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The last time the Prince of Wales came to Muchelney, he had to get | :01:02. | :01:35. | |
here by boat. You see that field over there? That was two metres deep | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
in water when we were last here. It is very different today. This is a | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
wedding venue that I am talking to you from now and it was a venue | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
badly affected by the flooding. It is now bone dry, as indeed the whole | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
of Muchelney. The village is open for business. Prince Charles came | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
here this afternoon and visited this wedding venue. He met the people who | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
ran it and we will be talking to them in a second. He met a lot of | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
other people as well making good his promise that he would come back to | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
see how they were coping, to see how the village had recovered and to see | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
what was being done to make sure that flooding didn't happen again. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
He wasn't just Muchelney that the Prince of Wales came to. It has been | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
a busy day. Earlier today he was in Glastonbury helping to fly the flag | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
for Somerset tourism. The royal visit coincided with market day in | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Glastonbury. A chance for an informal walkabout and maybe pick up | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
a bargain. Organic veg much cheaper than yours. She didn't make the | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
sale. There was largely a warm welcome for the future King. He is, | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
says this man, one of us. We like him as a person and we like what he | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
stands for. He is an alternative royal family member. Among those | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
introduced was the founder of Glastonbury Festival. There has been | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
much talk of Prince at Glastonbury but not this one. Did you invite | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
this to the festival `` did you invite him to the festival? He has | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
already been. Camilla is coming next year. Let us hope she remembers her | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
wellies. There was a business edged this visit to help boost tourism | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
which was why he was shown around Glastonbury Abbey, a hidden jewel in | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the heart of Somerset. They tried to bring history to life here `` they | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
try to bring history to life here. It attracts thousands of visitors a | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
year but it has suffered due to the floods. We lost around 25% in the | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
first quarter of 2014 due to the floods. This is a royal dog? Am most | :04:11. | :04:22. | |
definitely. Royalists came today in all shapes and breeds. Future King. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
We have to come and see him. Then it was onto a railway station where the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Prince met a royal mother who had good reason to remember her train | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
journey during the floods. My waters had broken. This little guy was | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
eager to appear but not so eager that he appeared on the train. He | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
hung on until we made it back to Bristol. Prince Charles left on the | :04:49. | :05:00. | |
train to Paddington and yes, it was bang on time. That wedding venue | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
that was badly affected is back in business. Angela, it was a torrid | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
time. What did it mean to you today to have him here? It was a boost to | :05:14. | :05:25. | |
everybody and he kept his promise. It was lovely to have him and he is | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
a charming man. Do you feel he was pushing for things to be done? He is | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
concerned about everything that was happening here. Paul, you help run | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
the business. It was a terrible time for you. You lost weddings. It was | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
hard times but we are back on the road to recovery and we are hoping | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
that messages for people to come back to some set and come and see | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
how nice the places. We wish you well. That was the message from the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Prince of Wales today, not just for this venue but for the whole of | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Somerset. It is dry now. Somerset is back in business and open for you. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
The inquest into the death of a teenager from Wiltshire who was | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
killed by a polar bear on a school trip to the Arctic Circle has been | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Michael Reid said he'd tried to shoot the bear | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
as it attacked Horatio Chapple but the rifle wouldn't fire. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Our correspondent Sarah Ransome has been listening to the evidence. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
The expedition leader told the coroner 's Court this morning what | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
happened on that morning of the 5th of August three years ago when the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
polar Bear rampaged through the camp that they had set up on this remote | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
glacier near the Arctic Circle. He said he woke early to a bear attack | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
in the tent nearby. He picked up the rifle and rushed out of the tent and | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
when he got outside he saw a polar bear mauling one of the group who | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
was still in his sleeping bag. He said he tried repeatedly to shoot | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the rife `` the animal but the rifle didn't work. The bear turned on him | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
and it tried to gouge his eyes out. Eventually the pair turned away and | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
he managed to shoot it. The court heard from the other leader who was | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
also attacked by the bear. He said he was thrown to the ground by the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
bear and he came face to face with it as its paws on his shoulder and | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
