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Hello and welcome to BBC Points West. In the headlines tonight: | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
The self-proclaimed healer who duped the most vulnerable patients. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Peter Aziz is jailed for claiming a dangerous hallucinogenic drug could | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
treat cancer sufferers. The best of homecomings - friends | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
and family greet engineers back today from Afghanistan. Also | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
tonight: Unwanted memories? Controversy over | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
a new drama documentary about serial killer Fred West - on screen | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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this weekend. And I will be reporting from | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Somerset where world record of tumbling. Fancy getting the weight | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
of the world's heaviest swede? -- guessing. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Hello. A self-proclaimed healer, who | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
brewed a drink containing a Class A drug, has been sentenced to 15 | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
months in prison. Peter Aziz offered the concoction containing | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
the illegal plant to sick patients at ritual healing ceremonies. He | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
claimed it could help fight cancer and took money from those who drank | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
it. A police investigation was launched after our Health | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Correspondent Matthew Hill exposed Aziz's illegal activities. Now, in | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
the first case of its kind in the country, he's been sent to jail. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
This secret footage was taken late at night in a disused hotel in | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Weston-super-Mare. The man who calls himself a healer Peter Aziz | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
took �100 each from 20 strangers who drank his mind-bending | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
Amazonian herb called ayahuasca. The herb contains DMT, an illegal | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Class A drug. Aziz claimed it could help fight serious health | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
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conditions like cancer. It can talk to its spirits. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Our undercover GP, who posed as a cancer patient, was offered a | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
sample of the medicine. He has welcomed today's court action | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
against Aziz. It was a serious matter of somebody, | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
in my case, offering to treat people with cancer. Secondly, | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
producing a truck which had clearly quite potent properties to it. We | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
witnessed people vomiting and having violent hallucinations. If | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
it had been given to somebody weakened through cancer it could | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
have made them seriously ill. It was after we gave the sample to | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
local police in Weston that a major investigation took place which led | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
to today's landmark hearing. In January 2008 we launched a | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
further investigation during which week seized further drug and plant | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
material which led to the arrest of the disease. What kind of message | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
does this send out? D N T is a dangerous drug, a Class A drug for | :03:06. | :03:15. | |
a reason. -- D M T. I'm hoping awareness will be raised of the | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
problems and health concerns. from Devon, had denied two counts | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
of producing a Class A drug and two counts of supplying it. He claims | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
to have taken Home Office advice about the legality of using it. | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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Have you got that in writing? through e-mail. Can I see that? | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
The herb is still advertised on the internet. This legal action may | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
make some suppliers think twice about continuing to sell it. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
Police investigating last month's disturbances in Gloucester have | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
charged a 16-year-old boy with violent disorder. Detectives are | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
still appealing for help in identifying these people in their | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
most wanted gallery. They've also released these new pictures taken | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
from CCTV around the city during the disturbances. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
There were heart-warming scenes in Wiltshire today, as local soldiers | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
were welcomed home after four months in Afghanistan. The members | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
of 22 Engineer Regiment played a key role in Helmand province | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
supporting British and Afghan soldiers, building new camps and | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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updating existing ones. Ben Moore was there to see families re-united. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
It has been a long four months. Not only for those serving, but for | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
those left behind. You have limited communication, you can't just pick | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
the phone up when you want. I will be keeping my sunglasses on, I | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
think. He has been doing an important job on the front line. | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
How does a father feel? A very proud. I can see you are welling up. | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
You have obviously Mr. Yes, it has been tough. -- missed him. And for | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
one family, this reunion will be a first meeting. He is looking | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
forward to it because he hasn't seen him yet, only heard him | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
screaming down the phone. On the stroke of to the sword is marked on | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
to the square. One last formality. -- on the stroke of two the squad | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
marched. What have you been getting? Photos, | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
parcels. Nothing like the real thing. Well happy to be back. | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
will you make him do? Puzzles. bet that is a welcome relief. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
sure we will be on the trampoline as well. The 22 Engineer's Regiment | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
were based in Helmand province providing infrastructure. All their | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
work on the front line, a forward operating base, a difficult job but | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
made easier by their families. Little things mean a lot when you | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
are deployed. You lose contact with all reality in the loo k and by | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
somebody send you a letter or photos or magazine, it reminds you | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
there is a normal world back there waiting for you. The regiment will | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
return to Afghanistan in 18 months of formalities a well-earned rest. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
There is one thing that makes this a particular early happy homecoming | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
and that is that every one of the 100 soldiers has come home safe. | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
There have been no injuries, no That is lovely. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
You're watching BBC Points West, your regional news programme with | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Alex and Chris. Yes, and stay with us as there's much more still to | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
come. Including: With all eyes on the skies this | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
weekend, what's the weather going to be like? Ian will be here | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
shortly with those all important forecasts for Saturday and Sunday. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
