:00:00. > :00:00.Australia. More about the weather where you are on-line.
:00:00. > :00:08.Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Alex Lovell.
:00:09. > :00:12.Our main story tonight: The water that just won't go away.
:00:13. > :00:15.The Environment Agency is pumping out millions of gallons ` but says
:00:16. > :00:20.it's never seen the Levels so badly affected.
:00:21. > :00:28.Normal life is on hold for the flood victims as they remain cut off. This
:00:29. > :00:32.week, it's my daughter's third birthday. She is desperate for a
:00:33. > :00:35.party and I can't give her one because nobody can get here. We hope
:00:36. > :00:37.to be going live to the European Parliament, where an MEP is trying
:00:38. > :00:49.to get emergency aid. The other stories in the news
:00:50. > :00:52.tonight: Not just the ticket ` now traffic wardens in Bath could be
:00:53. > :00:56.filming your every move. Home from his first swimming lesson
:00:57. > :01:00.in Brazil ` the baby otter and the unexpected visitor.
:01:01. > :01:02.And it may be wet, it may be windy ` but this winter is certainly not
:01:03. > :01:13.cold. Welcome to the mild west. Good evening.
:01:14. > :01:16.Hundreds of people living in Somerset remain cut off by flood
:01:17. > :01:19.water tonight, a situation which may last for several more weeks. The
:01:20. > :01:25.Environment Agency have admitted that flooding on the Levels is the
:01:26. > :01:29.worst they've ever seen. They're bringing in extra pumps to get the
:01:30. > :01:33.water off the land ` but their efforts have been hampered by the
:01:34. > :01:35.theft of 900 litres of diesel from one pumping station. Our Somerset
:01:36. > :01:41.correspondent Clinton Rogers reports.
:01:42. > :01:48.They're pumping water off the moor at the rate of 12 tonnes a second.
:01:49. > :01:51.`` seven tonnes a second. The Environment Agency has now hired in
:01:52. > :01:58.62 temporary pumps to speed things up. But there's a lot of water to
:01:59. > :02:02.shift ` 65 square kilometres of land are still under water. These aerial
:02:03. > :02:08.photos, sent to us by a Points West viewer, really do show the scale of
:02:09. > :02:12.the of the flooding. Everyone now accepts it's never been this bad.
:02:13. > :02:18.All of which means normal life is on hold for people like Bryony Sadler.
:02:19. > :02:22.The floodwaters have now crept to the bottom of her garden in the
:02:23. > :02:27.village of Moorland. This road out of the village has been under water
:02:28. > :02:35.for ten days. Which means that a five`mile journey to the village
:02:36. > :02:41.school now needs a 38`mile detour. School journeys, going to work,
:02:42. > :02:44.people wanting to go to work and they can't get there. Everything is
:02:45. > :02:49.affected now and it's just becoming a nightmare. But if it's hard for a
:02:50. > :02:52.parent, try running a haulage businesses here when the main road
:02:53. > :03:00.linking Taunton to Glastonbury can only be navigated by a tractor. It
:03:01. > :03:08.may be another two weeks before they can open it again. We estimate it
:03:09. > :03:11.cost us something in the region of 200,000 a month last year extra on
:03:12. > :03:13.fuel just to get into Devon and Cornwall from here. Amid
:03:14. > :03:16.increasingly bitter recriminations about who or what is to blame,
:03:17. > :03:20.weather watchers like Somerset's Simon Ratsey say the last month has
:03:21. > :03:30.been the wettest spell for more than 50 years. I can't find a spell of
:03:31. > :03:36.weather that actually compares to this. Not for the amount of rain in
:03:37. > :03:40.a sustained wet spell. His figures show that in the month from December
:03:41. > :03:44.12th, we only had one day without rain. In total there's been 280mm,
:03:45. > :03:52.or 11 inches. And on two days there were torrential downpours. The
:03:53. > :03:55.floods soon followed. Those in the middle of it still say neglect of
:03:56. > :03:58.the water courses, rather than nature, is to blame. Their web
:03:59. > :04:07.campaign now has more than 800 supporters demanding action to
:04:08. > :04:10.prevent this happening again. And a bit later in the programme,
:04:11. > :04:16.we'll be going live to Strasbourg to speak to local MEP Sir Graham
:04:17. > :04:20.Watson. He's trying to get emergency aid for the region and we'll talk to
:04:21. > :04:22.him about that. We hope he's on his way to the studio and we'll join him
:04:23. > :04:25.later. A crash on the M5 has closed the
:04:26. > :04:28.northbound carriageway between junctions 23 for Bridgwater North
:04:29. > :04:40.and 22 for Burnham`on`Sea this evening. Police say it's because of
:04:41. > :04:43.a collision between a car and van. A spokesperson for Weston Hospital
:04:44. > :04:47.has admitted that standards at the hospital were in need of improvement
