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Points West. Our headlines tonight: Turning up the temperature. More | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
sunshine is on the way - now the emergency services are on stand-by | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
as the Met Office issues another heatwave warning. Buzz off! Swarms | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
of flies infest homes in Wiltshire - could recycling in the hot weather | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
be to blame. We get the odd flies in the summertime normally but not as | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
many as this. This is unbearable. Perfect flying weather at RAF | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Fairford, and aircraft have been arriving all day for the Royal | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
International Air Tattoo, from all over the world. But the Americans | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
are missing. Find out why... And the party really is over. After | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Glastonbury, the clearing up goes on. Good evening. We're now | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
officially in a heatwave. Today, the Met Office upgraded the warning for | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
the West to level three, predicting increasing temperatures. That's one | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
below an emergency. Health and social services have now been | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
alerted that the young, old and ill could be affected by the very warm | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
weather. Meanwhile, one of our water suppliers has issued the first | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
notice of the summer asking residents to be careful with the | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
amount of water used. Andrew Plant reports. For some, on comfortable. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
For many, magic. The longest hot spell for seven years. And the | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
temperatures are far from over. With Wilts wilting and Gloucs glowing. | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
Bristol is the region is officially on this means it has been 30 degrees | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
or above and 15 degrees or above for two consecutive nights and that puts | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
health care workers on alert. It is also on course to be the drivers | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
July since 1825 and has not reigned for 15 days and that is beginning to | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
show. Even after the wettest year on record, there is a warning. About | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
water. We have plenty at the moment, we just would like people to think | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
sensibly and not waste water. There are loads of tips you can get on the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
website and enter you can do to keep having fun and keep the garden | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
looking nice without using excessive amounts. We filmed these pictures | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
two summers ago in Somerset. Tombstoning, an issue across the | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
West. Another kind of water use that can be far more serious. The water | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
has dropped down since the beginning of this heatwave and from 40 metres | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
two weeks ago, they are going into as shallow as ten metres. Emergency | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
services trying to get the message across that swimming in quarries and | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
lakes can be dangerous. For the fire teams it is a chip pans but | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
barbecues keeping them busy. Hot coals in bins. Or cigarettes on | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
crisp, dry ground. This fire last week on Salisbury Plain was started | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
accidentally. But many are started on purpose. This year there have | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
been about 100 lib at fires for grass, trees and rubbish. This time | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
last, we only had about 30. -- deliberate fires. For most, though, | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
this summer is, well, summer, for once. And long overdue, too. At | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Slimbridge Wildfowl Reserve, the heat means early eggs for these | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
Chilean flamingoes. One final warning, though. Burglaries in | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Gloucestershire are up. The message from police? If you're sunbathing | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
out the back, don't leave the front windows open - no matter how hot | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
things get. Joining us is Dr Jenny Harries, regional director for | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Public Health England. Welcome. What does it mean when the Met Office | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
says it is level three? It is a significant risk for help but we do | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
not want to alarm people in terms of responding to the heat. We want | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
people to enjoy some of the weather but be very aware of the increased | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
risks, particularly for the young, very old, people with chronic | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
conditions and pregnant women. People pay thousands to go on | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
holiday for this weather and we have got it and we cannot cope. Why is | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
that? We often advise them before holiday that they should be safe | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
before they go. It is not different. With heatwaves, people react and | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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live their lives in a way which is consistent with the temperatures | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
normally and when we get extended periods, they do not necessarily | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
adapt their behaviour. 25 degrees might be nothing in Spain but for | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
us, it is quite significant? conditioning might be bauble over | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
there, but for many homes here, it is not. Who are you concerned about? | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
We are concerned for everybody so we have a plan and it advises all | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
members of the public to take sensible precautions, keeping out of | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
the sun, where sunscreen, loose clothing and keep hydrated. But the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
people we are most concerned about by the elderly, particularly, and | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
those with chronic conditions. People with diabetes, kidney disease | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
or respiratory disease. We know that winter hospital admissions go up and | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
presumably it is the same in summer. What are you expecting? Over time, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
in the period of very hot weather, we expect excess mortality due to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
the hot weather. Public Health England has a surveillance system | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
and the monitor that routinely. For the last week, up to Sunday, there | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
were no excess deaths recorded at that time but we would expect to see | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
some as the weather stays hot. thing is to look out for each other? | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
And that is the important message. If you know you have neighbours who | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
are vulnerable, care homes or hospitals, make sure you keep an eye | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
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on them. Thank you very much indeed. What has it been like? We only ever | :06:43. | :06:52. | |
go by the properly utilised the monitors in Stevenson Green. At | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
Yeovilton, 30.2 degrees. It goes without saying, into the urban | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
centres of Bristol and Bath, you would find temperatures higher with | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the effect of those conditions. But widely 29, this figure on left, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
