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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Flooding and heavy rain cause major problems across the region. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
One of the West's biggest equestrian events is cancelled due | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
to a waterlogged course. Roads are closed, homes flooded and | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
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hundreds of acres of land are under water in Somerset. It was a torrent. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
Sandbags were being washed down the driveway and it has flooded before, | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
but not this bout. Also tonight: Doubling production | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
as Honda provides an extra shift for 500 new workers. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
And working her way West on the Diamond Jubilee tour - Dorset, | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Somerset and Wiltshire prepare for Good evening. There are warnings | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
there could be more flooding across the West tonight, as further heavy | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
rain is forecast. Today, one of the region's biggest sporting events | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
was called off for only the second time in its history. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Organisers of the Badminton Horse Trials were forced to make the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
decision after admitting the waterlogged course will never dry | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
out in time for the start later this week. Our Gloucestershire | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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reporter, Steve Knibbs is there now. Steve, a huge disappointment. | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
It is a massive blow for the people here. And for the equestrian world | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
in general. You can see one of the most famous jumps here, the | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
staircase. It has been a strange day because the sun has been out | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
and the scenery looks amazing, but there is a very tangible reason why | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Badminton this year cannot go ahead. You can hear and see it. This water | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
at the bottom of the staircase should not be here. They had a | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
day's rain in just six hours so the course is waterlogged. Like their | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
International Air tattoo a few years ago, yet another world famous | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
West Country event has succumbed to the British weather. | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
The surge of water has dampened hopes and dreams. With expectations | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
high, the exceptional weather has taken its toll. A waterlogged | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
course has left organisers with a heavy heart, but no choice to | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
cancel. We had so much water, standing water everywhere. The | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
ground is saturated. There is no chance of getting horseboxes in and | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
out all spectators cars in-and-out of the car-park. No chance of | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
getting the lorries for the trade stands in. And nightmare. 85 riders | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
were on their way from 12 different countries. For many, a place in the | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Olympics was at stake. This former Badminton champion has his sights | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
on a place in the Australian team. This is important for a lot of | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
riders for selection and qualification for the Olympics. My | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
top horse was due to get his qualification at this event so, yes, | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
it has been reason for a lot of replanning. The course is taking | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
hit and so are the traders. After spending the weekend setting up, it | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
was time to pack away without taking a penny. An enormous amount | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
of work has gone in. We have been here for several days already. You | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
have seen a van load of stuff we bought in which we unpacked | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
yesterday. Now it is taking several hours to reload it. It is a big | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
disappointment. All of the stall holders will be disappointed. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
restaurants and hotels were getting ready for what should have been the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
busiest time of the year. We would just pick up the pieces as best as | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
we can. Some people might come and decide to have a few days' break, | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
but I doubt it. That on the course there is nothing else to do but | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
pack up and give refunds. The course used to be held in April, | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
but was moved to make to avoid bad weather. Organisers are hoping this | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is an exception. The cancellation of the event has | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
knock-on effects, doesn't it? Yes, not just here on the course, | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
you have betrayed us, pubs, restaurants and hotels. For this | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
bought in general this is an Olympic year and badminton is the | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
pinnacle. It is the Grade A event and they are desperately trying to | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
get into other events around the world with their eye on her Olympic | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
selection. Not just the riders, the horses. Other events are not the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
grade A that they have here. In it also does not give them enough time | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
to recover before 2012. The weather not just disrupting events like | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
this, it has caused problems right across the region with roads closed | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
and hundreds of acres of land under water. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
The rain may have stopped for now, but you only have to look behind me | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
at an angry river to see that the problems are far from over. The | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
rain is coming of the high ground and swelling watercourses. This | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
happened in the last half-hour, water coming across the footpath | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
and into a children's play area. In the last 36 hours, the weather has | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
caused disruption across the Only from the air can you get a | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
true feel for the extent of the flooding in Somerset - hundreds of | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
acres underwater. This is Creech St Michael near Taunton, part of the | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
village virtually marooned. It doesn't look much better from the | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
ground either, though locals were on hand to give advice. I could not | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
get to college today so I thought I would make money and advice people | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
as to whether their cars can get through for the bargain price of �1. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Those who did try to navigate the roads were to regret it. And he | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
wasn't the only one. Believe it or not, this is a cricket pitch. | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
The game is clearly off. And within minutes the water had | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
also started rushing into the town's park next door. Now it's | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
completely underwater and shut to the public. I had some people last | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
