:00:10. > :00:15.Hello. Points West comes live from Somerset tonight on the day
:00:15. > :00:18.thousands turned out to welcome the Diamond Queen. The National Anthem
:00:18. > :00:24.and an emotional cheer as her Majesty drives down the High Street
:00:24. > :00:34.in Crewkerne. The crowds are bigger than ever, as the country says
:00:34. > :00:36.
:00:36. > :00:41.thank you for 60 years of duty. waited with our flowers and
:00:42. > :00:45.somebody said would you like to take your flowers to her? And in
:00:45. > :00:48.the rest of the news this Wednesday night: The water bosses say the
:00:48. > :00:51.sodden West Country is still in a drought. Can they be serious? And
:00:51. > :01:01.voting one way or t'other - Bristolians decide tomorrow on a
:01:01. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:06.Mayor. Good evening from Crewkerne in Somerset. Her Majesty the Queen
:01:06. > :01:09.has completed her Diamond Jubilee Tour of the West with a visit to
:01:09. > :01:12.this beautiful county. The Royal Party visited a country fayre in
:01:12. > :01:14.Yeovil, before popping into the town hall behind me. Here's our
:01:14. > :01:24.Chief Somerset Correspondent, Clinton Rogers, with the story of
:01:24. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:37.this very special day. # Save our gracious queen # They rehearsed a
:01:37. > :01:42.traditional royal welcome in Somerset style, the national anthem
:01:42. > :01:47.as you have probably never heard it before. On rain sond ground, they
:01:47. > :01:52.laid out the grey carpet. And for the Queen's first visit to Somerset
:01:52. > :01:57.for a decade, getting a good view would be important. As yesterday,
:01:57. > :02:04.the train took the strain as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
:02:04. > :02:12.arrived by royal carriage to Yeovil. First stop a Diamond Jubilee fayre.
:02:12. > :02:17.And the first task there to meet two new police horses, one named
:02:17. > :02:26.Jubilee. We were worried when we saw the band playing. But they were
:02:27. > :02:31.both well behaifed. -- behaved. Very pleased with him, yes. I can
:02:31. > :02:35.see! There was a magical moment for one group of children who had no
:02:35. > :02:40.idea when they arrived they had been presented to the Queen.
:02:40. > :02:45.were waiting for a long time with our flowers. Somebody just came ore
:02:45. > :02:50.and said, would you like to go and present the flowers to her. Were
:02:50. > :02:55.just plucked out of the crowd. fayre was show casing the best of
:02:55. > :03:01.Somerset business, from crafts, to hi-tech industries and the Queen
:03:01. > :03:07.and Duke of Edinburgh stopped at one stall with family connections.
:03:07. > :03:16.We're proud to report to her Majesty that Prince William when he
:03:16. > :03:24.is flying his helicopter is wearing our glovers and Prince Harry when
:03:24. > :03:30.he plays polo. That is why he wins all the time! And then back on the
:03:30. > :03:35.road, bound for Crewkerne. En route, hundreds lining the streets to see
:03:35. > :03:39.the royal couple. In the crowds, one former military wife, who
:03:39. > :03:47.missed an opportunity to see the then Princess Elizabeth when she
:03:47. > :03:52.was in Kenya six decades ago. and her, Prince Philip, were at
:03:52. > :03:58.Tree Drops, -- Tops, where they watched game. They were planning to
:03:58. > :04:05.come to our mess for lunch, but unfortunately she had to fly home
:04:05. > :04:10.to be queen instead. That was a great disappointment. In Crewkerne
:04:10. > :04:18.the warmest of welcomes. And after touring an exhibition of artefacts
:04:19. > :04:25.in the town Hall, just time to give one lady an extra reason to
:04:25. > :04:34.remember her 100th birthday today. The and the verdict? Job well done,
:04:34. > :04:41.your Majesty! I love that. That it said class act. I saw it on the way
:04:42. > :04:46.down. We will meet the people who did that. We're joined by the mayor
:04:46. > :04:52.of Crewkerne. Well done on a wonderful day. Thank you it has
:04:52. > :04:58.been a wonderful day for the town and Somerset. I was watching, as
:04:58. > :05:05.the Queen arrived, the national anthem was playing, as the doors
:05:05. > :05:11.opened, everyone went wild. Yes, the national anthem was designed to
:05:11. > :05:17.finish as she got out. We culled hear, when we saw the cars, you
:05:17. > :05:22.could hear behind the crowds, they were starting to roar and it became
:05:22. > :05:27.deafening. It was a wonderful day. That is the level of detail that
:05:27. > :05:31.went into it. Because of the fact as the car pulled up, it did all
:05:31. > :05:36.stop. It must have been a nightmare to organise and a wonderful
:05:36. > :05:43.conclusion, but stressful? there is a rot -- lot of people
:05:43. > :05:47.that do the organising, behind the office staff and the Lord
:05:47. > :05:54.Lieutenants' office and it takes a long time to organise. But you
:05:54. > :06:00.don't get that long notice for a visit. It is long late-night and
:06:00. > :06:04.hard work to make the day as special as it is. Well done and a
:06:04. > :06:09.great turn out. Everyone came out. Now, the gang that you may have
:06:09. > :06:17.seen behind us, and in the report, they will be performing later in
:06:17. > :06:20.the programme, but now back to you. Thank you. There could be more
:06:20. > :06:23.flooding to come in parts of Somerset as the ground struggles to
:06:23. > :06:26.soak up standing water and the Met office says even more rain is on
:06:26. > :06:29.the way. There are still three flood warnings on rivers in the
:06:29. > :06:39.South West and 17 flood alerts. And, as Andrew Plant reports, many
:06:39. > :06:43.
