:00:00. > :00:00.George. Thank you. That's all so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One
:00:00. > :00:09.Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Alex Lovell. Our
:00:10. > :00:12.main story tonight: What it's like to have flooding on your doorstep.
:00:13. > :00:15.More homes are threatened by the incoming water and an emergency
:00:16. > :00:24.shelter is set up in case people have to get out. I'm really
:00:25. > :00:27.petrified. I've never had it before like this and it's coming nearer and
:00:28. > :00:29.nearer the house. We'll be looking at the cost of the clear`up and
:00:30. > :00:41.asking if the worst is over. Our other stories making the news
:00:42. > :00:44.this evening: In court ` the lap dancers and their agent accused of
:00:45. > :00:51.kidnapping a club boss who didn t pay up. I don't want to do this
:00:52. > :00:54.He's off ` Bath's Don Foster announces his retirement as an MP
:00:55. > :00:58.and reflects on his roller`coaster ride in politics.
:00:59. > :01:00.And searching for the secrets of the universe ` the electronic telescope
:01:01. > :01:12.that can see for millions of miles. Hello. A few hours of dry weather
:01:13. > :01:15.brought a much needed respite to the West Country today. But although
:01:16. > :01:21.surface flooding is receding, some rivers are still rising ` and the
:01:22. > :01:25.risk isn't over yet. The Severn for instance, takes longer to swell than
:01:26. > :01:28.others ` so many people still have their fingers crossed. And at a
:01:29. > :01:32.village on the Somerset Levels, an emergency shelter was opened last
:01:33. > :01:45.night in case things get worse. Clinton Rogers is in Westonzoyland.
:01:46. > :01:51.It is a very soggy Westonzoyland, as you can see. Some people seem to be
:01:52. > :01:54.enjoying the water but not many I've spoken to one lady already
:01:55. > :01:56.planning to leave her house tonight because the waters here are still
:01:57. > :02:03.rising. Well, yesterday Langport and Aller.
:02:04. > :02:07.Before that, Muchelney. Today a different village but very much the
:02:08. > :02:11.same story ` a story of swollen rivers, of heavy rain, of high tides
:02:12. > :02:14.pushing yet more water those rivers, over spilling onto the ball
:02:15. > :02:20.land and, frankly, the water has nowhere else to go. `` moorland
:02:21. > :02:26.Except the places like this that have had to cope with it today.
:02:27. > :02:29.On the sodden streets of Westonzoyland, they were trying to
:02:30. > :02:32.carry on as normal today ` or as normal as they could, considering
:02:33. > :02:40.the floodwaters here are continuing to rise. It's still been coming up
:02:41. > :02:44.since last night. It was nowhere near as bad as this last night. Last
:02:45. > :02:47.night a full emergency plan swung into action in Westonzoyland, as
:02:48. > :02:52.swollen rivers and water draining from higher ground threatened to
:02:53. > :02:59.flood around 50 homes. Never as bad as this. It flows a little bit last
:03:00. > :03:02.year but nothing like this. The Red Cross, local councils and
:03:03. > :03:10.volunteers helped set up an emergency evacuation point in the
:03:11. > :03:13.community centre. In the event, it wasn't needed. The water stopped
:03:14. > :03:17.within inches of properties. The Somerset Levels are meant to flood `
:03:18. > :03:22.water is deliberately diverted here to protect centres like Taunton and
:03:23. > :03:26.Bridgwater. But it's the sheer volume of water here now that's
:03:27. > :03:29.causing the problems. It's overflowing to places it shouldn't
:03:30. > :03:36.go ` like Westonzoyland, where streets have become rivers. The
:03:37. > :03:40.Environment Agency are pumping it off the moorland as fast as they
:03:41. > :03:43.can. But the local MP says it's the agency's fault for neglecting the
:03:44. > :03:46.rivers and water courses in the first place, refusing to dredge
:03:47. > :03:52.them, gambling with people's lives and livelihoods. But others believe
:03:53. > :04:00.the problem is more complex than that. It's going to have to be doing
:04:01. > :04:03.things differently because clearly what they are doing at the moment
:04:04. > :04:11.isn't working with the weather conditions we're experiencing. What
:04:12. > :04:12.does different mean? It may be looking at dredging, managing the
:04:13. > :04:16.land differently. They continue to prepare for the
:04:17. > :04:19.worst and hope for the best in Westonzoyland. Long term, the
:04:20. > :04:22.question is, how do you control this water. People living in communities
:04:23. > :04:34.like this say an answer has to be found ` and quickly.
