:00:00. > :00:08.from the Atlantic. Thank you very much. That's it from us.
:00:09. > :00:12.Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Sarah Jane
:00:13. > :00:16.Bungay. Our main story tonight: Calls for the floods to be declared
:00:17. > :00:19.a disaster. A calm beauty descends over waterlogged Somerset as a Euro
:00:20. > :00:29.MP says the county should receive emergency funding. The extent of the
:00:30. > :00:32.flooding is such there would be no doubt we would be granted the money.
:00:33. > :00:36.But help is on its way. We meet the villagers on dry land at last,
:00:37. > :00:46.thanks to a new boat. We'll be live from a community which has been cut
:00:47. > :00:51.off for days. The others stories in the news
:00:52. > :00:53.tonight: Battle of the booze. A charity turns from helping drug
:00:54. > :00:56.addicts to alcoholics as drink becomes the bigger problem.
:00:57. > :01:08.How children who challenged authority had their behaviour tamed
:01:09. > :01:11.by Everest. And: The old word from Wiltshire that may make it back into
:01:12. > :01:20.the dictionary but what does it mean?
:01:21. > :01:24.No idea! Has it got anything to do with horses?
:01:25. > :01:27.Good evening. The flooding in Somerset is so bad that the area
:01:28. > :01:31.should be treated as a European Disaster Area and baled out with
:01:32. > :01:36.emergency funds from the EU. That's according to a Euro MP who toured
:01:37. > :01:39.the Somerset Levels today. Sir Graham Watson said the fund should
:01:40. > :01:44.be used for long`term solutions to the flooding but today, at least, a
:01:45. > :01:47.few victims got some relief. They were rescued from their village by a
:01:48. > :01:53.boat hired by the council. Sally Challoner reports.
:01:54. > :01:57.Sunrise over the Somerset Levels. But while the views are stunning,
:01:58. > :02:01.life here, at the moment, is less so. At least villagers from
:02:02. > :02:11.Muchelney have been able to get to the mainland today. They've been
:02:12. > :02:18.marooned since before the New Year. Wonderful, finally! It's a relief,
:02:19. > :02:24.just to know you can get in and out. We've had wonderful volunteers
:02:25. > :02:28.bringing us things. They were here all day, at our beck and call. The
:02:29. > :02:31.boat's been paid for by the county council but the local MEP says
:02:32. > :02:38.that's a sticking plaster on a problem that needs major surgery. We
:02:39. > :02:45.need to be looking at how we deal with water management and whether
:02:46. > :02:49.taking decisions centrally to the Environment Agency is the right
:02:50. > :02:55.thing, or whether we shouldn't be looking to setting up local training
:02:56. > :02:58.boards with representatives from local landowners, councils and
:02:59. > :03:01.landowners to make sure that locally, people who know the area,
:03:02. > :03:05.are taking the decision whether water goes. There's no arguing with
:03:06. > :03:08.the need. This is the main road to Muchelney. Homes and business are
:03:09. > :03:15.submerged, too. The clean`up bill is likely to be huge but there is
:03:16. > :03:22.European money available. We have the opportunity to apply for
:03:23. > :03:26.funding. We did so five years ago after the flooding in
:03:27. > :03:31.Gloucestershire. We got ?30 million to help us with the clean`up. I want
:03:32. > :03:34.to see the government putting in an application within the ten week
:03:35. > :03:38.deadline period and making sure that the people who have suffered are
:03:39. > :03:41.getting some help in the clean`up. While some here are getting used to
:03:42. > :03:44.the attention their situation is getting, most just want life to get
:03:45. > :03:57.back to normal. Well, Jon Kay is in Muchelney now.
