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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Get your act together - a warning that the west will miss out on | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
public transport if the councils don't work as one. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
What you won't see this year - no fireworks at the Harbour Festival | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
to stop money going up in smoke. The best address in town - but now | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Cheltenham considers selling its elegant council offices. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
And why a bevy of balloons from the West Country are brightening the | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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Good evening. West country councils are burying their differences and | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
working together in a last minute attempt to get funding for new | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
transport systems. The councils that used to make up | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the old Avon area are joining forces once more to persuade the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
government to pay for new bus links that could transform the way we | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
travel. But the money is tight and other local authorities right | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
across the country are bidding for the same funding. | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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From that image you just saw, it looks like the boss is driving on | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the wrong side of the street. What the local councils have been told | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
by the government is to put forward projects for government funding | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
that support Robert Tyre's Bryan Gunn trained minds, a sort of very | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
high value expensive projects. The key words of by ability and | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
affordability. But of councils across the West are in a dogfight | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
to draw in hundreds of millions of pounds of government cash. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
It's the holy grail of public transport - an integrated system | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
that connects and that works. There are several transport improvement | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
schemes here in the west all bidding for hundreds of millions of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
government funding. And the four councils that once sheltered under | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the Avon umbrella have joined forces to try to win money for five | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
schemes. They would be in Bath, Weston-super-Mare, and in Bristol | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
at Ashton Vale, South Bristol and three new rapid routes across the | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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city. The Department for Transport offered me considerable amount of | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
money to local authorities who want to put in innovative transport | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
schemes. We decided that we needed to do a lot to get Bristol moving | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
again. Therefore, we would put in a number of schemes to get the whole | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
region called Naked and moving together. -- co-ordinated. Despite | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the four councils working together, they are stopping short of becoming | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
an integrated transport authority which could set its own fares as | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
they have in London or Manchester. Too expensive they say. Others | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
disagree. There is a clear local consensus that an integrated | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
transport authority would be good for Bristol. It would mean that it | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
would have a voice at the table when funding decisions are made, it | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
would make it easier to lobby ministers and civil servants, and | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
the public wants that. There are schemes in Taunton, Gloucester and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Cheltenham too, all in competing with the five in Avon for | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
increasingly scarce central government cash. It's the transport | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
ticket they all want to get their hands on. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
Something like 50 different schemes across the country that they are | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
all competing with. Let's talk to a Bristol West MP and pick up on that | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
issue of the integrated transport authority. It sounds like the | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
councils are doing a job. I hope they all do well. An integrated | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
transport authority would make expectation the norm and not | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
something newsworthy. It would also give us a powerful voice when we | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
are competing across the country for schemes like this. The councils | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
say it will cost their council tax payers more money and it would be | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
an expensive layer of bureaucracy. You have got to look at the set-up | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
costs and the savings it would make. Without an ITA, Bristol will never | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
see the game changing transport infrastructure that so many people | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
want without a structure to enable local authorities to work together. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
That type of infrastructure would say that so much money because it | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
would transform the kind of transport investment we are seeing | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
and make it a game changed it for the city. Thank you very much. To | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
give you an idea and a timescale, and also a potential cost, the | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
schemes vary: Anything between 30 % up to 50 %. We should know a result | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
by December so fingers crossed for an early Christmas present. | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Meanwhile, it's been a tough day on the motorways surrounding the West. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Traffic's been building up on the M5 near Gloucester where a lorry's | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
overturned. Motorists are being advised to avoid the M4 near | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Newport which was closed earlier after a lorry fire in the Brynglas | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
Tunnel. The Bristol man who died in a | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
helicopter crash at the weekend has been named. Chris Watts was the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
