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Wollaston, the MP who first brought to the attention of parliamentary | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Wollaston, the MP who first brought Good evening. Communities ddvastated | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
by flooding in Somerset werd told today how millions of pounds will be | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
spent to reduce the risk of it happening again. Some of thd high | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
priority schemes could be completed before the end of the year. Our | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers has more. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
After months of misery Spring sunshine is rather welcome hn | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
Somerset. It is fitting that we are here this morning... | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
But not as welcome as today's announcement on flood prevention | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
schemes. ?20 million promisdd. In the shattered battered commtnity of | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
Moorland they just hope it works. There was three feet of watdr in the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
house for almost a month. They said it. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
That this time. That cross our fingers and hope so. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
The worst flooding ever flooding ` no`one wants to see a repeat of | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
this. So the county council is spending ?4 million here, ilproving | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
an artificial drainage channel called the Sowey built in the early | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
'70s, but overwhelmed by thhs year's floods. One of the problems this | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
year is that the road behind me actually acted as a damn, trapping | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
water on the Moorland over on the other side, so what they pl`n to do | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
is raise the level of the road, increase the size of the Culbert so | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
that the water flows a lot puicker. They say that. Flooding in the | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
village of Moorland. There's good news too for the village of | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Muchelney which became a national icon of the Somerset floods ` | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
marooned for months, every road underwater. Now a million pounds is | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
to be spent raising the levdl of one of those roads. So hopefullx | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
villagers won't be completely cut off again. Happy today? | :02:03. | :02:15. | |
Content. Why not happy? Because we don't know if it is going | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
to work. I will be happy if it works. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
I don't control the elements, but we do control a significant amount of | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
money to help reduce flooding as much as we can. We have takdn a big | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
step. And a relatively quick step. The council says the two mahn | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
schemes will be completed bx the end of the year, which is about the time | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
it will take to dry out the houses in Moorland and people back into | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
their homes. Tonight on the Somerset Levels there is some critichsm that | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
of the ?20 million announced today, 12 million is actually going on road | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
repairs and improvements. How, say the critics, is that flood | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
prevention? The council say that much of a government grant they have | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
been given is ring fenced and it has to be spent on roads. | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
A man who drowned after falling into the River Avon in Bath has been | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
named as Donovan Weale. The 42`year`old was pulled from the | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
water on Friday night close to his home on Norfolk Crescent. L`st year | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
fencing was installed along part of the river to improve safety after | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
several deaths. Avon and Somerset Police is to be | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the first force in the country to have a drug referral servicd for | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
addicts brought into police stations. The idea is to reduce the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
cycle of re`offending. But will it work? Our Home Affairs | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Correspondent, Steve Brodie reports. Garry Brandrick was a heroin addict | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
for 25 years. He's now drug free and works to help others fight their | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
addiction problems. He says being an addict is a terrible ordeal. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
You lose all your friends, relatives. I lost my first wife | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
through suicide. It is a colplete mess, and it is driven by a chaotic | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
lifestyle where all you want and all you think about is where yotr next | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
hit is coming from. At the loment, when drug users are arrested they | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
are brought to five custody suites where separate organisations carry | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
out tests. From next month just one not`for`profit charity, Swanswell, | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
will offer immediate help if a suspect is tested positive for a | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Class A drug. The police sax new service will also save monex and | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
reduce crime. If we can engage them about why they | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
are there and get them to accept that maybe they are there bdcause of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
that substance misuse probldm and that we can do something about that | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
together with them, then we're going to prevent crime. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Swanswell staff will be working at this new custody centre at Filton ` | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
one of three such centres now being built in the region. Crime | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Commissioner Sue Mountstevens is funding the new service. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
A typical heroin user spends over ?1400 per month. Most peopld haven't | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
got access to that sort of loney, so they are the ones who will be | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
committing crime. If we can break that cycle, we can reduce crime But | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Garry Brandrick isn't sure there's an easy solution. | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
Relapse rates are still verx high. Drug`related crime in prison is | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
still very high. That has not changed for many years, and I don't | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
see how this system will ch`nge any of that. What everyone agreds is | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
that breaking the addiction habit the only way to win the battle | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
against drug`related crime. The South West's six MEPs are in | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Strasbourg for the final medting of the European Parliament before | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
elections. At the end of Max 40 million people across Europd will be | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
entitled to vote for who thdy want to represent them. Much of the | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
debate for our MEPs is expected to focus on whether Britain should | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
leave the EU. Now, just before we go to the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
weather a beach warden at Brean in Somerset made a rescue with a | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
difference at the weekend. @ couple parked and left their car btt forgot | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
the tide was coming in. Warden Kevin Williams rescued the Vauxhall Tigra | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
and returned it to the owners before the sea`water caused any dalage | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
Well that's about it from us. There's more news on the BBC | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Website. We'll be back with you tomorrow. But for now I'll leave you | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
with Ian who has the latest weather for us. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
tomorrow. But for now I'll leave you Tomorrow will bring similar | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
conditions to today. Once again it will be a chilly start button will | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
turn into a dry, sunny and pretty warm day. Tonight, by contr`st, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
under clear skies it will ttrn chilly. Temperatures could be down | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
to two or three Celsius. Thd likelihood of ground frost hn some | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
spots and missed as well. It should be a glorious start tomorrow | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
morning. Clear blue sky, a little cloud in the afternoon. No threat of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
showers. One difference to today is the wind direction. It is coming in | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
from the south south`east. That means that the fresher condhtions | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
will be towards the south coast Towards North Devon will have warmer | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
temperatures benefiting frol their coming off the top of the l`nd. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Temperatures 15 or 16 Celsits Pleasant and warm. Similar for | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Wednesday. More cloud on Thtrsday and Friday but still dry. | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
will be fresher than today. 12 degrees along the vestry and 16 in | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
London. More sunshine for Wednesday and clouding over towards the end of | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the week. Your regional forecast will have offered you another fine | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
day tomorrow. That is the story nationwide. High | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
pressure is plonked on top of us. This evening it has been turning | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
quite chilly quite quickly and it will be cold for the middle of April | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
overnight. In larger towns and cities it will be down to single | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
figures and rural areas by Dawn will be close to and below | :08:07. | :08:08. |