:00:11. > :00:14.Hello, and welcome to BBC Points West. In the programme tonight:
:00:14. > :00:17.Stopped from landing by flashing laser pens - police hunt a group of
:00:17. > :00:22.youths after an air ambulance was prevented from flying a dying man
:00:22. > :00:25.to hospital. Fulfilling a cancer victim's final
:00:25. > :00:35.wish - a campaign starts to build a centre specially for young
:00:35. > :00:41.sufferers. We just need this unit because of
:00:41. > :00:43.Tom, it was what he wanted. It is my goal to try to get him it.
:00:43. > :00:46.Also tonight: Looking for new ways to cut costs -
:00:46. > :00:54.councils consider switching off traffic lights and collecting bins
:00:54. > :01:04.only once a month. And nominated for a prestigious
:01:04. > :01:06.
:01:06. > :01:09.Emmy - meet the man behind the Hello.
:01:09. > :01:12.An air ambulance was last night prevented from taking a dying man
:01:12. > :01:18.to hospital, after laser pens were flashed at the pilot as he tried to
:01:18. > :01:22.land in Wiltshire. The helicopter was trying to help a
:01:22. > :01:25.man who had suffered a heart attack. Today, police began an
:01:25. > :01:28.investigation into the incident and described the actions of the people
:01:28. > :01:35.involved as a "very serious offence". Lizzie Way is in Calne
:01:35. > :01:40.for us tonight. The air ambulance saves lives
:01:40. > :01:43.because it is fast. On Wednesday night, it needed to land in this
:01:43. > :01:48.area. A man was in cardiac arrest and needed to be transferred
:01:48. > :01:53.straight away to hospital. It should have taken just 10 minutes,
:01:53. > :01:59.but instead he was forced to travel by ambulance on the road. It took
:01:59. > :02:03.30 minutes. 20 minutes were lost. Here is the reason why.
:02:03. > :02:09.This shows just how blinding a laser can be when shone from the
:02:09. > :02:13.ground. It is a police Simulation, but in Calne it happened for real.
:02:13. > :02:17.The pen was shone at the air ambulance as it tried to land to
:02:17. > :02:20.reach -- to treat a man who was in cardiac arrest and taken to
:02:20. > :02:25.hospital. They were 2000 ft and became aware of a laser beam shone
:02:26. > :02:29.at the aircraft, but is a very dangerous incident to have happened.
:02:29. > :02:34.It lines the pilot temporarily and did away with them night vision,
:02:34. > :02:37.and it means they lose all sense of height and means they have to fly
:02:37. > :02:40.away from the area for safety Foster police have issued a
:02:41. > :02:44.statement saying they do not believe the helicopter not being
:02:44. > :02:49.able to land affected the outcome, but that is just in this case.
:02:49. > :02:54.is not a one-off. It has happened before to us and quite widely
:02:55. > :02:59.across the country, it is becoming a problem. Since January 2010, it
:02:59. > :03:03.is now a criminal offence as well. The police were able to pinpoint
:03:03. > :03:07.exactly where the laser was shone from. It is a criminal offence with
:03:07. > :03:12.a penalty of up to five years in prison. It is not just reckless,
:03:12. > :03:16.but could be life threatening. The police investigation is still
:03:16. > :03:21.ongoing. It might not have made a difference in the case of this
:03:21. > :03:27.patient, but 20 minutes in another situation could. Our air ambulance
:03:27. > :03:33.as might mean to be safe in the air, and laser pens are put in countless
:03:33. > :03:36.lives possibly at risk -- our air ambulances need to be safe.
:03:36. > :03:39.As public service spending cuts begin to bite, it has emerged that
:03:39. > :03:42.one council in Somerset is even considering collecting rubbish
:03:42. > :03:45.monthly to try to save money. A leaked document, seen by the BBC,
:03:45. > :03:47.reveals Taunton Deane Council is looking at a raft of radical
:03:47. > :03:53.solutions including closing all public toilets and selling off the
:03:53. > :03:58.crematorium. The council insists they are just
:03:58. > :04:01.ideas and not firm proposals. But they do illustrate the tough
:04:01. > :04:09.choices local authorities are being forced to make as they struggle to
:04:09. > :04:13.balance their budgets. Here is our political editor, Paul Barltrop.
