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In Points West tonight: The fight to save Filton - can the | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
West's most famous runway be saved from developers? | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The changing face of education - how more secondary schools are | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
becoming academies. Nearly one year on from its opening, | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Weston pier counts the cost of a poor summer season. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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And the marathon man taking on his First, plans to build thousands of | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
houses on the West's most famous airfields have tonight been | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
condemned as a tragedy for the future. The warning has been issued | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
by Sir George White, whose grandfather founded the Bristol | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Aeroplane Company. He is worried that the runway at | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Filton will become a place to "dump houses". And his fears are shared | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
by many others, including councillors in Bristol who are | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
discussing Filton's future at the council house tonight. Scott Ellis | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
is there. Good evening, Scott. Good evening. The political row | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
about the future of Filton is under way and behind me in a council | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
house the ruling Liberal Democrats are laying out their stall, saying | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
they want to see more businesses and jobs created up there. But | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
South Gloucestershire Council, the ruling planning of authority, say | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
it is an ideal brownfield site for new homes, and there are those who | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
would agree with Sir George White that it is a shame, is not a | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
scandal, that the runway has to close at all. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
If this runway could speak, it would have some stories to tell. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
Not just Concorde. The mighty Brabazon, too. There is a quick | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
order over the intercom and the undercarriage leaves the runway. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
There were many others. No-one knows that history better than Sir | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
George White, whose family founded the Bristol Aeroplane Company. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Today, he spoke out against BAE Systems and its decision to sell | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
off the runway. They inherited it, they didn't buy it or earn it, and | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
for them to sell it off now and risk future job seems, to me, to be | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
incredibly undesirable. It just seems to be, to an outsider, the | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
biggest asset strip this district has seen in many years. It is an | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
absolute tragedy for the future. BAE Systems insist the runway is | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
not commercially viable and that its closure will not harm | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
neighbours Airbus GKN or Rolls- Royce. South Gloucestershire | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
council wants 3,500 homes built here. Not everyone agrees. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
believe that it should not just be about housing, but about jobs, and | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
about a proper strategic approach to this area of the city which has | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
been so important to the city's history. South Gloucestershire | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Council says the area already has twice as many jobs as resident | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
workers. So the homes are desperately needed. Some are | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
cropping up on the adjoining north airfield. And this new spur road | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
heads invitingly towards the famous main runway. Presumably one day it | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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Labour councillors are rallying to keep the run my open. Dale Barry | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
worked at Airbus for many years. What use could there be for that | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
airfield? There was always a use for an operational airfield of that | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
standard so I believe that all of the options have not been looked at | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
yet. What gives you reason to think that? Are there over airfields in | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
use? When airfields disappear in the UK, manufacturing quickly | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
follows. I cannot see that any city region, as we are, would | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
contemplate putting a housing estate the size of a small town | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
right in the middle of an engineering sector of excellence. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
What work could do runway bring to the city? There has been a campaign | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
against a commercial act what. are not talking of commercial | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
airports, that has been and gone. We are looking at operations that | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
have always been used, servicing, MoD use. It could be used by the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
MoD as in the past. You are not being nostalgic? Nobody wants to | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
see Filton closed, but this is the wrong decision economically and | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
environmentally. Thank you for talking to us. The site is worth in | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
the region of �120 million to GKN Systems. -- to BAE Systems. What | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
will happen in the future will be decided in the new year. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
There are claims today that the next 18 months will see all schools | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
in England seeking to become academies. The status means a | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
school becomes independent of local council control, and already around | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
two-thirds of secondary state schools in the West have made or | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
intend to make the change. Experts here say education is changing at | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
an incredibly rapid rate. John Maguire reports. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
These year 10 pupils are seeing things change before their eyes in | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
today's chemistry lesson. In fact, there is a lot of change around. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Last term, Churchfields in Swindon was a school. Now, it has become an | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
academy. But why? It is in the best interests of the students. I am the | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
head teacher, I have been for 10 years, and the initiative provides | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
greater freedoms for us, puts us in charge of the education of the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
students in this school. It is the right decision for them, it | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
provides better education and will build on our success in the past, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
so it is the right thing for Churchfields and its children. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
funded directly by the Government and not via the local council, Mr | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Flavin says he has seen an increase of up to 10% in the money he can | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
spend on his pupils. And he has reduced class sizes - they are now | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
between 15 and 20 children. He predicts all English schools will | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
now follow suit. Around two-thirds in the West have made or are | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
planning the transformation. So where does that leave council | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
education departments? I think the local authorities still have a key | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
