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our headlines tonight. Killed outside the home that was his | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
refuge. A man appears in court after a 24-year-old is stabbed outside a | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
home for the vulnerable with mental health issues. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
A soaraway success for the Bristol Balloon Fiesta but the city's mayor | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
says next year leave the car at home. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
There is possibly a case for putting up the price of parking, one could | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
say that is an environmental levy to encourage more people to cycle and | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
walk. Also tonight, millions of pounds for the pedallers, the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
government pledges funding to help cyclists in the West. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
And the injury that sparked a search for a new goalkeeper, Yeovil Town's | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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number one could be out for three court accused of murdering a fellow | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
resident at a home for people with mental health problems. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
The victim had been stabbed outside the building and later died in | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
hospital. Derek Hancock was arrested less than | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
hour after police had left the home in Bristol. Officers had been called | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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to investigate reports of arguing. Tonight the Independent Police | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Complaints Commission has announced it's to examine the force's handling | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
of the case. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Steve Brodie. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Police were called here to this house in Egerton Road in Bishopstone | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
at around 9.30 on Friday evening following a complaint from a | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
resident at the privately run home for the homeless and the vulnerable | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
with mental health issues. 30 minutes after they left they were | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
called again. When they arrived they found 24-year-old Robert Cox dead | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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from stab wounds. Today as the police carried out house to house | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
enquiries in the area another resident appeared in court accused | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
of his murder. 41-year-old Derek Hancock spoke only to confirm his | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
name, age, and address. Wearing a black tea shirt he nodded when told | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
by the magistrates he would be remanded in custody to appear at | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Bristol Crown Court on Wednesday. --T-shirt. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
The home is run by the Social Enterprise and Charity Home Group | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
who told the BBC that they were shocked and saddened by the death | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
and that the service had existed in Egerton Road for many years and that | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
the group enjoyed good relations with neighbours. Over the very sad | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
somebody has been killed. I can understand why there is a need for | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
this facility, there has to be somewhere, and it has in there for a | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
number of years without any problems. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
And in a separate development, the watchdog, the Independent Police | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Complaints Commission, is to examine how Avon and Somerset Police handled | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
the incident. This is because of the force involvement with the man | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
before his death. A Gloucestershire coroner has been | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
ordered to stand trial accused of fraud and the theft of more than �2 | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
million. Alan Crickmore is charged with stealing from four dead people | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
while acting as the executor of their estates. The 57-year-old is | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
one of Britain's longest serving coroners. The case has been | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
adjourned several times already, but today it was sent to Southwark Crown | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Court for a preliminary hearing. The Mayor of Bristol says he wants | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
more people to walk and cycle to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
next year. His comments follow the four-day event, which attracted half | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
a million visitors to watch balloons and an extended RAF airshow. But | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
once again traffic jams were also on display. So is the Mayor right to | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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suggest increasing car park fees? Half a million came to watch. But | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
once again complaints about traffic jams. Bristol's mayor wants visitors | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
to walk or cycle next year. And thinks raising the �10 parking fee | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
may help. As the clean up began today the fiesta organisers said | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
they'll meet up with the major. There is possibly a case for putting | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
up the cost of parking, you could see that as an international -- | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
environmental levy to encourage more people to cycle and walk. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
organisers said they will meet up with the mayor. But have no plans to | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
raise car park fees. Adding the number arriving by car has reduced | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
in recent years. We have created an even split of those who use public | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
transport or walk to the side, with those who use their cars so we have | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
reduced the number of cars on site. We have introduced a new subtle bus | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
-- shuttle bus service, and we have encouraged the use of those, but car | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
parking is an important revenue to ensure this continues. The major | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
will argue fewer cars paying slightly more will reduce traffic | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
jams without cutting income. It cost �600,000 a year to put on and there | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
is no public subsidy. It's a symptom of the success of the event boosted | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
this year by a return of the Red Arrows and two displays from the | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Typhoon fighter. A bit of a shock for the Long Ashton locals. We did | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
