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6pm. Stay with us on BBC One. It's time for | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Good afternoon. Hundreds of people across the west are without power | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
this lunchtime, after high winds bought down cables last night. Fire | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
and rescue services have been out clearing roads of fallen trees but | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
thankfully, the flood defences held in an area of Gloucester which is | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
still the subject of a severe flood warning. Sally Challoner has the | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
latest. This is as far as we have been | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
advised to go. The tree that has come down is just up there but a | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
power line is still connected and live. The poll on the tree are not | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
quite down so it is making for a very dangerous situation. This is | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
one of the main routes through Gloucestershire but it is certainly | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
not the only tree that is down. Police and highways engineers have | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
been out all night making roads and power lines safe. Of course, it does | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
mean that a lot of people are without power, still. At the last | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
count, it was about 5000 people in the south`west. On a brighter note, | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
the River Severn didn't burst its banks so a lot of people fearing the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
worst seem to have escape but for now at least. | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Turning to Somerset now and the Environment Agency says it's | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
installing the final two Dutch Pumps at Dunball this weekend. Once | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
they've been running for two days, other pumps at Beerwall can also be | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
turned on. No more families are reported to have left their homes | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
overnight on the levels or moors. Somerset Community Foundation's | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
flood Relief Fund has now received around ?330,000 in donations. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
The BBC travel website has a comprehensive list of ongoing road | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
closures right across the west and your BBC local radio station will | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
keep you up to date as well. National Grid are asking for | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
comments on updated plans for a new line of electricity pylons through | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Somerset. They'd take power from the new Hinkley C station to Avonmouth. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Some groups objected to the size of the pylons. National Grid is now | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
proposing to use smaller ones close to the village of Mark. Protestors | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
say they want the power lines put underground. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Building work has started on a new training college at Lyneham in | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Wiltshire. The former military air base closed in December 2012. It | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
will now be turned into a training centre for maintaining machinery and | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
military equipment. It's due for completion by the end of next year. | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
Nearly 24 hours after winning skeleton gold in Sochi, the Olympic | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
medals will be given out this afternoon. Congratulations have been | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
pouring in for the 25`year`old winner including Tweets from the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Prime Minister. You can watch the ceremony on the BBC at 4:30pm. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
The weather has already put paid to a couple of the football matches | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
involving our local | :02:51. | 9:55:54 |