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Good evening, and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The drama over Fred West - the police chief who led the real life | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
investigation says the ITV programmes are far from the truth. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
You're nicked - the stolen lead merchants feel the iron hand of the | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
law. A patient left in agony after her | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
dentist extracted the wrong tooth, and then tried to put it back in. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
I was right to be scared, because it was horrible. To have an | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
infected tooth was bad enough, let alone the pain that was to come. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
And a journey of a lifetime - a West Country balloon crew complete | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
Good evening. The detective who led one of | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Britain's biggest ever murder investigations, the Cromwell Street | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
murders in Gloucester, has hit out today at an ITV drama about Fred | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
West. The programme concentrates on Fred | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
West's relationship with Janet Leach, who sat in on the police | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
interviews. But today former superintendent John Bennett claimed | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
the producers did not let the facts get in the way of the story. Steve | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Knibbs reports. A drama showing the relationship | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
between a Gloucester housewife and a manipulative mass murderer was | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
never going to be an easy one to make. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
I love Rose, but she was the one. Appropriate Adult took over three | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
years to make, and producers had various meetings with the man who | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
became the public face of the investigation, Detective | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
Superintendent John Bennett. This afternoon, police officers | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
performed excavations in Cromwell Street and found, in two separate | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
areas, what is considered to be two significant and separate finds. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
now having seen the drama, he is angry at the way Janet Leach's role | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
was dramatised. What they have done is wrong people trade how Janet | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
Leach came into the investigation, the way that she was dealt with, | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
from welfare, and the way that she interacted and had contact with | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Fred West. Her impact on the investigation has been grossly | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
exaggerated. John Bennett also feels the programme has affected | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the integrity of his investigation. It was produced in the way that it | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
was for the purpose of the story that they wanted to show, and | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
unfortunately, other than the acting ability that resulted in the | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
betrayal of both Fred and Rosemary West, it is -- it has achieved | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
nothing at all. But the writer of Appropriate Adult defended his | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
position today, saying he in no way manipulated the facts to make it a | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
better story. Of course it is a dramatisation, compressing two | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
years of history into 90 minutes of drama, so you have to crunch down | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
and simplified the story to some extent, but the essence of it, we | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
absolutely stunned by the essence of the story, and incidentally the | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
drama itself does not criticise Gloucester police or John Bennett. | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
Others have, elsewhere. It is not part of the drama. But what of the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
woman at the centre of this - Janet Leach? She nearly brought the Rose | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
West trial to a halt when it was revealed she had done a deal with | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
the Daily Mirror for her story, despite denying it in court. She | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
worked with ITV on the drama but did not want to be interviewed | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
today, although it is reported she feels it was a fair account of what | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
happened to her. Some more developments on that | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
story tonight. In a statement, ITV claimed Mr Bennett was interested | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
in being a paid adviser to the programme but they decided not to | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
employ him. We have spoken to Mr Bennett who says he met the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
producers at his own expense and offered advice free of charge. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
The organisers of yesterday's half marathon in Bristol have said they | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
are deeply saddened by the death of one of the competitors. The | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
emergency services tried to resuscitate the man, who was 33 and | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
from Clevedon, but were unable to save him. It is the first fatality | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
in the race's 23-year history. About 9,000 people took part this | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
year. A man has been arrested on | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was hit by a car in Bristol. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
The car mounted the pavement on Cannon Road in Bedminster just | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
after 1pm yesterday afternoon. The victim, who is in her twenties, was | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
left with life-changing leg injuries. A 25-year-old man is | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
being questioned by the police. A fundraising website set up in | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
memory of Anni Dewani, who was murdered on her honeymoon in South | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Africa, has suddenly been closed down. The Just Giving site had | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
raised around �11,000 before it was shut down over the weekend. The | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Charity Commission confirmed today it had questioned the charity in | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
March to check what the money would be used for. Meanwhile, the Bristol | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
businessman Shrien Dewani is still awaiting extradition accused of | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