think we were under attack we didn't have anyone Inc so it was a bit | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
frightening for the children, but it was good fun once we realised it was | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
a fighter plane in the sky. So plenty to thrill everyone in | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
2013. The stars of the show as ever though, the balloons and their | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
pilots. Looks they enjoyed it too. Well Bristol's Mayor was one of the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
people celebrating another �11 million been given to help improve | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
improve cycling facilities. Schemes in Bristol, South Gloucestershire | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
and Bath will all benefit from the money. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Some of the money comes from a �94 million government pot to promote | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
what the prime minister is calling a "cycling revolution". Ali Vowles | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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reports. I am dressed for the occasion. I am | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
relatively new to cycling but I really like it. I am one of those | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
people who thinks it is a great way to keep fit. This cycle path is that | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
two tunnels cycle path, the newest one to open in Bath and the majority | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
is completely traffic free. For many people this is the only kind of | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
cycling they will do, when they don't come into contact with the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
car. The reason this money is so important, particularly in places | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
like Bristol and Bath, is that much of the money is going to be used to | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
improve cycle pathways in the centre of the cities and on the outskirts | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
on the roads, to try and make cycling safer. I have been on my | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
bike to date taking a little look at the situation here in the West. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
There is no doubt about it, more and more of us in the West are taking to | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
our bikes. The success of the Olympics, Paralymics and Tour de | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
France, plus the rising costs of running a car, mean two wheels | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
rather than four seems a better option. Bristol became England's | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
first cycling city in 2008 and over the years improvements to cycle | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
lanes and routes have gradually increased cycling numbers. What will | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
it mean across the West? The centre of Bristol will see better links | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
along the length of the River Avon. It'll make it easier for people to | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
cross the river from North to South and cycle alongside it. In South | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Gloucestershire there will be improvements to the Hambrook | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
sections of the Cribbs Causeway to Emersons Green Trunk Cycle Route, | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
And in Baths Kingsmead Square, which is right in the centre of the city | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
there will be a �1 million make over to the Seven Dials Cycle route. Bath | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
and North East Somerset Council says it will make all the difference to | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
cyclists in Bath who unlike the cars will be able to go in both | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
directions. Provided they are well marked and bright -- well researched | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
they are perfectly safe stop it will mean cyclists will be able to travel | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
in many more directions and many more weeks to get where they want. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
-- many rural boots. -- many more routes. But as I know living here, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Bath is never an easy city to navigate whatever the means of | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
transport. Narrow and busy roads do make designated cycle routes tricky | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
to use in some parts of the city. Many people say they are reluctant | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
to cycle on the roads because they don't feel safe. So will the �11 | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
million investment across the region really change anything? Whether or | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
not it is enough, there are statistics released that 2% of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
journeys made in the UK last year were on bikes. Only 2%. The | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
government want to increase that. Whether or not this level of funding | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
is enough to see a large increase remains to be seen, a lot of people | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
are sceptical. There is criticism, but it is a start. Do today cyclists | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
think there is room for improvement? When there are parts right this it | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
is good. I think it would be better if they improve it will stop it is | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
quite difficult, people get annoyed you are in the way, and that is | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
tricky. When it gets to the dangerous but there is no cycle | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
then, they have got it the wrong way round. They have got it where it is | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
not dangerous. It is hoped most of the work will be completed by the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
end of two of -- 2015, but the question is how many more of us will | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
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take advantage of it? I see it from both sides, cyclists and rages. This | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
money can only improve things, I will not disappoint you, I will go | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
on my way home. She has got all the gear and she is | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
out of here. You are watching BBC Points West. | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
Please do stay with us, much more still to bring you, including we | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
find out why you will be seeing fewer bathhouse across Somerset this | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
year. -- barn owls. Look to the skies | :10:06. | :10:15. | |
tonight for a huge natural firework New research by the BBC has shown | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
that local councils are still owed more than �24 million from the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
collapse of the Icelandic banks five years ago. Eight of our local | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
councils are still waiting for parts of their deposits to be returned. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Somerset County Council is still hoping to get back more than �8 | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
million of taxpayers' money, from its deposit of �25 million. And | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Cheltenham Borough Council, which had 11 million in accounts in the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
