heard today that the UK | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
economy as a whole grew last year by nearly 2%. Part of that growth is | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
down to more firms deciding to make their products here. Our business | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
correspondent Dave Harvey reports. High`tech and high precision. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Millions of pounds of equipment making stuff for the all and gas | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
industry. I am more interested in this mysterious glass. What is going | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
on? This is the same stuff you will get when you have cold spots on | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
radiators. Now what is happening? It holds onto the debris. The central | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
heating system is then much more inefficient `` efficient. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Invented in Cheltenham, but until recently, made in China. Not | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
anymore. For us, the design is critical. We need to be close to the | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
manufacturing so we can innovate as we go along. 70 people work here at | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
the moment and the new business will bring new jobs. Five or six more | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
jobs, further investment and another growth market sector. It is going to | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
be fantastic. There are lots of hi`tech firms like this across the | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
West Country. They supply the big aircraft manufacturers, the oil and | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
gas industry. And it's jobs like this that everyone wants to see more | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
of. They bring real, lasting prosperity. High skills and good for | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
the local communities because when you are trying to retain skills | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
they have suffered. Having jobs like this coming back to our area has | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
clearly got to be a benefit for everybody. So, the question is, how | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
unusual is this contract and this company? This company is at the | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
leading edge of what we are beginning to see around the UK more | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
generally. We learnt today that manufacturing has grown, up by .7% | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
in three months. And this firm is not alone in shelling out hundreds | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
of thousands of pounds on new machines. But experts want more | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
much more. So far, the recovery is about consumer spending and to some | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
extent the housing market. It feels like a good old`fashioned British | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
recovery. We need to see more investment to boost the capacity of | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
the economy to grow as demand across the world grows. So, that's how a | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
magic magnet made in cheltenham not china, is helping boost the UK | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
economy. I hope that's cleared that up. | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
A little bit of Gloucestershire could be helping in the battle to | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
save a plant used in the making of gin. The juniper bush is on the | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
decline and needs a massive conservation effort to survive. | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
Now a major gin manufacturer has helped fund work to protect and | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
increase the precious specimens on ancient land at Painswick. As Ali | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Vowles has been finding out, it s a species that takes a lot of loving. | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Lead the way. It's like finding gold. A thriving | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
juniper bush. In Gloucestershire, there are only 300 bushes in the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
whole county and 40 of them are here at Painswick Beacon. And every | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
effort is being made to save this plant that's been growing here since | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
the ice age. I can count on one hand the number of sites in England where | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
you get this. It is really extraordinary. It might seem a | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
little over the top to be so excited by a new juniper seedling, but when | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
you hear how difficult it is to reproduce in the wild, it all | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
becomes a little clearer the female ones produce berries but they are | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
not right in the first year. They have to stay on the plant for | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
another two years. When they fall off, they need to years of frosty | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
winter before they bother to germinate. Even then, the ground | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
conditions have to be right. For the past four years, local | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
conservationists have been giving nature helping hand, clearing | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
grassland trees and sowing seed The money is important to help the | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
conservation work continue. Ground like this is useless for Juniper | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
seed. But up where they are starting to cut down the trees, fingers | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
crossed, more Juniper plants will grow. In true Blue Peter style, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
here's a scree they cleared earlier. Berries sown by the volunteers a few | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
years ago have sprung up all over the place. It is fantastic. It is an | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
important plant because it supports a vast number of insects and birds | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
and other wildlife. If we lose it, we are not just losing one species, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
we are losing the dependent wildlife as well. Progress is slow, but with | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
a little bit more TLC from Gloucestershire's volunteers, maybe | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
this incredibly fussy plant can survive. | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
It's busy night of football for our teams here in the West. In the | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Championship, Yeovil travel to promotion`chasing Derby. In League | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
One, Swindon are away at Walsall, while Bristol City could climb out | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
of the relegation zone for the first time in more than three months if | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
they can beat Brentford. In League Two, Bristol Rovers play host to | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
Accrington Stanley. Who? Exactly. Glamorous! | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
It was a concept made popular by David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Now one | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
young woman from the West has become an internet star, dancing in the | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
streets of Bristol. There she is. 17`year` old Levanna | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
McLean has taken her northern soul dancing style across the city and | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
posted the clips on the internet. Fiona Lamdin's been to meet her | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
Levanna Mclean dancing down Staple Hill high street has gone viral | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Today when we took her back it was her fans who kept interrupting her | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
routine. I think you are amazing! As do many others. On YouTube she's had | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
more than half`a`million hits, dancing to the massive hit, Happy by | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Pharrell. When you see it on the internet, it is just a number. Once | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
I realised that number is one person that has watched it, you kind of | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
thing, wow. Pharrell tweeted me It is such an honour to have that | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
ability to make people happy. It all started last year when she went | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
through her mum's record collection and discovered she loved northern | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
soul, a dance movement that emerged in northern England in the late 60s. | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
And ever since, she's been popping up all over the place, Millennium | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
Square, Clifton's supension bridge, and Glastonbury tor, to name just a | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
few. And as you can see, it's quite infectious. People just can't help | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
but get involved and today was no exception. People in this cafe just | :24:22. | :24:34. | |
could not stop themselves. Someone posted a link and I had a look. I | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
only came in for a copy today. I am at work. Don't tell the boss! | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Lessons on hand for all ages. And me, I clearly need all the help I | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
can get. Can I have your order graph? Sure! And this 17`year`old's | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
fame is set to spread. Her next online posting is due out this week. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
We are told the location is Spain, but for the choice of track, we will | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
just have to wait and see. You can have a go. | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
Not easy, that Northern Soul. I prefer West Country soul. | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
Let us get the weather. Certainly, some change on the way. | :25:25. | :25:37. | |
Tomorrow, one thing you will notice is colder feel developing. Showery | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
outbreaks of rain. Might be wintry later in the afternoon. For high | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
ground at least. Low pressure dominates for now. Slipping down | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
through parts of West Wales and gradually relaxing its grip towards | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
the south through the course of the next day or two. In turn, you will | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
see how the winds back round to southeasterly and easterly direction | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
towards the tail end of tomorrow. That will drag the cold air from the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
continent. A temporary blip in an otherwise Atlantic Ocean pattern. | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
Showers continuing this evening Drier interludes. Showers rotating | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
around the area of low pressure You tend to get them coming through in | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
lines. Still showers tomorrow, particularly in eastern districts. | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
Tending to be wetter further out in parts of Wiltshire. Drier in the | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
West. In the south`east, we start to pull up an area of predominantly | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
rain across southern counties of England. It will rotate north`east | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
and we will see the signal for a little bit of white mixed in over | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
high ground of Wiltshire, the Cotswolds, perhaps. It will be | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
interest value only. Predominantly rain, probably sleep as well. Either | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
way, feeling a good deal colder `` probably sleep. Colder night as we | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
head through into Thursday. We have to be mindful of some ice on | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
untreated surfaces. Thursday will be the coldest period we have seen in | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
the winter so far. Different story for Friday. Warnings for further | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
wind and rain. Problems exacerbated on the coast and tidal rivers by the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
high tide. Talk about that tomorrow. Collective sigh. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
It is all happening on the late bulletin. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
It is. We will have the results of the Costa Book Awards and the | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
football scores as well. What else could you want? I will see you then. | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
Goodbye. | :27:48. | :27:48. |