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Good evening and welcome to Points West. In our headlines tonight: The | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
final whistle. Bristol City says its new stadium at Ashton Vale will | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
now go ahead. Remembering Reverend Suddards. A | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
two hour vigil tonight in the town where he died. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Powering ahead and powering down. The differing futures for two of | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
our nuclear power stations. And Hakuna Matata. Why the Hippodrome | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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says it has no worries about the First tonight, it looks as though | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Bristol City's battle to build a new stadium at Ashton Vale could | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
finally be won. The club has been looking for a new home for years, | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
but the row over their chosen site has been long and bitter. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Today there were dramatic developments, with both the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
football club and Bristol City Council announcing that the last | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
legal hurdle had been dropped - a claim that was immediately denied | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
by their opponents. Here's David Passmore. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
At stake, one of the largest development proposals in the south | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
west and one of the most divisive planning rows in decades. Planning | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
permission has been granted for a 30,000 seater stadium at Ashton | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Vale. But the �90m project has been halted by those who want the land | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
designated a town green which would prevent any development. The | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Council suggested a compromise with half the site becoming a town green | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
and the stadium built on the other half. But opponents wanted the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
entire site to become a town green and recently a judge said the | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
matter should be subject to a full judicial review. Things started to | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
hot up this morning when the council announced that the battle | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
was over and that the application for judicial review had been | :01:56. | :02:05. | |
withdrawn. The unknown person who bought the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
judicial Rigby who has now withdrawn that which means our | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
judgment last year stands and the stadium can now be developed. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
But within minutes, this was denied by opponents of the scheme saying | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
the "claiment had been subject to harassment and intimidation" and | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
that they would substitute another applicant immediately. The club | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
welcomed the news, but remained cautious about whether and when | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
they would press the go button. So, once again, claims that the | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
protracted planning row could be over may be proved to be premature. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Opponents say they will continue to fight. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
David joins us now, what everyone wants to know is, is this the end | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
of the row and can the stadium go ahead or not? | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
We would all love to know that. All day it has been a battle of | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
statement and counter statement. A legal table-tennis. Until this | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
afternoon, it was fairly finely balanced. The issue about whether | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
the applicant he wanted to take to judicial review could withdraw it | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
or could they be substituted. This evening, the council issued what | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
they believe is the most relevant document. A letter, which the name | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
has been blanked out, but we assume it is the letter from the applicant | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
saying very clearly that they want to withdraw the application to take | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
the whole matter to the courts. They definitely don't want a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
substitute coming in and they definitely do want a stadium to go | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
ahead. So this would seem to be the end of the matter, but as anyone | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
who follows the story would know, opponents are determined and say | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
they will fight on. They may challenge this in the courts and | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
the fact that they can't have a substitute. So although the council | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
believes this is the end of the matter, it is probably not. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
All intents and purposes it looks like a green light, but are Bristol | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
City equipped to go ahead? They say they are. They still have loose | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
ends to tie up. They have to buy a couple of small bits of land, but | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
they claim that three months from the point of which they press the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
go Burton, they can start building. The town of Thornbury will come | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
together tonight to hold a vigil for their murdered vicar. The body | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
of the Reverend John Suddards was discovered last Tuesday morning, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
but it's believed he was killed sometime on Monday night. This | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
evening, people will gather between ten o'clock and midnight to | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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remember him. Our reporter, Jules Hyam is in Thornbury now. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Good evening. In just over three hours time we are expecting many | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
people from the parish and local community to begin arriving here | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
for that the jail. It will be a chance for people to pay their | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
respects and reflect on the life of Rev Frank John Suddards. He was | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
only 59 and a man he was well educated. Peter and the Church in | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
his thirties and came here to St Mary's in Thornbury just seven | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
short months ago. The Church has been open throughout the day for | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
people to privately remember their reverent. Or to publicly state | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
their thoughts and feelings in a book of condolence. Flicking | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
through the pages of that, there are many many messages that talk | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
about a man who was warm, kind, deeply spiritual. A man who was an | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
inspiration and a man who clearly deeply connected, not just with his | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
community here, but also with many in his former parish in Essex. They | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
are holding a formal memorial tonight, here there is a quiet | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Feigel. As both communities come to terms with the death, outside the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
walls of the Church we can see police vans and high-visibility | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
jackets that remind us that his death is still the subject of a | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
criminal investigation. In custody a 47 year-old man who is being | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
questioned by the police over two murders. They have been granted an | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
extra six hours to question him. Thank you very much. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Next, as you may have seen earlier this hour, it looks like we're all | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
heading for a drought. There's been so little rain over the last couple | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
of years, that reservoirs and rivers across the country are | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
