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Good evening. The West Country has decided ` now we are just awaiting | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
their verdicts. Polls closed half an hour ago in the local and Etropean | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
elections. The council results are being counted tonight, and soon we | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
will know who will run some of our biggest local authorities. Let's | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
take a look at the battlegrounds. 96 seats are being contested in five | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
councils ` that's Bristol, Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
The significance has been clear from the high number of visits from the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
party leaders, who have a lot at stake in this important test of | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
public opinion, ahead of thd General Election next year. Swindon is | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
particularly interesting, bdcause it's a key target seat for Labour | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
and the Conservatives. Paul Barltrop is at the count. | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
good evening Paul. Evening David. This is a very important pl`ce | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
indeed. Every council that has held elections today is important in the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
big contest, which is going to be next year, general election 201 . | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
This place Swindon, they have two Conservative MPs at the momdnt, if | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Ed Miliband is going to become Prime Minister he needs to take the seats. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
The you look at Stroud that a key marginal Labour would hope to take. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
In Cheltenham, at the moment there is a Liberal Democrat MP and | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
council, that is where the Tories in a two horse race would like to nudge | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
ahead. So yes, these elections are very much a precursor, a drx`run for | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
general election 2015. And Swindon in particular, because that is a | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
bellwether seat, isn't it? Ht is, you look back in the historx book, | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
30 years, the way this placd has gone as global economyions hs the | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
same way the Prime Minister has gone, so it is very important and | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
looking here tone, well, thdy have started counting the vote, they have | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
lots of postal votes. Some of the ballot Bosco Ntagandas coming in. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Have talked to some from thd parties it is so close, the Conserv`tives | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
have a majority of one, so they need to hold on to everything th`t I have | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
got here. The Conservatives having said that might make a gain. Labour | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
are hoping to push them out of overall control. Let us turn to | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
goester, our reporter for us there tonight. `` Gloucester. Our reporter | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
is Steve Knibbs. This is ond of Labour's big targets in the general | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
election next year. One of Labour's 100 seats they need to win to get Ed | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Miliband into Number Ten, all eyes will be on the city tonight. The | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
current make up of the council is no overall control, although it is run | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
by a small Conservative administration. So, obviously too | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
early to say what is going to happen here, one the seats that cotld be at | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
risk is that of the deputy leader of Gloucester City Council Jenny | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Dalamore. So locally that is Labour's number one target, if they | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
make some gains it could ch`nge the administration of the counchl, | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
possibly a Labour Liberal Ddmocrat coalition, but I think tonight, it | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
seems unlikely that any party will gain overall control of Glotcester | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
City Council. Counting has started in Bristol | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
where it will any moment now. Chris is there for us now. What c`n you | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
tell us Chris? Good evening from the city academy here in Easton, in | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
terms of this area 24 wards across Bristol were up for grab, that a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
third of the total council seats. As the results come in, the thhngs to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
look for, turn out, since the city opted for an elected mayor ht has | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
been on the declineful 27 pdople percent of people bothered to vote. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
The other thing to look forward to is the Labour Party. They h`ve been | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
out of power for % a decade. Can they swell the number of kotbs | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
mores? It a dry`run for the general election for them. Then the Liberal | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Democrats. They were in charge before the mayor came along. Can | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
they hold on? We are hearing their leader could lose his seat. UKIP | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
didn't make a breakthrough hn Bristol last time. Can they gain a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
councillor tonight? We expect the first results round about mhdnight. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Thank you. In other news. A Royal Marine from | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Taunton found guilty of murdering an injured Afghan fighter has lost an | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
appeal against his conviction. Alexander Blackman was jaildd for | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
ten years after shooting thd man in the chest at close range. Today the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Court Martial Appeal Court reduced his minimum term to eight ydars | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
saying the former marine's combat stress had not sufficiently been | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
taken into account. The death was filmed by a camera on a fellow | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
marine's helmet. A 13`year`old girl has gone missing in Froome. Phoebe | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Lock was last seen at her home .00 last night. She has links whth | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Bridgwater and family in thd Bath area, police say they are growing | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
concerned for her welfare. A bride`to`be from Bristol has found | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
a stem cell donor for her fhance after launching a successful social | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
media campaign which could save his life. Kate Roberton had just 60 days | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
to find a match for Mike Br`ndon, who found out he had cancer in | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
March. Sarah`Jane Bungay reports. 60 days to find a match. Mike | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Brandon and his fiancee Katd Robertson were told that after his | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
current course of chemother`py he desperately needed a transplant The | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Shake4Mike appeal was Kate's answer. All of our friends quite liked doing | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
shaky faces and take silly pictures of each other. Within the fhrst | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
48`hours of the campaign behng launched, we had 2,136 people | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
register to be a donor. Mikd's best chance of a match was anothdr man | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
under the age of 30. Here hhs friends were encouraging people to | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
sign up at a Premier League football game. Word of the campaign spread | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
fast. Soon people were shakhng their faces and sharing the message. Less | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
than a month since it began, a donor has now been found. In the Bristol | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
area alone the increase in potential donors has been dramatic. In a | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
normal week in May the Anthony Nolan Trust would expect around 165 people | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
to join the register of potdntial donors. This year that jumpdd to | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
4,120 ` an increase the charity directly relates to Kate's campaign. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
We've been really, really encouraged by the number of people who've come | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
forward from the Bristol arda, and also around the whole country. We've | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
had more than 7,000 applications for people to join the register within | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
the first week of this camp`ign and we're just so delighted now that | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Mike has his opportunity for a transplant. Shake4Mike has provided | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
many amusing pictures ` a tonic for the patient himself who has laughed | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
out loud at many of them. Btt more importantly, Kate's campaign has | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
found the person who could potentially save the life of her | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
future husband. Local electhon coverage here and on your local BBC | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Radio stations through the night but now the weather. The radar has been | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
showing further showers movhng northwards understanding we will | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
continue with more showers, temperatures will be somewhdre round | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
ten or 11 Celsius, tomorrow we can expect further showers from the word | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
go, particularly in western and northern district, they will tend to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
become more confine. Generally speaking the further east you are it | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
will brighten up. Still one were to showers in the afternoon but many | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
areas enjoying a bit of dry weather before more showers from thd east. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Temperatures tomorrow, about 14 to 16. There will be a number of | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
showers on Saturday, less through the bank holiday weekend, hdre | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
afternoon. Feeling cool. I leave you with | :07:39. | :07:50. | |
afternoon. Feeling cool. I leave you through the bank holiday weekend. | :07:51. | :07:50. | |
Hello again. The atmosphere through the bank holiday weekend. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
torrential downpours and an area of thunderstorms worked northwards | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
across many thunderstorms worked northwards | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
is going out of things now. More showers spiralling in around an area | :08:12. | :08:11. | |
of low pressure. Many places showers spiralling in around an area | :08:12. | :08:11. | |
see further rain at times showers spiralling in around an area | :08:12. | :08:11. | |
tonight. The rain showers spiralling in around an area | :08:12. | :08:24. | |
Ireland, fairly patchy hair. A chill in | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
air here, potential for snow across the tops of the Grampians. A cold | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
day here the tops of the Grampians. A cold | :08:31. | :08:30. | |
take a closer look at 8am tomorrow morning, into | :08:31. | :08:31. |