only person in the helicopter when it came down in a field in North | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Cornwall on Sunday. His brother-in- law has told the BBC that Mr Watts | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
was a "very safety conscious pilot" and that "flying was his passion." | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
The 40th Bristol Harbour Festival is just a few days away but with | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
the City Council making �28 million worth of cuts this year, the | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
festival's budget has taken a hit. So how much does this free festival | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
cost the city and what does it bring in? Laura Lyon has been | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
finding out. Out on a limb, despite city budget | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
cuts biting across Bristol, preparations for the 40th annual | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
Harbour Festival continue apace. In 1972, the festival cost just �800 | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
to stage. Last year the budget was �450,000 but that's gone down by | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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�90,000 for this anniversary year. We have nibbled away at different | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
areas, been really clear that it is a lot of money to lose from a | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
modest budget for what it delivers, up to 250,000 people. But you | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
cannot lose the integrity of the event. One of the most expensive | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
and popular events to go is the firework display. It's being | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
replaced with more day time and early evening performances | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
showcasing local, national and international talents. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Rather than charge people an entrance fee, this year the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
organisers are introducing a �1 programme which it hopes all the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
visitors will buy to help bring the festival in on budget. But they say | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
it can't be underestimated, the quarter of a million people who | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
attend the event. Last year they spent nearly �9 million to help the | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
economy. And it's businesses across the city | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
that rely on a share of that money to boost their annual profits. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
see an absolute spike, it is the busiest weekend of the summer. We | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
have people from 9am until midnight. We need all the money we can get in | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the till at this time of year so that it helps us through winter. In | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
January and February, a can be very quiet down here. With dozens of | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Water Week activities like sailing lessons and historic tours already | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
underway, organisers are confident the change to a fuller day-time | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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programme won't affect the cultural That being looked very nice! | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
You're watching BBC Points West this Tuesday evening. And there's | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
still plenty coming up on tonight's programme: A far cry from a Banksy, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
the blot on the Bristol landscape that proves graffiti isn't always | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
seen as art. And the German bomber uncovered in | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
a back garden. We go on a dig with a difference in Somerset. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
A Swindon man with learning difficulties who'd been missing | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
from home for more than two days has been found. 42-year-old Philip | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Panting disappeared on his bike on Sunday morning. His family alerted | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
police and said he may have been trying to head to Exeter after | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
overhearing his parents talking about a trip there. He was found | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
this afternoon in Bridgwater. A man's been sent to prison after | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
knocking down a parking attendant at a supermarket in Bristol. Martin | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Takle had left his car in a parent and child space at the ASDA store | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
in Bedminster. He was given a �60 penalty charge for wrongly using | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
the space, but as he raced off, he knocked the attendant to the ground. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
He's been jailed for six months for dangerous driving and banned from | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
driving for 15 months. Now would you like to get your | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
hands on one of Cheltenham's most historic buildings? The Municipal | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Offices could be on the market soon because the council says it will | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
cost too much to renovate them. They're meeting tonight to discuss | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
the sale. But with grants being cut and council tax frozen, is it any | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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wonder councils are looking at selling off the family silver? | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
It's the iconic image of Cheltenham on the postcards. The centre piece | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
of this popular regency town. For almost 100 years, this building has | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
been home for the council. But they say it's not fit for purpose. And | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
it would cost almost �7 million to modernise it, money which the | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
council say could be better spent. The council will meet tonight to | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
decide whether or not to keep paying the growing maintenance cost | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
or put the building up for sale. The main issue is using the space | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
we have got flexibly. Take my office for example, we have got a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
meeting table here, a breakout space there and a workstation | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
behind me. Most of the time, there is only me occupying all three of | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
those spaces. If we were in an open-plan space, and I would expect | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
that, then we would be using that accommodation in a much more | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
effective way down we are currently. One of the preferred options for | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
this listed building is to sell it off as a hotel, something which may | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