:06:43. > :06:47.rivers are already full to the brim. Water Street, drying out in the
:06:47. > :06:54.sunshine. But after the flooding here it is still too early for some
:06:54. > :06:58.to take the defences down. At the inn, the water breached the
:06:58. > :07:02.sandbags and found its way inside. It was a nasty surprise. That was
:07:03. > :07:09.to stop the water coming in, because it was gushing all along
:07:09. > :07:15.here like a river. The land lady walked into her pool room and found
:07:15. > :07:20.a new pool covering her carpets. was about three inches deep on the
:07:20. > :07:24.floor in the pool room and literally the pool room! In the bar
:07:24. > :07:29.was also three inches deep and it was going behind the bar and
:07:29. > :07:34.through the cellar and out the door. From the surrounding hills, days of
:07:34. > :07:40.rain are still streaming down, taking the shortest route to sea-
:07:40. > :07:45.level. Here the waters stopped just below the windowsill of one house
:07:45. > :07:50.and in Taunton, the park soaked much of the water, but the council
:07:50. > :07:54.has called off a council there this weekend to protect the ground. In
:07:54. > :08:01.Glastonbury the council closed the A361 as flooding make the road
:08:01. > :08:05.impasseible and after the wettest April on record, this place set a
:08:05. > :08:12.new record of its own, the wettest place in the country, almost a foot
:08:12. > :08:16.of rain here in 30 days. Today's problems then are a delayed
:08:17. > :08:22.reaction as every rain drop from the last few days heads down hill
:08:22. > :08:27.and with more rain to come, it may be safest to leave the sandbags in
:08:27. > :08:30.place for a few more days. Despite all this rain, water companies and
:08:30. > :08:33.the Environment Agency insist we are still in drought conditions.
:08:33. > :08:36.Over the last two years, there have only been four months, including
:08:36. > :08:39.the April just gone, where rainfall has been above average. The other
:08:39. > :08:49.17 have been relatively dry. So with water everywhere at the moment,
:08:49. > :08:53.
:08:53. > :08:57.can there really be not enough to drink? Will Glennon reports. This
:08:57. > :09:02.is the river Kennett near Marlborough, not far from its
:09:02. > :09:08.source. And this was it before the rains. Completely dry. So that
:09:08. > :09:13.means things are looking good? We have had a lot of rain and now your
:09:13. > :09:18.reporter is standing in wellys in muddy water. It must be the end of
:09:18. > :09:24.the drought? Well no, the river here is a chalk stream, fed by a
:09:24. > :09:30.spring that bubbles up from an underground aquifer. If we don't
:09:30. > :09:35.get regular rain fall for the next few months, this water will just
:09:36. > :09:40.drain way aand we're back to square one. The waerlt under the ground in
:09:40. > :09:46.the aquifer takes a long time to build up. And the rains haven't
:09:46. > :09:51.penetrated the hard earth. The rain we have been having has been
:09:51. > :09:55.falling on dry ground and has not been replenishing the aquifers. It
:09:55. > :10:03.has taken us two years to reach this drought situation. So it will
:10:03. > :10:08.take a long time to recover. Look at this picture again and see the
:10:08. > :10:13.artesian borehole. These were drilled in Victorian times and we
:10:13. > :10:18.still use them to suck out water to use. Water from the Kennett is used
:10:18. > :10:27.to serve Swindon. But send a camera down a borehole and you see the
:10:27. > :10:33.water is further down than normal. Ten metres in this case. You're
:10:33. > :10:38.seeing dry walls. If there was recharge you would see the walls
:10:38. > :10:43.would be glistening. But they're dry. Also at this time of year, all
:10:43. > :10:48.the plants are bursting into leaf and suck up as much water as they
:10:48. > :10:53.can. So even less is reaching the depths. If droughts and floods are
:10:53. > :10:58.to be the norm, it raises fundamental questions, not just
:10:58. > :11:06.about how we use water, but how we capture it and manage it to serve
:11:06. > :11:10.our needs and to take care of the environment. And if you still can't
:11:10. > :11:13.believe we're in a drought, stay with BBC One for more in our