An angry game keeper from Wiltshire who drove his Land Rover at a low | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
flying army helicopter has avoided being sent to jail. But 61-year-old | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Malcolm Hughes has been ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
community work. The court heard the pilot narrowly avoided a collision | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
when he saw the vehicle directly underneath his cockpit as he came | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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in to land. Scott Ellis reports. Will just have skies are a training | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
ground for military helicopter pilots -- Wiltshire's skies. In | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
December 2009 this gamekeeper's tolerance ran out. Malcolm Hughes | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
drove at a squirrel helicopter, similar to this one, as it hovered | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
over a field. The incident happened here in countryside just south of | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Marlborough. The judge said he accepted Mr Hughes did not intend | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
to damage the helicopter when he drove at it, or rather he was | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
trying to express his disapproval at the noise which may have upset | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
his game birds and that misty Hughes was trying to get close | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
enough to write down the numbers on the side of the helicopter. Malcolm | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Hughes was given a five-month jail sentence, suspended for a year, and | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work. He had earlier been | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
found guilty of acting in a manner likely to endanger aircraft. | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
didn't need to approach that air craft if he wanted to know the | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
number and reported. He just needed to note the time, date and location | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
and friend that to the MoD and they would have been able to trace the | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
aircraft at that time. The MoD says it has to use farm and an occasion | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
for training, especially if live firing closes down Salisbury Plain | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
to aircraft. The campaign group says it is time for tougher laws | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
against aviation noise. Their role laws on industrial noise, but when | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
it comes to noise from aircraft, it is specifically exempt. Basically | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
the aviation industry as a whole, not just the military, has a car | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
plunged and the public have no right whatever. The judge said | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Rafferty spoke highly of Mr Hughes and he was short lessons had been | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
led. -- references. Opposition councillors in Swindon | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
have called for the council leader to step down over the failure of a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
project to provide free wireless internet in the town. Swindon | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Borough Council lent operator Digital City UK �400,000 to set up | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
the Wi-Fi network - the firm's now gone bust. The Labour group's | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
calling for the Conservative council leader Rod Bluh to resign. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Councillor Bluh says the council should have examined potential | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
risks more closely. But that new investment in the project will turn | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
it into a success. A controversial drama about the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Gloucester serial killer Fred West is to be screened this weekend. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Appropriate Adult tells the story of the relationship between West | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
and a housewife who was asked to sit with him during police | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
interviews. There's been a mixed reaction to it in the city as our | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs has been finding out. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
The Cromwell Street murders still resonate today. They shocked the | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
world. It seems that everything to be said about Fred West has already | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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been said. But there's always one more story. I love Rose, and I love | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
her too, but Anna was the one. Appropriate Adult, Fred West is | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
played on screen, with an unnerving realism, by Dominic West The drama | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
explores how he manipulated this woman, Janet Leach. She sat in on | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
police interviews but crucially West told her things that he | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
wouldn't tell the police With the case nearly 20 years old, Fred | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
West's daughter has reportedly criticised the producers for making | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
this drama. The police gave us five minutes alone together and we | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
agreed I would tell them it was all me. Rose gets away with it and I | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
get -- paid the price, but that is the plan we made. Was the case | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
nearly 20 years old Fred West's daughter has reportedly criticised | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
the producers for making this drama. It has registered very strongly | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
with us. If you say you can never discuss any difficult subject | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
because there is somebody directly infected who doesn't want you to, | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
that could mean for example we don't discuss the Holocaust or the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
Vietnam war or the Second World War were atrocious things happened. | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
This case is a story that will never go away. Hilary Allison was | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
the press officer for the police at the time and says there is a place | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
for dramas like this Gloucester will never be able to hide from | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
this terrible moment in its history but there is a hope that the | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
perception of the city has now changed. Lots of aspects of the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
investigation have been looked at, learn from. There are other aspects | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
of the inquiry, including the role of Janet Leach, and it should be | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
looked at and as long as it used treated sensibly it is a positive | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
thing. This is where the focal point of the West murders, 25 | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Cromwell Street, once stood. The house was demolished soon after the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
investigation. There was a dark chapter in Gloucester's history but | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
as time has gone on the perception of the city has had very changed. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
We have achieved a lot, got some great plans for the future, it is a | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
different place today than it was then and will be an even greater | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
place in the future. Janet Leach admits she made | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
mistakes in her dealings with Fred West and did work with producers on | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Appropriate Adult to ensure the real story of that crucial | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
relationship could finally be told. And if you're interested in | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
watching the programme or want to e-mail us your views after you've | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
seen it, it's on Sunday on ITV1 at 9pm, with the second part on Monday | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
night. In sport tonight as the new rugby | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
season gets under way, we ask will this finally be Gloucester's year? | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
