:00:00. > 3:59:59sunshine and showers continuing And that is all from the BBC News at
:00:00. > :00:08.six. It Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex
:00:09. > :00:12.Lovell and David Garmston. Our main story tonight: A government
:00:13. > :00:15.hand`out. Farmers in Somerset will get an
:00:16. > :00:22.instant cash gift from the government. The farming minister
:00:23. > :00:26.tells them how much. Provide support for those farms that' there will be
:00:27. > :00:28.an immediate response fund grants of up to ?5,000. We'll be asking if the
:00:29. > :00:42.money will make any difference. Into the arms of her parents. Bath's
:00:43. > :00:53.Lizzy Yarnold brings her gold medal safely back home. How Bristol's zoo
:00:54. > :01:00.played its part for the war, and even one of the animals got signed
:01:01. > :01:04.up. The Royal Highness is where
:01:05. > :01:08.impressed by your comments and you certainly made a good case for your
:01:09. > :01:14.skill being the ideal place for Prince George.
:01:15. > :01:19.And find out what Kate and William said the pupils who want Prince
:01:20. > :01:22.George to come to the school. The farming minister George Eustice
:01:23. > :01:25.has set out more details of a ? 0 million scheme to help farms here
:01:26. > :01:29.which have been affected by flooding. He's told the NFU
:01:30. > :01:32.conference in Birmingham that a farming recovery scheme will assist
:01:33. > :01:40.in four key areas and offer support with uninsured losses. Fiona Lamdin
:01:41. > :01:45.has spent the day at the conference. Hundreds of farms on the levels are
:01:46. > :01:54.still under water. Today some of those farmers travelled 150 miles to
:01:55. > :01:57.hear what help is at hand. For those farms have been flooded
:01:58. > :02:01.there will be an immediate response fund with grants of up to ?5,00 . A
:02:02. > :02:04.commitment to dredge, more money for flood defences and grants for
:02:05. > :02:11.water`logged farms. And it was our farmers who were first on their feet
:02:12. > :02:17.to question him. When can we see an end to this and a more cooperative
:02:18. > :02:27.approach to all flood prevention on the Somerset Levels? Becky. `` thank
:02:28. > :02:39.you. You asked when we would listen. I
:02:40. > :02:42.would say, no. `` Now. . Following the news that the prime minster is
:02:43. > :02:46.giving a fresh ?10 million to help flooded farms, today we got some
:02:47. > :02:50.details into how that being spent from Friday farms will be able to
:02:51. > :02:53.apply for ?5,000 to help them with re`seeding, drainage and rebuilding
:02:54. > :02:58.roads, and it's a hand out they won't have to pay back.
:02:59. > :03:03.Last year we had the same problem, the ground was flooded and we all
:03:04. > :03:06.had to go and get money wherever we could, banks or out of other
:03:07. > :03:09.businesses. This year the government has acknowledged the fact that there
:03:10. > :03:13.is a problem and they are prepared to help us reach seed and is very
:03:14. > :03:19.welcome news. The money will fix a quarter of John's fields ` the rest
:03:20. > :03:26.he will have to pay for. Is this fair?
:03:27. > :03:31.At the moment it is prudent to start off with that ?5,000 cap to ensure
:03:32. > :03:34.we don't exhaust the funds to quickly. Today's money will help
:03:35. > :03:38.towards the re`generation, but until this water starts to shift, the
:03:39. > :03:46.seeds of hope little can be done or grown here.
:03:47. > :03:51.So what kind of pressures are farmers in Somerset facing? 28, 00
:03:52. > :03:57.acres of land is underwater, after the wettest winter on record. And
:03:58. > :04:01.there are still two severe flood warnings in place. Most of
:04:02. > :04:06.Somerset's agriculture is livestock ` beef and dairy. The land should be
:04:07. > :04:10.producing food for them for the rest of the year. But the grass is dead,
:04:11. > :04:16.which means the cattle are having to be kept and fed inside, leading to
:04:17. > :04:19.more expense for farmers. The rural insurer NFU Mutual estimates the
:04:20. > :04:24.damage could cost more than ?6 million in claims. One farmer who's
:04:25. > :04:33.already lost money is Heather Venn, a beef farmer from Stoke St Gregory.
