:00:00. > :00:00.the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC
:00:00. > :00:09.Welcome to BBC Points West. I'm David Garmston. Tonight, we're on
:00:10. > :00:14.the flooded Somerset Levels as the cavalry arrives. A convoy of pumping
:00:15. > :00:20.trucks from Britain's emergency supplies rolls on to the moors. The
:00:21. > :00:28.military is here too, as the fight against the floods moves on to a war
:00:29. > :00:32.footing. Dredging will start as soon as it is practical, as soon as the
:00:33. > :00:35.waters have started to come down. The moment the Prime Minister hit
:00:36. > :00:46.the panic button, but was it just bad publicity that forced his hand?
:00:47. > :00:51.Also in the news today: Anger over plans to move nuclear waste to the
:00:52. > :00:54.West Country. And Victorian changing rooms ` the
:00:55. > :01:02.make`over of the Cheltenham home of Gustav Holst.
:01:03. > :01:09.Good evening. What a difference a day makes. After weeks of being
:01:10. > :01:12.ignored, suddenly the Somerset Levels find themselves at the heart
:01:13. > :01:20.of a political and military operation to roll back the flood
:01:21. > :01:24.waters. We hope to be down there very shortly but we can remind you
:01:25. > :01:27.that yesterday, the Prime Minister took personal charge of the
:01:28. > :01:30.situation, and he sent in the Army and the Marines. Our first report is
:01:31. > :01:34.from Scott Ellis. Not here in force, but now taking a
:01:35. > :01:37.closer look at the floods around Muchelney. Two Royal Engineers
:01:38. > :01:51.attached to the Royal Marines. Supporting Somerset County Council `
:01:52. > :01:56.if flood victims need more help I have seen it on the news and TV He
:01:57. > :02:01.did not really get the understanding of how big a task it is until you
:02:02. > :02:04.see it for yourself. There are 00 commandos based in Taunton on
:02:05. > :02:07.stand`by to help. But all this was declared a major incident zone
:02:08. > :02:16.almost a week ago. Residents are wondering why all the fuss now. We
:02:17. > :02:22.are actually managing quite well now. It has just gone on too long.
:02:23. > :02:26.But he wouldn't say no to the military helping? No. More rain and
:02:27. > :02:30.high tides are on the way. And more high`volume pumps ` ten of them The
:02:31. > :02:33.fire service are also bringing in two hovercraft ` and more 4X4s.
:02:34. > :02:41.Officials saying the military, as yet, aren't needed. What the
:02:42. > :02:48.military can bring is a quick response with additional resources,
:02:49. > :02:55.should we require them. At this stage we are comfortable that the
:02:56. > :02:58.civil contingencies we have in place are enough. While everyone gears up
:02:59. > :03:02.for another wet weekend, the area's drainage board published a new
:03:03. > :03:05.report. It maps out what action they think needs to be taken to improve
:03:06. > :03:08.drainage on the Somerset Levels in future years. Top of the list `
:03:09. > :03:12.dredging the rivers Parrett and Tone. But also measures to slow and
:03:13. > :03:15.reduce water run`off further up There is a need for a sluice gate
:03:16. > :03:18.below Bridgwater to hold back the tides. Finally, they admit, the most
:03:19. > :03:25.vulnerable households will have to relocate. At the end of the day
:03:26. > :03:30.then maybe people who need help to become more resilient, or to adapt,
:03:31. > :03:38.or as a very last result, be helped should away. The scale of dredging
:03:39. > :03:46.will be enormous. `` be helped to move away. 200,000 tonnes of earth
:03:47. > :03:48.and silt will have to be moved. For weeks, the people living in
:03:49. > :03:51.Thorney have complained they were being ignored. Last week, the county
:03:52. > :03:55.council declared a major incident, hoping for outside assistance ` and
:03:56. > :03:58.nothing happened. Then this week, after a barrage of bad publicity,
:03:59. > :04:02.the Levels suddenly became top priority. Here's our political
:04:03. > :04:06.editor, Paul Barltrop. The pictures went across the world `
:04:07. > :04:15.thousands of acres under water, angry locals berating a hapless
:04:16. > :04:20.Government minister. Why wasn't this day ages ago? Yet in reality, the
:04:21. > :04:23.worst was past. On January first, the waters rose, closing roads to
:04:24. > :04:26.vehicles. Badly affected ` the villages of Muchelney, Thorney, Oake
:04:27. > :04:30.and Stathe. Some 300 residents. Up to 40 properties were flooded.