:03:58. > :04:03.The Department of the Environment has no plans to call on those EU
:04:04. > :04:19.funds but supports the creation of internal drainage boards. I think
:04:20. > :04:25.they are getting ready for a grim weekend. It is bizarre to think that
:04:26. > :04:31.tonight, we are on an island in Somerset! We came in via this road
:04:32. > :04:37.and that is, believe it or not, a road. The water levels have dropped
:04:38. > :04:42.by three inches since we were here at the beginning of the week. That
:04:43. > :04:50.cart was completely submerged on Monday. Those volunteers bringing in
:04:51. > :04:54.supplies and posed for the people who live here. Water levels dropping
:04:55. > :04:59.a bit but people are worried that they will not get out by the road
:05:00. > :05:04.and they are expecting it to be the case for another week or so at the
:05:05. > :05:06.very least. Understandable that media and press are there. How are
:05:07. > :05:14.there. How other locals dealing with that? We saw things come to a head
:05:15. > :05:19.earlier in the week when people were angry that one national tabloid
:05:20. > :05:24.newspaper sent in a glamour model with some beer cans for a publicity
:05:25. > :05:29.stunt. Some people are fed up with the attention. They have been very
:05:30. > :05:39.hospitable to us tonight and are putting us up. People hope that the
:05:40. > :05:43.attention they have had in the media and people like the MEP will at
:05:44. > :05:51.least mean they get what they want, which is better flood protection
:05:52. > :05:53.around here. We will be hearing from some of those villagers in a special
:05:54. > :06:11.programme at the later this evening. Give the villagers are best regards
:06:12. > :06:14.as well as you can them tonight A 31`year`old woman from Bristol has
:06:15. > :06:18.died after crashing on a snowmobile in Canada. Charlotte Mei Ling Lee
:06:19. > :06:22.had been holidaying with her boyfriend in Quebec when the
:06:23. > :06:26.accident happened. Her family say she was a kind, gentle and loving
:06:27. > :06:29.person. A nightclub boss from Cheltenham has
:06:30. > :06:34.told a court he feared for his life after being kidnapped by three lap
:06:35. > :06:37.dancers and their manager. It's alleged Curtis Woodman was attacked
:06:38. > :06:40.because he owed the women tens of thousands of pounds. Our
:06:41. > :06:45.Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, was in court.
:06:46. > :06:48.Curtis Woodman was asked today about what happened when the defendants
:06:49. > :06:52.first confronted him outside his business in Tewkesbury. It was said
:06:53. > :06:56.by the defence that they must have stood out like a sore thumb, with
:06:57. > :06:58.two of them in mini skirts and high heels, one screaming for money and
:06:59. > :07:20.accompanied by two unknown men. At one stage, Curtis Woodman told
:07:21. > :07:23.the jury that he got the defendants to drive him to a house he was
:07:24. > :07:28.renovating in Cheltenham that belonged to his father. He was
:07:29. > :07:32.asked, "Why did you take them to an empty house?" He said, "After this
:07:33. > :07:36.ordeal, I was in fear of my life. I wasn't thinking straight. And later,
:07:37. > :07:46.I was driving around aimlessly. I was just biding time."
:07:47. > :07:55.All six defendants deny the charge of kidnap and the trial continues on
:07:56. > :07:57.Monday. Well, you're watching Friday's
:07:58. > :08:02.Points West with Sarah`Jane and David. The weekend starts here!Yes,
:08:03. > :08:08.and we've plenty more for you in tonight's programme, including: 60
:08:09. > :08:11.years of TV forecasting. We'll have a few of our favourite bits from the
:08:12. > :08:21.archives, plus the very latest weekend weather from Ian.
:08:22. > :08:24.A drugs charity set up in Bristol 20 years ago to help teenagers hooked
:08:25. > :08:30.on heroin says it's now treating mostly middle`aged alcoholics. They
:08:31. > :08:32.claim it's because alcohol's cheap to buy and just as addictive. Scott
:08:33. > :08:46.Ellis reports. The 1990s on the Knowle West estate
:08:47. > :08:51.in south Bristol. Distraught parents of teenage heroin addicts set up
:08:52. > :08:54.their own support group, KWADS. Today, it relaunched with a sister
:08:55. > :09:05.charity in Hartcliffe, these days treating mostly alcoholics. There
:09:06. > :09:09.are lots of pubs closing, more people are drinking at home because
:09:10. > :09:15.they are not always aware of the amount of units or volume they are
:09:16. > :09:18.drinking, and it can so easily turn into dependency. Drink is so much
:09:19. > :09:21.easier to buy from a supermarket and more affordable. High demand for
:09:22. > :09:25.help to tackle alcohol addiction. The problem is the old KWADS lost
:09:26. > :09:28.its funding, so the new charity has to raise ?200,000 pounds a year to
:09:29. > :09:38.survive. Those who've been helped locally say its vital support's on
:09:39. > :09:42.the doorstep. This is a working class a working`class estate with a
:09:43. > :09:49.lot of problems and people can't go miles. I didn't move out very far,
:09:50. > :09:54.so if this was miles away, I wouldn't have thought it was for me
:09:55. > :10:03.or I was allowed to go there. To get into town and stuff like that, two
:10:04. > :10:08.buses. I suffer great anxiety. To have the local service on my
:10:09. > :10:11.doorstep was a massive bonus. Hawkspring will need generous donors
:10:12. > :10:14.to survive but as KWADS proved, if there's a will locally, there's a
:10:15. > :10:18.way and Bristol City Council says other charities have moved into the
:10:19. > :10:36.area, geared up more than ever to help alcholics.