:04:34. > :04:38.It's a huge problem. It's not like people whose houses have gone, it is
:04:39. > :04:46.a longer term problems on that, I know it is devastating for them but
:04:47. > :04:49.this will be years of recovery. After two months underwater, she is
:04:50. > :04:51.already counting the cost to our business.
:04:52. > :04:54.New equipment's being introduced on our ambulances after a catalogue of
:04:55. > :04:57.failings ahead of the death of a baby. Lacey`Marie Poton was four
:04:58. > :05:00.months old when she suffered a cardiac arrest at home. The
:05:01. > :05:03.ambulance crew who took her to hospital didn't use blue lights
:05:04. > :05:07.they failed to warn the hospital they were on their way and didn t
:05:08. > :05:10.have equipment on board which could have helped save her life. Our
:05:11. > :05:14.Health Correspondent Matthew Hill reports.
:05:15. > :05:18.Emma Norley is still struggling to come get to terms with the death her
:05:19. > :05:21.baby. Lacey`Marie Poton suffered a cardiac arrest, shortly after being
:05:22. > :05:28.sent home from the Bristol Children's Hospital following a
:05:29. > :05:36.heart operation last July. When her mother dialled 999 she expected an
:05:37. > :05:39.emergency response. She stopped breathing, so I had to
:05:40. > :05:44.do CPR. I call the ambience, but when they got to the house it seemed
:05:45. > :05:49.they were really concerned. I was a little shocked, as a student took
:05:50. > :05:52.the lead on most of it. He was only a student, he didn't really know
:05:53. > :05:56.what he was doing. And once she arrived at the heart unit in Bristol
:05:57. > :05:59.there was a delay of 45 minutes for a cardiologist to attend because no
:06:00. > :06:03.advanced warning had been received from the ambulance crew.
:06:04. > :06:09.She could have been sedated earlier. She suffered for awhile
:06:10. > :06:12.before someone got their. And the heart scan could have been done
:06:13. > :06:15.quicker. Lacey`Marie never recovered
:06:16. > :06:20.consciousness and died here in the early hours of the next morning
:06:21. > :06:23.This internal report found the ambulance sent to her home in
:06:24. > :06:27.Bristol should have used a blue light, failed to warn the hospital
:06:28. > :06:29.to get ready for their arrival, and did not carrying vital paediatric
:06:30. > :06:38.monitoring equipment, leaving the crew unable to work out how severe
:06:39. > :06:43.her condition was. The process of auditing and making
:06:44. > :06:46.sure we equip our ambulances was ongoing and the time this incident
:06:47. > :06:51.happened. Unfortunately, the particular ambulance at the
:06:52. > :06:53.particular time was yet to be fitted with that equipment. Ambulances
:06:54. > :06:57.throughout the region now carry monitoring equipment for babies and
:06:58. > :07:00.small children like Lacey`Marie Emma Norley still has further
:07:01. > :07:04.questions about her daughter's death ` she hopes an inquest will get to
:07:05. > :07:06.the bottom of why the Bristol Children's Hospital discharged Lacey
:07:07. > :07:15.Marie one day after heart surgery when she felt her daughter was still
:07:16. > :07:18.ill. A Bristol man has been spared a
:07:19. > :07:23.prison sentence despite making his children live in filthy home
:07:24. > :07:26.conditions. This was the scene the police found when they raided the
:07:27. > :07:29.house in the Knowle West area of Bristol. Three children, all under
:07:30. > :07:33.12, were living surrounded by rotting food, dog mess and broken
:07:34. > :07:37.glass. Their father, who can't be named, told officers his partner had
:07:38. > :07:42.left him and it was her job to clean the house. He was given a suspended
:07:43. > :07:48.one year sentence The number of rough sleepers in Bristol more than
:07:49. > :07:52.quadrupled between 2012 and 201 . The figure rose from nine to forty
:07:53. > :07:57.one, according to figures from the Government. In comparison, it's