:04:48. > :04:50.at the time a 92`year`old man died last year, amid concerns about his
:04:51. > :04:53.care. James Bollen, from Yatton spent a month in the hospital. At
:04:54. > :04:56.the time, his family described the way he was treated there as
:04:57. > :05:01.appalling. Today, though, an inquest into his death recorded a verdict of
:05:02. > :05:05.natural causes. Laura Jones reports. April 2013, and James Bollen is
:05:06. > :05:09.admitted to Weston General Hospital. He is suffering from a stomach bug
:05:10. > :05:14.and chest infection ` and also has other health problems. A month
:05:15. > :05:18.later, he died, still in hospital. At the time, his family blamed his
:05:19. > :05:22.death on what they described as the appalling care he had received
:05:23. > :05:25.whilst there. They said he was ignored, mistreated and, crucially,
:05:26. > :05:30.that he wasn't fed properly, which they believed led to his death.
:05:31. > :05:33.Today, though, an inquest heard from a pathologist, who said that Mr
:05:34. > :05:41.Bollen had died from heart disease, caused by heart failure. `` heart
:05:42. > :05:45.failure caused by heart disease And that there were no signs of
:05:46. > :05:48.malnourishment at all at the time of Mr Bollen's death. The coroner went
:05:49. > :05:52.on to record a verdict of natural causes. Following the inquest, the
:05:53. > :05:56.head of nursing at the hospital gave their reaction. At the time, we had
:05:57. > :06:02.also had the Care Quality Commission visit, which did identify areas of
:06:03. > :06:06.poor care. We acted on this very quickly and we've had a subsequent
:06:07. > :06:09.visit from the CQC in November that demonstrated we were providing
:06:10. > :06:14.excellent care, as quoted by patients. Would you be happy for an
:06:15. > :06:19.elderly parent of yours to be treated at Weston General?
:06:20. > :06:23.Absolutely. It is my local hospital and I would be very happy to be
:06:24. > :06:26.cared for there, as I would any of my elderly relatives. Mr Bollen s
:06:27. > :06:30.widow and daughter were both too ill to attend today's inquest ` but I
:06:31. > :06:33.did manage to speak to Mr Bollen's daughter on the phone. She told me
:06:34. > :06:37.that she had only ever wanted justice for her father. She said
:06:38. > :06:40.that she still maintained that the treatment her father had received
:06:41. > :06:44.was not good enough, and that she was disappointed with what happened
:06:45. > :06:52.here today. Our health correspondent Matthew
:06:53. > :06:58.Hill is here. Matthew, Mr Bollen's story posed a lot of questions about
:06:59. > :07:02.Weston General and the care there. How are they doing now? At the time
:07:03. > :07:06.Mr Bollen was being treated, the Care Quality Commission carried out
:07:07. > :07:08.an inspection and they found patients were being put at risk
:07:09. > :07:15.because they were not maintaining medical records properly. Also,
:07:16. > :07:19.there were issues about staffing. They had over 100 vacancies but they
:07:20. > :07:23.have since recruited an extra 3 Spanish nurses and have very few
:07:24. > :07:27.vacancies at the moment. They've also managed to halve the amount of
:07:28. > :07:32.bedsores taking place and a report was published based on a follow up
:07:33. > :07:36.unannounced inspection in November shows that they took all the boxes
:07:37. > :07:42.in terms of standards of respect, care and staffing levels. Things
:07:43. > :07:46.seem to have improved an awful lot. What is the latest on the plans for
:07:47. > :07:51.the hospital management to be taken over? Because they can't maintain
:07:52. > :07:56.what is called foundation status, they need to have the management of
:07:57. > :08:01.the hospital franchised out. It could be going to a private
:08:02. > :08:05.company. That is still a very long process and it could take up to
:08:06. > :08:10.three years so there is a lot of uncertainty there, still. Thank you
:08:11. > :08:12.very much. There's a debate over a proposed
:08:13. > :08:17.incinerator in Gloucestershire tonight. Plans for the giant waste
:08:18. > :08:20.burner were rejected last year by the county council's planning
:08:21. > :08:23.department, even though the incinerator is the council's own
:08:24. > :08:27.idea to help cut the rubbish it tends to landfill. Andrew Plant
:08:28. > :08:31.reports. A computer model of what would be
:08:32. > :08:35.the biggest civil project in Gloucestershire's history ` and
:08:36. > :08:40.incinerator to burn waste, rather than dump it in landfill. The
:08:41. > :08:44.council contracted a company called UBB and they signed a contract `
:08:45. > :08:51.they would build and run the burner and the council would pay them 500
:08:52. > :08:57.million over 25 years. But last year the council rejected its own idea.
