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The West is falling dark thhs hour to mark one hundred years shnce | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Across the region, services are being held to recreate the centenary | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
By 11pm tonight, the exact time Britain decl`red war | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
on Germany, over a million candles will be lht across | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the country, commemorating dvery serviceman and woman who didd. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Laura Jones is at St Mary Rddcliffe church in Bristol, where ond of the | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Yes, here at St Mary Redcliffe in the heart of Bristol, as yot can see | :00:37. | :00:52. | |
and probably here behind me, a prop at `` a special construct is taking | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
place. And at homes and in various landmarks across the West the lights | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
are being turned out to remdmber what happened on the 4th of August | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
1914. Of course, everything that happened since. Back then it was the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, who said that the lamps werd going | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
out across Europe, and it is those remarks which have been the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
inspiration for this evening's events. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Remembering one of the darkest times in our history. | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Tonight, right across the wdst, lights are going out and candles | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Here at St Mary Redcliffe church in the heart of Bristol | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
a special concert, broadcast on big screens to the crowds outside. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
I think this significance for us now is to keep our senses honed to what | :01:43. | :01:57. | |
is going on in the world around And there are some things going on | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
around us that we want to kdep our eyes and ears on so we can dnsure | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
history does not repeat itsdlf. In Gloucester cathedral earlier | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
today, it took nearly seven and a half hours to read out | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
the names belonging to the len of Gloucester who lost | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
their lives in the first world war. of Gloucester who lost | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
their lives in the First World War. Meanwhile, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
just a few miles away in Chdltenham, the Gloucesters Cross was | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
paraded through the streets. Made 98 years ago by Gloucester | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
soldiers at the Somme. In Shepton Mallet | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
an eight hour silent vigil by the This evening candle lit services | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
are being held across the rdgion. Those who are with us for this very | :02:36. | :02:50. | |
solemn vigil will be able to keep watch with the light gradually dying | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
down until 11 o'clock at night, when we will extinguish the final candle. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
The reason for that, of course, is that Sir Edward Grey, then the | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
Foreign Secretary, was said to have looked out over the mile thd day | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
before and said, the lamps `re going out all over Europe and we shall not | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
see them lit again in our lhfetime. There are no deople alive today who | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
can clearly remember the st`rt But the hope is that we | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
and generations to come will never Back here at St Mary Redcliffe, the | :03:19. | :03:33. | |
sombre process of extinguishing the candles lit here in the church has | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
already begun. In about half an hour's timd at | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
11pm, one final candle will be carried through to the St John's | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Chapel, that is the candle that has been carved specially for the | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
occasion, to mark the exact hour, 11pm, when war was officially | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
declared. And life for so m`ny people began to change forever. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
As soldiers were making their way to the front line, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
here in the West we welcomed people trying to escape the chaos `nd | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
In 1914, as the German army invaded Belgium, thousands | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
of people were left seeking refuge, and some came to villages lhke | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
I've been taking a look at this little known part of our history. | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
Banwell at the turn`of`the`century was a far | :04:26. | :04:38. | |
cry from the battlefields where young men from the village went to | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
To many year the war must h`ve seemed 1 million miles away. | :04:42. | :04:54. | |
But for some here that is a different story to tell. And in the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
centre, this house. A wartile centre for refugees. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
That time, just at the beginning of the war, everything was very | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
Of course, they had come out their country living in a strange place, | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
I don't know what the langu`ge was like but I don't suspect many | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
It was not a very good time, but at least they were relidved to | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
get out of their own countrx, because that was even worse. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
In 1914, Belgium was in chaos, the invading German army devast`ted the | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
And many turned to England for support. | :05:29. | :05:46. | |
In Banwell, the Ogden household took in a family of 1 . | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
A lot of life was lived in this place. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Maybe they lived in this room, which is what we call the b`rn | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Again, it is very large, perhaps they stayed in therd. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
And the fact it has actuallx helped refugees during the First World War | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
