:00:10. > :00:16.Hello, and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines tonight:
:00:16. > :00:22.Jailed for driving the wrong way up the M5 in Somerset. Police say
:00:22. > :00:25.Deborah Hunt terrified motorists and risked a massive loss of life.
:00:25. > :00:27.The plumber electrocuted to death at work. An inquest hears a faulty
:00:27. > :00:29.socket was to blame. Also tonight:
:00:29. > :00:39.The archaeological dig trying to help war-torn soldiers rebuild
:00:39. > :00:42.their lives after Afghanistan. We have done some digging before
:00:42. > :00:46.but, not so relaxed. And a new attempt to break the land
:00:46. > :00:56.speed record. We meet the team and reveal the bike hoping to go down
:00:56. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :00:59.Police have condemned the actions of a woman who drove the wrong way
:00:59. > :01:02.up the M5 in Somerset, saying she played Russian roulette with
:01:02. > :01:11.drivers' lives. Deborah Hunt terrified motorists as
:01:11. > :01:14.she drove towards cars in the fast lane for 23 miles. She was twice
:01:14. > :01:16.the drink-drive limit. Today, she was sent to prison for nine months.
:01:16. > :01:18.Our home affairs correspondent Steve Brodie reports.
:01:18. > :01:28.Experienced police officers say they are astonished that the
:01:28. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:33.actions of Deborah Hunt that July evening did not end in catastrophe.
:01:33. > :01:39.Anybody driving the wrong way down a motorway is playing Russian
:01:39. > :01:44.roulette. The only way to take the bullet out of the gun is not to
:01:44. > :01:47.drink and drive. The message, I would say, is that if you drink and
:01:47. > :01:50.drive you are putting yourself and other people in danger. Mrs Hunt
:01:50. > :01:52.joined the motorway at junction 24 at Bridgwater, but to the terror of
:01:52. > :01:55.other motorists she was driving the other motorists she was driving the
:01:55. > :02:03.wrong way, heading at 60 miles an hour directly towards oncoming
:02:03. > :02:06.traffic. She kept going like this for 23 miles. Further up the M5, at
:02:06. > :02:16.Burnham-on-Sea, a police car had to swerve onto the hard shoulder to
:02:16. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:21.When Deborah Hunt eventually ran out of petrol going off on the
:02:21. > :02:25.southbound carriageway on the M5, police officers but their own lives
:02:25. > :02:31.at risk, jumping over the central reservation to find any arrest her.
:02:31. > :02:35.She ran out of petrol, and the officers travelling north in the
:02:35. > :02:40.direct -- in the correct direction stopped, crossed the carriage row
:02:40. > :02:46.over the central barrier, ran to her, stopped, realised she snarled
:02:46. > :02:48.of intoxicating liquor. She was arrested. -- she smelled of
:02:49. > :02:51.intoxicating liquor. In court, her solicitor admitted the mother-of-
:02:52. > :02:55.three had a serious drink problem and was suffering from stress. She
:02:55. > :02:57.had recently been made redundant and was in the middle of a custody
:02:57. > :02:59.battle. 43-year-old Hunt, from Langport in Somerset, pleaded
:02:59. > :03:01.guilty to dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and
:03:01. > :03:07.without insurance. As she was sentenced, she wept uncontrollably
:03:07. > :03:11.in the dock. Jailing Hunt for nine months, Judge Horton told her: "It
:03:11. > :03:15.is unbelievably fortunate that no- one was killed or injured. You
:03:15. > :03:19.caused terror to members of the public. I would be failing in my
:03:20. > :03:22.duty if I did not give you a custodial sentence". She was also
:03:23. > :03:32.disqualified from driving for 15 months, and will have to prove she
:03:33. > :03:33.
:03:33. > :03:36.no longer has a drink problem if she ever reapplies for a licence.
:03:36. > :03:39.A woman from Taunton has been released on bail in connection with
:03:39. > :03:43.the death of a schoolgirl. 13-year- old Amy Hofmeister was killed when
:03:43. > :03:46.she was knocked off her bike on Blackbrook Way in June. A local man
:03:46. > :03:50.has already pleaded guilty to causing her death by dangerous
:03:50. > :03:54.driving. This morning, Leanne Burnell, seen here on the left, who
:03:54. > :04:01.was driving a separate car, appeared in court. She is charged
:04:01. > :04:04.jointly with causing the teenager's death and will reappear in November.
