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Hello and welcome to the programme. Tonight: Shot dead on patrol. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Another soldier from Gloucestershire's 1st Battalion The | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
Rifles is killed in Afghanistan. Also: A toxic waste dump applies to | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
extend its licence but neighbours demanded to shut down. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
We lift the lid on the newly refurbished eye hospital. | :00:34. | :00:44. | |
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And why you Ian Holloway is back in Good evening. A soldier from the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Gloucestershire-based 1 Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan. The | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Ministry of Defence says he was shot while on patrol in in the | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province. His family have been told. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
The announcement of his death comes on the day a new BBC series starts, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
following a group of recruits into 1 Rifles. Here's our | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
At Beachley Barracks tonight, the candle which will only be | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
extinguished when they all return, has taken on an added poignancy. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Five riflemen have now lost their lives on this tour. It particularly | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
affects people back here when they knew that person but there is still | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
a fair bit of the tour to go and everyone back here has a key job. | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
In many ways, it steals them and gives them extra determination to | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
support everyone out there in get them back as safely as possible. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Tonight's programme on BBC three it shows how they prepare their | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
recruits for the reality of war - turning them from civilians to | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
soldiers very quickly. There is the sudden change of lifestyle. The | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
Daily wake-up calls at 5am and the basics of how the army works. And | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
does the training desert, there is a reality check as many realise it | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
is not for them. The recruits are pushed like never before to focus | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
on the physical demands of their tours of duty. But, strikingly, the | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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programme also shows the struggles of their families. I will go to | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
Afghanistan at least twice in my four years. Nobody is pushing you. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
You could come out now. I would lose my pride. The reality is that | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
these recruits were filmed over one year ago and today, the majority | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
are in Afghanistan, fighting and unrelenting enemy and having to | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
comes -- come to terms with the another death of a colleague. The | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
news that makes it even more difficult if you are waiting back | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
home. It upset you. You get down. I have a good family support network | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
and every wife and mother needs a support network. I have a good | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
family support network which Young Soldiers programme pulls no | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
punches. The Rifles wanted the public to see just what they ask of | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
their recruits from day one to deployment. And, as today has shown, | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
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it's a deployment that carries with Hundreds of people are protesting | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
against a toxic waste dump in Gloucestershire, claiming the dust | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
is ruining their health. The site near Bishop's Cleeve takes in one | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
third of the UK's incinerated waste and once A light since to keep | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
using the site for another 20 years. -- it once a licence. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
This is where 50,000 Tam -- tons of the UK's hazardous waste is dumped | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
every year. Wingmoor Farm near Bishop's Cleeve. It is a kind of - | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
that is mixed with water and M Teague into this hole and covered | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
with a lid of play. It worries protesters who made this video. It | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
shows the hazardous waste being unloaded. They say the cloud you | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
can see contains dangerous dust which blows the way it on to their | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
homes. On one occasion, two tons of the stuff was dropped out of the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Silo in 15 seconds and so it is just as well the wind wasn't | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
blowing. The next time, it might be blowing in my direction. Our houses | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
irritating cough when I come back from a holiday and going to | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Bishop's Cleeve. You blame that on the dust coming from the side? | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
yes. The owners, Grundon Waste Management, say this is the closely | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
-- most closely monitored site in the UK. The protest do raise the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
question about what we do with the incinerator waste. Burning | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
household rubbish leaves one third of the original weight as ash and | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
it has to go somewhere. Why as and why here, say campaigners. There | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
are alternatives. In Cheshire, the Ashes triple bagged and dumped in | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
old salt mines. The decision on the future of this site will be made | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
next week. The threat that beautiful rural | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
areas of the Westcountry could be bulldozed is once again causing | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
concern. Despite last year's change of government, campaigners say | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
pressure is once more being applied to build homes on green fields. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
That'll be debated at a Bath and North East Somerset council meeting | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