:04:31. > :04:34.Within days, the council had a boat running, helping locals keep going.
:04:35. > :04:43.But their frustration, and the sight of such a vast expanse flooded,
:04:44. > :04:47.eventually hit Westminster. An area greater than the size of Bristol
:04:48. > :04:53.under water and it has been for a month. The severe flooding on the
:04:54. > :04:56.Somerset Levels is causing acute distress. It brought a pledge from
:04:57. > :04:59.the Prime Minister that surprised many, as it seemed to overrule what
:05:00. > :05:06.his own minister had ordered days earlier. Dredging will start as soon
:05:07. > :05:12.as it is practical, as soon as the waters have started to come down. It
:05:13. > :05:15.was a slap down. He has completely changed the approach to the
:05:16. > :05:18.Government as to what is going on down there and all of a sudden we
:05:19. > :05:24.have seen urgency and intervention that could have happened weeks ago.
:05:25. > :05:27.Dramatic areas of vast areas underwater, demands by farmers for
:05:28. > :05:30.action, bickering by politicians. That's not just the story of the
:05:31. > :05:34.past two winters. That's also what we had on the Somerset Levels ` 20
:05:35. > :05:37.years go. There was one difference back then ` the rivers Tone and
:05:38. > :05:40.Parrett WERE being dredged. It didn't stop flooding then, and
:05:41. > :05:46.politicians know it probably won't prevent it in the future.
:05:47. > :05:54.Joining us from our Taunton studio now is Richard Cresswell from the
:05:55. > :05:59.Environment Agency. Thank you for joining us. The Environment Agency
:06:00. > :06:04.was saying that it was not the best option. Now the Prime Minister has
:06:05. > :06:09.come in, he has taken it out of your hands. Is it the best way forward
:06:10. > :06:17.now? For the past year, ever since the floods in 2012, we have been
:06:18. > :06:22.saying that dredging the rivers `` River Parrett and the River Tone
:06:23. > :06:27.would be a partial solution. A year ago we put public money on the table
:06:28. > :06:32.to do exactly that, and we have been working with partners ever since to
:06:33. > :06:37.raise the rest of the money to do that dredge. So we believe that it
:06:38. > :06:41.is something that needs to happen. Why didn't you do it sooner? Because
:06:42. > :06:46.we have been working with our partners to raise the money for it.
:06:47. > :06:51.As we heard in the preview, there, it will cost ?4 million, and what we
:06:52. > :06:58.can put in is a proportion of that from taxpayers money. But people
:06:59. > :07:04.locally have been calling for this for some time, not just four weeks.
:07:05. > :07:09.Indeed, and we looked at this 1 months ago, after the serious floods
:07:10. > :07:15.then, to see exactly what could be done. As I say, we have worked with
:07:16. > :07:20.our partners to see how we can raise the money and how they can help to
:07:21. > :07:25.make sure that this dredging goes ahead as soon as possible. So who
:07:26. > :07:29.will do the dredging? At the moment there is the Environment Agency
:07:30. > :07:33.drainage department, county council. Is that going to take some
:07:34. > :07:39.time, to decide who is going to do it before it even gets done? We are
:07:40. > :07:43.working with our partners already on taking this forward. Whoever leads
:07:44. > :07:48.it and we are discussing with the drainage board and the county
:07:49. > :07:51.council to get the contract, but we have started some while ago in
:07:52. > :08:00.looking at all the things that need to be done to make sure that this
:08:01. > :08:04.can be done speedily. Thank you The Levels are partly below sea
:08:05. > :08:07.level so its natural that they flood ` but this year the rainfall has
:08:08. > :08:14.been exceptional. Here's Andrew Plant.
:08:15. > :08:18.After four weeks underwater, suddenly some green is poking
:08:19. > :08:28.through. Water levels here are now dropping, thanks to Somerset's
:08:29. > :08:34.biggest ever pumping operation. But a high tide is to this weekend.
:08:35. > :08:37.Regular showers falling on the Somerset fields that simply couldn't
:08:38. > :08:43.hold any more. January's rainfall gas set records in some parts of the
:08:44. > :08:47.UK. From up here, you can see how flooded the Somerset Levels still
:08:48. > :08:51.are. That is just in one direction. It looks exactly the same in the
:08:52. > :08:55.other direction. You can see the River Parrett stretching away into
:08:56. > :09:01.the distance, looking swollen. The fear is that we've more rain
:09:02. > :09:04.forecast this weekend and the high tide, the River could burst its
:09:05. > :09:15.banks. In the West, Simon has kept records here for the past 30 years.