:04:04. > :04:08.An inquest began today into the death of a Bristol plumber who was
:04:08. > :04:11.electrocuted while at work three years ago. Danny Edwards had been
:04:12. > :04:14.installing a washing machine at a block of flats in Clifton when he
:04:15. > :04:19.died. Today, his family heard that a faulty socket was to blame.
:04:19. > :04:24.Isabel Webster was in court. Danny Edwards had his whole life
:04:24. > :04:30.ahead of him, and a baby on the way. On an internet tribute page, his
:04:30. > :04:33.friends and family recall his "cheesy grin" and zest for life.
:04:33. > :04:35.Danny was an electrician and in 2008 was working for Birakos
:04:35. > :04:39.Enterprises Ltd, who were developing this block of flats
:04:40. > :04:45.behind me. And it was whilst here, installing a washing machine, that
:04:45. > :04:48.he was electrocuted and instantly killed. Today, his girlfriend and
:04:48. > :04:51.the mother of his child, seen here in the middle, along with other
:04:51. > :04:54.members of his family, attended the inquest to hear the circumstances
:04:54. > :05:03.of Danny's death. His father told me they simply wanted the facts
:05:03. > :05:06.established. We have been misled one way or another and we don't
:05:06. > :05:11.know what actually happened on the day, so we want to get some answers
:05:11. > :05:15.today. Peace of mind, as much as anything else, to know that Danny
:05:15. > :05:19.was not at fault in anything he did. If somebody was at fault, we want
:05:19. > :05:23.some justice done so it does not happen to anybody else. Throughout
:05:23. > :05:26.the day, the coroner called up several witnesses. The jury heard
:05:26. > :05:29.that the socket supplying power to the washing machine was faulty. The
:05:29. > :05:32.live wire was connected to the earth socket, and the earth wire
:05:32. > :05:34.was connected to the live socket. This made the washing machine a
:05:35. > :05:37.death trap, and when Danny touched it the electrical current passed
:05:37. > :05:40.through him, killing him. The Health and Safety Executive gave
:05:40. > :05:45.evidence here this morning and say their own investigation into what
:05:45. > :05:48.happened is ongoing. They will now wait for the jury to give its
:05:48. > :05:55.verdict before they decide how to proceed. And that verdict is now
:05:56. > :06:00.expected tomorrow. You're watching your regional news
:06:00. > :06:09.programme, BBC Points West. Stay with us as there is much more
:06:09. > :06:13.still to bring you tonight, including: Too exhausted to fly,
:06:13. > :06:17.how experts in Somerset are bringing these birds back to life.
:06:18. > :06:23.And this is the bike that could break a British land speed record?
:06:23. > :06:26.If it does over 220 miles an hour, it will. Join me later to find out
:06:27. > :06:30.more. One of the West's highest-paid
:06:30. > :06:34.council officials is losing his job. Wiltshire Council is making its
:06:34. > :06:38.chief executive and another senior director redundant. Andrew Kerr had
:06:38. > :06:45.been criticised for his pay packet of �189,000 a year. Our political
:06:45. > :06:49.editor Paul Barltrop is here to tell us more. This is all a bit out
:06:49. > :06:54.of the blue? A complete surprise. It has taken
:06:54. > :06:58.staff and council colleagues very much by surprise. Andrew Kerr, no
:06:58. > :07:03.stranger to controversy, his pay packet was huge and earlier this
:07:03. > :07:07.year he was to a �6,000 pay increase on top. He did interviews
:07:07. > :07:10.and faced the cameras and then decided he would not, not least
:07:10. > :07:13.because the council has been tightening its belt and making
:07:13. > :07:18.staff redundant. Fill us in on the background?
:07:18. > :07:22.He had been in the job for just over a year-and-a-half, Wiltshire
:07:22. > :07:26.council was a new creation replacing four district councils
:07:26. > :07:29.and one county council, a very big council indeed and he was brought
:07:29. > :07:33.in to head the whole council last year.