plotting his wife's murder. The mother of a 19-year-old man who | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
died after escaping from a secure mental ward has told his inquest | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
that her concerns about his condition were not taken seriously. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Susan Hoskins' son David suffered extensive burns after he climbed an | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
electricity pylon near Weston General Hospital two years ago. He | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
suffered a massive electric shock and died at Frenchay Hospital six | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
weeks later. 40 scrap metal dealerships in the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
West were searched this morning by police targeting criminals who deal | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
in stolen metal. Hundreds of officers from Avon and Somerset | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
took part in the searches, clamping down on a crime described by police | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
as attractive to opportunist thieves and organised crime groups. | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
James Hassam reports. Lead roof tiles, copper cables, and | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
pipes. All found at this Somerset scrapyard, all hitting the public | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
in the pocket. It is costing the taxpayer an awful lot of money, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
billions of pounds in it, as well as businesses and is affecting the | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
community at large. We have schools affected, houses affected with | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
coast -- with broadband dropping out, and last week the coastguard's | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
system dropped out. The price of scrap metal has risen sharply, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
making it very valuable. Copper is attracting a higher value, which is | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
giving people the incentive to steal it. Police here found that | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
incentive is working. People are stealing copper wire and other | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
metals in huge quantities. It is easy to steal because the metal is | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
around in the community, so people are being able to take any metal | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
that is available and converted into cash. Police have arrested | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
more than 20 people so far for doing that, and seized 30 to 40 | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
tonnes of stone and metal. Officers here say the level of metal theft | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
is lower than anywhere else in the country. By carrying out today's | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
visible raids, they hope that trend is set to continue. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Welcome to Monday's Points West. David and Alex with you this | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
evening with all your local news, sport and weather. | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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Coming up: When you break your back, you break your heart. | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
A woman trying to raise funds for a special garden for Spinal patients. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
A Somerset woman says she will fight for compensation after her | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
dentist removed the wrong tooth. He then tried to put it back, even | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
though it had spent several hours in the surgery bin. Kim Green from | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Wellington has now lost two teeth as a result of the mistake and is | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
having to be vaccinated against blood diseases like hepatitis. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
Here's Jules Hyam. If you have had any problems with | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
your teeth, you know that dental pain can be utterly excruciating, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the kind of thing you want dealt with right away. That is what Kim | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Green wanted when she came here to have an infected root canal dealt | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
with. She was not expecting that the newly qualified dentist, Justin | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
George, would remove the wrong to it. I phoned the dental surgery, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
where I was advised that it is all right, come up, they can sort it | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
out, they have the tooth in the bin. At that point, it did not dawn on | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
me what she had said, just that she had the to it. The dentist then | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
reinserted the tooth that had been in the bin, but he did not remove | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
the tooth that was the original problem. It was pressing on the | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
infection, like having the worst toothache I could imagine, with | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
something sharp jabbing in it constantly, and it was just | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
unbearable. Kim Green then came here to Musgrove Park Hospital | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
where, the following day, both teeth were removed. They advised me | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
this should never have been done, and they explain to me the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
implications of it being in the bin. Either it was in a normal been or | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
worse, clinical waste, which I have now found out it was in clinical | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
waste. The case has been referred to NHS Somerset, who told us Mr | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
George was subject to the Primary Care Trust's internal investigation | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
and performance review process. Their findings have been shared | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
with the General Dental Council and it will be up to them to decide | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
what action to take. Mr George was immediately suspended from carrying | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
out NHS work, and has been ever since. Mrs Green is now planning | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
legal action over her lost tooth and the sizable bill she will face | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
to replace it. Now, should the worst happen and | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
you find yourself in an ambulance heading for one of our Accident & | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Emergency units, you would probably expect to be rushed straight in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
when you get there. However, the reality is that you can be kept | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
waiting in the ambulance for some time before being transferred to | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
A&E. The Government target is a turn-around time of 15 minutes, but, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
