:00:14. > :00:16.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight.
:00:17. > :00:19.The new housing estate that's been demolished. Bulldozers flatten 24
:00:19. > :00:23.brand new homes after the developers discover a covenant on
:00:23. > :00:29.part of the land. Re-building the Bridgwater wall - the project's
:00:29. > :00:32.approved but may be too late for one business. The teddy bears made
:00:32. > :00:42.from Daddies uniform - We meet the army wife giving children a
:00:42. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:52.huggable memory. And amazing grace. The ballet dancer almost killed in
:00:52. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.an attack is home from hospital. Hello. Part of a brand new housing
:01:01. > :01:03.estate in Gloucestershire has been bulldozed following a victory by a
:01:03. > :01:05.group of residents in a planning battle. The developers, Taylor
:01:05. > :01:09.Wimpey, began building after getting planning permission five
:01:09. > :01:12.years ago. But at a tribunal, local people claimed part of the land was
:01:12. > :01:18.protected by an old covenant. Now the housing giant's been forced to
:01:18. > :01:22.tear down the homes. Alice Bouverie reports from Cheltenham. Bulldozing
:01:22. > :01:24.24 of their own homes. This footage records the rare moment when
:01:25. > :01:32.Britain's second largest house builder admitted defeat, beaten by
:01:33. > :01:38.local campaigners in the village of Prestbury. 100 houses had already
:01:38. > :01:41.been built here. But one part of the land was protected by a
:01:41. > :01:48.covenant dating back to the 1930s. And it was a covenant the company
:01:48. > :01:55.broke. Wimpey actually started building on this particular patch
:01:55. > :02:00.of land backing 2007. It has taken four years and an expensive court
:02:00. > :02:06.case by local residents to get the company to admit they were wrong.
:02:06. > :02:12.They have now demolished the houses. Wimpey and people like that, they
:02:12. > :02:18.got so many lawyers. It shows that they can be overturned. The land
:02:18. > :02:23.was protected because it was so beautiful. A beautiful field. A
:02:23. > :02:27.meadow. Butterflies and everything. What's been left behind resembles a
:02:27. > :02:30.wasteland. And as for its future, nobody knows. Many locals would
:02:30. > :02:32.like it turned into a nature reserve. But when the houses were
:02:32. > :02:35.bulldozed, the building material was crushed and the rubble spread
:02:35. > :02:38.around the site, making that more difficult In a one-line statement,
:02:38. > :02:41.Taylor Wimpey was very brief. It said it was currently implementing
:02:41. > :02:47.the works required in accordance with the decision of the land
:02:47. > :02:51.tribunal. They would not say any more. But the issue of housing in
:02:51. > :03:01.this village is unlikely to go away. Some people are sympathetic with
:03:01. > :03:14.
:03:14. > :03:16.the need for more homes. There are dozens of fields around north
:03:16. > :03:18.Gloucestershire identified as potential sites for new homes.
:03:18. > :03:28.Successful or not, there'll undoubtedly be more planning
:03:28. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:32.Two men have been sentenced to a total of 53 years in prison for the
:03:32. > :03:35.murder of the Cheltenham father, Keith Soons. Richard Smith and
:03:35. > :03:37.Michael Sexton were both found guilty of robbery and his murder
:03:38. > :03:40.yesterday. Sexton will serve a minimum of twenty-five years and
:03:40. > :03:43.Smith, twenty-eight years. Keith Soons died after being stabbed in
:03:43. > :03:46.the head with a screwdriver. He'd tried to retrieve his phone because
:03:46. > :03:48.it contained pictures of his partner and baby. A young man and
:03:48. > :03:58.woman have now been charged with intimidating witnesses in
:03:58. > :04:00.
:04:00. > :04:03.connection with the case. There are fresh warnings tonight about the
:04:03. > :04:06.dangers of so called legal highs after a number of people had to go
:04:06. > :04:10.to hospital in Swindon. They'd taken a fairly new drug called MPA.
:04:10. > :04:19.At the moment it's legal to posses MPA, but it can have serious health
:04:19. > :04:26.effects. Will Glennon reports. The drug MPA or methiopropamine usually
:04:26. > :04:32.comes as a white powder. It's sold as a so called research chemical or
:04:32. > :04:35.legal high and has been around for about a year. At the moment MPA is
:04:35. > :04:39.legal. Just a few clicks on the internet and you can buy anything
:04:39. > :04:46.from a gram to a whole kilogramme, but all of the websites I've been
:04:46. > :04:50.on say it's not intended for human consumption. But legal doesn't mean
:04:50. > :05:00.safe. Police in Wiltshire are investigating after a number of
:05:00. > :05:01.