:07:33. > :07:37.We have heard he is highly paid, but he has huge responsibilities
:07:37. > :07:42.and they are saying they can do without him, that is strange?
:07:42. > :07:47.It is almost unprecedented for a council of this size, and �800
:07:47. > :07:49.million budget, to be without any senior figures at the top. One
:07:49. > :07:53.Liberal Democrat councillor today thought it was insane and would be
:07:53. > :07:56.a challenge. Thank you for coming in.
:07:56. > :07:59.Salisbury Plain may be the training ground for troops heading to
:07:59. > :08:02.Afghanistan, but now it is also being used to help injured soldiers
:08:02. > :08:05.recover from battlefield injuries, including combat stress. Soldiers
:08:05. > :08:08.from One Rifles in Gloucestershire, who have been flown back from the
:08:08. > :08:11.frontline, are helping with an archaeological dig on the Plain. It
:08:11. > :08:21.is hoped being involved with the project will help them rebuild
:08:21. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:26.their lives. Scott Ellis reports. It could be some cutting tool? It
:08:26. > :08:31.is very sharp. An Afghan veteran, unearthing
:08:31. > :08:33.treasures on his old training ground. It is hard to comprehend.
:08:33. > :08:37.But just months ago all three soldiers here were fighting in
:08:37. > :08:43.Helmand Province. Now injured, each by a roadside bomb, they are
:08:43. > :08:50.engrossed in an archaeological dig on Salisbury Plain. It is helping
:08:50. > :08:54.on the long road to recovery. think about something else, not
:08:55. > :08:59.about Afghanistan any more. We think about what we are going to
:08:59. > :09:04.dig a pit, how long it has been here. It makes a big difference in
:09:04. > :09:08.your mind. To do something like this and that at the landscape you
:09:08. > :09:11.work on and suffer on sometimes it's quite interesting, to look at
:09:11. > :09:14.it in a different light. Since deploying to Afghanistan in April
:09:14. > :09:19.60 soldiers from One Rifles have been sent home injured. After
:09:19. > :09:27.hospital treatment comes months of rehab. For a once active soldier,
:09:27. > :09:33.it can lead to isolation and psychological problems. The Army
:09:33. > :09:37.says even after three days on a dig, there is a change. I have seen that
:09:38. > :09:41.a lot of them have come out of their shells, they have really been
:09:41. > :09:45.keen and enthusiastic about the work they have done, when before
:09:45. > :09:50.there were quite despondent, so we have seen a visible change in them.
:09:50. > :09:53.This one is classic early Iron Age... They are finding pottery and
:09:53. > :09:56.animal bones here at Chisenbury Midden. It is known to be the site
:09:56. > :10:00.of an iron age festival. The soldiers have been quick to learn
:10:00. > :10:10.the skills. But then there is a strong link between the Military
:10:10. > :10:11.
:10:11. > :10:18.and archaeology. Lieutenant General Pitt-Rivers is a big name in
:10:18. > :10:23.archaeology and a Lieutenant- General. Ferrer others, they have
:10:23. > :10:26.archaeological interests. soldiers will be here for a week.
:10:26. > :10:29.Some may return to the frontline one day. Others may have to leave
:10:29. > :10:35.the services. That's the future. Right now, they are absorbed in
:10:35. > :10:37.digging up the past. The commanding officer of Wiltshire
:10:37. > :10:39.soldiers who received campaign medals today praised them for
:10:39. > :10:44.delivering "sterling results under demanding conditions" in
:10:44. > :10:47.Afghanistan. Third UK Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment
:10:47. > :10:50.are based at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire. They spent six months in
:10:50. > :10:59.Afghanistan and today their friends and families watched them being
:10:59. > :11:03.awarded medals for their work. I am really happy then made it here,
:11:03. > :11:12.it is great. It makes you really proud to get recognition for the
:11:12. > :11:16.work we have done over there and to be part of it. Just pouty has been
:11:16. > :11:22.there and represented his country, so proud of seeing them. It is real
:11:22. > :11:26.achievement for him, very proud of him, yes. 120 medals were handed
:11:26. > :11:28.out today. The regiment is unlikely to return to Afghanistan before
:11:29. > :11:32.2013. The Bristol Centre for Deaf People
:11:32. > :11:36.may have to close. The building in Kings Square is set to lose funding
:11:36. > :11:39.from Bristol City Council. The local authority claims it doesn't
:11:39. > :11:42.offer a good quality service, and it will be looking for another
:11:42. > :11:45.provider. The centre has been running for more than 125 years.
