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Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Sarah Jane | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Bungay. Our main story tonight: A warning | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
over Christmas debt. Last`minute shoppers set the tills ringing ` but | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
how many will avoid maxing out the credit card? I don't do credit at | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
all. I don't even own a credit card, so this is all out of my | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
wages. The other stories making the news | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
tonight: The cruellest of burglaries ` this woman's home is broken into | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
and the thieves set fire to every room. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Now it's first class passengers feeling the squeeze. Hundreds of | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
their seats are to be removed to make room for more economy | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
travellers on busy trains. And as the deadline for first class | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
post passes, we'll be hearing from the Royal Mail choir! | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Good evening. It's the last big shopping weekend before Christmas, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
and businesses are hoping that people will be spending like there's | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
no tomorrow. But with most people's incomes | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
outstripped by rising prices, there are warnings that thousands of us | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
could be getting into debt. So are people turning to the never never to | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
make ends meet, or holding back Scott Ellis reports. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
It has been quiet on the high street recently, perhaps because of record | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
online sales. The hope is this weekend will be the busiest of the | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
year. People are leaving it till the end. I think they have done their | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
online retail shopping already, but for the high street, they will come | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
in white at the last minute and see what discounts they can get. The TUC | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
is worried that this will be a Christmas on credit for many, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
predict think the average debt for an adult at ?685, taking the average | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
family 24 weeks to pay off. Here at the Brunel shopping centre in | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
Swindon, there are signs of thrift. We save what we have, and put it | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
towards Christmas at the end of the year. Some of it will go on credit, | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
about 50`50. As a family, we've decided to spend a lot less than we | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
did previously, and spend more time thinking about the presence and | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
thinking what somebody would actually want, rather than just | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
rushing madly to the shops. Those behind the tills may be tempted to | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
cut prices this weekend, because for shops without Internet access, this | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
was `` November was a flat month. Easter next year is late April, so | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
there's a long time between now and then. They need to take some money | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
to sustain their businesses over the next few months. Nationally, the | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
rate at which shops close has slowed, but still started at 18 day | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
at the start of 2013. It has been another tough year. The bigger | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
stores has a bit of `` have a bit of a buffer. Particularly for those who | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
work in the markets and the small stores around Bristol, the buck | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
stops with them. If the money runs out, that's the end of it. It is | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
generally agreed that consumer confidence is growing, and if you | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
are heading out tomorrow for some on budget Christmas shopping, beware. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
The media has already dubbed it Panic Saturday. | :03:36. | :03:49. | |
A Bristol woman is facing Christmas away from her home after it was | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
completely gutted in an arson attack. 64`year`old Elizabeth McAfee | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
was visiting relatives when somebody broke in to her home, set it on | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
fire, and destroyed all her precious belongings. Sabet Choudhury reports. | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
A well, this is the room that we think | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
they came through. It's difficult to kind of believe this level of | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
destruction, and how things that were so solid have just disappeared. | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
34 years of memories went up in flames. Last Saturday, while | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
visiting her sick mother, Elizabeth McAfee's home was ransacked and set | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
alight. It feels like a bereavement. I mean, it feels like everything, | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
all the work and the painting and sort of making things and thinking | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
things through, has just gone. The stench of smoke and charred walls is | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
all that's left in some of the rooms. The damage so bad that it may | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
take over six months before Elizabeth can come back home. The | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
police are saying it's probably not targeted at me, and I can't think | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
that it would be, but I imagine the intention was for the house to be | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
gutted. I'm beginning to feel angry, and I'm determined that whoever did | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
this isn't going to get me down Although very little was taken, but | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
the fire has destroyed decades`old family heirlooms, paintings and | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
photos. I find it really difficult to picture who would have done this. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
But whoever, you know, whether it was one person or group of people... | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
I just think, what sad lives to get a kick out of doing something this | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
destructive. Just get a life. The police say they're investigation | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