:08:58. > :09:00.Planning permission was unanimously refused. Gloucestershire's
:09:01. > :09:09.alternative to landfill suddenly ground to an unexpected stop. We are
:09:10. > :09:12.haters of incinerators. It left the contractor appealing to the
:09:13. > :09:16.government, councillors are scratching their heads and hundreds
:09:17. > :09:20.of happy protest is my who were heavily critical of the cost, the
:09:21. > :09:25.environmental impact and the location of the building. The
:09:26. > :09:29.council identified this area, Javelin Park, as suitable for the
:09:30. > :09:34.incinerator, and they bought it in 2009. They said it was an
:09:35. > :09:40.alternative to dumping thousands of tonnes of waste into landfill every
:09:41. > :09:44.year. A government inspector will now examine the planning team's
:09:45. > :09:48.rejection of the incinerator plan. Originally it was hoped that the
:09:49. > :09:51.incinerator would be running by winter 2015 but the inspector won't
:09:52. > :09:55.even report until this coming summer, so the incinerator remains a
:09:56. > :09:59.computer model only until then at least.
:10:00. > :10:03.You're watching Points West with David and Alex. Coming up a little
:10:04. > :10:12.later in the programme: Proper monkey business ` how to find
:10:13. > :10:17.yourself a mate, Brazilian style. And just what is going on with your
:10:18. > :10:21.garden? Its January and we've got strawberries!
:10:22. > :10:28.Parking wardens in Bath are being given a new weapon in their fight
:10:29. > :10:31.against those who park illegally. One of the least popular public
:10:32. > :10:36.servants, they face verbal abuse, or worse, on a daily basis. Well, now
:10:37. > :10:39.wardens in the city are being given body cameras to deter anyone wanting
:10:40. > :10:45.to take the law into their own hands. Julia Causton's report begins
:10:46. > :10:54.with a violent example of what one traffic warden has suffered.