:09:16. > :09:19.`` 50 years. If we are talking 0 millimetres to 40 millimetres of
:09:20. > :09:24.rain, depending how hard it rains and for how long, it would take us
:09:25. > :09:29.over the 400 millimetres combined total for December and January, and
:09:30. > :09:32.we have never had that before, not in my period of record which goes
:09:33. > :09:40.back to 1960. Here there has been twice the average January rainfall.
:09:41. > :09:43.It is the fifth wettest since 1 10. Forecasters say there is more on the
:09:44. > :09:51.way. For businesses like Westover garage, the rain means lost revenue.
:09:52. > :09:56.We could not get any vehicles in for a week and a half. We employ seven
:09:57. > :10:02.staff and they need to be paid. That is lost custom. You will not see the
:10:03. > :10:06.difference for a year. Across the West, it was the wettest in a
:10:07. > :10:15.generation. You'd have to go back to 1995 to find more rainfall in a
:10:16. > :10:19.single month. We were hoping to join David in the
:10:20. > :10:27.village of Thorney, and we still hope to before the end of tonight's
:10:28. > :10:30.programme, but for now, other news. Plans to bring dangerous nuclear
:10:31. > :10:33.waste to the West are being discussed. At the moment, waste
:10:34. > :10:36.produced at nuclear power stations here is routinely transported out of
:10:37. > :10:39.the West, to be processed and stored elsewhere. But now that could
:10:40. > :10:43.change, and it could end up being brought here too. Laura Jones
:10:44. > :10:48.reports. As you can see, you are in the
:10:49. > :10:52.middle of an area with lots of houses and across the fence behind
:10:53. > :10:56.me is the local primary school. A wet morning in Bridgwater. And at
:10:57. > :11:00.this railway siding, in the heart of the town, a container has just
:11:01. > :11:05.arrived by lorry ` and is being transferred onto a railway carriage.
:11:06. > :11:11.The white flask, as it is called, contained radioactive waste from
:11:12. > :11:15.Hinkley B. It is brought here by road and then loaded onto train to
:11:16. > :11:19.be reprocessed in Sellafield in Cumbria. It has been happening for
:11:20. > :11:23.40 years, but now in addition to this, there is talk of bringing
:11:24. > :11:26.nuclear waste into Hinkley, too The proposal is to bring what's called
:11:27. > :11:28.intermediate`level nuclear waste, from the now`closed Oldbury power
:11:29. > :11:32.station in South Gloucestershire to Hinkley, to be processed and stored.
:11:33. > :11:35.That waste would be transported by road, not rail, but would mean
:11:36. > :11:38.around one lorry a fortnight making the journey for two years ` between
:11:39. > :11:46.2020 and 2022. It's something anti nuclear protestors aren't very
:11:47. > :11:50.pleased about. We believe that the waste has already been generated and
:11:51. > :11:54.it needs to stay where it is and be properly looked after where it is.
:11:55. > :12:00.If people do not like having it in their backyard, the answer to that
:12:01. > :12:06.is quite simple, stop making more. They do not how to package it ``
:12:07. > :12:11.they do not know how to package it. It is a fantasy. There is no nuclear
:12:12. > :12:17.waste fairy. This stuff is a real problem. Plans to do this aren't
:12:18. > :12:20.definite and are up for consultation until tomorrow (FRIDAY). But those
:12:21. > :12:24.at Hinkley, say that even if they're approved, there's nothing to worry
:12:25. > :12:31.about. The UK has been transporting radioactive material around the
:12:32. > :12:35.country safely for many years without incident and I think this is
:12:36. > :12:41.just part of our business as usual. Remember that the number of traffic
:12:42. > :12:46.movements will be very low. When we can at this proposal, if it is
:12:47. > :12:53.enacted, in fact, it will be less than one lorry movements per week.
:12:54. > :12:56.Whatever decisions are made about what to re`process and where, the
:12:57. > :13:00.one problem that both sides agree on, is that there's still nowhere to
:13:01. > :13:03.store the processed waste long term. But that's not something that these
:13:04. > :13:06.proposals are looking at. The former Liberal Democrat leader
:13:07. > :13:10.Paddy Ashdown and his wife have survived a car accident in which a
:13:11. > :13:13.49`year`old man died. Lord Ashdown's wife was driving on a country road
:13:14. > :13:16.near their home when they were involved in a collision with two
:13:17. > :13:20.other vehicles. The couple are reported to be very upset and have
:13:21. > :13:25.passed on their condolences to the family of the man who died.