as our health correspondent Matthew Hill reports, there are huge | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
variations across the West, with some patients waiting much longer. | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
This patient has very serious injuries. Like all patients this | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
morning she was transferred from her ambulance into French a | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
hospital's emergency hospital department in 50 minutes. Another | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
man is having a stroke and was given treatment, a brain scan and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
clot-busting drugs, within minutes of arrival. We have been here for | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
40 minutes, he has been for ACT scanner already and had DRS around | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
him constantly, the staff have been brilliant. Frenchay Hospital is | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
extremely busy as the major trauma unit in the region and at times it | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
struggles to admit patients from an immense is within the target of 15 | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
minutes. Latest targets show 40% of patients waited longer than this. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Compare that with Great Western Hospital, 13%, and Bath's Royal | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
United, just 5%. If ambulances are tied up, fewer crews on the row. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
is something we want to improve and we are working with the hospitals | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
to do that to get our crews out and available for further 999 pulls. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
The hospitals are also struggling with the patients failing to be | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
admitted within 15 minutes, but the hospital stresses it is not all | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
about time. The key is, what are others doing that we can work -- | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
that we can learn from? But I would underline that we are getting the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
quality of care that we are giving, the outcomes for the patients are | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
improving and are second to none. But a technical solution may help. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
All main hospitals in the West have installed ambulance arrival screens. | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
This green is showing we have two patients that are in the handover | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
process -- the screen is showing. They are in hospital beds and | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
starting treatment, waiting for the crews to kick the handover button | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
which will show the episode is finished. That has just gone right | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
behind you? That means the crews have not been able to press the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
button, but they have not had the delay. It is hoped the system will | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
make a huge difference. A special train service taking day- | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
trippers from London to Stroud is being given a six-month trial. The | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
scheme was launched today at Westminster by Stroud's | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
Conservative MP, Neil Carmichael. He believes it could help the local | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
economy by giving local businesses new opportunities. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Drivers are being warned to expect disruption on a number of | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Somerset's roads for the next six months. Work has started out on | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
sections of the A303 at West Horton, and nine miles of the A358 just off | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
junction 25 of the M5. The motorway is also undergoing repairs before | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
roadworks on the A30 begin. The outgoing chief executive of | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Wiltshire Council has warned that axing his job could be a mistake. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
It was proposed last week that Andrew Kerr and another senior | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
officer would be made redundant to help the authority save half a | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
million pounds a year. He told our political editor Paul Barltrop that | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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it came as a surprise after just 20 months in the job. | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
She asked me into her office at 9:30pm last Wednesday, and told me | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
the considerations they were making. Was it out of the book? It was. | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
shock? Yes, it was. I can understand the reasoning, but I | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
think there are other ways of saving money which would be better | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
in terms of organisation and the way it has been suggested. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
His departure is expected to be confirmed by a meeting of senior | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
councillors in two weeks' time. And a reminder that the Politics | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
Show returns to BBC One on Sunday. Our guest this week is the former | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
head of the army. We look forward to that, it has | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
been too long! The father of the boy killed by a | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
polar bear in the Arctic circle last month is raising money to | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
create a garden at the hospital where he works. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
David Chapple is a consultant spinal surgeon at Salisbury | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
District Hospital, which treats patients from across the West. His | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
son Horatio wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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Geoff Holt is the first quadriplegic to sail solo around | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
Britain the 25 years ago this was his Diouf for 10 months. He was a | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
patient on the spinal unit after breaking his neck in a swimming | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
accident. I remember counting the dots on the polystyrene tiles above | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
my head. I remember staring at the ceiling, I knew different people | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
coming on the ward by the sound of their shoes and I yearned for | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
looking up and seeing blue sky. that is why the surgeon who runs | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
this unit wants to create a garden for his patients. It will be in | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
memory of his son, Horatio, who was killed by a polar bear last month. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