tonight. Alex. Yes, the West's glorious | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
countryside is beloved and fiercely So, there was much relief last year | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
when the new coalition government scrapped a system of targets which | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
would have forced the south west to build hundreds of thousands of new | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
houses. But hopes these fields would be safe have been dealt a new | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
blow. First, came the government's snappily titled National Planning | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Policy Framework. And this is line which has caused alarm, that there | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
should be "a presumption in favour of sustainable development". And, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
on top of that, Planning Inspectors say not enough's being done by | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
councils like Bath and North East Somerset. Last year, Banes lifted | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
the threat hanging over these fields. But after pressure from an | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Inspector, they're now debating whether other land between Bristol | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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and Bath might in fact be built on. The issue that we have is that the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
value of land is so high that property prices are high. It is | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
difficult to get onto the property ladder and for people with low | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
incomes to find affordable rental property and for our social | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
landlords to find land to build housing that they can make viable | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
with the social event. To build or not to build? That's not the | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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question. It's where to build Earlier, I spoke to Dr Burgess and | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
I asked him whether building on greenfield sites was inevitable? | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
don't think it is inevitable that we will build on greenfield sites | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
but my plea is that every community needs affordable homes. If you take | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
Somerset and Devon for example, house prices have gone up | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
dramatically and there are many second-home owners and many elderly | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
people live in rural communities. For the sake of young people, they | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
need affordable homes in rural communities. But do we have a | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
choice but to build on greenfield sites given that, in the | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
Westcountry, we have run out of brownfield sites? It is important | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
to use brownfield sites if at all possible, but from time to time, | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
small areas - and I insist on small areas - being used for affordable | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
homes will prove to be invaluable for the vibrancy of future rural | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
communities. Will the Government actually say to go ahead end use | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
greenfield sites after all? Government has come out with a | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
planning and localism bill which will go together. It is important | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
to realise that the government says that they are in favour of | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
sustainable development and that the default position is, yes. What | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
the Government needs to do is to describe what they mean by a | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
"sustainable development" and whether it means on green field | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
sites. In my guess, in some small areas, it may. Thank you very much. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Welcome to Thursdays Points West with Chris and Alex. | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
Coming up: The pace yourselves - why plans to bring back Bristol's | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
marathon are already feeling the strain. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
And the world according to Ollie - we catch up with the most quotable | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
man in football. I have only cared about what I'd do | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
and I hope other people appreciate A 50-year-old man from Melksham has | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
been charged with manslaughter and perverting the course of justice in | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
relation to the death of Adrian Cooksey in 2009. Mr Cooksey, from | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Trowbridge, was attacked in the town after a night out, and was | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
found with serious head injuries. He died later in hospital. Richard | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Elmes has been released on bail and will appear before North Wiltshire | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
magistrates later this month. Another man was cleared of Mr | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Cooksey's manslaughter after a trial at Bristol Crown Court nearly | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
two years ago. A huge new wetland reserve for | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
birds is being developed on the Somerset coast and today residents | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
had a chance to see the plans close up. The aim is to provide a | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
sanctuary for migrating birds on Bridgwater Bay but, unusually, the | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
work is being paid for by the Bristol Port Company. Why? Our | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
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business correspondent Dave Harvey We want to create a habitat for | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
birds and protect the area where people live. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
This is the plan - 135 hectares of saltmarsh and mudflats, flooded and | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
drained every day as the tide ebbs and flows - a playground for wading | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
birds and wetland wildlife. All this work is to compensate for what | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
they are doing 30 miles up the coast. At Avonmouth the Port | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Company has permission to build a huge new deep water terminal, | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
costing �600 million. The new container terminal will go 100 | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
metres beyond that might house and then right at the estuary. All this | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