the attack and are asking for witnesses. But for Elizabeth, it's | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
now a matter of picking up the pieces and starting again, hoping to | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
forget a Christmas that's memorable for all the wrong reasons. | :05:37. | :05:49. | |
A police Community Support Officer is to appear in court to be charged | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
with common assault over an alleged attack on a boy at a Bristol Leisure | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Centre. 31`year`old Nicholas Peace is alleged to have assaulted a | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
15`year`old at Downend Sports Centre in June earlier this year. The | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
charge follows a police investigation into a complaint by | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
the boy's family. Two men and a woman have been | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
remanded in custody following an inquiry into sexual exploitation in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Yeovil. 27`year`old Jon Smillie Luke Fuller, who's 24, and | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
20`year`old Eleanor Dollery have been charged with various counts, | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
including rape and trafficking offences. All three are from Yeovil. | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
The charges follow police raids on businesses and residential | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
properties in the area earlier in the week. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Four people have been charged after a man from Gloucestershire died on a | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
night out in Manchester. 30`year`old Nick Bonnie collapsed in September | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
after taking what's thought to be a contaminated ecstasy tablet at a | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
nightclub. The four men, all from Gloucestershire, are charged with | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
various counts of perverting the course of justice, and possession | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
and supply of class A drugs. You're watching BBC Points West with | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
David and Sarah`Jane, on the last Friday before Christmas. We'll have | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
a full forecast shortly. And Ian ` it's looking like Santa and the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
reindeer could be in for a bit of a bumpy ride, isn't it? I think the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
fasten seat belt sites will be on on his flight! This chart can only mean | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
one thing from Monday into Christmas Eve ` stormy. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
The Mayor of Swindon escaped a revolt in his own council chamber | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
last night after allegedly making derogatory remarks about adults with | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
disabilities. Councillor Nick Martin says he can't remember whether he | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
made the remarks about people with Downs Syndrome or not. Opposition | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
members tabled a vote of no confidence, but councillors instead | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
decided to postpone the vote, until an investigation has been carried | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
out. The swing bridge in Bristol's | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
floating harbour will remain shut to larger boats until after Christmas | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
at the earliest. The Plimsoll Bridge was stuck open earlier this week, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
causing traffic chaos. It had to be cranked into place by hand, but is | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
now stuck closed. It means traffic can flow freely, but larger boats | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
have been advised by the harbour master to avoid the area. Engineers | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
have spent the day assessing the damage to the bridge motor. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Bristol City Council has raised more than ?11 million through parking | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
fines in the last six years, according to figures seen by the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
BBC. Revenue from tickets has more than trebled, to ?2.8 million in the | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
12 months to April. By law, all the cash raised should go back into | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
transport`related items, such as filling pot holes, park and ride | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
services and subsidising some bus routes. | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
First class passengers are likely to have less room on busy trains soon, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
as their seats are being taken away for people travelling economy. For | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
years, second class passengers have been left standing while first class | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
seats have been empty. Now First Great Western wants to make the | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
system fairer. Here's Robin Markwell. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Even during the morning rush, First Class passengers are hard to find. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Back in Standard, and it's often standing room only. Every seat will | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
be taken, and then the aisle will be full and there will be up to ten | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
plus people stood in the hallways as well, by the entrance to the doors. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Pretty unpleasant. Quite stuffy hot, full of people, especially on | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
the way home. Just not very nice. And that's a sentiment shared at the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
front of the train. If you look around you today, most of this | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
carriage is entirely empty. I've been on it since Didcot, and it is | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
just empty all the way through, whereas Standard is heaving. Even on | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
the busiest of trains, these luxurious leather first`class seats | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
are only ever two thirds full, and that is why First Great Western is | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
thinking of ditching one of these carriages in favour of the standard | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
class carriage, which has almost double the number of seats. If we | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
look at removing some of that first`class provision at the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
moment, on some trains that will increase capacity by 20%, which is | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
significant at a time when passenger numbers continue to rise. We have | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
new trains on the way, but that is some years away yet. We need to do | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
something. First Great Western has then the subject of many protests, | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