:05:01. > :05:05.people ended up in hospital this week. Just because these substances
:05:05. > :05:11.are marketed as being illegal, that does not mean that they are not
:05:11. > :05:15.dangerous. They can have an adverse effect on the human body, and in a
:05:15. > :05:17.worst-case scenario, it could endanger life. And in the past six
:05:18. > :05:20.months Swindon's Great Western Hospital say they have seen an
:05:20. > :05:24.increasing number of people turning up suffering nasty side effects
:05:24. > :05:27.from taking MPA. A consultant here at the hospital said the people who
:05:27. > :05:30.come in having taken the drug were suffering from agitation, they were
:05:30. > :05:36.struggling to control the movements in their arms and legs, some had
:05:36. > :05:39.breathing difficulties. There's no specific treatment the hospital can
:05:39. > :05:43.give, people are kept under observation, then they just have to
:05:43. > :05:51.wait for the effects of the drug to wear off which can take as much as
:05:51. > :05:56.24 to 48 hours. New drugs are constantly emerging. Chemists alter
:05:56. > :06:04.illegal substances to get around the law. It can leave users playing
:06:04. > :06:10.russian roulette with their health. Drugs, whether they are a legal or
:06:10. > :06:14.illegal, there is no such thing as a safe drug. They all have risks.
:06:14. > :06:18.Some legal highs have risks, because they have not been around
:06:19. > :06:21.for very long, not very many people have used them, and we do not know
:06:21. > :06:25.what the effects are like, particularly longer term effects.
:06:25. > :06:28.So far MPA hasn't become a huge problem but as the supply of other
:06:28. > :06:36.illegal drugs is cut, it's attraction grows, and so do it's
:06:36. > :06:40.You're watching BBC Points West - your regional news programme. Just
:06:40. > :06:42.three sleeps to go before Christmas. Yes stay with us, as there's still
:06:42. > :06:46.much more to bring you tonight. Including. For sale - Bristol
:06:46. > :06:48.City's main striker Nicky Maynard is put on the transfer list. And a
:06:48. > :06:58.miracle for Christmas. After a vicious attack, the remarkable
:06:58. > :07:09.
:07:09. > :07:12.recovery of the ballet dancer they �1.5 million is to be spent
:07:12. > :07:15.repairing the collapsed river wall in Bridgwater which led to dozens
:07:15. > :07:18.of homes and businesses being evacuated. But at least one trader
:07:18. > :07:21.says it may have come too late to save his business. The wall which
:07:21. > :07:23.protects Bridgwater from the River Parrett partially collapsed in
:07:23. > :07:33.early November. But council officials say they've moved as fast
:07:33. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:44.as they could to repair it. Clinton Rogers has the story. One engineer
:07:44. > :07:51.and one councillor visiting a broken wall today... And unveiling
:07:51. > :07:56.plans to fix it - with hundreds of tons of concrete. We are going to
:07:56. > :08:02.put a lot of concrete in there. This involves lots of high-tech
:08:02. > :08:06.ground anchors, a collective term for domestic wall fixings, but on a
:08:06. > :08:09.grand scale. At �1.5 million, this is the least expensive of two
:08:09. > :08:13.rebuild options being considered by all the agencies involved. Work
:08:13. > :08:21.will start in New Year and it's hoped to have the Quayside fully
:08:21. > :08:24.open by April. I am given to understand that the Environment
:08:24. > :08:30.Agency are nervous about it, and they were the people arguing for
:08:30. > :08:37.the Rolls-Royce solution. Are you sure about this working? Would you
:08:37. > :08:40.rather have a Rolls-Royce? We'd drive good, practical cars. They do
:08:40. > :08:43.the job. That is the big thing. this quayside trader unable to open
:08:43. > :08:53.his shop since early November says whatever happens now it'll probably
:08:53. > :08:59.be too late to save his business. Day-to-day, I am living off my
:08:59. > :09:05.partner's wages. I have -- I can't think how much do I would have to
:09:05. > :09:14.lose. What we do do? Get a job, I suppose. And then pay back the
:09:14. > :09:17.money to set up. Although work is to begin here is starting in
:09:17. > :09:23.January, there is a dispute over who owns this wall, which means all
