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Good evening and week to Points West. Our headlines: Wildlife in | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the firing line. The row goes on as the Government gives the green | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
light to a badger cull. More on Lynham's new role after the | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
Hercules have gone. A call for more foster parents. And Bristol loves | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
its street artment now there is a call to protect it. An officially- | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
backed cull of badgers could begin next year in the West Country. The | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Government today said they wanted to run a trial in two areas - one | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
of which is likely to be Gloucestershire. But ministers have | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
also conceded there's much to be done before any cull can start and | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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there could be legal challenges. Here's Paul Barltrop. They look | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
lovely, but shouldn't be here. These beef calfs would normally be | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
sold. This is a dairy farm, they can't, it is shut down because of | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
bovine TB. Nationally cases have risen for almost a decade. The west | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
it the worst affected. The disease can be spread by badgers. They're a | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
protect species. But the Government has moved nearer to authorising a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
slaughter. With the problem of TB I'm minded to allow controlled | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
culling. Carried out by group of farmers and landowners as part of a | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
science-led and carefully managed policy of badger control. This | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
farmer cares for his animals and converted to organic three years | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
ago. But he believes a cull of badgers is a necessary evil. We can | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
control a lot of the thing we do in life in terms of food, management | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
of the farm. But disease coming in that we don't have a control over | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
is incredibly frustrating. Any cull faces obstacles. Farmers have been | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
told they must pay for it thra. Could leave them thousands of pound | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
out-of-pocket and opponents will mount a legal challenge. Many | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
scientist think ministers are wrong. The biggest ever study into bovine | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
TB conCludd it wasn't worth it. This man recently retire prd the | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Government's science laboratory. is politically motivated, it is not | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
science-led. How some of the chief advisors to Government can say that | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
it is a science-led policy is a mystery to me. Because all of the | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
science argues against culling. Scientists and farmers agree on one | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
thing a vaccine for badgers and cattle would be preferable. But | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
that is still many years off. Following the report, Paul ball | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
drop joins us. When and where will this cull happen? The when is | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
looking likely to be in a year's time. But even that is uncertain. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
What is remarkable is how imprevice the announcement has been. They | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
started setting out on the course eight months ago. Today we don't | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
appear to have moved further forward fo. -- forward. We could | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
see things slip back to 2013. is this delay? Put simply, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
governments know this is nothing as simple as they thought in | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
opposition. One interviewed one minister. He was talking about how | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
the consultation they have carried out has thrown up difficult issues | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
and lacking across the border into Wales, where they were all set on a | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
course to cull badgers, that was the view of the Welsh Assembly, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
they were going to do that. And it got mired down in legal process and | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the Welsh Assembly called a halt and said we don't think we can go | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
further. The Government on this side of the Severn is also worried | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
and fearing if they go ahead there could be legal challenges. It | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
wouldn't surprise me, there will be a challenge, and it wouldn't | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
surprise me if that delayed things if not killed off the idea of a | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
cull. Thank you. More details of the new role for RAF Lyneham have | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
emerged today, after the Government announced it would become a | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
training academy when it closes. More than 1,500 personnel from | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
other bases around the country will move in initially, to create a | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
bespoke defence training base for all the armed services. Scott Ellis | :04:50. | :04:59. | |
reports. They haven't taken the signs down yet. In fact there are | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
still several Hercules aircraft at Lynham. But all the rest have gone. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
The defence programme will move to Lynham. Yesterday, we learned RAF | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Hein ham is the preferred site for a new defence technical training | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
centre. We now know the first two arrive will be the army's royal | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
electrical and plebgical engineers. Hopefully they will be joined by | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
RAF and navy technicians. This will be a big centre for technology, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
given all of the services rely more on technology and this is where | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
that training will take place. Then therey chance that Lynham will | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
become far more important than it has been to the Ministry of Defence. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Not everyone's quite so excited for this piece of real estate. The | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
centre won't be as grand as the original planned for St Athan in | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Wales. That would have cost �14 billion and was scrapped. Lynham | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
will be a lot more affordable. we need to wait and see is what | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
detail comes out from the Ministry of Defence to understand whether | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
this is a substantial opportunity or whether its just smoke and | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
mirrors. At the moment we don't know. Lynham's businesses are | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
upbeat. Mel used to dry clean RAF flying suits. That work's gone. So | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
she has switched to wedding dresses. She hopes trade will increase, once | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
the techies turn up. We still don't know what is going o' app? No, but | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
fingers crossed something good will happen. Plenty of optimism among | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
those living and working in Lynham. But it is feasible that no one in | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
white hall has made a final decision about what really will | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
happen here and on what scale. A Gloucestershire man found guilty of | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
attempting to murder his ex-fiancee has been jailed for ten years. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Nigel Bassett attacked Julie Grey in a car park in Wotton Under Edge | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