What better use can there bd for a big house? | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
The Belgians were given jobs in Banwell, making a living within | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the community, and the children even went to the local school. | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
This is the Banwell admissions register | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
We have little to bits written about the Belgian refugees when they came. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
That looks like Augusta Murray and Ferdinand Murray. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
They are down as living in West Street. | :06:39. | :06:52. | |
Their date of birth is 1902 for one and 1908 for the boy. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
As we say, we don't know how long they were there or when thex left. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
For several years, this little corner of the Wdst gave | :07:00. | :07:13. | |
the family of 17 a shelter, but what eventually happens to | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
All records of their time in Banwell stop in 1919. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Many believe they may have returned home in the hope of picking up the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
And there is a special World War I that home BBC talk coming to Bristol | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
at the end of the week. On to some other news, | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
and more details have emergdd of how a man was found dead | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
in a recycling plant in Bristol It's believed Matthew Symonds was | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
carried from Swindon to Avonmouth Homeless charities say | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
the 34`year`old had spent thme in a hostel in the town and tonight | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
they're warning of the dangdrs Our Wiltshire correspondent, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Will Glennon, reports. 34`year`old Matthew Symonds | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
had lead a troubled life. Well known in Swindon, he'd spent | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
time in the town's homeless hostels. Most recently he'd been staxing | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
at the Salvation Army hostel called The Salvation Army said tod`y it is | :08:03. | :08:17. | |
deeply saddened by the death of Matthew. He had been known to staff | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
here for some time. They sahd their thoughts and prayers are with his | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
family and friends. Matthew's body was found on Friday | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
morning at a waste transfer station in | :08:28. | :08:28. | |
Avonmouth run by the companx Biffa. Police were called | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
and an investigation began. It then emerged that the waste had | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
been brought to Avonmouth from It's thought the total security | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
cost could exceed ?50 million. After winning four gold med`ls | :08:37. | :10:22. | |
at the Commonwealth Games, teenage gymnast Claudia Fragapane | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
flew into Bristol Airport this The 16`year`old from Longwell Green | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
near Bristol dazzled crowds with her But today the girl nicknamed | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
"the pocket rocket" says shd's ready We'll have more coverage | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
of tonight's Lights Out services Now I'll leave you with Ian | :10:41. | :10:52. | |
and a look at the weather. Thank you very much. Rather mixed | :10:53. | :11:01. | |
fortunes tomorrow, there will be some bright sunny spells from time | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
to time, some showers, as wdll. As we get into the hours of darkness | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
through the course of the fhrst half of the night there will be some | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
heavy rain on the way in a lore widespread fashion. If you lissed | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
the earlier showers you will eventually get rain overnight. | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Through this evening, the l`st of any showers dying away, temperatures | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
will drop to around 12 Celshus, some parts of the countryside getting as | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
low as eight or nine Celsius. Tomorrow, the north and East will | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
have some right conditions, some showers to the said West. Through | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
morning towards midday they will move up through Central districts | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
and in two parts of Gloucester shire. One of those `` some of those | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
will be heavy, the afternoon characterised by showers but equally | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
races will be dry. Later into the evening the next area of rahn | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
marches up from the south`wdst. Temperatures tomorrow, in the bright | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
spells getting up to the low 20s. When the rain clears on | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Quite a fresh evening out there this evening. It's going to turn chilly | :12:02. | :12:16. | |
in a few spots by the early hours of Tuesday. Underneath the clear, | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
calm, tranquil conditions... Not completely clear because there are a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
few showers. You may have been caught out in some across the South | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
today. After midnight, you can see the vast majority of the UK has dry | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
weather, whereas Cornwall, Devon, just about nudging into Wales, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
possibly Northern Ireland and the south-west of Scotland, a few | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
showers. But clear skies is the story tonight. Colder in rural | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
spots. The Glens of Scotland, really nippy first thing on Tuesday. It | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
starts off sunny for many of us Tuesday is going to be a bit of an | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
East-West split. In the afternoon, across the south-west we will see a | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
few showers, a bit of sunshine too, not such a bad day. There might be | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
the odd heavy burst of rain here and there, but effectively it is OK | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
with | :13:17. | :13:17. |