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Good evening. Another part of the West is at serious risk from | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
flooding. Tonight, residents in Alney Island in Gloucester, have | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
been told their flood defences won't hold. The army was drafted in to | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
help people protect their properties but, with the River Severn rising | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
overnight then again tomorrow morning, the Environment Agency says | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the area will flood. Chris Bainger is from the agency. How many | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
properties are at risk at the moment? | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
We have issued a severe flood warning for this area it is we | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
suspect that 55 properties and they are mainly homes will be affected I | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
flood in, either tonight and almost certainly tomorrow. You do have | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
flood defences there, why are they not working? Yes, we do have | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
defences and they are currently working, they are doing their job at | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
this moment. They are keeping the water out of Alney Island, otherwise | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
we would have half a metre of flood water here the moment. It will | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
overtop those tomorrow. That is why we have taken those precautions to | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
get sandbags into the properties here. Could we see another 2000 and | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
seven events `` 2007 event, with the floods in Buster? No, it was a very | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
different event, with localised heavy rain. `` in Gloucester? We do | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
not have the same water coming through the River Avon so I expect | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
about 27 metres lower than in 2 07. But properties he will get wet. How | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
are people coping? There is a Dunkirk spirit. The Army came in, | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
they are all working together. People are used this and have their | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
own defences in place, which very impressive. They have been very kind | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
to us here today and hopefully the efforts that we have put in will be | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
seen. Well, as efforts continue tonight to | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
try to stop Gloucester flooding in Somerset, the huge Dutch pumps | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
finally today began removing water from the Levels after being delayed | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
by bad weather. Scott Ellis has been monitoring the situation in Dunball | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
all day. The welcome sight of the high`volume | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Dutch pumps here at work in Dunball, pumping water into the River Parrett | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
and out to see. They have some work to do, there is 90 million tonnes of | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
water sat on the Somerset Levels. Much of it is below sea level. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Welcome though this site is, many will be saying it is about time too. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
As you can see, the Dutch engineers are working into the night, they are | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
installing small pipes `` more pipes. It is not like pulling a plug | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
out of a bath, it will slowly drop. As fast as they pump, the Somerset | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Levels will be filling up with more rain. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
Well, farmers from across the country have been donating and | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
actually bringing animal feed and straw to help farm animals caught in | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
the floods. One convoy travelled all the way from Wakefield in Yorkshire | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
to bring aid to farmers on the Somerset Levels. Here's Andrew | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Plant. Loading up on a farm outside Leeds ` | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
this straw is destined for the Somerset Levels, helping fellow | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
farmers hundreds of miles away. I just felt there was not enough being | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
done. I do not have cattle but I could offer them time and transport. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Donations are driven here, just off the M5. And it is volunteers like | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Tanya, giving up their time and the boot of her family car to deliver as | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
much as she can. A farmer needs some straw for his sheep and his pigs and | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
because we cannot get full bails out there, we have come here and asked | :04:18. | :04:35. | |
them to job it up for us. So this is vehicle number one ` driven five | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
miles to Burrowbridge, where more volunteers discuss how to get this | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
straw to the farm where it's needed. The straw is walled in wheelbarrow | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
is. Along the side of the swollen River Parrett. At the other end | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
there is a short delay and then time for vehicle number three. It would | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
ruin the engine and my day. American expat Tony Yaskin's old Dodge, a | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
workhorse he's using every day to help his neighbours. My friends have | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
had their businesses flooded and there is nothing more important to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
do now about to be with them and help them and support them in any | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
way I can. Now the straw is about halfway. It is clear why it is so | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
hard to get supplies to where they are needed. Transport number four, a | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
Canadian canoe. The farmer who needs this has animals living on dirty | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
straw, separated from civilisation by the worst flooding anyone here | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
has ever seen. After they reach dry land, the fifth and final journey. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
The boat is tipped onto the back of a tractor. Tony and Alan see it to | :05:54. | :06:08. | |
its final destination. Marc Fuller and his family in the tiny hamlet of | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
Wickmore. They are grateful volunteers have taken the time and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
trouble to lend a hand. Our animals are knee deep in their own mess | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
because we have not got new straw. Now it is a godsend, so they can | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
have new beds. Back at the depot off the side of the M5, the Yorkshire | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
tractors have arrived. And, tomorrow, more volunteers will make | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
sure the supplies here reach those who need them, no matter how | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
difficult that might be. Not one lost bail. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
In other news tonight, officers have been knocking on doors in Bristol | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
today, looking for any new witnesses as investigations continue into how | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
police from Avon and Somerset handled an Iranian immigrant who was | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
murdered in the city. The police watchdog was called in after it | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
emerged Bijan Ebrahimi repeatedly contacted police complaining that he | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
was the victim of anti`social behaviour before he was beaten to | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
death and his body set on fire in Brislington last summer. We are | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
determined to get to the bottom of exactly what happened and what | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
contact police officers had with him before he was murdered. People may | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
think of something that they saw, that they heard or that they now | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
know. They may think it is really small but it will not be small to | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
us. Everything matters. A Bath`based athlete is hoping to | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
bring home Britain's first gold medal of the Sochi Winter Olympics | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
tomorrow. Lizzy Yarnold has the overnight lead heading into the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
final of the women's skeleton competition. Coverage starts at | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
3:40pm tomorrow afternoon. Dominic Parsons, who also lives in Bath is | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
hoping for success in the men's skeleton. That competition gets | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
underway at 12:30pm. There is, of course, more news and | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
information on your local BBC Radio Station and online. But, for now, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
let's get the latest weather forecast with Ian. Some further | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
wintry showers are about to fall on the West Somerset. The attention | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
tomorrow is all on rain. A yellow warning further north. The rain will | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
be distinctly unwelcome considering the state that many of you are in. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
We could see gusts of 70 or 80 miles an hour on the south coast. 50 murk | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
Bower gusts `` miles per hour gusts further north. It will be very | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
transient, the rain, and particularly heavy towards | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
lunchtime. It has Bush Arie in the afternoon but turns windier in the | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
southern quarter. They'll be heavier showers in the West later in the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
day. Temperatures will be mild, ten or 11 Celsius. Here is the outlook, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
a blustery weather centre for the national | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
forecast from Nick Miller. Hello, in this winter of perpetual | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
autumn, it seems we're never more than a day away from a storm so we | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
must be due another one and as you've just heard, here it comes, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
deepening in the | :09:20. | :09:20. |