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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines tonight: | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Jailed for three years. The gas fitter whose botched job led to the | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
death of a young woman who had the world at her feet. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
Up in flames - a 17th century house is destroyed in the Forest of Dean. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
The rise and fall of the Bristol Evening Post - protests tonight as | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
the Saturday edition is axed. And the excitement's building as | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
Swindon's manager hopes for Good evening. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
A gas fitter from Somerset is tonight beginning a three-year jail | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
sentence after his faulty work on a boiler led to the death of a young | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
woman from Bath. Zoe Anderson died from carbon monoxide poisoning less | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
than two weeks after Andrew Hartley from Radstock installed the boiler | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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into her home. Zoe Anderson, the vivacious 24- | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
year-old from Bath, described today as a young and talented woman with | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
a full and fruitful life ahead of her. Zoe lost her life in December | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
2010 when she was found dead in the bathroom of the family home. It | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
took a while to realise that she had died from carbon monoxide | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
poisoning. As the judge spoke there were tears from Andrew hardly | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
sitting in the dock and from his wife. The judge said this was a | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
profoundly tragic case and mirth -- both families had been deeply | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
affected. Of the Anderson family he said they had behaved with the | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
greatest of dignity and the loss of their daughter was profound. Andrew | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Hartley, was the plumber the Andersons employed to fit a new | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
boiler two weeks before their daughter's death. He'd been in the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
job for at least 20 years. The botched job meant the toxic gas | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
filled the bathroom killing Zoe. Today the Judge Neil Ford said | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
although Andrew Hartley had absolutely no malicious intent he | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
had no alternative but to give him a prison sentence. Of Andrew | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
Hartley the judge said he was a respected man, a good, loving | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
father who sell them -- his sense of guilt was overwhelming. The | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
three-year sentence was a price he must pay for an isolated but | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
serious offence. The guild would love with him for a very long time. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
The Anderson family had done everything right. They had employed | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
a registered gas-fitter. Today the Health and Safe Executive issued a | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
stark warning. It is vital Registered Gas engineers apply | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
their knowledge and skills on every job they carry out, and make sure | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
guesswork is safe for everybody to use. If engineers could cornice | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
they can expect to be held to account for their actions. Not only | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
will they be removed from the register, they can also face | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
prosecution and imprisonment. the judge delivered his sentence, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Andrew Hartley was led away to start his three-year prison | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
sentence, he's likely to serve at least 18 months. The Anderson | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
family are left hoping Zoe's death will highlight the dangers of | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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carbon monoxide, the gas they call the silent killer. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
An historic 17th century house in the Forest of Dean has been gutted | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
by fire. The alarm was raised in the village of Newland near | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Coleford last night. More than 60 firefighters, including crews from | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
South Wales, were called in to help tackle the blaze. Will Glennon has | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the latest. The flames rose and smoke billowed into the sky as | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
historic Newland House melted into ashes last night. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
The alarm was raised by neighbours just after half past nine and fire | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
crews were quickly on the scene but the fire had spread too quickly. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
One the call was raised by a neighbour who called us and told us | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
there was a fire already three the reef, so when we arrived we could | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
see it was going to be an extended job and we we -- we would need more | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
appliances. It is a large stately home and the fire has gone all way | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
through the roof and the building. They fought the flames as best they | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
could and worked to save nearby houses. By 10 o'clock the whole | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
thing was a blaze, terrifying, very fast, ready what really fast. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
still in shock. I feel very sad today. It has been like a terrible | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
chapter in our history. Everybody in this village is very sad and | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
upset. What was clearly wants a beautiful mansion house is now a | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
smouldering wreck. Rubble is still smoking and flames are occasionally | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
breaking out. The fire brigade is still on hand to dampen things down. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Newland House had been undergoing restoration works. Now it is | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
completely destroyed. Nobody was hurt in the fire, but it is not yet | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
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known what caused it. Journalists are holding a protest | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
this evening, angry at cuts being made to the Bristol Evening Post. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
From next month, the paper will no longer have a Saturday edition, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
putting 20 jobs at risk. The union says it's awful news for Bristol. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
The demonstration is being held outside an exhibition marking the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
80th anniversary of the title. Alice Bouverie is there. Good | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
evening, Alice. Journalists normally reporting the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
news, tonight they are making it. They are making their voices heard | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
as you can tell. Small but lively demonstrations encouraging people | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
not to go into the building behind me where they are hosting a private | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
party for the Evening Post tonight. Most of the people are | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
demonstrating at the loss of 20 job cuts, and other changes also on the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
horizon, at the very name of the paper from Thursday is changing | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
from the Evening Post to just the post. These are unsettling times | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
for a newspaper which is supposed to be celebrating its 80th birthday. | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
April 18th, 1932, the first edition of the Evening Post. The start of a | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
long and proud association with the city. In the 1970s, the offices | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