strategic role. Their job becomes more difficult, it is still an | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
important job and they have to fulfil their statutory obligations, | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
and I hope the academy is that we see opening this term and have seen | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
in the past will continue to regard themselves as part of the family of | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
local-authority schools, working with local authorities doors, so | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
they will all benefit from the learning in any particular school - | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
- with local authority school. are now also seeing the first wave | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
of primary academies. Increasingly as the Government is offering | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
schools to run their affairs, many are opting for independence, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
believing teacher knows best. You're watching BBC Points West | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
with Alex and Andrew. There's plenty more to come on tonight's | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
programme, including a plan to turn Bristol green. Can the city grow | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
enough crops to feed everyone who lives there? | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
And the sweet sound of success. We meet the sisters who have been | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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commended for their song-writing Who can forget these dramatic | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
pictures from February 2008, when Weston's famous Grand Pier was | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
destroyed by fire in a matter of minutes? It is now nearly a year | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
since the pier owners rebuilt and re-opened. But what sort of year | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
has it been? The early signs were good, but it went downhill from | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
there. Clinton Rogers has been finding out. -- finding out why. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
50-mile-an-hour winds battering Weston-super-Mare. No wonder they | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
were short on visitors today. It is almost a year now since the Grand | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Pier was re-born, re-opened. A year of ups and downs, of conflicting | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
fortunes. And the figures would confound any tourism analyst. Since | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
the rebuild, the pier has attracted 2.1 million visitors. Last winter's | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
figures were double what was expected. This April was the best | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
month, with 500,000 visitors. After such a brilliant start and a | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
buoyant autumn, they have been betting here on a great summer. It | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
turned out to be massively disappointing. There were fewer | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
visitors in August than in April. And less than half of what they | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
have been gambling on. What we are not seeing is people coming and | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
staying in the resort. The pier owner says his worst ever summer | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
wasn't just down to bad weather. is a big factor for the day- | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
trippers, but if we had the visitors that were staying, like | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
they used to stay, in the hotels and the caravan parks, then I don't | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
think weather is such a factor. think people are not coming to | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Weston like they did? Certainly. That is a viewpoint supported by | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
hoteliers, who say while visitor numbers are holding up - just - | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
people are opting for much shorter stays. People are not staying as | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
long as they used to, and we have noticed a great deal of difference | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
where people are only doing two and three days, especially families. | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
But the pier owners continue to invest in the future. They are | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
planning now to build a conservatory with a retractable | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
roof. The battle with the British weather continues. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Some of the region's top hotels are about to be sold after the luxury | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
chain Von Essen went into administration back in April. The | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath is among 19 of the properties now | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
under offer, valued in the region of �22 million. However, Thornbury | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Castle in South Gloucestershire is still on the market. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Little Britain comedian David Walliams has been back in the water | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
for day two of his latest Sport Relief fundraising effort to swim | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
the length of the River Thames. He started his 140-mile journey | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
yesterday at the river's source near Lechlade in Gloucestershire, | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
where the water's temperature was 15 Celsius. Hundreds of people | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
cheered the star on. He managed 17 miles, but had to be pulled out | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
before completing his target for the day, and was in a lot of pain | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
last night. This morning, though, he set off at dawn to swim through | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
Oxfordshire and is due to arrive at Abingdon Bridge in the next hour. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
A Bristol community project is urging people to be less reliant on | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
food that is transported into the city, and to grow it for themselves | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
instead. The Sims Hill Shared Harvest is a membership scheme | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
where people grow their own fruit and veg on green belt land. The | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
group say growing food in this way reduces environmental damage. Sabet | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Choudhury reports. Some long-awaited rain for the | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
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crops at the Sims Hill Shared Harvest. The 6 x of land here is | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
right by the M32, the kind of network that takes produce into the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
city's supermarkets and shops, produce grown outside Bristol. The | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
project here wants to buck that trend by growing the food | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
themselves. This is a co-operative project where people pay a | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
membership and they in return reap the benefits of the harvest. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
tried to make it as easy as possible for people to access the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
food here, so they can come and collect their vegetables if they | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
want to, but what we have decided to do is have drop-off points | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
throughout the city. We harvest the veg on Thursday morning and by the | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
afternoon it is at the drop-off points. We have done it so they are | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
local to our members. It is very straightforward, they can pick up | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
their dead and had it that evening. -- pick up their vegetables and | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
have it that evening. The land here has been used for growing in the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
past, and for the time being it has been given to the project rent-free | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
by the council. We have French beans, runner beans, caused jets. | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
We have lettuce and herbs... Membership to the scheme costs �40 | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
a month for a full share of the harvest. Or �23 for a half share. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