will be contain years and concrete and no place for a bird. -- | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
containers. We have to create an area somewhere on the Severn | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
estuary. It is an opportunity to create a habitat for birds and do | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
something useful for the local community. And so, in the village | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
sports club, they've been listening. And perhaps surprisingly, the | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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reception has been rather good. They are always concerned, | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
especially when you get a major scheme. There will be concerns but | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
I think the Bristol port company has done a pretty good job. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
everyone's happy. These fields are a popular shooting spot with local | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
wildfowlers. Unsurprisingly, that won't be allowed when it's a bird | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
reserve. And they question if this coastline really needs any more | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
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wetland. The habitat is desperately-needed at there. We do | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
not really need any more mud flats. At a the 9th tonight, the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
bulldozers art on hold as nothing will happen here and to the global | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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economy picks up. When it does, the De Pass car has been for a look | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
around. People mainly think of eye problems | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
as being down to old age but more than 200 children come to this | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
hospital every week, and demand is growing. 10 month old Noah needed | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
help from day one. When he was 12 hours old they discovered he had no | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
light reflects in his left eye and it probably had a cataract. It was | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
later confirmed by a doctor here. He had surgery at six weeks to | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
remove the cataract. Cover a vast array of conditions. We have | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
children with diabetes which is now increasing with obesity, and a lot | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
of children with just eye movement disorders where am I could be | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
turning in or turning out. The children's eyes service deals with | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
will same problems the adult service deals with. And with | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
numbers growing, this should new unit has enabled staff to offer a | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
child friendly service. It is absolutely invaluable to us. We | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
come here most weeks, sometimes a couple of times a week, sometimes | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
every couple of weeks, but we are familiar faces down here. It is not | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
just about better service, though. A new research unit also means | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
better care. The importance is that it allows us to deliver to our | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
region and our patients the best care possible in the world, so that | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the patient can now come and have full choice of either having | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
treatment or having new research drugs delivered to them in a | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
research trial. It has not been cheap, costing �1.9 million, so on | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Saturday's open day, the public will get to experience the cutting | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
edge technology for themselves. the Wiltshire company Dyson has | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
launched a new fan heater, which it says will revolutionise the market. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
The Dyson Hot is the latest invention to come out of their | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
Malmesbury factory. The company is hoping it will add to it's record | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
profits, made last year, and keep them on track to employ hundreds of | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
new engineers from the West Country. Here in James Dyson's office, you | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
can really see the evolution of his company. There is everything here | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
from the vacuum cleaner that started it all, to its eventual | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
successors. Now there is something you to come out of this Wiltshire- | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
based. This: The Dyson Hot. -- this Wiltshire based. Like most of the | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
company's other products, this has been a closely guarded secret at | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Dyson's headquarters and to live was launched this week. The company | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
thinks it will revolutionise the way fan heaters work. We recognise | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
there are many fan heaters there, but also lots of problems with them, | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
so often when the heat comes out it goes straight to the ceiling and | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
you don't feel it, or it goes to the us -- other side of the room. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
They have limited control and the metal grilles can get hot. They | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
also burnt dust which gives off a pungent odour, so we recognise | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
there is a lot of opportunity to do much better. In recent years, Dyson | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
shut its UK factory and moved production to the Far East amid | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
strong criticism. But it says will show remains its engineering hub, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
with plans to bring in hundreds of new people. We have really exciting | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
plans to expand further. It is all very local, as well, so the | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
majority of my colleagues, we live in Wiltshire, I live in Bristol, | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
Bath, Chippenham, it is all very local and we are growing quickly, | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
so it is very exciting for the south-west. Sir James Dyson is now | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
in the US promoting this new fan heater, which he says is built to | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
last. But at �269 each, it may not be burning a hole in everyone's | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