:07:58. > :07:59.estimated that there are 27 people sleeping rough in Swindon,
:08:00. > :08:05.Gloucester, Cheltenham and Taunton combined. On Friday, the Mayor of
:08:06. > :08:15.Bristol will be sleeping outside a church in the city to raise
:08:16. > :08:23.awareness of the issue. You're watching BBC Points West
:08:24. > :08:29.Still to come: Winning smiles all round, we celebrate a successful
:08:30. > :08:38.Sochi with the skeleton named after Lizzy Yarnold and athletes from
:08:39. > :08:42.TeamGB. The judge in the trial of a Bristol
:08:43. > :08:45.lorry driver accused of causing death by careless driving has
:08:46. > :08:48.directed the jury to find him not guilty. Teacher Jake Thompson died
:08:49. > :08:51.of head injuries after being hit by the truck at the Three lamps
:08:52. > :08:57.junction on the A4 at Totterdown three years ago. The trial had heard
:08:58. > :09:02.how Mr Thomson had stepped out into the path of Paul Vowles' lorry. The
:09:03. > :09:09.not guilty instruction followed an application by the defence at the
:09:10. > :09:12.close of the prosecution case. A Bristol Somali teenager who's
:09:13. > :09:15.trying to prevent young girls from becoming victims of mutilating
:09:16. > :09:17.surgery, has met with the Education Secretary today. 17`year`old Farma
:09:18. > :09:22.Mohamed presented Michael Gove with a petition containing more than
:09:23. > :09:26.two`hundred thousand signatures She wants Mr Gove to write to schools
:09:27. > :09:29.about the dangers of female genital mutilation. Despite being illegal,
:09:30. > :09:41.its estimated 20,000 British girls are at risk every year.
:09:42. > :09:47.About it of accidental death has been reached with the story of a
:09:48. > :09:52.couple whose car was buried in a landslide. The couple were found
:09:53. > :09:58.several days after a wall of mud and trees crashed onto their vehicle
:09:59. > :10:01.close to the tunnel. Relatives and friends of the couple
:10:02. > :10:07.were actively's inquest to hear the verdict. The coroner said,
:10:08. > :10:11.unfortunately it was a pure accident, and like so many, 30
:10:12. > :10:16.seconds later it may not have happened. He accepted that the
:10:17. > :10:20.primary cause of the landslip was severe flooding, adding, " it was at
:10:21. > :10:26.a time of exceptionally heavy rainfall which occurs once in every
:10:27. > :10:29.100 years. Despite a search by fire crews using thermal imaging
:10:30. > :10:35.equipment, there was no sign that anyone was trapped under the
:10:36. > :10:37.mudslide. " and was nine days later after the couple had been reported
:10:38. > :10:41.missing that their vehicle was eventually found. A police
:10:42. > :10:45.investigation into the incident found there were no grounds for
:10:46. > :10:50.criminal charges, and the coroner today recorded verdicts of
:10:51. > :10:52.accidental death on both victims. Protests by young people in
:10:53. > :10:55.Wiltshire have successfully convinced the council to reduce
:10:56. > :10:59.their proposed cuts to youth services by half. The decision
:11:00. > :11:02.followed weeks of campaigning, culminating in a presentation to
:11:03. > :11:06.councillors this morning as they met to set their budget for the next
:11:07. > :11:11.year. Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop.
:11:12. > :11:14.It's just one of 24 places where the council run youth services in
:11:15. > :11:18.Wiltshire, but those who use Grosvenor House in Salisbury were
:11:19. > :11:32.determined not to lose it. Today they took their campaign direct to
:11:33. > :11:40.councillors ` at stake: proposed cuts of half ?1 million. Behind the
:11:41. > :11:43.scenes there had been talks. In the meeting the opposition leader put
:11:44. > :11:47.forward a way to reinstate ?250 000, and it was accepted by the ruling
:11:48. > :11:51.conservatives. The value of our youth service is
:11:52. > :11:55.something I am incredibly passionate about, so we decided we would do
:11:56. > :12:01.everything we could to try to protect that service.
