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to British coastlines, with winds of up to 80 mph. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Liz Beacon and David Garmston. Our main | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
story tonight: Heartbreak in the floods. Police rescue valuables from | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
an almost deserted village as the water gets even deeper. And inside | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the holiday camp which has become home for dozens of flood victims. | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
Your life is suddenly suspended And it's not just suspended for a week, | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
a month, it could be a year or more and even then things will not be the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
same again. The other stories in the news | :00:39. | :00:51. | |
tonight: Parents are told there ll be a new inquiry into the deaths of | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
children who had heart surgery in Bristol. And after a tense and | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
terrifying downhill slide ` Lizzy Yarnold wins gold. We're in Bath | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
with her friends as they watch her dream come true. | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
Good evening. The west is being battered by more heavy rain and high | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
winds right now ` after yet another day of storms. Gloucester is holding | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
on ` even though the flood water is at the gates ` but the Somerset | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Levels has seen another wretched day. Villagers in Moorland who were | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
forced to flee their homes can only watch as the water climbs even | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
higher in their flooded houses. Here's Scott Ellis. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
The waters are still rising in moorland. Most residents left a week | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
ago, today some return to check their homes. How is it? Not great. | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
The police can access the flooded homes to retrieve possessions for | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
residents forced to live elsewhere. These medals now safe from the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
invading floodwater. You come to realise if you can go in and get one | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
thing, I brought out a bottle of wine for a man on the van and it is | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
a bottle of wine friends from Canada Centre. Things like that mean the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
world and if you can take that the Travelodge it makes them feel more | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
at home. The Royal Marines are here helping to sandbag the last of the | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
dry homes in moorland. They have a defence here, they built up the mud | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
banks and it is weathering away with water. We are reinforcing it with | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
sandbags to make it more substantial. How pleased were you to | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
see the Royal Marines? We have been promised them since the start. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Yesterday they came and looked but could not guarantee it because they | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
could get posted elsewhere. I hope they will not say elsewhere is more | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
important than here. 15 residents remain in moorland holding back the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
water with dams and pumps. A barricade against the weather. If we | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
can get through tonight and then hopefully Sunday, we will be under | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
all still here. They are exhausted physically and emotionally. They say | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
it is worth it. By being here, they feel the authorities will not | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
abandoned `` abandon the village altogether. It is so tough. Scott | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Ellis is in East Lyng in Somerset tonight ` what's it like? It is | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
terrible. I am on the edge of the more. It should be to see, the wind | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
is whipping up, the floodwater is in waves. It is whipping up over the | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
flood defences, it is like taking a stroll along the front at | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Weston`super`Mare. We can show you some pictures from earlier on today. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
You get an idea of the wind speed. They have reached 70 miles an hour, | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
whipping up through Yeovilton, Ilminster and causing trees to come | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
down, isolated problem is that adding to the general misery of the | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
flooding in Somerset. In the darkness Boroughbridge and further | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
afield moorland and the wind is a problem. The wind is picking up the | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
pressure on the water and it could break down the earth banks. They | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
have their fingers crossed, could it get worse? Let's hope not. Some of | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
the people who have left their homes in Moorland have now had to take up | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
temporary accommodation in a nearby holiday park. | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
It's been more than a week since they had to flee their homes, and | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
they still have no idea when they will be able to return. Andrew Plant | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
has spent the day with them. The future is uncertain for us as | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
individuals but also the community as a whole. Julian and Mary Taylor | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
helping run the relief effort from there temporary kitchen table. Over | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
six weeks we have seen the water rising gradually over the area, we | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
thought because of the height of the house we would not be flooded and | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
then we had a police helicopter telling us to move out. Your life is | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
suddenly suspended. It isn't just suspended for a week, month, it | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
could be a year or more. And even then, things will not be the same | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
again. Just one mile away, these holiday houses are home to residents | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
calling them flooding refugees. Claire Hughes had to leave her home | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
so fast, her children had no time to rescue their toys. These have all | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
been donated. I have two small boys, the oldest is asking whether | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
toys are, when can we go home and? As a parent, you are supposed to | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
have the answers but I don't know what to tell them. We have lost | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
everything. How do you explain that? They were scared, in their pyjamas. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
They asked where we were going and I didn't know where we were going to | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
go. It is draining. Going to bed, I am not sleeping. At the moment I am | :06:54. | :07:05. | |
physically worn out. For the people who had to evacuate their homes it | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
is too early to think about going home. Works are still under way to | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
get the pipes laid and those villages after the most part still | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
under water. It will be months before any of them are backing their | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