:10:55. > :10:57.And unprovoked attack on the streets of Leicester. It is still unusual
:10:58. > :11:02.but the threat of violence is very real. Patrolling the streets of
:11:03. > :11:07.Bath, James often comes across confrontation and conflict. Threats
:11:08. > :11:13.made. "When I see you at home, see your mum... " threats and ill wishes
:11:14. > :11:18.towards your family. Things you shouldn't have to experience. Over
:11:19. > :11:21.the past year, there have been 8 incidents of violent or threatening
:11:22. > :11:24.behaviour here in Bath. We're not talking about small arguments over a
:11:25. > :11:27.ticket, but sustained abuse or physical intimidation. Behaviour the
:11:28. > :11:30.council says is simply not acceptable. From now on, if you re
:11:31. > :11:37.thinking of arguing a with a warden in the city, you face the prospect
:11:38. > :11:40.of being caught on camera. The 2 wardens in the city will now patrol
:11:41. > :11:46.with cameras attached to their chest. I think it will act as a
:11:47. > :11:50.deterrent. People will realise how they're acting towards us and it
:11:51. > :11:54.will make our job is a little bit easier in the long run. When they
:11:55. > :12:01.see this front facing camera and see how they're behaving, they may well
:12:02. > :12:05.calm down. But do the drivers of Bath think it will work? It's
:12:06. > :12:10.probably a good idea. They get a lot of abuse for not much reason, I
:12:11. > :12:15.think. If there's any altercation, it can be resolved. I don't think
:12:16. > :12:18.it'll make a difference. We'll still love them as much as we used to
:12:19. > :12:26.anyway, whether they got a camera or not. The cameras are already used in
:12:27. > :12:29.Hampshire, Cardiff and Leeds ` where the number of assaults has dropped
:12:30. > :12:32.by two thirds. James knows that giving someone a ticket doesn't make
:12:33. > :12:36.them happy but he's hoping that the camera will make them think before
:12:37. > :12:39.they take it out on him. A man found guilty of murdering a
:12:40. > :12:42.university graduate from Somerset is to appeal against his conviction and
:12:43. > :12:47.sentence. Tadevsz Dmytryszyn was jailed for life for murdering
:12:48. > :12:49.Catherine Wells`Burr. His niece Anna Lagwinowicz, and Catherine's
:12:50. > :12:56.ex`boyfriend Rafal Nowak, also received life sentences. The hearing
:12:57. > :13:04.will take place at the Court of Appeal in London.
:13:05. > :13:07.And inquest has heard how a retired police inspector from Wiltshire shot
:13:08. > :13:12.his ex`partner before turning the gun on himself. The Wiltshire
:13:13. > :13:16.coroner said bill Dowling was suffering from anxiety and
:13:17. > :13:19.depression when he unlawfully killed Victoria Rose and then took his own
:13:20. > :13:23.life at his home in Devizes. It's been revealed that the cost of
:13:24. > :13:26.policing last year's pilot badger culls in Gloucestershire and
:13:27. > :13:30.Somerset was ?2.5 million. Both police forces have today announced
:13:31. > :13:33.how much they spent. In Gloucestershire, the cull was
:13:34. > :13:42.extended to 11 weeks, pushing the force's costs up to ?1.7 million.
:13:43. > :13:47.Any force that has such a major event playing out in the county will
:13:48. > :13:50.find it a major distraction. The costs you see are really the
:13:51. > :13:54.additional costs at a huge amount of time was taken in the planning and
:13:55. > :13:58.execution of the operation so I think the police do well on that.
:13:59. > :14:02.That's what the police is therefore and it will be our political masters
:14:03. > :14:08.in London to decide whether it was worthwhile or not.
:14:09. > :14:11.It's an important night of FA Cup football for both Bristol teams
:14:12. > :14:16.tonight. Rovers fans are already on their way to watch their side take
:14:17. > :14:18.on Birmingham ` with the lure of a home tie against Premiership side
:14:19. > :14:22.Swansea in the next round. Bristol City could face a glamour
:14:23. > :14:24.tie against Manchester City if they can beat Watford tonight, from where
:14:25. > :14:28.Alistair Durden has sent this report.
:14:29. > :14:32.This is the away dressing room at Watford. All the Bristol is it a kit
:14:33. > :14:36.has been painstakingly laid out for the game. It's an example of modern
:14:37. > :14:42.foot walling ` all the different coloured boots. The winner of
:14:43. > :14:46.tonight's tie gets ?67,500 in prize money but probably more importantly,
:14:47. > :14:50.the potential fourth`round tie away at Manchester city. Scott Murray has
:14:51. > :14:55.been doing all the hard work for the last 90 minutes. How are the team
:14:56. > :15:03.feeling? Very relaxed. They came up last night and everyone is really
:15:04. > :15:06.chilled out. It is a big carrot and you were lucky enough in your
:15:07. > :15:10.playing career to play in a match like that against a premiership
:15:11. > :15:18.side. How important is that to a footballer? It's massive. To have
:15:19. > :15:22.the privilege of playing in one of the biggest cup competitions in the
:15:23. > :15:27.world is massive. I think there s a lot riding on it. You've been doing
:15:28. > :15:32.all this work ` any superstitions you've had to observe? Greg coming
:15:33. > :15:42.likes to be third in line so I think he's probably the only one. `` Greg
:15:43. > :15:45.Cunningham harm. It's good because you don't have to have polished
:15:46. > :15:49.boots nowadays, because they're all yellow and white and purple so
:15:50. > :15:54.there's no polish. Thank you very much. Good luck, as well, to Bristol
:15:55. > :15:59.Rovers for their third`round tie at Immingham. Swindon are way to
:16:00. > :16:09.Stevenage, as well. `` their third`round tie at Birmingham.