:04:35. > :04:41.Unfortunately, we have a problem with the sound and we would remind
:04:42. > :04:48.you, of course, as much fun as it might look, don't play in the flood
:04:49. > :04:51.water. It's really not safe. The pictures of the West Country
:04:52. > :04:54.under water have made headlines around the country. For some people,
:04:55. > :04:57.it's the first time they've had their homes and businesses flooded.
:04:58. > :05:00.For others it's become an all too familiar situation. Our business
:05:01. > :05:04.correspondent Dave Harvey has been to meet just a few of the people
:05:05. > :05:09.starting to count the cost of the floods. It got up to this level
:05:10. > :05:13.halfway to the champagne labels They were all swimming in water
:05:14. > :05:17.Champagne shouldn't be swimming in water. It should be dry, with some
:05:18. > :05:20.nice salmon and canapes. The champagne survived ` of course `
:05:21. > :05:23.but for two weeks, this Sicilian restaurateur has been mopping the
:05:24. > :05:27.floors ` not popping the corks. For the busiest week of the year, these
:05:28. > :05:30.tables lay empty and silent. Tonight, after a fortnight with the
:05:31. > :05:40.squeegee, Vito will open for business once more. And he knows
:05:41. > :05:45.plenty of others in the same boat. A few restaurants in the area I know
:05:46. > :05:48.are closed over the Christmas period and are still closed because they
:05:49. > :05:55.haven't managed open. It's devastating for them and for the
:05:56. > :06:01.economy. We haven't had tides as big as this for seven years now. It came
:06:02. > :06:07.over on Friday. It's flooded most of the farm. You find Richard Few's
:06:08. > :06:10.farm down an aptly named Gloucestershire backroad. His fields
:06:11. > :06:14.are underwater but he's not moaning ` the crops can take it, for a few
:06:15. > :06:20.weeks at least. All established crops can survive underwater for
:06:21. > :06:25.about four weeks. If this was to go on for eight to ten weeks, it would
:06:26. > :06:28.start killing the grass. I have some wheat that won't survive the water,
:06:29. > :06:32.which will cost quite a bit of money to replant. A world away from cattle
:06:33. > :06:34.and crops ` Swindon's car factory. But the same floods have brought
:06:35. > :06:38.production here to a standstill too, until Monday at least. But the
:06:39. > :06:46.biggest bill may come from the little things. The rest country s
:06:47. > :06:52.roads have taken a battering over the past ten days and after the
:06:53. > :06:55.rain, there could be a freeze. In the spring, highways engineers will
:06:56. > :07:01.come out and inspect potholes like this and try to work out the bill.
:07:02. > :07:06.At the moment I couldn't envisage what this current flooding will cost
:07:07. > :07:10.us but what I can say is that the 2007 flood, which was considerably
:07:11. > :07:15.more than this one, cost the county ?20 million in road repairs and
:07:16. > :07:25.investments to put the interest to write.
:07:26. > :07:28.Back in Bradford on Avon, there was a determination in the air today.
:07:29. > :07:31.The spirit? Get on with it, and get a mop out.
:07:32. > :07:33.Ian will be with us later with your forecast.
:07:34. > :07:36.Three women who were working as lap dancers during the National Hunt
:07:37. > :07:39.Festival in Cheltenham have denied kidnapping a man they claim owed
:07:40. > :07:43.them tens of thousands of pounds. The dancers, their agent and two men
:07:44. > :07:46.have gone on trial at Bristol Crown Court. Our Gloucestershire reporter
:07:47. > :07:49.Steve Knibbs was there. The Embassy nightclub in Cheltenham
:07:50. > :07:55.was hired by Curtis Woodman during the National Hunt Festival in 2 12
:07:56. > :07:59.to entertain race goers. Charlotte Devaney booked dancers and hostesses
:08:00. > :08:03.for the week. But the court heard that the club was closed down
:08:04. > :08:06.because it breached its licence when some of the dancers insisted on
:08:07. > :08:09.taking their clothes off for customers. On the last night, one
:08:10. > :08:13.customer paid ?42,000, which, under their contract, should have been
:08:14. > :08:18.split between the women. But the jury were told they weren't paid by
:08:19. > :08:21.Mr Woodman. The court heard that three of the dancers, Stephanie Pye,
:08:22. > :08:32.Rachel Goodchild and Mandy Cool along with Charlotte Devaney,
:08:33. > :08:35.planned to confront Curtis Woodman. The court was shown text messages,
:08:36. > :08:43.in which Charlotte Devaney told an unknown contact...
