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showers in the west and south. That's all from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and Sabet Choudhury. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Our main story tonight: Did hospital staff do enough to save his life? | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
The grieving parents of a four year old say he was let down by shambolic | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
care. We truly believe, had we gone to a different centre, he would be | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
alive today. The Bristol Children's Hospital | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
finds itself under the spotlight ` we report from the opening day of | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
the inquest. Also in tonight's programme: Could | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
dredging the rivers have saved Somerset businesses from the floods? | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
Underprivileged and underdeveloped ` why the poorest in Cheltenham are | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
falling behind. And it could be disappearing from a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
menu near you ` why Gloucestershire farmers fear for the future of | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
goat's cheese. Good evening. The parents of a child | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
who died after undergoing heart surgery in Bristol have told an | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
inquest his care was shambolic and nurses did not have enough time to | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
give him the treatment he desperately needed. Sean Turner died | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
at Bristol Children's Hospital in March 2012. This is the second of a | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
series of inquests looking into the deaths of children who had heart | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
surgery at the unit. Our health correspondent Matthew Hill reports. | :01:28. | :01:37. | |
He was very active, very full on. To look at him, you wouldn't know he | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
had a heart condition. He considered himself to be Spiderman and was | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
jumping and climbing everywhere He loved foot wall and swimming. He | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
loved the skate park. `` football. It was to be a very emotional day | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
for Yolande and Steve. There were tears as they recalled how their | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
four year old, Sean, was treated after a heart operation in Bristol. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
They say pressure on beds in intensive care meant Sean had to be | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
discharged onto this cardiac ward after only 18 hours of one`to`one | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
nursing. He was obviously quite critical, to us, and had a lot of | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
needs. There were no nurses around. He deteriorated and had a cardiac | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
arrest. The inquest heard that after three days on Ward 32, Sean | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
underwent further surgery to remove a build`up of fluid around his heart | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and was returned back to the ward ` despite their pleas for him to go | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
intensive care. We begged for four days to go back to intensive care | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
but nobody listened. We could see the monitors on his bedside and we | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
could see them alarming at the desk that there was nobody there. We had | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
to leave him and go running off to find a nurse. Sean was then admitted | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
back to intensive care but four weeks later he died of a massive | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
bleed in his brain. A hospital review into his death highlights | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
sub`optimal nursing staff on the ward, a failure to recognise his | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
deteriorating condition, and poor communication with his parents. | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
Today, statements were read out from nursing staff and doctors. They say | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
they were regularly checking up on Sean's condition on Ward 32 and | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
responding where appropriate. A statement by one of the consultant | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
cardiologists in charge of Sean s care was read out. He said he was | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
deeply sorry that they were not able to get on top of what was a | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
well`known complication of this type of surgery. The inquest is due to | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
end next Wednesday. Well, Matthew Hill joins us now | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Matthew, this is a very sad individual case but it's not the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
only one involving Ward 32, is it? No, you may remember the case just | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
before Christmas of Luke Jenkins, a seven`year`old from Wales, who had | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
an operation and died in similar circumstances on the same ward, with | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
his parents having the same sort of complaints. There was a hospital | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
report that was quite damning of staffing levels. Nevertheless, the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
coroner ruled that there was no gross negligence, although we should | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
welcome the changes that were put in place after these cases, including a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
high dependency unit. The Care Quality Commission said that should | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
happen. There are other inquest coming up ` three that I know of, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
whose families are not happy. They are considering legal action. Some | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
are to do with cardiological procedures. Thank you. | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Investigations are continuing following the discovery of the | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
bodies of two men at Purton Canal in Gloucestershire. A police helicopter | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
was called to the scene yesterday morning. One body had to be pulled | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
from the water, and the other was found on the towpath. Their deaths | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
aren't being treated as suspicious. The Environment Agency has warned | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
tonight that more forecast rain could bring further flooding to the | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Somerset Levels. Water levels on the moorland are falling slightly. But | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
roads remain closed, houses are still waterlogged and one village is | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
