04/02/2014 BBC Points West

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Good evening from Points West. Bad weather is causing major problems

across parts of the west tonight. A number of homes in Somerset are

without power trees are being blown down in places and flooding on the

M5 motorway at junction 26 southbound has brought all three

lanes at a standstill. There's also been flight disruption at Bristol

Airport as wind and rain lash our region. We'll have a full weather

forecast shortly, meanwhile, Prince Charles told people on the Somerset

Levels today that he sympathised with their situation. The Prince

spent several hours on the Levels taking a boat to the marooned

village of Muchelney and visiting nearby Stoke St Gregory. He also

announced he would give ?50,000 pounds from his countryside fund to

help local businesses. One thing the Prince has often spoken about is

climate change and experts say it is a challenge for places like the

Levels. But 20 years ago scientists were already saying wetter winters

and rising sea levels would increase flooding here. Paul Barltrop has

more. It's hard to tell the difference. The Somerset Levels 19

years ago and today. 1995 was the second year in a row they'd flooded

badly. A BBC documentary brought warnings about something most of us

hadn't heard of: climate change As climate changes, we as a region will

see changes, as quickly as everyone else. We are predicting a rise in

sea level and will not help of the Somerset levels, they will be more

at risk and will be a greater incidence of flooding. Then, as now,

it was the Environment Agency in the front line. But then, unlike now,

they were dredging the Rivers Parrett and Tone. It didn't stop the

flooding and they too warned that global warming would make things

worse. The people in this part of the world are particularly

vulnerable to flooding and anything could make that worse and climate

change will, it is therefore of great importance and the price that

we must pay to protect people in areas like this, the big urban

areas, is to have controlled flooding at some of the level some

of the time. Back then experts told us where floods on the levels might

one day reach. On the flanks of the hill, those houses are eight metres

above flood were level. We could see flooding up to that level. Two

decades on Simon Haslett says we haven't done enough. On a local and

regional scale we need to look at how communities are going to be able

to adapt against the impacts of climate change. Even if we are

successful in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we have already laid

in store at the impacts of climate change for decades to come. Today's

scientists speak with with heightened urgency. In Bristol this

evening to talk about climate change is the government's chief scientific

adviser. Sir Mark Walport's view: things are going to get worse: there

is no doubt that the climate is going to be more uncomfortable for

humans across the planet and we must do all we can to adapt to that and

prevent it happening. Should become one inhabitant an area like that? I

cannot talk about specific areas. We will have to adapt and low`lying

parts, we will have to think about how we will live in them. It has

always been risky living in a flood plain. This winter's calamity can't

be blamed on climate change, there's always been extreme weather. But

scientists agree global warming means more extremes, more floods,

more often. A Somerset con man who wrote wills for pensioners and then

cheated them out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been found

guilty of fraud. 67`year `old Keith Webber today also pleaded guilty to

downloading child pornography. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Steve

Brodie was in court. Do you have anything to say about your victims?

You defrauded them. Had you got anything to say? Facing a long

prison sentence, Webber left court today refusing to apologise for his

crimes. The jury heard how over two and a half years Webber abused his

position of trust.He pretended to be a man of principle. But instead of

safeguarding the financial future of his clients he stole three hundred

thousand pounds from their estates. His four elderly victims were taken

in by the promises made on his company's website and at his home in

Chard. He conned one man into buying him an eleven thousand pound Jaguar

and then into buying his own wife, Joan Webber, a three thousand pound

funeral plan and then charged him a ?150 agents fee. His wife's sister,

Margaret Wetton, says Webber persuded her older sister and her

husband, Esther and David Larn, to grant him power of attorney over

their financial affairs. But in their dying days he stole savings

and pensions. This is the saddest thing that my sister and

brother`in`law and his wife are not here to see justice done and that

hurts more than anything. I had to sit in that court and see old

ladies, a blind lady giving evidence. He has duped them all It

is disgusting. The jury found Webber guilty of six counts of fraud and

theft for sums totalling over ?280,000. Judge Graham Hume Jones

told Webber that the guilty verdicts delivered by the jury would attract

a considerable prison sentence. The judge granted him bail to allow him

to put his affairs in order. The will writer will be sentenced on

Friday for both the fraud and child pornography offences. Football now

and Bristol City lost at home to Coventry this evening. Coventry took

a two goal lead early in the first half and despite a header from Wes

Burns nine minutes from the end Bristol City couldn't turn things

around, it finished 2`1. There is more News Online, but now

we will get the weather. Thank you. Heavy rain is continuing to drift

its way up towards the north`east, but for now the strong winds are

causing considerable concern, particularly in the south. The Met

Office has issued an amber warning. Gusts of up to 75 mph are likely. By

tomorrow, the strongest winds will be through the Bristol Channel as

well as in the south. The soft soil beans that we `` that trees will

come down. Dangerous driving conditions through tonight and

tomorrow. Temperatures down to around five or six degrees. We will

have heavy and showery rain tomorrow, perhaps some breaks, but

the strength of the winds will grab attention. That focus on the Bristol

Channel, the winds will be Westerly, that will be pronounced.

Temperatures tonight and tomorrow around eight or nine degrees. Here

is the outlook. Apart from Friday, it looks a mess.

Good evening. Much like the local forecast, the national picture is a

stormy one in the next 24 hours The Met Office have issued an amber

weather warning for strong winds across southern counties. Wilts up

to Surrey in particular. There will be some transport disruption, no

doubt, and it could go beyond that, so if you're travelling across the

country there could be transport and power disruption and with more rain

in the forecast, further flooding where areas have flooded and some

very strong winds and high seas Southern coastal counties of England

and Wales have been troubled, but Dorset sees three severe flood

warnings, and more details on them on our own