country, is still owed more than four million. We'll be talking to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the Taxpayers' Alliance about the figures in tonight's ten O'Clock | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
News. The farming minister has said | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
failing to act to eradicate bovine debate... Is not option. Efforts to | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
combat TB are being stepped up, in addition to badger culling in | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Gloucestershire and Somerset more money will be invested in | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
vaccinating badges. -- badgers. A Bristol woman has spoken of her | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
anger and disappointment after failing to get a change in the law | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
which could have helped estranged grandparents. Jane Jackson's | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
campaign featured on Inside Out West last autumn just as MPs were looking | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
at the legislation. But the bill now seems unlikely to deliver what they | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
had had hoped for. Here's Inside Out's Alastair McKee. | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
Jane and Marc haven't seen one of their grandchildren for years. | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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continuous daily grief. There isn't a single day, excuse me. To see your | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
family falling apart, it is absolutely heartbreaking. | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
So Jane set up a support network filmed by Inside Out last year. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
have been getting increasing calls from grandparents. More than 1,000 | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
so far. They can't automatically see their grandchildren if the parents | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
split up. So many lobbied for shared parenting to become law meaning both | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
parents would be involved in a child's life. So these grandparents | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
could be too. But they haven't got what they wanted on the statute | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
books. It is not a presumption of shared parenting, it is something we | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
get on that. It is not anything that says there is a right to a certain | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
amount of contact, a right to shared parenting. It is in the -- simply | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
something which says the court will be entitled to presume that a parent | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
should be involved, and there is no particular definition of what that | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
involvement means, so that could mean different things to different | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
people. What this all means to Jane is | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
clear. Without it, she says, she's no chance of seeing her grandchild. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
If I'm honest I think the government off watching it. It is catastrophic | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
for a whole generation of children. The situation will not change. And | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
those who are affected by denied contact no that there has be a | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
back-up in law. The government says it is helping broken families beyond | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
the court, but that a child's interest is paramount. And they have | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
support from many in the legal profession. The interests of the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
other adult family members are part of the picture but it's hard to come | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
to the right outcome if you don't focus back on the interests of the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
child. Jane agrees with this focus. But like many others, she just wants | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
to see her grandchild. There is always that hope that that knock on | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
the door will come. It might well happen, things could change. Things | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
are still really tough for Jane and other grandparents like her who | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
desperately want to see their grandchildren, don't have the right | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
to see them. We will be an eye on this issue and a whole lot more when | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
inside out returns next month on BBC One. I hope you will join us. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
The number of barn owls in our region is in serious decline -and it | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
seems, last year's terrible weather is partly to blame. A conservation | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
project in Somerset has revealed that numbers there have dropped by | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
60% in the past year. Now farmers are being asked to support efforts | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
to save the barn owl from extinction. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
It may seem a distance memory now but a year ago vast areas of | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
Somerset were under water. And the barn owl paid the price. Let's go | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
and have a look, we have got a box here. | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Chris Sperring works for the Hawk and Owl Trust who two years ago | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
embarked on a project to put up hundreds of nesting boxes across | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Somerset to boost the barn owl population. This was checked about a | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
month ago. But camera checks of those boxes | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
under a special licence have revealed an alarming drop in numbers | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
of a bird already struggling to survive. | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
It is an empty box. From the early results we have got so far I would | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
estimate we have lost a bubbly up to 60% of the entire population. -- | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
probably. That is looking at anything up to 70, 80 pairs. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
In areas like this the flooding wiped out the barn owl's food stock, | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
voles. And even when the flood water cleared, bittingly cold winds this | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
spring kept the owls from hunting, and they died, so did their young. | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
It was, say the conservationists, a double whammy. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Well now farmers are being asked to play their part to boost the barn | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
owl population. By leaving borders of long grass around their fields, | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
borders where voles breed. It is farmers to the rescue, they can come | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to the rescue and we have proved with the Somerset community barn owl | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
project they do come to the rescue. We have got farmers within the | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
project who are leaving margins like this voluntarily offer very back. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
