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Good evening. Here are the headlines: Heartbreak of the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
families losing their homes. Neighbouring houses are demolished | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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following aghast explosion. The surgery that saved and man's life. | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
A I saw the photographs after the surgery. It was glory. Ivy on their | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
way to Wembley? Cheltenham have their big-match tonight. | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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The saucy his sculpture in that the West. Mark Foster. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Families living near the scene of a gas explosion had their homes | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
pulled down today. They could not bear to watch as the two houses in | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Rosehill Street were destroyed. Many people are still living in | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
hotels and rented accommodation after the blast which happened one | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
week ago. Now my neighbours are coming together to raise money for | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
those who have lost everything. -- now neighbours. | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
Once again the peace was shattered. This time the demolition is | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
deliberate. With cracks widening by the day at least two houses either | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
side of the explosion half to come down. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
The property was assessed as beyond repair. The council push through | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
legislation quickly. Every day since the explosion last week the | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
residents of these homes have come back, the EC to come home. Today | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
there is nothing here. Inside these homes are family | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
possessions. Where they can the demolition teams have been savaging | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
belongings. It may not be much, but to the families it is a small | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
reminder of what was once their home. Paint a moustache on the | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
teacher. In complete contrast, that annual charity funding. This year | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
it has added meaning. Throwing wet sponges at the teachers is a | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
welcome distraction. It is her house it is being pulled down today. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
This event will help raise money to replace Clause and bombings that | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
have been lost. Because something has happened to a member of the | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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school it makes it all the more urgent to help. | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
As the demolition continues here we get a sense of the community spirit. | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
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There is a sign on this date here. -- assign it here. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
Everybody has been touched by what has happened. It was a terrible | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
shock when it happened. Lee Wallace Street, scared and frightened. -- | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
we were all on the street. You're raising money and you also plan a | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
street party. Absolutely. After the explosion we decided we need to go | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
ahead with this. We need to celebrate the fact that nobody was | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
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seriously hurt. We have a website to raise money to go towards a | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
firefighters charity. We are also were to send out letters to local | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
businesses over the next week to see how they can help and if they | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
have got anything they can donate to us and we can give to the people | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
who have been moved out of their houses. There is a sense that this | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
committee is pulling together. -- this community. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Two men are still being held on suspicion of terrorism offences in | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Cheltenham. 100 homes were evacuated and the 200 metre cordon | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
put in place in Buttermere Close at the weekend. The two men it who are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
related are being held under the anti-terrorism Act. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Their health protection agency is investigating four possible cases | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
of lung illness which causes stomach upset. So far too much | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
people in south Gloucestershire have been diagnosed with | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
cryptosporidiosis. A further two awaiting test results. The disease | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
is water-borne and as a precaution swimmers are be reminded to shower | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
before using pools, and not have to swallow Pool water. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
A man from Bristol has had part of his body rebuilt using concrete. | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Marek Barden had a tumour the size of a melon. When a specialist | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
removed it they also had to take out some of his ribs. They found an | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
innovative way of replacing them. Back on his feet and almost 1.5 | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
kilograms lighter. Marek Bardon thought a lump in his chest was | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
linked to a bike crash. In fact it was the tip of a tumour. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
Having the accident brought it to my notice. These X-rays show what | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
doctors discovered. A rare form of cancer had grown to the size of a | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
melon and was already pushing against his internal organs. | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
stuck out of the body. It had taken four or five ribs with it and was | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
pushing the internal organs out of the way. Removing the tuner created | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
a very specific problem. -- that tuner. They had to remove six of | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
his robes. It ended up using a concrete panel. 25 centimetres | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
square and a few millimetres thick, it was the final piece of a six | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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hour operation. If you tap that it sounds different to that side. He | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
has already been back at work for several weeks and is getting used | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