night he wanted to bring can use in and I said no for health and safety | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
reasons. I have also had kids would serve boards going down the river, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
but just please stay away for two or three days. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
It's been a question of just making the best of it. For some it's a | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
chance to have fun - this man even chanced his arm jet skiing on a | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
road in Frome. In the hamlet of Stoford, just outside Taunton, | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
these cottages were flooded and the fire brigade had to help a local | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
farmer rescue people who were marooned by the sudden rise of the | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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water. It was a torrent. Sandbags were being washed down the driveway. | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
It has flooded before, but probably not this bad. High wind added to | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
the problems bringing down trees and power cables. It is thought | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
that all those without power have now been reconnected. This | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
afternoon, the Environment Agency had 22 flood warnings in place and | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
not just in Somerset. There are problems along the River Severn in | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
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Gloucestershire and parts of Tewkesbury after heavy rain, at the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
flooding is rising. People are being advised to stay | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
out of the flood water and be prepared if homes are at risk. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Anyone who lives in a flood risk zone should take precautions and be | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
prepared and know what to do if a flood comes. There are a lot of | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
things you can do. Driving, walking, canoeing through flood water can be | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
extremely risky and dangerous. the trains, the main line between | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Swindon and Wales was closed because of flooding. Engineers | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
worked all day to try and pump away the water. This prima school in | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
north Somerset was saved by the fire service when a flood water was | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
lapping at the school door. They came and pumped it all out and they | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
have actually constructed a sort of water away here for the water to | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
flow down into our storm drain. This call was this close to being | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
flooded, which would have taken out two classrooms, our library and our | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
hall at the least. The River Avon is still on flood alert into Bath. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
Many places were close to bursting last night. Since its peak, the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
River Avon has begun to drop a little. It was another three-and-a- | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
half feet further up. People living here say they have not seen this | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
much water coming down the river since 2009. A month ago I could | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
have been standing 15 ft into the river and not even been wet. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
The beer garden at this pub is normally their pride and joy. Last | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
night, staff had to rush out and save their tables. When I got to | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
work it had only got to the second run up on the fence and the benches | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
were still above the water. As we carried on, the river was coming up | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
further and further so we had to come down in the end and wrote the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
tables together and tie them to the fence to make sure we did not lose | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
them. The worst has passed for now for both the River Avon and the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Frome. They remain on flood alert. More rain is expected in the next | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
few days. Elizabeth Austen is here with us | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
now. Elizabeth, some very heavy rain in the past few days. How does | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
this compare to other Aprils? This time last year it was for the | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
most part quite dry and sunny. The last wet April was in the year 2000, | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
but we just had it confirmed from the Met Office that this is the | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
wettest April since records began. Tonight for the west, we are going | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
to be that as well. The wettest April for the West since records | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
began. The reason why is because when it was trying March, the jet | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
stream was to the north of us, now it is to the south allowing low | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
pressure to give us wet weather. More rain on the way tonight. | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Elizabeth will be back to the fall forecast in a little while. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
The Environment Agency has a number of flood warnings in place around | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
our region this evening. The main areas on the watch list include the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
River Severn around Gloucester and Tewkesbury, areas around Watchet on | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
the Somerset coast and the River Tone. You can see the full list on | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
the environment agency website. And of course, there's no better place | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
for the latest information than your BBC local radio station or | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
online. In other news tonight, Honda's | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
doubling production at its car plant in Swindon raising hopes the | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
company's fortunes are improving. This follows the problems caused by | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. 500 newly trained staff will add an | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
extra shift at the factory, with hopes a new Civic model will boost | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
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sales abroad. Scott Ellis reports. 500 recent recruits to Honda are | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
now on shift in Swindon. There are helping build 180,000 vehicles per | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
year. It is not quite the quarter million of the 2007 a day, but | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
there are signs of optimism. I have been here almost 26 years so I know | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
when we were up in those volumes. This is a start of us moving | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
forward from a production perspective. I am looking forward | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
to good times again. Let the cars and the good times roll. Honda has | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
had some tough times. First the recession in June 2009 which led to | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
a four-month shutdown at the Swindon plant. 1000 staff lost jobs. | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
Last year the Japanese earthquake saw production halved with workers | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
on a two-day week. Then production was cut in October after floods in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
Thailand disrupted supplies of electronic parts. Some industry | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
experts say that Honda have also had problems of their own making. | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Models have not sold as well as other models. Nissan is producing | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
over 400,000 cars in the UK at the moment as opposed to Honda's | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
