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Hello and welcome to BBC Points West. In Friday's headlines: | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Zooming in on the rioters - police reveal new pictures as they ask you | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
to help identify the criminals. There's angry reaction in | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Gloucester - the housing chief vows to evict any council tenants | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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involved in the unrest. Should perpetrators be identified the | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
bands are tenants, we will take legal action which may result in be | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
fiction. Also tonight, a tale of two | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
chairman as our two senior non- league sides prepare for the new | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
season. And we're live from the Balloon | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Fiesta - will the weather be kind enough for another mass ascent? | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Lots of famous faces waiting here. As the country counts the cost of | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
almost a week of unrest, police in Bristol have released new footage | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
to try to track down more of those responsible for rioting. They say | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
they have already made 46 arrests, and praise the public for their | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
help in identifying those responsible. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
It may have been relatively quiet on the streets of Bristol over the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
last couple of nights but as you can see here, the retailers are | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
taking no chances. This is one of a number of shops are boarded up just | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
in case. Imagine seeing that a week ago. The police are talking tough. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
St if you are responsible for civic disorder, you will be caught and | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
punished. They may not have known it but | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
their crime was caught on camera. CCTV, capturing the moment a mob | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
attacked a shop in Bristol. And now the police want the public's help | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
identifying those involved. We have extensive CCTV in Bristol and will | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
be producing new images of people all the time. They are going on to | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
our website. We asked people to go on and identify them. Today in the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
end of a store which came under attack spoke of the fear of his | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
staff as they frantically pulled down shutters to prevent attackers | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
getting him. There were customers inside the shop as well when the | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
people were trying to come in the shop. Everybody was scared. They | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
can do anything inside. They can burn the shop, steel, hit. You | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
never know. For the police now, rounding up those responsible for | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
street violence and quickly is the key priority. They have a key -- | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
team walking around the clock at the rink hours of CCTV footage. And | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
they have asked the media to publish pictures of those they are | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
keen to track down. Yet ironically, that may have led to more crime. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
The offices of the Bristol Evening Post were attacked last night. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Police say there could well be a link. Detectives have praised the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
support they have already received from the public which they say has | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
helped them to make 46 arrests. So far 19 people have already been | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
charged or otherwise dealt with. Meanwhile, in Gloucester, the | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
city's housing team have vowed to evict any of their tenants involved | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
in the riots there on Thursday night. -- on Tuesday night. People | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
in the Barton and Tredworth area have told us how angered they are | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
that those intent on trouble have tarnished their community. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
48 hours on and more arrests and charges after the riots - an 18 | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
year-old man taken into custody and a 15 year-old boy charged with | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
violent disorder. And the tough stance is extending outside of the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
police as well. Gloucester City Homes say they will have any of | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
their tenants convicted of involvement in this violence. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
REPORTER: Do you not have a legal obligation to home families with | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
young children, and can you still have it then? We can, if they have | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
been a perpetrator of a crime. If they are with families they will | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
prevent themselves as homeless to the local authorities but | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
ultimately, we have a responsibility to the local | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
community. It is thought many of those involved in the riots came | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
from outside Barton and Tredworth. And that has angered many people | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
living here. Many admit the area has struggled with its image in the | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
past, but that is history, and they now want to turn that around. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
have a very nice community. those that know the community well | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
say it is time for people to make the positive side of living here a | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
priority. Local people really feel that people should give Barton a | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
break. The jobs it supports and vibrancy it brings. People should | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
enjoy what is available here. there are still efforts going on to | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
make people feel safe in their homes. Although there were no arson | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
attacks on homes here, the fire service have been visiting | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
residents to make sure they are protected. After events like | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Tuesday we just want people to know we are here for help and advice | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
about building security and how to protect your rubbish so you are not | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
making yourself more for Cannes then you need to be. -- more | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
vulnerable. With a new dispersal order now in effect here, police | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
are not expecting a return to the violence, but they are promising a | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
robust response if rioters decide to take them on. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
I suspect it is no coincidence that people are issuing tough warnings | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
tonight. They will be mindful that the weekend may well produce new | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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flash points. Quiet for now. Let's hope it's Dales -- stays that way. | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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For local radio stations will have Now, if you are a Vodafone customer | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
here in the West you may have been struggling to get a signal on your | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