with overcrowding a key issue. Campaigners have questioned why this | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
hasn't happened sooner, but welcomed the talks with government. It is a | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
sound business room. More than half the time, first class is empty. It | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
is a very good move for commuters, because it means they will have more | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
capacity on the trains, as an interim measure, until the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
government puts more into the railways. Investment is coming, in | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the shape of a ?1 billion electrification of the mainline | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
With passenger numbers due to rise 50% by 2019, First Great Western | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
defined itself playing catch up to ensure everyone who pays affair gets | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
a seat. Now, we don't want to alarm anyone, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
but if you haven't posted your Christmas cards yet, you might be | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
too late, as today was the deadline for first class. The Royal Mail s | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
brought in hundreds of extra staff to cope with the workload. Jules | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
Hyam is at the sorting centre in Filton now. It looks busy there It | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
is very busy. If you are watching this and you have posted a Christmas | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
card, it will have come through here. They come through Bristol and | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Bath, and Taunton and Gloucester. These guys are sorting things to get | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
posted tomorrow. Mrs Fields, Merry Christmas! That will come tomorrow. | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Not everything gets sorted by hand, just things that can't go through | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the machines. The machines are very fancy. This one has post going up a | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
conveyor belt and then threw a big drum, and the post gets sorted | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
according to size. There is another, with the machine, with a | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
camera that reads postcodes. It makes it a lot easier for that | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
machine to sort out letters and get the letters to the right place. How | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
many letters? Today, this place has seen 5 million different items of | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
homes `` of post. That's quite a lot. They are all getting stuck in, | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
even senior management. Ruth, you have had to get stuck in today! | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Yes, it is all hands on deck at Christmas. People are working | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
incredibly hard to make sure that letters and parcels are sorted and | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
into homes in time for Christmas. Our postmen and women are working | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
tirelessly to deliver a fantastic Christmas for customers. You have | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
had to take on an extra 500 people to make sure that everything gets to | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
its destination in time for Christmas. We will be back here for | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
a special treat later. They don t just deliver mail, they sing! The | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Bristol Royal Mail choir will be delivering `` will be performing for | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
us later. Thank you. We are looking forward to | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
that. A family who lost their home in a | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
gas explosion in Cheltenham are just months away from moving back in | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Their house in Rosehill Street had to be demolished after being badly | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
damaged in the blast in May last year. Building work started earlier | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
this year and the roof has almost been finished. After a devastating | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
18 months they told us they now can't wait to move back home. The | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
builders have worked so hard to get it to this point. They have only | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
been on site at `` eight weeks, so to be able to stand here and see the | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
roof on our house is quite an achievement. It's also expected that | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
work will start next year to rebuild the house at the centre of the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
explosion. A health and safety investigation never found the cause. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
A ceremony's been held in Bristol today to remember a man killed in | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
the Lockerbie air disaster. 270 people lost their lives after a | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
jumbo jet was blown up above the small Scottish town 25 years ago | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
tomorrow. Among them, a mother and daughter from Bristol, and an | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
American man who was living in the city. Laura Jones reports. | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
A cold Friday morning in the lead up to Christmas, and they came to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
remember. To remember a man, an American, who in the 1980s had lived | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
here in Clifton whilst working for a computer software company. Bernard | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Joseph McLoughlin was just 30, and heading home to the States for | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Christmas when he died. He isn't forgotten, like all the victims of | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
that tragic accident. It was needed that we come out and light a few | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
candles and lay everything memory of Bernard. Like so many other people | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
around the country, and around the world, who will be remembering their | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
loved ones, who died on December the 21st 1988. It was 25 years ago this | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
weekend that the Pan Am flight exploded in midair. All 259 people | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
on board were killed, as were 1 people on the ground. What happened | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
in the skies above Lockerbie changed thousands of lives, and had | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
repercussions across the world, not least on this street in Bristol | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
where, 25 years ago tonight, a young mother would have been packing, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
getting ready for her and her baby daughter's trip to America. That | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