:11:13. > :11:19.special edition of Inside Out West here at 7.30 tonight straight after
:11:19. > :11:22.the One Show. Investigations are continuing this morning into what
:11:22. > :11:25.caused a serious crash on the M5 in Gloucestershire last night. One
:11:25. > :11:27.person died and two were critically injured. Two lorries and three cars
:11:27. > :11:35.collided just after 9 o'clock on the northbound carriageway near
:11:35. > :11:39.Tewkesbury. Major changes to the way bus services are run in Bristol
:11:39. > :11:42.could be introduced. The city council says it's not happy with
:11:42. > :11:47.the way First is operating some of the services and is looking at
:11:47. > :11:50.introducing a new type of contract. This would put the power back into
:11:50. > :11:56.the hands of the local authority and allow other companies to bid
:11:56. > :12:03.for the franchise. More now on the story about the GCHQ intelligence
:12:03. > :12:08.officer, Gareth Williams. Today the coroner at his inquest said he was
:12:08. > :12:11.probably killed, but that the case may never be solved. There has been
:12:11. > :12:13.speculation about how and why he died and meticulous press coverage
:12:13. > :12:17.of his personal life. But in Cheltenham Gareth Williams was
:12:17. > :12:18.known as a quiet but focussed officer, with a great career in the
:12:18. > :12:25.intelligence service ahead. Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve
:12:25. > :12:29.Knibbs, looks back at the story. Gareth Williams, a man whose
:12:29. > :12:34.private life has been played out in a public inquiry into his death and
:12:34. > :12:37.still many questions remain. Despite an acknowledgement from the
:12:37. > :12:42.coroner that a third party was involved in his death in London
:12:42. > :12:46.fptd his family have claimed that person may have been a member of
:12:46. > :12:53.some agency specialising in the dark arts of the secret services.
:12:53. > :12:55.Tonight, we're no closer to finding out. While theories abound his
:12:55. > :13:00.Gareth Williams, his life in Cheltenham appeared straight
:13:00. > :13:08.forward. He was an active member of the cycling club and friends said
:13:08. > :13:15.he was a nice guy. He lived here in Prestbury near GCHCQ. His land lady
:13:15. > :13:19.said he kept himself to himself. He was then a secretive man with a
:13:19. > :13:23.secretive job. His manager here described him as a world class
:13:23. > :13:29.intelligence officer and something of a prodigy. Tonight one of
:13:29. > :13:36.Britain's most senior spice made a public apology to Gareth Williams
:13:36. > :13:42.family for failing to report that he was missing. They said they
:13:42. > :13:50.expressed their deepest condolences for his death and Gareth was a man
:13:50. > :13:55.of remarkable talents and made a real contribution to the security
:13:55. > :13:58.of the country. Around three quarters of a million people will
:13:58. > :14:00.be entitled to vote tomorrow across the West. There are elections to
:14:00. > :14:03.choose councillors in Swindon, Stroud, Cheltenham and Gloucester.
:14:03. > :14:06.And for the first time ever voters in Bristol will be deciding if they
:14:06. > :14:16.want to have something very new: an elected mayor. Here's our political
:14:16. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:28.editor, Paul Barltrop. Yes this is very different and can be confusing.
:14:28. > :14:33.It is not about the Lord mayor that, is a ceremonial post. It is about
:14:33. > :14:36.who leads the city. At the moment that is decided by a vote in
:14:36. > :14:42.council. But that could change and people could elect their leader.
:14:43. > :14:48.The referendum is tomorrow, but 25,000 have already voted by post.
:14:48. > :14:57.Ballot papers were being checked. But campaigning continues with a
:14:57. > :15:01.new group. Euans warn of the power and cost of an elections mayor. --
:15:01. > :15:06.trade unions. It already costs hundreds of thousands to every
:15:06. > :15:11.local authority. To add another post that is less accountable and
:15:11. > :15:17.will cost more will mean jobs have to go and people will lose their
:15:17. > :15:22.local services and have a mayor instead. That would be meaningless.
:15:22. > :15:27.Campaigners today reject that. They say it is a historic opportunity.