those precise measurements. You will see those replicated tomorrow. We | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
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will have the full forecast later on. Peggy. The hot weather attracts | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
insects. But in Westbury in Wiltshire, swarms of house flies are | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
infesting sitting rooms and kitchens across the town. A local shop has | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
sold more fly paper in the last two weeks than in the last 30 years. So | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
why flies? And why Westbury? In a moment, we'll be talking to an | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
expert who might be able to answer some of these questions. But first, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Scott Ellis has been swatting up. Spend five minutes in someone's | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
sitting room in Westbury and you realise you're all heavily | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
outnumbered. Here at the Stevens home there are at least 30 flies. | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
The Stevens aren't alone. Talk to the any neighbour. This is | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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unbearable. But loads of these, no. I kill about 200 everyday. If you | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
turn around, there are loads more behind you. At other times it is | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
dreadful, my little girl stands in the kitchen. And she is waving the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
flies from the food. You are forever like this. Stopping the pesky | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
creatures landing. They, too, have flies - and lots of them. The | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Environment Agency has had 80 calls about flies in Westbury. The | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
problems began ten days ago, shortly after the weather warmed up. The | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
local DIY store sells out of sticky fly paper each morning. Every time | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
you kill them, tonnes of them are coming back. The problems began ten | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
days ago. Local DIY shop sales out of flypaper every morning. It has | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
been unbelievable since last Monday. We have sold more fly killers than | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
in 30 years. How many everyday? About 500 packets of sticky | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
flypaper. Countless amounts of spray and squatters. Plug-in killers. All | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
sorts. Some point the finger at this recently opened waste recovery | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
centre. It became operational in February. There are more flies | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
around and you might expect but the company told us they are consulting | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
with the agency and they are spraying inside to keep the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
population of flies down and they are keeping exits and entrances | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
sealed to stop them escaping. But they have also told us that they do | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
not think they are the sole source of the problem. Locals say that | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
fortnightly bin collections might be to blame or disturbances in this old | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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landfill site. Certainly, the infestation is linked to hot | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
weather. Health experts say keep food under cover and wrap it up | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
before disposing of it in the bin. And fly papers and sprays are an | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
effective way to deal with flies in the house. Joining us now to try to | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
shed some light on why Westbury is suffering this infestation is | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Professor Richard Wall from the University of Bristol. What do you | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
think could be causing this? It is difficult to tell. With flies and | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
insects, they go through very rapid changes in numbers. Boom and bust. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
One year, we might see none of them and that could be the case for | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
years, then all of a sudden, something small changes and you get | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
a huge abundance. And this happens every few years and it happens in | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
different places. There is really nothing particular to worry about. | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
It is fairly normal? Exactly, just a normal pattern. In that case, it | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
will sort itself out? Neither any things that people could do? When | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
you have an infestation, it is horrible. It is unpleasant but make | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
sure to get rid of them in the kitchen so they do not contact food. | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
Sticky flypaper, we all is fine that is the best thing. -- always. They | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
are strongly affected to water so a pool of water is very effective. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
What else should we be looking out for? There could be other | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
infestations? Every year, different insects have this abundance so the | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
next thing as wasps because they change behaviour halfway through the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
year, and they have been looking for fruit and they suddenly switch | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
behaviour and start irritating people. The other things are | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
mosquitoes and if we get rain, we get pools of water and they will | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
begin to breed and we get that explosion and people complaining. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Briefly, if somebody has an infestation, they can wait for the | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
natural cycle to pass but when do you get experts in or the council? | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
You would wait to see if this is persistent. If this is just short | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
term, in a few weeks, there was nothing much to worry about. If | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
things persist, year-on-year, you have got a local source and you need | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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to do something. Thank you. It's been a very hot Thursday and you're | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
watching your regional news programme, BBC Points West. Stay | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
with us tonight as there's plenty more to come. Find out why our | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
reporter has resorted to sitting in a paddling pool in her best | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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clothes. An inquest has opened and adjourned into the death of a | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
two-year-old girl who fell from a block of flats in Bristol. It is | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
believed Muna Mohammed fell from an open window on the fourth floor of a | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
tower block in Windmill Hill. Bristol City Council, which owns the | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
flats, has begun an investigation into the tragedy. Cheltenham's | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Chamber of Commerce is threatening to seek a judicial review to try to | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
stop plans to scale down the accident and emergency department at | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
the town's General Hospital. From next month, overnight patients will | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
only be able to go to the Gloucestershire Royal eight miles | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
away. The Chamber of Commerce says plans to scale down the unit would | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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have a devastating effect on business investment in the town. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Bristol's hopes that the government might provide funding for a 12,000 | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