:09:23. > :09:33.of these shopkeepers who have lost thousands of pounds in trade still
:09:33. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:39.have no idea who to turn to for A serial fraudster who conned
:09:39. > :09:41.vulnerable women out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been
:09:41. > :09:44.ordered to pay compensation - or face another seventeen months in
:09:44. > :09:47.jail. David Checkley is already serving a six year sentence after
:09:47. > :09:50.being convicted of targeting a string of divorced women including
:09:50. > :09:53.one from Bath. But today a judge at Bristol crown Court gave 54 year
:09:53. > :10:03.old Checkley six months to pay twenty thousand pounds or face more
:10:03. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:07.time behind bars. Its work has been top secret for decades - but now as
:10:07. > :10:10.it closes, we've been taking an exclusive look inside GCHQ's old
:10:10. > :10:13.site in Cheltenham. This week the last staff move to the new location
:10:13. > :10:16.at nearby Benhall. And as 60 years of intelligence gathering at Oakley
:10:16. > :10:22.come to an end, our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, has been
:10:22. > :10:25.given rare access to the site. GCHQ's Oakley site was unwittingly
:10:25. > :10:29.snapped the German Luftwaffe during the war, but it was one of the
:10:29. > :10:39.directors who came to the town in the 50's that first sketched out a
:10:39. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:54.rough plan - this is the first time GCHQ changed the face of Cheltenham
:10:54. > :10:57.as thousands of homes were built to accomodate the staff...and over
:10:57. > :11:00.time the Oakley grew to play a crucial role in intelligence
:11:00. > :11:07.battles. Inside today the modern offices are abandoned...nothing
:11:07. > :11:13.secret remains...but we can glimpse into the past. Keith has worked at
:11:13. > :11:19.GCHQ for thirty years and remembers his first daunting days. Everybody
:11:19. > :11:22.was in small offices at the time, and those alone meant that you did
:11:23. > :11:28.not always meet people. You did not always know what people did in the
:11:28. > :11:34.room next to you. You -- it was brain much need to know. You did
:11:34. > :11:37.wonder a bit what the other people did. Did you ever find out?
:11:37. > :11:41.These original 1950's buildings are long out of use. But imagine the
:11:41. > :11:43.work done in here...This is the old computer tape archive - once home
:11:43. > :11:47.to the most highly classified intelligence. And in the next room,
:11:47. > :11:51.the machine full of huge magnets used to wipe the tapes of secret
:11:51. > :12:01.data. By the very nature of its work, GCHQ staff can't talk about
:12:01. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:10.what they do - so what's that like? It is a new get used to. You get
:12:10. > :12:14.annoyed with it on the bad days. Then there's the urban myths -
:12:14. > :12:20.stories about what's hidden away at Oakley. It is always thought that
:12:20. > :12:26.we had tunnels into the hillsides. Not true. We have such an -- it was
:12:26. > :12:32.thought we have subterranean levels. Also not true. A popular one is
:12:32. > :12:37.that we ran an underground train between this site and the other
:12:37. > :12:39.side of Cheltenham. Again, not true. In 1984 the Oakley site became more
:12:39. > :12:43.public as focus for the government's ban on union
:12:43. > :12:50.membership at GCHQ - many of the staff felt forced into signing away
:12:50. > :12:56.their union rights. Very sad. I feel like a traitor! I am very
:12:56. > :13:03.loyal, I Love Queen and country, and it is have -- it is Hobson's
:13:03. > :13:06.But that, along with the site is now history. Soon the last member
:13:06. > :13:09.of staff will leave as everyone moves to the main headquarters at
:13:09. > :13:14.Benhall. We should not ignore the fact that a lot of great work was
:13:14. > :13:23.done here by great people. But times change -- times change, and
:13:23. > :13:28.we needed a different environment and a different different
:13:28. > :13:31.infrastructure. Oakley will be sold off and redeveloped - it'll take
:13:31. > :13:35.with it its secrets - and although we can hazard a guess, we'll never
:13:35. > :13:38.know just what staff did here to keep us safe over the last 60 years.