already running low. To try and avoid water shortages, | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
people in parts of Wiltshire are now being asked to voluntarily | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
reduce the amount of water they use. Laura Jones reports. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
The river Kennet, poetically described by Sir John Betjemen and | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
loved by anglers across the country, is in a pretty sorry state. It | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
usually flows from near Avebury in Wiltshire to Reading, but at the | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
moment it's not flowing at all. At this time of year, you'd usually | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
expect there to be a good two to three feet of water in here and for | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
it to be full of trout and grayling, but today, as you can see, it's | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
completely dry. It's not just a problem here, it's | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
been an unusually dry couple of years, and it looks like we're | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
heading for a nationwide drought. Water companies are asking for our | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
help. Water in this country is a finite resource. It is in short | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
supply and it is not the blend of all things that we can just turn | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the taps on and forget about it. Doing simple things like turning of | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
the tap when we brush our teeth can save six litres per minute. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
last time things were this bad when 1976. Everyone's hoping to avoid | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
scenes like these, but it's not looking good. And farmers are | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
warning that without water, food prices will soar. Back in Wiltshire, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
a group set up to save the Kennet say that more needs to be done - | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
and fast. For most people the price of water | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
is not a deterrent. People who are really hard up have to be protected, | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
but for most of us we should pay more, we should be more efficient | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
and we should have a lot more metering. In every country where | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
metering is introduced, people use less water. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Thames water say that by reducing our water use, and with the help of | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
water saving gadgets avaiable for free on their website, we can all | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
do our bit to help. But many fear that unless we're forced to use | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
less, by having to pay more for it, nothing's really going to change. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Well, a little earlier I spoke to Karen Gibbs at the Consumer Council | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
for Water and asked her who was to blame for the situation. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
The situation that we are in has been driven by the weather | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
conditions over the last couple of years. What is important now is how | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
the water industry, the companies, the Environment Agency, work | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
together to manage the situation. The bottom line is, our bills are | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
thick, so where is the incentive to use less water? The incentive is to | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
ensure that we can serve the water that is available for public supply | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
for as long as possible to ensure that we can meet our needs for | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
water through what is clearly an unusual situation in terms of the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
weather conditions. Do you think water is too cheap? Prices of gas | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
and electricity are rising, water seems to be constant. Do you think | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
people need to change their mind set about water usage? I think it | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
is important that we recognise that water resources are under pressure. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
We have a growing population, we are subject to a changing climate | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
and weather conditions so it is really important that there his | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
resilience and the water system, but we must begin to recognise that | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
we can't just take water for granted. It is important that we | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
balance the needs of customers with the pressure and potential damage | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
that it is caused to the environment. Thank you very much. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Well, apart from Thames Water, we're served by Wessex, Severn | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Trent and Bristol Water, here in the West. We've spoken to all of | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
them today and whilst they say that supplies are OK at the moment, they | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
too are urging us to use water wisely. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
A 69-year-old man from Bristol has been spared jail after pleading | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
guilty to sexually assaulting a 79- year-old woman on New Year's Day. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Malcolm Dearlove, was sentenced to six weeks suspended for two years. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
The attack happened mid-morning, as the woman was shopping in | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Bedminster. He'd pleaded guilty at a previous hearing. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
A man has been found guilty of battering to death a 47-year-old | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
man at a flat in Fishponds. Bristol Crown Court heard that Timothy | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Crooke was the victim of a prolonged and vicious assault. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Thomas Tibbatts was found guilty of his murder by a majority verdict of | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
10-2. He's received a mandatory life sentence and will serve at | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
least 14 years. 23-year-old Zarah Bryant, who was also standing trial, | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
was found not guilty of murder. The Chief Constable of Wiltshire | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Police has been appointed as the interim Head of the UK Border Force. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Brian Moore became Wiltshire's Chief Constable in January 2008. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Since then Wiltshire's crime figures have been so low it's been | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
named as the safest county in England and Wales. Home Secretary | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Theresa May announced Brian Moore's new role in the House of Commons | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
this afternoon. I do not believe the answer to the very significant | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
problems exposed is just a series of management changes. The border | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
force needs a whole new management culture and I can tell the House | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
today that I have appointed Brian Moore, currently the chief | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
constable of Wiltshire police, as the interim head of the Board of | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
force. Brian Moore's deputy, Patrick | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Geenty, will take charge of Wiltshire Police until a new Chief | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Constable is appointed later this year. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Welcome to Monday's Points West, temperature's rising and as the | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Lion King roars into Bristol, find out how the Hippodrome is preparing | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
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It is going to get a lot milder in the week ahead with temperatures up | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
to the mid- teens. Otherwise the week looks largely dry. More | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
details later. And as the Lion King roars into | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Bristol, find out how the Hippodrome is preparing to deal | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Protestors who've been served an eviction order to leave the site of | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