:13:26. > :13:29.Wiltshire Police say they've disrupted 15 suspected drugs gangs
:13:30. > :13:34.after a series of raids. Officers arrested 45 people yesterday. Drugs
:13:35. > :13:39.and illegal tobacco were seized at 60 homes and businesses in Swindon
:13:40. > :13:44.and London. 400 staff were involved in the operation.
:13:45. > :13:47.A crackdown on fly`tipping has resulted in a huge drop in people
:13:48. > :13:54.illegally dumping rubbish, according to officials in North Somerset. In
:13:55. > :13:58.July, waste experts were brought in to try to analyse the rubbish. If
:13:59. > :14:02.they identified the guilty party, the council sent them a letter
:14:03. > :14:07.threatening a ?60 fine. Here's Tracey Miller.
:14:08. > :14:10.Clive and Kim are part of a team that are tackling dumped rubbish and
:14:11. > :14:14.fly`tipping on the streets of Weston. Complaints of rubbish,
:14:15. > :14:23.dumped mattresses even roadkill are passed onto the them and they take
:14:24. > :14:29.on the job. It is quite a rewarding job, cleaning up the town centre. I
:14:30. > :14:32.hope people appreciate the work being done. But to tackle repeat
:14:33. > :14:39.offenders of fly`tipping, a council officer uses some detective work to
:14:40. > :14:45.track them down. Basically, we are looking for evidence. These are
:14:46. > :14:49.bikes that have been illegally put out on the street. We are looking
:14:50. > :14:53.for letters or envelopes, anything that has the name or address where
:14:54. > :15:00.the rubbish has come from. It's resulted in a 70% drop in
:15:01. > :15:05.fly`tipping. North Somerset Council, over the past couple of years, we
:15:06. > :15:12.have the second best recycling statistics in the whole of the
:15:13. > :15:19.country. And that is running at 60%. Good to know we are good at
:15:20. > :15:25.something. Where the bins are, it used to be like a rubbish dump but
:15:26. > :15:28.it is not any more, so very good. Very good. They could do with a view
:15:29. > :15:35.more pins. So even a recycling area that's tidy can be improved. They
:15:36. > :15:38.are not very attractive so one thing we are looking to do this summer is
:15:39. > :15:42.to run a competition with schoolchildren to get them to design
:15:43. > :15:47.murals or paintings to go on the front of the bins, especially along
:15:48. > :15:51.the seafront in Weston`super`Mare. For Clive and Kim, there's been a
:15:52. > :15:57.call and they're off to remove a dead badger from the side of the
:15:58. > :16:01.road. There are growing concerns about the
:16:02. > :16:05.number of men developing eating disorders. Figures released today
:16:06. > :16:10.show there has been a rise in the number of men seeking treatment for
:16:11. > :16:14.six years running. Charities here in the West are warning it could be the
:16:15. > :16:19.tip of the iceberg, as men are much less likely to seek help for these
:16:20. > :16:25.conditions than women. By any definition, this is a man who
:16:26. > :16:34.likes his food. Leek packs in over 5000 calories a day. `` Ollie. But
:16:35. > :16:41.four years ago, he looked rather different, anorexic and weighing
:16:42. > :16:46.just six stone. Every morning I would wake up and it wouldn't be,
:16:47. > :16:50.what is my schoolwork, how is my family? It would just be, what can I
:16:51. > :16:56.do to be the smallest that I can be today, and that was the goal, as
:16:57. > :17:01.simple as that. Whence he had admitted a problem, he turned to the
:17:02. > :17:07.local gym for help. Gradually he rebuilt his body and self esteem.
:17:08. > :17:12.But few men nowhere to turn to for. Launched last year, this is a
:17:13. > :17:18.Bristol eating order service, which sees one man for every ten women,
:17:19. > :17:22.but thinks the problem is bigger. It may be that far more men are
:17:23. > :17:26.experiencing problems with managing their eating and engaging in quite
:17:27. > :17:30.extreme behaviours intended to shape their bodies and manage their
:17:31. > :17:37.weight. But because we do not understand or know less about the
:17:38. > :17:43.ways that we do those things, may be we do not branch them with this
:17:44. > :17:48.eating disorder label in quite the same way we do women. Although Ollie
:17:49. > :17:55.says he has never completely overcome his eating disorder,
:17:56. > :18:03.finding help was half the battle. You need to find the confidence
:18:04. > :18:08.find the thing that means that you have a purpose in life. On hopes his
:18:09. > :18:13.story will inspire other young men. `` Ollie.
