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Thank you. That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell Our | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
main story tonight... Shipping in help from the continent ` Dutch | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
pumps and new dams to fight the floodwater. But dry land needs to be | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
submerged. We cannot be abandoned and left with some bags of sand | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
which are what the differences are and sit here and wait for something | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
to happen. We look at how the farmers are | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
helping each other through the floods. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Also tonight, anger and confusion as six lions are put down at a | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Wiltshire safari park. And soaring on to the medals board ` | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the Bristol snowboarder lighting up Sochi. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
Good evening. The Environment Agency has launched its latest effort to | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
rid the Somerset Levels of water today. Huge pumps have been shipped | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
in from Holland and dams have been built to protect homes, ahead of an | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
ambitious plan to open one of the main sluice gates on the moors, | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
which could put homes at risk. The pumps are shifting vast volumes of | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
water away from flooded areas, and Scott Ellis is next to them tonight. | :01:16. | :01:27. | |
Something of a respite in the weather in Somerset to night. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Somewhere out there if the River parrot. It is unbroken water all the | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
way. The Dutch engineers are working away, putting the pumps in place. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
They are hoping to move the water onto fields which are less flooded. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
As ever, once you start shifting water around, pumping it here and | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
opening sluice gates there, someone else will suffer along the way. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
These are the giant Dutch pumps it is hoped will ease flooding on the | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Somerset levels. They will work by taking water away from the swollen | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
River Parrot. It will be taken out to sea. It means opening a sluice | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
gate on the River. They are failing to appreciate the flow of the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
water. That worries some residents in Aller. His house has flooded for | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
times since Christmas. He is worried that when the of Ireland agency | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
opens the sluice gate, the water will flood onto the land, near his | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
house. We are sacrificial lambs there is no doubt about it. They | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
have to give us a guaranteed that if the outcome goes wrong, they will | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
underwrite the value of the property, they can acquire the | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
property and do what they want but they have to give me that guarantee | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
in writing. A dam is being built to protect their homes from floods but | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
there are no guarantees. It is an uncertain business but we will do | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
our best to protect these homes and property. Are they right to be | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
worried? Yes, I would be the same myself. All of the residents are | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
worried. We would all be worried if our homes were at risk. The | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Environment Agency says it will open the sluice gates slowly and the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
water will be constantly monitored. They say they need to ease the | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
pressure on the River to prevent flooding in Bridgwater. Elsewhere, | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
we spoke to one farmer who cannot wait for the pumping to start. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
Unless the water goes rapidly this will not be grassland, it will be a | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
bog and you can't farm that. With no rain, it is estimated it would take | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
26 days to Pompey levels dried but once again `` to pump the Levels | :03:52. | :04:03. | |
dried. The Environment Agency has said that | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
they can guarantee that opening the sluice gate will not flood his house | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
was stop they cannot guarantee that his house will not flood as a result | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
of the bad weather that is coming in. He is deciding what to do. He | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
wants a written guarantee from the brunt agency and is considering an | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
injunction against the environmental seat to stop them from opening that | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
gate. Scott Ellis reporting there from the | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
village of Aller. Well, for those of you not familiar with the geography | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
of the area, Aller is on one of the main roads which runs through the | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Somerset Levels, the A372, only about ten miles from the M5. It s | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
just one of the communities we've been reporting from over the last | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
few weeks during this crisis. The village of Muchelney was the first | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
to be cut off ` that was at the beginning of January. Since then, | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the only way residents have been able to get in and out has been with | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the help of the emergency services. The waters then started to rise | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
around other villages. Farmer James Winslade lives near Moorland. We've | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
been to his farm several times over the last few weeks, including last | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Thursday when his cattle had to be moved in a dramatic evacuation, | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
otherwise they would have drowned. This picture of a train surrounded | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
by water was also taken near Moorland on Friday. And then, at the | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
weekend, more distress for local residents, as houses in East Lyng | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