lady was Yvonne Owen. Yvonne was also pregnant with her second child. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
It had been a last`minute decision to go away for Christmas ` one which | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
was to cost them their lives. One man, Libyan Abdelbaset al`Megrahi | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
was convicted for the bombing. He has since died, but there are still | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
questions about whether he acted alone, or indeed, if he really was | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
behind the atrocity at all. Official memorial services will be held in | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
London and Lockerbie tomorrow, and elsewhere, communities across the | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
world touched by the tragedy will remember in their own way. | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
Some sports news now. Bath Rugby's excellent start to the season will | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
get a big test over Christmas. They play three of the country's top | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
sides. Alistair Durden is here with tonight's sport. Why is it going so | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
well? A mixture of things. Good coaching, good young players coming | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
through the academy. They also recruited really well over the last | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
year and a half, snapping up top young players. They are getting | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
better and better. It translates into ten league and cup wins in a | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
row for the first team, but there is progress right through the club | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
which suggests Bath have a bright future ahead of them. | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
The first silverware of the season. This week, Bath's second string won | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
their league. They're part of a winning culture at the club. The | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
senior side are top of their group in both Cup competitions and third | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
in the Premiership table. We have acknowledged from the start of the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
season that we have more strength and depth. You can see that in the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
scores in the Premiership side, so it is a nice position to be in. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Selection is getting harder. That is a great problem to have. There was | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
much more of a club atmosphere and a team spirit. That is coming through | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
on the pitch. We are building up a team at first and second team levels | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
that look good now, and will be stronger in the future. With such | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
momentum, the director of rugby s exit last week came as a surprise. A | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
disagreement over his role was the reason given by the club, who now | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
want to move on. Of course there has been disruption, and we have had to | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
make disruption `` make adjustments. But we have come | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
through it, and hopefully we will go from strength to strength. This | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
season's success is built around a dominating forward pack, giving the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
Premiership's player of the month, George Ford, the opportunity to | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
orchestrate the young and talented backs. People keep saying that we | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
have not achieved anything yet. We have had a good run of wins, and | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
that is all it is at the moment We are going to keep working hard and | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
see where we end up. We are a humble squad with no big`time players. Our | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
recruitment has been fantastic. We recruit young kids and put them | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
together. They are like the rat Pack! If you keep that backline | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
together for the next five years, they will be 25, 26, with all that | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
experience of winning and losing together. We have the potential to | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
do something really special for the next ten years. So it is a long`term | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
project, with games against harlequins, Northampton and | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Leicester, which will give an indication of how fast this group is | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
growing up. On Sunday, Gloucester fry half Freddie Burns will be on | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
the bench for the visit of Worcester. Stand`in captain Billy | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Twelvetrees will play at ten instead. And in the Championship, | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
Bristol are away to Ealing. Football, and Cheltenham Town are | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
another team who have found some good form. After a slow start, | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
understandable after the disappointment of another playoff | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
defeat back in May. They have started to pick themselves up now. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Mark Yates, who's celebrating four years in charge on Sunday, has | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
managed to rebuild this team yet again. They're now unbeaten in their | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
last nine games and only six points off the playoffs. But with plenty of | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
room for improvement still. I think there is only five teams who have | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
lost less games. We're not doing a great deal, just converting into | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
wins at the moment. If we had won more games than we had drawn, we | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
would be in the play`off spots. We have a good group here, who are | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
starting to realise what it takes to play well, the team, and win games. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Cheltenham are away to Fleetwood tomorrow. Here are all the fixtures. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Yeovil, unbeaten in their last four games, face another former Premier | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
League club in Blackburn Rovers Swindon could recall the Nile Ranger | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
for their home game against Coventry. Full previews, including | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
team news, on the BBC Sport website. One more thing ` tomorrow could be a | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
very memorable day for Lewis Carey of restored city? He's one | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