to his concrete ribcage, gratefully says that a motorbike accident that | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
he thought had broken his rare but ended up saving his life. -- has | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
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read. Still to come - far from home, we | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
hear from the West Country workers who have started a new life in the | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
Falklands. First the fate of youth services in | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
north Somerset is to be decided in the High Court. The council wants | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
to close down it dedicated service. That has prompted protests by young | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
people. Now a judge has ordered the should be a full judicial review. | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
-- their mac should. Today this 21-year-old with | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
learning difficulties stood alongside his mother smiling. | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
riding, skateboarding. You liked the food is well. He used to be so | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
happy coming here. Everybody knew him. There are change came as the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
council put through large cuts. % less money for the dedicated | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
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youth club. We did not come here to destroy services. Even as the Fotis | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
for ending calls were being made to specialist lawyers. I wanted there | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
to help us. I try to make my son understand. He wanted to do it. The | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
legality of what has happened here will be decided by a judge. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
This case is likely the expensive and challenging. There is no | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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guarantee of success. The council will have to defend its actions | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
within weeks at the High Court. A decision is expected later this | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
evening on who will take charge of Stroud District Council. The ruling | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Tories lost seats to Labour at the local elections two weeks ago. It | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
made the Conservatives are the largest party, but they cannot take | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
overall charge about another group's backing. A possible rainbow | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Coalition has been discussed which could see Labour, the Lib Dems, and | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the Green Party working together. The number of accidents caused by | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
speeding on Somerset's roads dropped by almost one-third last | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
year despite speed cameras being switched off. More fixed cameras | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
were switched off. On the mobile once had been used. Figures from | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Avon and Somerset police show that there were 15 fewer accidents last | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
year that for the same period the year before. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
A memorial service has taken place near Bristol to remember those from | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
that and services who were lost in action. Baulk and Hawthorne | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
saplings were plaited two years ago to create outdoor memorial. Almost | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
50 names of servicemen and women from the West have died since the | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
millennium and their names were read out. One of the young lads was | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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remembered today for the first time. Having this parade helps other | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
people to remember. The site was created to give valleys and friends | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
an alternative place for remembering their loved ones. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Syrians living here in the West Country have told BBC they are | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
increasingly worried about friends and family in Syria. The fighting | :11:41. | :11:50. | |
is continuing between government forces and pro-democracy forces. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Many of those who have come here say they have lost contact with | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
their relatives. We are used to the shaky pictures | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Collett of Syria. Violence on a daily basis engulfed the country as | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
pro-democracy protesters clashed with government sources. This has | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
an effect on Syrians living in the West. This man has family in Syria. | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
He spoke to me on account of anonymity -- on the basis of | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
anonymity. I have lost contact with a friend. I do not know how many | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
friends have taken their family's out. You cannot do that for every | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
single one you know. I am starting to worry. Some can speak it more | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
openly. Many march through Bristol recently in protest at the Syrian | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
government. The organiser told us public pressure here was important. | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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We would like people to contact their MP, it is very easy. You see | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
something on the news and remarked on how awful it is. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
But according to a leading academic pressure from the UK will not be | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
enough. We need to get something which is | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
regional pressure which is dealing with the Arab countries. We are | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
talking about Egypt, Tunisia, other countries. They have to be involved. | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
It is not the West coming to save the country. All this man can do is | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
awaits news of his family and One lucky person in the West could | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
be sitting on a prize of more than �850,000! The National Lottery says | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
a ticket bought in Gloucester for the draw on Wednesday, 2nd May | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
matched all the winning numbers. They were 18, 22, 25, 35, 39, 41 | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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and the bonus ball was 31. If you think it could be you, you have til | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
October to claim your prize. The Bristol graffiti artist Banksy | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
seems to have contributed to the country's Diamond Jubilee | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