homes. `` back in their homes. Now our other big story of the day and | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Lizzie Yarnold, who lives and trains in Bath, has taken Gold at the | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
women's Skeleton event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. She led every | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
heat ` and came in almost a second ahead of her nearest rival in the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
final run of the day just an hour ago. Let's cross to Alistair Durden | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
at her training centre in Bath. This is home to so many top athletes | :07:46. | :08:02. | |
across so many different sports but life in here came to a standstill | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
and hour ago as the University stopped to witness one of its own | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
winning a Winter Olympic gold. Lizzie has been training here for | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
about five years and she has dominated women's skeleton but today | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
it was her crowning moment. If she was nervous, she didn't show | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
it. Lizzy Yarnold was the overwhelming favourite, nearly half | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
a second quicker than anyone else at the halfway stage. They were still | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
biting fingernails in Bath where friends and fellow athletes were | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
watching on the TV. They need not have worried. Lizzy Yarnold is | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
Olympic champion! How fast start produced another incredible run A | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
gold medal winning performance. It will not sink in for a long time. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
You must feel an out of body experience. Totally. The fourth run | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
I was enjoying it, the same as Amy, I wanted to enjoy it and it was a | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
messy run but I'm so so thrilled I got myself here after five years of | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
hard work. As an athlete you give up so much but on a daylight today it | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
is so worth it! She was quicker than yesterday even with bumps along the | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
way. It is to be expected. All of the pressure she was carrying on her | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
shoulders. She has done great. She's the most consistent athlete I have | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
seen. They were watching in Pewsey. Shelley's parents win the pub after | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
having a problem getting a Visa to fly to rush to watch. Shelley who | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
won silver eight years finished 16th. For Lizzie and her army of | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
fans, time to celebrate. Six years after being talent spotted she is | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
now an Olympic champion. Lizzie follows Amy in winning gold | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
four years ago, Amy is a mentor and her landlady in Bath. I wonder if | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
the rental go up now she is a Winter Olympic champion. Join me later in | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
the programme and double talk to two members of the great British | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
skeleton team. Well done to Lizzie, we needed that. Welcome to BBC | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Points West on this Friday evening. Ian will be here with your weather | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
forecast later. And if you're hoping to get away for the half term | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
holidays we've got all the latest on the roads and rails.Welcome to BBC | :10:56. | :11:10. | |
Points West on this Friday evening. Some of these families have | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
travelled from Cornwall to find answers to questions that still | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
haunt them about their child's death. November saw the first of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
several inquests into children who had had heart surgery at a | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
specialist unit in Bristol. Father of one of them, seven`year`old Sean | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
was instrumental in making today's meeting with a doctor in charge of | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the NHS happen. I picked up the newspaper, read a horrific story | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
regarding Bristol Children's Hospital, I tweeted and asked Sir | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Bruce Keogh to pick up the reins and saw the mess out. After a three`hour | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
meeting with the director of the NHS, the parents came out with a | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
smile. It was promising. He has agreed to get Ian Kennedy back in to | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
review the hospital so we feel quite pleased something has come off today | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
and hopefully it will look into our concerns. Sir Bruce Keogh told me it | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
would be an enquiry by the parents but led by Sir Ian Kennedy, | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
investigating the death of babies in the 1990s. We have heard harrowing | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
stories and in a dignified way from the families. He understands the | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
issues and he can hit the ground running because what I am after is | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
getting to the bottom of these problems, finding a solution and | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
getting the Bristol unit to be one of the best in the country as | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
quickly as possible. In a statement the hospital say they are troubled | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
that families continue to have concerns and they hope today's | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
meeting will help resolve their issues. They stress their results | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
have been shown to be safe but that they have made improvements which | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
include better communication with families. With a new enquiry this is | :13:00. | :13:12. | |
by no means the end of the matter. Let's return now to today's heavy | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
rain and winds, and it's been a tense day in Gloucestershire as | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
people have been waiting for the River Severn to burst its banks and | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
breach flood defences. A severe flood warning remains in place along | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
the River Severn in the city. Will Glennon is at Alney Island. It has | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
been heavy rain and strong winds all day in Gloucester and people are | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
desperately watching the River Severn hoping it doesn't overtop the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
flood defences. Look at their defences. Sandbags, polythene sheets | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
hoping to keep any water out of the houses. 3000 of these sandbags were | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
put in place last night by the army, Environment Agency and local | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
council. People are grateful for them. Alney Island is surrounded by | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
flood water, farmland, Parkland have gone under, roads are blocked and | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
Sandhurst is cut off completely accessible only by boat. I saw the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
emergency services clubbing together on a rescue mission taking food and | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
medical supplies to the villages. We think they are safe at the moment. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Here the pinch point will happen tonight at 10pm, Roy Stokes joins | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