180,000. That is a real issue. the showrooms, hopes are high for | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
the new suit -- Civic. Salesmen have been having a tough time, as | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
well. A lack of supply and a lack of money in the economy. There are | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
maybe some green sheets out there and towards the end of this year we | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
should see demand pick up and sales increase. In the UK, car sales are | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
down but, new factoring is booming. It is up 20% across all makes as | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
the likes of Honda in Swindon feed a global market. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
A lorry driver from Yeovil, who crashed a petrol tanker into his | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
family home, has been jailed for seven years. Hugh Billington drove | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the lorry into the bungalow in Wool in Dorset. His estranged wife, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Christine, had to escape through a window after fire broke out. The | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
51-year-old admitted arson and assault by beating and theft. The | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
judge told Billington he was "wickedly irresponsible". | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Now, another good reason to hope the weather improves because we've | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
got some rather important guests visiting the west this week. The | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be in Wiltshire, Somerset and | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Dorset over the next two days and preparations are well underway for | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
their arrival tomorrow in Sherborne. Laura Jones reports. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Music fit for a queen. And a good job too because tomorrow, 13-year- | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
old Lydia Shepherd will be performing for Her Majesty in | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Salisbury cathedral. Not only that, but a composition by | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
the schoolgirl from Bath has also been chosen to greet the Queen as | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
she arrives at the cathedral. built it up as a big climax towards | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
their and four when she is coming into the cathedral. It ended with a | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
drum roll and then she will be their and I tried to make it quite | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
slow so she can walk into it at a steady time. I am quite excited | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
about her coming. She's not the only one. In February | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
1952, whilst stationed with her husband in Kenya, Jean Weber was | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
preparing to meet the then Princess Elizabeth who was on holiday nearby. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
We were expecting her and Prince Philip to come for lunch in our | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
mess. All of the wives were busy doing flowers and decorations for | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
the occasion. We got the message in the morning saying that the King | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
had died and the Queen would drive through our encampment down to | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
their airstrip and a wave. The rest is history. 60 years on, when the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Queen visits Crewkerne on Wednesday, Jean is hoping to finally get to | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
see her. My son is going to come with me to see her go by. I have | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
not ever seen her before. What will that mean to you? Well, it is a | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
long time. I have always admired her terrifically. I think, for her | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
age, she is remarkable. Elsewhere, in Sherborne, the palace | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
apparently requested something light hearted - a mad hatter's tea | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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party. I basically did the playing cards of the Queen's army. My hat | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
is based on Alice because what she is doing before she has a dream | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
about Wonderland, her mum is reading her really advanced pork. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Royal visits to the west usually prove popular and this Jubilee year, | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
rain or no rain, the crowds are likely to be out in force. We will | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
have full coverage over the next couple of | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Budding young artists have been creating a piece of artwork to | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
celebrate the Queen's Jubilee as part of a competition being run by | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Avon and Somerset police. Today's launch took place at The Mall, | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Cribbs Causeway, where two West Country artists led a children's | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
workshop. The winners from five regional exhibitions will be | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
displayed at The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol in July. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
It was a gamble and it paid off. When Swindon appointed Paolo di | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Canio as manager last summer, many predicted it could all go horribly | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
wrong. But now they've been crowned League Two Champions. The chairman | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
who made the call is delighted that his club will be challenging for | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
another promotion next season. David Passmore reports on | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
"Swindon's Big Paolo Gamble". You make your choice and roll the | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
dice. It was a controversial decision, it was bold. Given the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
opportunity of someone with a clean sheet of paper compared to other | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
CVs that we have handed in, it is a strange job where people seem to | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
think that being sacked in previous jobs makes them the perfect | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
candidate. After an opening day win, three | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
defeats, the last at the hands of rivals Oxford, frustrated fans, the | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
manager too - repeatedly sent to the stands and at one point | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
fighting with his own player. But the turning point came on new | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
year's eve with the first of a record breaking ten match winning | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
run to take them top and they never looked back. All along he never | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
apologised for his style - it was part of his culture! I have a | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
culture. I do not stop my culture. I sometimes speaks with my body | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
language and English referee has to respect me. The turning point game | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
I New year's Eve where they have stayed on top ever since. | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Saturday's celebrations - a delighted manager and the chairman | :19:08. | :19:16. | |
who appointed him. You took a bold decision to employee a previously | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
untried manager and it has worked out well. I am really thrilled | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
about that, to be honest. There is no doubt it was a we -- risk and | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
after five games it was not looking clever. But we believed in him. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
What can you ask more? We finished champions. At the beginning it was | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
tough but during the season they were amazing. They deserve to be | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
called champions. So with manager and chairman aiming | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