:04:13. > :04:17.This week it has become crystal clear, the cuts we have seen so far
:04:17. > :04:21.are just for starters. To make ends meet councils will have to get more
:04:21. > :04:26.drastic still. Things like youth services and subsidised bus routes
:04:26. > :04:30.will lose out yet again. But how about shutting down public toilets
:04:30. > :04:34.or leaving parks and flower beds are intended. At the least, council
:04:34. > :04:39.leaders would like someone else to take over doing all paying for this.
:04:39. > :04:47.In Taunton, a report seen by the BBC shows councillors bracing
:04:47. > :04:51.themselves for some tough times. A fortnightly bin collection in
:04:51. > :05:00.Taunton's Kilve Crescent today. Try telling people here that in future
:05:00. > :05:05.it could be every four we do. four weeks? Possibly. No way.
:05:05. > :05:10.have got foxes and everything around here, so it depends what
:05:10. > :05:15.people put in their bins, doesn't it? A neat council document has
:05:15. > :05:20.revealed monthly rubbish rounds is a topic up for discussion as
:05:20. > :05:25.Taunton Deane seeks to cut its spending by 40% in four years. I
:05:25. > :05:28.have seen the document, it is about an inch thick, 18 chapters in all,
:05:28. > :05:32.outlining how the council could save millions of pounds if it is
:05:33. > :05:37.prepared to save -- to take tough decisions. We should make it clear
:05:37. > :05:42.at this stage, these are only suggestions, options put forward by
:05:42. > :05:49.council officials. But there are some radical thoughts there. Going
:05:49. > :05:56.to monthly been collections could save �150,000. Doing away with many
:05:56. > :06:03.hanging baskets, �189,000. How about closing all public toilets to
:06:03. > :06:06.save �244,000? The council leader - - a council leader says he is angry
:06:06. > :06:11.the document has been neat, especially as these are not firm
:06:11. > :06:16.proposals. It is a list prepared by senior officers that is happening
:06:16. > :06:20.across the country, and they are saying, do you want to look at this
:06:20. > :06:23.in Taunton Deane? The councillors have to look at it and say, do we
:06:23. > :06:29.want this to happen in Taunton Deane or do we want to draw a line
:06:29. > :06:32.in the sand and say no, that goes out of the window? What is clear is
:06:32. > :06:39.that everything is up for discussion, including selling
:06:40. > :06:43.council property like the local crematorium.
:06:43. > :06:48.And in quite a number of places, the lights may be going out,
:06:48. > :06:52.literally. A lot of councils already make savings by switching
:06:52. > :06:56.off street lamps after midnight. In North Somerset, they are looking at
:06:57. > :07:02.traffic lights. This setting was turned of two years ago to improve
:07:02. > :07:08.traffic flow. It has proved popular and save �2,000 a year. Councillors
:07:08. > :07:11.say it could be copied elsewhere. What we are looking to do is
:07:11. > :07:15.basically a cat or of our traffic lights in the district, either to
:07:15. > :07:22.remove some or switch them off in the early hours so that we both
:07:22. > :07:26.saved on carbon emissions and also saved on money. Politicians know
:07:26. > :07:30.cuts are rarely popular and voters can punish them at the ballot box.
:07:30. > :07:34.In a council by-election in Bristol last night, the ruling Liberal
:07:34. > :07:39.Democrats did not just lose one of their seats to Labour, they came a
:07:39. > :07:42.poor third. Today, they complained of having to make unprecedentedly
:07:42. > :07:50.deep cuts in spending. The bad news for them and councils everywhere is
:07:50. > :07:54.that these will not be the last. You are watching BBC Points West.
:07:54. > :08:01.It is the start of what could be a windy weekend.
