16/02/2014 BBC Points West

Good evening, the latest now from Points West. The high capacity Dutch

pumps on the flooded Somerset Levels have had to be turned off because of

damage to the river bank. The pumps had already moved a million tonnes

of water. Engineers are now looking at ways of stabilising the bank

Meanwhile for some families it's been a heartbreaking day, watching

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 sex policeman on Sunday. We

worked all day putting sandbags up. And you have so many sandbags but it

still came in? About 2000. Winded it coming? 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.

The level for that side of the flood so we thought we would build a boat

and beat them there for lunch. As we start week six, locals are clearly

adapting. Meanwhile, the threat of flooding

has receded to stop the danger of water rising above flood defences

has gone for the time being at the island. 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 foot of

water. But earlier some cyclists were choosing to ignore that! The

council will decide tomorrow if the water can be pumped away from the

path. 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, it's 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. Zoe Gough, BBC

Points West, Cheltenham. Football now and Bristol City

manager Steve Cotterill wants his team to focus on the positives after

being held to a draw at home yesterday. Despite taking the lead

twice, first through Sam Baldock and then twelve minutes before time by

Derrick Williams, City failed to hold on for the win. But the manager

isn't thinking of it as two points dropped. I think a little bit

earlier on, when I first arrived, I think that would have been a keen

that we would have got beaten. I think that we would have perhaps it

lost a runner or lost concentration and I think we would have been

beaten. 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. Final score Leicester

11, Gloucester eight. While in the Championship, Bristol

enjoyed a narrow victory over Nottingham by 25`24. Nicky

Robinson's last`gasp penalty sealed a fifth successive league victory

for the visitors. The latest weather prospects now,

with Hollie Green. with

Good evening. We saw some beautiful blue skies today but we have someone

on way. It is dry at first with a dip in temperatures but then some

showers therein and more outbreaks of friends of the night. We have a

Met Office yellow warning in force for parts of western Somerset and

Dorset. Rain falling on saturated services. Lows of around 45 degrees

but tending to pick up as the main page then. Outbreaks of grain to

start the day tomorrow and they continue on and off through the day.

Breezy and blustery at times. Thereafter, Tuesday and Wednesday

bring bright spells and showers but Wednesday night and Thursday bring

wet and windy conditions. And do remember, you can watch

Points West bulletins and today s edition of the Politics Show in the

West they are our website. Until then, have a very good

evening. Whilst we are talking about wet and

windy weather in the week ahead we will lose the extremes of last week.

The first glow of the week will approach overnight. Clear skies will

cause temperatures to fall awake, and we are looking at a frost in

eastern England and for northern Scotland with Pitt -- patches of

mist and fog. Temperatures will rise through the night as the cloud comes

in and the wind begins to lift and the rain arrives. The far north of

Scotland will get off to a frosty start. Further south, outbreaks of

rain for the rush hour. Rain from Northern Ireland and across northern

England. In the East, contending with more stubborn patches of fog.

Grey skies of East Anglia and the far south-east of England but

essentially