:18:14. > :18:17.Passengers using First buses outside of Bristol are to be asked what they
:18:18. > :18:20.think of the service. A similar consultation within the city led to
:18:21. > :18:23.a reduction in some fares. First says they now want to hear from
:18:24. > :18:28.passengers in areas like Portishead, Bath and Yate.
:18:29. > :18:31.People concerned about the future of Clevedon Community Hospital are
:18:32. > :18:35.being asked to attend a public meeting in the town tonight. It s
:18:36. > :18:39.been called by campaigners who fear that a shake`up of health services
:18:40. > :18:47.in Clevedon could mean the hospital losing its in`patient beds.
:18:48. > :18:52.Experts are being brought in to restore the composer Gustav Holst's
:18:53. > :18:55.home in Cheltenham. Staff at the town's Holst Birthplace Museum have
:18:56. > :18:59.even commissioned a paint historian to work out how it would have been
:19:00. > :19:06.decorated in 1874, when Holst was born there. The work's been done to
:19:07. > :19:19.celebrate the 100th anniversary of his most famous orchestral suite,
:19:20. > :19:27.The Planets. Here's Zoe Gough. Gustav Holst, composer of The
:19:28. > :19:31.Planets. He remains one of Cheltenham's most famous sons. The
:19:32. > :19:38.terraced house in was born in proudly displays his treasures, in
:19:39. > :19:43.characterful rooms. This is an original score of the planets.. But
:19:44. > :19:47.the garage into beer simply did not compare, so to put things right
:19:48. > :19:54.layers of wallpaper and paint were stripped back to find what might
:19:55. > :20:02.have been there in the 1870s. I was looking in looks and crannies.
:20:03. > :20:06.Eventually I found an area. The decoration samples were put under a
:20:07. > :20:13.microscope to find out which layout related to Holst's time in the
:20:14. > :20:17.house. Being able to bring the interior back to the time when he
:20:18. > :20:22.lived here as a child is quite important in that story telling
:20:23. > :20:25.Decorators have since got to work restoring the walls, doors and
:20:26. > :20:32.original staircase to their former glory. But remaining true to an
:20:33. > :20:38.historic decor has been a leap of faith for the museum staff. I said
:20:39. > :20:43.to the volunteers and staff that we would paint it, regardless what
:20:44. > :20:47.colour it was, as we wanted it to be authentic, but it could have been
:20:48. > :20:53.dark brown and quite oppressive for visitors. But now we can say, this
:20:54. > :21:00.was the original colour, but it is also a very attractive colour. This
:21:01. > :21:04.coincides with the centenary of Gustav Holst's most famous
:21:05. > :21:14.orchestral suite, allowing visitors to appreciate fully the environment
:21:15. > :21:19.which shaped the great composer It is just fascinating.
:21:20. > :21:22.Army troops in Gloucestershire are celebrating today after the official
:21:23. > :21:26.announcement that they've broken a world record. It was for the most
:21:27. > :21:32.soldiers dipping eggy soldiers simultaneously. Members of Imjin
:21:33. > :21:37.Barracks made the attempt a week ago, and set the new record at 78.
:21:38. > :21:43.It was in aid of Winston's Wish ` a local charity for bereaved children.
:21:44. > :21:56.You can just hear the quartermaster shouting, dip!
:21:57. > :22:01.And David is with us in Thorney Better late than never. Yes, Thorney
:22:02. > :22:06.is a village on the Somerset Levels fairly near Langport, and the locals
:22:07. > :22:09.here tell me they have been underwater for exactly 30 days. In
:22:10. > :22:13.fact, there is a disabled lady who lives down there who, because of the
:22:14. > :22:17.rain, has not been able to get out of her house since the 23rd of
:22:18. > :22:23.December. They thought they were forgotten, it ignored nationally.
:22:24. > :22:26.And then the prime minister got hold of the story yesterday at prime
:22:27. > :22:32.ministers questions and he effectively pushed a panic button
:22:33. > :22:36.and sent in the Marines and the Army and more services from the Fire
:22:37. > :22:39.Brigade, and yet when they got here this morning they found the water
:22:40. > :22:44.level had gone down by three inches or so, and so there was not much
:22:45. > :22:50.they could do. The Army and Marines have been stood down tonight. Our
:22:51. > :22:55.environment correspondent, Clinton, has been covering this for a month.