after she'd told him their wedding was off. He used a pair of scissors | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
to repeatedly stab her before being restrained by members of the public | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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last November. Police today gave their response to what had happened. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Extremely traumatic and if the members of the public hadn't become | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
involved, it could have been a lot worse for he. He is obviously 06 | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
good character. He is heavily involved in the church and this was | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
a one-off incident for Mr Bass eted. The judge said Julie Grey should be | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
commended for her Christian act of forgiveness towards Bassett. -- | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Basset. A soldier from 1 Rifles, based near Chepstow, who died in | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Afghanistan yesterday, has been named. Corporal Mark Palin, from | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Plymouth, was 32, and leaves a wife and young son. He was second in | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
command of a 12-man unit based in Helmand province. He was killed by | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
an improvised explosive device while guiding a patrol. Police are | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
continuing to investigate a company director from Somerset, who sold | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
so-called bomb-detectors to 20 countries, including Iraq. Jim | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
McCormick, on the right of this picture, of Wincanton-based ATSC | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Ltd, was arrested in January last year on suspicion of fraud by | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
misrepresentation. That followed a BBC investigation which found that | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
his handheld devices couldn't possibly work. Today he was re- | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
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bailed by police until September while enquiries continue. You're | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
watching BBC Points West, tonight with Alex Lovell and Sabet | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Choudhury. Stay with us, there's still lots to come - including a | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
look at that all important weather forecast with Ian. Tomorrow will | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
see further rain in the south. To the north some showers. More later. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Shrien Dewani's extradition hearing has been told he'd threatened to | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
kill himself if he was sent to South Africa to answer charges that | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
he ordered his wife's murder. A psychiatrist told the court that | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
the Bristol businessman made the threat while he was being examined | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
just weeks ago. John Maguire reports from the hearing. Both | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
families left the hearing after yet another long, complex and emo tifr | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
day. The stress all too evident as Anni Dewani's mother felt unable to | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
attend. Her husband spoke of his desire to see Shrien Dewani face | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
trial. We hope and we know, I have a belief in South African people | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
and I'm sure they will take good care of him in South Africa. If he | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
is guilty, then he will be... Sentenced in South Africa, but he | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
will be taken care of. Like anywhere else. If court heard from | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
a psychiatrist, employed by the South African authorities to make a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
psychological assessment. He asked Shrien Dewani what he would do if | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
he was extradited to South Africa. I would try to kill myself, | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
wouldn't you? He said. Then from a patient who struggled to maintain | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
concentration, and to answer questions, he went on to tell the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
professionor, it would be quite good if I die over there. That | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
would make them look stupid. Since Anni's murder and the accusations | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
again him, her groom has been diagnosed with a combination of | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. The court heard he has | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
given conLiechtensteining -- conflicting views on suicide. He | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
said suicide is against hi religion and if successful might think he | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
was guilty of his young bride's murt. Something emphatically denies. | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
-- murder. Tomorrow, the family will return to hear the final legal | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
arguments. It will then be up to the judge to determine Shrien | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Dewani's fate. Taunton Football Clubhouse has been badly damaged by | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
fire. Tonight investigators are still working to establish the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
exact cause. The club says it will recover from the setback and future | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
matches will not be affected. Clinton Rogers reports. Today a sad | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
sight for football fans A large part of the club house has been | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
destroyed by the fire, which broke out just after midnight. At its | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
height eight fire crews were involved in fighting the flames. At | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
one stage there were fears the fire might spread to the bus depot next | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
door and concerns that a nearby nursing home would be evacuated. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
There was a concern, mainly because of the smoke. We look at the safety | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
of everyone and the residents of nursing home would be high on the | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
list there. The club says it will bounce back from this set back and | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
is confident no games will need to be postponed. Our first home game | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
is 139 August. All our pre-season friendlies are away. -- 13th August. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
So I hope we can get something argued for 13th August. The club's | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
going to be a no, no, whether it will be mar keys, whatever we will | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
do we will do. The club was using the close season to renovate the | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
club house and many hours of work by volunteers have gone up in smoke. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Investigators have been here all day trying to pin point what caused | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
this. They say they are happy it was not started deliberately. The | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
most likely cause is an electrical fault in the roof. The body of a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
Bristol man found at the side of a road in Wales has been identified | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
as Ian Hamilton. The 27-year -old, who's also known as Parker Hamilton, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
was discovered on a road in Caerphilly, early on Sunday morning. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
He was seen walking from a bus station in Blackwood towards | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
Oakdale. The police are treating his death as unexplained. 80 more | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
foster places are needed in Bristol, to cope with a huge increase in the | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
number of children in care. The city's rising population, combined | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
with increased awareness after recent high-profile abuse cases, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
means that more carers are desperately needed. A campaign's | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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now underway to recruit them, as Emma Campbell reports. Laying the | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
