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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell Our | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
main story tonight: The absent chief executive and the huge legal bill. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
The troubles facing Somerset County Council as rumours of arguments are | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
revealed. The county council has not been open with constituents are and | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
there is a feeling that there is a risk that this will cost us a great | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
deal more than we presently know about. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
On the day after they set their budget, we look how this will affect | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
the council's books. Also in tonight's programme: The day | :00:33. | :00:44. | |
the West shook. The earthquake in the Bristol Channel. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
How long before the Somerset Levels recover? We find out when farming is | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
likely to start again. And going undercover ` why | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Stourhead's famous landmark is getting a make over. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
Somerset County Council is facing a large legal bill following the | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
departure of its chief executive. It's been announced that Sheila | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Wheeler has left by mutual consent. She hasn't actually been at work | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
since November. And as our political editor, Paul Barltrop has been | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
finding out, there have been rumours of a falling out with the council | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
leader. In happier days: council leader John | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Osman side by side with the woman appointed by Somerset's ruling | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Conservatives. Now they've parted company. In fact, Sheila Wheeler | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
hasn't been seen at meetings since November. Councillors were first | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
told she was on sick leave, then simply away. Yesterday it was | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
announced she'd been given ?40, 00 ` three months' pay ` to go. The | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
council leader was talking ` but legally restricted in what he'd say. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
A number of complaints were made. These needed to be investigated | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Obviously we have a duty to our employees to actually investigate | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
them if personnel issues are raised, they had to be investigated | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
fully... Beware investigated twice, once by CQC owing to a government | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
process which had to be followed. The QC had to be followed. That | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
time, and obviously we can't disclose personal information. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
5000 people work for the county council, so not surprisingly there | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
has been plenty of gossip. All those who know have been sworn to secrecy | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
by the lawyers. But the sense I get is that it's not as sensational as | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
rumours might suggest. The mystery had prompted Somerset MPs to raise | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
it in parliament. David Heath got no answers, and remains frustrated | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Nobody was saying anything but clearly a serious situation in the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
workings of the county council which had a cost to council taxpayers and | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
one which was clearly going to have an effect on the effectiveness of | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
the county council, particularly over recent months when dealing with | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
the biggest crisis we have ever had. So Sheila Wheeler becomes the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
second chief executive in five years paid to leave by a council which | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
says it's strapped for cash. Paul's here. A lot of money at a | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
time when the council is making cuts. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Absolutely. Somerset meeting yesterday primarily to set their | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
budget, and it wasn't badly overshadowed. One of the things they | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
voted through renewed charges for elderly daycare, increased bust | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
fares, people with learning disabilities having to live outside | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
care homes, and reductions in support for those in sheltered | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
housing. That is just this year and the warning is more to in future | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
years. They are not the only one setting | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the budget, are the? South Gloucester are talking of how | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
to save ?36,000 over the next few years. Also Cheltenham and Stroud | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
have been setting their budgets The only consolation for taxpayers and | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the council tax will not go up. If money is tight, do the councils | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
need a Chief Executive? If you look across at Wiltshire it | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
is one of the biggest local authorities in the West, and they | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
don't have a Chief Executive. If you look across at Cotswold, they share | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
their chief executive of one of their neighbours. Somerset have not | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
yet made a decision about replacing the Chief Executive, but at the | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
moment they are adding up the legal bill. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
We are left are some questions. Thank you, Paul. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale was felt in many parts | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
of the west today. Its epicentre was in the Bristol Channel. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Our reporter Michelle Ruminski is at Severn Beach for us now. The | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
epicentre was actually 90 miles in that direction, just south of | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Swansea and South Wales. It struck at about 1:30pm, lunchtime, and the | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
very heart of this earthquake was three miles deep under the sea bed. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
The earthquake was 4.1 on the Richter scale and measured by the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
British geographical survey, and they say that is pretty small in | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
global terms. The largest ever recorded in the UK was in 1931, and | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
that was six on the Richter scale. To give you a little bit of context, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