:15:27. > :15:32.Very exciting, but also we know we need to get a greater turn out and
:15:32. > :15:38.it will be a low turn out that. Is causing us sleepless night. Do you
:15:38. > :15:41.think they will vote yes If they vote they will vote yes. They
:15:41. > :15:44.understand the choice about choosing their leader. Elsewhere,
:15:44. > :15:49.more conventional elections are taking place. People will be
:15:49. > :15:51.choosing who sits on councils in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud and
:15:51. > :15:55.Swindon. That is the one to watch. All of the seats are being
:15:55. > :15:59.contested and we will be live there tomorrow as part of our local
:15:59. > :16:04.election coverage through the night here on BBC1 and there will be
:16:04. > :16:13.extended bulletins, bringing you results on Friday morning. Thank
:16:13. > :16:16.you. Doctors in Bristol have become the first in the country to try to
:16:16. > :16:18.shrink a patient's heart using electricity. The idea is to use a
:16:18. > :16:21.nerve-stimulating device to make the muscle smaller and more
:16:21. > :16:24.efficient - as this could help people with heart failure to live
:16:24. > :16:34.longer. Our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill has been looking into
:16:34. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:44.the trial and went to meet the first patient. It may only be a
:16:44. > :16:49.flight of stairs, but until recently for John it was more like
:16:49. > :16:56.a mountain. He is the first British patient to be given this treatment.
:16:56. > :17:00.This second landing was as far as I could get. Now I can do the third.
:17:01. > :17:07.We have beautiful arteries here. This cardiologist from Bristol is
:17:07. > :17:14.part of a team that has been experimentsing with how electronic
:17:14. > :17:18.devices can stimulate nerves in the body. The have a gas nerve is in
:17:18. > :17:25.the neck and governs the functioning of the body that are
:17:25. > :17:30.not under voluntary control, such as heart rate. By inserting a
:17:30. > :17:35.stimulator, they can find out if this can improve heart function.
:17:35. > :17:40.think people with heart failure have big, baggy hearts that are not
:17:40. > :17:44.pumping efficiently and this may make the heart smaller and more
:17:44. > :17:48.efficient. Around a million patients across the UK suffer from
:17:48. > :17:53.heart failure. So the Bristol heart institute should have no problems
:17:53. > :17:57.in finding further eight patients to take part in this trial. Now two
:17:57. > :18:02.thirds of them will have a pace maker like this, turned on. The
:18:03. > :18:08.rest will have to wait six months before it is activated so they can
:18:08. > :18:13.compare and contrast both groups. Mr Joiner doesn't know if his
:18:13. > :18:17.device has been activated yet. But he suspects it has. Because of a
:18:17. > :18:23.dramatic improvement in his health. I have certainly in the last couple
:18:24. > :18:30.of weeks noticed an improvement in my breathlessness. It is not a lod
:18:30. > :18:35.lot, but can I climb stairs and the duration of my walking, it seems to
:18:35. > :18:40.be getting better. Can I walk up to three miles. It will take two years
:18:40. > :18:45.before the results are evaluated. But doctors believe significant
:18:45. > :18:55.break throughs in cardiac medicine can only happen if we explore more
:18:55. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :18:59.deeply how the brain affects the heart. Fascinating. Now back to our
:18:59. > :19:09.main story and the Queen's second day in the West. Alex is in
:19:09. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:22.Crewkerne for us this evening. I want to join in. It is so electric.
:19:22. > :19:25.This is a small offering of what was hear this morning. Well the
:19:25. > :19:28.Queen has pledged to visit as much of the United Kingdom as possible
:19:28. > :19:31.during her Diamond Jubilee year. Over the last two days she's been
:19:31. > :19:35.here with us in the West and we'll be bringing more wonderful pictures
:19:35. > :19:38.of her visit before the end of the programme. But what has made her
:19:38. > :19:42.time here really special is the way in which she's stopped to speak to
:19:42. > :19:47.so many people and of course if that person is you, it's a moment
:19:47. > :19:54.you'll never forget. With me now is someone who did get to meet the
:19:54. > :20:00.Queen today. Chris Berridge is a stonemason from Crewkerne. Lou did
:20:01. > :20:07.you come to be vo deuced today? competed in an international
:20:07. > :20:13.competition in October called world skills, London 2011 and won the
:20:13. > :20:20.Gold Medal as a stone mason and the council rang me up and asked if I
:20:20. > :20:25.would like to meet her and carve a plaque. You carved a plaque, but
:20:25. > :20:29.knowing that would get the royal nod, that was intimidating.Y step
:20:29. > :20:34.of the way? It was quite. There was a lot of pressure and you get to
:20:34. > :20:39.the last few letters and you're worried about chipping them. But it
:20:39. > :20:45.went fine. How many times did you stand back and check your spell
:20:45. > :20:52.something A fair few times! You have got to make sure it's spot on.