We look for something to guide us forward and give us some strength, | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
and we feel this was definitely a way we could concentrate our | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
efforts on getting something good out of this tragedy. Horatio | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
Chapple wanted to study medicine and had come here to the spinal | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
unit to do work experience with his dad. More than �50,000 has been | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
donated in his memory, which will go towards creating this garden. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Annie Maw, from Somerset, was a patient nine years ago after | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
breaking her back in a horse-riding accident. She is helping to raise | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
money for the guard and. I say to people, when you break your back, | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
you break your heart -- money for the garden. You have lost yourself, | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
lost any chance of doing things in life that you hoped for. To get out | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
into the garden helped me enormously to assemble my thoughts | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
and feel better about life. unit is appealing for volunteers to | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
help with the gardening. It is hoped this space will form part of | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
the healing process for the patients on the spinal unit and the | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
surgeon who operates on them. Cricket, and Somerset captain | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Marcus Trescothick remains a doubt for the CB40 final against Surrey | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
this weekend. He has been having treatment in an oxygen chamber to | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
try and speed up his recovery from an ankle injury. But he was not fit | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
to play in today's final Championship match against | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Lancashire. Somerset's James Hildreth made a season's best 161 | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
not out, as his side finished the first day on 314 for 5 at the | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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County Ground in Taunton. And in Division Two, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Gloucestershire could not capitalise on -- on a good start as | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
Northamptonshire finished the day on 316-9. Gloucestershire need to | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
win the game to stand a chance of being promoted to Division One. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Do you think they will do it? Only time will tell. | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Nicely handled! A Wiltshire woman whose brother was | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
killed in Afghanistan is releasing a song dedicated to the town of | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Wootton Bassett. Captain Mark Hale's body was repatriated through | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the town in 2009. Now his sister, Tracey Rogers, is | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
recording a special single to say thank you to the people of Wootton | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
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Bassett. Alice Bouverie reports. When the Union Jack was lowered in | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Wootton Bassett last month, it marked the end of an extraordinary | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
chapter in the town's history. Over 150 times, people gathered for the | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
repatriations of those killed in action abroad. One of those was | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Captain Mark Hale of 2 Rifles. His sister was among the crowd. Now she | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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wants to pay her own tribute. proud. I am quite emotional today. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
She has brought together musicians, young singers and film-makers from | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
the local area to record their own single. It is a cover of Wake Me Up | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
When September Ends by the band Green Day. They have just started | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
rehearsing at Real World studios in Box, in Wiltshire. They want the | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
single to be released next month. It is a symbol that would inherit - | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
- Wootton Bassett's faith goes are. I think it is important that this | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
is a positive experience coming out of a quite difficult time for the | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
tower. This Sunday, they are making the music video. On the High Street | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
in Bassett, everyone is welcome. The adventurer and balloonist David | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Hempleman-Adams has finished fourth in this year's Gordon Bennett gas | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
balloon race. The aim of the game is to fly the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
furthest, but the event this time was very short. It lasted little | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
more than a day because the competitors had to fly over the | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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Alps, and were trying to out-run thunderstorms. John Maguire reports. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
As the sun went down over the French Alps on Saturday evening, | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the pilots prepared to go up. The balloons are treated with extreme | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
care, filled with the potentially explosive gas hydrogen. From the | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
off, they knew it would be a short race. Having to dump so many sand | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
bags to climb clear of the mountains reduces their options as | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
ultimately they need the weight to land safely. It was a fantastic | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
race. It was a difficult decisions for the organisers to allow us to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
race, because we had bad weather coming in and we knew they were | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
going across the Alps, but it was a technically difficult race. They | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
were taking off from 2000 ft but had to climb immediately to 16,000 | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
ft, which used to sets of the ballast. -- which she used two | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
thirds of the ballast. The race is won by the team that flies longest | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
and furthest. Hempleman-Adams and his co-pilot Simon Carey landed in | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
fourth place after being advised that thunderstorms were on their | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
way. Lightning and hydrogen can forge a fatal combination. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
