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21/02/2014

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starting over on BBC Two in a moment. They'll be live in Kiev

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assessing what chance today's deal has

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Good evening. A retired official has come forward to say that he took the

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decision to stop dredging on the Somerset Levels 20 years ago.

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Ken Tatem says he stands by his judgement even though the lack of

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dredging has been blamed for making the floods worse. Scott Ellis

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reports from the Levels. I have been taking a closer look. I

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have dredged some up myself. Here it is. A bucket full of silt and stop

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this is not soil that is what of farmland. This is silt that has been

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brought in on the tide and settled on the bottom of the river. The vast

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majority of people here are elated that dredging is going to get

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underway, but there are some people who think that this process of the

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tide coming in and bringing up silt is natural and is no point

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intervening. Ken Tatem was flooded manager on the Somerset Levels in

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the 1990s during which time he called a halt to dredging, and

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everyone agreed. It is as shallow gradient. When you

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dredge at the top end you are making their gradient shallower and getting

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less flow. He says the government wants to dredge the river simply to

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win over locals. The area's MP knows Ken Tatem and has respect for his

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views but remained in favour of dredging. There are a lot of other

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people who have said we have got to get the mud out of the river. This

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river ran efficiently until maintaining the five when there was

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a fundamental policy change. We have got to get active what it was

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before. The policy change was giving more

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room to wildlife. Environmental groups are still keen that dredging

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is not seen as a simple solution. It is like having a plughole that you

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are clearing to stop your bath filling up with water. In the

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long`term it was be more efficient to look at how much water is coming

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into the system and also the grip that is blocking the channels in the

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first place. Everyone agrees eight kilometres of dredging is just part

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of the answer. Reducing the speed at which water drains onto the levels

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is also wouldn't. There is more water coming down from the catchment

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area. That's what needs to go somewhere else other than my front

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room. I want to live a normal life. I not ask to be flooded.

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Ken Tatem has another solution. Greater use of this dream during

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flood periods to take water north away from the moves. `` this drain.

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It is a large areas of storage with no properties at risk. The

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difficulty is you are asking a set of farmers who do not get funded at

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the moment to accept flooding. That is a difficult negotiation. In the

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long run if you are going to help this area that has got to be done.

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Dredging is just one idea. There are many more. Somerset takes its final

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20 year plan to the secretary of state on March seven.

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A man's been in court charged with murdering the Gloucester hairdresser

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Hollie Gazzard. Twenty year old Hollie was attacked at the salon

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where she worked on Tuesday evening. Asher Maslin, who's 22, appeared at

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Cheltenham Magistrates' Court and was remanded until next week.

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A pilot has had a lucky escape after a small plane crashed into a field

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in Gloucestershire today. The fire service says the person walked away

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uninjured after making an emergency landing in a field in Sandhurst

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Shrien Dewani, the Bristol man, accused of organising his wife's

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murder in South Africa, is to take his fight against extradition to the

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highest court in the UK. Mr Dewani's lawyers have won the right to a

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Supreme Court ruling. Last month the High Court ruled he could be

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extradited as long as the South African government gave assurances

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about his treatment in the country. Those assurances were received

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today. Mr Dewani denies plotting to kill his wife, Anni, during their

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honeymoon in 2010. A zoo in North Somerset has taken

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delivery of its first elephant ` an African adult called Buta. Noah s

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Ark Zoo in Wraxall has opened a 20 acre park to house up to ten

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animals. It's Europe's biggest elephant enclosure and was opened by

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Ann Widdicombe, the former MP, who is a supporter of the zoo. But some

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experts have questioned whether these animals should be held in

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captivity at all. The elephants have 20 acres all for themselves. But

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then that 20 acres they have got their field, they have got weeds,

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they have got one lows, we have got a pool. There is not any thing these

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elephants have not got. Bristol Rovers have moved up to 16th

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in League Two after beating promotion`chasing Burton 2`0 at the

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Memorial Stadium. David Clarkson got the first before John`Joe O'Toole

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scored his 14th goal of the season to seal the victory. It gives John

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Ward's side their first back`to`back wins in the league since August and

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moves them further away from the relegation zone.

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Newsnight is starting on BBC Two. Now let us get the latest weather

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forecast. It was not a bad end to the week.

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The weekend is not too bad for the first half. Saturday is dry, bright

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and sunny. Low`pressure spreads and on Sunday. Not much Clyde tonight.

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Not much Clyde tomorrow morning A dry and bright start. Plenty of

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winter sunshine. Change is on the way. Saturday night into Sunday this

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area of low`pressure advancers from the Southwest. Rain and showers and

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a strengthening wind. Sunday, leaden skies, grey and overcast. That

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low`pressure eventually pushes through. Fund the into next week.

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The winds die down on Monday that they come back on Tuesday as another

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low treasure pushes on. The National forecast is after this.

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National forecast in a few seconds. Some rain around on Monday.

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If you remember, this time last week, we had some very vicious

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weather costing the country, the storm on Friday night. Much quieter

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this Friday night and a much quieter week. Come the weekend, the Atlantic

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is still a little fierce. We will have some wind and rain in the

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forecast, too, but not all of us. In fact, for some of us, the weekend

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