:08:44. > :08:48.The court was then told the four women went to where Curtis Woodman
:08:49. > :08:52.worked with Alex and Robert Morris, who bundled him into a car. A police
:08:53. > :08:55.video interview with the victim Curtis Woodman, was shown to the
:08:56. > :08:59.court, in which he described what happened to him after he was taken.
:09:00. > :09:02.He said Charlotte Devaney kept screaming at him, "Where's my
:09:03. > :09:05.money?". He talked about how Robert Morris kept hitting him and how Alex
:09:06. > :09:09.Morris threatened him with a Stanley knife. At one stage he told police
:09:10. > :09:13.he was taken out of the car in a headlock and hit. He said, "At this
:09:14. > :09:17.point blood was pouring out of me". Mr Woodman claims he was then forced
:09:18. > :09:25.to phone his bank and transfer ?4,800 into Charlotte Devaney's
:09:26. > :09:28.account. All six defendants deny kidnap and the trial continues.
:09:29. > :09:32.One of the West's best known political figures has announced he's
:09:33. > :09:37.to stand down as an MP. Don Foster was first elected to represent Bath
:09:38. > :09:41.in 1992. He's won five successive elections. He's currently the
:09:42. > :09:51.Liberal Democrats' chief whip. Our political editor Paul Barltrop has
:09:52. > :09:58.been looking back at his career Donald Michael Ellison Foster,
:09:59. > :10:02.Liberal Democrat, 25,000. His defeat of top conservative Chris
:10:03. > :10:04.Patten in 1992 thrust him into the spotlight. But Don Foster's
:10:05. > :10:08.political career had begun a decade earlier, when he was elected to
:10:09. > :10:12.serve on Avon County Council. He led the Liberal group and later, as an
:10:13. > :10:15.MP, sought to become national party leader. Instead he was given
:10:16. > :10:19.important roles ` but his fame often came from his willingness to perform
:10:20. > :10:22.for the cameras, whether taking to two wheels, or riding a roller
:10:23. > :10:30.coaster at a seaside party conference. I don't want to do this.
:10:31. > :10:33.I really don't want to do this. He's had other scares too ` including
:10:34. > :10:37.being treated for cancer. Fully recovered, he hit a new high, with
:10:38. > :10:43.senior posts in in the coalition and praise from colleagues. He's so
:10:44. > :10:48.widely liked and respected across Westminster. He's got a very
:10:49. > :10:51.mischievous sense of humour. He s very resilient and is now working
:10:52. > :10:57.very effectively as chief whip in my party. He'll be massively missed but
:10:58. > :11:00.he's done many, many years of outstanding public service in Bath
:11:01. > :11:05.and nationally, too. All Lib Dem MPs faced anger over their decision to
:11:06. > :11:12.treble tuition fees. Being in government nationally could hurt the
:11:13. > :11:16.party locally. He's taken his bid to retrieve from around 3000 to around
:11:17. > :11:20.11,000 over the years. He's transcended politics for quite some
:11:21. > :11:23.time, until 2010, when he became involved in a lot of sticky
:11:24. > :11:26.situations. On the streets of Bath he's gone to quite some lengths to
:11:27. > :11:31.catch voters' attention. It seems to have worked. I'm not very much a
:11:32. > :11:34.Liberal Democrat person but he has been one of the better ones. He
:11:35. > :11:40.seems to be very proactive and speaks to people when they approach
:11:41. > :11:43.him. All the best to him. He's been a bit of a stranger to
:11:44. > :11:46.forward`looking people so some new blood would be good. He was
:11:47. > :11:49.re`elected last time with his biggest ever majority. The party's
:11:50. > :11:52.search for his successor starts today.