:13:38. > :13:41.Now in football, Bristol City have put their star striker and probably
:13:42. > :13:44.greatest asset Nicky Maynard up for sale. On the face of it, not a
:13:45. > :13:47.great move for a side struggling near the bottom of the Championship.
:13:47. > :13:52.David Passmore is here with our football expert, Geoff Twentyman.
:13:52. > :13:55.What's going on? Well, crucial to all this is the fact that Nicky
:13:55. > :13:59.Maynard's contract runs out at the end of the season. The club has
:13:59. > :14:04.been trying to get him to sign a new one for more than six months
:14:04. > :14:06.but without success. As a result they will now try to cash in and
:14:06. > :14:12.sell the player during the January transfer window rather than have
:14:12. > :14:17.him possibly leave for nothing as a free agent in the summer. Geoff,
:14:17. > :14:24.your reaction to this? I am disappointed. I am a big fan of
:14:24. > :14:28.peers. It was inevitable. A football game of roulette or poker.
:14:28. > :14:34.It is disappointing, but Stephen Lansdown was on might phone-in
:14:34. > :14:38.recently, as was Derek McInnes. There was mood music. If he was not
:14:38. > :14:45.going to sign a deal, it was going to happen. This is what some of the
:14:45. > :14:49.fans thought. If you don't want to play for us, what can you do?
:14:50. > :14:55.out of contract. Get what we can for him. If he cannot sign the
:14:56. > :15:01.contract, what can we do? He has got ambition. He is not in
:15:01. > :15:07.scintillating form at the moment. In my opinion, let him go. We
:15:07. > :15:14.should have sold him for �6 million to Leicester. How good a player do
:15:14. > :15:17.you think Nicky Maynard could be? He could play in the Premier League.
:15:17. > :15:23.Maybe not Manchester City or Tottenham, but maybe in the bottom
:15:23. > :15:28.half of the Premier League. He is good, and the key is incisive. He
:15:28. > :15:33.is very naturally instinctive. This was a fantastic goal against
:15:33. > :15:40.Queen's Park Rangers. He can score goals inside the box and from 25
:15:40. > :15:44.yards. I think he is a top talent. This is what the chairman told me.
:15:45. > :15:49.They took the decision reluctantly. It was a difficult decision, and we
:15:49. > :15:53.made him a very good offer, and it showed us as an ambitious club. But
:15:53. > :16:00.he will clearly look after the interests of him herself, and that
:16:00. > :16:04.is to be expected. -- himself. We did everything we could not to
:16:04. > :16:11.entertain bids and interests, but those roles will be reversed, and
:16:11. > :16:20.we will be entertaining interest in Micky Maynard. As he said, poker.
:16:20. > :16:24.How will it paint -- and L? They have to sell him, and otherwise the
:16:24. > :16:30.were not be ever to get any minute. It happened with Jermaine Beckford.
:16:30. > :16:35.What they need is to clubs to get involved in a battle for him, and
:16:35. > :16:42.then the price can raise -- rise. That is what they need. He is on
:16:42. > :16:48.the transfer list. Will the manager still play him? Derek McInnes will
:16:48. > :16:58.play his best side. If he doesn't perform, but Pitman will come
:16:58. > :16:58.
:16:59. > :17:02.And finally from me good luck to Peter Thatcher. Now you may
:17:02. > :17:05.remember he is the Sports Unsung Hero for our region here in the
:17:05. > :17:08.West. That was in recognition for the 40 or so years he's been
:17:08. > :17:18.teaching Judo to children in Bath. Well he's on a short list of four
:17:18. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:23.to take the national title. Well the decision will be announced live
:17:24. > :17:26.on the Sports Personality of the Year show which is on BBC 1 tonight
:17:26. > :17:34.at eight o'clock. Thanks for keeping us informed all through the
:17:34. > :17:36.year. A Bristol man has become one of the first people to conquer a
:17:36. > :17:39.four hundred and fifty foot Canadian waterfall. It took Tim
:17:39. > :17:42.Emmett and his colleague Will Gadd spent two weeks planning their
:17:42. > :17:45.ascent of the notorious Helmcken Falls - dubbed one of the world's
:17:45. > :17:51.hardest ice climbs. Among the things they had to cope with - the
:17:51. > :18:01.twenty foot long icicles dangling above them. Pieces of ice the size
:18:01. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:11.of buses, just hanging from a tiny piece. Their break-up. You are like,
:18:11. > :18:11.