celebrations. He's believed to have painted this image on the wall of a | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Poundland store in London. It shows a boy hunched over a sewing machine | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
with real union flag bunting. A spokesman for the store said it | :14:34. | :14:44. | |
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enjoyed Banksy's work and all its suppliers met ethical guidelines. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
We have been looking at the role played by the West Country in | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
reclaiming the Falkland Islands. We have heard first-hand accounts of | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
those involved in the war. But tonight, have we speak to the ex | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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pats her left their homes here to There are more penguins than people | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
on the Falklands. Together, the islands are about half the size of | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
Wales, and yet the population is only around 2,500. The Falklands | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
are more English than England. Littered with West Country expats, | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
like Tom Hill, who is head of the infant and junior school here. Tom | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
had been head of an infant school in Trowbridge before deciding to | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
move thousands of miles to the Falklands a year ago. I wanted a | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
bit of a change. It seemed like an exciting opportunity too good to a | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
very different part of the world. It did not take him long to | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
discover the Falkland Islanders are fiercely British and conspicuously | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
grateful to those, who 30 years ago, helped them to stay that way. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
School children are taught about the war, but how worried are the | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
locals here about history repeating itself? Living here, you do not | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
notice any of those things. Life carries on. There has been no | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
impact whatsoever on the people on the Falkland Islands themselves. | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
The islands like this man. Steve Pointing comes from Somerset. He | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
has been in the Falklands for 14 years. He believes the anniversary | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
of the war has heightened tensions here. I am very much hoping that | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
wants the 30th anniversary celebrations have been and gone, | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
that everything will quieten down and we will go back to the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
situation we have been more like for the last for five years, when | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
it is there and the background, but it is not in the news day-in day | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
out. But even when it is not in the news, the physical reminders of | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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what I still there. And they are hard to ignore. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Cheltenham Town could win themselves a place at Wembley | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
tonight if they can get past Torquay. They have a two-goal lead | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
after Sunday's first leg, making them favourites to reach the final. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Alastair Durden it is at Plainmoor for tonight's's gable stop they | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
would do it, when they? You know I love a statistic - here is one. In | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
the 26 years that the players have been going, only four teams have | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
only ever turned a two-goal deficit. That is why they are the heavy | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
favourites. If they get the first goal, it is hard to see Torquay | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
coming back from that. That is the scenario the Tottenham fans are | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
hoping for the. Up to 1,000 of them will be in the ground. They left on | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
the supporters' coaches at 3pm, and they have arrived here a little bit | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
cautious about this second leg. will be a long, hard game tonight. | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
They will come at us. We have given ourselves a chance. Anything can | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
happen. It is still have time. It is very tight. Have you started | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
dreaming about Wembley yet? I have never been to Wembley to watch a | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
football match before. I am looking forward to going to watch my team | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
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there. I should imagine that caution is being echoed by the | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Cheltenham Town chairman. Do you think the job is done yet? We are | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
halfway there. We would be bizarre -- delighted with they too had into | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
result. We have had a fab day so far. We have been done to the beach, | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
and the players are looking very chilled and relax, as I am. We had | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
no expectation. The team looked nice and relaxed. Have their own | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
they achieved at this year? Massively. We got one of the | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
smallest budgets in the league. We were tipped to be the bookies' | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
favourites to be relegated, and here we are. Now, good chance of | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
getting to Wembley. That would be a fantastic turnaround. It has been a | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
good season of the field money wise, hasn't it? That is the main reason | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
I am smiling, of course! We had a great season, going to Spurs in the | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
FA Cup. We have had his season to remember. Whatever happens tonight, | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
we have had a great season. Hoping goes well for you tonight. BBC | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Radio Gloucestershire will have full commentary of this match. I | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
will have the story of the game in our 10:25pm bulletin. A student | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
from Bristol is Waiting To hear if she has made it through to the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Olympics. Georgie Twigg will find out if she has qualified for the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
women's hockey squad, but it is not the only thing on her mind - she is | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
also trying to prepare for her final law exams. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
Hitting the books for her final exams. Something most students can | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