for back to back promotions, there's some tough talking as Paolo | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
di Canio builds a squad for the next phase of what could be a long | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
managerial career. Swindon are hoping that the gamble continues to | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
pay off and he will be at the county ground for as long as | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
possible. There were some impressive results | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
for our other local teams over the weekend including another big home | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
win for Bristol Rovers. Don't forget you can see all the goals on | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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the sport pages of the BBC website. You're probably familiar with the | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
BBC's Planet Earth- a landmark series which was produced by the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Natural History Unit here in Bristol. Well, now the world class | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
production team is getting even more ambitious and on Sunday | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
they'll be starting Planet Earth Live capturing events in the | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
natural world around us as they happen. Tim Scoones is the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
executive producer of the programme and we're lucky enough to have him | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
with us tonight. Tim what can we expect? | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
As you say, everyone is aware of the output of the BBC Natural | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
History and those big global landmark series. We have just had | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
frozen planet, but over the last 10 years we have been innovating in | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
live broadcasting. Springwatch, autumn watch, big cat live, things | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
like that. This is a new way of approaching life -- wildlife to see | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
things as they happen. We have been dreaming of bringing these together | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
so now we are going to do this all around the world bringing it to you | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
live. You have some big plans and big stories to tell and some big | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
storyteller's? We have. We are joined by Richard Hammond normally | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
known for top beer. Many people don't know that he has been a | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
lifelong fan of wildlife. He is going to be a fantastic asset to be | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
so -- show. We also have Julia Bradbury from Country File Hook is | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
sought a presenter that brings so much to a series. We are lucky | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
enough to already have Julia go around the world with a back story | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
of some of the creatures. We have a clip of her here now meeting a new | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
special friend. We have made friends here. There is an | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
overwhelming view. They are communicating with one another, | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
they are communicating with us and when you look in I are the grey | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
whale, it is so soulful and peaceful. It is absolutely | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
incredible. They make me want to cry. That looks phenomenal. Tim, | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
this is ambitious, isn't it? Just how ambitious? Five continents, six | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
countries, most of it live in a moment as it happens. There was a | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
clip their from Julia, we have hardly filmed anything at all and | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
we go live on Sunday. This is like a great big news programme bringing | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
in reports from all over the world. From Sri Lanka to northern USA, | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
from the Arctic to the Peruvian Amazon on and in Africa where | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Richard Hammond is based with lions and elephants. A huge operation | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
live in real time, but I am proud to say that the nerve centre of | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
this is good old BBC Bristol. This is the heart of natural history and | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
we will be broadcasting year to 140 countries worldwide. We have a lot | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
of kit coming-together now a nature writes the script so it his fingers | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
crossed from now. You're telling this global story very quickly with | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
lots of little stories? That is right. It is like a great big soap | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
opera. A reality show and a soap opera at the same time. As lions | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
stories develop, we have to stay abreast of that and work out what | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
is happening next. Already we have had to rewrite alliance story two | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
or three times this week. There are amazing things happening. I wish we | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
had more time! It starts this Sunday, the very best of luck with | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
I hope the nerves hold up. Right, we have been talking about | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
the weather, Elizabeth is here with the forecast. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
the forecast. We just heard it confirmed from the | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
Met Office that it is the wettest April on record far over a century. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
In the west, we are a few millimetres of that, but it won't | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
be long before we beat that as well. We have had over 200% over the | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
average rain for this month. This is the picture of the River Stour, | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
already felt -- flooded. There is more heavy rain fall on the way | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
tonight. The Met Office has issued an amber alert, the second highest | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
for heavy rainfall. We will see 30 to 40 mm. Some places could see up | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
to two inches. Other than that, it has been a strange day. A lot of | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
sunshine around and are mostly dry picture. The warmest day of the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
month so far. This is the calm before the storm. In to this | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
evening and tonight we will see the rain systems spread out. They will | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
be heavy bursts of rain from the south with strong gusts of wind. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
There may be some toppled over trees or shaky trees that might | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
topple over tonight. The system pushing northward over the course | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
of the morning. It should be dry up by the afternoon for the Queen's | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
visit, but waterlogged and the fort. Temperatures up to 14 or 15 Celsius. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
A bit of respite from the rain for the next day. Tuesday night is | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
looking dry, but could get a little chilli with temperatures down to | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
four or five Celsius. Wednesday is looking dry with spells of sunshine | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
around. It is on Thursday when it all changes. This front sinks self | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
would give him a light rain and drizzle into Friday. Lots of detail | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
to firm up before then. If you are worried about flooding, go to the | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
worried about flooding, go to the Environmental Agency website. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
The Environment Agency will be speaking to us in the 10 o'clock | :26:24. | :26:27. |