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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West on another wet West | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Country night. Our headlines this evening: | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The deadly storms - a lorry driver dies on the M5 as the motorway was | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
lashed by wind and hail. It was one of those moments when | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
you drove past and felt like somebody had stabbed to in the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
heart because it was clear it was a bad accident. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Move over for more bus lanes as millions of pounds are secured for | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
better public transport. Preparing for the unthinkable - the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
emergency services stage a mock fire in a crowded nightclub. | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
And after the hail - snow. We will have a detailed forecast on what's | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
Police in Gloucestershire believe hail and icy conditions were major | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
factors in a crash on the M5 last night which left a lorry driver | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
dead. Three lorries and two cars were | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
involved in the collision just north of Cheltenham. Tonight, more | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
bad weather is expected and the Highways Agency is warning drivers | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
to take extra care. Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
Knibbs is in Cirencester for us this evening. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
I am at a Gloucestershire highway stepper, the gritting team getting | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
ready to run into the Cotswolds to light, reacting to this | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
unpredictable weather. At 4pm, there was a heavy downpour of snow | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
in some Hyde Park other county as I was driving here, difficult, slushy | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
conditions on the road with that icy rain and temperatures just | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
above freezing. Last night on the M5, similar conditions with driving | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
rain and low temperatures, and then this sudden extreme weather events, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
a downpour of hail turning into ice which led to a collision which | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
sadly killed a lorry driver from Bristol in the most treacherous of | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
conditions. Conditions last night were | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
difficult, to say the least. Near freezing temperatures and pouring | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
rain. Because of the weather, police had already warned drivers | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
to be careful. A sudden flash downpour of hail quickly covered | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
the M5 at around 9.30pm. Drivers say it froze instantly and they | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
could not even see the lane markings. One of the lorries | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
skidded on the ice. A car stopped to help, and was hit. It is thought | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
the Royal Mail lorry then hit the back of another truck. The driver, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
a 55-year-old man from Bristol, was killed. Although there will be a | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
lengthy investigation, police say the weather conditions played a | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
major role in the crash. weather had quite a big influence. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Certainly some of the witnesses and officers at the scene described it | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
as almost an ice rink, so we believe it to be a major factor at | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
this moment with regard to the commission itself. -- the collision. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Those who were driving past the crash last night said the driving | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
conditions were amongst some of the worst they had seen. When we left | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
home, it was terrible rain, we then hit Hale, it was clear it was a bad | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
Smash. The cab was about 90 degrees to the motorway and there were a | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
lot of firemen working on it and it was one of those moments when you | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
drove past and felt someone had stab you in the heart because it | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
was clear it was a very bad accident. The M5 northbound was | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
closed for ten hours. Traffic police say they have been much | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
busier than normal this week due to the weather. And with a risk of ice | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
on the roads tonight, experts are warning drivers to be more cautious | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
than normal. Helen Frost can come on suddenly and the unexpected. We | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
are taught the two second rule, but that should be at least doubled, or | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
10 times in icy conditions. With worse weather forecast for later in | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
the week, the gritting teams are starting their annual battle | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
against the ice and snow, with stockpiles of road salt at their | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
highest level for several years. As I said earlier, the weather is | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
catching people out, even the gritting teams. You do your best to | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
predict these, but you are finding it difficult? We did not have a | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
forecast of the weather that has moved across the east of the county | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
this afternoon and into this evening. What is the plan tonight? | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
We have had some gritters out today, late this afternoon, to deal with | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
the hot spots, as it were, and now we have another run going out | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
tonight across the whole of the Cotswolds to deal with the area. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
are hearing there is more bad weather to come in the week, is | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
that what you are expecting? forecast at the moment is for it to | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
get colder as the week goes on and there is the possibility of snow | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
tomorrow night. I said in my report this is an annual battle against | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the elements, but you have more salt than ever before? At least | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
2000 tonnes more than in previous years, said that should put us in a | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
good place. Thank you. The gritting team is getting ready | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
to go, not as early as last year, but they are doing their best | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