:18:11. > :18:14.I am not sure I want going there! It took four hours for the pair to
:18:14. > :18:21.reach the summit and become the world's first climbers to conquer
:18:21. > :18:23.the falls. It's always a tough time for the families of servicemen and
:18:23. > :18:26.women when their loved ones are away - And particularly at
:18:26. > :18:29.Christmas. For the children it can be a particularly worrying and
:18:29. > :18:32.confusing time. So one mum from Tidworth in Wiltshire, came up with
:18:32. > :18:36.an ingenious idea to comfort her little ones. And now it's really
:18:36. > :18:39.taken off. Imogen Sellers has been to find out more. Bedtimes are
:18:39. > :18:44.always hard for George and Natalia when dad Simon is away in
:18:44. > :18:52.Afghanistan. But a bear made out of his old combat trousers seemed to
:18:52. > :18:59.do the trick. A little piece of him to cuddle at night. Little did mum
:18:59. > :19:03.Leah know she had hit on an idea that would really catch on. Are you
:19:03. > :19:07.surprised that it has caught on? And really, really surprised. It is
:19:07. > :19:13.a simple idea, and I am surprised that people have not thought about
:19:13. > :19:19.it before. It has been absolutely crazy. Last week, I sold 50 bears.
:19:19. > :19:25.To Germany, Cyprus, Afghanistan and parts of the UK. I thought he was a
:19:25. > :19:31.really good idea. Did it help you? Yes, because when Simon went away,
:19:31. > :19:35.mum sprayed aftershave on the bare, so I could smell him. Isabel just
:19:35. > :19:41.like The requests came pouring in - so much so that her mum Sara had to
:19:41. > :19:45.help out. She was overrun with the demand for them, and she has had so
:19:45. > :19:49.many orders to fulfil at Christmas time that I thought I did help her,
:19:49. > :19:54.because we did not want to let people down. Families are so proud
:19:54. > :19:58.of their loved ones overseas that we didn't want let any families
:19:58. > :20:04.down at all. Dad Simon is at home at the moment, he arrived back just
:20:04. > :20:07.in time for the birth of baby Florrie. I spoke to Leo when she
:20:07. > :20:16.was in Afghanistan, and she said that she has had a few offers to
:20:16. > :20:21.make the bears. I mentioned it and there were 15 orders straight away.
:20:21. > :20:24.In the new year though he'll have to say goodbye again. But wherever
:20:24. > :20:34.he is Natalia, George and baby Florrie, have their bears to cuddle
:20:34. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:52.Leah isn't taking any more orders at the moment as she's inudated
:20:52. > :21:02.with orders for the new year. But if you'd like to be put on a
:21:02. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:14.standby list you can email her. See Finally tonight - a story of
:21:14. > :21:17.incredible courage and strength and one man's determination to be home
:21:17. > :21:20.for Christmas. Jack Widdowson, who lives near Bath, was left in a
:21:20. > :21:23.critical condition after a violent attack in Cardiff. His spinal cord
:21:23. > :21:25.was damaged and there were fears he could be paralysed. But Jack, a
:21:25. > :21:28.professional ballet dancer, has defied expectations. He's now out
:21:28. > :21:38.of hospital and home for Christmas in Farmborough. Lizzie Way has been
:21:38. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:46.to see him. This is the Christian and -- Christmas that the family
:21:46. > :21:50.wouldn't dream would be possible. For the last few weeks, Jack has
:21:50. > :21:55.been here at this hospital in Wales after he was hospitalised for a
:21:55. > :21:59.violent attack -- after a balanced attack. There were fears that Jack
:21:59. > :22:08.would be paralysed and never dance again. But with the help of his
:22:08. > :22:14.family and a team of doctors, he is back on his feet. I did some basic
:22:14. > :22:18.ballet last Friday. I could see where I had lost my strength, and
:22:18. > :22:22.where a good game my strength. It is where I could find out all of
:22:22. > :22:27.the bad habits, and retrain my muscles to do exactly what was
:22:27. > :22:33.weakest when I was dancing before. I can reach my potential. Three
:22:33. > :22:40.years ago, Jack managed to beat a deadly form of meningitis, and