be highly desirable for many developers. There are a lot of | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
buildings, particularly coming up through the public sector, but they | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
are often the second the property is. Something in a prime location | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
such as the municipal buildings is very rare to come onto the market. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
So it is likely it could be snapped up? There will be a very strong | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
demand. But don't forget this is a local icon and for some, the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
thought of it being a private business is just too much to bear. | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
Resell far too much stuff these days in this country. We need to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
retain a some of our assets and buildings are one of them. This is | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
part of our history. You destroyed this and you destroy part of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Cheltenham. The proposal is still at a very early stage, although | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
councils are under increasing pressure as the government cuts | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
back on its funding and council tax is frozen. But what councils like | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Cheltenham do have is assets like this and may feel the time has come | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
to cash in the family silver. For years, cancer patients in | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Swindon needing radiotherapy have had to travel to Oxford. It's meant | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
a 70-mile round trip which can be exhausting for patients. But | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Swindon NHS says it's talking to providers to see whether the | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
treatment can be made available locally in the future. Brennan | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
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Nicholls reports. Sharon knows all too well the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
effect of making the trip from Swindon to Oxford for radiotherapy. | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
Her mother had to go from taxi to Oxford. She did not want to get | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
into the taxi, but at the same time, she wanted to have treatment | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
because she didn't want to die. She was very, very sick and nauseous so | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
they would have to stop along the way to make sure that she could | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
throw up. Five years ago, Sharon herself was diagnosed with breast | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
cancer. Five times a week, for five weeks, she had to get to Oxford for | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
treatment. People do not ask to have cancelled all to have to | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
travel to Oxford, but what they do need is some support to make sure | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
that we have got treatment centres going on locally so that they can | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
get the best possible treatment without having to face that | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
horrendous journey. This woman runs the army cancer group in Swindon. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
She says the patients are desperate for things do change. We have been | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
trying to do this for years and it looks as though it is moving a bit | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
now, but it will take several years before we can get it in Swindon. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
But it takes so much money, we are talking millions. It would be so | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
good if we could get some services here. It seems as though there is | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
real hope: NHS Swindon says it is about to pull at a tender for | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
businesses to bid for a radiotherapy unit in the town. The | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
NHS needs to find the right developer who needs all the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
necessary criteria. Police have again asked for anyone | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
with information about the shooting of a man in Bristol to come forward. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Rico Gordon was shot dead on Stapleton Road on 3rd July. Police | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
want to talk to anyone who was there, or in the Coach House pub, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
at the time. A ninth man was arrested at the weekend and has | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
been released on bail. Anyone planning to go to this | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
year's Balloon Fiesta in Bristol is being advised to buy parking | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
tickets in good time. Half of the available car parking spaces have | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
already been sold. More than 100 balloons will be on display at this | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
year's Fiesta, which runs from the 11-14th August. Parking can be | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
booked on the balloon fiesta website. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
A piece of graffiti written on a cliff face of the Avon Gorge might | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
not be removed because doing so could damage rare plant life. The | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
slogan, painted in large white letters, appeared a couple of weeks | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
ago. Leaving the National Trust with | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
something of a dilemma - leave it there to protect plants or risk | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
poisoning the plants and just paint over the whole slogan. Here's Jules | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Hyam. It's a world renowned landmark of | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Bristol, but the Avon Gorge isn't looking quite like it used to. This | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
slogan is clearly visible to motorists and tourists on boat | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
cruises. It is a shame because the court is an iconic place and it is | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
a shame to have that intruding. Having said that, the majority of | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
people do not see it, I think. It is a relatively small piece of | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
graffiti in a very large site. stretch of the gorge has been home | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
to more creative political expressions - a sculpture made of | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
up rubbish collected in the area was created in 2008, and back in | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
1999 these artists were commissioned to paint a seem of | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
gold in the gorge cliff walls. Bristol seems to have a double | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
edged relationship with graffiti. If it is witty and intelligent, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
then it tends to be celebrated and could become protected. But if it | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