against the elements that none of us seem to be able to predict at | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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the moment. Doctors treating Shrien Dewani say | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
they are confident he will recover from the mental health problems he | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
is facing. The Bristol businessman is accused of arranging his wife's | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
murder while on honeymoon in South Africa. His legal team are arguing | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
he is too ill to be sent back there to stand trial. John Maguire | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
reports from the High Court. The Court of Appeal heard Shrien | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Dewani's Doctor expecting to make a recovery from his mental conditions | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
at the moment. Both sides agree he suffers post-traumatic stress | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
disorder and depression severely in both cases, but when there is a | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
difference is that his legal team believes he is too ill to travel to | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
South Africa, whereas the government there believes he should | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
goes. Once again, the families arrived to | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
spend another day in the same room, but with opposite hopes. This was | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
the South African government's chance to redress the Court of | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Appeal, to urge it to uphold Shrien Dewani's extradition order. It is | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
in the hands of the courts, so we will be patient. For more than a | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
year, since Anni Dewani's honeymoon murder, families on both sides have | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
endured so many days in court, but with their answers. We are here, | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
the case is here, because of one beautiful girl, innocent girl, who | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
was murdered. She was not even mentioned. It is about have. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Thousands of hours have been spent finding how the South African | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
prison system works. If that effort was made to find out what happened | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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to her, we would be more satisfied. To give us the answers we need, | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
that is all we're asking. Anni Dewani's husband's family left, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
making no comment. The court were told he should recover from his | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
mental problems, and it would be for a South African court to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
determine whether he is fit to stand trial there. All parties will | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
return here on Friday, one step closer to a resolution, if not the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
truth. The announcement of the extra | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
session on Friday came as something of a surprise, but it is because | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
early this morning the judges said they want to see the latest medical | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
reports on Shrien Dewani's position -- condition before automatic | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
deciding whether he should stay or should go. | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
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John Maguire, reporting for us earlier. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
A half-a-billion pound deal was finalised today for the | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
construction of a controversial incinerator near Gloucester. It | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
means that within a few years the West could have two giant waste- | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
burners within 30 miles of each other as another plant is to be | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
built close to Bristol. It, too, has faced opposition. Here is our | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
political editor, Paul Barltrop. For years, there have been protests, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
petitions and marches, but efforts to stop the West getting two mass | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
burn incinerators have now gone up in smoke. Close to junction 12 of | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
the M5, campaigner Gerald Hartley shows me the land chosen by the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
council. It disappoints me they would choose to put a mass burning | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
incinerator here, which would be bigger than Gloucester Cathedral. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
He believes it will be a blot on the landscape. It is the wrong | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
solution for Gloucestershire tax payers. This afternoon, he watched | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
as Gloucester councillors met to confirm the deal. It will cost �450 | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
million over the next quarter of a century. The council insist that, | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
combined with more recycling, it makes environmental and financial | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
sense. I am convinced this is the right way forward because there is | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
not a viable alternative that the present time to this affordable and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
-- which is affordable and reliable and can offer firm guarantees on | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
health impacts that energy-from- waste plants can. Campaigners left | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
disappointed, aware the fight against incinerators in the West | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
has failed twice in a fortnight. This former chemical plant on | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
summer site is set to become a bigging incinerator, despite strong | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
political opposition. Bristol City Council turned down a planning of | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
the Asian ear, but the waste firm when on appeal -- turned down a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
planning application. They hope to start building next year. What is | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
going looks pretty ugly. What is coming, both here and by Gloucester, | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
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will, for many, be no better. It's Alex and David with you this | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Wednesday evening, with all your local news, sport and weather from | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
the BBC. Yes, you won't want to miss Ian's | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
forecast tonight - there's possible bad weather on the way for Friday. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Coming up: Young and jobless - we meet the | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
West teenagers who are struggling to find work. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
And Santa fails to deliver for the fans of Yeovil Town as their | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
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Move over for a lot more bus lanes. Bristol, Bath and Weston-super-Mare | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
have all been awarded millions of pounds to improve public transport. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
