:00:00. > :00:10.messy divorce. That's all from us.
:00:11. > :00:23.Good evening from Points West. Bad weather is causing major problems
:00:24. > :00:27.across parts of the west tonight. A number of homes in Somerset are
:00:28. > :00:30.without power trees are being blown down in places and flooding on the
:00:31. > :00:33.M5 motorway at junction 26 southbound has brought all three
:00:34. > :00:36.lanes at a standstill. There's also been flight disruption at Bristol
:00:37. > :00:40.Airport as wind and rain lash our region. We'll have a full weather
:00:41. > :00:43.forecast shortly, meanwhile, Prince Charles told people on the Somerset
:00:44. > :00:46.Levels today that he sympathised with their situation. The Prince
:00:47. > :00:49.spent several hours on the Levels taking a boat to the marooned
:00:50. > :00:52.village of Muchelney and visiting nearby Stoke St Gregory. He also
:00:53. > :01:00.announced he would give ?50,000 pounds from his countryside fund to
:01:01. > :01:03.help local businesses. One thing the Prince has often spoken about is
:01:04. > :01:06.climate change and experts say it is a challenge for places like the
:01:07. > :01:09.Levels. But 20 years ago scientists were already saying wetter winters
:01:10. > :01:17.and rising sea levels would increase flooding here. Paul Barltrop has
:01:18. > :01:22.more. It's hard to tell the difference. The Somerset Levels 19
:01:23. > :01:26.years ago and today. 1995 was the second year in a row they'd flooded
:01:27. > :01:34.badly. A BBC documentary brought warnings about something most of us
:01:35. > :01:40.hadn't heard of: climate change As climate changes, we as a region will
:01:41. > :01:45.see changes, as quickly as everyone else. We are predicting a rise in
:01:46. > :01:50.sea level and will not help of the Somerset levels, they will be more
:01:51. > :01:53.at risk and will be a greater incidence of flooding. Then, as now,
:01:54. > :01:56.it was the Environment Agency in the front line. But then, unlike now,
:01:57. > :01:59.they were dredging the Rivers Parrett and Tone. It didn't stop the
:02:00. > :02:04.flooding and they too warned that global warming would make things
:02:05. > :02:06.worse. The people in this part of the world are particularly
:02:07. > :02:09.vulnerable to flooding and anything could make that worse and climate
:02:10. > :02:15.change will, it is therefore of great importance and the price that
:02:16. > :02:20.we must pay to protect people in areas like this, the big urban
:02:21. > :02:24.areas, is to have controlled flooding at some of the level some
:02:25. > :02:30.of the time. Back then experts told us where floods on the levels might
:02:31. > :02:34.one day reach. On the flanks of the hill, those houses are eight metres
:02:35. > :02:37.above flood were level. We could see flooding up to that level. Two
:02:38. > :02:44.decades on Simon Haslett says we haven't done enough. On a local and
:02:45. > :02:48.regional scale we need to look at how communities are going to be able
:02:49. > :02:53.to adapt against the impacts of climate change. Even if we are
:02:54. > :02:58.successful in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we have already laid
:02:59. > :03:01.in store at the impacts of climate change for decades to come. Today's
:03:02. > :03:04.scientists speak with with heightened urgency. In Bristol this
:03:05. > :03:07.evening to talk about climate change is the government's chief scientific
:03:08. > :03:13.adviser. Sir Mark Walport's view: things are going to get worse: there
:03:14. > :03:16.is no doubt that the climate is going to be more uncomfortable for
:03:17. > :03:25.humans across the planet and we must do all we can to adapt to that and
:03:26. > :03:31.prevent it happening. Should become one inhabitant an area like that? I
:03:32. > :03:34.cannot talk about specific areas. We will have to adapt and low`lying
:03:35. > :03:39.parts, we will have to think about how we will live in them. It has
:03:40. > :03:43.always been risky living in a flood plain. This winter's calamity can't
:03:44. > :03:45.be blamed on climate change, there's always been extreme weather. But
:03:46. > :03:51.scientists agree global warming means more extremes, more floods,
:03:52. > :03:54.more often. A Somerset con man who wrote wills for pensioners and then
:03:55. > :03:57.cheated them out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been found
:03:58. > :04:00.guilty of fraud. 67`year `old Keith Webber today also pleaded guilty to
:04:01. > :04:12.downloading child pornography. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Steve
:04:13. > :04:17.Brodie was in court. Do you have anything to say about your victims?