:16:10. > :16:13.In rugby, Gloucester have confirmed that Freddie Burns will leave the
:16:14. > :16:16.club at the end of the season. Freddie joined the Cherry and Whites
:16:17. > :16:19.from local rivals Bath and made his debut as a 19`year`old. The England
:16:20. > :16:22.international is yet to announce which team he'll be joining, but
:16:23. > :16:25.Premiership champions Leicester are favourites to sign him.
:16:26. > :16:30.Now, how do you woo potential partners? Don't answer that! Well,
:16:31. > :16:36.if you're a female capuchin monkey it can take four days to persuade a
:16:37. > :16:39.male to pair up with you. And monkey business is just one of many jungle
:16:40. > :16:42.topics explored in a new series produced by a team from Bristol s
:16:43. > :16:45.Natural History Unit. It's called Wild Brazil, and the show's
:16:46. > :16:53.producers Lucinda and Joe join us now. Thank you so much for coming
:16:54. > :16:59.in. This is very intriguing, I'm sure. The capuchin monkey is a star
:17:00. > :17:03.in this. Yes, it's a scene that some of us girls will find quite
:17:04. > :17:07.familiar. The young female capuchin has set her heart on this one male
:17:08. > :17:12.but he doesn't return her affections. Well, not straightaway.
:17:13. > :17:15.But she's not going to give up so she spends four days pursuing him
:17:16. > :17:21.relentlessly and during that time, she doesn't eat or drink. On the
:17:22. > :17:25.final day, as you saw there, she resorts to throwing stones at him to
:17:26. > :17:30.try to get his attention. Who knew that could have been the way? They
:17:31. > :17:36.really are worthy of the phrase clever monkey, aren't they? The
:17:37. > :17:39.capuchin is Brazil are some of the cleverest monkeys in the world and
:17:40. > :17:44.they need to be to survive in the driest part of the country. We
:17:45. > :17:50.followed them for over a day to get that intimacy. Well, you ended up
:17:51. > :17:55.living there and your baby was even born in Brazil! Yes, we were on
:17:56. > :18:01.location for 16 months to follow these species. So hard to narrow it
:18:02. > :18:04.down, then. It's on for three consecutive nights and there is
:18:05. > :18:09.another star of the show that we can look at and they are the otters that
:18:10. > :18:13.they are giant, aren't they? Yes, they are the size of a teenager if
:18:14. > :18:18.you like! They have heads like Labradors. The clever monkey here
:18:19. > :18:26.again, the capuchin, using its tools, but we do have a shot of the
:18:27. > :18:31.otters. It's not just their size but the amount of noise they make, isn't
:18:32. > :18:36.it? They live in families and this is a family of 14 otters. It's the
:18:37. > :18:43.family strength that saw of the jaguar you are seeing. Some very
:18:44. > :18:54.small kids, the newest recruit to the family, are on screen and the
:18:55. > :18:58.Jaguar wanted an easy meal but the otters weren't having any of it The
:18:59. > :19:02.jaguar is so elusive that it was really quite something for you to
:19:03. > :19:07.capture it. Yes, it's always been the holy grail of our units that we
:19:08. > :19:11.wanted to film Jaguars and so far we haven't been able to do it. But we
:19:12. > :19:15.got very lucky indeed when we went to Brazil. We filmed them in
:19:16. > :19:21.daylight, saw them hunting, saw them mating. Extraordinary behaviour The