seater music venue have been dealt a big blow. Mayor Ferguson had bid for | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
�40 million to build the arena and a further �35 million to refurbish | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Colston Hall. But the BBC has learnt this afternoon that both have been | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
rejected. The mayor, who promised in his election campaign to deliver the | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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arena by 2016, is now seeking alternative sources of funding. It | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
is the world's biggest and it is back this weekend. The skies are | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
clear for the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Organisers are already expecting this Saturday to be a sell-out, with | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
ticket sales on Sunday not far behind. Aircraft have been arriving | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
since this morning from air forces around the world. But there is one | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
notable exception this year. Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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Knibbs, is at RAF Fairford for us tonight. Steve? Thank you. It has | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
been an incredible day with clear skies and 29 degrees. Perfect flying | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
weather. You can see behind some of the aircraft starting to arrive. | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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Look at these pictures. Griffin is going through their safety flights. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
We have had Italy, France and Britain but there is one notable | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
absence because we are at an American airbase but the Americans | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
are not at the show this year. huge, imposing B-52. The | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
showstopping stealth bomber. The Top Gun palates putting millions of | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
dollars of hardware through its paces. And who could forget the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
choreographed crew of the Thunderbird display team? This year, | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
if it is US aircraft you want, you will be disappointed because America | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
have pulled out of public displays across the globe and it comes down | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
to money. A spokesperson told me, tough decisions have been made to | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
ensure we decrease our spending at this time and it is prudent to | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
execute only mission essential activities. These decisions are | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
driven by fiscal pressures, commit to partners and allies remains firm | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
and the UK partnership is a key element of our special relationship | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
and the value that duty. All their forces have difficult times and we | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
give and take, we go with the flow. There are lots of other aircraft | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
coming to the UK to take part. what will the impact be on the | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
airtime to? You need to gauge opinion with the enclosure. There | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
was a large proportion of American aircraft. We will have to make up | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
without, unfortunately. Maybe next year. When we are involved in | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
conflict like in Afghanistan, having our potential allies not here, that | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
is only one small part of the picture, we don't see this as a | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
whole and it might not make sense. They are magic when they showed | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
stuff. I was here if you years ago and they just took to this runway, | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
just shooting straight up, vertically. I was amazed by that! I | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
liked them even more. There are huge American links which are plain to | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
see in the base. But there will be concerns that if the US cannot | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
afford to come to the worlds biggest military show, will other nations | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
follow? It will still be a great weekend and very hot with 29 degrees | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
the hive. Over 30 yesterday. Hot temperatures this weekend and behind | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
me is the huge medical centre. The squadron leader is the senior | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
medical officer. What can you cope with behind us? Pretty much | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
anything, we have the capacity from simple first aid all the way through | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
to responding to major incidents. There were lots of casualties with | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
the weather. How are you planning for that? They quoted on the website | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
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at over 35,000 visitors last week resulted in 100 eight related | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
casualties and we are fully prepared. But we are urging visitors | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
to take advice. Cover up, wear hats, loose-fitting clothing, lots of | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
sunscreen and remain hydrated. Older individuals and young children, | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
people over 75 and below the age of four, they are particularly at risk | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
and need to be looked after. There is plenty of free water, bring your | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
bottle and there are lots of areas that can be filled up. There is all | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
of the excitement and people get distracted. They do but we will | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
repeat this message over Twitter and on the radio, Facebook, over Tannoy | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
is. And the commentary, making sure everybody stays safe. I hope it is | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
fun and quiet. Thank you. We will be back tomorrow with news of some of | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
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the money goes at the charity earns from this weekend. We will look | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
forward to that. Thank you. It is over two weeks since Glastonbury | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
ended and after all the campers had gone, the huge task began of turning | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the site back into a working farm. How has it been going? Sally has | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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been too worthy farm. 130,000 people leaving 2000 tonnes of waste. But | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
barely two weeks later and it's all gone - the site returned to the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
farmland it's always been. It's the fastest clean-up in the festival's | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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43 year history. Where does it go? Half of that goes to landfill. And a | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
lot of it goes to the local recycling firm. We separate all of | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
that into cans and bottles and cardboard. And some of it goes away | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
for composting, local scrapyards. And we chip away at the word and use | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
that. This is Worthy Farm's recycling centre in full swing. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Today, there's not much left. A small army of people - around a | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
thousand of them - have been collecting litter and sorting it | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
into landfill, glass, wood and metal. This year the highest | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
