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Our headlines tonight: Hospitals struggling to cope.

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People are warned to stay away from A as six of our hospitals

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A special report from the Bristol actor Joe Sims as Concorde prepares

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Tomorrow, though, looks a crisp and sunny day.

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Pressure is mounting at hospitals across the region with most now

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The NHS is even warning that patients could be put at risk

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because of the demands on healthcare, with people

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being advised to only go to emergency departments

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Here's our health correspondent, Matthew Hill.

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Six hospitals in the West are tonight struggling to cope

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The Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Children's Hospital,

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Southmead and Weston hospitals along with Yeovil in Somerset and the RHU

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in Bath are now on the highest possible alert and are asking people

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not to come to A unless it's life-threatening.

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A sign of the times is that, at Yeovil Hospital a year ago,

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Now, the doctor in charge of finances in the Bristol area says

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this system-wide problem is partly caused by patients coming

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in with increasingly complex medical conditions.

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We've had a lot of patients with respiratory illnesses,

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particularly in the children's hospital, and people who are getting

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older and frailer are often needing longer lengths of stay,

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and that's particularly been more marked in the last week or two.

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Well, for patients where it's not an emergency but who are worried,

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they can call NHS 111 and, with temperatures expected

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to plummet to as low as minus five degrees tonight and to continue

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for much of the month, it seems likely this demand

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A second man's been charged with murder in connection

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The body of Mohammed Abdurezek was discovered in Siston

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42-year-old Karl Cullen and Abdiwahab Abdulahi,

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who's 22, are due before Bristol Magistrates tomorrow.

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Four birds have died of avian flu at the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust

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A strain of the virus has been spreading across Europe.

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This afternoon, Defra also announced restrictions on all poultry

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will remain in place until the end of February.

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Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, sent this

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In many ways, I suppose, the news of the outbreak

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There are thousands of birds on the reserve at this time

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of the year and staff have been tracking the movement of this avian

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flu outbreak right across Europe, and there have been outbreaks

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across the border in Wales and also in Somerset.

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What happened here was, around Christmas time,

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a number of birds were found to have died on the reserve.

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They were sent to government laboratories for analysis

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and four of them came back, ducks and geese, with confirmation

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So a very relatively small outbreak here but still something that staff

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are taking very seriously because there is still a lot

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of migration to happen over the winter time.

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What's happening here at Slimbridge is more bio-security measures

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are being brought in, there are disinfectant mats

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for vehicles that come on and off the reserve and visitors here,

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because the reserve is still open for business, visitors will also

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have to walk through those disinfectant mats and use extra hand

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And also today, Defra announced an extension

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to their own restrictions to poultry farmers and also owners

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of poultry and other captive birds to keep them housed

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and to increase their own bio-security until

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So everybody's keeping a close eye on what's

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Difficult, of course, to control wild birds as they fly

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in and out but at the forefront of everyone's minds is making sure

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that the disease doesn't spread to those captive birds in the area.

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A father of baby twins, who suffered a severe

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electric shock in Swindon, has now had both hands and a leg

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Jamie Mines, who's 33, was working as a scaffolder when it

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Now the community in his home town of Frome have set up a fundraising

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campaign to support him and his young family.

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It's already raised more than ?33,000.

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A young father, a talented sportsman, a great character.

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But life changed for Jamie Mines in an instant and forever.

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He was working on this industrial estate in Swindon as a scaffolder

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just days before Christmas when, in a freak accident,

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He remains in a critical but stable condition in Southmead having now

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The initial target was ?10,000, which I think was achieved

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within about 24 hours, which is extraordinary.

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Friends have set up an internet fundraising page

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He and his partner have twins aged just five months.

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The timing of such an incident before Christmas is awful and it's

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about how it makes people realise that things can change just

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Jamie is very strong, fit, healthy young man.

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His life is going to change so we all need to be there for him.

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Jamie is a strong character and he is a strong guy.

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If he comes through it, which he will, hoping that he does,

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his two little girls will keep him strong and to pull through it.