me. What will happen? We hope it is a rerun of last night, the flood | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
water is four inches from the wall and with a high winds and high tides | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
it could push the levels over. That would push water into the | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
properties. We are pleased the preparations have been done, | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
warnings have been out and we are as prepared as we can be. We have to | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
wait and see. Thank you. We know the floods are a serious story but we | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
have thrown up some interesting things as well. Look at these | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
pictures of an unusual villager in the Forest of Dean. A seal came up | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
to visit. We think you try to escape the River Wye. The locals called him | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
the balance. `` Valentino. Schools break up for half term today, but if | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
you're planning on getting away there's still lots of disruption on | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the railways in and out of the West Country and the South West. Network | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
Rail says floodwater's likely to affect journeys for some time to | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
come and is still advising passengers not to travel unless it's | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
absolutely necessary. Services between Cheltenham and London, | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
between Bristol and the South West, and heading East out of Swindon are | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
facing severe disruption. But bus replacements are running in some of | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
those areas. The good news from Bristol Temple Meads is they were | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
running a normal service to London. Two of five trains are dedicated to | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Bristol. If you are going further south, that is more challenging | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
That's because of flooding on the Levels in Somerset and because the | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
track needs to be re`built at Dawlish in Devon. At the earliest, | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
it could be repaired in five weeks time. Replacement bus services are | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
in operation. The advice as ever, is check before you travel. | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
On the roads, the RAC is reminding motorists to drive at an appropriate | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
speed for the weather conditions and to plan and check your route before | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
setting off. And some flights into Bristol Airport have been diverted | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
to Cardiff and Birmingham this afternoon because of strong winds. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
The advice is to keep looking at their website for the latest | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
information. It's been another busy day for the | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
people trying to co`ordinate the emergency response to the floods. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Gold Command was set up when the situation in Somerset was officially | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
declared a crisis. Our home affairs correspondent Steve Brodie has been | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
out today with the woman in charge of policing the floods. | :17:05. | :17:17. | |
Caroline Peters has come to see for herself as gold commander she is | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
responsible for the 30 policemen and women who are working around the | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
clock every day in the fight against the flooding. A small number of | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
officers have been on the receiving end of abuse from frustrated | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
homeowners. Unfortunately they have not seen the 11 and 12 hour shifts | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
we have done and you have a cup of tea or warm yourself up and that is | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
all they see. They don't know what you have done beforehand. You can't | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
take it personally. Some people are positive, even those who have lost | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
their homes. There is a perception of fear and people worrying about | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
looted. It is not the case. The gold commander appealed for boats and | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
they did arrive. The request was made for boats, Devon and Somerset | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Service up and said we have a boat to hand and will bring it down. And | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
also they have the kit which is helpful because from health and | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
safety we do not know what is underneath, stones or anything else. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
We have well`trained people kitted out ready to go on patrols. Now off | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
to see a local farmer. We are all under pressure but no parking on the | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
bridges and things like that. And people doing the work, they can get | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
in and out quicker. It is three o'clock and the Chief Superintendent | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
is in East Lane. She spoke to officers helping the residents in a | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
never ending battle against the flood water. The gentleman next | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
door, carting sandbags, the water is digging away at his garden. They are | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
paid but the police are here to help those in trouble and prevent anyone | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
who thinks they can profit from flooding. With all this flood water | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
comes the risk of contamination as sewage and silage are spread over | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
miles of countryside and through people's homes. After several weeks | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
of flooding we've asked experts to analyse a sample of the water, and | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
asked if it poses a risk to public health. Here's Jules Hyam. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
The Somerset village of Burrowbridge ` surrounded by mile upon mile of | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
flooded farmland. Water washing through fields of animal dung and | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
collecting human waste. Public Health England advises it's best to | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
avoid contact with flood water ` if you can ` but they say it doesn t | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
pose any increased health risk. It's not fit to drink ` but is dangerous? | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
One of the things which is common is the contamination of the water by | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
bacteria, that can come from farmland, septic tanks and the | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
sewage system because those systems get breached. So, the task here is | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
to understand that level of bacterial contamination. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
To do that, Professor Reynolds is collecting two samples of flood | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
water here at Burrowbridge ` one sample from the flooded main road, | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
the other directly the River Parrett. The samples are sealed and | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
sent to an accredited microbiology lab where measured amounts of the | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
flood water are mixed with a sugar rich gel ` the mixture is left to | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
incubate in order to see what bacteria grow and in what quantity. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Professor Reynolds is comparing the samples against the upper limit for | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
