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Welcome to the programme. In our headlines tonight. Death in a West | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
village. Kewstoke is closed off after a woman's body is found. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
We'll have the very latest news. We reveal the �2 billion deficit in | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
company pension schemes. The group of golfers encouraging | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
more people with disabilities to have fun on the fairways. | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
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And flying down the runway. Formula 1 comes to the Cotswolds. First | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
tonight, the body of a woman has been found at a property in a | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
village near Weston super Mare. Police were called to Kewstoke at | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
around midday today. A man was also found with critical injuries and | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
taken to hospital. Roads have been closed off for hours while officers | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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Our reporter Emma Campbell is near the scene for us now. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
About lunchtime today, the police were called to the village of | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Kewstoke. They were called to Crookes Lane, Kewstoke. Just behind | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
the here. You can see the start of the road block. It moves down the | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
hill, behind me to the other end of the lane. All of that it remains | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
closed and people have not been able to get in and out for much of | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
the afternoon. They are now letting it residents him and out. But it | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
has been a difficult afternoon. When police got here, they found | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
the body of a woman. We do not have any information about her. They | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
also found a man with serious head injuries. He appeared to have | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
fallen from upstairs window. His injuries are described as life | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
threatening and he has been taken to Frenchay Hospital by ear | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
ambulance. Police also arrested another man who was at the scene | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and he is being questioned about the incident. They are treating it | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
very seriously. We have got a number of officers engaged in this | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
investigation. It is a very early stage of the moment. A painstaking | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
search going on at the moment. I would appeal for any witnesses who | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
might have been in their Crookes Lane, Kewstoke the area this | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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Police tell me that they are treating this as a serious but | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
isolated incident. There are patrols going on in the village at | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
the moment to try to reassure people so that they are not too | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
anxious. They have all stole given out a phone number for anyone for | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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information. The has also given out this phone number. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
What experts are calling a black hole in company pension schemes has | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
been revealed by research for Points West. Taken together, the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
top 100 company pension funds have a deficit of more than �2 billion. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
It's slowing down any chances of recovery and putting people's | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
retirement income at risk. And, as our Business Correspondent Dave | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
Harvey has discovered, it's a problem that's getting worse. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
It is a big problem. The black hole is the term that people use because | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
they do not understand where it has come from. Pensions people speak a | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
different language. But this man has come up with a calculation is | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
so alarming, you cannot ignore it. We have looked at the South West, | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
at the companies with the largest pension deficits. They have got the | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
deficit currently of around �2.6 billion. These are the companies he | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
is talking about. Household names of four decades. In the complex | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
universe of pensions, there are two planets that matter. Investment and | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
pensioners. A company fund needs one up to pay the other. Over the | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
last 10 years, Planet investments has been shrinking while the number | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
of people crowding onto planet pension are growing. People used to | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
retire, live for a few years, and then the pension plan would come to | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
an end. But people are living much longer now. This man would rather | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
spend his company's money investing for the future. The deficit at the | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
moment is around �20 million. We have to deal with that deficit. We | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
would have to stop our investment programme for six months to pay for | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
their investment deficit. Lord new drains, or reservoirs? Exactly. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
There are is a certain amount of cash each year. And we can pay off | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
the pension deficit or invest it in the future. If you pay off the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
pension deficit, you cannot do the new things. So is it holding back | :05:44. | :05:54. | |
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our recovery? It must be. And Dave is here now to help us | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
make sense of this. Dave, the numbers are huge, but do they | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
actually affect people's pensions, their real incomes? | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Not immediately. These are huge companies, aren't they? Imperial | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Tobacco, Nationwide, Westlands, Clarks. Yes, they have big deficits, | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
but they also make big profits and they can all, by and large, keep | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
paying off that big pension debt. Clarks tell us that they are paying | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
�20 million a year to get their deficit down from the �140 million | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
it is today. But that's the problem. These companies are spending money | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
shoring up the pension funds instead of hiring new staff, | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
building new factories, getting our economy going again. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
But what happens if a company goes bust with a big pension deficit | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
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like this? That's when there are problems. If there is not enough | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
money in the kitty, people are not going to get what they expected | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
when they were paying him for all those years as a company employee. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
There is a safety net, a scheme which all pension schemes pay him | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
to, but it is a safety net only. Pensioners end up with a lot less | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
than they expected. And we are talking about private | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
pension schemes? That is right, but there are | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
similarities with the strikes last Thursday. There is a huge bill and | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