But, to James, it is a small fee considering the benefits to the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
community and the environment. is connecting people with the | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
seasonality of local food, were tagging is important. In the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
supermarket you can get broccoli, sweet peppers, tomatoes all year | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
round because they are flown in from overseas. What we are trying | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
to do is say, we can produce food here as cheap as you possibly can, | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
and it has a low environmental impact. Over the next few years, | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
James is hoping to create a bursary with help of the community for | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
those who cannot afford the membership. Their aim - to feed as | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
many people as possible with food grown on their doorstep. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Joining us in the studio is Richard Spalding, a senior lecturer in | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
human geography at the University for the West of England. You have | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
brought something in four was, so will from an area near Bristol that | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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could be used to supply the city with food? -- soil. This is from a | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
plot that I have christened the blue finger. It is terrific high- | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
grade agricultural soil. What benefits could people see if this | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
area was used to grow crops to feed the people of Bristol? Would it be | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
cheaper? Not necessarily but the benefits would be social | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
environmental. We would see less transport of food in and out of the | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
city. If you stand by the M32 today, every moment you see food being | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
transported in and out of the city, say there is a sustainability issue | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
here. But people will say supermarkets do this very well, | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
providing cheap food all year round. How would this be better? I think | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
the essence here is moving towards the real localisation of the food | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
agenda -- pre-localisation. I think that will be seen by -- will be | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
driven by a younger people. I think we will see this continuing sea- | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
change over the next generation. We are looking for about a million new | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
farmers to replace those farmers who are getting older, so it is a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
new generation that wants to get their hands on some of this land. | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
Interesting stuff, thanks for coming in. | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Sport, and Champions League football is coming to Ashton Gate. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Yes, you heard me right. The Bristol Academy women's team | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
qualified for the tournament by reaching the FA Cup final. But | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
because their ground in Stoke Gifford doesn't meet UEFA | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
regulations, they have struck a deal to play their tie against the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Russian team FC Energy at Bristol City's ground. And today some of | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
the squad went to have a look around. This is the home dressing- | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
room! City's Nicky Maynard their tour | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
guide, as the Academy girls took a peak at their new temporary home. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
This is where their Champions League campaign will begin on | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
September 29th. We have had a look around the pitch, it is really nice, | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
all very good in here. It is great to come to a place like this to | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
play European football here. We are hoping 20,000 people in this | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
stadium! Being a Bristol-based club we have a lot of Bristol City fans | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
in our ranks. We have some Rovers supporters but I will not mention | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
their names! But they cannot wait. But after the comforts of Ashton | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Gate, the team have to make a 13- hour journey to play the second leg | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
in Russia, which involves making three different flights. Harder for | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
some than others. I hate flying and I am not very happy that we have to | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
go all the way to Russia, but it is a job that we have taken on, so | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
whether it be Russia, China, America, we will do it and give all | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
we have got. While the men's Champions League is awash with | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
money, the women have had to chip in just to make it to the game in | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Russia. The players have made a massive gesture to forgo their | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
match fees and bonuses for the occasion to allow us to travel, and | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
that shows the solidarity and unity in the grip and the spirit in our | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
football club. FC energy say they will get a crowd of over 20,000 for | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the second leg. How the Academy girls would love that backing back | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
at Ashton Gate. Two dressage riders from the West | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
have returned home with a haul of medals from the European Para- | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Equestrian Championships. Anne Dunham, from Broad Hinton in | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Wiltshire, won two golds in Belgium, taking her career total to 17 in | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
major competitions. And Taunton's Debbie Criddle won a gold and a | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
silver in her events. The pair were also part of the team quartet who | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
finished first. The event was the last major Championships before | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
next years' Paralympic Games. In football, Bristol Rovers are | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
back in action tonight in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. They are | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
away to Wycombe Wanderers in the first round. The winners of the tie | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
will play Cheltenham at home next month. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Two talented sisters from Bath have made it through to the semi-finals | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
of the UK's song-writing competition. Chloe Pinder is just | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
14 and her sister Izzy is 11, but most of their rivals were adults, | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
all fighting for a stake in the competition's �500,000 prize fund. | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
I am delighted to say the two girls are with us tonight. Clowry, you | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
are the songwriter. Congratulations to you, how does it feel? It is | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
overwhelming. We were not expecting much to come off the competition, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
we just ended and thought, let's give it a shot. What feedback have | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
you had? In terms of feedback from relatives and friends, they have | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
been very supportive, they like our music. We were awarded seven points | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
out of 10 in the semi-finals, a lot of people get five or six. I don't | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
think you were lucky to get seven, it was still. I heard you rehearse! | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
Izzy, using the harmonies. Where did they come from? They are | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
complicated harmonies. They usually just come into my head on the spot. | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
