:00:15. > :00:18.Good evening. A group of West Country MPs, including Defence
:00:18. > :00:22.Secretary Liam Fox, is urging the Government to put a stop to the
:00:22. > :00:25.National Grid's plans for a network of new electricity pylons. A 37
:00:25. > :00:29.mile stretch is proposed to carry power from a new nuclear power
:00:29. > :00:39.station at Hinkley Point in Somerset to Avonmouth. But pressure
:00:39. > :00:42.is mounting for the power cables to go underground. Wells MP Tessa Munt
:00:42. > :00:45.lives on the edge of the Somerset Levels. If the new pylons are built
:00:45. > :00:48.she'll visible from her garden. But she says this isn't just an
:00:48. > :00:50.environmental argument. She's joined forces with Conservative MP
:00:50. > :01:00.and Defence Secretary Liam Fox to claim it's actually cheaper long
:01:00. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:11.At the moment we lose 7% of the energy taken from the source to its
:01:11. > :01:18.destination on overhead lines. If we put it underground we would save
:01:18. > :01:20.5% of the original figure. The costs are covered by putting them
:01:20. > :01:23.underground. It's long been National Grid contention that the
:01:23. > :01:26.cost of burying 37 miles of cables from Somerset to Avonmouth would be
:01:26. > :01:31.prohibitively high but in the face of public opposition it was
:01:31. > :01:34.prepared to consider other options. What's not helped the arguments on
:01:34. > :01:37.either side is that a study on the relative costs of underground
:01:37. > :01:41.versus overground has been dogged by problems and delays, even the
:01:41. > :01:44.company commissioned to do it pulling out. But National Grid said
:01:44. > :01:53.this afternoon it hoped to have study results to hand by the autumn
:01:53. > :01:56.then it would be in a position to Taxi drivers in Bath claim they're
:01:56. > :02:00.being harassed by local traffic wardens and are warning the city's
:02:00. > :02:02.Orange Grove taxi rank is too congested. One driver's put a
:02:02. > :02:06.protest video on the internet, claiming he and colleagues have
:02:06. > :02:09.been given tickets for stopping for just 30 seconds. Bath and North
:02:09. > :02:12.East Somerset Council says the number of traffic wardens at Orange
:02:12. > :02:18.Grove is proportional to the traffic and that some of the city's
:02:18. > :02:22.taxi ranks are left empty, while this one is often oversubscribed.
:02:22. > :02:27.Turning to sport now. And in cricket, there's been more bad news
:02:27. > :02:30.for Somerset just 48 hours after losing the final of the 2020 cup.
:02:30. > :02:34.In their CB 40 match against Essex, captain Marcus Trescothick was
:02:34. > :02:44.taken to hospital for a scan after injuring his ankle. Somerset made
:02:44. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:50.251 for 5. Essex are currently on 134 for five after 23 overs. Just
:02:50. > :02:53.one football result for you, Forest Green Rovers beat Bath City 3-0.
:02:53. > :02:58.Reece Styche scored twice as Forest Green secured their first home win
:02:58. > :03:01.of the season. Chris Stokes was also on target. It has been a
:03:01. > :03:04.poignant day at the Castle Combe motor racing circuit in Wiltshire
:03:04. > :03:07.as drivers returned to the track two weeks after one of their
:03:07. > :03:11.colleagues died there. Pete O'Shea suffered a heart attack while he
:03:11. > :03:18.was at the wheel. Today his team mates' cars carried Pete's name on
:03:18. > :03:21.the side as a tribute to him. Aside from the usual pre-race nerves and
:03:21. > :03:25.tension, for the Swift Cooper race team, this was to be an emotive day.
:03:25. > :03:28.On their three cars, the name of Pete O'Shea. He died of a heart
:03:28. > :03:38.attack while driving here at Castle Combe just a fortnight ago. He was
:03:38. > :03:44.53. It is the first meeting we have done without Peter being involved.
:03:44. > :03:48.It is a big shock to the team when Peter died. As a mark of respect,
:03:48. > :03:54.our teams are a running his name on the car and the shamrock as well
:03:54. > :03:57.because he is from Ireland. Also racing in the Formula Ford series
:03:57. > :04:04.today, a team run by students from Wiltshire College who are studying
:04:04. > :04:08.a motorsports engineering degree. We tried to make sure they go out
:04:08. > :04:13.into the world of motor sport and know about every side of the
:04:13. > :04:17.business. It gives them a general grounding. And the practical skills
:04:17. > :04:20.as well they will need. As well as the single seaters the crowd was
:04:20. > :04:30.entertained by an impressive line up of supercars old and new. Owning
:04:30. > :04:34.
:04:34. > :04:40.a Ferrari is one thing but being The weather has not been too bad
:04:40. > :04:45.for Bank Holiday. Hello. We continue through the rest of this
:04:45. > :04:53.evening on a dry and settled note. It is similar tomorrow with dry
:04:53. > :04:58.conditions throughout. The reason for the settled conditions is the
:04:58. > :05:04.high pressure building in from the West. It continues to do so tonight
:05:04. > :05:13.and tomorrow as well. Through this evening, player spells for Sam.
:05:13. > :05:20.Something of a mixture. -- clearer spells for sum. By dawn tomorrow
:05:20. > :05:27.morning, in the countryside go- getting down to eight Celsius.
:05:27. > :05:31.Tomorrow will start much like today with some areas favoured more for
:05:31. > :05:35.the sunshine. There will be more cloud developing in the afternoon.
:05:35. > :05:39.The winds will be lighter compared with today. We will continue with
:05:39. > :05:48.those conditions right the way through to the evening. Temperature
:05:48. > :05:54.rise a degree or so up on today. As we look beyond that, it will