moved to where they are now on Temple Way. Hundreds of people | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
worked here producing and printing the paper and its sister title the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Western Daily Press. Since then, though, the presses have gone | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
silent. And only a fraction of the staff remain. The sign hanging | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
outside the building says it all. don't think it is the beginning of | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
the end but like very many local newspapers around the country they | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
are in difficulty. A difficulty that started even before this -- | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the recession has more advertising was going to turn the be untangles | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
and online. -- going to more television channels. Only yesterday | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
a newspaper group in the North announced that five of its daily | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
papers were being turned into weeklies. The fear is that papers | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
here could go the same way. While the Gloucester Citizen, | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Gloucestershire Echo and Swindon Advertiser all publish Monday to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Saturday, the Bath Chronicle became a weekly in 2007. The Western Daily | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Press also publishes Monday to Saturday, but here also there have | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
been cuts. The paper used to have five local editions, today there's | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
just one regional one. Now the Evening Post, Bristol's only | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
newspaper dedicated to the city's news, is to lose its Saturday | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
edition, with 20 people at risk of losing their jobs. A former editor | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
of the paper says to survive, it needs to follow an age-old recipe. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
Stir things up a bit. Get the paper talked about. Make a few people | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
indignant. That is what fills newspapers. The paper's owners, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Northcliffe, say the changes they're making will give them a | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
better platform for growth. The National Union of Journalists have | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
described the axing of the Saturday edition as awful news. Picking up | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
that point with the chair of the National Union of journalists here | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
in Bristol, Northcliffe say they will put out an extended edition on | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Friday, why is it so bad they are axing the Saturday edition? | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
think it is being hollowed out. This is the worst possible birthday | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
present from the owner, Northcliffe, not just for the Gaullists who will | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
lose their jobs, but to the people of Bristol -- for the journalists. | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
These people are here because they realise the staff of it you and 40, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
it was once a great evening paper, it cannot serve the people of | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Bristol property. You feel Bristol will not be passed -- properly | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
served. We don't think it will be. With the move to making the Friday | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
edition and so much more important it might herald the way in the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
future for our weekly paper. This has happened in other places, it | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
has happened today, another company has done it in four or five other | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
cities. Isn't this the economic reality, there isn't enough | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
advertising revenue to go round? is a very difficult advertising | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
scene but economic reality for the owners is that this operation made | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
�1.5 million operating profit in 2010. The owner, his personal | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
fortune went up by 120 billion in 2010. It is not a question of money. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
A month's consultation on these plants start tomorrow so we will | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
know this time next month whether those 20 job losses will be going | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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ahead. You're watching BBC Points West | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
this Tuesday evening. And there's plenty still to come between now | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
and seven. We find out how Yeovilton Air Day | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
will pay tribute to those who fought in the Falklands. And the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
transformation's underway - can Bristol's Bearpit become a | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
continental style plaza? There's been a campaign in Bristol | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
today supporting the idea of an elected mayor for the city. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Conservative councillors posed for pictures to show their backing for | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
a 'Yes' vote in next month's referendum. There has of course | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
been much talk of London's mayor, Boris Johnson, but for Bristol | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
probably the best comparison is a town in Yorkshire. Our political | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
editor Paul Barltrop reports. Like Bristol it's got some nice | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
Georgian buildings and historic churches. The capital is vastly | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
bigger so I have come to a place much more comparable, Doncaster in | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Yorkshire. Unlike Bristol it's had an elected mayor for 10 years, and | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
it's proved controversial. The 2009 victory of Peter Davies from the | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
little known English Democrats was a shock. He's a blunt Yorkshireman | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
who puts the boot into Doncaster's councillors. The people pick the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
mayor, not some cabal of councillors sitting in the backroom | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
of a pub, with far too many of them, there are 63 in Doncaster, nothing | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
to do, they are impotent, they know they are, they are frustrated, and | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
they cause trouble. In the council chamber I meet the chief | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
troublemaker, Sandra Holland. Her Labour councillors have a big | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
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majority but little power. It is wholly undemocratic, half-a-million | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
pounds to hold an election every four years. So they've forced a | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
referendum on the same day as Bristol's but to decide whether to | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
ditch their elected mayor. What would you advise be? Don't have | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
elected mayors. It put a spanner in the works. To have an elected mayor, | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
but be careful which when you choose. He does sort things out. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Voters will decide on May the 3rd. As in Bristol what matters most is | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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whose supporters actually bother to vote. I will be interviewing | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
Michael Heseltine on us and our politics this week. -- on Sunday | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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Politics. A report on how a primary school teacher from North Somerset | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
was able to sexually abuse pupils without being discovered, is being | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
sent to schools across the country. Nigel Leat is serving an indefinite | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
prison sentence after admitting more than 30 sex offences at | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Hillside First School in Worle. A serious case review criticised | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
