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Points West. Our headlines tonight. One of the UK's most wanted. The | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
businessman whose scam cost the treasury over 150 million pounds. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
investigation as a house clearance firm discovers sensitive patient | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
information. The latest inspection report into Bristol schools. And the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Red Arrows swoop through the Bristol skies for the international Balloon | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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Fiesta. Good evening. A Bristol businessman has been named on a list | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
of the UK's most-wanted tax fugitives. Nasser Ahmed, who lived | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
in Knowle, is wanted for defrauding the treasury out of �156 million. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
His VAT scam was run from a company in Bedminster which sold computer | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
chips by the thousand. But Ahmed pocketed the vast profits over a | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
four-year period. When he was brought to trial in 2005 he | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
vanished, hours before he would have been sent to prison. Now he's one of | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
dozens on a list of so-called tax fugitives on the run from the law. | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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Andrew Plant reports. A gallery of Britain's most wanted. It was | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
released today by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and published | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
pictures of people on the run suspected on evading tens of | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
millions in tax. Among them former Bristol businessman Nasser Ahmed | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
found guilty in 2005 of a massive VAT scam defrauding the Government | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
of more than �800,000. Ahmed ran a company called Astex Ltd, based here | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
on North Street in Bedminster. Now, they imported millions of computer | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
chips, tax free, from Luxembourg. But when they sold them on here in | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the UK they added VAT, making a healthy profit, none of which they | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
declared to Revenue and Customs. After he was found guilty in 2005 it | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
was estimated he made more than �156 million from the scam. Nasser Ahmed | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
attended his nine-day trial at Bristol Crown Court but as the jury | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
considered their verdict Ahmed disappeared. He hasn't been seen | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
since. Now thought to be in Pakistan, he was found guilty in his | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
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absence - and sentenced to six years. He was arrested on Wells Road | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
where he lived with his family, drove a Porsche and Mercedes, and is | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
said to have stashed �50,000 under his bed for emergencies. The | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
publication of this gallery of tax fugitives has come in for criticism, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
a PR stunt say some, when it's corporations not individuals who | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
should be under scrutiny. The hope is that people might come forward | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
about where Nasser Ahmed has been for the past eight years. But even | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
if he's found, getting him back could be difficult - there are | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
extradition difficulties between Pakistan and the UK. HMRC insists it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
will do all it can to ensure he serves his sentence. Andrew Plant, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
BBC Points West, Bristol. 36-year-old man has appeared in | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
court charged with murdering a woman in Yeovil. Police were called to a | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
flat in Tudor Court in the town centre on Tuesday evening, where | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
they found the woman's body. Gobinath Vellasarmy, who's from | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
Yeovil, was remanded in custody by South Somerset Magistrates. He's due | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
to appear before Bristol Crown Court on Monday. On Friday 19th July, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Points West reported on the conviction of taxi driver Geoff | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Goold for gun-related offences. The photograph shown in the report was | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
provided by Avon & Somerset police. In error they gave us a picture of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Mr Geoffrey Gould, who is a farmer from Minehead. The BBC is happy to | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
confirm that Mr Gould had no connection with the criminal | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
proceedings. We would like to apologise to Mr Gould and his family | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
for the distress caused. A hospital is tonight investigating how | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
confidential patient information was found at a house in Taunton. A firm | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
was clearing out the property when it says it came across sensitive | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
information from Musgrove Park Hospital. One of the patients has | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
described the discovery as "unnerving". John Henderson reports. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
For �120 this man agreed to clear our house in Taunton of rubbish. Two | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
doctors were living in a cottage. When the rubbish was sifted through, | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
paperwork, patient's names, their NHS numbers and treatments were | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
discovered, along with their living arrangements. This stuff should have | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
been shredded securely by the hospital and not throwing in black | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
in liners. One of those patients whose name appears on paperwork is | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
June. The BBC was able to track her down in Somerset within minutes. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
When we showed her the information she was shocked. This is supposed to | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
be private and confidential. They know I am now suffering with cancer | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
and I am undergoing chemotherapy. I also need radiotherapy. That in | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
itself is a worrying time and now I have this extra stress which has | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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upset me to death. In a statement, upset me to death. In a statement, | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
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upset me to death. In a statement, the hospital has said... Tonight the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
BBC made arrangements to return the information. June is still waiting | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
for answers. After years languishing at the bottom of the national league | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
tables, over 80% of Bristol schools have been rated 'good' or | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
'outstanding' by the school inspectors - Ofsted. It follows a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
series of visits carried out in June. Head teachers say this should | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
reassure parents that Bristol's schools are getting better. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Charlotte Callen reports. parents - picking a primary or | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
secondary school can be a daunting prospect - especially in Bristol. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Just five years ago nearly half the schools in the city were classed as | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
