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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
The teacher who betrayed his trust. How did Nigel Leat get away with | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
abusing children in a scandal that's shocked the nation? | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Procedures were not followed and this prevented the correct action | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
from being taken. Concerns were not followed up and this led to | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
children not being protected by Nigel Leat -- from Nigel Leat. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Policing on a cliff edge - the chief constable of Gloucestershire | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
says more cuts could push them over. Also tonight: God bless! | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Hats off for Weston's town crier - the funeral today of a man who made | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
himself heard. And will she, won't she? Wells | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
meets tonight to consider honouring Mary Rand, their Olympic Golden | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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Good evening. A teacher who abused young children got away with it for | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
years because the school's head teacher and management team have | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
failed to heed warnings. The shocking actions carried out by | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Nigel Leat at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare made headlines | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
across the country. What has emerged today is a pattern of | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
suspicious behaviour that was reported and then ignored. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Nigel Leat was sent to prison last year and may spend the rest of his | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
life in jail, but the findings of a review into what went wrong will | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
only add to the distress of parents who trusted that their children | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
were in safe hands. Here is our home affairs Corinth -- | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
corresponded. Nigel Leat, he seemed the perfect | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
teacher, well-liked and respected. He had been at the school for 15 | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
years, the children wanted to be with him. He was great fun. My | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
children came home telling me about funny things that had happened, he | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
was bags of fun. He was hiding a very dark secret. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
He was abusing some pupils in his care. Last year he was jailed | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
indefinitely for a catalogue of sex offences. I am very angry with why | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
there was so much information beforehand, that information was | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
there he was not a good teacher, signs of concern, why wasn't it | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
picked up? How could this have happened? Today | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
a damning report says it was a lamentable failure of management. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
They were repeatedly told of his inappropriate behaviour by fellow | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
teachers but failed to act. The school's own management report | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
notes many incidents of inappropriate conduct. Staff were | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
unaware of procedures to follow after complaints were made. North | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Somerset council was apologetic today. It beggars belief 30 | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
incidents of inappropriate behaviour were not acted upon. | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
were identified, 11 were reported to the school, but nothing was done. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Subsequent to this report. Why not? That is one of the failings within | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
the culture of the school. Another senior council official responsible | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
for children safety admitted they just didn't know what was going on. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
As the information came in through the report, absolutely shocking, I | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
thought at the time of the trial what had gone on was shocking. I | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
think the fact that there is a culture in the school that meant | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
adults who were seen things were not able to get those concerns | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
raced outside of the school is truly awful. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
More than 30 recommendations have been made in today's report. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Including the desperate need for training. A You are never going to | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
be able to prevent everything, but regulations are there for a reason, | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
and training is there for a reason. Therefore people within education, | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
social services, anybody with responsibility for looking after | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
children, or being in charge of children, should go through | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
rigorous training. The previous head who failed to act | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
on complaints has now been sacked. Totally shocking, and has affected | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
me personally and my family life. Things have gone on, a lot has come | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
to light, not just we need to raise awareness of people like him. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Nigel Leat will be kept in jail indefinitely but tonight in the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
light of today's damning report many still cannot believe how the | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
school failed to act for so long. Joining us now is the regional | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
secretary of the National Union of Teachers in the south-west, Andy | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
Woolley. What can be done, what lessons can be learnt? The first | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
thing we should be aware of his it appears all the procedures were in | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
place and they work very well in other schools. What has happened | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
here is the school hasn't followed its own procedures and those of the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
local authority. That makes it a fairly unique case, I MP least to | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
say. Although it is appalling most schools follow this procedures. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Schools should be vigilant they are following the procedures in place | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
already. Teachers are not police officers, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
are they? They are not, but when they have | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
concerns their report them, that is our experience and that seems to | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
have happened here. Unfortunately those concerns were not acting upon | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
and I would say to any teacher or teaching assistant or parent with | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
concerns and think they are not being listened to, there are other | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
people to go to, governors, at the local authority, and individuals | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
who work in the school, if they are really confused, should go to the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
union and we will help them and advise them because none of us | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
wants this to happen again. It is easy if you see some abuse | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
going on, you call the police straightaway, but when you have got | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
a popular teacher whose behaviour is just a bit odd, it makes it | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
quite difficult for a teacher to go to somebody else and say, I think | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