school management for not acting on earlier warnings. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
A new holy thorn planted in Glastonbury to replace one killed | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
off by vandals has itself been damaged. The tree was planted near | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the town and blessed in a special ceremony earlier this month. It was | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
surrounded by a metal cage to protect it, but has been broken off | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
completely. The original, said to have been planted 2,000 years ago | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
had its branches cut off back in 2010. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
This year's Yeovilton Air Day will commemorate the 30th anniversary of | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
the Falklands War. The Somerset base played a vital role in the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
conflict, sending more than 100 jets and helicopters. Today air day | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
organisers gave a sneak preview of what this year's event will look | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
like. Here's our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
For the aviation workhorse of the Royal Navy a mock rescue. Yeovilton | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
giving a brief foretaste of Air Day 2012 30 years ago the Sea Kings | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
were doing it for real, thousands of miles away in the Falkland | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
Islands. The Yeovilton commitment was immense 126 aircraft 1,400 | :14:02. | :14:11. | |
people. Within the airbase today there stands an avenue of 12 trees | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
and 12 stones commemorating those who didn't come back. It is fitting | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
then that this year's air day should commemorate the 30th | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
anniversary on the war. Falkland veterans were among those watching | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
the preview today. For them the displays evoked some powerful | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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memories. I still had postcards from friends | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
in Ireland, we released them on surrender day. For years I have had | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
postcards of these people who were thankful for an hour at that. Just | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
that little thing, these people wanted to be British and we help | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
them stay British. The current commanding officer of Yeovilton is | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
himself a Falklands veteran. And he says it taught him a valuable | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
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lesson. I was an officer and a training -- officer in training, it | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
was life-changing. It has grown into one of the UK's largest | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
airshows. This year organisers are promising more of the same, with | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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added poignancy. When change is actually the date. Normally in July, | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
it has been brought forward to June 23rd. That is to avoid a clash with | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
the Olympic Games because aircraft from here will be needed to help | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
provide security in the skies above the south of England throughout the | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
Games. The Bath rugby player Duncan Bell's announced he's hanging up | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
his boots at the end of the season. It came as a surprise to his | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
colleagues, as did the prop's admission that he's been battling | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
with depression throughout his nine years at Bath. Scott Ellis reports. | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
207 games and just two left to play. 37, Duncan Bell, describes himself | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
as a rugby OAP. My body is falling apart. I am told. I have given as | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
good as I got, as best as I could. It is time to bale out. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
retirement it surprised the Bath team, as has the 19 stone prop's | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
admission he suffers depression. was bad enough that it was tough | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
getting up Sundays, tough coming to work. -- summer days. If I knew I | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
came to work the boys would be here and I could immerse myself in the | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
banter that goes along with the professional sport. We captured | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
some of that at this team-building day. Duncan Bell coming in from the | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
blind side. He says the banter masked years of low and the mental | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
torment triggered by default. He was -- it was most acute when he | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
was called up to play for England in 2009, reflecting the pressure | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
off sportsmen and women. The club doctor spotted a problem and after | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
cancelling he is he -- keen to help other younger players. -- | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
counselling. It is beneficial a senior professional comes up and | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
says it is already talk about it. I wish I had talked about it 10 years | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
ago. It shows the courage of him that he has highlighted this issue, | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
had to deal with it and share with others in the hope that other | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
sportsmen in the arena can maybe get the help they need earlier as | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
opposed to later. He says his retirement is not linked to | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
depression. Will you be on the terraces in the future? If I can | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
afford a ticket I will be there. If someone gave me a season ticket | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
that would be lovely. Plenty of banter around today but no doubt | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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there will be some sorrow inapt -- when that final whistle is blown. I | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
will not take issue with you because you are bigger than me but | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
you are not old. Well Duncan Bell hasn't been the | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
only person in rugby to announce that he's resigning. Gloucester | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
Rugby's Head Coach Brian Redpath has also decided to step down. The | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Scot will leave Kingsholm with immediate effect following a poor | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
run of results that have left the side seventh in the Premiership. A | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
spokesman for Gloucester called it "a sad day for the club". Redpath | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
has been head coach at Kingsholm since 2009. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
It could be hugely important night for two of our football clubs. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Bristol City could secure their championship status for another | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
season and Swindon's promotion to League One will be confirmed if | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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they get a point from their match away at Aldershot. This is not | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
ideally where Swindon would have chosen to seal promotion, away from | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
home in a small ground that holds just over 7,000 people. And as a | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
consequence tickets for Swindon fans were limited, just over 1,000 | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
will be here, tucked away at that far end of the ground hoping to see | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
their side get the result they need. The team arrived a short time ago. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Paolo Di Canio is with them, he had flown back to Italy on Saturday | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
night after his mother passed away, but he's returned for this game. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