:11:53. > :11:55.Earlier I spoke to Mr Foster outside the Houses of Parliament and asked
:11:56. > :12:04.him for some of his career highlights. Very many. Helping
:12:05. > :12:09.individual constituents, obviously, has been the most important thing
:12:10. > :12:13.I've done. Probably the thing that's been the greatest fun has been to
:12:14. > :12:17.have played a part of the member of the Olympic and Paralympic board and
:12:18. > :12:22.to be the deputy mayor of the Paralympic Village. That was an
:12:23. > :12:25.amazing opportunity. You spent most of your parliamentary career in
:12:26. > :12:29.opposition, when you could promise the world, frankly. The last four
:12:30. > :12:34.years, you've been in government where it's been very tough. Which
:12:35. > :12:38.did you prefer? I far prefer to be in government. It's important to
:12:39. > :12:41.remember that MPs on the back inches, whether in opposition or the
:12:42. > :12:45.government side, can get a lot achieved and I was able to change
:12:46. > :12:49.legislation, to do things that have helped people in Bath from the
:12:50. > :12:52.backbenches. But obviously in government, you've got an even
:12:53. > :13:00.greater opportunity to make things happen. For example, a campaign that
:13:01. > :13:03.I run the years to try to get better regulation of gambling in
:13:04. > :13:08.government. I was able to achieve it and we've now got the legislation on
:13:09. > :13:11.the statute books. The irony is that you caused a political earthquake
:13:12. > :13:15.when you snatched Bath from the Conservatives, Chris Patten. Now
:13:16. > :13:19.thanks to the Liberal Democrats the Conservatives are effectively in
:13:20. > :13:22.government. They are government in coalition with the Liberal Democrats
:13:23. > :13:26.and the result of our involvement, we've made a huge difference.
:13:27. > :13:31.Getting a stronger economy, getting it out of the economic mess left by
:13:32. > :13:34.the previous government, but doing it in a fairer way, and we're
:13:35. > :13:39.doubling the green agenda, which is important. So I'm delighted we're in
:13:40. > :13:43.government. Being able to raise the tax threshold, taking less well off
:13:44. > :13:48.people out of tax altogether and many other things. Some say they
:13:49. > :13:53.will never trust the Lib Dems again. They would be wrong to say that
:13:54. > :13:57.Nick Clegg has apologised for what we did over tuition fees but let's
:13:58. > :14:01.remember that four out of five of the key things we said we wanted to
:14:02. > :14:06.achieve if we were in government, every one of them has now been
:14:07. > :14:11.achieved. What happens to you next? I've no idea. One of your BBC
:14:12. > :14:16.colleagues just invited me to come and take over your job so I look
:14:17. > :14:20.forward to doing that. But I want people to recognise that there are
:14:21. > :14:24.17 months still to go and I'm going to be working very hard as the MP
:14:25. > :14:28.for Bath and then after that, one of the things I'm very keen to do is to
:14:29. > :14:38.spend a bit more time being able to help a really important charity
:14:39. > :14:41.called WaterAid, helping to bring safe, clean water to billions of
:14:42. > :14:46.people around the world who don t have access to it. He's not having
:14:47. > :14:50.my job! I'm bolting the studio doors from the inside.
:14:51. > :14:53.We'd have to audition him anyway and I would be on the panel!