:22:40. > :22:42.again, he is defying expectations. His father is head of sports
:22:43. > :22:48.medicine at Bath's rugby, and he knows what an extraordinary
:22:48. > :22:52.recovery he has made. It is extraordinary, it does feel like
:22:52. > :22:56.that. From where we were six weeks ago, and for the first couple of
:22:56. > :23:02.weeks to where we are now, I never thought we would be where we are at
:23:02. > :23:08.today. The whole family is going to have a happy Christmas. Seeing the
:23:08. > :23:12.X work -- X-ray, we had to prepare ourselves for the worse. Obviously,
:23:12. > :23:18.we try to keep as positively as possible, but when things were
:23:18. > :23:24.difficult, we were trying to focus on helping Jack goes through our --
:23:24. > :23:29.his passive movement. When you have a handy Dr Who knows what is
:23:29. > :23:34.possible, you can do something proactive, and you feel you are
:23:34. > :23:39.helping in that way. It was very helpful. Today, Jack was working
:23:39. > :23:44.physios as part of his rehabilitation, and he is already
:23:44. > :23:50.able to work -- walk small distances unaided. This year, the
:23:50. > :23:58.widow's -- the family do not need to look far to seek their miracle
:23:58. > :24:02.this Christmas. You sound like a real fighter. It is great to see
:24:02. > :24:07.back on your feet and we wish you a Merry Christmas. Talking of
:24:07. > :24:10.Christmas, dreams of some of the white stuff coming have been dashed.
:24:10. > :24:15.white stuff coming have been dashed. What is in store tomorrow, Ian?
:24:15. > :24:20.Totally dashed! I don't how -- know how the betting works, but if
:24:20. > :24:28.anyone could have bet on a white Christmas three weeks ago, and
:24:28. > :24:31.understood the medium range charts, you would have seen that the
:24:32. > :24:36.chances were very slim. The long- range Charles have been looking
:24:36. > :24:39.forward to the first couple of weeks of January. We are getting to
:24:39. > :24:47.the coldest time of the year. Anything but cold through the
:24:47. > :24:53.course of this evening and tomorrow. It is still mild. We have a front
:24:53. > :24:59.coming through tomorrow. It will be a bit cooler tomorrow. Particularly
:24:59. > :25:06.the evening and overnight into Christmas leave. High pressure
:25:06. > :25:12.dominating. It is staying mild and largely dry tonight. Tomorrow, the
:25:12. > :25:16.cold front coming in. The isobars are quite squeezed together. As the
:25:16. > :25:26.front passes through, the winds will veer back to a north-westerly
:25:26. > :25:28.
:25:29. > :25:37.direction. The clear skies not in evidence, and there will be patchy
:25:37. > :25:43.light rain. It is a broadly dry picture. Just eight moderate breeze
:25:43. > :25:50.going through. No risk of any froth whatsoever. Temperatures still
:25:50. > :25:58.holding at two or three degrees above freezing. Tomorrow, nine or
:25:58. > :26:02.ten Celsius. Patchy abrasive bring into the morning rush-hour. There
:26:02. > :26:12.will be a spell of quite heavy rain. The winds will pick up quite
:26:12. > :26:19.markedly. There will be hanging back of cloud. I wouldn't bet
:26:19. > :26:24.against it to dry out. Still some patchy outbreaks of rain in the --
:26:24. > :26:30.late afternoon. For the rest of the evening, the clouds will clear. It
:26:30. > :26:33.will be around to a north-easterly, and it will start to get chillier.
:26:33. > :26:38.Temperatures prior to the front arriving could reach 10 or 11
:26:38. > :26:43.Celsius. They were when proper way. Looking beyond that, in to
:26:43. > :26:46.Christmas Eve itself, it is a broad be bright picture for most of the
:26:46. > :26:51.day, and patchy rain coming in. That dry, windy and Wilde once
:26:51. > :26:56.again for Christmas Day, and then into Boxing Day, it looks like a
:26:56. > :27:00.similar pattern. A breezy but mild day. Winds still coming in off the
:27:00. > :27:04.North Atlantic Ocean. As we get into the middle part of next week,
:27:04. > :27:12.will be looking at developments in the Atlantic. There is a threat of
:27:12. > :27:16.wet and windy by about. These are the forecast for of the weekend. It
:27:16. > :27:20.is probably frost-free. Thank you grew much indeed. That just about
:27:20. > :27:26.wraps things up from me this Christmas, but I am back for one