its claws were swiping across his face. Both of them also talked about | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
the safety precautions around the camp and Michael admitted he knew | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
the camp had been supplied with a faulty tripwire system but said he | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
was very happy with the modifications the group had made | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
using a paperclip and said if he wasn't he wouldn't have gone to bed | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
the night before and after he checked it. The inquest is due to | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
last until the end of the week. A Somerset MP has been talking | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
about how she was sexually abused Tessa Munt, who represents Wells, | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
says she's gone public to try to help other victims, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
after the government announced it She is rarely without a smile | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
but this was different as Tessa Munt talked on camera for the first | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
time about what she had suffered. This was something to happen to me | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
in my teenage years over a period of years but it is something I | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
didn't speak about until I was in my early 30s when I was expecting | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
my first child. I understand, absolutely, how | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
difficult it is to live with that It is immense pressure and you can't | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
live with yourself because you feel Elected in 2010, she has campaigned | :08:39. | :08:51. | |
on child protection issues and once worked with ChildLine and hopes her | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
openness will help others. It is something in my history and I | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
hope it makes me a better MP, I hope it makes me more able to | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
understand how people feel I understand what it is | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
like to feel like a victim. I don't feel like one now and that | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
is the thing that I can offer, that there is hope to come out of that | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
state and become yourself again. Yesterday, MPs were told there will | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
be two reviews investigating child abuse and whether | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the authorities covered it up. I was a child | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
and it took me 20 years to actually speak out about what has happened | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
but this is not about me, it is about the victims of what | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
happened over the loss of documents, the shredding of evidence, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
the destruction of evidence. That is important that | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
the independent panel focuses If not, testament won't hesitate | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
to once again speak out. You're watching Points West, | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
nice to have you with us. And there's plenty still | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
to share with you.We meet the athlete from Bath hoping | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
to fire her way to European glory. And maybe it's always been rather | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
British to talk about the weather ` the diary of | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
a west country vicar who had a thing People living or working in and | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
around Weston Super Mare are in for a bit more disruption on the roads | :10:27. | :10:54. | |
at the busy junction with the M5. Work to improve and re`surface the | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
area went on for most of last year. But now, it seems, there's | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
a problem with the new surface and It was expensive and it caused a | :11:01. | :11:16. | |
headache. The ?15 million Western package involved a whole load of | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
improvements to make it easier for people to get in and out of the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
town. Now everyone agrees the destruction and the cost was worth | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
it. Those long jams here are a thing of the past. Now bits of it need to | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
be redone. It is not something you would noticed just driving around | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the roundabout and the slip roads but there was a problem with the | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
road surface here. The council have known about the problem since the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
work was finished back in February but they have been waiting for the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
better weather in the summer to have it put right. The problem seems to | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
be that the surface was laid in June the appalling wet and cold weather | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
of last winter but it will now be put right with the contractors, not | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
the council footing the bill. It is not embarrassment at all. We will be | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
criticised if we didn't expect `` inspect the roadworks and finish the | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
job properly. We have won a major award from the Institute of civil | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
engineers last Friday for our work on the Western package. It has been | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
a huge success. Resurfacing work will be carried out over night this | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
week to avoid too much destruction to motorists and by the weekend it | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
is hoped it would be over and done with and the road problems can | :12:38. | :12:38. | |
finally be laid to rest. Warnings about the use | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
of a drug which is prescribed for back pain are being changed | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
following a 20 year campaign Ron Sheppard developed chronic | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
problems after being given And he's finally convinced | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
the world's biggest pharmaceutical company, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Pfizer to change their guidance. Here's our | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Health Correspondent Matthew Hill. Even feeding the birds is | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
a challenge for Ron Shepherd who suffers | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
from severe pain throughout his body, a condition which he claims | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