the proposed new nuclear power station in Somerset say they've no | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
intention of moving. The group began their occupation of a barn | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
close to Hinkley Point about a week ago. Meanwhile people living in the | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
shadow of the power station say they're being ignored by the | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
planning authority who have to decide whether the new nuclear | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
reactors are built. Clinton Rogers reports. The protestors insist this | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
isn't a game to them, it's a question of protecting democracy. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
And they say they'll keep the camp fires burning - even under threat | :13:26. | :13:35. | |
of eviction from the landowners EDF Energy. There are certainly some of | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
us who are prepared to fight this all the way and they are going to | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
literally have to carry as out of here because until we get a chance | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
to have democratic scrutiny of these plans and return the power to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
the people about what happens in their country, we are prepared to | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
keep fighting. EDF has applied to build the first of a new breed of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
nuclear reactors right next to their original station at Hinkley | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
Point. They've been given permission to start the groundwork | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
- even though they don't have approval yet. That's what's angered | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
these protestors who say it's like digging foundations for a new house | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
before you've got planning permission. This weekend, EDF | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
served them legal paperwork, a lot of it, warning of action in the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
High Court next week to make this and any future occupation illegal | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
and a contempt of court. They say they hope the protestors will leave | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
of their own accord. Meanwhile there is anger today in villages | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
which sit in the very shadow of Hinkley Point. A new body called | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
the Infrastructure Planning Commission will decide in the end | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
whether Hinkley C should be built. Yet while the parish of Stogursey | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
will suffer the brunt of any building disruption for a decade, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
they've been left off a list of places where the IPC will hold | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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public meetings. We are at the host parish that is going to take this | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
massive project, if not the biggest project in Europe, on our doorstep. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
We have not even been given floorspace to hear our views. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
statement was issued this afternoon saying that this village had not | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
been forgotten, the list of public meetings they had published was | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
merely a draft one but that has done little to appease people here | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
who believe they are being ignored over one of the biggest decisions | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
to effect this region for a generation. This afternoon new | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
protestors were making their way to the Hinkley occupation site. On | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
many fronts this is a battle with a long way to run yet. Well, as EDF | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
pushes ahead with a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley, just 50 or so | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
miles up the coast, another of our power stations is about to be | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
switched off completely. Oldbury opened in 1967 the two reactor | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
plant on the south of the river Severn has been generating power | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
for 20 years longer than planned, but next week it will finally stop | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
operating. Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs has been | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
along to see how the shutdown has been progressing. When Oldbury | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Power Station was built in the 60's it was seen as one of the ways of | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
future proofing power generation. There was also a promise of lower | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
bills. The answer we all want to know is will it mean cheaper | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
electricity? Not immediately but in the foreseeable future we expect it | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
well. Once Oldbury was generating it was part of a small number of | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
nuclear power stations. But at the official opening it was recognised | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
that that number would soon grow. It was 10 years after the first | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
atom bomb at Hiroshima that power was flowing into ye be read in this | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
country and since then there has been a steady development of | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
nuclear power but we are only at the beginning of the beginning of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the development of nuclear power. The nuclear reactors here have | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
powered the turbines for over 40 years - providing huge amounts of | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
electricity to the grid. The high tech control room of the 1960's has | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
hardly changed today. But now Oldbury, which is the oldest | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
operating nuclear power station in the world, is about to power down. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Last year reactor 2 was shut off and next week the button will be | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
pushed to stop reactor 1. Then the work of decomissioning will begin. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
There is a lot of work to do following that in terms of making | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
the plant safe in terms of the hazards stored here. We have to | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
remove all the fuel stored over the next few years and release that for | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
processing in Cumbria. There are chemicals on side that we have to | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
make safe and we will do that with our teams here over the next 12 | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
months or so. After that we have got a lot of work to do in terms of | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
playing away other hazards on the site and demolishing buildings. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
That will take as a roughly 10 years to complete. But the future | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
of nuclear power at Oldbury isn't over. This land has been identified | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
as one of 8 in the country where a new nuclear power station could be | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
built. It's a debate that's very real at the moment - with the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
government committing itself to nuclear power. As for Oldbury Power | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Station, it will one day be razed to the ground, but not for 100 | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
years at least. Weston Super Mare's famous outdoor swimming pool, which | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
has been closed for a decade, WILL be pulled down by the summer. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
That's the pledge made by councillors speaking on Inside Out | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
West tonight. As our business correspondent Dave Harvey reports, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
the demolition decision comes despite a campaign to save the | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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Tropicana supported by 4,000 local residents. I can remember having | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
loads of nice days as a child here. Whether it's the weather was sunny | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
and warm or cold you still got in and slam and enjoyed it, it was a | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
day out. But those were the glory days. This is the Trop today. For | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