:11:45. > :11:48.Its chief executive said it had provided an "excellent service over
:11:48. > :11:55.the years" and added that he intends to "fight until the
:11:55. > :11:58.decision has been overturned". A wildlife rescue centre in
:11:58. > :12:04.Somerset is working to save the lives of hundreds of seabirds
:12:04. > :12:06.washed up by strong winds in Wales. The birds, mainly Manx shearwater,
:12:06. > :12:09.were rescued off the Pembrokeshire coast.
:12:09. > :12:12.They have been taken to the RSPCA centre at West Hatch near Taunton,
:12:12. > :12:21.where staff are hoping to get them flying again. Clinton Rogers
:12:21. > :12:25.reports. It may look painful, but this is
:12:25. > :12:30.tough love for birds who, right now, would have no chance of survival on
:12:30. > :12:33.their own. Stormy seas in West Wales and RSPCA volunteers are
:12:33. > :12:36.literally pulling the young seabirds for the water. They had
:12:36. > :12:45.attempted their annual migration to South America, but were battered by
:12:46. > :12:50.strong winds and in the end were too exhausted to fly. We have got
:12:50. > :12:54.18 in there. And so they were boxed up, nearly 250 of them, and taken
:12:54. > :13:02.to the RSPCA's wildlife rescue centre in Somerset. Today they were
:13:02. > :13:07.all being individually weighed and hand-fed. They need to be tube fed
:13:07. > :13:11.because they feed in captivity, so they are all tube fed and it is a
:13:11. > :13:17.fish soup that we are feeding them this morning. What are their
:13:17. > :13:20.chances of survival? It should be really good. These are quite strong
:13:20. > :13:25.birds, we have not really found any with horrendous injuries or
:13:25. > :13:32.anything and that, so they should be OK. This is quite a logistical
:13:32. > :13:37.operation for the RSPCA, but you have seen this before? Yes, it
:13:37. > :13:42.happened in 2007 with 1,000 guillemots in the centre, and a
:13:42. > :13:49.large number of seabirds at the centre before that, it is something
:13:49. > :13:53.we are used to. It is now just a matter of building their strength
:13:53. > :13:57.before they can be set free. Staff are hopeful the birds can be
:13:57. > :14:00.released in the next few days. The plan is to take them to the West
:14:00. > :14:04.Somerset coastline and bring them in the direction of South America,
:14:05. > :14:07.and then hope they find their way there.
:14:08. > :14:11.Sport now and in football, Bristol Rovers are out of the Johnstone's
:14:12. > :14:19.Paint Trophy. They lost by three goals to one at League One Wycombe
:14:19. > :14:22.Wanderers. Stuart Bevan scored a hat trick for the home side. Matt
:14:22. > :14:25.Harrold got Rovers' only goal, but it wasn't enough to stop them going
:14:25. > :14:28.out at the first hurdle. So it will be Wycombe who play Cheltenham in
:14:28. > :14:30.round two. Rovers have now lost their last three games in the
:14:30. > :14:32.League and cup competitions. In cricket, Somerset's Craig
:14:32. > :14:36.Kieswetter has been given an appearance-based contract with
:14:36. > :14:42.England. He qualifies for it after playing in two Twenty20
:14:42. > :14:44.internationals and seven one-day games for England this summer.
:14:44. > :14:52.Meanwhile his Somerset team-mates are playing Yorkshire in their
:14:52. > :14:56.penultimate Championship match of the season. They reached 140 -3,
:14:56. > :15:00.batting first, needing to win to stay in the title race.
:15:00. > :15:05.In Division Two, Gloucestershire, chasing promotion, finished the
:15:06. > :15:08.first day against Leicestershire on 235 for six.