:19:22. > :19:24.eyes of the world are going to turn on Brazil this year. People will be
:19:25. > :19:28.charmed by it anyway because the pictures here are just beautiful but
:19:29. > :19:34.there are extremes there, aren't there? That is the side of Brazil we
:19:35. > :19:38.wanted to show. Everybody knows about the Amazon, about Rio, and
:19:39. > :19:44.that will be featured, we wanted to show the interesting parts of the
:19:45. > :19:51.dry interior and the largest freshwater area in the world, which
:19:52. > :19:54.is where the Jaguars. We are seeing now the floods we expect in Somerset
:19:55. > :19:57.and the difficulty of living there but this place floods every year
:19:58. > :20:01.like that and there are animals alongside the residents. That makes
:20:02. > :20:06.filming even harder because you ve got to keep moving with it. Yes and
:20:07. > :20:12.that's why we've got to spend so long on location, to see how they
:20:13. > :20:16.cope with the changes. We were swapping our Land Rovers for boats
:20:17. > :20:21.eventually! Well, that echoes in Somerset, as well! It's on tonight
:20:22. > :20:26.at 9pm and then for the next two night after that. I hope it's very
:20:27. > :20:31.well received because it looks lovely. Lucinda and Joe, thank you
:20:32. > :20:34.for coming in. That explains why you've been
:20:35. > :20:37.throwing stones at me, Alex! I thought it was just something I
:20:38. > :20:41.said! Now, it might have been a little
:20:42. > :20:44.frosty this morning but it was probably the first time this winter
:20:45. > :20:47.that you've needed to scrape ice off the car. Yes, whilst we've been
:20:48. > :20:50.distracted with all the heavy rain and high winds, the temperatures
:20:51. > :20:53.themselves have been unseasonably mild. It's resulted in some unusual
:20:54. > :21:05.activity in our gardens, as Jules Hyam has been finding out.
:21:06. > :21:08.This time last year, cold, snowy weather. But this year it couldn't
:21:09. > :21:14.be more different. We've come up to the rooftop garden. Look what is in
:21:15. > :21:22.flower. We got lavender, rosemary, strawberry plants. And down here
:21:23. > :21:26.we've actually got strawberries And it's not just one or two fruits `
:21:27. > :21:30.their loads of them, and flowers, too. Some haven't stopped since last
:21:31. > :21:35.summer but something it's spring. There is even a rosebud. It's really
:21:36. > :21:41.mild everywhere but especially here on the rooftop garden. These plans
:21:42. > :21:47.have been flowering and flowering. This is nothing to worry about.
:21:48. > :21:51.There are only a few plants ` apples and blackcurrants amongst them `
:21:52. > :21:55.that need a period of cold in the winter before they'll do well next
:21:56. > :22:01.spring. But most plants like this, you can just enjoy them. It looks
:22:02. > :22:04.like you absolutely have been enjoying it. Slap bang in the middle
:22:05. > :22:10.of winter, here are some of the things going on in your gardens
:22:11. > :22:14.Keith from Montague has these flowers, which still haven't gone
:22:15. > :22:19.away, and Primrose which has just appeared. These flowers are looking
:22:20. > :22:32.great. Pat says she would have sent a photo
:22:33. > :22:38.of some raspberries but she ate them all yesterday!