:10:37. > :10:39.A team from Wiltshire has trekked towards Mount Everest in some of the
:10:40. > :10:42.worst seasonal weather conditions seen there for 20 years. The group
:10:43. > :10:44.wasn't made up of elite mountaineers, though, but teenagers
:10:45. > :10:48.with behavioural problems. In a moment, we'll hear from one of them
:10:49. > :10:52.and the expedition leader, but first, Zoe Gough's been looking at
:10:53. > :10:57.their journey. The team set off in October,
:10:58. > :11:03.supposedly the best time for trekking in the Everest Trail, but
:11:04. > :11:10.conditions soon changed and over 4000 feet, many adults were
:11:11. > :11:17.suffering. As well as the extreme altitude, they also had to cope with
:11:18. > :11:22.the worst October storm since 1 96, nearly bringing the expedition to an
:11:23. > :11:29.end. They also faced dangerous avalanches with reports that people
:11:30. > :11:34.have been killed days earlier. The team eventually reached their goal.
:11:35. > :11:38.They took in their own very special view of Everest.
:11:39. > :11:41.Well, joining us now are the expedition leader, Alan Chambers,
:11:42. > :11:44.and the head pupil from Springfields Academy in Calne, George Yeoman
:11:45. > :11:54.Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you
:11:55. > :12:04.actually know what I meant? Really challenging. It was an incredible
:12:05. > :12:07.experience. You could not imagine doing something like that at my age
:12:08. > :12:20.and being given the opportunity to do it. How old are you? 15. Couldn't
:12:21. > :12:31.have been very easy leading this. It has been nearly a year. 65 pupils
:12:32. > :12:36.from all around the country. A big challenge, just to get them away
:12:37. > :12:42.from home and their normal comforts. What did being in the mountains
:12:43. > :12:46.teacher about your behaviour? I was diagnosed with OCD a couple of years
:12:47. > :12:53.ago, which means I wash my hands a lot, get anxious about certain
:12:54. > :12:59.things, order. But being up in the world it is up there and the
:13:00. > :13:07.experience I have had, the change, culture, you have to get on with
:13:08. > :13:15.things. The contract keeps going. It was letting go of all your worries
:13:16. > :13:19.and anxiety and putting trust in the expedition leaders. That is what has
:13:20. > :13:31.taught me to do, trust people and be more relaxed about things and be
:13:32. > :13:43.able to relax. You are so composed. It's amazing what you have achieved.
:13:44. > :13:47.Now, if I told you to "stop ganderflanking around", would you
:13:48. > :13:50.actually know what I meant? I promise I'm not being rude! The word
:13:51. > :13:56."ganderflanking" is from Old English and originates from Wiltshire but is
:13:57. > :13:59.rarely used these days. However a new campaign launched by BBC
:14:00. > :14:01.Wiltshire could see it being included in the Oxford English
:14:02. > :14:16.Dictionary, as Lizzie Way reports. The word is out there. The BBC
:14:17. > :14:20.Wiltshire campaign to encourage use of the old Wiltshire word
:14:21. > :14:29.ganderflanking has gone national. It comes from Gander and flank, which
:14:30. > :14:39.is an old Wilts word for shirking. It's probably skiving! We would love
:14:40. > :14:45.to see used, maybe on the international space station, maybe
:14:46. > :14:52.it will get used in the House of Commons. I seek your guidance as to
:14:53. > :15:04.the potential use in proceedings of the old Wilts word, ganderflanking.
:15:05. > :15:07.I have sought help to use it. It will need more unselfconscious
:15:08. > :15:15.usage, so instead of people talking about the word, it really needs to
:15:16. > :15:23.have people using it. So are the people of Wiltshire using it enough
:15:24. > :15:30.in everyday speech? No idea. Has got anything to do with horses?
:15:31. > :15:34.Something to do with smoking? Gander? Having a look at something?
:15:35. > :15:35.Something to do with geese. Unsurprisingly, it's the experts who
:15:36. > :16:10.know how to use it best. Bristol City's majority shareholder,
:16:11. > :16:14.Stephen Lansdown, has wiped ?35 million of debt from the club's
:16:15. > :16:17.books. City have just announced they made another big loss last year
:16:18. > :16:19.Alistair Durden is here with tonight's sport. So what does this
:16:20. > :16:30.mean for the club? First, you're right. Another big
:16:31. > :16:34.loss, nearly ?13 million. It would have taken City's debts to over ?55
:16:35. > :16:41.million, which is owed to majority shareholder Stephen Lansdown. But
:16:42. > :16:44.he's converted ?35 million of that into equity by issuing new shares
:16:45. > :16:47.and buying them himself. So the debt now stands at around ?20 million,
:16:48. > :16:54.and the club insist the projection for next year's losses are much more
:16:55. > :16:59.favourable. In other football news, Paddy Madden
:17:00. > :17:03.has finally left Yeovil Town. Last season's top scorer and Wembley hero
:17:04. > :17:07.has been out of favour at the club, not featuring since November. He's
:17:08. > :17:11.joined Scunthorpe today for a fee believed to be worth up to ?300 000.
