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Hello and welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Euro election misery for Lib Dems in the South West. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Sir Graham Watson, as the long`serving MEP, loses his seat. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Real cheese is back rolling down Cooper's ill in Gloucestershire | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
And restoring the 1920s Fry's chocolate factory steam enghne that | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
The Liberal Democrats are rdflecting on a disastrous night in thd | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
They were pushed into fifth place and lost their only Euro MP. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
The Conservatives also lost a seat, while Labour and | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
For 20 years, Liberal Democrat Graham Watson has | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
been going to Brussels on bdhalf of the South West. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
I believe that the loss of the seat for the Lib Dems | :01:05. | :01:25. | |
and Conservatives reflects the fact we have been in goverment | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
The coalition partners also saw their share of the vote fall but | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
The smiles were broadest on UKIP faces, who topped the poll | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Five years ago, we got for first places and this time we got at least | :01:48. | :02:04. | |
34. That gives us a marvellous platform to go forward. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Labour made a return to Brussels, taking back the seat they'd lost | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
And the Greens also had cause to raise a glass, picking up their | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
This afternoon, the party leader swept into Stroud | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Here, there was a real mood for change. We are offering real | :02:21. | :02:35. | |
political change, different ways of doing things and politics. The | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
south`west was a little bit more open and prepared to considdr that. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
As they sift through the finer details, all the major parthes will | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
be able to draw some positives. All except the Lib Dems, that is. | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
A 28 year old man has appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates Court | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
today, charged with abduction of a child from Somerset. | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
Davinder Singh, of Churchdown in Gloucestershire, was arrdsted | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
He's been remanded in custody and is due to appear at | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Thousands of people turned out in Gloucestershire today | :03:13. | :03:35. | |
for the annual cheese rolling competition down Cooper's Hhll. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
And this year, real cheese was back on the menu after it was banned last | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Our reporter, Laura Jones, went along to see how it all went. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
They came from all over the West and all over the world, all for this: | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
To watch a cheese get thrown down a very steep hill, | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
chased by a bunch of fearless, some would say reckless, runners. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Coming down, you are, like, in a 50`man washing machine. | :04:02. | :04:13. | |
You have a plan to go down and you just end up rolling. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
I think, if you look at the floor now, it's quite flat, but up there, | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the floor is that course th`t you're thinking, I can put my feet down. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
And you end up just sliding on your bum. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
On a day like today, where you've had some rain, | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
You can land and sort of like bounce and everything. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
It's when you've had a lot of sun on the ground and it's totally dry, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
But in conditions like that, it's great. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
But it's still a pretty crazy thing to do, isn't it? | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Oh, yeah, it's a crazy thing to do, but that's Gloucester! | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Last year, local cheesemakers were warned not to supply the race | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
for health and safety reasons so a plastic substitute was used instead. | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
But this year, thanks in part to some dutch Gouda, | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
So another year celebrating a great British tradition, | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
one that looks set to continue for generations to come. | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
A team from North Somerset are hophng to | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
set a world record this week by running seven marathons hn seven | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Jason Smith from Weston`supdr`Mare, along with five of his friends, | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
set off on the epic journey from the Grand Pier this morning. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
They headed up through Somerset and crossed Bristol mid aftdrnoon. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
The team have been training for nine months, | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
All the runs will be local and all the money raised go to | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
We hope to see everyone start and finish points and the support has | :05:48. | :06:02. | |
amazing. In terms of the we`ther, we couldn't have asked for better | :06:03. | :06:03. | |
weather. A steam engine used at Fry's | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
Somerdale chocolate factory from the 1920s is being restored after it | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
was found by a former emploxee. The Sentinal Shunter moved cocoa, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
sugar and chocolate around the factory but was retired in the 950s | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
and narrowly escaped the scrap yard. In its heyday, it employed 4,00 | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
workers or chocolate welders, One of those was a young | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
apprentice called Eric Miles. On his first day, he spotted | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
the site's very own steam engine. I got caught a few times riding but | :06:41. | :06:55. | |
I still manage to keep the job. That's where | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
their tracks first crossed. And Little Engine continued her job, | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
moving cocoa, sugar I kept on researching and fhve years | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
later, found in Essex. An emotional jorney home to Bristol | :07:09. | :07:38. | |
with a drive by Somerdale's Over the last four years, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
the shunter has been restordd by The boiler is the final part | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
and then she'll be ready I was too young then but too old | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
now. Many of us have escaped with a fair | :07:51. | :08:20. | |
amount of dry weather today but others seeing showers starthng to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
appear. This setting the tone as we head on into tonight. We will see | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
showers around. Some moderately heavy at times and generallx | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
speaking, the further to thd west and south`west, the better chance of | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
the brighter conditions. Through the course of this evening, showery rain | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
out towards the east of us. Some of that is starting to move its way | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
ever westwards. The net restlt is that by tomorrow morning, a fair | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
amount of cloud around. Somd of these outbreaks of rain continuing. | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
With time, they will fade away but still the odd moderately he`vy burst | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
here or there. The better of the brighter conditions towards the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
south`west. Even here, alwaxs a fair amount of cloud around. It will be a | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
moderately breezy day. Tempdratures should get up to the mid`tedns. One | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
or two spots getting higher than that. As we look into the rdst of | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
this week ahead, a similar pattern, so a case of take your pick. Always | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
the threat of further showers or outbreaks of rain. There will be | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
drier spells either side of that and it looks like an improving story. | :09:43. | :10:08. | |
Good evening. If I were to conduct a straw poll about the weather events | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
today, I suspect we would get a split decision. There were | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
significant differences around, we have sunshine and some warmth, but | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
also this cloud and rain coming up through the Channel into the north | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
of England. On top of that, some showers in the north-west, some of | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
them thundery from Northern Ireland and Scotland, so a real eclectic | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
mix. This will drift away over the next few hours, we will keep the | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
cloud overnight, and | :10:45. | :10:45. |