inadequate or in need of improvement. Earlier this year a | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
third were still under performing. So Ofsted, the body who regulate | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
standards in schools, conducted a week long 'swoop' on 15 primaries | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
and secondaries saying the leadership in the city need to | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
improve. The school reports are complete and they make comforting | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
reading for children, parents and their teachers. Ten of the 15 | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
schools were found to have improved their rating to either good or | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
outstanding, four schools have stayed the same and only one school | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
- Easton Cof E Primary - dropped - and is now classed as inadequate. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
With 81% now classed as either good or outstanding, that's higher than | :07:41. | :07:51. | |
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the national average of 76% in March this year. If there was an award for | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
endeavour it should surely go to the Bristol Brunel Academy which is part | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
of the Cabot Learning Federation. It was rated good for the first time in | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the school's history. It replaced the old Speedwell Technology College | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
in 2007 when it was officially opened by the then Prime Minister | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Gordon Brown. You need to invest in education and make sure they have a | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
qualification for a job. You have to give them an apprenticeship | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
qualification for university. We are investing more than ever in the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
education of young people, investing in the best possible computer and | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
other facilities for them to learn, and investing in the best teaching | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
so we can have world-class schools in this country. In 2007 12% of | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
pupils achieved good GCSE results. That figure went up to 45% last year | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
and the teachers say they hope it will be higher this summer. It gives | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the teachers and supporting staff a professional confidence. For the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
students in means they can come to an academy that means something to | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
them. It will unlock the future for them. The Mayor says the future is | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
good. I think it was naughty of them, but it was almost as if they | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
were aiming for a bad result. I am delighted that they were not able to | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
give us that result. Ofsted declines request for interview but say the | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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results speak for themselves. You never know, some parents may even be | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
persuaded they don't need to pay for one of the many private schools in | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
the city. A very warm welcome to BBC Points West. Ian will be here with | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
your weekend weather forecast very soon. And there's still plenty more | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
to come this evening, including? Britain's Winter Olympic hopefuls | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
gather in Bath. And poised for take off, we're at the 35th Balloon | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
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Fiesta for tonight's mass ascent. New figures released today show that | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
cases of measles have continued to rise across much of the West. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
number of people contracting the disease has been falling in England | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
as a whole but in the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire area | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
another 20 children caught the disease in June. Public health | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
chiefs here believe they are winning the battle but still want more | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
parents to get older children vaccinated. Here's Zoe Gough. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Nationally, the campaign to vaccinate children who missed their | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
MMR has been hailed a success. 60,000 youngsters ticked off the at | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
risk list and new cases falling. But new figures from the Avon, | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire area show a rise for June. 20 people | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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contracting measles, 17 in Bristol alone. In July, the provisional | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
figures are eight confirmed cases, so although we have seen a slight | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
rise in June, we ain't this is a temporary blip, and continuing the | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
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national campaign for young people will be affected. -- effective. New | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
cases are reported to this call centre where they say things have | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
been quieter since the start of the holidays. For the first time this | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
year there were no new cases in Gloucestershire. Health chiefs say | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
more children need to be immunised for the disease to be contained. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Views in Bristol were mixed on why parents were still hesitating. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
don't think it is out there too much in the schools and I think there was | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
a lot of hype about the injections. If you can see how many children | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
have had injections compared to those who haven't. I think the | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
parents transfer their fear to the children. It is a simple shot and it | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
does not hurt at all. It remains the case that areas with low take up of | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
all vaccines are still the hardest to reach. They're now being targeted | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
even harder with the message the vaccine's safe but the disease | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
anything but. A killer who spent years protesting his innocence from | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
prison, and whose case was being investigated by a team of law | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
students in Bristol, has finally admitted he DID kill a pensioner in | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
her home. Simon Hall was jailed in 2003 for the murder of pensioner | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Joan Albert at her home in Ipswich. He then began a high profile | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
campaign to try to clear his name. His case had been taken on by the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Bristol Innocence Network, a team of law students who investigate | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
prisoners' claims of innocence. Dr Michael Naughton is the founder of | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
the Innocence Network. What involvement did you and your | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
students have in the case? receive, on average, 20 to 30 claims | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
of innocence from prisoners who maintain their innocence. The | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
students do various things. They assess cases for eligibility. 80% of | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
cases fall off at that stage and there are 20% that are deemed to be | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
eligible. That is that the claim of innocence may be eligible. Alongside | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