:17:12. > :17:18.And congratulations to Cheltenham's Mark Yates, today named League Two's
:17:19. > :17:20.manager of the month for December. His side are away to Burton
:17:21. > :17:25.tomorrow. Elsewhere, Swindon could give a debut to new signing George
:17:26. > :17:28.Barker. He's joined them from Brighton.
:17:29. > :17:32.Rugby, then, and it's a very big game for Gloucester tomorrow, isn't
:17:33. > :17:38.it? Yes. Their European Cup quarterfinal hopes are hanging by a
:17:39. > :17:41.thread. If we look at the table that home defeat to Edinburgh before
:17:42. > :17:47.Christmas really damaged their chances of making the knockout
:17:48. > :17:49.stages. It means they have to win tomorrow against Munster, the
:17:50. > :17:56.two`times European Champions who are top of the group. One man who won't
:17:57. > :17:59.be lacking in confidence is Jonny May. The Gloucester wing was named
:18:00. > :18:05.in England's Six Nations squad yesterday, reward for an excellent
:18:06. > :18:09.first half of the season. When the England squad was ,Jonny
:18:10. > :18:14.May was doing a different sort of training. The son of a Wiltshire
:18:15. > :18:23.vet, he was putting his six`month`old puppy Nala through her
:18:24. > :18:28.paces. She is something that I can come home and she's always pleased
:18:29. > :18:31.to see me. For Jonny, there have been more good days than bad despite
:18:32. > :18:34.Gloucester's disappointing campaign. He's one of the country's leading
:18:35. > :18:44.try scorers, catching the eye of the England selectors again. If huge
:18:45. > :18:50.achievement. Something I have been working towards my whole life. The
:18:51. > :18:55.funny thing is, once you have got one, you want more. I have been
:18:56. > :19:07.working hard to kick on and keep improving. A team that has not
:19:08. > :19:09.played that fluidly. I would definitely say he has international
:19:10. > :19:19.quality. Jonny was brought up in Swindon, playing for Wotton Bassett
:19:20. > :19:22.until he was 16. He's already played for England once during last
:19:23. > :19:25.summer's tour to Argentina but his Six Nations ambitions are on hold
:19:26. > :19:31.for a few weeks. The priority, lifting the gloom around Gloucester.
:19:32. > :19:35.It's an embarrassment. We've let the club and the city down. Munster are
:19:36. > :19:39.coming to Gloucester and that is there an opportunity for us to repay
:19:40. > :19:44.the funds and show everybody we do care about what we do and we want to
:19:45. > :19:47.be ploughed `` proud to be Gloucester. Jonny was a pole vaulter
:19:48. > :19:52.at school, but it's his raw speed thats marked him out as a rugby
:19:53. > :19:55.talent. Tomorrow he'll aim to give Munster the run`around before
:19:56. > :20:00.chasing down a regular place in the England side.
:20:01. > :20:03.Bath will guarantee a quarterfinal spot in the Challenge Cup if they
:20:04. > :20:08.avoid defeat to Newport`Gwent Dragons. And if you want to see
:20:09. > :20:19.tries, Bristol host Aberavon on Sunday. When they met before
:20:20. > :20:22.Christmas, Bristol won 78`0. Let's look at the modern pentathlon
:20:23. > :20:24.now as they're based in Bath. The Olympic silver medallist Heather
:20:25. > :20:29.Fell announced her retirement yesterday. Is anyone now going to
:20:30. > :20:31.follow in her footsteps? We had Samantha Murray.
:20:32. > :20:35.Samantha Murray won silver at London 2012 and the team as a whole have a
:20:36. > :20:38.great track record. The women have won a medal at every games they ve
:20:39. > :20:42.competed at, so expectations are high. The new season begins this
:20:43. > :20:46.weekend in Bath with the first of two British ranking events. Heather
:20:47. > :20:55.Fell has been to meet some of those hoping to be the next success story.
:20:56. > :21:01.After a relaxed post`Olympic year, the clock is ticking down to Rio.