:04:18. > :04:20.You defrauded them. Had you got anything to say? Facing a long
:04:21. > :04:26.prison sentence, Webber left court today refusing to apologise for his
:04:27. > :04:30.crimes. The jury heard how over two and a half years Webber abused his
:04:31. > :04:33.position of trust.He pretended to be a man of principle. But instead of
:04:34. > :04:37.safeguarding the financial future of his clients he stole three hundred
:04:38. > :04:41.thousand pounds from their estates. His four elderly victims were taken
:04:42. > :04:45.in by the promises made on his company's website and at his home in
:04:46. > :04:49.Chard. He conned one man into buying him an eleven thousand pound Jaguar
:04:50. > :04:52.and then into buying his own wife, Joan Webber, a three thousand pound
:04:53. > :04:59.funeral plan and then charged him a ?150 agents fee. His wife's sister,
:05:00. > :05:02.Margaret Wetton, says Webber persuded her older sister and her
:05:03. > :05:05.husband, Esther and David Larn, to grant him power of attorney over
:05:06. > :05:17.their financial affairs. But in their dying days he stole savings
:05:18. > :05:22.and pensions. This is the saddest thing that my sister and
:05:23. > :05:27.brother`in`law and his wife are not here to see justice done and that
:05:28. > :05:32.hurts more than anything. I had to sit in that court and see old
:05:33. > :05:37.ladies, a blind lady giving evidence. He has duped them all It
:05:38. > :05:40.is disgusting. The jury found Webber guilty of six counts of fraud and
:05:41. > :05:43.theft for sums totalling over ?280,000. Judge Graham Hume Jones
:05:44. > :05:46.told Webber that the guilty verdicts delivered by the jury would attract
:05:47. > :05:52.a considerable prison sentence. The judge granted him bail to allow him
:05:53. > :05:56.to put his affairs in order. The will writer will be sentenced on
:05:57. > :06:04.Friday for both the fraud and child pornography offences. Football now
:06:05. > :06:07.and Bristol City lost at home to Coventry this evening. Coventry took
:06:08. > :06:11.a two goal lead early in the first half and despite a header from Wes
:06:12. > :06:12.Burns nine minutes from the end Bristol City couldn't turn things
:06:13. > :06:27.around, it finished 2`1. There is more News Online, but now
:06:28. > :06:31.we will get the weather. Thank you. Heavy rain is continuing to drift
:06:32. > :06:36.its way up towards the north`east, but for now the strong winds are
:06:37. > :06:41.causing considerable concern, particularly in the south. The Met
:06:42. > :06:47.Office has issued an amber warning. Gusts of up to 75 mph are likely. By
:06:48. > :06:54.tomorrow, the strongest winds will be through the Bristol Channel as
:06:55. > :06:59.well as in the south. The soft soil beans that we `` that trees will
:07:00. > :07:04.come down. Dangerous driving conditions through tonight and
:07:05. > :07:08.tomorrow. Temperatures down to around five or six degrees. We will
:07:09. > :07:12.have heavy and showery rain tomorrow, perhaps some breaks, but
:07:13. > :07:17.the strength of the winds will grab attention. That focus on the Bristol
:07:18. > :07:26.Channel, the winds will be Westerly, that will be pronounced.
:07:27. > :07:30.Temperatures tonight and tomorrow around eight or nine degrees. Here
:07:31. > :07:38.is the outlook. Apart from Friday, it looks a mess.
:07:39. > :07:44.Good evening. Much like the local forecast, the national picture is a
:07:45. > :07:48.stormy one in the next 24 hours The Met Office have issued an amber
:07:49. > :07:51.weather warning for strong winds across southern counties. Wilts up
:07:52. > :07:56.to Surrey in particular. There will be some transport disruption, no
:07:57. > :08:00.doubt, and it could go beyond that, so if you're travelling across the
:08:01. > :08:02.country there could be transport and power disruption and with more rain
:08:03. > :08:09.in the forecast, further flooding where areas have flooded and some
:08:10. > :08:14.very strong winds and high seas Southern coastal counties of England
:08:15. > :08:21.and Wales have been troubled, but Dorset sees three severe flood
:08:22. > :08:22.warnings, and more details on them on our own