:08:01. > :08:05.The weather shortly. Plus: Flying the flag for Great Britain -
:08:05. > :08:08.the team from the West on their way to France to take part in the
:08:08. > :08:10.world's oldest balloon race. And will they taste success this
:08:11. > :08:18.season? Bristol Rugby prepare for their first home game of the new
:08:18. > :08:21.First, a huge fundraising event is taking place in north Somerset this
:08:21. > :08:28.weekend to raise money for a specialist cancer unit in Bristol
:08:28. > :08:31.to treat teenagers and young adults. Millions are needed to build the
:08:31. > :08:34.facility, which would provide care for young patients from across the
:08:34. > :08:36.South West. Doctors say survival rates among
:08:36. > :08:46.teenagers with cancer are particularly poor, and specific
:08:46. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:51.wards could make a vital difference. John Maguire reports.
:08:51. > :08:56.Melissa was 13 when she was told she had cancer. When I was put on
:08:56. > :09:00.the ward when I first got diagnosed, I was put on to a ward with very
:09:00. > :09:03.small children. During the night you would hear screaming babies and
:09:03. > :09:08.you would say little toddlers getting needles and that kind of
:09:08. > :09:12.thing, not something you want to be around. A week or two later I got
:09:12. > :09:17.moved on to a teenage Cancer Trust ward in Newcastle and it was
:09:17. > :09:21.fabulous being around two of the teenagers, patients going through
:09:21. > :09:26.the same situation as May. Tonight, she is singing before hundreds of
:09:26. > :09:30.guests here at Langford Court in North Somerset. The beginning of a
:09:30. > :09:34.weekend of raising money for the teenage Cancer Trust. The plan is
:09:34. > :09:38.to build a specialist unit in Bristol similar to this one in
:09:39. > :09:44.Newcastle. Survival rates for teenage patients lad behind others.
:09:44. > :09:48.Doctors say they are a group that can prove difficult to reach.
:09:48. > :09:53.lack of clinical trials and clinical trial entry in this age
:09:53. > :09:57.group, and it is clinical trials that drive the treatment and drive
:09:57. > :10:00.survival forward, said that is important. The second thing is that
:10:01. > :10:05.these patients, it is a difficult time for them to have cancer, a
:10:05. > :10:08.time when concordance with treatment is quite difficult, so if
:10:08. > :10:12.they are asked to come to a building designed for 60 or 70-
:10:12. > :10:16.year-olds, they are likely to say, I don't know about that. They are
:10:16. > :10:23.not making the decisions and so they are not helping themselves to
:10:23. > :10:28.get through their cancer. Tom Hunt enjoyed life to the full. He was
:10:28. > :10:32.diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 15. Despite being in
:10:33. > :10:36.remission, the disease returned and he died on Boxing Day. Now, his
:10:36. > :10:42.family and friends are furiously raising money for the cancer unit
:10:42. > :10:50.in his name. We just need this unit because of Tom, it was what he
:10:50. > :10:58.wanted. It is my goal to try to get it for him. It won't help Tom, but
:10:59. > :11:02.hopefully it will help somebody else. And others will be helped
:11:02. > :11:07.from across the south-west and perhaps helped to survive this
:11:08. > :11:10.disease. And there are still tickets
:11:10. > :11:12.available for tomorrow night's fundraiser, Langford Live in North
:11:13. > :11:18.Somerset. Ocean Colour Scene will be performing, plus a The Who
:11:18. > :11:24.tribute band. You can turn up on the night or
:11:24. > :11:28.book by going on the website Langfordlive.org.
:11:28. > :11:31.Two men from the West are on their way to France today to take part in
:11:31. > :11:33.the world's oldest balloon race. The Wiltshire adventurer David
:11:33. > :11:40.Hempleman-Adams and his co-pilot Simon Carey, from Bath, are
:11:40. > :11:43.Britain's only entry in this year's Gordon Bennett race.
