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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and Sabet Choudhury. Our main | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
story tonight: More parents come forward with concerns about care at | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Bristol Children's Hospital. A baby's operation is cancelled five | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
times ` was it due to lack of intensive care beds? All of a | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
sudden, we literally gave him a kiss good night, took one step back and | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
he just wide. `` died. The hospital says it's made improvements as a | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
fresh inquiry is about to be launched. Also in tonight's | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
programme: The short`lived solution ` why these pumps brought in to | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
clear the Somerset Levels are now switched off. More help needed ` the | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Bristol charity highlighting the plight of women alcoholics. And the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Wiltshire couple going for gold in Sochi. Good evening. Two more | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
families who lost children after heart surgery have come forward to | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
express their concerns about their care at the Bristol Children's | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Hospital. This follows Friday's announcement that there's to be an | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
inquiry into several deaths of children over recent years. Tonight | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
the hospital maintains its results are safe, although it will be | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
cooperating with the review. Our Health Correspondent, Matthew Hill, | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
has this report. Daddy 's little boy. This is the only video taken of | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Harley Pascoe in the days before he died, when he was just 12 days old. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
It's treasured by his parents, who to this day are still searching for | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
answers as to why. They say his operation last October was cancelled | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
five times because there was no intensive care bed available at the | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
Bristol Children's Hospital. His parents say that when the time he | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
was given surgery, his condition had deteriorated. No`one told us it was | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
urgent. It wasn't until he had an echo a day before they did the | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
operation and they noticed the duct in his heart was closing up so they | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
had to double his dose of drugs to keep it open and that's when they | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
had to do job as an emergency the next day. `` do the job. The guy | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
doing the echoes said to us when he seen Harley after he was born that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
he wanted it done within two days and that he was surprised it took 12 | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
days. The family said they had been told that in the first operation, | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
and implant called a shunt had dislodged so he had to be operated | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
on again. He died eight hours after. The hospital say Harley was not | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
considered urgent at the time, which is why children with a more serious | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
condition had to be seen first. Another recently bereaved couple | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
joined us. They happen to live just a few miles away. Stephen Snelton | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
and his partner, Vicky, lost their daughter, Mia Leigh, last July, when | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
she was just 11 days old. But they still say they have heard nothing | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
from the hospital about their child death review for several months | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Have you asked for a meeting? They promised us to be here for us. They | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
said Mia would always be our patient and I have heard nothing. The | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
hospital says it has written to the family but has not heard back. Last | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Friday the Medical Director of the NHS announced an inquiry into the | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
heart unit and some of the recent deaths. In the review, Sir Ian | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Kennedy will be looking into issues such as communication and the | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
treatment given to children here. But today the hospital told me it | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
always strives to give the best care and it is saddened that a group of | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
families believe they have been let down. It said a recent survey of | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
parents found 98% said they had received excellent or good care | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
These families at the enquiry will get to the bottom of what happened. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Joining us now is Maria Von Hilderbrand, who lost her own child | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
in the Bristol heart scandal and has advised the Department of Health in | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
its review of cardiac centres. Thank you for joining us. The hospital | :04:26. | :04:42. | |
says it what are `` the surgeon who turned round the unit, before he | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
left in 2007, Bristol was in the top three units for safety of surgical | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
outcomes and that has dropped to seventh place. But safety is not | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
just about surgery, it is about post`operative care. And there is an | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
issue about intensive care and also the high dependency unit. Sorry to | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
interrupt. As regards the intensive care and the amount of beds, surely | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
there has to be some limit? They cannot fill it up? The reason there | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
is a problem is because there are not that many high dependency units | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
and the issues or around poor staffing levels. That is the real | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
issue and around the culture of management and the pressures of | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
staff in the hospital. Bristol is at risk of losing its reputation as a | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
centre of excellence. And that has had 20 years to get its act | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
together. The hospital says in the recent review it found that 98% our | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
parents have said care is another excellent, good or really good. | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
Okay... 98% of how many people? If we are talking about two people | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
that is fine. We do not know how many people that relates to and been | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
other parents without good experiences have not been asked to | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
sign their survey. What you want to see? From the review, I want to see | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
new parents who are referred to Bristol given the choice to go | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
elsewhere. That is really important. From the review, support must be | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
offered to parents. The rot has to stop Ulster there is a culture of | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Woody management and complacency and it needs to stop for everybody. `` | :06:45. | :06:56. | |
has to stop. Work to shore up the banks of a Somerset river has been | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
going on all day as part of efforts to try to restart the pumping | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
