28/03/2014 BBC Points West


28/03/2014

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Good evening. Diggers have `rrived That's all from us.

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Good evening. Diggers have `rrived on the Somerset Levels for dredging

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of the rivers to begin, following a campaign by local people, angry with

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the recent flooding. It comds as farmers are finally able to move

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their animals back home. Back where they belong... At last!

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After months of battling thd floodwaters and losing, tod`y James

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Winslade is a little happier. It is nice to see the sheds with some

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cattle in them now. It's bedn empty, void of any noise and, you know you

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look in and they are all happy. This was the day last month when

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James had literally to save his cows from drowning. The floods wdre

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closing in, the waters were rising quicker than anyone had predicted.

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550 cattle were sent to farls across Somerset.

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Today, James is trying to gdt his own farm back in business, but it

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isn't easy. His stored feed is rotten. Many of his barns nded

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repairing. The mess left by the force of the flooding will take many

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months to clear up. As you come down into the kitchen... As for the

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farmhouse, well inside therd is very little left. When do you thhnk

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you'll be back in here? A ydar, I expect. So, like many on thd Levels,

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he is pleased that the promhsed dredging is becoming a realhty. Even

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before today's machinery moved into place, the Environment Agency were

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carrying out tests to make sure whatever they did had science behind

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it. This device is carrying out sonar readings of the river bed

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getting a picture of what is down there. When you see weather like

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this and you know dredging hs starting on Monday, do you pray it

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works? Yeah. Do you think it will? I think it will. It's not just the

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dredging, you need to do thd other things as well. Most of which is

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contained in the recently ptblished 20`year Flood Plan. Dredge Dredging

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will mark a new chapter in the history of Levels. How will it all

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end? I suspect next winter lay yield a clue.

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A Coroner says the death of a toddler who fell from a third`floor

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window at a block of flats hn Bristol was a tragic accident.

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22`month`old Muna Abdirazak suffered a severe head injury and later died

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in hospital. The Coroner sahd it is likely she climbed on to a chair and

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table and then fell from thd kitchen window while her parents were

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sleeping. I have always been proud to be a bris tonian girl, btt

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ashamed, because I love all of the people here and we should bd allowed

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to do everything that everyone else does. Cannot compete in the Bristol

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half`marathon. Joanne Blinm`n says it is discrimination. The council,

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which organises the event, says it cannot afford to keep race support

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in place for what might be days The charity Joanne wants to run for says

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that is not good enough. Quite ashamed really. I havd always

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been proud to be a Bristoni`n girl. Quite ashamed, because I love all

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the people here and we should be allowed to do everything th`t

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everyone else does. The council said Joanne can start the race whth

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others if she is responsibld for her own well being. A 25`year`old man

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has handed himself into polhce after a bookmaker was robbed at gtn point

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in Swindon. It happened at ` shop in Regent's Circus. Police are

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searching for a weapon and investigations are continuing.

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A West Country schoolgirl who has campaigned against female gdnital

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mutilation has been praised for her courage and bravery.

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Fahma Mohamed is one of the under 19s named as a young hero.

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Fiona Lamdin caught up with her earlier on. This 17`year`old from

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Bartin Hill describes herself as painfully shy. In the last lonth

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Fahma Mohamed has gathered near nearly 250,000 signatures, trging

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the Government to help stop female genital mutilation. I wrote to Ban

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Ki`Moon, to Michael Gove gof. I am in shock. She had convinced the

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Education Secretary of her plan I was incredibly impressed by the

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passion, but also the intelligence and empathy that she brings to this

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issue. I was delighted to s`y that her idea that we should contact

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every school in the country, in order to make sure children are

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protected is one we are 100$ behind. Days later meeting the UN

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Secretary`General, who described her as "deeply inspiring." Todax though,

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instead of sitting her A level mock exam, she was addressing 200 head

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teachers from Bristol. If you imagine the husband of Sarah Vine

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being talked to by girls in head scarves about va gin thats, he reel

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`` vaginas, he really didn't stand a chance! To achieve what she's done

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at her age it is mind`blowing. She does it so well and with modesty and

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humility, if you like. I thhnk she's extraordinary. In tonight's rugby,

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Bath lost at the Rec by 11`02. Ross Batty scored a late try for Bath.

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George Ford failed to convert it, meaning it was not enough to turn

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thing around. Here is Ian whth the weather.

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It is looking like a pleasant weekend. There'll be hazy stnshine.

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The next chance of any rain will be at the very tail`end of Sunday

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evening. It will be a pleas`ntly warm weekend right the way through.

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Temperature not be chilly. Still some showers around. By tomorrow

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morning just the last of sole outbreaks of rain. Once that is

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under way, then you can see the rest of the day, like I said is going to

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be under a good amount of stnny weather around. Just that hhgh cloud

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around. A breezy day, yes. Nonetheless, one that will feel warm

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compared to conditions earlher this week. We should get up to 14`16

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Celsius. One or two stops up to 17 or 18 Celsius. A similar story for

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Sunday as well. Some showers around on Monday. Here is

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forward on Saturday night. Now here is Nick Miller with the national

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forecast. Hello. The clocks go forward this

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weekend, marking the beginning of British summertime,

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