It is a consolation prize for the lack of a metro system, but it is | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
being seen as a big step forward for the region's bus services. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
James Hassam reports. Big changes to the way we get | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
around. At a big cost. Better bus links in Bristol. An upgrade to | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Weston's motorway junction. And more spaces for Bath's park-and- | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
ride. All adding up to more than a quarter of a billion pounds of | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
Government money heading this way. It is fantastic years, really, for | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the whole of the region. It means that we have got all five packages | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
that we applied for now approved, and that really means a whole step | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
change in transport for the Greater Bristol region. A step change that | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
is being welcomed by business. represents not just an investment | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
in transport and infrastructure for Bristol, which to my mind is the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
highest in the last 30 years I have worked here, but it also represents | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
a tremendous boost in confidence from a government that the West of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
England is quite capable of delivering the kind of economic | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
growth they think we are capable of. Of course, some have been left | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
disappointed. In Bath, plans for a new rapid transit system were | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
scaled back after they provoked huge opposition. Now, the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Government is putting in 12 million of the more than 30 million needed | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
for improvements. The council says it is great news, but those on the | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
other side of the political divide are not convinced. It is party | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
politics in the pocket, if you are a local council tax payer and look | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
at the papers, we have the worst settlement in the country. It is a | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
bit more than party politics. changes will start coming into | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
effect at the end of next year. It should mean more buses on many of | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
our roads, and potentially slower journeys for drivers, with local | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
authorities hoping that will be the push to get more of us taking the | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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bus. The Princess Royal has been in | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Bristol today to formally open the city's new museum. Princess Anne | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
took a tour of the M Shed on the Harbourside, before an official | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
plaque unveiling ceremony at lunchtime. She has also visited St | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, and opened the new Alabare Home in | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Filton for ex-servicemen. You may remember that earlier this | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
year the Government had to abandon its plan to sell off a number of | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
our forests, including the Forest of Dean, because so many people | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
objected. Well, now the BBC has learnt that Somerset County Council | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
is planning to sell some woods and moorland it owns, many of which are | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Ruth Bradley reports. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
The Quantock Hills, loved by walkers, cyclists and horse riders. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Now, Somerset County Council has put nearly 2,000 acres it owns here | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
up for sale. They are Great Wood, Custom Common and Thorncombe Hill. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
A mixture of woodland and open moorland. Footpaths would stay open | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
to the public. But members of a local charity are angry at the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
plans. They are worried the land would not be managed properly if it | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
was in private hands. It is for recreational benefit for the Horn | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
of the community, and therefore it should not be private, really. You | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
cannot put a financial value on anything and everything, some | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
things are just for the good of the public, and I think the land on the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Quantocks is. Great Wood is currently leased by the Forestry | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Commission, which says it is interested in buying it. But this | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
could just be the start. I have also got hold of council reviews of | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
37 more bits of land in the Mendips and the Blackdown Hill, as well as | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
the Quantocks. The council says a number of them could also be sold | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
to private owners. I think we have to understand that we are trying to | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
reduce our liabilities as well as with -- as well as increase our | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
income. We own lots of things that, in the stained age, we probably | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
would not want to own, and we still have a massive debt. We are not | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
borrowing any more money, so to get any income from the sale of these | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
assets would help towards building the schools, for instance. People | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
have until 23rd December to comment on the first bits of land up for | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
sale. And campaigners are promising they will fight to keep Somerset's | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
hills public. There are more people out of work | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
in the West Country, according to new figures. Almost 49,000 people | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
are now claiming jobseekers' allowance here. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
Young people are particularly affected, and in the Commons | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
earlier, Labour leader Ed Miliband accused David Cameron of | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
"betraying" a generation. All week, we are trying to see what life is | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
like in the region's economy. Yesterday, we investigated the | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
rising cost of living, and tonight our business correspondent, Dave | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
Harvey, looks at unemployment. It is a big number, isn't it? | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
48,776. That is how many people were out of work in the West | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Country in November and claiming benefit. It is up, but only | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