:11:43. > :11:49.But last year the event, which then started from Bristol, was marred by
:11:49. > :11:52.tragedy when two American competitors were killed. Richard
:11:52. > :11:56.Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis were lost as they travelled over the
:11:56. > :11:59.Adriatic Sea. We are joined by flight director
:11:59. > :12:07.Clive Bailey and weather expert Luc Trullemans, who will guide the
:12:07. > :12:11.British team from a hotel in Bristol this weekend. The first
:12:11. > :12:18.question of course has to be about safety. Has anything changed since
:12:18. > :12:22.last year it? I think one thing last year did was to remind
:12:22. > :12:26.everybody come at us and the pilots, how dangerous the race is, and it
:12:26. > :12:30.is dangerous. It is the Olympics of ballooning, pitching themselves
:12:30. > :12:34.against the elements and the weather will always win if it
:12:34. > :12:40.catches you out, so it has brought it to the forefront. Were mistakes
:12:41. > :12:44.made last year that you can put right this time? I think they are
:12:44. > :12:48.flying hydrogen balloons, they are doing the same this year. We think,
:12:48. > :12:53.it has not been proven, that they got too close to a thunderstorm,
:12:53. > :12:56.says that is something to monitor this it. The weather is crucial in
:12:56. > :13:05.this, that is your area of expertise. How will you help them
:13:05. > :13:14.to? We do a lot of looking at the wind at all levels. We start about
:13:14. > :13:17.17,000 ft -- 7,000 ft, so the wind will be crucial at the beginning
:13:17. > :13:23.and day-by-day the balloon will be lighter and lighter and can fly
:13:23. > :13:30.higher and higher. The main winds at the moment are from the south to
:13:30. > :13:33.the south-west, so the four regions we will reach in two days, it will
:13:33. > :13:38.be more than finance to the Baltic states and then going down to the
:13:38. > :13:44.board of the Ukraine. How much more dangerous will it be with Diouf old
:13:44. > :13:48.hurricane coming in? This hurricane is not so bad, but thunderstorms
:13:48. > :13:53.are now dropping over the Channel in northern France, and they will
:13:53. > :13:58.come to eastern Germany, western Poland, and the balloons will be
:13:58. > :14:04.there also, so it will be important to cite just in front of the
:14:04. > :14:08.thunderstorms to be safe, 50 miles ahead of the thunderstorms.
:14:08. > :14:13.have you helped David and Simon prepare for this? We have got all
:14:13. > :14:18.of the kit, Lady Luck, the balloon they flew last year, this is its
:14:18. > :14:22.third flight. The balloon is proven. They are pretty fit, now it is down
:14:22. > :14:25.to the tactical planning that we will be doing tomorrow, and
:14:25. > :14:29.hopefully they will get away tomorrow night. They can always
:14:29. > :14:34.delay the race until Sunday if the cold front is to close, so
:14:34. > :14:41.hopefully we will get them away tomorrow night. The first 12 hours
:14:41. > :14:45.is critical. We will watch it carefully. Good luck. Thank you for
:14:45. > :14:50.coming in. The University of Bath has won a
:14:50. > :14:52.prestigious accolade. It has been named University of the Year by the
:14:52. > :14:56.Sunday Times. The award takes into account research, teaching,
:14:56. > :14:59.employability and the overall student experience. And in the
:14:59. > :15:08.education league tables for universities, Bath has risen to its
:15:08. > :15:12.highest ever position, fifth out of 122.