:14:54. > :14:56.The Olympic silver medallist Heather Fell, who was part of the successful
:14:57. > :14:59.modern pentathlon team based in Bath, has also announced her
:15:00. > :15:02.retirement. To mark the end of her career she's been asking other stars
:15:03. > :15:04.about the challenges they faced packing away their trainers and
:15:05. > :15:24.giving up the day job. Competitive sport has always been
:15:25. > :15:29.part of my life. It really is all I've ever known. Pony club when I
:15:30. > :15:33.was tiny lead to modern pentathlon and full`time training at the
:15:34. > :15:39.University of art. Giving that up and looking for a real job is
:15:40. > :15:44.daunting. As a UK sport athlete my funding ended exactly three months
:15:45. > :15:50.after my retirement. From that date, access to the doctors, the physios
:15:51. > :15:55.and the gym here also ended. To cope with such a gear change, I've been
:15:56. > :15:59.trying new things ` working with schools and charities and getting
:16:00. > :16:02.experience in the media. I've found it harder than expected to adjust
:16:03. > :16:08.and I wanted to find out how others have faced this sleep into the
:16:09. > :16:13.unknown. Injuries forced Lewis Moody to hang up his boots in 2012. He
:16:14. > :16:19.reached the pinnacle of his sport but retirement has taken time to
:16:20. > :16:23.sink in. You don't realise to what extent you have competition in life
:16:24. > :16:26.until it's gone. I'm getting more and more frustrated but I don't
:16:27. > :16:31.realise it because I'm pretending that I don't miss rugby. It's your
:16:32. > :16:36.wife that has to tell you to go and disappear to the gym and release
:16:37. > :16:40.some testosterone. So it's a realisation that part of my life is
:16:41. > :16:44.still having to find that competition and find things that
:16:45. > :17:00.test me and push me outside of rugby. Rower Stephen Rowbotham
:17:01. > :17:06.retired in 2008. He is now working for Siemens. It incredibly difficult
:17:07. > :17:08.for some you take your last stroke can be of the games and somebody
:17:09. > :17:13.turns round and asks you what you are going to do now and that's all
:17:14. > :17:15.you have known. You walk into a room when you're rowing as Stephen
:17:16. > :17:19.Rowbotham the other big medallist and now people don't even know your
:17:20. > :17:29.name or hear you are. They don't even care. Brian Moore had a legal
:17:30. > :17:33.career to fall back on when he gave up his sport. I moved to Soho and
:17:34. > :17:36.went wild for years and had to go into a treatment programme. It's
:17:37. > :17:40.much better to deal with these issues, which are quite terrifying
:17:41. > :17:45.when EULA could then, when you've got that comfort and structure
:17:46. > :17:53.around you. `` when you look at them. People who cope best with
:17:54. > :17:59.retirement are people who plan before it happens. Helping athletes
:18:00. > :18:02.find jobs is now the focus for sporting bodies. I attended this
:18:03. > :18:07.careers fair last year, the first of its kind pairing Olympians with
:18:08. > :18:11.blue`chip companies. UK firms say support like this will continue
:18:12. > :18:14.So there is some support for athletes out there, but does it go
:18:15. > :18:17.far enough? The Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes retired
:18:18. > :18:22.as a middle`distance athlete eight years ago. And she told me why she's
:18:23. > :18:37.set up a trust helping former athletes find work. My trust brings
:18:38. > :18:42.the athletes on board to give them a sense of their team spirit back
:18:43. > :18:43.They work on our personal development programmes with
:18:44. > :18:48.disadvantaged people in the community. And with that
:18:49. > :18:52.connection, we're able to utilise the skills of the athletes and the
:18:53. > :18:56.position they've been in to really motivate and give the kids a sense
:18:57. > :19:02.of self`worth and opportunity. What do you think is the hardest part of
:19:03. > :19:06.retiring? I found it pretty hard, just because the fact is that for
:19:07. > :19:12.many many years you had one goal and that is to be the best you can be.