the UK gets around 200 earthquakes every year, but only around 20 of | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
them are ones that you and me can actually feel. The one we had today, | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
that magnitude we only get every two or three years. The British | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
geographical survey say that there are four and was ringing as soon as | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
the tremors were felt. People felt that far`off, even into Gloucester | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
and in Bristol, across Somerset and South Wales. One person called in to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
say that the house was rocking, and another added that it lasted several | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
seconds and was frightening. One person likened it to be very heavy | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
truck going up the road. People took to social media websites. One man in | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Devon said that his whole house shook, and were a few light`hearted | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
comments, with many saying that it was a shame if all blinded not open | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
up and drain away the flooding in Somerset. We are able to be | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
light`hearted about it partly because of its magnitude and because | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
it started quite far out to sea in that direction. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Michelle, thank you. So let's get more from earthquake | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
expert, Colin Taylor from Bristol University. Thank you for coming | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
in. Should we be worried? Not really, this kind of earthquake | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
happens quite often in the UK. We had about a dozen of them in the | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
last 20 years. 4.1 is quite small from an engineering point of view, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
so it is unlikely to cause much damage. It is a normal pattern of | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
events in the UK. There has been speculation that this | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
kind of thing has happened because of the recent bad weather. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
There is no connection with the weather. The whole of the UK is | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
under stress from the movement of the's crossed, and every now and | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
then the local faults move, and that is the case. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Could we see more of these things happening? | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
We get events like this are across the body shells, everyday we have | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
small earthquakes and most of them we don't feel. It just happened that | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
this one was a bit stronger than normal and human beings are very | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
sensitive to these motions so we picked them up. But it is really the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
normal pattern of events, there s nothing to be particularly concerned | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
about. What happens if we do have someone | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
to be concerned about? Whatever safety advice would you give? | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
If you do feel the building shaking, don't run out of the building, that | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
is the worst thing you can do because you could be killed by | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
masonry falling. The best thing is to get under a table or a chair or | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
in a covered, or stand under a doorway, something that will protect | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
you from falling debris and wait until it is over. | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
For an earthquake expert like you, what do you learn from it? | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
It is very important that we understand the earthquake region in | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
the UK because safety critical structures like dams and nuclear | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
power stations have to be checked for earthquake susceptibility, and | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
we have to check what magnitude earthquake were likely to get in the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
lifetime of the structures. Information we get from people, it | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
has been any damage, it is really valuable to us to help understand | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the bigger picture. The Environment Agency confirmed | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
today that dredging will begin on the Somerset Levels next month | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Senators as it is safe and practical for the work to start. It will | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
include five miles of river channel where the Rivers Tone and Parrett | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
meet at Burrowbridge. The Environment Agency says it's a key | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
stretch of river where locals say substantial amounts of silt have | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
built up. Here's a picture from space ` the dark areas showing the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
submerged ground on the levels and moors in Somerset. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
About 65 square miles of the county have now been underwater for several | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
weeks. Huge pumps from Holland are working to move water back to the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
sea. When fully operational, they can move seven million tonnes of | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
water each day from the levels. More than 30 other smaller pumps are also | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
in action across the affected area. If the pumping operation goes to | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
plan this week, the Environment Agency plans to open a sluice gate | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
near Langport to relieve pressure on the River Parrett. But even when the | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
water has gone, how long will it realistically be before the land on | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the Somerset Levels is in any fit state to be farmed? Our reporter | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
Andrew Plant has been finding out. The Environment Agency rang and | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
said, could they put extra pumps in... Obviously we said yes. They | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
are pumping like mad, and the pumps run right back to the fields. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Once a crop of winter wheat, no more pipes are peering. The damage is | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
already done to James Winslade's precious planting. Months of work | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
simply washed away. The farm, it is over 14 feet deep in | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
places. We won't be doing anything with the land this year. It will be | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
a complete write`off. Steward Fripp advises farmers how to | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