And we're already a month into the new football season so plenty to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
talk about in our regular temperature check. Here's David | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Passmore. Yes, our expert Geoff Twentyman | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
here shortly to assess how our football sides have started the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
season, but first to rugby. Last night we looked at the prospects | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
for Bath, tonight we turn our attention to Gloucester who for so | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
long have been knocking on the door but without a Premiership title to | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
their name. Alistair Durden now reports on the cherry and whites | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
and their particularly passionate and enthusiastic supporters. They | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
are going to be brilliant. We have all got season tickets. They're | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
very good on my home ground. I have got a good feeling Gloucester will | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
win everything. Always known for their whole- | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
hearted support, could this really be the year for Gloucester's fans? | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
No-one would love that more than Andy Hazell. Born in the city and a | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
club stalwart for over a decade now. And not getting any younger. Every | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
year we are chipping away, learning as a squad all the time so | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
hopefully we can get that Premiership title. One of the key | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
men this year will be Freddie Burns. It's now up to him to make the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
crucial number 10 shirt his own after the departure of Nicky | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Robinson. Definitely a little more pressure but something I have never | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
shied away from and there will be trying times throughout the season, | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
but I will try and do the best I can. It will be different this year, | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
people will stand up and take notice of Gloucester so we will | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
have to reach that expectation. squad is depleted by the World Cup. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
But the head coach is excited about the players he has left behind. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
They give their best, it is an opportunity for every player, young | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
or old, to step up and put a bit of pressure on the plays that are away | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
and probably forget about them and get on with the game now and see | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
worried Texas. -- where it takes us. But Charlie Sharples is here. The | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
latest in Gloucester's long line of internationals just missed out on a | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
place in England's squad, despite training with them all summer. So | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
instead he's back to give his club a major boost. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
I exceeded my own expectations in getting as far as I did, I got a | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
cat out of it. Once you get that taste of being environment you get | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
a hunger for more. Heavily experiences I have had over the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
summer will transfer onto the pitch and have some good performances for | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Gloucester. Kingsholm will again be a fortress, | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
some have probably never seen the side lose there. If they can | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
improve away, there might just have something to toast. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
And Bristol also start their season in the championship this weekend | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
they have an away game at Doncaster and we'll look at their chances | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
ahead of their first home game next weekend. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
A month into the new football season and we have had drama with | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Paolo Di Canio at Swindon. What has caught your eye? | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
Cheltenham, without doubt. Already in the play-off zone. 3-1 victory, | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
a super start. Very early, but if they can keep the momentum going, | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
keep their best players fit, there is no reason why they cannot | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
maintain it. Bristol City, has looked too good. | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
It is a reflection of the squad. No real snap, crackle, pop in there. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Defensively, a little bit worrying. The weekend off will do Keith | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Millen the world of good. He can work with his squad, a few issues, | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
and that will help. But they have hung on to Nicky | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
Maynard. A am glad they have pickers he will | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
be real quality and value over the next few months -- I am glad they | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
have because. It is good news. Keith Millen did tell me yesterday | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
they are still some way from sorting out a new deal for him. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
That kind of goal, they have got to keep him from the long term -- for | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
the long term. Rovers, not find the net that easy. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
It is a tough league, we have seen that with Cheltenham beating | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
Crawley. An away day tomorrow, pretty optimistic. | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
If we get on the front foot quickly we can get and out into their mind. | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
Jarman have done well to beat them. If we play well on the day and get | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
a bit of luck and played to our best we are capable of beating them. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Swindon, Paolo Di Canio is a complete season in itself, and | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
ticks all of the place. What did you make of -- make of the bus-stop | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
on Wednesday? It happened in football, sport, but | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
it is not great for morale. At the moment things are on a bit of a | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
knife-edge with Paolo Di Canio. A great character, player, but that | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
doesn't mean you will be a great manager. He has got to show who is | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
in charge, and in this incident it is the manager who has come down on | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
top. A breakdown in communication. Do | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
you worry it might be more players that are not happy with his style? | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
It is possible. The thing about results, and Martin Dobson in my | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
time, his methods were strange in the extreme. If we had been winning | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
matches you accept that, but when things are not going well results | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Wise, the players can get restless. They need to win a match pretty | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
quickly. A have they got the squad to win those matches? | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Defensively they are vulnerable, they conceded too many goals from | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
set plays. Di Canio needs a bit of guidance and work on. But yes, they | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
can. Yeovil, hour only lead one | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
representative. A 15 piece jigsaw. Too many injury | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
problems at the moment. I think they will be OK. Tough game at | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
Tranmere tomorrow. One. Tomorrow would be a good result. -- were | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
point. -- one point. Finally from me, | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