And a reminder of the equation tonight, a point will mean Swindon | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
are promoted, but they could also guarantee the title if they win, | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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and second place Shrewsbury fail to beat Port Vale tonight. We all want | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
not, to be fair. We don't want to lose out at the last minute. We | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
have got to keep concentrating and win every game. For those fans who | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
couldn't get a ticket BBC Wiltshire's commentary will be | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
invaluable. Will you be commentating on a title-winning | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
performance? I think from here if Swindon went to win, it would be a | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
bit of a disaster. They have put themselves in such a fantastic | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
position, even if he don't secured a win tonight at the next begins | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
the title is inevitably going to end up at the county ground. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
have heard about pallor to cannier having to fly home after his mother | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
passed away. You sense the team has to do it for him? I think so. There | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
is that added sense of an incentive now for the side to win the title. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Rather apt in many of respect they didn't secure promotion against | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Plymouth on Saturday because Paolo Di Canio would have been in no mood | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
to celebrate the occasion, he left the ground straightaway to fly back | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
to Italy. The fact he was in the do that on Saturday and again tonight | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
is testament to the man. We should say Eid could also be a significant | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
night for Bristol City, they could be safe from relegation by full | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
time. Their recent form has moved them four points clear of the | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
relegation zone. If they beat West Ham tonight and Coventry least they | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
will be mathematically safe. -- Coventry lose. Plenty of | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
encouragement for the last eight or nine performances, we are certainly | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
going the right way and a lot of belief in the squad, players are | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
giving it everything. It would be great to get the job done and get a | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
positive result. Difficult opponent ahead of us. We aim to be exactly | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
that ourselves. BBC local radio for both countries. When he joins me | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
for the News at Ten and will hopefully be in the midst of | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
celebrations. A pair of Gandhi's distinctive round-framed spectacles, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
that its thought he bought in Gloucester, have been sold for | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
�34,000. The steel rimmed glasses were purchased when he was studying | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
in the UK in the 1890s. They were sold with the original felt | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
cleaning cloth bearing the name of the optician, H Cannam of Aldate | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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Street in the city. Very iconic. Three months ago we told you about | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
plans to spruce up the bear-pit. Things are slowly starting to | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
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shortcake shake -- to take shape. January, in Bristol's bear-pit. The | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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gateway to the city, and welcoming, unloved. Imagine this underpass was | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
a continental-style Plaza. One community group did and sent the | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
idea to the council. Ambitious plans, a street level redesign and | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
open access to a sunken public space. Less concrete, more | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Catalonia. Three months on it is not exactly Barcelona yet but | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
things are starting to change. Not a huge amount, but there is more | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
art work, more colour, and it feels like There are more people in a | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
space that feels a little less oppressive. You have never been | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
able to buy coffee here before. is good. We had teething problems | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
because it was the new business for us in the first week but it has | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
been fantastic. The kind of interest and enthusiasm has been | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
growing every day. It has changed for the better. We got the cameras | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
and there are a lot of people going to and fro. You don't feel afraid. | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
I am not afraid walking here, sitting down here. I feel it is | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
quite pleasant here. The feedback from the people coming in is really | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
positive. We have got a lot of people stopping by it and saying it | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
is great to see people in here, trade happening, and it makes them | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
feel more safe been here and makes them want to spend more time in the | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
area. It is a work-in-progress with almost all the work still to be | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
done. People do just pass through, but it could become a space where | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
people choose to come to. Apparently they want to turn it | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
into an Italian style Plaza. There were storms last night, | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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though the it would you up. Are we The inclement weather is tightening | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
its grip, Moordown Paul's coming. In recognition of that the Met | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
Office has a weather warning tomorrow. There will be some | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
hailstorms and lightning, tricky driving conditions. Courtesy of | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
this area of low-pressure migrating through the course of this evening | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
and tonight easing down towards the south-west and tomorrow he will | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
trek across southern district. -- it will trek. If you are under at | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the centre youth -- the wind will be slack and there will be some | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
slow-moving torrential downpour pause. -- downpours. Drier, | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
brighter interlude, the shares rattling in from the West. -- | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
showers. As we go through into this evening, Ashton Gate other football, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
a 40% chance of showers. A similar story for many other district. As | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
we get later on into the evening we have this wraparound this occlusion, | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
bringing more persistent rain. Some showers feeding on behind, a breezy, | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
if not win the affair. -- windy. Tomorrow will start with a good | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
deal of rain. It will ease away. Behind that as the Loat stars to | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
centre itself this is when the wind falls. Heavy downpours will develop, | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
they will be slow-moving, lightning and hailstorms. Gradually easing | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
out towards the east of Gloucestershire late into the | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
evening. Another sunshine and showers set-up right the way | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
through to the end of the working week. | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
It is just one extreme to the other all the time. | :27:32. | :27:40. |