mobile in the last few days. That is because one of the area's main | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
mastswas set on fire and damaged earlier this week. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
As someone whose job it is to react to emergencies, John Marks relies | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
on his mobile phone. We had no phone coverage at all down here, so | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
the only way they could contact us was by the amateur radio. Not a | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
good situation, especially when it affected 80 people like John. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Emergency services need to get to us. They need to be able to get to | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
us straight away, not in half an hour or an hour's time. As you can | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
imagine, it could be life- threatening. That threat was caused | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
by damage to this mast. Engineers have been working on it for most of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the day. Vodafone says it should be fixed by tomorrow. There is nothing | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
on the company's website to suggest a there is a problem. This Vodafone | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
customer found staying in touch without his mobile far from easy. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
can get incoming voice mails and text messages but I cannot make any | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
phone calls out and that is the problem. I do a lot of my research | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
work by making phone calls, talking to people, making appointments, so | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
I have had to go out to a phone box. Vodafone says damage to this mast | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
was not an accident, even though the company would not comment on | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
whether it was connected with the riots in Bristol earlier on this | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
week. And the company said that information about that damage, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
which caused disruption to mobile- phone services for a huge number of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
users across Bristol and the South West, has now been passed to the | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
It is Amanda and Chris here, with all the West Country news, sport | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
and weather. Still to come on the programme tonight: Claiming | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
disability benefits and too ill to earn, so why was this man filmed | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
cycling to work? And Bristol's Balloon Fiesta | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
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celebrates its 40th birthday. Scott Welcome back to our live coverage | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
of the Bristol Balloon Fiesta where the great news is the balloons are | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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in the sky again. This is Europe's biggest balloon festival and that | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
is because Cameron Balloons is the biggest maker of balloons in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
world. We were thinking, what could other companies' main from -- learn | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
from them about manufacturing, so we got 200 businessmen and women | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
out of bed early this morning and hosted a special debate with a | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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Watching the balloons go up. Business leaders keen to get their | :09:21. | :09:31. | |
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companies of the ground. We have a lawyers and accountants without | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
whom Bristol could not function. Inside, people from all sectors. On | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
one side, high-tech engineering manufacturers. On the other side, | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
the more hand-made crafts. Do not call them cottage industries. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
have back Cheddar which has been protected by the Chinese as a | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
country name. Globally recognised quality ale. And handbags have | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
known the world over in the fashion industry. They are made in the | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
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South West. Flying the flag for Filton, Catherine Bennett's, -- | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Catherine Bennett, a leader of Airbus. There is technology and | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
industry. People ask me where I work. I said Bristol. The West of | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
England, where the engineers are, and they all know about it. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
amid all the self-congratulation, some like this respected lawyer | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
wonder, does the rest of the world really know what the West Country | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
can do? No, we do not do enough. We need to drive the image and | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
manufacturers on both sides of the room, much more strongly than we do | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
and promote ambition and success. So whether it is a high-tech | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
engineering or handbrake cider and handbags, everybody here wants to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
get their business of the ground. So what does a man who really knows | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
about ballooning think of it all. The main thing I think the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Government can do is just stay out of our hair and let us get on with | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
it and not produce too many things that take up management time | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
because that is the main resource for any small business. So you do | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
not have enough time -- much time for these enterprises and signs | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
that the Government are producing? No, they do a bit of good in one | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
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place and probably take it away As you can see, the crowds here are | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
loving it and are here in force. Later on we hope to be broadcasting | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
live from a balloon basket so you can enjoy those wonderful views as | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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Engineers are digging down 80 metres in bat to preserve the | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
ancient hot spring. A new borehole will be drilled to the source of | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
the Hetling Spring. Old corroded pipe work will be replaced. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
12 people accused of fiddling tens of thousands of pounds-worth of | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
taxpayers' money have appeared in court today. One man pleaded guilty | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
to benefit fraud after he was filmed cycling to work. He had | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
claimed his leg was so bad he was unable to earn a living. He has a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
love of football - after a serious leg injury ended his playing career, | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Malcolm Beck turned to coaching. The former Yeovil player has been | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
working with the Fry Club at Keynsham for the past three seasons | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
- even a hip operation couldn't keep him away - but his passion for | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the sport has landed him in trouble over benefits. While the Department | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
of Work and Pensions was filming this footage of Mr Beck on the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
training ground, he was still claiming disability living | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
allowance to which he was no longer entitled. I have spent quite a lot | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
of time talking with Mr Becker this afternoon. He said he thought being | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