safe bathing water as set by the EU ` the sample from the flooded road | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
is actually within the EU limit for bacteria associated with faecal | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
contamination but the river water is not. What we discovered is those | :21:00. | :21:12. | |
levels of bacteria are very very high indeed. For E. Coli, the levels | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
are five and six times higher than what would be allowed and the | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
bathing water directive. That tells us the river is taking the brunt of | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the contamination coming from the run`off from the sewage systems | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
That is beneficial in the short`term, all of this faecal | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
contamination is being carried and transported by the river system | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Which is precisely what the river system is meant to do ` the problems | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
come if and when the river banks are breached. With no official | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
monitoring of contamination levels, the advice remains to avoid flood | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
water if you can and to wash hands and clothes thoroughly if you can't. | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
In football ` Swindon Town get things underway tonight for our | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
football teams as they take on Colchester. Then tomorrow both | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Bristol teams will be hoping to build on their wins in the week | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
while Cheltenham are looking for their first victory in 2014. Bath | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Rugby have a West Country derby at Exeter then on Sunday Gloucester | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
travel to Leicester and Bristol take on Nottingham. Well, good luck to | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
all our sides. And someone who doesn't need our | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
luck anymore is Bath's Lizzy Yarnold because she's done it! Britain's | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
first gold in Sochi's Winter Olympics. Let's go back to Ali at | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
her training ground at the University of Bath. Yes, the message | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
tonight is follow your dreams and never give up. Let's remind | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
ourselves of some of those scenes of celebration in Sochi where she has | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
won Great Britain's fourth consecutive medal in the women's | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
skeleton. She won every heat this season and she won the whole | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
competition by nearly a second ahead of her rivals. The team GB manager | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
is here. It was never in doubt, was it? It is always in doubt until she | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
crosses the line. I did not cheer until she crossed. Was she nervous? | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
She followed her normal routine No, she did good and followed what she | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
normally does. I'm sure you thought she could do it but by a second | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Yes, surprised by the overall result. She is exceptional. James | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
hopes to be at the Winter Olympics in four years. How inspiring was it? | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Brilliant, to see someone, me and the other guys training down here, | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
seeing her train every day and how hard she works and to see it pay off | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
and win gold is really inspiring. What is her secret? I don't know, | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
she is letting on. Maybe she will now. It isn't a secret, she works | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
really hard. She is dedicated. She put time and effort in. And now it | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
is down to the men to latch `` to match the women. Yes, we want to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
bring some muddled in in the next few years. We wish you well. We hope | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
to see you in South Korea in a few years. Livy in her spare time likes | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
to do knitting and listen to the archers. Very different. She might | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
have to let those wait for a little bit to night. `` Livy. Let's hope | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
she lets her hair down for the party. The Wild West outdoors at the | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
moment, decidedly strong winds. Tyrone morning will bring more of | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
the same, it will be windy eventually, the winds will die down, | :25:09. | :25:21. | |
as will heavy showers. More cloud in the afternoon and outbreaks of rain | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
but that is later on Sunday. Some respite from those conditions now. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
The Met office warnings are understating the extent of the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
winds. The amber warning across the south coast, winds of 75 miles an | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
hour but we do have gusts of 70 miles an hour inland through Bristol | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
and the M4. The wind is bringing down trees, power lines as well | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
Although we have focused on flooding, in terms of perilous | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
conditions, it is the winds that are dangerous for those on the roads. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
More winds from a southerly course, they veer to a westerly tomorrow | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
morning, more through Bristol Channel, a headwind on the M4, a | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
crosswind on the M5. This low pressure is bringing conditions | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
moving towards the north`west through Saturday, still close | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
isobars but they are spreading out by the end of Saturday and much | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
better conditions feeding in overnight through Sunday. This | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
evening, reports of trees down, trampolines 60 feet in the air in | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
trees and the mean wind speed showing the strength of how things | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
continue into a windy night. Still some heavy showers, temperatures | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
around five or seven Celsius. The showers could have a punch. These | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
late morning ones could be accompanied by lightning, hail, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
running towards the east through the middle part of the day, improving | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
picture. Fewer showers, the wind less of an issue, still breezy but | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
not as strong as the morning. Temperatures around seven or eight | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
Celsius. Sunday is a vast the improved day, more rain on Monday | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
but next week looks generally better but still some rain to come. | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Springwell Khan `` come. Before we go, let's leave you with those | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
images of Lizzy Yarnold winning the first gold medal for Britain. An | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
amazing run, coming home nearly a second ahead of her nearest rival, | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
and travelling at speeds of more than seventy miles an hour ` | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
incredible! Her name goes into the history books ` Lizzy Yarnold, who | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
lives and trains in Bath. We're | :27:46. | :27:47. |