our colleague might be a bit of a creep. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
In this case it was more than just a bit odd. I think people do find | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
the ability to do that. Many schools have really good procedures, | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
most schools have procedures where they have a child protection | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
officers people can go to and talking confident about these | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
matters and Iraq are range of other people that teachers and parents | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
could go to -- and there are a range of other people. In most | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
schools things are fine and parents should not panic. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Before you were left alone in a school with the child you have to | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
be checked, don't you? There are police checks. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
There are rigorous checks when people started to training, when | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
they start a job, and moved. once you have got that, people | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
think you are OK, and they -- that may not be the case? That may have | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
happened in this case but in most schools there at regular check-ups, | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
people have proper procedures, there is staff training about these | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
matters. Occasionally somebody gets it really badly wrong. The | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
procedures are there, parents should not worry, most schools, in | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
fact virtually every school will be following these exactly. This is a | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
rare case which is why we are also appalled about it. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Gloucestershire's chief constable has spoken out strongly against | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
further budget cuts saying they will affect frontline policing. Up | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
until now most police forces have said they can reduce their spending | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
without affecting policemen on the street. But today Tony Melville | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
made the astonishing claim that any further cuts would be a tipping | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
point, taking policing in Gloucestershire to the brink. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
The language is unprecedented, for the Chief Constable of | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Gloucestershire police denies he is scaremongering. When you have sold | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
19 police stations, cars, reduced your staff by one third, I could go | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
on and on. The reality is you reach a point where there are so few | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
places to go and save any more money, the risk is it starts to | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
impact on our front line. police force has had to find �24 | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
million worth of savings. The police authority wants it to make | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
even more, by freezing the part of the council tax which goes to the | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
police. Obviously something has got to be done. It has led to warnings | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
police numbers in Gloucestershire will go back to levels not seen | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
since the 1970s. There has been criticism from all ranks of | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
officers. This 1.3 million, only a small cut some would say, would | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
mean losing another 41 officers, we wouldn't be able to cope with | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
everything we are already doing. This is one of the 19 in the county | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
which has already been sold off, it closed in October. Now if you want | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
to contact the police here you have to put a note through a black | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
letterbox. Have people notice the difference? Probably in Cheltenham | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
and Gloucester, maybe it has made a difference, here it was a fairly | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
low crime rate to begin with. the police station has been closed, | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
there has been a more visible police presence here. The police | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
authority meets next month to decide what the Budget will be. It | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
says its responsibility is just as much to the taxpayer as the police. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
It is the role of the police authority to make sure we don't | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
just listen to the voices within the constabulary, but we also | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
listen to the voices of the public as well, and drier balance what is | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
on offer from the government. authority itself is disbanded later | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
-- and try and balance. If it goes ahead with the cuts it could leave | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
on a sour note. A Bristol MP is also urging the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
government to rethink its approach to policing. Kerry McCarthy, the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Labour MP for Bristol East, says figures out today show Avon and | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
Somerset police have lost almost 200 police officers since March, | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
2010. She says further cuts to the policing budget will mean the loss | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
of 16,000 more across the whole country. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
You are watching BBC Points West. Very nice to be with you. | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
Stay with us, much more to come. Join me in some of the world's | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
fastest rally cars with some of the South West's best drivers as they | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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First, the Great Western Hospital in Swindon has increased the number | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
of inspections by matrons on its wards after being criticised for | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
failing to meet two essential standards. It follows an | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
unannounced visit by the Care Quality Commission, one of its | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
concerns was about patients not being protected enough from | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
potentially unsafe treatment during surgery. The hospital says it is | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
acting on the report's recommendations. The feedback was | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
we had a lot of good work going on, and a lot of improvement had been | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
made, but we needed to focus our attention on making sure that was | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
consistently applied across the whole front line operation. On the | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
day they came, they felt we didn't have the systems in processes -- | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
the systems and processes in place across the whole organisation. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
The hospital says it is continuing to use patient feedback to help | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
make improvements. A man has been arrested on | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
suspicion of armed robbery after a raid at a Wiltshire newsagents. Two | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
men threatened a female member of staff who stole cigarettes and | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
money last week. A 22-year-old he was arrested in London is being | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
questioned by Swindon police. The funeral has been held today for | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
a town crier who once won international recognition for his | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