companies have closed final salary schemes. They require people to | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
work longer it, to pay more, to get slightly less at the end. Does that | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
sound familiar? Exactly the sort of changes that the public sector is | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
going through. The Sun and the Daily Mirror have | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
been on trial today over newspaper reports they published during the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
hunt for the killer of the landscape architect Jo Yeates in | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Bristol. Both papers deny their coverage of the arrest of her | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
landlord, Chris Jefferies, could have prejudiced a jury if he had | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
gone on trial. John Maguire has been at the High Court. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
These are the Munich reports that the High Court must now a judge | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
legal or not. -- the news the reports. Christopher Jeffries had | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
been arrested, suspected of murder. This was a huge story of receiving | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
wall-to-wall coverage. The Attorney General warned a journalists to be | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
careful at the time. But he thinks that these tabloids went too far. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Mr Jefferies was accused of being a peeping Tom, a stalker. And link | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
was forged with the unsolved murder of a murder in Bristol in 1974. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
This is an unusual case, there will be no trial of Christopher Jeffries | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
who was released without charge. It was repeatedly stressed that he | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
remains wholly innocent. But the Attorney General insists that the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
key factor in the proceedings here are at risk and that in his view, | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
those articles presented a serious risk of prejudicing any trial | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
should one have taken place. In their defence, Mirror Group | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
newspapers quoted their right to freedom of expression. They said | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
readers would see Mr Jefferies as eccentric, a loner, and nosy | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
neighbour, but nothing more sinister or damaging than that. The | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
Sun newspaper cited at the time gap between the time of the article's | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
publication and the date a very theoretical at trial. If found | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
guilty, there could be heavy fines or even journalists send to jail. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
The Lord Chief Justice, consider the court's decision before making | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
a ruling. You're watching BBC Points West. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Welcome if you've just joined us, it's Alex and Andrew with you | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
tonight. Still to come between now and | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
seven: From the Premiership to Forest Green, but this footballer | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
couldn't be happier, And smile! | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
What happened when some rare monkeys got hold of a West | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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A woman has fallen from a balcony in Bristol following a domestic | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
incident in the early hours of this morning. Police are appealing for | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
witnesses who may have seen what happened in the Lawrence Hill area | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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of the city. The woman is in hospital with a serious injury. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
The Wells MP Tessa Munt has told the House of Commons that | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
electricity pylons should be replaced by cables going | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
underground or under the sea in rural areas. The Lib Dem politician | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
has put forward a Bill that would stop the National Grid erecting | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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pylons between Hinkley Point and Avonmouth. The National Grid says | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
both options are too expensive. The Bill has passed its first stage but | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
stands very little chance of becoming law. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Campaigners fighting plans for a new nuclear power station in South | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Gloucestershire had a meeting today with the man charged with looking | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
at nuclear safety for the Government. Mike Weightman | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
published an interim report following the Fukushima disaster in | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
Japan about its implications for the UK industry. Members of the | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
campaign group against a new Oldbury Power Station say the | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Government isn't taking safety concerns seriously enough. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
The South West already has the largest proportion of older people | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
in the country and the longest life expectancy. Latest figures show | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
that 76,000 people in the region are living with dementia and this | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
is likely to increase by 50% over the next 15 years. A review was | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
carried out last year to assess the quality of dementia services across | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
the region and, in the first of three reports, our Heath | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
Correspondent Matthew Hill has been assessing how we are doing. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
As a former GP, Dr Jennifer Bute knows exactly what she faces with | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
her Alzheimers. But she's remaining very active and positive in her new | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
sheltered home at St Monicas Trust in Sandford. She's one of a growing | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
number of people in the region with dementia and, in the early days | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
before she was diagnosed, she managed to hold down her job with | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
coping strategies. If I saw a patient and something had to be | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
done, I would use the computer system to remind me to do it. I | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
think ours more efficient than the other partners in my practice. But | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
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here, there are new challenges. I believe passionately... | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
When you look at the ageing profile of North Somerset alone, the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
figures are frightening. By 2026, the number of people aged over 75 | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
will increase by 72%, with one in four of the opulation being over 65. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
That is why a dementia strategy was launched for the region over a year | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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ago. There has been significant | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
improvement in the targets set then, with all of our primary care trusts | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
encouraging the appropriate use of anti-psychotic drugs and guidance | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
to care home staff. But in Wiltshire, raising awareness | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
of dementia has led to a backlog of patients waiting to be assessed by | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
a specialist. In fact, only a third of patients are being seen within a | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
month for a consultation, another third within 10 weeks and the final | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
third are more than 10 weeks. miscalculated the numbers. Only | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
one-third of people meet the target. But we are working hard to sort | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