relate to. But Georgie Twigg is combining her law studies with | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
trying to make the Olympics. Earlier this month, she was in the | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
GB team who beat Argentina. To be in that team would be incredible. | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
But once you are selected, the next three months are so key in our | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
preparations for the summer. We want a gold medal. We will not stop | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
at anything to get it. Since making the national squad, p 21-year-old | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
has been training full time. She returns to Bristol to lectures and | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
to play for Clift and ladies. She has seen them from the Pru to | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
escaping relegation to making the play-offs. They have all been so | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
supportive of me. They understand if I cannot make a training session. | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
It is great having them behind me. A few essay extensions and | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
splitting her find a university you into two has helped it Georgie, but | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
maintaining a top-level training regime at the same time still takes | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
dedication. Once I have got my exams are to the way, that can be a | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
nice relief. But if she can make tomorrow's final team, they | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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graduation and a gold medal will do just nicely for Georgia. | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
A former Olympian from Bath have has said body immortalised in stone | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
- Mark Foster's torso is one of the best known in this country, and a | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
sculpture was being moved to his home city. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Underneath the wrapping is a pair of perfect pecs. Soon to be a | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
permanent feature in Bath. As if we could forget them. Seen here in | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
action on Strictly Come Dancing, Mark Foster's up a body has become | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
as famous as his Olympic swimming success. It had a year to sculpt | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
them, and today was a nerve-racking moment for the artist. Carved by | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
hand in the tradition and origins of the original Olympic sculptors. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
That was my journey. It has brought a to this point. We are using | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
modern technology to install the peace. It is on the track behind me. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Today, we will see it going in. My anxiety level is about as high as | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
it has ever been! It has been a really local project. The stone was | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
donated by the Bath stone group and the play and was made by students. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Mark Foster was have caused a local, who now has a permanent reminder of | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
his past. I literally spent 23 years of my life representing his | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
country, so might misspent youth gave me a torso. I can remember I | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
once had a body that looked like that. This will be the start of a | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
trail of sculptors around Bath. Once it is hoisted onto the plinth, | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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the grand unveiling will be on Monday. On Monday, we have a very | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
special edition of the programme. It is the first of three as we take | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
the whole programme on the road. When your marks for the excitement, | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
get ready, find a place, go! The Olympic torch is coming to the West. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
The three nights, we will be taking the programme on the road as we | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
followed his every step of the way. You can join us for the evening's | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
celebrations in Taunton, Bristol and Cheltenham, and by then, this | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
will be lit. It is all but from Monday. Join us and watch history | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
and the making. You got back from Athens pretty | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
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quickly! We are looking forward to For the torch relay, the weather is | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
going in the right direction. It will get warmer, and Monday, little | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
bit of uncertainty, but largely dry. Tomorrow though, the best of any | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
bride or dry weather will be a in the morning. By the afternoon, a | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
good deal of light rain or drizzle about. Developments or taking place | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
to the south of us. We have had an upper truck moving his way upwards. | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
Tomorrow, this will start to bring some outbreaks of rain. It is a | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
fairly flat the area of low pressure. Looks more threatening on | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
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the charts than it really is. The rain was fairly heavy as it eased | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
up, but it has been losing a lot of that intensity as it comes further | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
northwards. This is about the position of these troughs. It will | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
continue his journey further northwards. Clearing eventually put | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
stop behind that, the skies are showing a tendency to Clare a wave. | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
We will end up with a quite breezy night, but remaining dry. But no | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
frost. Temperatures in the range of 6-9 Celsius. Tomorrow, the best of | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
the bright weather will be in the early part of the morning. Already, | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
the cloud increasing from the south. Starting to ease up. Moderately | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
heavy perhaps by midday. Behind that, the cloud was stuck to lower. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Through the afternoon, it will be like rain and drizzle, at low cloud. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
Remaining quite breezy. Temperatures someone on a par with | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
today - 13 or set -- 13 or 14 cells is. The weekend, Friday and | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
Saturday, some rain overnight. It is all about how that clears away | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
on Monday, or not. I don't think any weather would put | :27:26. | :27:33. |