:15:08. > :15:14.The Little Britain star David Walliams is falling behind schedule
:15:14. > :15:17.in his charity river swim because he is suffering from "Thames tummy".
:15:17. > :15:20.The comedian is trying to swim from Gloucestershire to London over
:15:20. > :15:23.eight days. He set off from Lechlade on Monday and was hoping
:15:24. > :15:30.to reach Goring in Oxfordshire by the end of the day, but the illness
:15:30. > :15:37.has meant he hasn't got as far as planned.
:15:37. > :15:42.It is a lot colder than I anticipated. And also it's just a
:15:43. > :15:47.really long way. Policing, 140 miles... But it doesn't get any
:15:47. > :15:50.easier. You go a mile at a time, and swimming a mile in a river is
:15:50. > :15:56.pretty tiring. David has already managed to raise
:15:56. > :15:59.almost quarter of a million pounds for Sport Relief. He did not look
:15:59. > :16:04.too good, did she? He didn't!
:16:04. > :16:06.But I am sure that will go up. Have you ever dreamt about breaking
:16:06. > :16:10.the land speed record? A team of bikers from South Gloucestershire
:16:10. > :16:14.are, and not just on four wheels but two. The racing team aim to
:16:14. > :16:18.make the attempt next year on a specially adapted Harley Davidson.
:16:18. > :16:21.Most of the men work at Airbus at Filton and have been working on the
:16:21. > :16:24.project for months. Tonight, all of them and their sponsors have been
:16:24. > :16:27.invited to a garage in Bradley Stoke, where the bike will be
:16:27. > :16:34.started up for the very first time. And our reporter Steve Knibbs is
:16:34. > :16:38.there, too. I will not show you the bike yet,
:16:38. > :16:42.we will keep that under wraps because there is a sentimentality
:16:42. > :16:48.when it comes to land-speed records, especially British ones. Let's look
:16:49. > :16:53.at some archive so did we have found. Back to the 1920s, Sir
:16:53. > :16:59.Malcolm Campbell, these are all Bluebirds here. Several years later,
:16:59. > :17:01.he got a bit faster, over 400 miles an hour. This is classic footage. A
:17:01. > :17:04.an hour. This is classic footage. A couple of weeks ago, his great
:17:04. > :17:07.grandson Joe Wales with a team from the University of Bristol
:17:07. > :17:16.unfortunately failed in their attempted an electric car to break
:17:16. > :17:21.the record. But we are talking about two wheels. This is 1930,
:17:21. > :17:24.Joseph Wright, and then a fast speed of 130 miles an hour,
:17:24. > :17:33.breaking the land speed record them. Classic footage in its day, but
:17:33. > :17:36.here is the bike hoping to get It looks fantastic, built in a
:17:36. > :17:41.garage in Bradley Stoke. Let's talk to the man he will be in the Savoy
:17:41. > :17:48.next year, Paul Anderson. The bike looks amazing. Tell us about the
:17:48. > :17:54.record? The record is the British out right motorcycle land-speed
:17:54. > :18:00.record. Two in either direction, then they take the average speed
:18:00. > :18:05.and that is the record. It has been in place for 10 years, held by Jack
:18:05. > :18:10.Frost, and the record is just over 222 miles an hour. How are you
:18:10. > :18:17.making this bike go faster? We have raised the capacity of the engine
:18:17. > :18:21.that 50%, it is 1.55 litres and we have added a turbo charging system
:18:21. > :18:26.as well as many internal modifications, raising the power
:18:26. > :18:31.from the original 100 horsepower to around 250 at the moment. Why do
:18:31. > :18:36.you want to do this? Record- breaking is a British thing, you
:18:36. > :18:42.mentioned all of the right names, but Campbells, it is a British
:18:42. > :18:46.thing. Are you confident and nervous? Absolutely confident and
:18:46. > :18:49.absolutely nervous at the same time! You will start it up in a
:18:49. > :18:55.minute. Gary is a friend of yours who has been working on it as well.