that out. This charity is concerned that an ambitious service that was | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
supposed to be piloted in the south of the county last year is still | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
not open. The cost of treating patients like | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Dr Bute with Alzheimers' drugs is going to plummet next year. All the | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
more reason for as many people as possible to have an early diagnosis. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Tomorrow, Matthew will be fined again just how many people could be | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
missing out on a diagnosis. People in Wiltshire were given the | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
chance to have a taster session at golf today. Nothing unusual about | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
that you might think, but this was specifically aimed at people with | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
any kind of disability. And as Ali Vowles discovered, for many, it was | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
a chance to pick up the golf clubs for the first time since their | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
accident or illness. John Heel from Trowbridge has had | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
MS for 15 years, leaving his legs weak and needing to use a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
wheelchair. Until today, he never thought he'd have the confidence or | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
balance to pick up a golf club again. Just to realise that I do | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
not need to use my legs to swim the club -- swing the club. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Johnathon Harrington broke his back in 2005 falling off a mountain. He | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
has no movement from halfway down his lumber region. He had always | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
been a keen golfer pre-accident, but just cannot see how it can work | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
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now without the use of his legs. is specially adapted equipment. I | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
am really looking forward. The Disabled Golf Society aims to | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
show people like Jonathan that you can adapt the game you once played | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
to the person you are now. It's a moment Jonathon's family are | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
thrilled to see. I am really proud to see him doing it. He is so | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
excited about it. He is really keen to give it his best. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
The society has only been going for a year and has already attracted | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
600 members from around the country who play together regularly. It is | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
humbling to know that in the very short time that we have been around, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
people have actually said they need you. That you have got to be you. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
But you have seen the people today. There's no stopping Jonathan now. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
With the aid of an adapted buggy, he has got the golf bug back. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
have managed to find a way of playing the game. We are out of the | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
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fresh air, good company, and it feels | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
The Disabled Golf Society wants even more members and has plans for | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
a UK tournament and a Ryder style cup. But most of all, it wants | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
everyone to realise that disability is no reason not to give golf a go. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
The Chief Executive of South Gloucestershire council has taken a | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
voluntary pay cut of 5%. Amanda Deeks has chosen to reduce her | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
salary by �8,000 to �155,000 a year. She says it's to reflect the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
financial difficulties at the council where 300 jobs are being | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
cut over the next three years. A national opera company has been | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
in the West Country as part of a scheme to inspire school children | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
from all backgrounds. English Touring Opera spent a week with | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
children from Marlwood Comprehensive and New Siblands | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
special school in South Gloucestershire, creating this work | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
in five days. The opera tells stories from the River Severn | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
through music and drama. It was the company's first collaboration in | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
the area. Forest Green Rovers have signed | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
former Premier League footballer and Sierra Leone international Al | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
Bangura. The 23-year-old is best known for | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
being the subject of a national campaign to keep him in the country | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
when he was threatened with deportation in 2007. Zoe Gough has | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
been hearing his remarkable story. Clearly happy to be settling back | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
into full-time football again. Forest Green's new signing was | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
getting the star treatment today. But Al Bangura has a story like no | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
other. He was forced to flee Sierra Leone at 15 after his father was | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
killed. He finally arrived in England at the hands of a human | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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trafficker. It is a really violent society. If you know about it, you | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
do not want to get into it. Bangura was spotted by Watford at | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
youth level, eventually spending four years in their first team. But | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
the Home Office caught up with him in 2007. Watford's fans, including | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Elton John, led a nationwide campaign to let him stay. He | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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finally won his case, but never forgot that support. It does a | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
matter -- it does not matter whether I lose a lot, I just want | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
to give the best to my fans. The Watford connection also led to | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
his new appointment. After time in the footballing wilderness, he has | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
been brought back by the former youth boss he calls Dad. I have | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
kept in touch with him like I keep in touch of a lost -- a lot of the | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
players. He has got lost and he needs a helping hand to get back | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
into the game. He is capable of bigger and better things. | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Fame may earn the midfielder a few extra tackles this season. But | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Bangura promises he'll always get up with a smile. Zoe Gough, BBC | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
Points West, Nailsworth. Formula One has come to the West | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Country this week with three race teams test driving cars at Cotswold | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Airport. It is ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this | :19:07. | :19:16. | |
weekend. Today it was the turn of The old home of the Red Arrows. | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
Today, it's hosting another fast mover. A few test runs of the 750 | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
brake horsepower engine. It generates volumes of computer data | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
and a few secret tweaks. Test driver Karun Chandok is at the | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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controls. That steering wheel alone costs �25,000. How do you change | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
gear? You just click a button. It allows you to have both hands on | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