:22:56. > :22:58.What do you make of what has been happening today, this extraordinary
:22:59. > :23:03.activity, and then people saying, well, there is not much to do? It is
:23:04. > :23:08.not so much what I think that what the people over there thing. When
:23:09. > :23:12.people have been talking, the word farce comes up. I do not think there
:23:13. > :23:18.was anything they thought the Army or navy could do today. They could
:23:19. > :23:22.have done that a weeks ago, two weeks ago, three weeks ago. But
:23:23. > :23:27.there is a real sense here that the panic button has been pushed far too
:23:28. > :23:32.late, and to have the military come here and take a look and say, what
:23:33. > :23:37.do you want us to do? And go away again... The worries about this
:23:38. > :23:41.weekend, because there is more rain on the way. Yes, the Army have said
:23:42. > :23:45.that the Fire Brigade are doing quite enough. I think the county
:23:46. > :23:49.council are saying it is handy to know that the military are there in
:23:50. > :23:56.case we need them at the weekend. Let's hope we don't. Also the issue
:23:57. > :23:58.of dredging it came up. The Prime Minister said, forget what the
:23:59. > :24:04.Environment Agency has said in the past, we are going to dredge. To be
:24:05. > :24:11.honest, the Army help was not what people wanted, it is the dredging.
:24:12. > :24:16.They want to have it done properly, and now. That is what they say.
:24:17. > :24:23.Thank you. Of course, everybody is waiting to find out what the weather
:24:24. > :24:28.is going to be like. Thank you. We know more rain is on
:24:29. > :24:35.the way and the high tide, as well. Why has it been so wet for so long?
:24:36. > :24:40.We have seen how exceptional the rental figures have been this month.
:24:41. > :24:45.We have to look to the other side of the Atlantic, to North America, for
:24:46. > :24:50.the very cold winter they have been experiencing, the opposite of what
:24:51. > :24:53.we have had. This has been pumping this relentless amount of cold air
:24:54. > :24:58.across into parts of the north`western Atlantic, and firing
:24:59. > :25:11.up these Jetstream wins, that fly as high as airliners. In turn, this is
:25:12. > :25:14.the driving force which is starting to form the pressure which comes our
:25:15. > :25:22.way, and nonstop since before Christmas, and as long as that
:25:23. > :25:27.remains, so will the rain. The child has a meaningful look for Friday. A
:25:28. > :25:32.swathe of rain will be approaching us in the second half of the day.
:25:33. > :25:38.Nonstop with very little hiatus between the spells of rain. Yes it
:25:39. > :25:43.will be a dry morning, but further rain on the way. It will continue
:25:44. > :25:49.into the evening before clearing away. Somerset Levels, where we have
:25:50. > :25:57.the focus, there is a further threat of rain there, an inch or so. That
:25:58. > :26:01.will feed down the catchment into the Levels itself. It will continue
:26:02. > :26:09.over into Saturday. It takes a while for the rain to actually come down
:26:10. > :26:15.into the Levels itself. A fairly benign patent right now and so it
:26:16. > :26:20.will continue overnight. After a dry start tomorrow, all eyes to the
:26:21. > :26:33.West. The wind will pick up that the rain will be causing the Dublin
:26:34. > :26:39.Wintry showers following on behind, into Saturday. `` causing the
:26:40. > :26:44.problem. A spot of drizzle. A dry picture for tonight but decidedly
:26:45. > :26:53.chilly. Temperatures dropping to freezing or a degree or two below. A
:26:54. > :26:58.cold start tomorrow. But it will be a dry one. Some hints of brightness
:26:59. > :27:03.around. It will not last long. The wind is picking up. About midday,
:27:04. > :27:06.the rain is crossing the M5 across the Levels into Bristol and parts of
:27:07. > :27:14.Gloucestershire. It crosses eastwards. There is an amber warning
:27:15. > :27:26.and therefore the Levels. By about 6pm, the last swathe is heading away
:27:27. > :27:37.from the M5 corridor. Some hail and may be snow in places into Saturday.
:27:38. > :27:38.On Saturday, stronger wind and the threat of those very high tides We
:27:39. > :27:41.will feature those tomorrow.