:22:39. > :22:42.Back to our top story, the plodding on the Somerset Levels. So Graham
:22:43. > :22:49.Watson is trying to get relief from Strasberg. `` flooding on the
:22:50. > :22:55.Somerset Levels. What sort of assistance are you looking for? The
:22:56. > :23:00.European Union has a solidarity fund, with over ?400 million in it
:23:01. > :23:05.this year. When we had flooding in Gloucestershire in 2007, we managed
:23:06. > :23:09.to get some ?30 million to help with the cost of the clean`up. I'm
:23:10. > :23:12.pressing the environment secretary and the floods were listed to apply
:23:13. > :23:18.again to that fund. After all, our taxpayers pay into it. We should get
:23:19. > :23:21.the kind of help that the Germans and people in the Czech Republic had
:23:22. > :23:25.last year when they had severe flooding. How much damage do you
:23:26. > :23:30.think is being caused in Somerset, in terms of monetary value? What
:23:31. > :23:36.would you be looking for from the EU? I'm not sure I could quantify
:23:37. > :23:39.Somerset or Devon or Cornwall or Dorset but my guess, looking at the
:23:40. > :23:44.severity of the floods compared to Gloucestershire, is that if we
:23:45. > :23:51.wanted to draw down 50 or 60 million from the fund, we would have a good
:23:52. > :23:57.case. I asked that because I spoke to the government this afternoon and
:23:58. > :24:01.they said that this fund was for catastrophes and the mark at which
:24:02. > :24:08.you can get relief is 3 billion euros worth of damage. There was
:24:09. > :24:11.certainly not that amount of damage caused in Germany or the Czech
:24:12. > :24:15.Republic last year and they got relief. When we applied for
:24:16. > :24:20.Gloucestershire five years ago, we got ?30 million in relief. There is
:24:21. > :24:24.no reason why we shouldn't apply this time. I know why the Treasury
:24:25. > :24:30.doesn't want to do this ` as they fear they will lose a little off the
:24:31. > :24:34.UK's rebate every year ` but with the public finances in the way they
:24:35. > :24:39.are, we would be mad not to apply for this funding to help businesses
:24:40. > :24:43.and the communities affected. So when the Government said to me that
:24:44. > :24:49.it needed to be ?3 billion in damage before you are eligible to apply,
:24:50. > :24:56.they are plain wrong, are they? Well, I will check this out and talk
:24:57. > :24:58.to the Commissioner but my recollection from 2007 and from what
:24:59. > :25:02.happened last year is that the damage was not over that border It
:25:03. > :25:07.would be interesting to quantify the damage in the South West. Certainly
:25:08. > :25:10.the damage to businesses has been very considerable, not only in
:25:11. > :25:15.premises flooded but also in travel disruption and so on. We have every
:25:16. > :25:21.right to apply for this funding and I don't believe that that 3 billion
:25:22. > :25:27.figure is an accurate one. 3 billion euros, they told me. Is it wet in
:25:28. > :25:34.Strasberg? It's not wet. It's a rather pleasant, if cold, weak.
:25:35. > :25:45.It is wet appear on the roof. You heard Jules describing the snowy
:25:46. > :25:53.weather this time last year as yucky. I take a more neutral view.
:25:54. > :26:00.Next week is a pretty tricky week to forecast in many aspects. We are
:26:01. > :26:07.going to see an awful lot of cloud around. It will be mostly mild and
:26:08. > :26:14.particularly so later on in the day. The rain is courtesy of this weather
:26:15. > :26:18.front. I've done the temperatures a few thousand meet up to show how the
:26:19. > :26:21.temperatures are going to kick in. We have outbreaks of rain and
:26:22. > :26:26.through the course of tomorrow, mild air remains with us. You can see the
:26:27. > :26:32.cold front coming in from the West to usher in some cooler conditions.
:26:33. > :26:35.For the rest of this evening, light to moderate rainfall across the
:26:36. > :26:40.board and a loss of hill fog developing, as well. The rain will
:26:41. > :26:46.tend to peter out as the night wears on. Chilly is the temperatures will
:26:47. > :26:50.be in the first part of the night and quite quickly the temperatures
:26:51. > :26:54.will reverse the trend, so the values on`screen art for the initial
:26:55. > :27:00.period but it will be milder by tomorrow morning. A fair window of
:27:01. > :27:04.dry weather around for the first of the day before showers start to
:27:05. > :27:08.arrive from the West and they will become much more widespread late
:27:09. > :27:15.afternoon into the evening. Some of them could be quite heavy in places.
:27:16. > :27:21.Temperatures tomorrow will be mild. A windy, showery regime through
:27:22. > :27:22.Thursday and Friday. A lot of complications for the weekend and
:27:23. > :27:34.the next week. Keep that nice coat dry, Ian!
:27:35. > :27:38.We've just heard that the M5 has reopened northbound between
:27:39. > :27:43.junctions 23 for Bridgwater and 22 for Burnham on Sea. Only one lane
:27:44. > :27:46.remains closed. We'll see you again at 10pm but otherwise the whole team
:27:47. > :27:48.is back tomorrow. Good night.