operation to clear the Levels. The high`volume Dutch pumps had to be | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
switched off after only a couple of days because they were eroding the | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
banks of the River Parrett. Scott Ellis has this report. At full | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
blast, two tonnes of water tumbles out of each of these pipes every | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
second. It has dug a hole in the banks of the River so big, pumping | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
has had to stop. It is hoped that metal containers will help absorb | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
any impact. What is happening is in the job, putting in crushed concrete | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
and stone amongst other things to dissipate the energy. Will those | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
containers be lifted in? Matters right, that is what the cranes are | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
there for. We hope to resume pumping later today. The crumbling mud banks | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
have meant the world 's biggest mobile pumping operation has had to | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
stop for 48 hours. They cannot afford too much delays to that much | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
pumping operation and here is why. This is a river, it has been | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
spilling over its banks for weeks. They need to get those pompous | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
online because this is going to take many weeks to shift. The sooner | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
river levels drop, the Synod dozens of other, smaller pumps can restart | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
their work. A new redistribution centre opened today near Bridgwater | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
for victims. Martin Brooks, holding on here, is among those who has | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
benefited from the generosity of others. There are ten of us working | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
outside, getting cold and wet and we need to change it to dry clothes | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
because we do not want to get sick. Bryony help set this up. Her home | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
flooded weeks ago. Life in temporary accommodation is taking its toll. It | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
is all right until the middle of the night and this little girl wakes up | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
screaming because she wants to go home and that sets me off and I am | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
in floods of tears and the other night we had daddy in floods of | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
tears. She does not expect to be home before Christmas. A new | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
addition to the Bridgwater docks. A bright red pump, in case the water | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
levels rise. We are told it is only precautionary. The Prime Minister | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
was in the West again today to hear how the flooding is being handled. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
He visited villages in Gloucestershire before heading to | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
the flooding command centre at police headquarters. As we've been | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
hearing, the Government has pledged ?10 million to businesses affected | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
by the awful weather. So will it help and is it enough? Laura Jones | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
reports. It is basic but it works. And right now, it is the only way to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
get to Philip Young's coal yard He has been selling from here for | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
decades, the yard is close to the river so flooding is not unusual but | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
this is particularly bad. For more than two weeks, his business has | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
been cut off and the road on the other side is under three feet of | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
water. The road ahead of us is under two feet of water and right in the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
middle, is the call yard. The only way in and out is with this little | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
boat but that is not much use when it comes to transporting coal. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Losing a lot of money. They have to get to me next week, if possible. Or | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
else I will go somewhere else and I don't want that. Today, the Prime | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
Minister once again travelled west to see how people are getting on and | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
over the weekend the government pledged more money to help his Mrs | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
like Philip's. This money only goes to local authorities who have been | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
affected by the flooding and they will administer this money to help | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
his Mrs who have either been directly affected or indirectly by | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the flooding so that will help businesses to get act on their feet. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
But that cash needs to come quickly. We need the money now, we don't | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
appeared in six months because it is a waste of time. If you can get this | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
money now, we can get back to business. With more bad weather | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
predicted, things are likely to get worse before they get better but for | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
the time being, at least, people have to get used to life underwater. | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
A BBC investigation has been looking into the issues surrounding female | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
genital mutilation in the Bristol Somali community. 20,000 British | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
girls are thought to be at risk every year even though the procedure | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
has been illegal here for almost thirty years. As part of the BBC's | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Inside Out West programme, we hear from one Bristol woman who has | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
experienced FGM and pupils from a city school trying to educate | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
teachers to help those in danger. Zoe Gough reports. Sophia was ten | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
years old when she was held down and mutilated in her native Somalia But | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
she counts herself lucky because she survived. My cousin, she had FGM at | :12:06. | :12:17. | |
the same time. And she passed away. She was bleeding a lot. She lost, | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
yes. FGM, or female genital mutilation, is a cultural tradition | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
which involves removing a girl's outer genitals. It's been illegal in | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Britain since 1985 but every year around 20,000 young girls are | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
thought to be at risk here. Many become victims during specially | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
arranged holidays abroad. Lengthy absences may be spotted by teachers. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
But the NSPCC says some don't even know what FGM is. All of my calls | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
have been from teachers who are concerned and are not sure if this | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
is something to be worried about. As with all forms of abuse, the message | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
is always, don't wait until you are certain. At the City Academy in | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Bristol, young people are teaching the teachers about FGM. They've also | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
sent a petition to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove. Michael | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
Gove cannot ignore us any more. He needs to contact all schools to | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
teach about FGM. Before the cutting season arrives. 200,000 people think | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
so, too, and have signed their petition. Mr Gove has now agreed to | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