were overtaken by the floodwaters. At this house, the water was so high | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
it was pouring in through the letterbox. But it's not just been | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Somerset where there's been flooding. In Gloucestershire, nearly | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
60 homes have been flooded. Some communities have been underwater for | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
weeks and say they're being ignored. Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Chaceley. Chaceley. Population, around 10 . | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
Flooding, a regular occurrence. Roads and lanes here are covered in | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
several metres of water The only transport for the landlord of the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
local pub, which now has a foot of water in, is by boat. It is rising | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
all the time, so we're just getting anything out of the water. We have | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
stacked it twice already. It is going up and up. All of this water | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
arrived on `` arrives during Christmas. In some places, there are | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
no pants getting rid of the water. `` pumps getting rid of the water. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Well`rehearsed plans to protect homes have been put in place again. | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
It's part of village life, but doesn't get any easier. And many | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
here feel their plight is being ignored. We are only a small village | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
and there are only a view of us Obviously, a bigger village or town | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
has to come first. We are still people and we are still suffering, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
all of us in this village. We need something done here as well. The | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
flooding here is a 20th`century problem. To blame, flood defences | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
put into larger towns and cities up river and large`scale development on | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
flood plains. Between Tewkesbury and Gloucester, there are no defences. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
It gets to Gloucester and then there is a massive restriction of the | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
river in Gloucester, he's developing has taken place there. We have an | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
enormous rubbish tip. It is a pinch point, the water cannot go through, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
it backs up and comes over the top here. Villagers want a storm drain | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
built to bypass Gloucester, allowing the water to flow freely and not | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
back up. In terms of value for money and making sure there is a benefit, | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
here, it is difficult to come up with a scheme that is cost | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
beneficial. The flood is now creeping menacingly into the | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
churchyard, the traditional last bastion of refuge. People here are | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
coping but, with water still here after several weeks and nothing | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
being done, patience is wearing thin. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Since the Somerset floods crisis, hundreds of offers of help have been | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
pouring in for local people, everything from food and blankets to | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
boats and beds. And since the farmers and their animals have been | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
evacuated, the generosity just keeps on coming. Ali Vowles has been to | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Nether Stowey to see how the agricultural community in the area | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
is coping with the situation. No one who saw this last week will | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
forget the images. Farmer James Winslade in a race against time to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
move his cattle. It was thanks to the help of neighbouring farmers | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
that they were moved to the safety of a nearby auction centre. Four | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
days later, most of the animals are on tender from other farms. Today, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
some of his cattle are being auctioned. People are amazing. They | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
are spread over ten farms all over the place. Logistically, it is how | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
you feed them, I do not have any feed, it is all underwater. There is | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
also the overdraft and the added cost that the floods have put on. | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
The kindness of people has touched everyone in the farming community. | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
Tonnes of hay and feed from all over the country have been arriving here | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
at the auction centre. James has been helping to all cord mate where | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
it goes. For the first time, Brian had to abandon his farm. He has 100 | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
cattle being cared for at different files. He has been overwhelmed by | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
everyone's kindness. Neighbours have loaded up cattle and taken them on | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
and that sort of thing. It has been wonderful, how everyone has helped | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
us. For many, these floods will be life changing. Despite the support | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
of the community, some farmers say they are not sure they can keep | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
going. Sales like this might be the start. Most will do everything they | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
can to keep going. Feed and silage is arriving every | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
day and it may look a lot of good this is not going to last for long. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
The farmers say it will be months before their land can produce | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
anything at all and they will need help for a long time to come. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
As the flooding continues on the Somerset levels, many farmers and | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
landowners are asking what can be done to stop it happening again A | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
potential answer could be several hundred miles away in the lowlands | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
of Europe. Andy Howard reports. Spot the difference. The Netherlands | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