still cut off. Tonight, Inside Out asks why the situation has become so | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
bad and talks to those whose livelihoods have been seriously | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
affected. Here's Clinton Rogers James Winslade's family have farmed | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
on the Levels for 150 years. Only three times in living memory has | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
their farm flooded ` all since since 2000. Taking Inside Out presenter | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
Alistair McKee to a high vantage point, he explained what he thought | :05:47. | :05:58. | |
was the reason. This is where the two rivers merge. It's like a | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
motorway. When you've got two lanes going down to one lane, you get a | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
pile`up, and this is where you've got all the traffic flowing out over | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
either side because it cannot get away. That, he says, is quite simply | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
because 20 years ago they stopped dredging the rivers ` clearing them | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
of a build up of silt which comes in daily with the tide of the Severn | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Estuary. If you leave it, what happens is the rivers clog up and | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
hold less water. The result, say many on the Levels, is this. The | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Environment Agency is the organisation responsible for our | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
rivers. When I cornered Lord Smith, the then chairman of the Agency on | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
a visit to Somerset a year ago he did commit to dredging ` eventually. | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
What we need to do is find out here where the best places to dredge are | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
going to be, then we'll get on and do it. That will be as as soon as | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
possible. When? Er... I would certainly be very disappointed if we | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
weren't seeing some improvement happening in the course of the next | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
six months. But all that has happened since is a pilot project on | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
small sections of the rivers The agency has agreed further dredging | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
would ease flooding. But there's no money for it. They reckon that | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
stretch just ten kilometres `` dredge just dangle metres of these | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
rivers would cost tens of thousands of pounds. They have not raise | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
enough money yet. No money, no dredging. We could be back here next | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
year. The arguments will be explored in more detail on inside out micro | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
`` on Inside Out tonight at 7:3 pm. A mother from Bristol has been | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
talking about how her baby was taken away from her ` after incorrect | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
concerns that he was being abused. Little Harrison was just six weeks | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
old when his parents took him to hospital, where doctors noticed that | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
he had multiple fractured bones He was removed from his parents. But it | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
was only 18 months later that they realised the injuries were a result | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
of a medical condition ` and not abuse. Laura Jones has been looking | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
into this and is here now with more. Laura. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
This dates back to February 200 , when Amy Howell took her son | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Harrison to hospital. He hadn't been well for a while but nobody knew | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
why. Doctors noticed he had lots of fractures to various bones, which | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
led to suspicions of abuse and ultimately to his being taken away | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
from his parents. A paediatrician came rushing into the room with | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
three other staff members and the atmosphere had completely changed | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
from there. She was vicious, really vicious. "You've done something | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
someone has abused this boy. You must have caused the fractures" . I | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
broke down in tears. The council in charge of this case is South | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Gloucestershire. In a statement today they said... They also said | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
they had a duty to ensure children were safeguarded. They said they | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
regret the distress the investigation caused to the family. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Harrison and his older sister, who had been sent to live with her | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
grandmother, were returned to them 18 months later after it was that | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Harrison was suffering from a genetic condition and severe that | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
indeed efficiency, which explained his injuries. `` severe vitamin D | :09:36. | :09:47. | |
deficiency. Across the UK, 10,2 8 applications were made to take | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
children away from their parents. That was 11% higher than in 201 . | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
These figures come from Cafcass the organisation that looks after the | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
interests of children in the family courts. They say that following | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
recent high`profile cases, local authorities are under pressure to | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
act. I think we have a responsibility to make our family | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
courts better, to make them more transparent, to build public | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
confidence in them and to advocate leaving them altogether doesn't | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
solve the problem for the vast majority of children and parents who | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
need our courts to be as good as they possibly can be. Harrison, who | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
is now six, still has the same condition and does still have pain | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
in his bones but is receiving treatment. And you can see more on | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
his story ` and similar ones ` on I Want My Baby Back ` A Panorama | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Special. That's at nine o'clock tonight on BBC One. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
It's a blustering Monday evening and we're glad you can join us. Ian will | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