meet the Bristol campaigners, a boost to their determination to lead | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
the fight against FGM. A Bristol charity says more needs to be done | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
to help women alcoholics. Women s Independent Alcohol Support, or | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
WISE, says it's a growing problem, but only a tiny fraction of women | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
seek help because of the shame they feel. The charity plans to launch a | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
helpline specifically for women Sally Challoner has been to meet one | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
recovering alcoholic. It was not like I went to school at a young age | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
and said, when I grow up I will drink a bottle of vodka every day | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
and stay at home and be miserable. That was not the plan. Jessica Hulme | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
started drinking as a teenager. By her late 20s she'd lost everything. | :14:20. | :14:29. | |
I was put into a psychiatric ward, I was on 24`hour a day drinking. I was | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
feeling physically and mentally ill. It was at the point where I was | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
going to die lonely. Without any friends or family. I am going to die | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
of alcoholism, unless I get help. It's a growing problem. One in six | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
women over 16 drinks more than double the recommended amount. But | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
it's also a hidden problem. The shame is one reason that just a tiny | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
percentage of women seek treatment. Women are supposed to be strong and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
caring and supportive. People have preconceived ideas that the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
alcoholic is the man on the park bench swigging cider. That is not | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
the case. Females are seen as more sensible as role models in society. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Part of the issue there isn't some people have got less sympathy | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
because they think they should know better because they are more | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
sensible. Today's conference has been organised by the new charity | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
Women's Independent Alcohol Support, or WISE, which was set up by Patsy | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Staddon, herself a recovering alcoholic. When we think of the tiny | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
percentage of women accessing treatment of any sort or even | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
talking about this, it is absolutely tiny. I think it is a | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
life`threatening issue for women. And it also affects the lives of | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
everybody else. The charity is now fundraising to launch a helpline for | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
women alcoholics. A safe space to admit their problems and find | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
support. One of the leading figures in race relations in the West has | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
died. Batook Pandya, was the Director of Stand Against Racism and | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Inequality, or SARI, and had been campaigning for the charity since it | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
was established in Bristol in 1 88. He was awarded an MBE for his work. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Will Glennon reports. Batook Pandya was a warm and welcoming man. A | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
friend to many but with an easygoing nature that hid a steely | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
determination. Since the late 1 80s he'd dedicated his life to the fight | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
against racism and worked to make Bristol and the West Country a more | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
harmonious place. A lot of the community is in shock at the moment | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
and Batook Pandya was everybody s friend. It did not matter what | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
race, he was a champion for everyone's rights. In fact, he was | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
the type of person who would help anyone in terms of any injustice | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
that took place. Personally, for the city, it is absolutely a huge loss | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
and will be almost impossible to fill in the gap that he will leave | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
behind. Batook Pandya came to Britain from Kenya in the 1960s He | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
worked as an engineer at British Aerospace in Filton but left to join | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
the new organisation called SARI set up to help victims of racism. He saw | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
the ugly side first hand when in 1999 he was assaulted. Beaten up in | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
front of his family by two white men. One man was jailed as a result | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
but the jury decided it wasn't racially motivated. The experience | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
strengthened Batook's resolve to work harder. His efforts lead to | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
recognition on the national stage, a visit from Prince Charles, an MBE, | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
and an honorary degree from the University of Bristol. The victim | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
keeps on repeating it, and someone like me, who was subject to | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
racism... Still working in his late 60s, he was involved in unravelling | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
what happened to the murdered Iranian Bijan Ebrahimi in Bristol | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
last year. Batook Pandya died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
His family say there will be a big hole in their lives and in Bristol, | :18:18. | :18:31. | |
too. Batook Pandya. Wembley Stadium awaits Swindon Town if they can beat | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
Peterborough tonight. It's the area final of the Johnstone's Paint | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
Trophy at the County Ground. Alistair Durden is there for us A | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
big prize on offer, Ali. Yes, it is fair to say that the early rounds of | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
this competition do not exactly get your heart racing and was eager to | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
the stage, it is pretty exciting and a chance to play at Wembley Stadium | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
must be high on anyone's wish list, whatever the occasion. 2`2 after the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
first leg. Mark, a good opportunity to go to Wembley? Fantastic and 90 | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
minutes or a penalty shoot out away. We are desperate to bring in some | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
much`needed revenue and will be a great day for the fans. Are you | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
favourites? No, I think we are underdogs, when you look at what | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Peterborough have spent on players and the injuries we have. But | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
favourites do not always win. You are chasing the play`offs. Is this a | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
distraction? Not at all, it has broken the league for us, we have | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
embraced the competition and we have played strong teams and we want to | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
go all the way. Looking at the page, we have had rain today. What state | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
is it in? Fine, 100 times better than Friday night. We will be able | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to get the ball down there and play like we can. Nile Ranger, has he | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
made it? No, he will be injured for a considerable time. We have to | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
carry on without him. Any strikers? No, we have to play two players who | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