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A new cycle hire scheme has started in Bath, a version of London's | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Boris Bikes. The cycles can be accessed using an electronic card | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
available from the "Bike in Bath" website. There are four docking | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
stations in the city centre including Orange Grove and outside | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
the Holburne Museum. There will be 58 bikes, and cyclists will be able | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
to return them to any of the stations. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
One of Bristol's most famous sons returned to the West today. Ian | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Holloway, the former Bristol Rovers player and manager, currently in | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
charge at Blackpool, was at Sir Bernard Lovell School in South | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Gloucestershire to formally open and you four and three quarter | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
million pound sports facility. Geoff Twentyman went along to see | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
his former team mate. Firstly, I have been working out | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
where to stand without this creaking! This is where it all | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
began for Ian Holloway. -- he left 32 years ago and the school shaped | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
him, but it is also where he found his childhood sweet heart, Kim. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
They have been together ever since. This used to be grass, the school | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
field. The girls used that and that was where I met him having a game | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
of rounders. -- Kim. It is an outstanding facility, floodlit | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
football and cricket pitches, six tennis courts, a fully equipped gym, | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
multi-purpose sports hall, dance and fitness studios and a | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
conference suite. Will you manage in Bristol one day again, do you | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
think? I honestly don't think so. I think we are trying to get a base | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
where my wife and I can live and hopefully that will be in and | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
around the Bath area. I don't want to work where I live. I treated | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
last night under Bristol Rovers treated -- Bristol Rovers fan | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
treated me saying he is a top man and I named my son after him. Are | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
you aware how you affect people? that is really nice. I feel sorry | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
for the lad, is he Oliver or just Ollie? We are good mates and I have | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
only ever just tried hard and only cared about what I do and hopefully | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
other people can associate with that. Things like that are nice, | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
but I do feel sorry for that young chap! I think that sums up Ian | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
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That was nice, very self- deprecating! | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
If you have just congratulated yourself on having completed last | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
weekend's Bristol Half Marathon, it is about to get longer. Next year, | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
as well as the Bristol half, there will be a full marathon. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
The city used to have a 26 mile race back in the 1980s, which was | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
cancelled on cost grounds, but now campaigners are determined to stage | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
a revival, as Alice Bouverie reports. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
The this was the first Bristol Marathon in 1982. The public turned | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
out in big numbers to watch hundreds of runners taking part, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
mostly elite athletes, with the odd exception. The era of the fun | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
runner had not yet arrived. One of the hazards of the race was dodging | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
the traffic. You had to take your chances dodging in and out of | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
traffic. I can certainly remember trying to get across the junction | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
as the traffic lights change. It was a bit dangerous. -- changed. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
is more controlled now. During the Bristol Half Marathon last weekend | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
all the roads were closed and it cost around �400,000 to put on. It | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
was mainly down to money why the full marathon was cancelled in | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
1987: It just wasn't paying its way. But now, enthusiasm will bring it | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
back. A group of runners was going to put on a small, unofficial | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
marathon this November, but when news went up on the website, 600 | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
people registered their interest in just four days, so now they are | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
putting it off until next year, when it will be bigger and better. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
But can a full marathon ever become as popular as the Bristol 10 K or | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
half marathon?? I don't know. I really, really wish them luck, but | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
its appeal is limited, especially in Bristol. Bristol is known for | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
its heels. If they expect 100 or 200, great, but that is as far as | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
it can go, I think. No date has been set for the race as yet, but | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
organisers say they are already attracting sponsorship and dozens | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
of offers of help. When there is a date, we will let | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
you know! Start training now! | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Limbering up! Here in the West, we have a proud | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
carnival tradition, whether it is summertime in St Paul's or a Winter | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Wonderland in Weston. In Wiltshire, they do things a little differently. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
On Saturday, the small village of Pewsey will host the county's | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
largest and oldest illuminated carnival, and tonight, they kick- | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