get the most from their fields. . He says the most damage she is deep | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
down in the soil. That is the start of the problems, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the water. You're then looking at 23 years to get the land back to any of | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
production. Helpers flowing in. These tractors | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
left Essex yesterday afternoon with donations. This is where all those | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
donation is where all those omissions are destined, Sedgemoor | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
market, just off the side of the M5. We have here wrapped up on one | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
side for animal feed, and straw for animal bedding over their. These are | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
the donations are coming from all across the UK, and I am told there | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
is more on the way. This is only part of what we have | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
got left to send up. It is unbelievable how farmers are | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
rallying around across the UK. If we don't get feed down and straw down, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
the cattle won't get fed. And the cattle don't get fed, they will | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
die. And food prices will go up Meanwhile, dozens of farmers and | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
dozens of families are relying on these deletions to keep their | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
animals and their businesses alive. Over the last few weeks, we've heard | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
many tales of Somerset pulling together as a community to overcome | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the floods. Well when a call to arms was made to help rescue and foster | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
pets left homeless when their owners' homes flooded, one woman | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
stepped forward. Julia Causton's been to meet her. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
This is the front room of the house. General donations from the | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
public. And mix your dog bones, treats, tinned food, small bag | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
mixes. The rescue effort may be over, but | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
donations are still flooding in Most of the animals are out, we are | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
out, we're now starting food and supplying food to the people who | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
have had to get their pets out. I'm generally dealing with horses, | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
sheep, rabbits, cats, dogs. Everything from a wrapped up to the | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
size of a horse. It's been a steady stream from all | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
over Somerset. People feel for the animals. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
Allsorts of the nations, we have clothes and food in the van ready to | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
go to the next storage place. As fast as it comes in, the food and | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
bedding goes out again. Some are notified that they needed | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
some hay for their animals, and basically my wife volunteered me | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
since I was going that way to drop by and collect them. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
The constant flow of traffic has destroyed Helen's drive, but help is | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
at hand, a free delivery of old road tarmac from a Somerset business | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
once again coordinated by their flood action group. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
I just hold this in, free of charge, and the company let us have | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
it for free. Everybody meets up, and hug each | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
other. We don't know half of them. , the judges themselves and then get | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
stuck in. Neighbours have become friends in an | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
effort to help in the following of the floods. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
People have really bonded over this. It's amazing how much help is | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
out there. Yes, massively. And using social | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
media, it's fascinating. Coming up a little later in the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
programme: Having a happy time on stage at the Brits ` but just who | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
was that dancing with Pharrell Williams? | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
A school in Bath is at the centre of a row, after a recent visit by | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
Ofsted. Inspectors were called into Oldfield School in December in | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
response to a number of complaints. But some parents are now unhappy | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
that not all the concerns shared with the inspectors have been made | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
public. They've launched an online petition calling for greater | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
transparency. Jules Hyam reports. Oldfield School in Bath: an Academy | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
school rated in 2012 as outstanding. It has some of the best exam results | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
in the area, but there are growing concerns over the way the school is | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
run and the way that it deals with issues around the safety of its | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
pupils. In December, Ofsted inspectors | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
visited the school because the Chief Inspector was concerned about the | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
number of complaints and allegations made to Ofsted about the | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements. | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
In a letter to the school Ofsted says that it found that the school's | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
safeguarding arrangements meet requirements, but it raised concerns | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
over the leadership, management and governance of the school ` concerns | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
shared by some teachers' unions That is an issue that has been going | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
on since 2010 and we have been working closely with our members to | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
highlight these issues. We have been seeking to resolve these in a | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
professional manner. We are in some respects pleased that this has come | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
to the forefront because it is highlighting issues that we have | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
been raising for a number of years and is trying to resolve. | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
Ofsted also header argument is that it said was outside agreement but it | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
has been passed on. A petition's been launched online calling for | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