is a giant slogan painted on one of the most natural landscape, most | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
people wanted to be removed. The trouble is, it is not always easy | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
to do. It is not the most accessible of sides, but the site | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
is a really important for wildlife so we have to get consent from the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
government advisers that anything we do well not have a detrimental | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
effect. Avon gorge is the only place where you can come across | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
particular plants in Britain and we would not want to lose something | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
special like that. To make sure that the plants stay, the graffiti | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
will probably stay until the weather does the job of getting rid | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
of it. Mess created by pigeons in central | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Swindon has got so bad that birds of prey have been brought in to | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
scare them away. Parts of the courtyard near the library have | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
become inaccessible and there's a growing concern that droppings | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
could pose a serious health and safety threat. Katharine Da Costa | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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reports. This is one of a pair of walks | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
built-in -- brought in to protect the library. The pigeons had | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
colonised the area and there were a lot of nests in various areas that | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
were inaccessible to us. The droppings had accumulated to an | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
alarming extent, particularly on the balconies, and so it became | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
apparent that we had to do something urgently. The council | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
tried culling the pigeons a couple of years ago, but they have since | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
recolonised and the sheer volume of mess is a potential health hazard. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Now the council is spending �4,000 on the clean-up operation and it is | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
hoped the birds of prey will prove to be a more permanent deterrent. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Basic principle is to create knowledge in the flock that there | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
is a predator. We want them to know that this is not a safe place to | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
breed and that takes time. It does not happen overnight. This court | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and his handler will regularly visit the site of the next four | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
months. It is hoped they will establish a no-fly zone for pigeons | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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once and for all. Moves to slow down the growth of | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
breeding seagull pairs in Gloucester have been a success | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
according to the City Council. It says there are nearly 1,500 | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
breeding pairs in the city. That's an increase of 15% in the last nine | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
years. Some rooftop nesting sites have been demolished and rooftops | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
and ledges made 'bird proof'. There were fears the number may have | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
doubled in the same period if nothing was done. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
The wreckage of a German bomber shot down near Bridgwater more than | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
70 years ago has been uncovered in someone's back garden. The RAF | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
downed the Heinkel plane after it had been on a bombing raid over | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
Bristol. Archaeologists have now excavated | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
the bomber, which for years has been buried under an estate of | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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bungalows. Steve Powell has more. 6 o'clock, August 14th, 1940. A | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
German bomber has been attacked by an RAF Spitfire. Its crew have | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
baled out and the stricken aircraft heads straight towards a village. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
Miraculously, nobody was killed. 71 years later, 18 of aviation | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
enthusiasts have moved into dig up what remains of the plane -- Lord | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Justice Levison from the front garden of an unsuspecting | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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homeowners. They didn't have to dig far before they found what they | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
were looking for. It has got one of the engine valves. We found quite a | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
few of those. The best find until now is on the front of the engine, | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
the Mercedes Benz badge, the emblem. This man has lived in the village | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
all his life and remembers the events clearly. I remember the | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
machine gun fire. I remember the plane's going around and round. I | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
remember it shooting across this way and there was a big hole. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
hero was 12 and a plane in an orchard when she was confronted by | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
the bomber heading straight towards her. We had to bend when it came | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
over. If we didn't, it would have knocked into us, and that is your | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
reflexes when you go down like that and something is coming towards you. | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
You literally have to duck? Yes. an excited 10-year-old, this man | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
picked up a souvenir which has had been puzzled ever since. What you | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
have got there is part of the inside of a Giro compose. I have | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
had that for so many years and I have asked hundreds of people and | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
no one has known. There was satisfaction at having unearthed | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
fallible memories of those who were there on that summer's day in a | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
village that narrowly avoided tragedy. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
And solved the mystery is for some as well. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Cricket, and at the Cheltenham Festival, Gloucestershire are | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
chasing 196 runs to win their latest match in the Clydesdale Bank | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