be here with the weather round`up shortly. | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
A perfect storm continent means that here in Gloucestershire there is | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
even work for these guys. `` perfect storm on the continent. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Cheltenham may be known for its affluent image but experts say | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
problems in the town's deprived areas can be worse than elsewhere. | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
Some young children who grow up in the face of poverty can be up to two | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
years behind in their development. But those who work with parents in | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
the town say more of them are being offered help which is making a | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
difference. Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Knibbs. In parts of Cheltenham, a third of | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
children live in poverty. That doesn't mean they'll be badly | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
brought up but, in a few cases, it does affect their development. Some | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
children as old as three in the town can't talk properly and others lack | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
confidence. At this children's centre, staff are working hard to | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
instil the fundamentals of parenting to those that need it. Society is so | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
dependent on technology, I think people have moved away from good | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
conversations with their children, telling stories, using every | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
opportunity to develop language It's so important coming into | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
nurseries and schools because we're feeding these children into | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
schools. They need a chance to be equal to everyone else. It's all | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
about opportunity and the challenge here is getting parents involved. | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
This woman and her partner live on benefits. Initially she didn't feel | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
the need to get a help but, in hindsight, coming here before she | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
even gave birth made a huge difference. It developed my skills | :12:37. | :12:48. | |
as a mum. When I was pregnant, I did a course called Parents With | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
Prospects, which developed awareness of the development needs of | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
children. It taught me a lot. The littlest things that you might think | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
our common`sense. Barnardo's says a family with two adults and two | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
children under 13 needs just over ?300 a week after paying the rent to | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
be above the poverty line. So in deprived areas of Cheltenham, | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
financial help is vital to help children whose families struggle. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
?80,000 a year going to one grammar school alone and they are spending | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
that very well, on things that make a difference, like social workers | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
extra maths and, support the parents. Organisations that work | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
with parents in Cheltenham say more of them are asking for help. It s | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
better for the children and makes the job of mum and dad what it | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
should be ` rewarding. And you can hear more about the | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
issues surrounding Cheltenham's poverty gap throughout the week with | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
our colleagues on BBC Radio Gloucestershire. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Now for a bright idea that could help save lives. It's a new type of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
light for cyclists which uses a laser to help drivers spot them on | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
the roads. Ali Vowles is in Bath and has been finding out how it all | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
works. Ali, what do you think? Well, as a cyclist, Sabet, I would | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
have to say I put any light on because having been knocked off | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
myself, I dress like a Christmas tree ` a neon Christmas tree. This | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
is how the laser is going to look. There is a bicycle you can see on | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
the pavement. It's to show drivers that a bike is coming. All the | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
people I've spoken to today think it is a brilliant idea but some think | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
it's pointless. I thought you could make up your own opinion. Look at | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
this. It's not always easy sharing the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
road. Cyclists and drivers can have very different views on who should | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
be where and when. Hundreds of cyclists are killed or seriously | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
injured each year but young Bath entrepreneur Emily Brooke thinks | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
she's come up with a solution. It tackles the biggest cause of | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
vitality, the blind spot, or vehicles turning across an unseen | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
bike. 79% Wykes hit our travelling straight ahead and somebody turns | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
into them. So this is a front facing light that you have to have by law. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
It's brighter and it's not flashing and it also has a laser. It projects | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the symbol of a bike onto the road in front of you. And it's this that | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
warns the driver a cyclist is approaching. Emily also thinks it'll | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
be a help to drivers waiting at a junction and also for pedestrians | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
waiting to cross the road. But can a laser be saved to the human eye | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
It's got a diffractive optical element, which disperses the light | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
and makes it completely safe for eyes. ?50,000 was raised to get the | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
idea of the ground. A factory in China is already in production. In | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
the last few days, she's been in Las Vegas pitching the idea at the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
finals of a massive tech conference. Her pitch got her through to the | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
final four. Not bad for a West Country girl. Initial reactions seem | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