those concerns to be published ` this afternoon it had more than 300 | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
signatures. We contacted the school to ask its views today, but haven't | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
yet had a reply ` but the school website says it is a caring and | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
vibrant school community that is graded "Outstanding". | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
Tributes have continued to be paid to a 20`year`old hairdresser who was | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
murdered in the hair salon where she worked in Gloucester. Hollie Gazzard | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
was stabbed at Fringe Benefits salon in Southgate Street on Tuesday | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
evening. Police are asking people who filmed officers trying to save | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
her life not to post the footage online. 22`year`old Asher Maslin has | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
been charged with Hollie's murder. A year ago the Ministry of Defence | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
revealed that more soldiers and their families would be based in | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Salisbury Plain as the army pulls out of Germany. Today we got an idea | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
of the scale of what's being planned, with up to 1,400 new homes | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
by 2020. The army says it will also need new mess buildings, garages and | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
workshops inside existing bases James Ingham reports. | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
Tidworth barracks, one of the main military sites in this area. It is | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
one of four that will increase in size when British bases in Germany | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
close. 4000 soldiers, and as many family members, are heading for | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Wiltshire. Is pretty complex, you would imagine | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
there is a lot of planning involved. It is something we plan | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
for. There is a lot of infrastructure involved, getting | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
those units back to the UK. Facility facilities will be improved, and new | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
areas built for families. This area is away from the base but | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
soldiers prefer a closer site. That has been blocked by English | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Heritage. If families are living away, they'd | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
have the opportunity to use all the facilities, the medical facilities, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the recreational facilities. They will be out on a limb. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
The return of troops from Germany marks the end of an Iraq, but as the | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
army shrinks in size and consolidates around 70 bases, | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Salisbury plain will be as important as ever. Getting this move right | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
will be crucial for the military's future. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
A new way of tackling loneliness is being trialled in Bristol. Feeling | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
isolated at any age can lead to serious health problems. Well, now a | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
scheme called Social Mirror helps connect people to suitable | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
activities in their area ` offering an alternative to a more medical | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
approach. Martin Jones reports. Sue isn't a doctor, but she is | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
trying to hand out prescriptions ` to help people in the Knowle West | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
area of Bristol deal with loneliness. The tablet computer | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
she's using suggests groups and societies for people to join. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
It looks of their health, whether they are involved in local | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
communities, looks at friendship groups and networks, and there is a | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
need, they are given a social prescriptions. It could be a walking | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
group, a photography class, could be a dance class. The reason they call | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
it a prescription is because loneliness can be bad for your | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
health. Studies show lonely people drink more alcohol, eat less | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
healthily, and even have more problems with the immune system | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
heart and lungs. Dave Bird took part at his local doctor's surgery a few | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
months ago. It suggested he join a walking group. He did. And he says | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
it's transformed his life. Since August just gone, I've lost | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
almost half a stone in weight, and it's going in the right direction. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
When you are sat in the flat, worrying about your own concerns, | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
and picking up food, you pay a long way. I became a bit of a recluse. I | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
didn't really go out might flat until that day I went to the | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
doctor's surgery. Government figures suggest | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
loneliness is a growing problem Just over a third of people aged | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
over 52 say they're lonely. For people aged over 80, it's closer to | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
half. The effects of this can range from | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
cardiovascular disease and depression. Small changes can make a | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
big improvement, and this is a way of making that first step from | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
feeling alone and that you're not doing great things, to feeling part | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
of a community. For Dave, he just hopes the rain stays away long | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
enough to enjoy his walk. Onto rugby, and Bath prop David | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Wilson will play as tight`head for England in Saturday's Six Nations | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
tie with Ireland. David only returned to club action last weekend | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
after two months out because of injury. He'll be joined in the squad | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
at Twickenham by Bath fly`half George Ford, who will be on the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
bench. It's one of the most photographed | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
views in the West ` the world`famous Stourhead gardens with the Pantheon | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
monument rising up across the lake. For the next few months, though it | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
will be covered in scaffolding as work begins to restore the two | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
250`year`old building. Lizzie Way reports. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