table can be a lengthy wiz -- business at Jackie's house. That is | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
what happens when you're a mum to 38 children over 13 years. It is | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
nice to see a child coming in and you can see the child thrive and | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
maybe go back to parents, or be adopted and you know give another | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
family a wonderful life and it's very rewarding. Becky's 17, along | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
with her brother and sister, she has been with Jackie since she was | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
six. I know not everyone's as lucky as I have been, but it's been nice. | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
If I hadn't have stayed with Jackie and Mike I probably wouldn't have | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
gone to college and my life could have been different. But the | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
problem is there aren't enough Jackie to go around. Bristol's | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
population has gone up by 30% in the past decade and more children | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
need care. We have small children, some do need to be in local | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
authority care. And we have got an increase in our number of 16 and | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
17-year-olds which the local authority has to provide | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
accommodation for in care if they are in danger of being homeless. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
Those have been our pressure. We want to get more poster carers. We | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
do well with the proportion of carers. At the moment, the council | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
uses private agencies to help with the short fall. They don't come | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
cheap. Paying for a council gorser carer costs on average �13,300 a | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
year. Going through an agency can put it up to �37,000 a year. Almost | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
three times as much. With a meeting this week to discuss spending, that | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
is not incentive for the council to recruit more carers. Now, the main | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
story in Westminster today has of course been the on-going | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
investigation into phone hacking by tabloid journalists. We've had two | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
high-profile police resignations in the last two days and today both | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before MPs to answer questions | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
about what they knew and when. You may have seen Rupert Murdoch being | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
attacked. The Bath MP Don Foster is the co-chair of the Lib-Dem | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Parliamentary Policy Committee on the Media and joins me from | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Westminster. Of course that incident is what everyone is | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
talking about. What do you make of it? It is a pity, because it will | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
detract from some of the tough questioning we saw from the select | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
committee. But even that didn't lead to a great deal of additional | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
light on what has been going on. I'm still waiting to hear somebody | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
ask Rebekah Brooks a simple question, hen she left the News of | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
the World she warned there was more to come. We need to know what she | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
was talking about. We haven't yet heard an answer to that. Rebekah | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Brooks talking at the moment, but coming back to the Murdochs, what | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
was your reaction to what was said? I don't think it was so much what | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
was said, it was the whole appearance. We got the welcome, but | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
well rehearsed contrition from both of the Murdochs. I think there is | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
no doubt that Rupert Murdoch was looking his age and of course it | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
was very worrying for a man who was allegedly very keen to keep close | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
tabs on all parts of his empire to be saying he knew very little about | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
what was going on, News of the World was only one 1% of the empire | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
and perhaps he took the eye off the ball. And James Murdoch clearly the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
head of the European operation, admitting that he handed over large | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
sums of the company's money in pay off payments... Yet didn't know | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
much about it. Let's ask you this, you mentioned the things that they | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
do know, are you calling for a break up of that empoor now? There | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
is no question -- empire now? There is no question, we have seen heads | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
roll, the commissioner of police and Rebakah Brooks go. There noise | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
question that James Murdoch has to go. -- there is no question that | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
James Murdoch has to go. I think shareholders are probably now going | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
to be sthraig Rupert Murdoch has to go. And I think there is a case for | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
saying not only should we not allow the Murdoch empire to have more of | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
BSkyB but we should review whether they're fit and proper to even hold | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
the 39% of shares they currently own. What has the mood been like in | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Westminster, I specially ahong the libs, the Murdochs haven't been | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
courting you until you got to power. Dd they court you? I don't want to | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
go there. Many people will say there is no reason why they would, | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
we weren't in power. I mean clearly we haven't been tainted by this. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
What matters to look at the relationship between politicians | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
and the media and between the media and the police. That is why this | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
inquiry is important. Thank you. Now, Bristol has become | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
internationally famous for its street art - not least the Banksy's | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
that adorn walls and buildings across the city. But you may | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
remember one his earliest works was accidentally painted over last week | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
and that's led to a call for a register to be set up, to protect | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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our public art. We've sent Jules Hyam out to find out more. I have | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
come to Park Street where I have managed to find a piece of street | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
art. You probably know it. This is one of Banksy's more well known | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
works. Rather cheeky and witty. Typical Banksy stuff and it has in | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
itself been a bit defaceded. So this is the kind of thing that this | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
register would aim to protect. Well it was only last week when a group | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
who had bought a building decided they wanted to clean up the outside | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
and they did, but they also cleaned up a Banksy. They didn't know about | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
that. So the idea with this register would be to have a list of | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
works that would be protected from being accidentally painted over. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
You would need per politician to do that. A senior figure in the art | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
scene join me. What do you think of the idea? It is a daft idea. If | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
