16/02/2014 BBC Points West

Good evening. Engineers are assessing the best way to stabilise

the river bank at Dunball in Somerset, after having to turn off

the high capacity Dutch pumps. The pumps had already moved a million

tonnes of water, the eventual aim being to clear the levels and moors.

Meanwhile, more families have seen their homes succumb to the water.

Fiona Lamdin reports. Homeless and now churchless. With

Moorland well under the water, today they came to worship on higher

ground. Our church has gone at the moment. We can't use it. Praying for

those like Leslie, where the waters won this war. We were fighting hard

to try and keep it out. We were working with family and friends We

even had six policeman here on Sunday. We worked all day putting

sandbags up. And you have so many sandbags but it still came in? About

2000. When did it come in? Wednesday. We got up in the morning

and it was all here. It's just devastating. You don't see how it's

ever going to go. In fact, it just keeps on rising. This is their

neighbour's front door a week ago. Today, the water's above the

knocker. The grand plan to get the water off the levels lies here at

Dunball but these Dutch pumps are idle. They've been turned off, just

too strong for the river banks, which are starting to give way.

We're just making a small collection for the people that are flooded

Back in East Lying, there's no shortage of a new type of visitor.

The flood tourists. And so why not charge them? Hundreds made every

hour. Clare and Mark built this boat in

four hours this morning. It's my friend's birthday. They live at that

side of the flood so we thought we would build a boat and meet them

there for lunch. As we start week seven, locals are clearly adapting.

Meanwhile, the threat of flooding at Alney Island in Gloucester has

receded for the time being. But part of the cycle path which links Bath

and Bristol has been closed after it became submerged. A 200m stretch of

the path near Newbridge is under about two feet of water. But earlier

some cyclists were choosing to ignore the closure.

A statue which was once deemed too shocking to go on public view is now

on display in Cheltenham. The Kiss by Rodin is worth ?10 million.

Here's Zoe Gough. Iconic, popular and in its time

highly controversial. The Kiss is once again attracting crowds in

Cheltenham, 78 years after it first went on display here. But a few

years before that, Auguste Rodin's famous marble pose was removed from

view. When this culture first went on public display in 1914, its

intimate nature caused quite a stir. Almost 20 years later, when it first

came here to Cheltenham, public opinion was far more favourable And

it seems that's still true today. You embrace it as well, as kind of

an expression of love and you enjoy it for that reason. It would be

wonderful if it could remain permanently here but one has to

appreciate that works of art get moved round. We have to share them.

In the '30s, The Kiss had a three year stay in Cheltenham. While no

longer controversial, its popularity means this time it'll only be around

for a few months. Rugby. And in the Premiership, a

penalty from Cook and this try from Sharples wasn't enough to prevent

defeat for Gloucester at the hands of Leicester this afternoon.

defeat for Gloucester at the hands of Final score Leicester 11,

Gloucester eight. While in the Championship, Bristol

enjoyed a narrow victory over Nottingham by 25 points to 24.

Now the weather, with Holly Greene. Good evening. Today felt a little

bit like a brief taste of spring. But it's not lasting. Already got

rain working its way from the West. Have got warning about for rain for

western parts of Somerset into Dorset. Temperatures tending to rise

as the rain pushes on. Feeling quite blustery into tomorrow also.

Outbreaks of rain continuing through tomorrow then mostly light but we

will see some heavy bursts at times. Thereafter, Tuesday and Wednesday

both bring bright spells and showers but Wednesday night and Thursday

will be wet and windy once more That's it from me. We'll be back

tomorrow morning. Good night. Good evening. In the midst of any

normal winter weather for the week ahead would be fairly unremarkable.

Some rain in places, some strong winds at times, but of course we are

in the midst of no normal winter. It is worth emphasising that with -

the weather this week will be less angry and volatile overall, a fair

bit calmer. Calmer but by no means dry. Outbreaks of rain will spread

across much of the UK through the night. There will be some snow mixed

in across the hills of central Scotland. Temperatures slowly

starting to rise