was caused by a series of epidural injections for back pain that he was | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
given almost 30 years ago. I was screaming out in pain and the | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
doctor told me to stop being a baby. The drug should be used | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
for joint pain but it is not Mr Shepherd says over 2 million | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
people have his condition and many of them develop the symptoms after | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
being given the spinal injection. It is something he says he warned | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
the government about 20 years ago. It was just ignored, | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
which is a shame because more people have had this because of that | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
and it has cost the country It is not licensed | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
and that is a tragedy for people who are going into | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
hospital to have these injections Mr Shepherd recently discovered that | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
guidance has changed in New Zealand to say that it must not be used | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
at all of epidurals. He then told the Royal College | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
of Anaesthetics about this and they recently changed their | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
guidance in line with New Zealand. In a statement, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Pfizer have confirmed they have submitted label changes to | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
the regulatory authorities. This drug has never been licensed | :14:28. | :14:43. | |
for epidural use but doctors do have the clinical freedom to use it | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
if they think it will help. Mr Shepherd used to manage Norman | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Wisdom, a career which came to an He now hopes, | :14:51. | :15:00. | |
with the change in labelling, others Great Britain's modern pentathlon | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
team has made its way from Bath to Hungary for this week's | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
European championships. While the limelight might be on the | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
former world champion Mhairi Spence, or the Olympic silver medallist | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Samantha Murray, there's one name we should all be looking out for, | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
as Jenna Hawkey's been finding out. Being good | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
at one sport is hard enough but Kate French represents Great Britain | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
in a sport that comprises five French is the rising star of modern | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
pentathlon, something she has been I started shooting | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
when I was five years old Since then, the 23`year`old who | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
trains at the University of Bath has become the highest | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
ranked pentathlete in the UK. You won't hear her shouting | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
about it. She is known among her teammates | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
as the shy and quiet one. A lot of people say there is | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
good and bad things from it. Because I am chilled, I can stay | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
relaxed, especially for the shoot. Modern pentathlon involves running, | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
swimming, shooting, fencing and showjumping | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
and having Olympic medallist Samantha Murray in the squad makes | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
training even more intense. It gets tough sometimes because you | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
are fighting for the same spot but it keeps everyone on the edge | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
and it keeps the standard higher. She has strength in her mindset | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
and she works hard. I think she will be one of | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
the athletes aiming to get qualified Great Britain's women will be | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
defending their 2013 team title at the European Championships which | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
starts on Thursday but with Olympic qualification up for grabs, French | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
will have their sights set on individual glory | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
and making that first step towards done much of this before? Some of | :17:02. | :18:45. | |
the team had not done mountaineering before so it was a training period | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
that we have gone through to get some experience up to one and a half | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
years before we went. We had a rehearsal expedition. That looks | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
like bright sunshine. One of the two days when the sun was shining. What | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
does it leave you with having done it? Is there a gap where the sense | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
of adventure used to be? We have been back ten days now and back into | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
the normal training within the army. We are pretty busy from now on. Has | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
it added something to your life? It has been a huge experience in terms | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
of leadership and all the way through. It is thoroughly enjoyable. | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
Are these things worthwhile doing? You are not likely to meet and Emily | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
up the mountain `` an enemy of the mountain. It tests the rifle man | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
right down to the basic skills of looking after yourself. Also there | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
is teamwork and it is a great experience to enhance the way we do | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
our job. Adam has had to sit in arctic gear in our studio. It is | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
pretty warm. Now you see what we have to go through every day! You | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
can sympathise. Now there was a rather unusual | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
awakening for people living South Singers, | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
violinists and even a brass section climbed aboard hot air balloons and | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
filled the morning sky with music. Our reporter Scott | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Ellis joined them. A dawn chorus with a difference | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
near Chew Valley Lake. The Avalonian Free State Choir | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