:15:12. > :15:18.The comedian David Walliams has now swum almost 80 miles along the
:15:18. > :15:24.Thames despite being hampered by a Thames to make. The Little Britain
:15:24. > :15:32.* is hoping to make it from Gloucestershire to London --
:15:32. > :15:35.suffering from Thames Tommy. He has already raised nearly �460,000 for
:15:35. > :15:38.Sport Relief. Now to sport, and the Rugby World
:15:38. > :15:40.Cup is underway in New Zealand, and England play their first game
:15:40. > :15:44.tomorrow. Alistair is here. What are their
:15:44. > :15:48.chances? Well, they should beat Argentina
:15:48. > :15:50.comfortably. As for the rest of the tournament, much tougher tests
:15:50. > :15:53.await them. Kick-off is at 9.30am tomorrow, our time, and
:15:53. > :16:01.Gloucester's Mike Tindall will captain England in the absence of
:16:01. > :16:03.Bath's Lewis Moody. Tindall, a veteran of the 2003 World Cup-
:16:03. > :16:08.winning side, will also become England's most capped centre,
:16:08. > :16:14.overtaking Will Carling. He is the West's only player in the starting
:16:14. > :16:17.line-up tomorrow, although Bath's Matt Banahan is on the bench.
:16:17. > :16:20.In club rugby, Bristol are full of confidence ahead of their first
:16:21. > :16:24.home game of the new season after an impressive opening win in the
:16:24. > :16:28.Championship. It is a contrast from 12 months ago when members of the
:16:28. > :16:32.squad were asked to take a pay cut, and many players left. Now, there
:16:32. > :16:41.is a new head coach with a settled squad, and it seems a real appetite
:16:41. > :16:44.to get back to the Premiership. Enjoying the taste of success again.
:16:44. > :16:52.It was all smiles at the club BBQ this week, hosting supporters and
:16:52. > :16:54.sponsors. It is only one game, but they are top of the table. More
:16:54. > :17:03.importantly, free from the unsettling pressures that dogged
:17:04. > :17:07.them last year. It is a lot more happy this time. With everything
:17:07. > :17:11.that happened last year, it was hard to focus on everything, the
:17:11. > :17:15.mind was clouded. The first day we came back in pre-season we said,
:17:15. > :17:19.let's forget about that, it is in the past. The guys have done that
:17:19. > :17:22.so the camp is a lot happier. what you hear about people in
:17:22. > :17:26.Bristol, there is a good camaraderie in the team and that
:17:26. > :17:30.counts for a lot. Their aim this year is to get back into the
:17:30. > :17:33.Premiership so everybody is feeling good about this season. In a dark
:17:33. > :17:36.video analysis room, new head coach Liam Middleton and his players are
:17:36. > :17:43.hatching their plan to get out of the Championship at the third
:17:43. > :17:46.attempt. A task he believes is getting tougher each year. A team
:17:46. > :17:51.has come on, London Scottish, who will be playing this weekend who
:17:51. > :17:54.are better than a relegated team. Other teams of bolstered their
:17:54. > :17:58.claim budgets. It will get better every year and the longer we stay
:17:58. > :18:06.here, the more competitive it gets and the harder to get to the top,
:18:06. > :18:10.but that is our goal, obviously. where can they improve? The word is
:18:10. > :18:13.the squad is the fittest it has been. Bristol faded in matches last
:18:13. > :18:18.year, but the way they finished the win at Doncaster suggested the
:18:18. > :18:22.opposite will be true this season. We finished the game quite well,
:18:22. > :18:26.which is a strong point from a fitness point of view, and that
:18:26. > :18:29.will hopefully continue throughout the season. It was good to see
:18:29. > :18:34.George Watkins, I hate to pick people out, but when he got through
:18:34. > :18:39.that gap, it was a warming moment. And hopefully not the last for this
:18:39. > :18:42.club, desperate to prove they can be contenders again.
:18:42. > :18:46.Football, and Bristol City return from the international break with a
:18:46. > :18:49.new signing and a new international in the squad. They will both be on
:18:50. > :18:53.show against League leaders Brighton at Ashton Gate. And, as
:18:53. > :19:00.Geoff Twentyman reports, they will be trying to spark what has been a
:19:00. > :19:03.slow start to the season. Just one win and five points from
:19:03. > :19:07.five games is cent drop dead average start. The two-week break
:19:07. > :19:14.has given the man in charge the chance to work on key issue. It is
:19:14. > :19:19.a big game for us, I think. They are flying, playing well, it is one
:19:19. > :19:22.for us to enjoy and I want us to go out there full of energy. We have
:19:22. > :19:26.worked hard in training for the last couple of weeks and it will be
:19:26. > :19:30.down to the players to go out there and deliver, and if they do that I
:19:30. > :19:33.am sure our fans will get behind them and create a good atmosphere.
