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more on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the late news | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. Owners of small farms here in the West say they're | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
struggling to expand because of soaring land prices. An acrd's worth | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
more than ?10,000 in some areas ` driven up by demand from developers | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
and investors. And young farmers at this weekend's Royal Bath and West | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Show say they're being priced out of agriculture, as Scott Ellis reports. | :00:27. | :00:38. | |
There are no shortage of farmers wanting to get into farming, but the | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
land they want to work is soaring in price. An acre has reached lore than | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
?12,000 here. We are land locked because we have neighbouring farmers | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
who are bigger then asked buying land next to us. Also, land has been | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
sold to travellers and they have put planning permission in for housing. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Prices are rising by 10% a year, Prices are rising by 10% a xear | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
driven up by property investors and farmers who can afford to expand. If | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
you are a young former who hs about you are a young former who hs about | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
to inherit land, it is not a to inherit land, it is not a | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
problem, but if you are not, it is. Tenancies are few and far bdtween. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Renting land is difficult for a young person. Somerset Young farmers | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
want more share farming. That means they work someone else's land and | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
split the profits. Landowners are quite keen on it. Green`macro the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
former may be of an age where he doesn't want to do the 18 hours a | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
day. That young farmer will be keen. The government wants farming | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
to be an inspirational choice for young people and it welcomes a cap | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
reform during their first fhve years reform during their first fhve years | :02:15. | :02:15. | |
in business. A man's been arrested | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
after hundreds of homes werd yesterday. Bomb disposal experts | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
were called to Cassell Road in Bomb disposal experts were called to | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Cassell Road 42`year`old man was arrested in | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Emersons Green on suspicion of of causing a bomb hoax | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
and is now being questioned. It's been a successful weekend for | :02:29. | :02:40. | |
Britain's rowers at the European Championships in Belgrade, with two | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
gold medals for competitors from the West. Olympic Champion Helen Glover | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
added the European title to her tally in the women's pairs. And in | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
the prestige men's four, Gloucestershire's Alex Gregory also | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
took gold ` he now holds current And in the prestige men's four, | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Gloucestershire's Alex Gregory also Pete Reed in the Men's Eight | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
came away with a bronze. And in the prestige men's four, | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Gloucestershire's Alex Gregory also Thousands of people around the West | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
have been sitting down together to eat with their neighbours as part of | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
the sixth annual Big Lunch dvent. It's all about creating stronger | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
links in our own communities. This lot in Wiltshire's North Bradley | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
enjoyed a picnic and barbeqte togetherand they tied the event in | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
with their own World War Ond comemmorations ` planting poppy | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
seeds and making flowers of The BBC has begun its own coverage | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
looking at World War One at Home in partnership with the Imperi`l War | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Museums. Jacob Rees`Mogg, the MP for Jacob Rees`Mogg, the MP for | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
North East Somerset, now lives in a house that was turned hnto | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
a hospital during the conflict. The BBC has begun its own coverage | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
looking at World War One at Home in partnership with the Imperial War | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Museums. Jacob Rees`Mogg, the MP for Jacob Rees`Mogg, the MP for | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
North East Somerset, now lives in a house that was turned into | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
a hospital during the conflhct. They had a room full of pathents. | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
There is some graffiti here left by the soldiers who would have been | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
patients on the balcony. We have looked at all these lovely things, | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
but I have one more thing to show you. This is from the Red Cross | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
archives. We have actually found a service record for your gre`t aunt | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
Molly. Here it is. A nurse promoted to something nature in, but I can't | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
read that. Oh, quartermaster. Thank you for finding that. That is | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
wonderful. You can keep that as a souvenir. That is great. I will put | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
it on display. Finally, Bristol's Park Street was | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
turned into a pop`up park today Another Special Sunday for the city | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
` no cars allowed and familhes were able to enjoy games, music, arts and | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
crafts and a crawl on the artificial grass. It was a chance to celebrate | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the city and give traders an an opportunity to showcase what | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
the area has to offer. Hello. Most of us have enjoyed at | :05:08. | :06:12. | |
least one day of lovely weather this weekend. That weather will be harder | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
to come by this week. It has been up and down. Yes, rain or showers at | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
times. Drier, sunny weather, turning cooler. Signs are that by the end of | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
the week temperatures will recover. We have seen rain today in Glasgow, | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Edinburgh, western fringes of the UK too. The cloud will spread east | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
overnight, with further outbreaks of rain into the west. Temperatures are | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
in double figures as Monday begins. We get the sunshine - a lot of cloud | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
around. Some patchy rain. | :06:46. | :06:46. |