skills. Town criers from across the West | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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came together to pay their own unique tribute to Peter. -- Pluto. | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
A Farewell to Weston's best-known character. I met him in 1992, well | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
loved. He would do anything for anybody. We filmed Brian in Weston- | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
super-Mare in the mid- 90s, when he had just been named the best town | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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Oh, yea! He had only taken up the role of | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
town crier in retirement but people were reminded of his devotion to | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
his town and his charity work. larger than life character, a man | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
not loved life, but that truly appreciated life. -- a man that | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
loved life. A very kind man. Very generous. He gave me plants for the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
garden at wouldn't think of taking money, he gave me lifts, wouldn't | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
take the petrol. He was very kind. And at the end of the service a | :13:59. | :14:09. | |
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God bless Pluto! God Save the Queen! | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
I am told a group of town criers is called a bellow. It is a send-off | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
he would have liked. She won an Olympic gold and set a | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
world long jump record, but will that be enough to earn Mary Rand | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
the freedom of her home city of Wells in Somerset tonight? In the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
next half-hour, city councillors will begin debating the issue. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
These days, she lives in California but a campaign to get her the | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
freedom of Wells has been gathering momentum. Clinton is in Wells. What | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
do you think the chances are? would rather bet on the outcome of | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
a weak 100 metre race than this! Set into the pavement here is a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
physical representation of that astonishing to jump by a Roisin | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
Gauson. It is over 22 feet. That was a jump she made in 1964. -- By | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Mary Rand. She also got a silver and a bronze in those games. When | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
she returned to her home city of Wells, she got a tremendous welcome. | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Thousands of people lined the streets. The big question is, will | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
it be enough for her tonight to get the freedom of her home city? We | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
have been out on the streets of the city to gauge public opinion. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
think so. I have taken so many visitors up to the market place and | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
showing them the enormous long jump she did. They have been enthralled. | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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I think it was marvellous. Yes. Why? All she did was to the long | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
jump. She just happened to come from Wells. Got paid for?! I don't | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
think she did. A selection of opinions. Here's a man who thinks | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
she should get it. This is the man who started the campaign. She does | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
not live here any more and it was a long time ago - why should she get | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
it? Mary Rand was the most famous Olympian we have ever had. Freedom | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
is the ultimate accolade of the city which she fully deserves. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
I turn to the mayor? Mr Meyer, I was looking at the criteria you | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
have got to follow in deciding whether she gets it. A person of | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
distinction who gave eminent service to a town or city. Is that | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Mary Rand? That is a difficult one for you to decide. Be it is | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
extremely difficult. I should be St councillors that this has had a | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
very high profile. I shall be saying that they need to put that | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
to one side and think about how they, personally, feel as to what | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Mary brought to the town. The whole meeting will be secret. There is | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
nothing secret about that - it is protocol. That is correct. It is | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
confidential because you actually speaking about a person. It would | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
be wrong to do that in public. will announce the result later. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
Let's turn to Tony Williams. Will she get it or not? I am not a | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
betting man so I would not like to say, but I do hope that the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
councillors vote for what the people of Wells would like. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
We will bring you the result as soon as we get it, in our late | :17:55. | :18:03. | |
programme at 10:25pm. We shall see in the late news. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Some of Britain's best rally drivers will be competing in | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Somerset this weekend, taking part in the Brean Stages Rally that is | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
held in the grounds of a holiday park. Among almost 100 entries, | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
including former champions, is a 16-year-old girl from Taunton. | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Forget what you're driving instructor said - this is about | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
getting your car to go as fast as possible and sometimes, sideways. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Drivers negotiate a series of courses from three miles up to six | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
miles long at this was a park. If it looks exciting, up well, it is. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
The can't explain the adrenalin rush. You have got mud, grass, wet | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
surfaces. You have all different aspects that come into it, so there | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
are lots of thrills and spills and action at all levels. The serious | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
contenders often drive actual world rally championship cars. I took the | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
position of co-driver and held onto the ride. The acceleration pushes | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
you back in your seat but it is surprising how testing the course | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
is on the driver and the machine. What is incredible about that is | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
that it is not just the speed, it is the control that these guys have | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
got. The way they go round the corners is just amazing. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
This car is being driven by an 18- year-old from Taunton, sometimes | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
with one back wheel of the ground. This will be his first rally driver. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
It is another feeling altogether. You get a massive adrenalin buzz. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
It is incredible, especially when you hear the car sliding just right | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
and you know you have gone through the corner the fastest way possible. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
It is not just boys and their toys, either. This is Harry's sister | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Molly. She is 16 and it is her first time. I have always gone to | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
watch my brother and my dad. I wanted to see why they love it. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
is the 16th year of this rally and as many as 4,000 people are | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