The barn owl isn't, they say, heading for extinction but the | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
decline is serious and needs to be reversed. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Yeovil Town say they're close to signing a new goalkeeper following | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
an injury to Marek Stech at the weekend. Yeovil had to call on the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
services of their goalkeeping coach to replace Stech who could be out | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
for up to four months. Damian Derrick has more. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
It was Yeovil's first home match in their first season in the | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Championship. In front of almost 9,000 people at Huish Park fireworks | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
and an opera singer were in the script. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Goalkeeper Marek Stech breaking his hand in two places after just eight | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
minutes was not. He had a fantastic season last | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
season, the great pre-season, a good start, just one of those freak | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
injuries, punched the back of his own centre half's head, fractured | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
his hand in a couple of places. Stech had been one of Yeovil's | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
stand-out players last season and their man of the match in promotion | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
play-off final at Wembley. But it was then down to goalkeeping coach | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
Gareth Stewart to fill not just his shoes but also his gloves. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Not having the time to think about it for too long is easier, it was | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
just a case of getting on and doing the things that were happening at | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
the time and finding out how it was going to go. Nothing is appraising | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
in this game, still 11 people against 11 people at the end of the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
day and you have got to be ready for the situation as it is. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Yeovil's bad luck continued as they lost out to a goal which bounced off | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
one of their defenders. But it was a good day for one Yeovil player, | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
Paddy Madden. Rewarded for his 23 goals last season he's been called | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
up into the Republic of Ireland squad for their match against Wales | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
on Wednesday. Tonight Yeovil say they're already close to signing a | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
new goalie to replace Steck, he's Wayne Hennessey who plays for | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
Wolves. He is a top goalkeeper, it suits | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
everybody, we need a first-team keeper, and it is a perfect | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
situation. The club hopes to confirm the deal on Thursday. | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
The Bath based 400 metre hurdler Dai Greene has made it through to the | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
semi-finals at the World Championships in Moscow. Dai, who is | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
defending the title he won two years ago, has been struggling with injury | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
this season. He also fell ill over the weekend but scraped home fifth | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
in his heat to get one of the last places. | :19:03. | :19:12. | |
It is difficult to do, I hope I will produce a better performance | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
tomorrow because it is a wide open event, just going to rest as much as | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
possible, fingers crossed there is more tomorrow. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
In the women's event, Eilidh Child, who's also based at the University | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
of Bath, made it into the semi-finals which take place | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
tomorrow. All amateur cricketers probably | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
third-rate June of playing at Lord's but a village team from South | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Gloucestershire will be batting and bowling on the same page as many | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
cricketing legends. Rock captain yesterday won the semifinal of the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
National Village knockout competition and their reward is a | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
trip to the home of cricket for the final at the beginning of | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
September. Joining me now three members of the successful club, | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
thanks very much for coming in. James, Jack and nail. James, you | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
have taken part in this competition before but you have never got very | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
far so what has been the difference? It was just the general mindset. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Previously Sunday cricket has always been treated as a knock-about, just | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
the chance for everybody to have a go, but this year we sort of said we | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
will take it as seriously as possible and take a Saturday league | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
mindset into the games and it has been everybody pulling in the right | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
direction and we got on a roll. Jack, you are a member of the team, | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
is everybody from the village? Pretty much. Nine of the 11 that | :20:35. | :20:43. | |
played yesterday came through our youth system, all local lads. Quite | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
a few brothers in there as well. A lot of competition to get into the | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
main site. The has-been. As we have progressed | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
it has got quite fierce, James had to make some trust -- tough | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
decisions. What has it meant to the village to | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
have this success and how have you benefited? | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
It is huge, so mini unsung heroes at the club, on the business end, and | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
the people at the club, it benefits them, the bar running, the barbecue, | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
the pitch needs preparing, the whole club are just absolutely ecstatic. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
There were even a few tears yesterday from some of the fans and | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
it was a fantastic day. I bet you have had hundreds of | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
people contributing money. We are a small village but everybody | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
from the locality, people travelling far and wide to come and watch, a | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
lot of the local cricket clubs get involved to support. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
What will it mean to step out on the pitch at Lord's? It will be | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
incredible. Unless you play professional cricket | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
there are very few people that get the opportunity to play at Lord's. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