you're a street artist you take your chance. You're either going to | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
be defaced by a fellow street artist, or you're going to have | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
your work painted over by the owner of the property that you have | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
defaced. I can't see why somebody who wakes up one day and finds | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
there is a piece of street art on his wall shouldn't have the right | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
to get rid of it if he wants to. But many of the pieces are well | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
known works that draw crowds to the city. Don't they have some kind of | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
cultural value? They probably have cultural value, although I would | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
distinguish that from artistic value. I can understand why | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
shopkeepers and people with commercial interests would want to | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
bring in crowds to look at art. Hence Nelson Street development. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
That is a big one where they will paint up lots of buildings. So with | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
the register, you would be protecting some of that value that | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
does bring people into the city. And protecting them from what? If | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
you are a sub versive artist and paint on other people's property I | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
don't think you have a right to be protect, simply because the art | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
world have taken you up and made your work valuable. Thank you. Well | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
street art in Bristol as ever proving controversial. Thank you. | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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Now dby CIDel who won three Gold Medals in the Beijing Olympic has | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
been taken into the par him ticks squad for the equestrian event. She | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
has been out of the team since 2008 after her horse was retired. Debbie | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
will compete in the European Championships in Belgium in | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
September. Now, plenty of motorists have a few penalty points on their | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
licence, but it doesn't seem to stop people from speeding. One | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
group of villagers in Gloucestershire got so fed up with | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
cars whizzing through their streets they now want commuters to sign up | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
to a responsible driving pledge. So will it work? Simon Lewis went to | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
find out. Hardwick, wouldn't say they have a big traffic problem. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
But they are concerned this many motorists drive too fast. The | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
police have used the usual carrot and stick. But local Bobby said it | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
time for a more softly softly approach. It was left down to the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
police I could stand here 24 hours a day, but the moment I go away, | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
the problem comes back. This is about trying to find a solution | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
that works even when I'm not here. So he has come up with a plab. -- | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
plan. I'm looking to promote this scheme. Put this in your back | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
window. Says you're a good driver. I am. It is a simple pledge. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Motorists agree to watch their speed through the village and add | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
their names to the web-site. It is not a wrap on the knuckles. We want | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
people to focus on their speed to prevent accidents. The couple of | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
seconds extra it take the keep driving at 30 or under notice a lot | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
in a short journey. But is the pledge enough to make drivers slow | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
down? It is a good idea, definitely. There is too many mad drivers. | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
been run off the road a few times. It is worth a go. It could bring | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
down the casualties. But beware this PC will take no prisoners if | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
you're pulled over. If we notice you have a careful driver sticker, | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
that talking too might be lengthyer. Hardwick hopes the pledge will be | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
adopted by other communitys to keep the West safe and sound. Well now | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
it is time for the weather with Ian. Today I was in Thornberry and met | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
some keen viewer and fans of your. They want to know about the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
International Space Station and I understand you have had some | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
understand you have had some requests of your own. It will come | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
back, we think 28th of this month and then a nightly sighting likely | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
until to the 2nd August. Skies allowing. But by that stage that | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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last weak of July is looking a good deal better. We could have a damp | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
start in Somerset. We start the day on a wet note for these areas. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Further north some showers developing. It is from this feature, | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
that is the frontal wave developing off the south of Ireland and | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
through the course of the night it tracks closer to clip into Cornwall. | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
So if we go into the higher resolution model, we pick it up in | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
the early hours. It spreads northwards, this rain will affect | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Somerset, Wiltshire and far enough north into Bristol, Bath and the M4 | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
corridor. So the situation at the moment is there have been showers | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
across Wiltshire. The last of those just disappearing at the moment. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
And it is dry. So we lead into this evening with some sunny spells for | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
some. A fair amount of cloud. And as the night wares on the winds | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
will fall and where you get clearer spells, particularly in Wiltshire, | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
you may get some mist and fog. But the cloud is increasing into the | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
early hours. And this feature here is that one that I was showing you, | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
starting to introduce rain towards day draebg. Temperatures tonight | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
about 11 or 12 Celsius will be typical. Tomorrow as the morning | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
rush hour is under way this rain moves north-east ward. Heavy in | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
some places. Patchier in the north. In the afternoon we replace wit | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
some showers in the north. Not everyone, there will be some | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
favoured spots, such as in Wiltshire. There could be some | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
beefy showers there. Elsewhere, as the day wares on the showers fade | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
and the best of the sunshine later in the west. Temperatures tomorrow, | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
well not dissimilar to the last few days and with less sunshine | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
anywhere from 17 to 18 Celsius. Fairly typical. The sea conditions | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
are flat. I have given you your barometer in inches. Some better | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
weather on Friday and on Saturday it should be a fine day. Nothing | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
like last Saturday. Lovely and there was a request from Doug and | :27:33. | :27:39. |