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You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
You can see more on all of today's Good evening. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
Final testing has been carrhed on the River Parrett in Somersdt as | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
engineers prepare to begin dredging tomorrow. It's part of a 20 year | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
plan for the Levels to try to mitigate future flooding. Andy | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Howard reports. For many people living here, this | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
sight is long overdue. Seeing the dredgers in action, this | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
is what it is all about. Thhs is what we're wanting. This is just the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
beginning. This is just one small part of puzzle. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Tomorrow, the river bank will welcome more equipment to rdmove | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
tonnes of sediment, but it hs costly. Over ?1 million per omile of | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
river to be dredged. Yes, it will be expensive the first | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
time round, but after that ht becomes less expensive. That is what | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
provides the solution. We h`ve to do it. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
If, on the first day, the rhver could carry 30% more capacity, that | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
could mean that we would have 3 % less water across the Levels and | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
that would make an enormous difference. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Locals, though pleased, say it cannot be a one`off and needs to go | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
hand`in`hand with better land and water management in the futtre. | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
A poll for BBC Points West shows many people worry they won't have | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
enough money in retirement. More than a third think they'll dnd up | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
worse off than their parents. The government's pensions minister says | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
things will improve. Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
We're living longer than evdr, so our pensions are vital. But many | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
don't think they're adequatd. A poll carried out for the BBC here | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
in the West illustrates the challenge. A thousand peopld aged | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
between 30 and 65 were survdyed by Com Res. It found that 30% were | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
worried about their financi`l security in retirement. The figure | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
was higher for those in thehr 3 s and for those in lower paid jobs. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
It's a crucial issue for thd government. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
The Budget brought big changes in what people can do when thex retire. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
The tax rules around these pensions are a manifestation of a patronising | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
view that pensioners cannot be trusted with their own penshon pot. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
I reject that. People who h`ve worked hard and saved hard `ll their | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
lives and done the right thhng should be trusted with their own | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
finances. The pensions minister today told the | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Sunday Politics West he's confident things will improve. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
The basic state pension will be simplified, so people will have that | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
floor just above means testhng. So that's a minimum amount to live on. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
And then you choose if you want to spread the money thinly through your | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
retirement, or spend more e`rly on. It should be your choice, not the | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
government telling you. From Tuesday, millions of elployees | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
will be automatically enrolled into pension schemes, so future | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
generations should have less to fear from retirement. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
And throughout the week on Points West and on your BBC local radio | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
station we'll be revealing lore of the results from our When I Get | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Older poll ` including lots of interesting thoughts on how old is | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
old! What do you call old? Anythhng over | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
the age of 30 years at the loment. No, about 60, I would say is old, | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
when you off `` thinking about retirement. It depends how xou live | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
your life, I know people who are 65 who go out more than I do. | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
In rugby this afternoonm Brhstol secured a play`off place with a | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
convincing 82 points to 28 victory over Ealing at the Memorial Stadium. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
The result was Bristol's record League win and their tenth | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
successive victory. Swindon Wildcats ice hockey team has | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
made it through to English Premier League play`off finals for the first | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
time in three years. The Wildcats, here in training, faced Milton | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Keynes home and away in the quarter finals. On Saturday, they lost the | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
first leg 3`2, but hit back tonight to win 3`1, meaning a finals place | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
next month. It's been a really lovely Spring | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
weekend. Let's get the weather prospects now. | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Good evening. Many of us were lucky enough to see a beautiful wdekend, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
but tonight we are seeing hdavy thundery showers developing. Some | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
cloud is moving in at the moment then and that is ahead of the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
showers moving into the early hours. Lows around 11 degrees, so ` mild | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
picture. But that does mean that we have showers from the word go | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
tomorrow. They will be heavx and thundery and they continue to be a | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
possibility throughout the day. Having said that, I think wd should | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
start to see fewer showers `nd more in the way of sunshine. It will feel | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
quite warm in the sunshine. Temperatures getting comfortably | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
into the near or high teens. For the rest of the working week, there will | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
be further bright spells, btt also further heavy showers and longer | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
spells of rain. Our early updates are in BBC | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Breakfast from 6am tomorrow. They'll be on the Levels for the st`rt of | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
that dredging. From the teal here, a very good night to you. | :04:57. | :05:09. | |
The southerly winds of this weekend will maintain some warmth into next | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
week. The air pollution index in England and Wales is set to reach | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the high category. In the north east it stays chilly. In the south-west, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
it will get progressively more unsettled. Perhaps if you | :05:27. | :05:27. |