in 1995. And Somerset last week Dutch engineers helped regain water | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
from the Somerset levels 400 years ago. Now, they have some new ideas. | :10:49. | :11:00. | |
Land here is being given back to the river. They will move the Dykes back | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
and lowering the water `` lowering the land level. It increases the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
risk of flooding. You find new solutions for flood relief by | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
finding a way to live with nature and to live together with the river. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
Using more land is a flood plain means some 200 Dutch families living | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
on the riverside may have to move. We are frustrated and angry. Then we | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
decided we would oppose this plan or we could find a way to work together | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
with the Government. The farmers persuaded the Dutch government to | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
stay on the land and build six metre high mounds around their properties. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Back to the Somerset levels. Would that system ever work here? This has | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
become the second official land they are talking about in the | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
Netherlands. If you could manage that, we would still have areas that | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
would flood but not to this large extent. That could work. With the | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
scheme in Holland costing one point eight Ilium pounds `` 1.8 Ilium | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
pounds, going Dutch could be extensive. | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Well, you can find out more about how the Dutch are trying to solve | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
the problem of river flooding on Inside Out West tonight at 7:30pm on | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
BBC One. Today, it was the turn of the Deputy | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Prime Minister to visit the levels. Nick Clegg became the third party | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
leader in four days to come to Somerset, while Labour are promising | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
a member of the Shadow Cabinet will be here tomorrow. Meanwhile, the | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
political row over who's to blame for not dredging local rivers took a | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
new turn. Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
It's been a veritable procession of politicians. Nick Clegg followed hot | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
on the heels of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, just days after the Prime | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Minister visited. First on the scene a fortnight back was Environment | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Secretary Owen Paterson, though he didn't fare too well. As well as | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
being barracked by angry locals his shiny shoes didn't impress. For any | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
politician visiting the floods, images everything. You have to be | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
seen in the right place, meet the right people and you have to be | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
wearing wellies or waders. So today's footwear was carefully | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
chosen, as was his stance on the row of the day ` who's to blame for the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
rivers Parrett and Tone not being dredged last year. It turns out | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Treasury spending restrictions played a big part. The Environment | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
Agency has to work according to a set of rules about what they should | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
prioritise. Those are set by government? They are and it is right | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
that we look together with the Environment Agency about whether | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
those rules are right for these kinds of incidents. For Somerset, | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
the rules have now been changed Dredging will happen. That was | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
welcomed by UKIP leader Nigel Farage as he posed for the press pack | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
yesterday and, unusually for a politician, admitted things weren't | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
clear`cut. I don't know whether dredging, what percent of the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
problems has been caused by a lack of dredging. Long`term, a public | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
enquiry is the least that could happen. | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
The political spotlight will have shifted by the time the dredgers go | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
in and the experts get on with tackling Somerset's centuries`old | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
problem. There will be much more discussion, I am sure. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
Well, you're watching Points West at the start of what could be yet | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
another wet week. But at least we've got this to cheer us up. Looking | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
very solid here for Jenny Jones Yes, stay with us as we celebrate | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
Britain's first medal in Sochi. It's emerged that six lions have | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
been put down at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire. One male lion was | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
said to have been badly injured in a fight. The others, a lioness and | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
four cubs, had genetic disorders. Park managers said because of those | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
disorders and an increase in the lion population, putting them to | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
sleep was the responsible thing to do. Will Glennon reports. | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
Longleat Safari Park here in Wiltshire has been in operation | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
since the 1960s. Since then, they have had hundreds of lions here We | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
are here because six lines have been put down in the last month. One a | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
male line who had been involved in a fight with some of the other lines, | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
and a lioness and four Cubs who work in exhibiting genetic abnormalities. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Let us find out more about what that means from the director of animal | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
operations here. Tell us about the male line. Where his injury so bad | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
you could not save him? On the th of January, Henry was beaten up by | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