are not strikers by trade. We have to get the best out of what we have | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
got. The hardware! Certainly. But it will be even more sweet. Best of | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
luck tonight. That is hope you make it to Wembley. 7:45pm for the | :20:31. | :20:44. | |
kick`off tonight. After Britain s success in the skeleton, the Winter | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Olympic focus turns to the bobsleigh this week. Trowbridge couple Paula | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
Walker and John Jackson will both be competing and have drawn support | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
from some unexpected sources. I went to see them before they set off for | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Sochi. Trowbridge has been home to Paul and John n for the last five | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
years. It's close to their training base at the University of Bath. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
They've both taken time out of careers in the armed forces to | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
pursue their sport, but it was the bobsleigh that brought them | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
together. The first time we met each other, I think I was pulling a white | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
because you had just that I'd have a crush? I was at the bottom, I helped | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
pull her out of the sled and nature she was OK. It was love at first | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
sight. My knight in shining armour! We don't actually see each other on | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
the job so that is why it works when we are at home, we tried to | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
work on the Bobsleigh. Bobsleigh does get Lottery funding but the | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
couple have been looking for help from sponsors. They found an unusual | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
one in the form of a Wiltshire butcher. It was a cheeky e`mail that | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
I sent and thankfully they got back to me within a few days and they did | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
not just say absolutely no. They welcomed us from the beginning. As | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
an athlete, this is a perfect sponsor you could want. Fresh meat, | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
what more could you want? Bobsleigh, it holds fascination for | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
anybody. I followed this up and I thought it would be a thing we could | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
do to help them out and they were let me have a go in the Bobsleigh. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
The guide! `` look out. Going to Sochi has felt like moving house ` | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
between them they've had ten bags of kit to pack. I have a logical order | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
and John is just going with putting everything into the bag! For both, | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
it's their second Olympics, so what's tougher ` competing or | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
watching? I do not get nervous watching Paula. I just get involved | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
in sharing her on at the start and watching her going down. I know what | :22:53. | :23:05. | |
is coming up next and I cannot bear it. I do not know how people can | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
coach! Luckily, John will be watching first as Paula competes in | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
the two`man event tomorrow. Bath Rugby have confirmed the signing of | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
England Rugby League star Sam Burgess on a three`year deal. Sam is | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
currently playing for Australian side South Sydney Rabbi`Toes. He'll | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
arrive in the West Country in October at the end of the season. | :23:29. | :23:47. | |
7:45pm tonight. A video on YouTube shows just how bad the weather has | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
been over the weekend. Look at this plane landing at Bristol Airport. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
It's getting blown around and as it comes into land, it's almost blown | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
sideways! Well, Bristol airport have told us that the plane managed to | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
land successfully and that nobody was hurt. See with the weather will | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
be like. The mention every and gets all of us | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
going because the grind is just so sensitive to further rainfall. There | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
is some rain this week. If you showers tonight and the next batch | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
of wet weather is on Wednesday night into Thursday. But the spells of dry | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
weather in between these bands of rain are longer and it is less windy | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
than it has been. Tomorrow is a chilly much brighter, light wind and | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
a lot of cloud. The rain bearing cloud at the moment is this line | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
stretching towards Spain and Portugal. Not overly deep, it will | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
take that rain band away from us as it moves during the course of the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
night. Then we are between weather systems tomorrow. Everything is less | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
fast`moving, it is less deep and the rain will certainly be lighter than | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
it has been. Here is this band of rain we have been seeing into the | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
early evening. Gradually moving north but there is progress across | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
eastern England. Across the region we will find it turns dry after | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
midnight with if you showers left behind but some lengthy clear spells | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
and temperatures at six degrees No frost but a cold start tomorrow One | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
line of showers moves through tomorrow morning and will be | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
replaced with some light showers for the rest of the day. By the end of | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
the afternoon, it is largely dry and showers we have will be fairly | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
isolated. Temperatures struggling tomorrow, nine or ten for most of | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
us. For the outlook, Wednesday is cloudy but dry, something to | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
appreciate. Wednesday into Thursday, more wet weather and also windy | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
again on Wednesday night. But it is nothing like what we saw last week. | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
The early rain clearing on Thursday and more showers moving into Friday. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Have a very good evening. Thank you. It is with great sadness that we | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
learned today that our colleague and friend, cameraman, Dave Saunders | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
passed away at the weekend. He would have turned 72 next Wednesday. Dave | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
was passionate about filming the news ` as proud to work on Points | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
West as we were of him. Over more than 50 years in the industry, Dave | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
guided many a cameraman and reporter through the vagaries of TV, always | :26:42. | :26:51. | |
in the kindest of ways. My uncle phoned me up early one morning and | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
said, get to Stonehenge. I had a 60 millimetre camera and he said, | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
someone has painted vandalism all over Stonehenge and I filmed it and | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
sent it up to ITN and they used it, when I was 17, and I never looked | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
back. I am still here and I enjoyed every bit of it. Dave Saunders, who | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
was an absolute gentleman to work with. That is from us. We are back | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
at 10:25pm. Goodbye. | :27:22. | :27:30. |