the wheel at the same time. It is fairly useful when you are driving | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
quickly. The complete team costs �60 million | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
a year. Team Lotus is backed with oodles of Malaysian cash. This is | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Jarno Trulli's car. Slicing the Costwold country air clean in two. | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
Some of the neighbours have complained. This particular batch | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
of tests are rather concentrated ahead of Silverstone. We do | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
sympathise about the noise. Team Lotus is only in its second | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
year. Mid-table and without points. So the Lotus name is unlikely to | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
make the podium at Silverstone. Although other Brits might, | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
including Frome old boy Jensen Button. I pick he has a very good | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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chance. Absolutely. The home advantage. New technology might | :20:49. | :20:58. | |
alter the car's performance a little. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Force India tested here on Friday. Williams arrive tomorrow. The race | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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starts at one o'clock Sunday. Did you see that steer? | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Half-a-million quid. Well, at another airfield 70 miles | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
away, they were making last-minute preparations for one of the | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
region's biggest air shows. Yeovilton Air Day this Saturday | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
will celebrate the 40th birthday of an aircraft born and bred in | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
Somerset. As well as being a tribute to the | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
Lynx helicopter, the event will also showcase aircraft from around | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the world. Today, the media were given a sneak preview. Clinton | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Rogers was there. 40 years old and certainly not | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
showing its age. Display pilots at Yeovilton this morning | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
demonstrating exactly what the Lynx is capable of. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
The aircraft was Somerset born and bred. Designed and built at the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Westland helicopter factory just a few miles from the Yeovilton | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
In the decades since, it has become a mainstay of the British armed | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
forces, excelling during the Falklands war. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Remarkably, this aircraft still holds the helicopter speed record - | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
400km an hour. Today, as the 21st-century Lynx was | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
showing off, two of the engineers who designed it 40 years ago were | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
looking on with understandable pride. I honestly thought it was an | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
aircraft with a future, and it still is. I have always thought | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
that. I have been a believer in the aircraft from the very beginning. | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
Life begins at 40! Saturday's air show at Yeovilton | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
will celebrate the Lynx's birthday as well as showcasing aircraft | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
young and old from all over the world. One aircraft which was | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
showing its age a little today was the Hunter. It demonstrates there | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
are only the's activity. Keeps us in their public eye. -- at the | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Royal Navy's activity. The 60-year- old jet fighter looked agile enough | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
to begin with, but then developed engine problems and landed with a | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
fire brigade and ambulance escort. Luckily there was no big drama. Air | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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show organisers will be hoping it stays like that at the weekend. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Before we go to the weather, take a look at these guys. They are rare | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
crested black macaques and these are actually self-portraits, taken | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
using the camera of a wildlife photographer from the Forest of | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
Dean. David Slater from Coleford had set | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
up the tripod in the national park in Indonesia. The monkeys liked the | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
clicking sound of the camera and started, well, monkeying around. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
They took hundreds, most of them out of focus, before he got control | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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of the camera again! I love that picture! Weather watch | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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The real curtains are a problem. This animal home is looking to find | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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new homes for cats. Go along if you can help them out. Be a good to see | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
some showers coming through, some of them quite heavy. Sunny spells | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
as well. They -- this area of low pressure was set in place for the | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
weekend. Lots of showers tomorrow. Through the rest of this evening, | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
we have had a number of showers. The most recent of up into | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Bridgwater Bay. But for the most part, they are out of the way. It | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
should be a drier evening. Some showers still to come, but broadly | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
speaking, a fair amount of dry weather as we head into the early | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
hours of tomorrow morning. Temperatures dropping to about 11 | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Celsius. For the morning rush-hour, there will be a number of districts | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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which start drive. But the showers will begin to build up. Some of | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
them will be heavy, and a rumble of thunder as well. Late into the | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
evening, a more coherent Bader showers will gang up on last. -- a | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
band of showers. That sets the scene for the weekend. And the | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
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winters are going to pick up as well. -- wind is going to pick up | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
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as well. Temperatures staying decent however. That area of low | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
pressure is the predominant story for the next three or four days. By | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
the time we get to Saturday, it will start to improve it. The | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
showers will become fewer and further between. By Sunday, we | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
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could be on a dry note. We are going to return to our main | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
story. A woman's body was found at Kewstoke. What more can you tell | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
Yes, the police have confirmed they are likely to be here in the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
village of Kewstoke for several hours to come. Quite possibly | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
through the night and in tomorrow as they carry on their | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
investigations into what happened at Crookes Lane, Kewstoke. The | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
founder one woman dead, another man seriously injured, and a third man | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
arrested. We do not have names for any of the people involved. We hope | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
to give you more detail on that as it as we can. | :27:25. | :27:35. |