there have been more medals for West Country rowers at the world | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
championships. There was a bronze for Paul Mattick from Frome in the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
lightweight men's four. He said, "I'm very proud. This crew's been | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
very good over the past two years." But it was a disappointment as they | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
went in as reigning champions. And a bronze too for Natasha Page from | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Hartpury near Gloucester in the women's eight which was enough to | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
qualify for London 2012. And tomorrow Peter Reed from Nailsworth | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
near Stroud, along with Andy Triggs Hodge, will try to overhaul the all | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
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conquering New Zealanders in the Thank you very much. Staying on the | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
A man from South Gloucestershire who was hoping to water ski across | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
the Irish Sea has had to postpone his attempt because of bad weather. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Dave Froud had been planning to set off from Fishguard this morning | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
with three friends. He wants to complete the journey in memory of | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
his son Charlie who died in a plane crash in Ireland. We will keep you | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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in touch with that attempt. And of course Ian will be here with our | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
weather in a couple of minutes. Thanks, David. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
And in Somerset today world records have been tumbling. Not for | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
sporting achievements though, but for the biggest swede in the globe, | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
and the biggest cucumber to name but two. It is, of course, the | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Giant Vegetable Championships, part of the National Gardening Show, at | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
the Bath and West Showground. Clinton Rogers has been sizing up | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the competition. They say it has been a bad summer | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
for gardening, but you wouldn't know it looking at all of this. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Some of the best growers from around the country are exhibiting | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
here, frankly, showing us all how it should be done. People really do | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
travel the length and breadth of the land to exhibit here. Like Ross | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
Ainsleigh who has driven more than 400 miles in a van from Fife, just | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
to win a prize of �20. Mining goes on the trophy and that | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
means more to me than the �20 -- my name. In years to come people are | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
will say I don't know who this guy is, and somebody will say, I | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
remember him, he is the fat guy who used to come down from Scotland. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
They were among the more unusual visitors to the show, but they | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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weren't the only thing raising Scary, aren't they? Colossal | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
cabbage, super sire squash, it can only mean the UK giant vegetable | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
championship -- super sized squash., need a world record holder, Ian | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Neale, lift your giant Swede if you can. You better put it down before | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
you had your back. How heavy is that? 37.29 kilos. Congratulations | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
on a world record. How on earth do you grow something that big? Good | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
seed, good ground, good weather, good luck. They claim there is | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
something for everyone here. Sophisticated gardeners with a lot | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
of knowledge, but we also want the middle of the road people who enjoy | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
growing vegetables and having a pretty garden. There is a section | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
called green shoots which encourages bargaining innovation | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
like growing vegetables are pure wool, nice and easy to reach. The | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
organisers are hoping for crowds in excess of 25,000, assuming the Sun | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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-- sun stays shining. Let's find out about that. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Is this lovely weather going to stay for the weekend? Ian is | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
looking at the skies for us right There will be spells of usable | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
weather. At some rain as well which will arrive during the course of | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Saturday. Let other a good headline into the weekend, we can summarise | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
that effectively. -- let's have a look at the headline. The rain will | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
arrive later into the evening. That will clear on Sunday to leave a | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
fresher day, for the most part drive. The reason for the settled | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
weather has been high pressure which has been with us for some | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
time. Edging a way out towards the east. You can see a cold front | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
coming in on Saturday, very slow progress it will make. Intermittent | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
phase between two weather systems which will give a drier spell | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
before things turn more autumnal next week. This is the temperature | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
for next week. It shows how the warmer air of today gets moved away | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
during tomorrow. Into fresher conditions by the time we reach | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
Sunday. For the most part it is try and find this evening, a few | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
showers popping up in southern districts. Clear spells being | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
overtaken by a cloud from the staff. Milder than of late. Tomorrow we | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
start with more cloud than we have seen for the last couple of | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
mornings. Some brighter spells. The best of those in the east. The | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
weather front starting to make inroads into the West. Some rain | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
into West Somerset by the afternoon, crossing the Bristol Channel, Op 2 | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Gloucestershire by early evening. - - it will head up to | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Gloucestershire by early evening. Despite that temperatures still on | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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the one side. -- on the warm side. Looking beyond that, first of all, | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
Tristan will be opening the Rectory fate at St John's. The vicar tells | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
me she is mad so I assume it will be very nice indeed. He should | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
remain up trying. Sunday we will lose that overnight rain looked | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
towards the east. And there after a drive window with some brighter | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
spells. But back fresher feel in evidence. -- that fresher feel. | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
Looking beyond that into next week, distinctly autumnal, a breezy day | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
to come on Monday, a few showers. It will turn windy Tuesday and | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Wednesday. Maybe gale force in exposed areas with longer outbreaks | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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of rain. Dr Adam, what can I say? Bristol | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
international kite fiesta is celebrating its quarter-century | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
anniversary this weekend. We will be covering that on Points West | :27:26. | :27:32. |