weatherman said they were about two hours away, so we decided to land | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
before it got too dark, and on landing, within 20 minutes, there | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
was a lot of thunder and lightning, so we were pleased to be on the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
ground. But the French team took the risk, flew the furthest to win | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
and will host the event next year. But the Brits were more cautious. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
We landed just two hours before the first thunderstorm came over. The | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
French, who won the race, got big luck because the thunderstorm | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
diminished just when they flew through. Last year's race was | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
marred when an American balloon got lost and its two pilots died, and | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
the difficult conditions meant this year many teams stayed away. | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
Hempleman-Adams, a previous winner, says he is disappointed with fourth | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
place but has vowed to compete again in the 2012 event. He is a | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
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difficult man to keep down. Fourth sounds pretty good to me. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
And speaking about adventure, here is the moment that comedienne David | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Walliams ended his epic Thames swim, which began at the Gloucestershire | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
source last Monday. Since setting off from Lechlade, he | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
has completed 140 miles, the equivalent of some in the English | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Channel about seven times. He has raised nearly �1 million for | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
Sport Relief, and burned more than 65,000 calories as well. And you | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
can still sponsor him, as well. Well done. With the "Thames tummy" | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
and everything. And he rescued a dog. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
It would have be easier to take the motorway! | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Before we go to the weather, strong winds battered parts of the country | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
today and closed three tourist attraction. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
The National Trust show at this house in Somerset, an estate in | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Wiltshire and a part in Bath. They took the decision because they | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
said visitors could be at risk from debris falling from the trees. We | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
were actually downgraded from the yellow warning and yet we still got | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
battered, didn't we? We did, it was nothing exceptional | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
for our district. You have to go back to the Burns Day Storm are | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
January 1992 C winds of a different nature in the West Country, 100 | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
mile an hour gusts through the seven in that instance. Today, by | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
contrast, and not less than that, but it will be different in | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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Scotland later on today, gusts of The yellow warning was withdrawn | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Friday into Saturday, not long after we had been on air, but | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
having said that we have had some trees down in Gloucestershire and | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
Wiltshire and elsewhere. A health warning now because I expect these | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
graphics to sail, courtesy of Bill Gates' Microsoft playing havoc! But | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
these waves which are a classic herringbone pattern were widespread | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
across the British Isles. Date literally where waves, where the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
air is being turned into waves to form cloud in a distinct pattern. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
We might see something similar tomorrow, but before that, we have | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
showers to deal with, particularly in the first half of the day, the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
potential for some of them to be heavy and then drip. The graphics | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
not working as I was expecting! But what I was hoping to show you is | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the chart of what will happen tonight and tomorrow, the winds | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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starting to feel a bit lighter. Bol Gatkouth -- the gusts of around 30 | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
miles an hour eventually. This will move towards the east. Beyond that, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
and I expect them to jam at this point, we are into an evening which | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
will be drier with bright and sunny spells tonight. Clear skies for the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
first part of the light, the winds a feature but nothing like the | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
second half of last night. The first signs of that starting to | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
arrive tomorrow morning, showery outbreaks and light rain before | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
daybreak. Temperatures tonight, the air being turned over so readily, | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
12-13 Celsius will be typical. Tomorrow, that traps starts to | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
activate said the showers will turn heavier, crossing eastwards. A | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
flash or two of lining cannot be ruled out, and some hefty downpours | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
here and there -- a flash of lightning. Not dissimilar to this | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
afternoon in many respects. I think the cloud will dump -- will | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
completely go by the evening. Temperatures broadly similar to | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
those we saw today. The sea will be quite rough, not a day for beach | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
fishing in parts of North Somerset. The middle of the week will see | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
higher pressure on Thursday, the quietest day of the week, but low- | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
pressure growing on Friday and into the weekend. Back to square one, | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
but not as wing. Thank you very much, and for | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
sharing your angst with -- but not as windy on Friday. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
When I started, the weatherman had a magnetic symbols. Those were the | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
days. An update on our main stories from | :27:34. | :27:38. |