their academic studies, the students get an insight into the reality of | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
law. They have exhausted legal aid and still may be innocent. You spent | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
a long time on this case. How does it feel that he finally admitted it? | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
Sadly, we are getting used to it. This is the third case in a year and | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
a half where the case has concluded with us finding their guilt. You | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
know, I think, undoubtably, the project is deflated, the students | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
have spent thousands of hours working on this case over the last | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
six years. The positive is that the family of the victim did not know | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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for sure, and they could not get closure until they knew. The | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
students have learned valuable lessons through the submissions they | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
made to be criminal review commission. What of the future for | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
you and the project? We will get onto another case. We have one at | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
the moment which we are submitting. We just move on and carry on with | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
it. The reality is that despite the fact that Simon hall is proven to be | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
guilty there are innocent people in prisons in this country. One of the | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
analogies is that the people who help people in personal injuries | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
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claims. Some people do mislead us. The crowds are gathering at | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Bristol's International Balloon Fiesta, as the balloonists wait for | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the all clear to take off for tonight's mass ascent. The Red | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Arrows made a spectacular appearance over the event this afternoon. But | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
the wind has made flying difficult today. Fiona Lamdin is down there. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Do I need to keep my fingers crossed, what is happening? | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
Certainly! Wind is the word. This morning, the wind stopped the mass | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
ascent. Only the bravest could fly. At lunchtime, just before we went | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
live, the winds swept through this arena. I should be surrounded by | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
flying balloons but they are struggling at the moment. This is | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
not what we want to see. However, they are still hopeful that they | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
will fly this evening. The crowds have been amazing, you can see them | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
there. They have been here all day and they were here first thing we | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
had breakfast. Bristol's ballooning breakfast - it's one that everyone | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
wants to remember. Well, almost. is wonderful to be out at the | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
beginning of the day when the sun comes up. It is great to sit here | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
with a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich, and watch all of the | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
balloons going up. All of these families were up at 5am to land | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
these ringside seats. We come here every day and it is the trove and's | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
favoured day, I love it. Next door it was sausages on the menu. We do | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
it every year. My husband takes the day off work and we enjoy the | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
sunshine. Despite the sunshine, only a handful of brave balloonists took | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
off as the high winds kept most of them tethered to the ground. And | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
even some of those got into trouble when a gust of wind swept through | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
the arena. I have been coming here for 25 years and this kind of thing | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
has never happened before. The wind came suddenly from the right-hand | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
side and span the balloon around. It ripped the top of the balloon on | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
someone's trailer. Three causalities including this years star of the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
fiesta - Stuart the Minion who was rushed off to the Camerons' factory | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
for some urgent stitching. Thankfully, though there were | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
regular weather updates from the BBC's Carol Kirkwood. I have been | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
coming here for the last six years and only missed last year because of | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
the Olympics. I love it, I love the excitement around it. I love the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
colours and I love seeing the mass ascent. It is quite spectacular to | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
watch all of those balloons disappearing over the horizon. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
at least flying conditions were nigh on perfect for these famous | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
visitors. Back down on the ground - it's starting to look a little bit | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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like Glastonbury. This is how's 17 per year. I have been coming here | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
since 96 and normally stay in a Hotel. As the traffic was horrendous | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
I came and camped. I really like the festival because it had some of my | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
favourite songs, and it was an experience of a lifetime. And the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
nightglow was a highlight for 100,000 other people too. An | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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explosive start to the fiesta's 35th year. Well, you can see the crowds | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
are waiting for the balloons to leave. People here having a nice | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
glass of wine. Let's meet some of the people. Let's meet this lovely | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
family. What is in that packed lunch? ! Nice biscuits! It is | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
brilliant. When that dragon balloon went up, Dominic loved it! | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
expectant are you that the balloons will go up? The winds are easing of | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
so hopefully we will see some balloons go up. Everyone here is | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
desperate for the balloons to go up and stop we will be back in five | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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minutes. Keep hunting for people's food! Absolutely. Camelot have | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
appealed for two missing millionaire's in Gloucester and | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Bristol to come forward and claim their money. The Euromillions butler | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
was in the west today to encourage people to check their tickets after | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
two prizes in the Millionaire raffle failed to collect their price. If | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
it's you then you have until January to claim the cash before it goes to | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
charity And ticket holders in Bristol should check for the code | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
BZQ259280. With next year's Winter Olympics in Russia making big news | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
for the wrong reasons today, the media descended on Bath where Team | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
GB's athletes for the games were being unveiled. The Bobsleigh and | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Skeleton teams are based at the University and both have high hopes | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