in tune on terra firma. But what about hitting | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the high notes airborne? Can you sing and fly at the same | :20:45. | :20:59. | |
time? We will find out soon. We will sing as well as we will fly. I am | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
worried that it might fall off and be lost forever. I hope my boat | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
doesn't catch fire. Local balloonist Rob Bayly | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
and conductor Charles Hazelwood Will the music continued to cohere | :21:11. | :21:26. | |
when they start to go adrift. Probably not. It may be magical. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Music and a view. What more could you want? I played much better than | :21:32. | :21:55. | |
I have ever played before. Leaving pilots hankering | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
for a big band. It would be great. Maybe we could | :21:58. | :22:10. | |
have a band at the balloon Fiesta. This is all part of a rehearsal | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
for an opera at the Bath and West Raising money | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
for Somerset flood victims. Mind you, that didn't stop the odd | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
amateur from bursting into song. That is a wake`up call. Better than | :22:25. | :22:39. | |
an alarm clock. Ian will be here with | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
the forecast in a moment, but do you know what the weather was | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
like in Bath 250 years ago? Well a new diary has been discovered | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
which chronicles the city's forecast It was written | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
by a little known Rector of This is an unusual notebook. An | :22:54. | :23:14. | |
unlikely history of back from 250 years ago. We think the weather | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
diary was kept by the Rector of Bath at the date the diary was kept. The | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
reason we think that was if we turn the volume around, this end contains | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
a record of the income of Bath Abbey at the same date. We think he was | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
keeping a record of the income at one end and using it for a weather | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
diary at the other end. Very little is known about the author of this | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
notebook. No picture has so far been discovered of the reverend but his | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
words have left are valuable mark on Bath's historical canvas. It was a | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
cold, wet and disagreeable day. Very heavy rain which began very early in | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
the morning and continued almost the whole day. It would be lovely to | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
know more about his circumstances and find out a bit more about his | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
life. We know so little about him. 1759, the weather for this week past | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
as being uncommonly severe, occasioned by a strong, sharp | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
north`east wind which has Rover `` frozen river so hard that the people | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
have walked over it in great numbers for three days past. Reverend Taylor | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
kept a journal from 1756 to 1761 and it is now being rediscovered in Bath | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
in North East Somerset Council's archives. Painting a picture of the | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
skies above Bath 250 years ago. My late father did that for 20 | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
years. Every single day. I think we will keep that now because one day | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
it might be a thing of history. In those days, the weather was even | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
more important. When did records begin? | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
It demonstrates the things that are described there. The extremes are as | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
norm as we see now. Some of you have seen some lively | :25:30. | :25:45. | |
weather today. Thank you to my crew took this beautiful picture of the | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
sudden thunderstorm over Weston`super`Mare earlier today. We | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
are not going to see that tomorrow. It will be a dry day throughout, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
breezy through the afternoon but noticeably warmer than today. The | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
radar as some intense echoes of the Northern Somerset. The shells have | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
been fading through the evening. `` the showers. It leads us into a dry | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
night and as we had through the night, high`pressure develops and | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
you shouldn't see any showers tomorrow. This warm front will | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
introduce more higher Josh Moffett I Clyde tomorrow and for Thursday it | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
will introduce some rain. `` this warm front will introduce more | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
higher cloud tomorrow and for Thursday it will introduce some | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
rain. Temperatures tonight around tensile see us. Tomorrow, really it | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
sets up a story of light winds through the morning which will get | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
brisker as the afternoon wears on. Generally a fair amount of sunshine | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
around with variable amounts of cloud. Strong UV levels with a | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
moderate pollen count. Temperatures up on today. It will turn more | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
unsettled towards the end of the week. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
That picture was phenomenal. That is it from us for now. Things are | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
changing a little bit later because of the football. The late news is on | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
very late. If you can stay up for that. I will see you at lunchtime | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
tomorrow. This is the first example we know of | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
of infrared communication. Imagine if you could | :27:55. | :28:05. | |
talk to the animals. Zoologist Lucy Cooke | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
is going to show us how. This is the first example we know of | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
of infrared communication. This is amazing. | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
So this is a dolphin greeting? Are you telling me we're really | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
going to speak to a firefly? | :28:21. | :28:27. |