:20:52. > :20:58.What did the Queen say to you? was all very blurred. But she loved
:20:58. > :21:03.the stone, the type of stone that we have here. It is such a
:21:03. > :21:11.beautiful brown stone. A bit of a blur? Yes such a blur. Thanks for
:21:11. > :21:19.talking to us. We have the Morris men here and the man I'm going
:21:19. > :21:27.speak to now is Jed a certified fool. I'm not being rude am I?
:21:27. > :21:30.I'm not silly bag fool. I take it very seriously. You have had a
:21:31. > :21:34.great day. We have seen the Queen and the prince and we have had a
:21:34. > :21:39.lovely day in Yeovil and entertained the crowds. And you
:21:39. > :21:45.have got this relevant number on your chest. Well we were formed in
:21:45. > :21:49.1977 for the Silver Jubilee and we are one of only two that wear the
:21:50. > :21:57.Queen's crest and very proud we're of that. Your doing more for
:21:57. > :22:03.Jubilee. You have a full diary? we're booked pretty much full-time
:22:03. > :22:09.through May and June and during the Diamond Jubilee weekend we're out
:22:09. > :22:14.over three days dancing around the whole of Somerset. How do you keep
:22:14. > :22:20.yourself motivated, it takes a lot of energy as a hobby? Yes, but we
:22:20. > :22:25.love it. It is wonderful and gets us out and we get to a meet people
:22:25. > :22:31.and today meeting all the children here was such fun and it was
:22:31. > :22:38.wonderful. You were responsible for sign as well? Saying, thanks very
:22:38. > :22:45.much ma'am? Yes. Now, it has been a lovely day once the sun shone and
:22:45. > :22:50.lovely day once the sun shone and Iain has the forecast. Yes dry down
:22:51. > :22:54.at Crewkerne. Tonight you will see some rain. But you're not at an
:22:54. > :23:03.area at risk of some disruptive rain. We have another yellow
:23:04. > :23:09.warning and that will be sprvingly for areas into North Somerset,
:23:09. > :23:13.Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. We expect that ease away through
:23:13. > :23:20.tomorrow morning. This is from this plume of rain stretching from the
:23:20. > :23:26.near continent. It started way wack at -- started way back at the Alps.
:23:26. > :23:31.There will be some thunder and you will see it eases north into the
:23:31. > :23:39.Midlands tomorrow. So a gradual improvement. Here is thousand rain
:23:39. > :23:44.fall is showing this rain. It is engage warmer air over Britain and
:23:44. > :23:49.activating further and we expect some of that to be heavy,
:23:49. > :23:55.particularly along the M4 corridor and north of there. We have some
:23:55. > :24:01.showers in South Gloucestershire, up to 12 o'clock the main rain
:24:01. > :24:08.arrives. Notice brighter colours in parts of Gloucestershire, maybe 30
:24:08. > :24:16.millimetres of rain. That will cause -- that will of course add to
:24:16. > :24:19.the problems in the area. The line of that warning extends more or
:24:19. > :24:24.less into this district here, anywhere to the south of west of
:24:24. > :24:29.there, you're free of it. Temperatures tonight down to six
:24:29. > :24:33.Celsius. Tomorrow will start on a wet note to the north. If you're
:24:33. > :24:36.heading up the M5, you will be chasing the rain as it starts to
:24:36. > :24:41.peter out from the south. Still a lot of cloud in the afternoon. But
:24:41. > :24:46.perhaps some brighter weather starting to approach into south
:24:46. > :24:53.Somerset later in the afternoon. Maybe some further north as well as
:24:53. > :24:56.the rain kis -- disappears. Temperatures up to 13. If you watch
:24:56. > :25:01.the drought special tonight, I will have another forecast in that and
:25:01. > :25:07.we will look a few days into the future and including the bank
:25:07. > :25:12.holiday weekend. It looks like Monday will be the wettest day.
:25:12. > :25:18.Thank you. I think that I have got caught up in the excitement, but
:25:18. > :25:23.never more so than now. This is very surreal. After months of is a
:25:23. > :25:28.secrecy and behind closed doors planning, the Jubilee tour of the
:25:28. > :25:31.wrs is over. The week after nicks t she is in London and then the
:25:31. > :25:36.north-west. She smiled a lot of generations young and old have
:25:36. > :25:43.cheered and waved as the royal party has gone by and this Sunday