active was something that was part of his rehabilitation from a nasty | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
leg injury. He does say he should have realised he should have told | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
the Department of Work and Pensions about his change in circumstances. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
One woman here today claimed �25,000 in benefits while she was | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
still working. Last year we caught 56,000 benefit thieves. They all | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
have to pay back the money they stole... Today's cases represent | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
�75,000 of overpayment, benefit money which must now be paid back. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
Benefit fraud is always going to be a problem. It is a significant | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
problem but a small minority of people. We are determined to stamp | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
this out. It is a crime. It is stealing taxpayers' money which | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
could be used for much better purposes than lining the pockets of | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
people who are greedy and stealing money. At any one time, the DWP | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
will have dozens of investigations on the go into fraudulent benefits | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
claims - some are fraudulent from the outset - the cases we saw today | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
revolved around claimants' failure to inform the Government of a | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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Now to sport. First it was off, now it is on again. Cheltenham Town is | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
delighted that their derby with Swindon goes ahead after all. Also | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
with news of the new non-League season, he is David Passmore. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
We have two clubs in the Blue Square Bet Premier League. That is | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
the one that used to be the Conference and is the top division | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
outside of the Football League. Bath City and Forest Green Rovers | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
are both ambitious clubs with interesting chairman. Tonight, | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Forest Green from Nailsworth in Gloucestershire play Stockport, | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
while Bath City kick off tomorrow afternoon with a difficult game at | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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Mansfield. Give us 110 %... It's a critical | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
moment in the club's history. The eve of a season when Bath City, | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
under the guidance of manager Adie Britton, try to maintain their | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
position in the fifth highest league in the country. Last season | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
was their first in this league after winning promotion and they | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
finished tenth after a shaky start. Everyone talks about second-season | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
syndrome. After 11 games we have eight PTS and bar in the bottom two. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
We thought it would be a very long season but we got a few wins in | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
October. To come tenth at the end of the season, we were delighted. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
There's also change in the boardroom, with Manda Rigby taking | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
over as chairman. She's a lifelong Bolton fan, a BANES councillor, a | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
former managing director of the IT firm Netgear, as well as a | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
marketing director for Microsoft. She's utterly unfazed at being the | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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only female chairman in the top five divisions of English soccer. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
lot of the marketing I have done well be relevant. Making sure you | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
have a win-win situation with people. One of her key tasks is the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
ground. Redevelop here or sell and move elsewhere. The squad, | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
meanwhile - a mix of youth and some former Bristol City and Rovers | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
players - have to concentrate on consolidation and coping with | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
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second season syndrome. To give themselves some power... | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Solar panels are just the start of Dale Vince's plans to turn Forest | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Green Rovers into Britain's most eco-friendly club. The chairman - a | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
green energy businessman in Stroud - is making changes all around the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
new lawn. A new organic pitch has been laid, while floodlights will | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
now have low-energy LEDs. And just this week, the green message has | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
even seen the road name change here. We have had people ring up to say, | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
what can we do at home? Electric team buses. An electric tractor for | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
the groundsman. Will other clubs follow you? They have already been | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
on the phone. Who? I cannot tell you! And the green message has been | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
taken on by the Forest Green players. We have thought about our | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
food and the impact of what we are eating. It is a good thing for the | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
future. REPORTER: You have not been asked | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
to wash your own kit? Not yet! Their season starts tonight against | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Stockport. And despite only avoiding relegation on goal | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
difference back in May, they're confident of showing they can be | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
mean as well as green this season. As the weekend games come up on | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
your screen now, the chairman of Cheltenham Town has said he is to | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
live tomorrow's match against Swindon is back on. The game at | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
Cheltenham's Whaddon Road ground was called off on the advice of | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
police but yesterday evening they had a change of heart and said they | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
could provide the officers needed to police the town centre and the | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
railway station. Chairman Paul Baker said the match will attract | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
1600 away fans and will be one of his club's biggest three home | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
fixtures of the season. And an interesting day for Bristol | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
Rovers' new manager Paul Buckle. He is insisting it is just the three | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
points that matter as he welcomes Torquay, the club he left in the | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
summer, to the Memorial Stadium for his first home game since taking | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
over. And finally, the long saga over Bath Rugby attempts to sign | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
All Black Stephen Donald is over. The fly-half has agreed a three- | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
year contract. Plenty more on that and all our stories tonight on the | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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That is it from us here in the studio this evening. We hope you | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
have a lovely weekend. Goodbye from us and hello to Scott. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
We are amongst the ball of the fans and the burners and it is like a | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