:21:02. > :21:09.Jamie Cook suffered the double misery of not being picked for
:21:10. > :21:25.London and breaking his hand. After the Olympics, it was devastating.
:21:26. > :21:34.Another athlete left spectating in London was Freya. She is still only
:21:35. > :21:39.23. Missing out on the Olympic spot nearly saw her quit. I was very
:21:40. > :21:44.angry. I don't know if I was angry with myself for the sport. I look
:21:45. > :21:52.forward to Rio but also try and enjoy the sport because in 2011`12,
:21:53. > :22:01.I lost that completely. That is what I will try to hold onto. I came into
:22:02. > :22:07.the sport through the pony club but more recently, the focus has been on
:22:08. > :22:12.finding good runners and swimmers. Joe Evans is one of the first wave
:22:13. > :22:19.of hopefuls. Just five months after arriving in Bath, he took World Cup
:22:20. > :22:27.bronze. My goal initially was to try make the finals. I didn't got a
:22:28. > :22:33.medal. It's both good and bad because it means you have got more
:22:34. > :22:39.pressure, but it means you have prove to yourself and everyone else
:22:40. > :22:45.that you can do it. Jo has also proved a stronger men's squad. The
:22:46. > :22:50.battle of the sexes is finally hotting up. And with all eyes on
:22:51. > :23:01.Rio, every jump, hit and shot really matters.
:23:02. > :23:13.It's hard enough to be good one thing, let five!
:23:14. > :23:20.A company in Taunton has entered the record books after building the
:23:21. > :23:25.world's longest mobility scooter. It's called the Limo`mobilser. It's
:23:26. > :23:30.ten foot long with room for three and its own minibar. Orchard
:23:31. > :23:40.Mobility built it for one of the managing directors of a company they
:23:41. > :23:44.work with, who is retiring. Well, almost time to get the weekend
:23:45. > :23:47.forecast, but before we do, we just wanted to mark the 60th anniversary
:23:48. > :23:49.of BBC television forecasts and look back at just a few of our favourite
:23:50. > :24:46.moments. Bit of nostalgia there. 60 years
:24:47. > :24:52.since the first forecast for BBC in the days when you used a hand draw
:24:53. > :24:59.the charts. Things have come a long way since then, but if we can bring
:25:00. > :25:07.our graphics on, that's the old school version. We had innumerable
:25:08. > :25:15.problems in the days of the magnet, and nowadays, we have replaced that
:25:16. > :25:19.with computer says no type problems. As far as the weekend is concerned,
:25:20. > :25:25.it is looking like a glorious day tomorrow. If you're doing anything
:25:26. > :25:30.outdoors, no problems whatsoever. After a chilly star, temperatures up
:25:31. > :25:41.to respectable values. Another cold night on Sunday, more cloud around.
:25:42. > :25:48.For the rest of this evening, patchy outbreaks of rain moving in. As we
:25:49. > :25:52.had through into tomorrow, after a beautiful day, a case of looking to
:25:53. > :25:59.the West for the tail end of the weekend as more rain moves in. Next
:26:00. > :26:02.week, no chance of any of the cold snap saw Siberian blast that one
:26:03. > :26:12.particular newspaper was making a hyperbole about. The spectre of
:26:13. > :26:18.flooding issues has not been relieved as yet, though. As far as
:26:19. > :26:23.this evening is concerned, at least the rainfall will not be of any
:26:24. > :26:29.great significance. Moderately heavy bursts at times, or easing away
:26:30. > :26:34.towards the second half of the night. Temperatures will drop
:26:35. > :26:40.accordingly. We will get down quite widely to 1`4 Celsius. Another Met
:26:41. > :26:47.Office yellow warning, like last night, for the threat of icy
:26:48. > :26:51.surfaces. Aside from that, a glorious start tomorrow. Very little
:26:52. > :26:56.in the way of ploughed around. What cloud we have or have no
:26:57. > :27:04.significance. Instead, we continue with a good deal of sunshine. A cold
:27:05. > :27:08.night starting to develop with frost and fog around. Prior to them,
:27:09. > :27:14.temperatures tomorrow should get up to 6`8 Celsius. Similar story in
:27:15. > :27:19.terms of temperatures being high on Sunday, but more cloud around and
:27:20. > :27:24.rain towards the end of the day Here's your outlook. The start of
:27:25. > :27:28.next week, showers around on Monday, some heavy and thundery. We are
:27:29. > :27:34.looking for that more persistent rain towards the end of next week.
:27:35. > :28:12.Not looking too bad for tomorrow, is it?
:28:13. > :28:31.A tenth of a second could be the difference