:18:55. > :19:00.Is he foolish? Absolutely, but we will still do it. Hundreds of hours
:19:00. > :19:06.of work, but here it is now cost up a fantastic bike, it is capable of
:19:06. > :19:14.the speed. You have to beat 222 miles an hour. What do you think
:19:14. > :19:18.this can dip? 250. You are that confident? There is a reason you
:19:18. > :19:22.think it can do that, aerodynamics. Let's talk to another member of
:19:22. > :19:27.your team, with his helpers. You will show us what the bike will
:19:27. > :19:37.look like because it will look different in the future. Yes, it
:19:37. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:45.Because we are developing some top- notch engineering technology. So we
:19:45. > :19:52.developpe couple of aerodynamic things which will help us do that.
:19:52. > :19:56.It will be available soon. You are used to working on aircraft, are
:19:56. > :20:06.you transferring your expertise on to this? We are using the latest
:20:06. > :20:06.
:20:06. > :20:12.It has been a great journey with them, it is great stuff. Good luck.
:20:12. > :20:22.We need to hear what this sounds like. If all goes well, they will
:20:22. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:38.And that is the sound of the bike which, hopefully, in 2012 will be
:20:38. > :20:42.going at least 223 miles an hour. Good luck. Back to use.
:20:42. > :20:46.We can hear you, but I doubt you can hear us!
:20:46. > :20:50.One of the biggest hoards of Roman coins ever to be found in this
:20:50. > :20:53.country has been brought home to the new Museum of Somerset.
:20:53. > :20:56.The world famous Frome Hoard was unearthed in a field in the county,
:20:56. > :21:00.and there was a huge fundraising campaign to keep it in the area.
:21:00. > :21:03.It is about to become one of the main attractions at the newly
:21:03. > :21:11.refurbished museum in Taunton where Amanda Parr has had the first look
:21:11. > :21:17.around today. 400 million years of Somerset
:21:17. > :21:22.history. Three years this has been in the creation. �6.93 million has
:21:22. > :21:32.been spent and now the Museum of Somerset is truly fit to serve the
:21:32. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:47.And one of the prize exhibits to be, the Frome Hoard. Found in a
:21:47. > :21:51.Somerset field by one Dave Crisp, who was out metal detecting. A
:21:51. > :21:56.tantalising window on 3rd century Roman Britain. There are more than
:21:56. > :22:03.52,000 coins in total. They managed to raise well over �400,000 to
:22:03. > :22:12.clean them up and keep them. Plus �250 for the pot. And the story
:22:12. > :22:15.only begins here. Hoards tend to attract popular interest but when
:22:15. > :22:20.they are this big, the interest goes way beyond the local and the
:22:20. > :22:24.story went absolutely worldwide, it was manic for seven weeks. It was
:22:24. > :22:28.great. It is exciting, good to look at, but it contains a lot of
:22:28. > :22:30.information about Somerset's past. The museum sets the best of the old
:22:30. > :22:34.alongside the new, the borrowed, and the joyfully-released-from-
:22:34. > :22:37.storage. So the famous Low Ham mosaic gets a clean up, and is
:22:37. > :22:44.reset with the ghost of Dido watching over the tiny tiles that
:22:44. > :22:48.tell the story of her and Aeneas. The Bloody Assizes get their own
:22:48. > :22:55.special room. In fact, lots of new Taunton Castle rooms have been
:22:55. > :22:59.opened up for the first time. hope it will become a place which
:22:59. > :23:03.the people of Somerset visit and are very proud of, because it tells
:23:03. > :23:07.their story. And I hope in addition it will be a museum that attracts
:23:07. > :23:11.people from far and wide which contributes very significantly to
:23:11. > :23:14.the Somerset economy in some very difficult times. 400 million years
:23:14. > :23:24.of artefacts, written records, film archive and interviews. Somerset's
:23:24. > :23:26.
:23:26. > :23:29.past laid before Somerset's people in new and thoughtful ways.
:23:29. > :23:32.The Heritage Lottery Fund aid for about three-quarters of this, their
:23:32. > :23:37.attention turned to a Olympic projects and with the current
:23:37. > :23:42.financial situation, staff here feel very lucky about the timing of
:23:42. > :23:45.all of this. Now, three weeks remain to finish off the
:23:45. > :23:51.landscaping before these its shiny new doors open for the very first
:23:51. > :23:54.time. It looks great, doesn't it? And the
:23:54. > :23:56.Museum of Somerset is one of the locations for a BBC History
:23:56. > :23:59.festival on Saturday, October 15th. The event will include re-enactment
:23:59. > :24:02.displays and talks about local history.
