15/02/2014 BBC Points West


15/02/2014

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That's it for now. We're back with the late news

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Hello, a very good evening to you. Thousands of homes across the West

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are still without power this evening after strong winds and fallen trees

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bought down cables. The main A4 9 through Gloucestershire was blocked

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for a time, one of several spots where highways engineers and police

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worked through the night to clear roads. The village of Poulton lost

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power at 2am. At this shop, stock thawed in freezers until power was

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reconnected this afternoon. One of the frustrations is that with modern

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phones, you can't actually use them when there's no power. So the local

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pub had to use our phone to cancel the bookings for lunch, which was

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quite entertaining. But the thing that struck me really is the

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attitude of... Of people in the village, who have turned round and

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said, "We've only lost our power, we haven't lost our homes. We are not

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flooded out." On the Somerset levels, the final

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two Dutch Pumps are being installed at Dunball this weekend. Once

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they've been running for two days, other pumps at Beerwall can also be

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turned on. The plan will eventually lead to the water being sent off the

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levels and moors. Fiona Lamdin begins her report in the village of

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Fordgate where everyone has left apart from one woman.

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Once it comes inside, I am going to have to go. She is the last woman

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still standing. They went this morning, 9am, they were taken out.

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30 families have all left at Heather is refusing to budge. I am warm I

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am dry, I am comfortable. I've got heating, I've got electricity, my

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toilets work and I got my own bed. Why should I want to move into the

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village hall? Just a few fields away, back on dry land, the weekly

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livestock market. The cash from these cows will boost the flood

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fund. From Birmingham to bar brooch, a whole heap of helping hands. We

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saw how devastating floods where and how little helpful folk were getting

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so we drove down from Birmingham to lend a hand and we are making sound

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bites and reinforcing the bank and doing whatever was needed to help

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out. Here to make paths of the pumps. Others, like Jay from

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Bridgwater, are closer to home. He has been here for a week. Today s

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task is transforming these to graft pulls into pubs. `` telegraph

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poles. We have a seven`month`old baby. Late nights and then coming

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here first thing in the morning Back in the village, you can see the

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entire villages under water. It will not surprise you to know that it

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took us over our to track down Heather. Why? All the roads are deep

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in water. Heather is adamant that she and her 30 cats are staying put.

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Even though everybody else is long gone.

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Building work has started on a new training college at Lyneham in

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Wiltshire. The former military air base closed in December 2012. It

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will now be turned into a training centre for maintaining machinery and

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military equipment. It's due for completion by the end of next year.

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To football and Bristol City's home game with Tranmere Rovers was the

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fixture involving our local sides to survive the weather Bristol City led

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twice but had to settle for a point in a 2`2 draw with Tranmere. Sam

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Baldock and Derrick Williams scored for City.

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Meanwhile in rugby, Bath travelled west to face Exeter. In a closely

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fought game, Bath eventually won 27`23. Ollie de Veeto, Kyle Eastmond

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and Nick Abendanon with this effort scored the Bath tries. 12 points

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came from the boot of Man of the Match George Ford. Let's have a look

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at the weather. Good evening. A fairly quiet night

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for tonight but that means it is going to get cold. We had a yellow

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warning in force. That is for ice on untreated services and it could well

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be a hazard on the roads. The showers have largely died away and

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we are looking at those clear spells and light winds. That is allowing

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the temperatures to tumble. Cold but bright starts the day tomorrow

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morning. Plenty of sunny spells throughout the day. Like twins also.

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We may find the cloud thickening up towards the end of the afternoon.

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Tomorrow night, we see outbreaks of rain arrived. They stay with us at

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times through Monday. We have a Met Office yellow warning in force.

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That is all from the team here. Our next bulletin is around about 6 20pm

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tomorrow. Join me then. Goodbye Hello, good evening, finally some

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quieter weather on the way for the British Isles for the remainder of

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this weekend, also somewhat for the week ahead. More on that in a

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moment.

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