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Jamie was a talented footballer who played

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for a number of local clubs, including Frome Town.

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Now they have joined the fundraising campaign.

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We are going to do a little collection on Saturday,

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which is our first home game since it happened.

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But also, we are looking to arrange a day for Jamie

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19th of March, we are going to have a little football tournament.

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And obviously, we are just trying to support everything

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The circumstances of the accident here are unclear but the Health and

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Whatever the cause, the outcome is plainly devastating for a young

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man with much to live for. Clinton Rogers, BBC Points West.

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A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson and criminal damage

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in connection with a fire at a primary school in Wiltshire.

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The blaze began at the Avenue in Warminster shortly after 3am

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The children's centre and nursery will open tomorrow as usual.

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Now, as final preparations are under way to move Concorde at Filton

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to her new aviation museum later this year, we look back

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To help us, we invited Bristol actor Joe Simms.

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216 was one of ten Concordes built at Filton in the 1960s and '70s.

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It was built by an army of local engineers and designers.

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After her first UK flight from Filton to RAF Fairford

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Once in operation, the aircraft cruised at more than twice the speed

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of sound, flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet.

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Passengers lapped up the fine dining and paid thousands

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The fleet was eventually grounded over financial and safety concerns.

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But although 216's champagne days are over, she's about to be

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Later in the year, Concorde's going to be moving here,

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where she's going to be the star attraction of Aerospace Bristol,

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a ?19 million museum dedicated to the aviation history

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When it opens in the summer, this attraction will take visitors

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on a journey from 1910, where Sir George White turned tram

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sheds into an aircraft factory in Filton, stories

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about the earliest flight in box kites over the Downs,

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the Concorde years and, of course, the latest aerospace

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technology will all be captured under one brilliant Bristolian roof.

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The museum's taking shape but now an enormous technical

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Actually getting Concorde in here is going to be one heck

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of a piece of logistics, which means dismantling some

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of the building and tarring all the way across the airfield.

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She's got to come right into position because all

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the airstairs coming off here will be there

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So she's got to get there within about a centimetre or so.

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That's the margin for error, a centimetre?

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A centimetre here and a metre or so coming in through the building.

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You're feeling confident, everything's ready and it's

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It's going to be such a big year for Concorde.

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And Joe is just one of several well-known faces who'll be our guest

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reporters in the coming weeks to help us mark 60

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The skies are continuing to clear tonight. That will lead us into a

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noticeably cold night but it means that, for tomorrow, the legacy will

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be sunshine and beautiful crisp dry day but cold. Talking of cold, the

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night, we will see temperatures between -2 and minus five. One or

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two spots getting as low as minus six. That risk is diminished as you

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head out further towards the south-west. The odd patch of

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freezing fog around but that should not last long. Tomorrow, a lot of

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sunshine around, the winds will be light. As we head out towards the

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extreme west, bigger cloud around, but that will be the exception.

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Elsewhere, very little cloud until later on in the evening period. Even

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then, you can see blues returning on the map. A comparatively cold night.

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Tomorrow, temperatures and the range of 2-5 C. The winds will be light

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however. You will see the milder theme developing through the course

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of the weekend. Rain later Temperatures creeping up a notch or

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two and turning milder into the weekend.

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A guarantee on your journey to work tomorrow, if you are nipping out to

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the shop for a paper, somebody will talk about how cold it is. Looking

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at today, the weather front pushing Southwest, mild air stay in

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south-west, but behind it is colder air from the Arctic. Behind it,

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windy conditions. Bleak across northern Scotland, a cold day with

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temperatures struggling to get above two. If you think that's cold, look

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at what's happening outside as we speak. Temperatures falling below

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freezing quite widely across the country and towards dawn they could

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be as low as -8 in rural parts of Oxfordshire. I guarantee you will be

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scraping the ice of the car windscreens first thing in the

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morning. Some cloud running down the North Sea coast and some cloud

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across Lincolnshire and

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