proportion ever has been recycled - more than 50%. The Eavis family's | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
dairy herd doesn't mind the mess. Life, for them, goes on the same, | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
whether the Rolling Stones come or not. And for the organiser, Michael | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
Eavis, this is his favourte time on the farm. -- favourite time. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
Hopefully things will calm down and we shall get some rain, eventually. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
So that fields will start to grow grass. And cars can graze and | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
produce milk. It is a working farm and the slot don't care much about | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
the festival, either way. But they are looking forward to going back to | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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the fields in one week to make their own mess. Which just leaves the last | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
few things the people have left behind. Whoever said no-one got | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
legless this year. Wiltshire event rider Laura Collett, who had a | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
serious fall ten days ago, is back home from hospital. The 23-year-old | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
was in an induced coma this last time last week after her horse | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
landed on top of her during the British Horse Trials. She tweeted a | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
picture of herself last night, saying how happy she was to be | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
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home. Good news! A teenager from Somerset is in training for the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
biggest challenge of his life - skiing to the North Pole. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
18-year-old Chris Brown from Frome is part of the first-ever Scout | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
expedition to the Pole. He'll have to cover 120 miles in temperatures | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
as low as minus 40 Celsius. But one of the biggest hurdles to overcome | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
is raising the thousands of pounds needed to go in the first place. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
Alice Bouverie reports. They have been training for months and there | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
is still a long way to go. Chris Brown beat dozens of others to a | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
place on the small team of Scouts who will be the first ever to | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
attract to the North Pole. It is just a huge challenge. Nowadays, | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
with Facebook and videogames, people stay indoors and they don't | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
experience out hours. I want to show my generation and people out there | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
that there is lots more out there if you can find it. Earlier this year, | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
the team went to Norway to get a taste of what the conditions would | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
be like. Temperatures were around -20. It could be twice as cold at | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
the North Pole. Before they even said one ski on the snow, they need | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
to raise �150,000. They are selling space on a flag which will be | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
unfurled at the North pole. challenge will be fundraising and | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
that will be huge. But once we are out there, knowing we have raised | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
that money, it will be one of the proudest moments of my life. | :23:06. | :23:16. | |
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home, his mother is just worried about one thing. Polar bears. We | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
have been talking with the man who has been there and he said they | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
leave you alone. And he has had training and they have experts with | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
them. I am glad he is going and I think it will be a | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
once-in-a-lifetime experience and it is one of his dreams. If the dream | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
becomes reality and he is the first Scot to reach the North Pole, he | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
might well be the inspiration for the next generation. In a moment, | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
Ian Bell have the forecast. We have been investigating some of the | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
scientific ways to try to keep cool. Here are some of the more unusual | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
ideas to keep cool. Opening windows might seem obvious. But there is a | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
method. Open your top window in the sun, and the downstairs one in the | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
shade, you get a cool breeze circulating throughout your house. | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
You might be tempted to buy ice cream but actually, cup of tea and a | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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curry would be better. The more you sweat, the cooler you feel. Crikey! | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Don't just jump under the cold shower but a warm one because that | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
decreases your body temperature gradually, meaning you stay cooler | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
for longer. If all else fails, wet clothes. As the heat from your body | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
cools down, your clothes will also cool down. It is just not terribly | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
practical for the office! Well done, Lizzie! And thanks to the BBC focus | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
magazine for giving us some guidance! Time for the weather | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
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forecast. I think we can guess what starting off by noting that as we go | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
through the dip in the temperatures, we conversely can expect those to | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
pick up through the next working week, and they could exceed recent | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
values. Added with increased utility, so it could get ready | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
sultry, to say the least. We have been talking about the heatwave | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
warning. Level three. The Met office have full details on the website. | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Tomorrow, we shall see a replication of those conditions so lots of | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
sunshine, dry and every hit as hard. Through the wider stages of the map, | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
you can see high-pressure dominating. And very little cloud as | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
well. And that includes tomorrow. Barring some Fairweather cloud. | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
Returning to this evenly, much of that Fairweather cloud and we | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
gradually lose the heat of the day. And another warm night. Temperatures | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
equalled to last night. Expect urban areas around 17 or 18 Celsius, not | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
far below. But the legacy will be a fine start tomorrow with no cloud | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
around whatsoever. As the hours tick by and we get the daytime heat to | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
work, we will once again see some areas having cloud loading up. And | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
through the evenly, they will fade away. Temperature is familiar, | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
earlier we could see 30 point two. We might even match that tomorrow. | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
And into the weekend, as I said, there will be a very slight dip. | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
Early cloud on Saturday, will be at their Ford as well. 27 degrees the | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
high over the weekend and into next week, temperatures and utility goes | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
up, as does the threat of thunderstorms. A little bit of | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
everything. And a farmer has messaged us to say the council put | :27:31. | :27:35. |