expected to watch. The action takes place this weekend. | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Will love to that! What a good day. It is known as a boisterous form of | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
comedy, marked by chases, collisions and practical jokes and | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
for the 8th year, the Slapstick Festival is back in Bristol. It | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
features many well-known faces and the Colston Hall will be echoing | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
with lots of laughter over the next four days, and perhaps some custard | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
pies! The first act goes on stage in the next hour and Chris is there | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
for us. Good evening. We are a few moments | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
away from a magical evening here at the Colston Hall. The atmosphere is | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
already warming up. We have got a banned downstairs gritting be a | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
hundreds of people taking their seats in the Hall this evening. -- | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
a greeting. This is one of the series of events over the next few | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
days marking the past and present of a slapstick comedy, especially | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
those slapstick, silent movies. Silent movies brought audiences | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
flocking. In their day, they were pioneering. Charlie Chaplin and | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Laurel and Hardy were renowned for four they use of slapstick comedy | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
in the early part of the last century. That is where it all began. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
I think slapstick is popular because it is universal. You don't | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
need to understand the language. The Artist is a French film, and | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
how many people usually flock to see a French film? Physical and | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
visual comedy resonate with everyone because we can all | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
understand it, and we have all experienced it. We have all fallen | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
over and no deep humiliation and embarrassment. Graeme Garden wrote | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
and performed in the Goodies in the 1970s. Tonight, he is at the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Watershed explaining why slapstick is being rediscovered in the 21st | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
century. People might be going back to basics for their entertainment. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
One way of showing it is that they come out to live events more than | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
they used to. We are used to seeing them occasionally on TV and it is a | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
bit dry when you watch it alone. But when you see it with an | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
audience - and, of course, an orchestra - playing music to the | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
picture, it is stunning. The stage is set, the films are ready and it | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
is expected to be a full house here at the Colston Hall tonight, | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
celebrating Bristol's silent comedy. Many famous names are coming here | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
over the next few days and one to tell you about this evening is Ian | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Lavender, better known for his role in Dad's Army. Thanks for being | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
with us. A pleasure. Tonight, I shall be reminiscing about Dad's | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
Army. The idea that slapstick might be dying... Slapstick will never | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
die. We are trying to keep people interested in what we see as the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
original slapstick, the black-and- white and silents. We have a film | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
going out doing that for us. Over four days in Bristol, there will be | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
splendid stuff. Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin - all of them. | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
you ever get fed up with people coming up to you? Saying you're | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
famous catchphrase? No, no. I get tired of them getting it wrong. | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
Silly boy! No, why should I? People still like it, so why should I get | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
tired of it? Is it important to remember slapstick comedy as it | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
used to be? I think so, because it is pure. There is pure acting in | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
there. People think it is just falling over. You should watch | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
these men and see what they did with primitive equipment. But none | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
of the humour is primitive. If we could aspire to what they did... Oh | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
well, as long as we aspire to it, that is great. If we can achieve it, | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
even better. A busy schedule here for you. In will be on stage | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
shortly for his Dad's Army tribute. A number of events are going on | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
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until Sunday. Tomorrow, Griff Rhys Jones is on the bill. Back to you. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
Stupid boy! I thought you might say that. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
We have heard there is a bit of Three Legged Cross and snow in | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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Gloucestershire. Here is the Thanks for reporting the snow to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
our colleagues. There may be more to come by the end of the week. For | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
tomorrow, a more straightforward story. Exactly where the showers | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
occur will be a different matter but for the most part, for the rest | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
of tonight, they are on their way out. A dry spell. Into tomorrow, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
more further showers through the cause of the afternoon, more widely | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
across the West Country, and it will remain chilly. This brighter | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
cluster moving through the Bristol Channel brought the snow over the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Forest of Dean. It is nearly out to the top of Gloucestershire. The | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
skies are largely -- largely Clearing. As they do so, it is a | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
dry story for us all. It will be windy this evening but less so as | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
the night wears on. We could see a hint of frost in the most sheltered | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
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spots. Tomorrow, we will start on a dry, bright note. Showers come in | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
from the West. They will start to migrate further inland as the day | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
wears on. Into the afternoon, more widespread showers across | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire. They will ease the way | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
through the course of the evening. There will be brighter spells | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
either side of the showers, with temperatures up to eight Celsius. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Most of the showers should have gone by the evening at Weston- | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
super-Mare. It is worth booking a ticket for this event. Visit the | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
website on screen to book tickets. Try to support that if you have | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
time. If you look ahead to the weekend, it gets complex. Saturday | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
it looks dry and chilly. On Sunday, the Atlantic tries to do battle | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
with a cold feed which means we could see some snow in central and | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
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