race to get in the air now. Some people are patiently waiting. Our | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
balloon is the one behind us here, the big red one. Before we go on | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
board, let's have another look back at the last 24 hours of Balloon | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Fiesta number 33. More than 100,000 people watched | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
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the famous Fiesta night glow last night. If you missed it, there is | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
another on Saturday night. Come the morning, more hot air. And who is | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
getting ready for take-off? Only Britain's most famous soul singer, | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
Beverley Knight. Now I am getting excited! I am performing in a | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
balloon, me and my guitarist up their singing a song. While they | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Beverley Knight drifted off cheerfully, Points West joined | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
passengers clambering on board a big rides balloon, for their first | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
ever flight. There is no easy way to clamber into a wicker basket. So, | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
what do they think of balloon travel? Horrendous! We are still on | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
the ground! I am not letting it go yet! Watching on, some of Bristol's | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
other early risers. The Bull family from Warmley were here at five am, | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
as they have been every year for 26 years. My mother and father brought | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
me down and I have done the same now for my little boy. Brilliant. | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
On board our flight, some breathtaking views. As the fine | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
sights of Bristol slid by. It is fabulous. It really is. You see a | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
different side to things. It is just wonderful. It is amazing what | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
you see from a balloon. Who would have thought, emus in Doynton, we | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
think. And trampolines, everywhere. Like most flights, it ended with | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
that reassuring thump of terra firma. Let's hope there are many | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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We are getting ready for take-off. I was mentioning Cameron Balloons | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
and has been doing so -- and how they have been making balloons for | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
40 years. There is someone else in the West who makes balloons, but | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
not out of wicker and nylon. Quite literally in a world and | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
class of his own. Ron Cormack could claim to be the ultimate Bristol | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
Balloon Fiesta fan. He has made more than 60 replicas. It all began | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
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13 years ago when his eldest grandchild begged him for a balloon. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
The first one was a Michelin balloon. It did not take very long | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
to do it. After that, we went on then from the ordinary shaped ones | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
to the special shaped ones. We were getting all of them. The next one | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
was the action man because that was his favourite. I think Bertie | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Bassett may have come after that. I cannot remember them all. Today, | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
Ron's other grandchildren share his passion. I remember the chocolate | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
egg 1. They have six models each in their bedrooms. And now his work is | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
being admired by the Fiesta organisers. That is amazing! Oh, my | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
goodness. Muir Moffat is one of the directors and is blown away by the | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
collection. I think it is just awesome. I have never seen a | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
collection like it. So much work has gone into it and it is just so | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
good. Most of these balloons I have seen in the sky and a lot of them | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
are owned by my friends. And to honour Ron Cormack's amazing work, | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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he and his family will be special Here we are in the basket, ready to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
go. We have lots of passengers on board two, and the pilot, Clive | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
Bayley. Where are we heading? Straight across town. North Bristol | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
area? Yes. You are coming along, too. The next time you see us and | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
we will be up in the air looking The good news is the weather is | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
improving through the weekend. A cloudy start on Saturday but | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
turning brighter by Sunday. We can see why by the pressure charge. A | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
friend is moving in from the Atlantic, bringing changeable | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
conditions tonight and into tomorrow. But beyond that it is | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
relatively clear. Through this evening, it stays clarity with a | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
band of drizzly rain spreading eastwards overnight stop some heavy | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
bursts and south-westerly wind will pick up, too, especially on high | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
ground. A fairly murky night. Tomorrow, the remnants of that | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
front leaving behind a few showers. Clarity with some mist over X more | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
and then it will turn drier through the day. Raised in the cloud | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
bringing brighter spells. Brisk wind should ease later, too. They | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
will continue to bring in a fairly humid air. Highs of 18 Celsius up | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
to 20 in south Somerset. So it is looking fairly promising for the | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
International Balloon Fiesta at Ashton Court tomorrow evening. The | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
wind is easing so not bad for the night glow and the fireworks. | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
Brighter still on Sunday afternoon for the Red Arrows' display. | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Becoming brighter. We cannot rule out the odd shower but it is | :26:16. | :26:24. | |
largely dry. Feeling fresher rather than close like recent days. So it | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
is an improving picture through the weekend. Sunny spells on Sunday and | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
staying find at least for the start of next week, too. You can keep up- | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
to-date with what is happening and check at the latest video forecast | :26:38. | :26:48. | |
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It never fails to take the breath away. I have flown many times over | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
Bristol but how about this? Rising up over Ashton Court, we have the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
whole of the Balloon Fiesta in front others, and there are many | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
more on the ground. It is a staggering sight and it is all very | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
peaceful and quiet. Who is on board? We have spoken to the pilot. | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
We have Cole from London. The first time on a balloon? Yes. We have | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
just come back from Vegas where we went on a helicopter in the Gran | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
Canyon. Thank you for talking to us. Plenty more over the weekend. They | :27:27. | :27:33. |