:19:13. > :19:16.When you then make that decision to retire, really, everything you've
:19:17. > :19:21.ever had changes the camaraderie, the team support, the focus, the
:19:22. > :19:26.structure. When that goes, people seem to have a real loss of
:19:27. > :19:33.identity, a loss of confidence and a lack of self`esteem to know where to
:19:34. > :19:37.go next. Anybody who's lost a job might get that feeling of lack of
:19:38. > :19:43.self`esteem so what would your advice be? Firstly, not to be
:19:44. > :19:46.scared. It's a new life and it's different, definitely, but it gives
:19:47. > :19:50.you new opportunities. Talk to people who have been in the same
:19:51. > :19:53.position before, and there are many athletes who have retired in the
:19:54. > :19:57.past and have gone through different journeys. What you get from that is
:19:58. > :20:00.a sense of not being alone and that you're not the only one and
:20:01. > :20:03.sometimes you need to hear those things. Although in the sporting
:20:04. > :20:08.world you don't always know when you're going to have to retire,
:20:09. > :20:14.there is an inevitability. So how much do you think you can forward
:20:15. > :20:17.plan? I think because the area of retirement is becoming more and more
:20:18. > :20:23.relevant now, because we're having so much profile on sport, there is a
:20:24. > :20:28.sense that you can do a lot whilst you're an athlete in terms of
:20:29. > :20:32.looking at other interests and maybe making that stepping stone, whether
:20:33. > :20:38.it's going on a cause, reading about things, and actually preparing for
:20:39. > :20:42.what you might like to do. But it is very hard because you remember when
:20:43. > :20:46.you were at the top of your game and if you don't commit to your sport
:20:47. > :20:52.100%, you would always be second best. So there's a real balance
:20:53. > :20:54.Sports have their part to play in the fact that they do support
:20:55. > :21:05.athletes when they leave for about three months, the English Institute
:21:06. > :21:08.Of Sport. . But it is said to take two years for athletes to settle and
:21:09. > :21:13.start to respond to that retirement phase in their life. There's a lot
:21:14. > :21:17.more that can be done. Dame Kelly Holmes, thank you so much for
:21:18. > :21:22.joining us. Makes you think, doesn't it? It s so
:21:23. > :21:25.hard on sport, when you have to retire at such a young age.
:21:26. > :21:27.Bristol Rovers will play Championship club Birmingham City
:21:28. > :21:30.next Tuesday after finally completing their FA Cup second round
:21:31. > :21:34.replay. They came from behind to beat Crawley Town by two goals to
:21:35. > :21:37.one. Both Rovers goals came in the last ten minutes of the match, with
:21:38. > :21:46.John`Joe O'Toole scoring the winner to send Rovers through to round
:21:47. > :21:49.three. Rugby ` Bath's 20`year`old fly`half
:21:50. > :21:53.George Ford has been called up for the England squad for the first
:21:54. > :21:56.time. He's one of a dozen West Country players included for a
:21:57. > :21:59.training camp ahead of the Six Nations Championship. Ford only
:22:00. > :22:02.joined Bath during the summer from Leicester but has been in sparkling
:22:03. > :22:06.form and feels he's ready to make the step up to international rugby
:22:07. > :22:09.Way up on the roof above the physics laboratory at Bristol University,
:22:10. > :22:11.there's a large telescope trained on the sky.
:22:12. > :22:13.I feel like I'm in a good place I've been involved in tests in
:22:14. > :22:17.international rugby and you don t know what to expect. It's a massive
:22:18. > :22:30.learning curve for me but I feel like my game is a good place.
:22:31. > :22:32.Way up on the roof above the physics laboratory at Bristol University,
:22:33. > :22:36.there's a large telescope trained on the sky. It's scanning the heavens
:22:37. > :22:39.thousands of light years away and is helping us to understand the speed
:22:40. > :22:42.our galaxy is spinning. As part of the BBC's Stargazing Live, we sent
:22:43. > :22:46.science and technology broadcaster Jheni Osman to take a look.