his brother and one of the lionesses in the pride. The wind was so severe | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
that despite treatment, we could not return him to a normal life. The | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
best decision was to humanely euthanise him. What about the | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
lioness and the Cubs? They had been getting worse and the Cubs got | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
around 12 months of age. We felt that this was a genetic disease and | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
as they were getting worse, there was no hope that we could remove | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
them from a breeding programme and give them a quality`of`life until | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
they died of a natural age. Some welfare groups are saying that you | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
should not have been breeding from the line as if she had genetic | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
problems. I agree full so we do use contraception here. We also use the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
sector mise en some of the male lions was a bit is something we do | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
routinely use. In her case, we thought that her neurological | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
disease was to do with her diet when she was younger. It emerged that it | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
was a genetic problem later in her life. That was when we made a | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
decision we did. The lioness was not bred here at Longleat. She was born | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
at a zoo in Cambridgeshire and then transferred to a zoo in North | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Somerset before arriving here. We are told that the zoo in North | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Somerset has two of Louisa's brothers still in captivity. They | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
are still not showing any signs of illness was not they are said to be | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
healthy. For digital entrepreneurs in the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
West Country, today was a red letter day. ?2 million was invested in new | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
high`tech start`up firms, and there was a Royal visit to boot. Prince | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Andrew came to Bristol to highlight the importance of high`tech | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
companies and our business correspondent, Dave Harvey, has been | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
speaking to him. We have graphic design, copywriting... | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
They call him the start`up royal ` he writes his own tweets and loves | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
meeting funky new digital start`ups, like Paul, from the daredevil | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
project. We run mobile games that are played in the real world. It | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
allows teams of people to carry out tasks in a creative way for a panel | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
of judges. It struck a royal chord ` the former helicopter pilot warmed | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
to the devil`may`care confidence of the room. Ten brand`new firms ` each | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
has been given ten weeks and ?1 ,000 to prove their ideas. I am from | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
London but I decided to go back to Bristol to do this because I think | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
it worked but Italy well here. `` it works particularly well here. Prince | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Andrew loves this stuff. As a rule, the royals don't do interviews but | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
today the Prince made an exception, so keen is he on these brave digital | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
trailblazers. So I asked him ` would he invest? I would. I'd need a bit | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
more education. One of the most important things about investing | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
isn't not only knowing what it is that the people are doing but more | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
to learn about the people themselves. A lot of it is about | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
networking. Are you able to deliver investors or networkers to these | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
kind of businesses? In brief, can you help these guys meet the money | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
men? The money men are always difficult people to find because | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
they hide. They are very efficient at hiding. But by the time I get | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
back to London tonight, there will be two or three things we have done. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Before that, though, a royal appointment with the robots. The | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Bristol Robotic Laboratory ` world renowned and, for Prince Andrew | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
highly educational. Every single day, one learns something new. In | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
learning something new, one finds something that you can pass on to | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
someone else which is your networking point. That gives people | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
the opportunity to feed from your knowledge. Will we see a robot in | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
one of the royal palaces in future? We can probably replace the press | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
secretary with a robot before too long! Now you are in trouble! They | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
give very much indeed. A 14`year project to get a memorial | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
built in Tewkesbury to mark one of England's most important battles is | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
finally coming close to completion. Two five`metre`high oak horses are | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
being sculpted in the Forest of Dean to represent the two sides in the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
War of the Roses. Here's Alice Bouverie. We are getting close to | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
the end of the main build of the horse. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
It's an idea which has taken almost as long as the War of the Roses to | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
bring to life. A memorial in Tewkesbury to the battle in 147 . | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
This is the second of two giant horse sculptures. I have made them | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
more into an oak frame. It is like drawing with the wood and heavy | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
beams. Most of the wood for the sculpture has been sourced locally. | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
But finding precisely the right oak trees has been a real challenge | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
even without a stray sheep getting in the way. That is the branch we | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
