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