for more medals this time around. Will Glennon joined them this | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
afternoon at their purpose built training facility. The temperature | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
is peaking at 20 degrees and many of you are thinking about barbecues and | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
ice creams. The only cold stuff that these athletes are contemplating | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
other courses and tracks that they will have to conquer to get into the | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Olympics next February. There have been many hours and years spent | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
training here at the University of Bath. It helped Amy Williams to gain | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
her gold medal in Vancouver in 2010 and every athlete here is dreaming | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
of emulating that success. Take the Team GB four man bob team. They've | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
recently risen to number five in the world and believe they have what it | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
takes to make the final push into the Olympic medal places. They give | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
a lot of credit for this to the training facilities in Bath. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
have everything you need here. You have amazing gym facilities, physio | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
and massage. You have a push and start facility which is the only | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
track of its kind in the country. It is a brilliant location for high | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
score. -- sport. Today was the big media spotlight day. Athletes | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
telling the world about their hopes and dreams for the season. And on | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
hand to help them with any questions they have is Bath's own golden girl. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Amy Williams is an Ambassador for Team GB. My job is to motivate, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
inspire and help. I'm here for the athletes and coaches. I am spreading | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
the word of team GP. Unfortunate, the word being spread is boycott. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
The games are under pressure because of Russia's view of human rights. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
The athletes just want to compete. boycott would not work for me. The | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
athletes have trained their backsides off to represent their | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
countries and be the best they can add what they do. Here is the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
current skeleton champion. She says she is ready. I have properly worked | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
the hardest and trained the hardest that I have ever done. Everything is | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
going well. It is not a case of doing nothing until the Olympics | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
start. There is still a full season of racing ahead. It is only six | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
months until Sachi and each competitor knows that they will have | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
to reach their peak at the right time so that they come back as West | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Country winners. It's already the second weekend of the football | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
season, and all of our league teams are in action. Fans at Huish Park | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
will see Championship football for the first time. The Glovers have | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
their first home game in the second tier of English football. In League | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
One, Swindon look for their first points this year as they host | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Stevenage. Bristol City travel to Coventry on Sunday. In League Two, | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
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Bristol Rovers host Scunthorpe and Cheltenham travel to Chesterfield. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Let's get the weather. There were some shorts at the balloon Fiesta, | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
wise or not? They would if it was November, I tell you. There will be | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
some dry weather through the weekend. The winds will be something | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
we are keeping an eye on. It is not just the balloon Fiesta taking | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
place. On Sunday in Devizes there is BBC Wiltshire's summer party of | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
wildlife which I'm told will be fantastic. That is on Sunday in | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
Devizes. Let's have a look at how the weekend is shaping up. Variable | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
amounts of Cloud on Sunday with some showery rain. There will be lighter | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
winds compared to Friday. We will find that as the showery rain | :24:23. | :24:33. | |
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arrives, it will become breezy. For the balloon Fiesta, I am hopeful | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
about the mass ascent. Winds will be pretty lights. If they get aloft | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
they will head south east. As the day wears on, there is still a good | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
deal of sunshine and variable cloud. The winds will turn brisker. No | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
problem for the RAF Typhoon! Here is how things shape up for the rest of | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
the evening. The pressure is rising tonight and into tomorrow. There is | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
a threat of showery rain on Saturday and Sunday. For the rest of this | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
evening we are hoping to get some balloons up in the next few minutes | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
or so. As the night wears on the winds will fall back and become | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
slacker. It will be a dry night with temperatures tomorrow morning of | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
about 12 or 13 Celsius. Conditions will be around about that for the | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
mass ascent is tomorrow morning. You will notice that the winds speeds | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
will pick up. You might scrape a light shower in the afternoon but | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
here comes the threat of more showery rain in the evening. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Temperatures could get up to 19 or 20 degrees. Let's return now to | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Fiona who is down at the Balloon Fiesta. The wind has been holding | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
things up there. What's it looking like now? Well, this might be as far | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
off the ground as I get this evening. Here is the man with the | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
answers, Clive Bayley. Is it going to happen? I wish I had the answers! | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
Ian has been fantastic and has been texting me for the last half an | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
hour. It is really down to what we see now. It is down to local | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
fracture. If we can get away we well. I am sure some balloons will | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
fly to night. Tomorrow will be the mass ascent of the weekend. Do think | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
all of the balloons will be up tomorrow morning? I would be | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
surprised if less than a hundred balloons get up tomorrow. What are | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
you looking forward to? My favourite view is to be the first one out and | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
see 100 balloons go right across the city. That will happen tomorrow | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
morning, I am absolutely sure. We have the wing walkers at 12 noon and | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
the RAF Typhoon at 1pm. We have the Spitfire at 2pm and then these wing | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
walkers again at 5pm. Keep looking outside your window in case we take | :27:27. | :27:37. |