slightly, on the previous month. Under 200 more people joined the | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
queues at the West's job centres. A lot of numbers this week. And it is | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
easy to forget that each one is a human being. Someone like David | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
Hayne, looking for work in Swindon. Going to places, handing in my CV, | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
or even walking in and begging the landlord of the pubs and stuffed | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
full bar work. -- the landlords of the pubs for bar work. And there | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
are a lot more people like Dave. This graph shows how unemployment | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
has grown over the last two years. A huge increase in 2009, then it | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
falls away as the first wave of the recession fades. But recently | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
things have started getting tough again. Especially for young people. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Nearly 8% of young people are claiming jobseekers' allowance, | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
that is one in12. But there are some striking variations. This is | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Bath and North East Somerset - just 2.8%. But in Swindon, young people | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
are really having a rough time - 8.6%. That is well over the | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
national average. So what is going At Swindon College they are | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
learning DIY. Teenagers on a course preparing for work. These guys are | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
desperate, they will try anything to get a job. Walking around town, | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
phoning different companies, sending CVs off, anything's | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
possible, really. And there is the rub, these youngsters have already | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
been through the course and they are still out of work. Jobs are | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
just hard to come by. They are not there for the people who do not | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
have the qualifications or experience, even I would struggle. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Get the education one you can, while it is free, get your maths | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
and English oak, it is important, and get work experience while you | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
can. It is not great working for free, but you will more than likely | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
get a job out of it. You want to work? Of this it, it is difficult... | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
De student signed up for an employment agency. It has three | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
times as many people on its books as before but she might get some | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Christmas work if she is lucky. has been quiet in November which is | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
usually a peak period but a lot of retail clients are just starting to | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
get into peak now, which is unusual, and they have been saying they | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
found it tough this year. Some of them are doing the same turnover | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
but not making the margins because they are having to be more | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
competitive. No wonder inflation was down yesterday, as retailers | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
cut prices to bring in the shoppers. But that means smaller profits, and | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
fewer jobs, and more unemployment. And David is with us. Those | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
examples were from Swindon, once a boom town, now jobs hard to come by. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
What 10 young people do? It is hard. The BBC website is awash with | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
stories and advice on this, if you look on the BBC News homepage you | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
will see a section on their call young and jobless. The advice there, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
whatever you do, do something, don't just sit at home, get out, do | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
these courses, do the training, a lot of places to little courses on | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
how to get a job. Getting work experience is difficult. A lot of | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
kids are in the same boat, whether they have got degrees or no | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
qualifications at all, it is across the board. The basics Greece is | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
there are more people applying for every job so employers can be peaky. | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
You have to put perspective on this. It is a huge increase, out of 10 | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
young people looking for work, nine of them are actually encourage, so | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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they are not all unemployed. This week, wages have gone up, in | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
unemployment has gone down -- wages have gone down, unemployment has | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
gone up. We had a survey this week, too. It is Christmas shopping with | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
a difference. Around 70 firefighters were called | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
to a nightclub in Gloucester last night where there was smoke, fire | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
engines and crowds of people. Fortunately, though, it wasn't a | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
real blaze but an exercise designed to test how the emergency services | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
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would cope if they had to face it for real. Sabet Choudhury reports. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
It may not be a real situation, but there is everything here to test | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
the firefighters' ability to deal with a major incident in a crowded | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
nightclub. The best avenue can do for me at the moment is to stand | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
over there. It is pandemonium and chaos. People are screaming, so | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
whatever the operational plan is, 200 people want to divert you from | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
it. You have to have a clear idea of your priorities and create a | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
safe area for the firefighters to work, and then take it step by step. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Inside the club, the firefighters have to wear blackout masks to | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
simulate thick smoke. Their vision here is impaired and their senses | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
disorientated. But they have to inch forward to rescue the stranded | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
clubbers. You cannot see anything at all. It is too basically mimic | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
what you would find in a fire. You can only see in front of your eye | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
is in a fire, and the simplest of tasks are made harder by the fact | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
that you cannot see what is in front of you. It may all be staged, | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
