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In The West: Good Evening. There have been dramatic | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
developments today in the government's attitude towards the | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Somerset Levels. First the Prime Minister personally ordered new | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
equipment to help move the flood water. I can confirm that dredging | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
will start as soon as it is practicable, as soon as the waters | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
have started to come down. The Environment Agency are pumping as | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
much water as is possible but I have ordered further high volume pumps to | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
be made available to increase the volume of the pumping operation as | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
soon as there is capacity in the rivers to support that. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
And tonight the Environment Secretary Owen Patterson effectively | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
put the army on stand`by in case conditions get worse over the | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
weekend. We had a very constructive discussion with Somerset County | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Council who have asked for assistance today. As we speak the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Ministry of Defence and the Department of local government are | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
discussing how we could deploy specialist vehicles which could help | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
some of those villages that have been cut off to help people travel | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
backwards and forwards and get fuel and food in and out and also help | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
with transport from dry land. The announcement came at the end of | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
a hectic day which saw the government heavily criticised in | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
some national newspapers. Clinton Rogers reports on how the | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
developments have gone down on the sodden Somerset Levels. | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
The Prime Minister has promised to dredge the rivers... The news was | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
required viewing in this marooned village this afternoon. The Prime | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Minister's sudden promised to do what people here have been demanding | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
for years was greeted by surprise and some scepticism. You could argue | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
that they did dredge last year. I think they did it for about one day. | :02:05. | :02:15. | |
Muchelney is still cut off. The roads leading into the village are | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
undrivable unless you have the right vehicle. Today the Red Cross moved | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
in with this. It is a specialist truck capable of operating into our | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
`` in up to 1.5 metres of water Today it was delivering much`needed | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
heavy supplies like logs and coal. Brilliant. We were running out of | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
the essential forms of heating so this is just fantastic really. The | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
ambulance men have been in? It has been a worrying time for Bill Daniel | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
who needs a minor heart procedure and they were planning to pick him | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
up in a specialist ambulance tomorrow but all of that changed | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
when just two hours after we spoke to him his wife had come fall. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Suddenly it is an emergency. It could be a fractured hip. She is in | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
a bit of pain. Now Bill and his wife are both off to hospital. The | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
specially adapted ambulances made it in and out and they could not have | :03:15. | :03:34. | |
done that a couple of days ago. We wish both of them are speedy | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
recovery. Tonight in flooded villages across the Somerset levels | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
there is a feeling we will believe it when we see it. The Prime | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Minister has made his promise and now they want him to deliver on it. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
There is another reason why they are not celebrating too hard here, more | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
bad weather is expected at the weekend. There is another | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
development tonight. The MOD have dispatched military | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
planners to Somerset this evening and they will star work the morning. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Now two other news: Hundreds of officers raided the homes of more | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
than 60 alleged drug dealers today in a massive show of strength. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
45 people were arrested. It was designed to send a clear signal to | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
London gangs to stop targetting Wiltshire. Scott Ellis reports. | :04:05. | :04:17. | |
Police! 160 homes raided today by Wiltshire Police, targeting those | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
suspected drug stealing. You are arrested on suspicion of supplying | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
heroin in crack cocaine. You don't drugstore and undercover police | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
officer. It is hoped to disrupt many as nine are drug wrecked `` networks | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
linked to London. Neighbours are alarmed at what is happening on | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
their street. I am shocked. I did not think anything like this would | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
happen on the street. I you reassured by the police action? | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Yes, I am, it is nice to see them doing something, isn't it? | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
The operation was so big the only place to brief all 400 staff | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
involved was in a hangar on the old RAF Lyneham base. It led to this | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
long convoy through Wootton Bassett in this morning's rush hour. We know | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
that the impact will be substantial. We have been gathering | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
intelligence on these individuals but we are not compilation that we | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
take one of the street and others will seek to take their place. This | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
is a message to those people, this is what will happen and we are keen | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
to send that message. Several shops on the Manchester Road in Swindon | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
were also raided. All this the culmination of a year's police | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
surveillance during which undercover officers infiltrated gangs linked to | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
the capital. They tend to prey on vulnerable people, drugs users and | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
other vulnerable members of the community, to use their addresses to | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
deal drugs from. They are often linked with firearms, violence, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
weapons. They are quite nasty, horrible individuals a lot of the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
time. A lot of them are actually very young but do not be fooled by | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
that. They will not think twice about using violence. Despite budget | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
cuts Wiltshire Police hopes to mount these high profile operations four | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
times a year so new drug dealers aren't tempted to move into Swindon | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
once this operation's over. Avon and Somerset Police is to axe | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
more than 130 officer posts. At its peak the force was made up of more | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
than 3,400 officers, now it will have just over 2,700. It's set to be | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
the biggest shake up in the history of the force. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Now to the weather and Ian Fergusson has our evening forecast. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
has our Thank you very much. The easterly | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
flow continues to keep things chilly tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow will | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
be the coldest day of the winter so far but it will not last long. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Patchy rain is about and on Friday more meaningful rain spreads in from | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the opposite direction, from the West. Tonight the temperatures are | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
getting down to freezing. There will be patchy and light rain around | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
which will continue to be a feature into tomorrow, accompanied by | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
extensive amounts of cloud. It will be a gloomy day which will | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
accentuate how chilly it feels. Temperatures tomorrow will be round | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
about three or four degrees. It will turn decidedly wet in the second | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
half of Friday and there are warnings out for that. More on that | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
tomorrow. Time now for us to make a move. The | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
whole team is back tomorrow. Thank you for watching. Good night. | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
Hello. The next dose of wet and windy weather is due to arrive on | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
Friday from the Atlantic. Today we have had an easterly wind bringing | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
the chill as the threat of icy patches comes to the north where the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
cloud breaks. More cloud further south. Maybe some sleet and snow in | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
parts of East Wales as we engage the cold air. Temperatures in the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
south-east are not changing much because the rain keeps going. It | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
will be colder further north, though. Icy patches are possible. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
More wintry showers in the north-east. Quite a few flood | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
warnings in Tayside. Write to the west of the Pennines. -- brighter. | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
Figure clad -- thicker cloud further south. We see some dampness in parts | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
of the West Country, possibly into East Wales. In the north-west of | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
Wales is the cloud breaks, temperatures will be close to. Not | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
as cold as that in Northern Ireland. -- close to freezing. Tomorrow is a | :08:45. | :08:49. |