:24:02. > :24:06.And if the younger members of your family want to try making a model
:24:06. > :24:16.Roman Villa or a mosaic why not check out the BBC's Hands on
:24:16. > :24:16.
:24:16. > :24:21.Time to turn our attention to the weather. Ian has a phenomenon to
:24:21. > :24:25.start as with? Indeed, one that is not often seen.
:24:25. > :24:31.You tend to get better examples of this, but you get the gist. High
:24:31. > :24:34.cloud with a hole punched in the middle of it, those streaks are ice
:24:34. > :24:38.crystals which fall into the ground out of it. The reason you get this
:24:38. > :24:43.is because at certain that was when the air is below zero, the cloud
:24:43. > :24:47.droplets are not frozen but sometimes, including if you fly an
:24:47. > :24:52.airliner to it, it disturbs it and it changes to ice crystals and you
:24:52. > :24:57.get a perfect hole in the middle of it. Thank you to Margaret Webb for
:24:57. > :25:04.that beautiful picture. More often seen is a lot of cloud,
:25:04. > :25:06.which has been around of late. Courtesy of low-pressure which is
:25:06. > :25:12.bringing a further swathe of rain across the Midlands and Wales tight,
:25:12. > :25:18.some of that affecting some of our Northern Districts. Into tomorrow,
:25:18. > :25:21.a broad flow of maritime air, effectively, which has sub-tropical
:25:21. > :25:25.origins and is essentially quite warm and will bring with it a great
:25:25. > :25:29.deal of cloud and some rain later in the afternoon. A fair amount of
:25:29. > :25:35.rain still a bad at the moment, earlier showers more widely across
:25:35. > :25:40.southern districts. We are focusing them into the Bristol Channel, this
:25:40. > :25:44.has Gloucestershire in its sights and probably anywhere from Bristol
:25:44. > :25:49.northwards. Below that, not so much through the course of the evening.
:25:49. > :25:53.The Met Office prediction catches that quite nicely as it focuses on
:25:53. > :25:59.the eastern areas as the night wears on. Southern districts are
:25:59. > :26:07.largely more dry. Anything but further northwards and again a
:26:07. > :26:12.fairly breezy night. Quite mild, though, temperatures about 13, 14
:26:12. > :26:15.Celsius. Tomorrow morning we start with a good deal of cloud around,
:26:15. > :26:19.particularly in the northern areas, where you will have a damp start in
:26:19. > :26:23.the morning rush-hour. It might be brighter further south. A dry
:26:23. > :26:26.interlude through the day and with this type of cloud cover, you might
:26:26. > :26:30.even brighten things up a little bit and sunspots will be favoured
:26:30. > :26:36.for that. In the afternoon, a warm front comes through with patchy
:26:36. > :26:42.rain, the top of the Mendips will SOCA be to bat up, but it will be
:26:42. > :26:47.patchy in nature elsewhere -- will soak a bit of that up. But it will
:26:47. > :26:53.be inherently warm, temperatures nudging 19, 20, even with the cloud
:26:53. > :26:57.cover, but break that up and you will get 21, maybe even 22. Yucel
:26:57. > :27:02.Clinton Rogers' report with the seabed and the RSPCA are having
:27:02. > :27:06.their summer fare at West Hatch on Saturday from 11am, so to go along
:27:06. > :27:10.to support them, because they do some fantastic work, not just for
:27:10. > :27:16.seabirds but all animals. It is an unsettled flavour as we ran through
:27:16. > :27:21.that part of the weekend. You can just see coming here what is left
:27:21. > :27:26.of a hurricane, which will bring a windy day for us all on Monday.
:27:26. > :27:29.And somebody that you are still in regular contact with, and for the
:27:29. > :27:34.weather fans among do, Richard Anglin will be talking to Trevor
:27:34. > :27:38.Fry on the radio tonight about life after the show, as if there is such