How is it working with the sister? It is fun. That is good! I will | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
keep this brief, because we wanted hear you sing, and this is such a | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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treat, you will love this. Take it # Don't run before you can walk. | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
# It takes time to find the real person behind those eyes. | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
# And I know you're eager-minded and strong-willed. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
# Now you'll learn to control that major fault line. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
# Before you run away and hide. # Don't hide, don't hide from me. | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
# You will take courage in your mind. | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
# Don't hide, don't hide from me. # Are you? | :20:27. | :20:35. | |
# Who are you? # You can't play hide and seek with | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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# Can't you see you're not 10 years old anymore? | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
# And I know you're a distant thinker and a coward. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
# But who cares now you will learn to control that major fault line? | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
# Before you run away and hide. # Don't hide, don't hide from me. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
# You will take courage in your mind. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
# Don't hide, don't hide from me. # Are you? | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
# Who are you? # Are you? | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
# Who are you? # We play hide and seek. | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
# It's hard to watch it go. # Before you run away and hide. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
# Don't hide, don't hide from me. # You will take courage in your | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
mind. # Don't hide, don't hide from me. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
# Are you? # Who are you? | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
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# Are you? Well than! That much applause shows | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
how many people came to listen to you! Thank you, brilliant. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
It is a question that is often asked - what is the recipe for a | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
long life and a happy marriage? 90- year-old Wilfred Cooper, from | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Lockleaze in Bristol, insists keeping fit - and a few cheeky | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
secrets - is the answer. The pensioner has gone behind his | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
wife's back many a time in recent years as a secret half marathon | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
runner. Now the time has come for him to hang up his trainers, and | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
this Sunday's race will be his last. Isabel Webster's been to meet him. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
How old were you in this photograph? | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
To his 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, Wilfred is | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
something of a superhero. That is a sign of Superman with my face | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
superimposed on it. In 2004, aged 83, he ran his first half marathon | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
in Bristol, despite telling his wife something quite different. | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
said, I'm just going down to put the barriers up to keep the people | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
back, so I was all right with that. And then Gina next door saw him on | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
the television! So of course he tells me then. I was in the | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
doghouse. She didn't speak to me for three weeks. Despite a heart | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
attack and recently falling down the stairs and dislocating his | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
shoulder and breaking ribs, his wife Sylvia is now more supplied to | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
-- more supportive. At the age of 90, Wilfred climbs the stairs 30 | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
times every day and runs three times a week. He has raised | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
thousands of pounds for St Peter's Hospice over the years. And he | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
hopes to make more than ever this year as he hangs up his running | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
shoes. Although I am fit, the bones are beginning to creak! I think | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
they are going to snap at any minute so I am just doing this one. | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
I might do one or two more, but I am saying this is the last one. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
will be if his long-suffering wife has anything to do with it. | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
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Is this is last round? Gosh, I should hope so! -- his last one. | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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Good luck, too him on Sunday. Let's find out if it is training | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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Our library of weather photographs does not include many photographs | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
of wind. I took this terrible photograph outside in the BBC car | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
park of this tweed disaster! If you have any good ones, send them into | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
this. Tomorrow will be another windy day. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Having said that it will be for the most part a dry day and a brighter | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
one as well to a greater or lesser dip -- or lesser extent. We have | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
been seeing ghosts today from about 5am. -- gusts. We had a few trees | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
down this morning in parts of Gloucestershire because of that. It | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
is courtesy of this low pressure. The isobarss still pretty tight | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
tomorrow but a subtle shift of direction will help shelter many | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
districts on the showers. We had a good number of showers feeding | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
through today, some quite heavy downpours on that. Behind, some | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
further showers waiting in the wings. Some of our districts will | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
be in their sides this evening. The graphics pick up on that, but | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
broadly speaking the night tends to dry out apart from a few coastal | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
showers. Still quite windy, gusts of about 45 miles an hour in the | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Bristol Channel, a bit less inland. Temperatures down to about 12 or 13 | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
for the most part. Tomorrow will start with try weather about, some | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
showers in northern Somerset, but more in the wake of brightness | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
generally tomorrow. Parts of Gloucestershire should be favoured | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
for dry, bright weather but the showers will return on and off | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
later on in the Bristol Channel, some of them feeding inland. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Temperatures tomorrow about 17, 18 Celsius, at best. The sea will | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
still be pretty rough as well. Beyond that, we continue with this | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
inclement spell through the week and into the start of next week as | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
well. Having said that, Thursday looks largely cloudy, somewhat damp | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
in the morning with some light rain and drizzle, not quite as windy. On | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Friday it might frighten up -- it might brighten up a bit, some warm | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
air from the tropics, with maybe a bit of sunshine, but noticeably | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
windy, as on Saturday as well. Sunday could turn pretty wet, but | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
as we get to that stage in the week we are looking out into the | :27:24. | :27:29. |