The view across the lake now looks a little different. Shrouded in a | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
white tent, the Pantheon here is having a face`lift. But it's not | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
just cosmetic, the bones of this building are being restored and | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
repaired to ensure it stands proudly in the beautiful landscape. | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
The pantheon is the centrepiece of the garden at Stourhead. It stands | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
across the 15 acres of water, and it really teases you on your journey to | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
get to the pantheon. You get glimpses of the pantheon, so you | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
know where you want to go, but you don't really know how to get there, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
and it teases you along the pathway. Eventually you arrive at | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
this magnificent building. The restoration team are repairing the | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
building's roof putting right damage caused by water leaks and restoring | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
some of the stonework. We need to replace Timbers in the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
roof, we might need to replace large sections of the plaster ceiling or | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
have had a collapse of the roof timbers. We are replacing the lead. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Ingleby recycled lead that will be sandblasted and brought back and | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
fixed onto the building. There are some masonry defects in the stone | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
that we will repair. Some of the roofs timbers will be replaced used | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
wood from trees here, at Christmas a 250`year`old tree fell in the storms | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
but now its history may still be used. Work here should be finished | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
by the summer. But right now these builders have one of the best views | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
in the West. A knitting group from Bristol ` | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
who've toured the west with their life`sized knitted nativity scene ` | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
has raised more than forty thousand pounds for St Peter's Hospice. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Here's their creation in the Points West studio in December. The | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
so`called "nutty knitters" presented a woollen cheque to the charity this | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
lunchtime. They decided to make the figures to support the hospice after | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
it cared for their founding member Christine Walsh. She died from | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
cancer in December 2011. Congratulations to them. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Now, we're sure many of you enjoyed the Brit Awards on TV last night. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
But did any of you spot Bristol s very own Levanna McLean amongst the | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
dancers? We featured Levanna a few weeks ago after her video of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
northern soul dancing on Staple Hill high street went viral on the | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
internet. She told us then that singer Pharrell had sent her a | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
message on Twitter about it ` and then last night she found herself | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
dancing next to the man himself .. It was absolutely amazing. The | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
atmosphere was electric. You could feel everybody dancing with you and | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
just to be on stage next to Pharrell was the most amazing experience to | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
say that I've done it. He is such a genuine person. How he was on how he | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
is offstage. She's having an amazing time, isn't | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
she? What about that hat? | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Many people have disgusted. And they should, too. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
I was more impressed with Nile Rodgers in the white hat. The | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
weather has shown itself to be the wettest winter so far, and so far | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
for the South of England wettest since 1990 which comes as no | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
surprise to many of you. We will see further rain in the shape of showers | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
tomorrow, some of them heavy in places. Much like today, they're | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
well equally be some dry and bright weather around, and it will be quite | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
windy. It dry interlude this evening and into the middle of the night, | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
and into tomorrow many of you will see a dry start, but showers | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
starting to come in through the course of the afternoon. The isobars | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
are quite tight, so that'll be quite a windy day. For the rest of this | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
evening, heavy showers around, gradually with time they will fade | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
away, and through the middle part of the night some dry weather about, | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
some clear skies, and as we head into tomorrow morning, some of those | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
showers could be just a little wintry. Ten bridges chillier than | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
last night, `` temperatures will be chillier. Those showers will be less | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
of a feature perhaps first thing in the morning, but will become so | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
through the afternoon. Money to account for the likelihood of some | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
hail and perhaps some lightning Some blustery winds bonito showers | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
as they passed by. But either side of the showers there will be some | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
dry and bright weather. The winds will offset the temperatures, but | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
averages around seven or eight, average for the time of year. As we | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
look to the end of the week, a better day to come on Saturday apart | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
from one to showers in the morning. The cloud will increase through the | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
afternoon, and that is ahead of this next system heading in on Sunday. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
And nest week `` next week looks like a continuation of that story, | :27:28. | :27:28. | |
I'm afraid. like a continuation of that story, | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
That's all from us for now. We are back after the ten o'clock | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
news, and out of Ian where we will see we can get him dancing with Nile | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Rodgers next year. He will be on act`mac strictly! | :27:44. | :27:47. |