have been looking for. That particular curve, down into the main | :21:21. | :21:48. | |
trunk. You can see the thigh. They'll be put up on a roundabout | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
between the M5 and the entrance to Tewkesbury, at roughly the place | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
where the Yorkists launched their attack. You will get some ribbing, | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
as you are a Lancastrian. Yes. I keeps saying I want them to change | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the result to make it to Lancaster winning! Even for Phil, I can't see | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
that happening. She admits she has not had much | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
sleep but who can blame her. We re talking about Jenny Jones from | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Bristol. She has been celebrating winning bronze for Great Britain in | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
the women's slopestyle snowboard event at the Winter Olympics in | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Sochi. It is our first medal in these games and her home city is | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
proud of the achievement. She is the West's newest sporting star. It has | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
been an emotional 24 hours for Jenny Jones. Today, the scale of her | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
achievement is finally sinking in. It is starting to. It has just been | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
a bit of a whirlwind so far. To represent my country in something is | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
a great feeling and do actually have a medal to show for it is just | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
unbelievable! This is where Jenny Jones grew up, Bristol. It is fair | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
to say her achievement is the talk of the town today. I thought it was | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
fantastic. Being a local girl as well, it could not be better. We are | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
proud of her. For the first time, we had a champion from around here We | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
are happy. If you would like to come in, we would be glad to give her our | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
congratulations was up and a bag of chips! At her old school, they | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
remember Jenny is being a sporting all`rounder. Very lively sort of | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
person. Always happy to have a go at everything. She was a gymnast, | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
played hockey and rounders, athletics, she did everything. Her | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
journey began on a dry ski slope in Somerset. She used to practice here | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
in Gloucester, the same slopes used by Eddie the Eagle. She learned here | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
a long time ago. She has come up to help out with our freestyle Friday | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
night, build up the sport and is basically a good representative of | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
the sport to encourage other people to fulfil the dream. What next? The | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
Mayor of Bristol wants a homecoming party for Jenny. I think we should | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
do something a bit wacky and different and snow related. I am | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
asking if people would sponsor something like snow on Park Street | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
or at least for us to have some event. Last night, she was showing | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
off some different moves in celebration. She is now an | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
international star, whom this book can be read proud of. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
She made me cry yesterday! Now for the weather. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
I may have to sponsors and snow in the next couple of days. A very bad | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
outlook for the next two days and I feel for those of you who are | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
already its peers in clotting. There is more wet weather coming in in the | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
morning. There will also be some squally wind. Foremost, it would be | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
largely dry but quite cold. There are so of his warnings out again. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
The first of these is for the rain coming in. There will be some | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
difficult driving conditions and that will exacerbate the flooding | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
problems. Wednesday is giving me more concern. There will be some | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
very strong winds associated with a storm that could get hired than what | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
I have written there, above 70 mph. For the time being, this ridge of | :26:00. | :26:01. | |
high pressure is making things quieten down. There is a feature | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
into tomorrow morning, bringing the squally area of heavy rain. That | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
clears away fairly quickly and through the afternoon, drier and | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
brighter, with some showers. There is the threat is snow arriving in | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
the middle of the night. For the rest of the night, no threat of any | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
snow. In fact, the showers tend to. A dry face. These guys are largely | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
clear for a while and then the rain comes in in the early hours was the | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
return is pretty heavy, particularly the back edge. Temperatures tonight | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
typically tween one and three Celsius. It will be a wet and pretty | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
windy start to things tomorrow morning. All of that clears away | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
towards about mid way. If you showers aside, most areas are dry. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
Things start to turn more wintry as some cold air comes in. More | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
particular so as we get towards the middle of the night. That is when we | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
could see some snow actually lying across the parts of Gloucestershire. | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
It will feel pretty cold and as we look beyond that it will be all eyes | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
to Wednesday. There is an ample warning and I'll focus on that | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
tomorrow. There is more rain on the way towards the end of the week | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Look after your voice, we need you! That is all from us. We are back at | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
10pm. For now, good night. | :27:31. | :27:34. |