positive. I think it's a great idea and really does address the serious | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
problem for cyclists, so anything that can improve cycle safety is a | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
great thing. It's a simple idea possibly saving lives by being seen. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
It will be put to the test when the first batch goes on sale at the end | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
of the month. Sometimes the best ideas are the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
simple ones but it's not cheap. Emily, it's going to retail at about | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
?125 ` will be bored by it? Of the cyclist is open to, yes, they will. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
The technology inside is very expensive, especially the laser | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
We're making a very small batch for the first run so as volumes grow, | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
hopefully the price will come down. It's a complicated bit of kit. We | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
decided to put one Bath cyclist of the test. In this particular | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
picture, it will be flashing so if that affects you, be warned. Nigel | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
had a trip around the Guildhall to see what he thought of it. It's | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
quite wet so it makes the road conditions different again. Nigel, | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
what did you make of it? I think it's very interesting. What this | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
could give you as a cyclist is a bit of forward reach. If you've found | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
yourself in a position where you're down the left`hand side of a large | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
vehicle and can't be seen, you're reaching out ahead of you. It's | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
something a driver might see. Having said that, as a cyclist, you want to | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
avoid that and be out in the lane. Out of ten? I'd say seven and what I | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
really like is the research behind it. Seven out of ten is not bad for | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
your first project. I got a first at university. This was a university | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
project a couple of years ago and it's been a busy couple of years. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
I've learned a lot. I've never done this before, never had a company. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
All the things I've been learning in the last couple of years means you | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
put yourself in a position to learn and you find people who know and ask | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
a lot of questions. A lot of people have the idea but never get this | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
far. And you're selling through a major retailer in the next few | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
weeks? Yes, through Evans. And also on my own website. The light does | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
shine bright and it might help save lives. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
In the meantime, Alison, you stay being a Christmas tree on wheels. | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Their European Cup hopes are over for this season, but Gloucester s | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
director of rugby says their improved performance this weekend | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
has set a benchmark. They were beaten 20 points to seven by group | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
leaders Munster, and must now concentrate on securing a spot in | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Europe's second tier competition. Alistair Durden reports. | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
They packed to the ground capacity to, hoping to see the side restore | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
some pride after strong criticism of recent home performances. Their | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
quarterfinal hopes rested on beating the two time European champions | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Munster. The early reception was encouraging enough, even if the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
finishing was wayward. That allowed Munster to open up a ten point lead | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
with the game's first try. Charlie Sharples, who was overlooked by | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
England last week, gave Kings home a half`time lift. But Gloucester | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
failed to convert any of their second`half territory into points, | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
as Munster's defence held firm. When the tables were turned, Munster gave | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
a lesson in finishing to seal the victory. The character, the spirit, | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
the effort ` that's the benchmark for the rest of the season at the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
very least. We've showed we can do it in glimpses but it's making that | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
consistent. This was a seventh defeat at Kingsholm this season in | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
all competitions but the supporters, it's time there were | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
grounds for optimism. The scoreline didn't reflect the actual play. We | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
were beaten by a side that didn t play particularly well. I thought we | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
fronted up. I'm pleased with our performance. A few mistakes that | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
that's been our season. They showed a real commitment, really tore into | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Munster and showed determination. If Gloucester can put in my performance | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
for the rest of the season, sides are going to have a very difficult | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
time when they come to Kingsholm. They have to beat a French team this | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
weekend to stand any chance of getting a place in the European | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
challenge cup. England's cricketing prospects may | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
not be too bright at the moment but one Somerset teenager is hoping to | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
change things. Aadil Rashid hopes to become the country's next 90 mile an | :21:05. | :21:21. | |
hour fast bowler. He may have hung up his boots but | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Stephan Jones has now turned his attention to the next generation and | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
in Aadil Rashid, he's found the perfect pupil. He has the most | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
biomechanical efficient action I've seen in any youngster and is really | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
explosive at the crease. He's got a long delivery stride, a great delay | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
on the bright side of his body. He uses stored energy in his right | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