40-over competition. Essex recovered from 52 for 7, to make | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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Bristol Old Vic's production of Swallows and Amazons is heading to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
the West End. The show broke box office records and will transfer to | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
London for a five week run this Christmas. It's the first time | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
since 1999 that an Old Vic production has transferred to the | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
West end. It will run at the Vaudeville Theatre before going on | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
a UK wide tour later. Now, here in the West, we probably | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
take the sight of a hot air balloon for granted. But this week, seven | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
balloons from Bristol are giving the city of London a rather special | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
wake up call. They've flown across the capital | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
playing specially composed music. Wendy Hurrell's been up with them. | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Five am and something very unusual is waking up in the middle of saw | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
the park. This morning I am -- staring Londoners from their | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
slumber from 500 metres up. This is the sky Orchestra, magical music by | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
a Bristol composer Dan Jones, played from seven hot air balloons. | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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Floating quietly into the air, I am I have actually got tears in my | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
eyes. The Sun is rising over London, which is even more beautiful. The | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
music is just incredibly the ethereal. If every morning was like | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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this... This of project is by a Bristol man, known for putting out | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
pianos for us to play on city streets. On the ground, the artist | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
tells me more. The idea is not to wake them up, but just to lift them. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
I want them to see their imaginations so they can have | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
curious dreams. It should be a wonderful wake-up call for London. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Funded by the Mayer's office, this is one of the many wonders we will | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
see across the UK in the year running up to the Olympics. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
An exciting musical idea, I like the idea about. | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
One way of him voiding the congestion charge if you're going | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
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to the capital! -- of a voiding the Many of you in west Somerset saw | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
the best of the sunshine, and the world through the course of | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
tomorrow as well because the further west you are, that is where | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
most of the sunshine will be. Further east, there will be more in | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
the way of cloud. But warm for most of us and dry. Pressure is rising | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
as we go through today and into tomorrow. As you can see from the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
chart, the cloudy area across the East of England juxtaposes with the | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
sunny spots in the West. These weather fronts in the West will | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
make very slow tortured progress towards us as we go through towards | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
the end of the week. That means dry conditions much as we have seen | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
today. The cloud cover has been dominant across some parts of will | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
two. You have had the best of the sunshine in west Somerset, but more | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
cloud down the M5 corridor and that is how things will remain towards | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
this evening. For the rest of the evening, we will continue with the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
pleasant sunshine. More cloud in the east, more breaks developing | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
across the districts. Light winds everywhere and the chance of mist | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
forming in some spots. Temperatures tonight, not much of a lightness to | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
last night, anywhere from 11 to 13 or 14 degrees. Tomorrow, we will | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
start with a variable amounts of cloud, some sunny spells, no repeat | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
of the showers that we saw this morning, it will be dry everywhere. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
It stays that way throughout the day with light winds. The best of | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
the sunshine will be in the West in two parts of Somerset. Elsewhere, | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
sunny spells and feeling warm into the afternoon and evening. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Temperatures should be up into the low twenties for everyone. Once | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
again, favoured spots for the war must consist -- and almost | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
conditions will be in the south. A similar story for the likes of | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
Bristol. Under the cloud cover, it will feel very warm. For the end of | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
the weak, weak weather front coming westwards, particularly on Thursday | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
and Friday. That will thicken up the cloud on Friday morning, | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
bringing some possible rain. On Saturday, it looks like a fine day | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
for everyone and it bodes well for the start of the Bristol Harbour | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
Festival. There is a flower show and Country Fair in Portishead so | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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it looks good for them. At 1pm on Friday, I believe that Alex is | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
opening it. This is how things look into the tail-end of the week and | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
into the weekend. Temperatures remaining in the low twenties for | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
everyone. There is the threat of light areas of rain coming our way | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
on Friday, but that aside, it is dry. As indeed it will be on | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Saturday with temperatures around 22. Sunday should follow in similar | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
fashion. It bodes well for the weekend. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
I will be there, and thank you very much, I have put in a special order | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
for good weather! That is it did. I will be back with | :27:33. | :27:39. |