:19:33. > :19:38.A left-back has been recruited on a season-long loan from Manchester
:19:38. > :19:48.City and will go straight into the team against bright and. I will
:19:48. > :19:48.
:19:48. > :19:52.give 100% every game. I like to get forward and help create a goals.
:19:52. > :19:57.Had fully between now and the end of the cistern I will get to show
:19:57. > :20:02.the fans what I am about. During the recess, one player has
:20:02. > :20:05.graduated to the international ranks. Albert Adomah graduated --
:20:05. > :20:12.debut for Ghana this week and he believes it will make him a better
:20:12. > :20:15.place. Getting better, I think, is down to training. If you don't
:20:15. > :20:20.practise, you can't improve, so it is down to training and playing
:20:20. > :20:22.games, which I am doing, so it is quite nice for me, but I think I
:20:22. > :20:27.will get better and now I am playing international football so
:20:28. > :20:32.that improves me, if I get a chance to play for an international team,
:20:32. > :20:36.that will improve me. Bristol City have not won at home yet this
:20:36. > :20:40.season, or even scored a goal here at Ashton Gate, but a big chance
:20:40. > :20:45.tomorrow to turn on the style against the league leaders. A home
:20:45. > :20:48.win would really kick-start the season.
:20:48. > :20:52.Cricket, and Somerset and Gloucestershire will be trying to
:20:52. > :20:56.force wins tomorrow in their vital county championship matches.
:20:56. > :21:00.Somerset had a lead of 194 runs against Yorkshire, nothing other
:21:00. > :21:04.than a win will keep them in the title and with one game left to get.
:21:04. > :21:08.In Division Two, promotion chasing Gloucestershire bowled
:21:08. > :21:13.Leicestershire out for 135 in Bristol but it proved harder second
:21:13. > :21:19.time around and the game is heading into the final day, with
:21:19. > :21:29.Leicestershire 255-fork, still four runs behind Gloucestershire -- to
:21:29. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:36.Now, the opening titles of a TV programme are seen as extremely
:21:36. > :21:41.important, designed to draw you into watching the show. These are
:21:41. > :21:51.from the BBC Two comedy Episodes. But it is not just the pictures
:21:51. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :21:57.The music from Episodes was written by a composer from Somerset, and he
:21:57. > :22:02.has now been nominated for a prestigious Emmy award. Jules Hyam
:22:02. > :22:08.went to meet him. She is just not interested in you.
:22:08. > :22:12.You don't know that. Everyone knows that. And cuts! They hit comedy is
:22:12. > :22:15.a story of Brits abroad, screenwriters taking their TV
:22:15. > :22:21.showed a Hollywood and finding their show is not really there's
:22:21. > :22:25.any more. Did I mention I hate the show? I believe it has come up.
:22:25. > :22:29.Because it is the Brits in Hollywood, I thought of the halcyon
:22:29. > :22:36.days of the Brits, Katharine Hepburn, so wanted to introduce an
:22:36. > :22:42.elegant tap dancing, typewriter sort of soft shoe element to it to
:22:42. > :22:46.bring a witty element to the music. It does have a definite fail, and
:22:46. > :22:51.it has won him an Emmy Award nomination. The telephone rang one
:22:51. > :22:57.morning and they said, Mark, you have been nominated for an Emmy. I
:22:57. > :23:00.couldn't believe it! What do you say?! It took me at least a week
:23:00. > :23:05.before I have realised that it wasn't a practical joke. If you
:23:05. > :23:13.have not been watching Episodes, you will have heard some of Mark's
:23:13. > :23:18.compositions. He arranged the updated Coronation Street's --
:23:18. > :23:21.Coronation Street team, the updated music for a Reggie Perrin, and the
:23:21. > :23:27.type of music for Shaun the Sheep, which does not even have any
:23:27. > :23:31.dialogue. They are using the bagpipes and they think, he is an
:23:31. > :23:38.exotic bird, and they think the exotic bird is injured and they
:23:38. > :23:42.want to operate on him. There is the stretcher, off they go to the
:23:42. > :23:52.operating theatre. This time I at the music. It lends a sense of
:23:52. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:18.It is an idea of a hospital drama, That is not even the finished
:24:18. > :24:23.version, the final one was a bit different to that. Mark will find
:24:23. > :24:28.out tomorrow whether he can call himself an Emmy Award winner.