side, in his pelvis and tips, and he can bowl genuinely quickly. Aadil | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
has just turned 16 and has moved to Wellington school to take advantage | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
of his mental's expertise. Body wise I'm still maturing and I'm learning | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
every day. His training is tailored for power and speed. But is bowling | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
at 90 mph a realistic goal? With the structure I've got, I think it's a | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
very credible goal to achieve. With his natural ability, I believe he | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
can do it. England are crying out for fast bowlers. What's it like | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
being at the other end? I'll tell you what, put your money where your | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
mouth is. Get in there and face him. Sensibly, I declined. Well, would | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
you? ! Absolutely not! Finally, some | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
positive cricketing news from Australia, where Bath's Anya | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Shrubsole starred as the England women's team won their Ashes test. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
She took three wickets as the Aussies were bowled out for 123 to | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
hand England victory by 61 runs What if you take a popular French | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
delicacy, which has a supply problem from the continent, and add in a | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
fast`growing market in China? The cheeky face gives it away! You've | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
got a perfect recipe for a boom in demand in goat's cheese. West | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Country farmers are poised to take full advantage. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
It's a chef's favourite. Crumbly, yet Cook a ball. Feisty yet friable. | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
`` able to be cooked. There is barely a restaurant without this on | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
its ` goat's cheese, we just can't seem to get enough. But at the | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
moment, we really can't! This is part of the problem. Not this goat, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
nor those in France and Holland but right now there is not enough | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
goat's milk to meet demand. The producers have struggled to keep | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
reducing the amount they weren't reducing because of disease | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
outbreaks. French farmers reduced the amount of milk they produce | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
because of the price so that, coupled with increasing demand for | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
goat's milk and goat's milk cheese in the UK, has led to this perfect | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
storm. Added to that extra demand from China and it creates a huge | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
opportunity for farmers and producers over here. A shortage of | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
goat's milk also means a shortage of goat's cheese. In the 1980s it was a | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
very small niche product, only in health food shops. But now it's | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
expanded and goat's cheese and milk and butter is everywhere, in every | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
supermarket. There is a limit to how much we can make here. We could | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
probably sell two or three times as much. We really can't get enough of | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
it and nor can the French. Producers here are hoping they really can get | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
a bigger slice of the cheese market. Imagine the shock and horror of not | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
having goat's cheese tonight! Headline news, I think you'll | :25:03. | :25:03. | |
agree! I can't stand cheese at all so I'm | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
not the slightest bit of it. We have further rain on the way | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
during the course of the week. The jury is out as to what will happen | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
as we get past the weekend into the following week. Forecast models are | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
chopping and changing between something colder and something | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
milder but drier. For tomorrow at least, good continuity in our | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
expectations ` it looks like a decent day. Try and bright weather | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
but more patchy rain into the evening. The amounts are not looking | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
troublesome compared to what we ve had of late. Some of you have seen | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
that today in the form of Sharia law breaks of rain and as that freezes | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
over on a chilly night, we have the Met Office warning out across all of | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
our district for the threat of ice on untreated surfaces. This trough | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
moves and this area of showery rain gathers eastwards. This ridge of | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
high pressure clears the skies, particularly the further west you | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
are. It remains a decent story until this front moves in tomorrow | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
morning. For the rest of this evening, some of you have seen heavy | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
downpours and they continue across parts of Wiltshire, parts of | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Somerset, and that are typically as a night years on. In the east to the | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
skies will take longer to clear and the net result of that will mean | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
grey skies and merge in the West with colder temperatures. A little | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
bit higher out towards the East but not by much. It chilly night for all | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
of us and temperatures get down to freezing and perhaps below that in | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
parts of Somerset. Some patchy fog around first thing tomorrow morning. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
A good deal of sunshine tomorrow morning and it will turn quite hazy. | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
A lot of cloud around. The outbreaks of rain will be a feature as the | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
evening wears on. That's a real mixed bag! It has been | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
all winter. And now we know a little bit more about Ian and his disregard | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
for cheese! That's all from us. We are back | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
later on. From all of us at Points West, good night. | :27:24. | :27:26. |