appearance short of equalling the appearance record of club legend | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
John Atyeo, who was also an England international, and has a stand named | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
after him at Ashton Gate. Louis made his Bristol City debut 18 years ago. | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
We have a photograph of him which he may not thank us for showing again! | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
This is one of his career highlights, scoring in the | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Championship playoff semifinal in 2008. He'll be 37 next month, and | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
has only featured twice this season, but if he does get on the field he | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
will draw level with John Atyeo s record. In the future, I will look | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
back on it with enormous pride and think what a great achievement it | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
is. We all know what the great man himself did for the football club, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
not just appearances, but goals and England appearances. He put Bristol | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
on the map. Hopefully, I can be the same. Lets hope it happens for him. | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
He is a bit of a laugh. Yes, he is the sort of character that you need | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
in the dressing room. That is why he is so popular, not just because of | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
his ability. He is a bit of a character. When his good friend | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Scott Murray retired a couple of years ago and became a kit man, | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Lewis went and got a shirt that was about three sizes too small for him, | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
and then came in and said, Scott, you have shrunk my shirt! Football | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
needs those characters. And he is still only 37! I think we should | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
name this desk after you, you've been here for so long! Thank you. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Happy Christmas. If you were looking to the skies | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
above the Forest of Dean recently, you might have thought Santa was on | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
a trial run for Christmas Eve. One, two, three, go! In fact, two science | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
enthusiasts ` Mark Ireland and Cassie Phelps ` had attached a tiny | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
replica, complete with reindeer and gifts, to a high altitude weather | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
balloon. The on`board camera and GPS tracker captured the journey as the | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
sleigh flew to 100,000 feet above the Earth! But Santa would have had | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
a rough landing, after the balloon burst. Bang! You win some, you lose | :23:38. | :23:49. | |
some. Shall we take a look at the weather? | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
It is going to be rather a turbulent story as we run into the Christmas | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
season. For the weekend, it will be a question of clearing some rain | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
away towards the south`east tomorrow morning. That weather will establish | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
overnight. Tomorrow morning we have some more heavy rain, turning | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
showery through the evening. Sunday will be a chilly and blustery day. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
All eyes on Monday, as we look down the barrel of what will be a | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
decidedly stormy and wet period across all of the British Isles | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
Let's look at some rain moving in into the west, which will be quite | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
heavy. A dry, bright window tomorrow afternoon for a while, before more | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
showers approach. Rain this evening and tonight, and we have a Met | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Office yellow warning out for this, particularly to the south of the M4, | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
including Bristol, Bath, and north`east Somerset. Substantial | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
amounts of rain tonight and into tomorrow morning, so there could | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
well be some localised flooding This is the chart for Monday as we | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
won through to the afternoon. This deep area of low pressure, these | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
isobars packed together, that is a recipe for an awful lot of rain and | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
some strong winds. Up to 60 miles an hour gusts. With that in mind, we | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
have another Met office early warning out, because the impact of | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
this, even the time is it, and some of the conditions lasting through to | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Christmas Eve, will be disruptive. So far as the here and now is | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
concerned, some rain will arrive later this evening from the | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
north`west. It will be a wet and windy spell overnight, and the | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
heaviest of that game will be further to the South East, where it | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
will still linger into the early hours of daylight tomorrow morning. | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Temperatures tonight around eight Celsius. As the day wears on, the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
heavy rain rolls away, the brighter spells return, and eventually, we | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
will have some more heavy rain coming back in. I will see you on | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Boxing Day, but I will keep you up to date on Twitter. Happy Christmas | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
to you! Thank you. I would like to wish you all a happy | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
Christmas. Now time to open our advent | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
calendar. And this snowy picture of Glastonbury Tor was taken by Steve | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Lambert. That's about it from us in the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
studio. But we're going back to the Royal Mail sorting office in Filton. | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
Amidst all the letters, the staff choir are going to sing us out. You | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
may remember they were finalists in the BBC's The Choir: Sing While You | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
Work programme with Gareth Malone, so we should be in for a treat. Good | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
night. # Ding`dong merrily on high. | :27:04. | :27:15. | |
# Hosanna in ex`Chelsea 's. # Gloria! | :27:16. | :27:29. | |
# Let Steeple bells be swung. # Gloria! | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
# Gloria! #. | :27:40. | :27:54. |