When you set out in the competition many teams recognise that is the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
price you are playing for. Yesterday for the 11 ads it was their cup | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
final, winning that, getting to go to the home of cricket, it will be | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
massive for all of us. We are taking a lot of people down there. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Well done on this success, have a fantastic day, September the 8th, | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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the final. They are stars. Talking of which, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
tonight is the night for stargazers as the skies above us are set to | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
shimmer with a natural firework display. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
The annual Perseids meteor shower will be hitting the earth's | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
atmosphere. And if you're lucky you may see up to 60 shooting stars an | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
hour with the naked eye. Joining us now is Dr Robert Massey from the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Royal Astronomical Society, who lives in Bristol. An exciting night | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
in prospect, Doctor Massey. This is really easy, all you have to | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
do is go out in your back garden, standout on the street and look up. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
If the weather clear, if you are reasonably away from light, every | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
chance you will see quite a few meteors, I cannot think of an easier | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
way to do this. In previous years you can lay out | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
and think, just one more, and you are there for ages. Get yourself | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
comfortable, I know it has obvious. You can lie out on a sun lounge in | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
the middle of the night, if you do that it works very well, but a hot | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
drink and wrap up well, obviously. You can get rather cold. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Are there any other tricks? I know your eyes adjust more, getting away | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
from streetlights, that is busily going to be good. Is there a way to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
look, direction? If you look more or less straight | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
up, it sounds obvious, but the direction they come from is the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
north-east but the trails will be short of from the perspective, so if | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
you look up, you will have a good view, stay up till the small hours. | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
The times, we need the mean to get out the weight so it is from about | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
11 o'clock. 10:30pm, 11 o'clock and it should improve through the night | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
but you get these ones that just skim the edge of the atmosphere. It | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
is a bit unpredictable. I have been out before and I have been looking | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
in the wrong direction. It is really hard to point out to somebody else. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
We hope people enjoyed, if you get some fantastic pictures it would be | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
great to see them. Ian is now going to give is the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
all-important forecast to find out if we can even see them with the | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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will lose the cloud that we have across some parts of the West | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Country, progressively getting it in looking very nice indeed. We will | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
lose the cloud that we have across some parts of the West Country, | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
progressively getting eaten away from the West, and as the magic song | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
there will be even less in the way of cloud, all looking very fortunate | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
if you're heading out into the countryside which will be the best | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
sport -- spot away from light sources in urban areas. It will turn | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
pretty cold for the time of year so whether you are on a sun lounge or | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
wherever you will need to consider dressing appropriately. For | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
tomorrow, those of you who have managed to get some sleep, it starts | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
with the legacy of the clear skies, a good deal of clear blue sky, the | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
progressively more crowd -- cloud as the day goes on. This is how things | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
are shaping up as we run through the next 24 hours, a rich of | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
high-pressure starting to toppling towards the west. At the same time a | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
rather weak one front. Most of the rain associated with high ground of | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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Wales. Some showery rain across northern parts. For two nights, much | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
of the cloud just slowly getting eaten away. As the clear sky is | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
developed the night of light winds, we shouldn't see any problems with | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
missed four, visibility good across-the-board, into the early | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
hours. These are the urban temperatures but out in the | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
countryside it could get down to eight degrees. A cold starts | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
tomorrow, but nonetheless and a good deal of sunshine for the start of | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the rush-hour. Cloud Wrigley starting to encroach into the | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
north-west through the mid-morning period -- cloud quickly. Some patchy | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
or showery outbreaks of rain, more of that towards the north. The best | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
conditions towards the south. As we get later into the afternoon and | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
evening we will return some brighter weather. Quite breezy through the | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
afternoon to marvel stop temperatures similar to today, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
somewhere between 18 and 20 degrees. I mentioned Wednesday, we will start | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
to go down a different route, a lot of low cloud, that will bring some | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
patchy outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. On Thursday a lot of that | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
left behind, on Friday we are looking at a wet and windy spell, so | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
that rain could be quite heavy at times. Towards the end of August we | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
have got growing confidence the pressure will build and we will see | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
a return of some decent summer conditions. | :27:24. | :27:27. |