off with a wheelbarrow race. Lizzie Way is there for us with a | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
few friends, aren't you, Lucy? a few! It might not be on the | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
London 2012 agenda but it is on Pewsey's agenda. This carnival will | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
be kick-starting with a wheelbarrow race. Sally strong is from the | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
carnival. This is an unusual start. It is lovely. Thanks for coming | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
down, BBC Points West, anyway. A lovely wheelbarrow race, a great | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
laugh, everyone goes around, has a drink, dresses up. What happens? | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
They go to every pub August will be in the village and have a drink, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
and they are all in fancy dress and it is raising money for Pewsey | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
carnival, which goes to all our charities including the air | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
ambulance. It is over a hundred years old so there is a lot of | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
tradition but it is still just as popular. Exactly, we get crowds of | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
two or 3000, but we do it because we all love it, don't we? This | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
evening will obviously be a lot of fun, but what about the rest of the | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
weekend? Today we have the wheelbarrow race and people can | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
still come down, we have limited car parking, but anyway, tomorrow, | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
we have a Saturday -- a carnival, Saturday it culminates in a | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
competition. It is all eliminated, it costs nothing, please come down, | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
it will be a great day -- all illuminated. Who will be the top | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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A I will hand back to before they put me in a wheelbarrow! I am sure | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
you will grace it beautifully. They are warming up in their own | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
special and unique way. They may be drunk in charge of a | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
wheelbarrow! Let's see if they have the weather | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
Tonight is not too bad. The bulk will remain dry-eyed but a | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
brilliant story -- different story by the weekend. Tomorrow, I hope | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
the majority of our districts will stay dry, or thereabouts, would | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
once again comparatively warm temperatures and at times a fair | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
amount of sunshine around. We have had high pressure through the | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
course of today and we will import showers from northern France later. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
This low pressure will take shape slowly through tomorrow, but | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
certainly much more as we get towards Saturday and the bulk of | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Sunday for that matter as well. Running them through the rest of | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
the evening, pretty much the same as this afternoon, Variable cloud | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
and late sunshine, and then dry conditions for good part of tonight | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
but unfortunately showers start to appear from the south coast. Medium | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
level cloud, not particularly heavy, a fair number moving northwards and | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
clearing out of Gloucestershire around dawn tomorrow morning. Not | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
nearly as Chile and night, down to two or three Celsius at some spots | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
this morning, more like nine-10-11 Celsius by tomorrow morning. By a | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
few of those last showers clearing out of Gloucestershire tomorrow | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
morning it should be a largely dry start with sunny spells developing, | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
but through the afternoon, the showers will develop through Wales | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
and the Bristol Channel and boasted be focused in parts of | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Gloucestershire, and then they should be gone -- most should be | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
focused. It should be a decent ended the day turning moderately | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
breezy by that stage. Temperatures if anything a degree or so up on | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Today, 19-20 Celsius for many. The weekend are promised will be | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
unsettled but it won't spoil things if you walk are off to Chippenham. | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
On Saturday they have a beer and sausage Festival with local produce, | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
I hasten to add, and expect around 15 degrees there with a breezy day | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
and showers pushing through, some quite heavy, but all their proceeds | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
go to charity, so do turn up if you can. The same picture for all of us | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
through the course of Saturday. That includes the a display in the | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Cotswolds with the Battle of Britain a display on Saturday and | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
Sunday afternoon, and there will be drier, bright interludes but always | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
the chance of fairly heavy blustery showers, which could be thundery at | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
times. Remember a pack a Mac. Sunday similar, broadly, for part | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
of it, but high pressure starts to grow by the end of summer -- Sunday | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
with the weather comment, so by the evening on Sunday it looks like a | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
dryer prospects -- whether calming. Temperatures in the weekend have | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
broadly held in the mid-teens. Monday we return to a breezy and | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
wet set-up, likely to continue into Tuesday. Thereafter, the rest... We | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
are in the squeeze between the two but I hope it will tend to calm | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
down as the week goes on rather Thank you. A quick reminder if you | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
want to watch the programme we were telling you about earlier, Young, | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Soldiers, it is on at 9pm on BBC three. | :27:33. | :27:39. |