but the realism is vital for training. Some here dealt with a | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
major fire in a warehouse in Warwickshire four years For ago. | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
lot of us here were in that circumstance, so it is about | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
getting them into the building and finding their way out safely, | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
helping casualties on the way. teams here say that they learnt | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
many lessons. Lessons that will help to save theirs and other | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
peoples lives if this were to happen for real. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Let's hope very much that it never does happen. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
In football, Yeovil Town have missed out on a third round FA Cup | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
tie against Blackpool after they were knocked out by non-League | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Fleetwood Town. They lost their second round replay | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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last night by two goals to nil. from favourable, but Yeovil Town | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
felt they could avoid slipping up to a side two divisions beneath | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
them. After letting a two goal lead slip in an early tie, they could | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
have settled this chance -- settled the nerves with this chance. And | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
with this free kick. But it was Fleetwood who took the lead. Jamie | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
McGuire shot past the keeper. And the fans were concerned about the - | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
- were not concerned about falling temperatures. Yeovil had three | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
chances to equalise but the fleet would keeper impressed once more. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
The manager was left to wonder why they had been more than matched by | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
a side from the lower leagues. Desperate attempts to gain an | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
equaliser and force extra time eluded them. As The Oval pressed, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Fleetwood scored their second. Many Yeovil Town fans left early, but | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
not the players, kept in by their manager long after the final | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
whistle. So it was Yeovil who missed out, leaving Fleetwood and | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
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their fans to enjoy a tie against I think we can safely blame the | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
weather for that, otherwise they Well, we have actually had some | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
snow in the West today. This was Peasedown St John this morning. And | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
it was a similar picture in parts of Wiltshire and Somerset. A little | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
scattering there. And tonight listeners to BBC Gloucestershire | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
have been reporting snow showers there. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Ian is here with a full forecast. There has been a lot of confusion | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
over the next couple of days? Uncertainty is the key word to this, | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
and there will continue to be until we get up to the wire. Events will | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
start to develop on Thursday night into Friday. A complex forecasting | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
situation. Having said that, the bulk of tomorrow is straightforward, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
there will be more showers, some of those wintry, and then some heavy | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
rain, strengthening winds late on and the threat of snow to was | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Friday morning. The reason is this developing area of low pressure, | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
very potent Atlantic storm, and if we watched his extensive cloud head | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
developing as it sweeps its way in, it has an ominous look to it. | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
Hidden below that is the area of low pressure, which is starting to | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
become more developed with time. It will race towards us on Thursday, | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
and then explicitly develops as it approaches the British Isles. We | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
expect the worst of the winds, the damaging winds, to be in that -- to | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
be in France, but that does not mean the South will escape. The | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
threat of snow into Friday morning as well, and heavy rain before that. | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Two scenarios for where the storm will get. The most favoured, pretty | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
much across our district, with most of the heavy rain, the worst of the | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
winds further to the south, but the threat of flowers. A second | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
scenario, less chance, takes it further northwards, meaning the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
south-east could be dire by Friday morning if not before and we still | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
have a risk of rain and snow. Either way, we have to wait up to | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
the wire to see what happens. Tonight, we continue as through | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
today. Further showers, some giving further snow over the Cotswolds and | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
other high ground in the West Country. It could be less as you | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
come further southward and we will have the threat of ice as well. | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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Winds will pick up through the night. Temperatures down 1-three | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
Celsius, hence the threat of ice. Further showers across western | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Somerset, some of those tracking eastwards. Then a law before we | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
start to import that storm feature which will make inroads in its | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
approach by the end of Thursday evening. It will turn progressively | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
wetter and windier for all of us, that is how the day will end. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Temperatures about six or seven Celsius. Fairly academic, because | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
on Friday morning it is wet to start off, look how the wind | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
changes direction. Cold and northerly digging in at about 5, | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
6am in the morning. That is when we get the threat of snow. These are | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
just ballpark figures. Less chance further to the west, the M4 | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
corridor could be difficult towards London. Exactly how far west and | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
south this no expense, very much open to doubt. Keep an eye on the | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
forecast -- how far west and south of the snow extends, open to doubt. | :27:30. | :27:34. |