:22:47. > :22:54.You get some amazing views of Bristol from up here. Although it is
:22:55. > :22:57.a bit windy! But I wonder how many people walking on the streets below
:22:58. > :23:01.have ever bothered to look up, and seen this. It's a device so powerful
:23:02. > :23:07.that with its data we can find out amazing facts about distant parts of
:23:08. > :23:11.our galaxy. I went to meet Professor Mark
:23:12. > :23:14.Burkinshaw, who showed me the six metre high radio telescope that sits
:23:15. > :23:18.on top of Bristol University's School of physics. It looks
:23:19. > :23:23.specifically at the radio signal given off thy auto molecules as they
:23:24. > :23:29.rotate and vibrate at different speeds, at different temperatures
:23:30. > :23:36.across the galaxy. The movement of these molecules coming towards us is
:23:37. > :23:39.a bit like an ambulance siren. As an ambulance moves towards you, the
:23:40. > :23:42.sound waves in front of it become bunched up, hence the siren sounds
:23:43. > :23:46.higher pitched. As it moves away, the sound waves get more stretched
:23:47. > :23:49.out, and so it's lower pitched. This so`called Doppler shift is the same
:23:50. > :23:52.effect that happens with the radiation from the vibrating water
:23:53. > :23:54.molecules in a moving gas cloud By knowing how fast the water
:23:55. > :23:56.molecules are moving, the scientists can work out where in the galaxy
:23:57. > :23:59.they come from. All the data collated here is centre experts in
:24:00. > :24:01.the US, who can also work out how fast the galaxy is actually
:24:02. > :24:06.spinning. The galaxy is held together by Gravity and that
:24:07. > :24:11.swirling motion tells us how much mass varies within a given radius of
:24:12. > :24:15.the galaxy. By comparing the total mass with the mass we see in stars,
:24:16. > :24:22.the difference is enormous. We can see whether dark matter is. Why
:24:23. > :24:25.should we actually care about this? It's always embarrassing if you
:24:26. > :24:30.don't know where 95% of the stuff is. If you only see 5% of the
:24:31. > :24:36.universe, what's going on in the other 95 cents? It's amazing to
:24:37. > :24:45.think that just this one radio telescope alone can tell us so much
:24:46. > :24:48.about the galaxy we live in. And if it's whetted your appetite, then
:24:49. > :24:50.tune in to Stargazing Live. It's on BBC Two this evening at eight
:24:51. > :24:55.o'clock. If you don't know where 95% of your
:24:56. > :25:01.stuff is, you should be embarrassed. Well, I am! But a man who isn't is
:25:02. > :25:09.Ian. He's on the roof without a the Met Office has operated a
:25:10. > :25:15.Doppler radio recently, which says there are some showers around at the
:25:16. > :25:24.moment across the West Country. A dry, chilly start to tomorrow. The
:25:25. > :25:29.rainfall amounts are not going to be in any way significant, many of you
:25:30. > :25:33.will be glad to hear. This is how things are set up under what will
:25:34. > :25:36.become an increasingly cold night. Into tomorrow, after a decent
:25:37. > :25:41.morning you can see the front moving in from the West, which will make
:25:42. > :25:46.rather erratic process into `` progress into our districts. Not
:25:47. > :25:52.looking like anything to scare the horses. For the rest of the night, a
:25:53. > :25:56.question of clearing the showers away ` some might linger across
:25:57. > :25:59.western districts ` and more importantly watching the
:26:00. > :26:03.temperatures tumble away. They are already starting to do so and will
:26:04. > :26:07.continue into the early hours, so we can expect that by daybreak tomorrow
:26:08. > :26:15.temperatures are down in the range of somewhere from about one Celsius
:26:16. > :26:19.to four Celsius. As a consequence, the road temperatures will be down
:26:20. > :26:23.to freezing or below, so anywhere away from the coastal fringes is now
:26:24. > :26:28.under a Met Office and advisory for some icy surfaces. If you see
:26:29. > :26:33.gritters out tonight, that is why they are there. We have seepage from
:26:34. > :26:41.Broadwater across country lanes but that aside, a decent start. ``
:26:42. > :26:44.seepage from flood water. You can see the progress of this front as it
:26:45. > :26:49.moves its way in from the West through the late afternoon, through
:26:50. > :26:52.the evening, and a damp end to Friday will be a safe description,
:26:53. > :26:56.rather than thoroughly wet. Another cold night into Saturday morning but
:26:57. > :27:02.temperatures tomorrow should get up to around eight or nine. Beyond
:27:03. > :27:06.that, a beautiful day on Saturday, after a cold start. Sunday looks OK
:27:07. > :27:11.until the afternoon. More rain comes in, some of which could be
:27:12. > :27:16.significant. It raises the spectre of local flooding issues again. Next
:27:17. > :27:20.week, every mess in the forecast models. Some headlines talking about
:27:21. > :27:29.an arctic blast but it doesn't look anything like as bad as that.
:27:30. > :27:32.As the BBC's stargazing programme approaches for its last hour, we're
:27:33. > :27:37.going to be gazing at the stars ourselves. We have our own universe
:27:38. > :27:41.above and apparently the aurora borealis is going to be visible from
:27:42. > :27:44.some of the UK. I think we'd be lucky to see it down here but
:27:45. > :27:46.nevertheless... From a moonlit Points West, good
:27:47. > :27:47.night!