:24:28. > :24:33.That would be terrific, we will let you know in our Bulletins on Sunday
:24:33. > :24:41.how he does. Now, Ian has some important weather
:24:41. > :24:46.news for us, some strong winds By the time we get to Monday things
:24:46. > :24:49.will change for the worse in terms of wind strength. Saturday and
:24:49. > :24:54.Sunday, nothing exceptional, so we need to separate Monday from
:24:54. > :24:58.Saturday and Sunday which, yes, will be the classic British wet,
:24:58. > :25:04.windy weekend. Wet at times, dry interludes as well. For some,
:25:04. > :25:08.prolonged dry spells, but the winds will be a feature. Let's start that
:25:08. > :25:12.on Saturday morning with this cold front, which will be the feature of
:25:12. > :25:15.interest on Saturday morning and will bring heavy rain. By the
:25:15. > :25:23.afternoon, things will brighten up but it will remain blustery.
:25:24. > :25:29.Further showers and sunny spells on Sunday, and then this on Monday,
:25:29. > :25:32.the remnants of a tropical storm. It has undergone all sorts of
:25:32. > :25:38.modifications and is no longer a hurricane or a tropical storm, but
:25:38. > :25:43.it is a deep depression and one which, by Sunday night and into
:25:43. > :25:48.Monday, has the potential to bring trouble. In recognition of that,
:25:48. > :25:51.the Met Office has issued alerts and warnings, the yellow alert
:25:51. > :25:57.covered there includes our stretch of the world, particularly parts of
:25:57. > :26:02.Somerset. Valid from midnight on Sunday throughout Monday. The
:26:02. > :26:07.Orange area is an amber alert in north-western parts, where the
:26:07. > :26:13.strongest of the winds, potentially storm-force, could a cat. There is
:26:13. > :26:16.a lot of uncertainty on whether most destructive winds could happen,
:26:16. > :26:20.but a yellow alert in force. Keep in touch with us through the
:26:20. > :26:24.weekend and we will keep you updated on that as it develops. For
:26:24. > :26:29.the rest of this evening, a good deal of low cloud, not dissimilar
:26:29. > :26:33.to yesterday evening. That will bring some patches of drizzle, hill
:26:33. > :26:43.fog, and by tomorrow some extensive outbreaks of rain coming from the
:26:43. > :26:46.West. An exceptionally mild night, mind you. Barely two or three
:26:46. > :26:51.degrees down on what we have seen through the day. Tomorrow, the cold
:26:52. > :26:56.front gets its act together, marching to the east. Heavier
:26:56. > :26:59.pulses associated with that, we will all see some wet weather on
:27:00. > :27:06.Saturday morning, heading towards the east as the afternoon wears on.
:27:06. > :27:10.By that stage, a lot brighter, blustery, temperatures about 20, 21.
:27:10. > :27:15.Sunday, sunny spells and showers, some of those quite frequent on a
:27:15. > :27:20.blustery breeze for the Bristol half-marathon, and for the one in
:27:20. > :27:23.Chippenham. The winds on Monday are the concern, and there will be some
:27:24. > :27:28.high tides. There could be problems locally, we will keep you updated
:27:28. > :27:31.on that. Thank you. That is all for now, I
:27:31. > :27:36.am back with the ten o'clock News tonight.