the first time in a decade, our cameras have been allowed inside. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Wow, it didn't quite estate, and you think enough is enough? It has | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
gone too far. There has been nothing that has come forward yet | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
to make us think this is a viable proposition so we think the answer | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
is to demolish. Councillor Tony Lake quite simply thinks the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Tropicana is beyond saving. But not everyone is prepared to drop the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Trop without a fight. Derek Mead, a local farmer cum property developer, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
has shown Inside Out West his new plans for a simple community pool, | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
open air and not for profit. Charitable trusts have been | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
suggested before but dismissed out of hand by the council. And he's | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
not alone. Last week's decision to demolish the Tropicana was taken | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
against huge protests. 4,000 signed a petition, including the man who | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
rebuilt the pier. And he says a similar miracle could be worked on | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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the Tropicana. It is out of date the way it looks today but you | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
could argue that DPR were out of date and today we have a brand new | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
modern peer and tomorrow we could have a brand new modern proper can | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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a. -- Tropicana. Until now, these two have never met to discuss Mr | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Mead's new plan. It's the only thing standing between the | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
Tropicana and the bulldozers. So will the councillors relent? Its | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
quite an encounter. But is the sun finally going down on Weston's much | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
loved lido? Find out tonight, inside out west, BBC One at 7:30. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Swindon Town Manager Paolo Di Canio has selected a 21-year-old amateur | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
in a competition to win a one year contract with the Robins. Chris | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Smith from Stoke was among 5,000 talented youngsters who tried out | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
for a chance to play with the professionals. Four of them were | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
chosen to train with the first team and the young defender was the | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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final choice. In a club like this it can be even more exciting for a | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
young player. I am really happy for him. Over the past so many months I | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
have been working hard and putting in the effort and thankfully it has | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
paid off. And you can find out the whole story and how Paolo really | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
broke the news to Chris Smith on Late Kick Off tonight here on BBC | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
One at 11:05. And high-flying Swindon along with fellow promotion | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
contenders Cheltenham are in action tomorrow night. Di Canio's side | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
face Shrewsbury looking for their eighth successive league win having | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
beaten Hereford 2-1 at the weekend. Cheltenham, who lie one place above | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Swindon in second, take on AFC Wimbledon following a 5-0 hammering | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
Disney's award-winning show The Lion King comes to the Bristol | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Hippodrome later this year, marking the start of its first ever UK tour. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
But to accommodate such a huge production the theatre will have to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
close for a couple of weeks to do the structural work needed for the | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
40 tonnes of scenery. Michelle Pascal was at the launch this | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
afternoon and managed to talk to Thomas Schumacher, the man behind | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
the magic. This is a show that's been seen by over 65 million people | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
worldwide since its Broadway premiere in 97. And now it's coming | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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to Bristol - so when and for how long? I love Bristol. It is | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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brilliant to be here and bring a show of this scale here. We are | :23:14. | :23:23. | |
going to open this summer. At the end of August we will be here with | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
this story. You will remember these characters who we know from this | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
story, many people know it from the film but this production is pure | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
theatre. It is huge beautiful scenery. So what is it that makes | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
the Lion King so popular? There it is a story of you and me but we | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Telek with animals. It is such a huge production it will be so hard | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
to fit it into the Hippodrome. is a wonderful theatre. But it is | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
100 years old. We have had to adapt the house so that actors can come | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
down the aisles. We have had to rebuild the stage and Poots based | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
backstage for an hour whole crew. It is a lot of work but it is such | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
a great theatre how could we do otherwise? The tickets go on Sale | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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this Wednesday. That looks amazing. They have a seeing that means no | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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worries. -- saying. Now what's happening with the weather? The | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
chance of anything profoundly cold has been put at 20% by the Met | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Office for the next couple of weeks. Temperatures will continue to climb | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
and there will be little in the way of green which will do little to | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
ameliorate the problems we saw earlier with levels of water in | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
rivers. Through the rest of tomorrow it will be another mild | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
day, breezy and largely dry. We will see temperatures increasing. | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
If we run through today deep Blue is shifting away, that arctic air | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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late mild beer until Thursday. -- increasingly mild beer. -- air. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Temperatures potentially reaching 16 Celsius in southern England, the | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
record for February set in 1998 was 19.7. I do not think we will see | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
that but certainly 16 is quite possible. The weather charts in the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
if bull glory then showing little in the we of rain between now and | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Wednesday. -- India full glory. There will be plenty of rain during | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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the course of Wednesday afternoon. Through tonight it is just a | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
moderate breeze. We have had a few showers around which will die off. | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
A fair amount of cloud around but some clear spells too. Temperatures | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
could drop in the rural spots down to one Celsius. Urban area is will | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
be around five Celsius. Not as cold as last night. Tomorrow will see a | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
good deal of cloud cover around, the risk of showers in the extreme | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
north-western districts. Otherwise drive. Temperatures will peak | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
around 10 or 11 Celsius. A good deal milder than that come Thursday. | :27:30. | :27:36. |