:12:02. > :12:04.Be pleased? I am delighted, and I give credit to
:12:05. > :12:08.the administration. So, for these novices, a successful foray into
:12:09. > :12:13.politics. I figured greater roomie progress
:12:14. > :12:18.and they are keeping it open. It is a fantastic step forward, I've never
:12:19. > :12:22.known the council backtrack. To begin proving, it's not what we
:12:23. > :12:25.wanted, but it is a compromise, and I think it's wonderful. Youth
:12:26. > :12:31.services still face cuts and big changes. The council leader wants
:12:32. > :12:35.them better used. I don't regret it, I think what it
:12:36. > :12:39.has done is mean that we have had really good conversations. We
:12:40. > :12:46.continue to that, especially with young people in the county to see
:12:47. > :12:49.how, instead of 8% of people going into youth centres, we can engage
:12:50. > :12:52.with more young people in the county. Wiltshire's ?333 million
:12:53. > :12:55.budget was voted through. Councillors were told they're making
:12:56. > :13:03.?25 million of savings ` with more to come. The root cause of the cuts
:13:04. > :13:06.is the ongoing reduction in funding that will chew get from central
:13:07. > :13:12.government, but there is one thing for which the council is determined
:13:13. > :13:15.to get more money, damage from flooding thought to run to several
:13:16. > :13:18.million pounds. Potholed roads are already the biggest issue for many
:13:19. > :13:28.voters. As the falling waters reveal their worst, a big repair bill is
:13:29. > :13:33.being prepared for government. Poll is with us in the studio. It is that
:13:34. > :13:38.time of year, have all the councils set their budgets?
:13:39. > :13:42.A few of the big ones still to go, Gloucester are meeting tomorrow and
:13:43. > :13:46.for them a big preoccupation with the damage from the floods. The
:13:47. > :13:49.promise we heard from several Gottman that there would be a full
:13:50. > :13:53.refund of the expenses they have run up in tackling it.
:13:54. > :13:57.Has any council decided to put our council tax?
:13:58. > :14:03.Bristol is the only big authority raising taxpayer and to present
:14:04. > :14:07.Some of the smaller areas may have rises of 2% as well. Police forces
:14:08. > :14:12.across the West in one area with a has`been rises. That should only add
:14:13. > :14:15.around 35p to the average council tax bill.
:14:16. > :14:20.Winter Olympic gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold has hinted she'll defend her
:14:21. > :14:23.skeleton title in four years time. 25`year`old Lizzy, who lives and
:14:24. > :14:30.trains in Bath, arrived home from Sochi last night. Alistair Durden
:14:31. > :14:33.was at Heathrow Airport to greet her, and as you'd expect there was
:14:34. > :14:41.plenty of flash photography as Lizzy emerged into the arrivals lounge.
:14:42. > :14:45.Finally home, as a national hero. Mum and dad were the first to greet
:14:46. > :14:48.her. Lizzy Yarnold won Britain's only gold of the games, an
:14:49. > :14:53.achievement that's going to change her life.
:14:54. > :14:57.It's amazing to be back here in Britain. It's been a really long
:14:58. > :15:01.season in terms of competitions but has been the best year of my life.
:15:02. > :15:05.And excited to see everyone, but I'm quite overwhelmed. It will be an
:15:06. > :15:09.exciting few weeks, I'm not sure what to expect.
:15:10. > :15:13.She handles the pressure, the media, everything, she manages to cope with
:15:14. > :15:19.it, and she comes across brilliantly in every sphere. Lizzy admits she's
:15:20. > :15:24.looking forward to getting back to her flat in Bath as soon as she can,
:15:25. > :15:30.and see the friends and fellow athletes who were supporting her as
:15:31. > :15:34.she won her gold. Bath is such a beautiful town, I
:15:35. > :15:37.love living their. It's a great environment, there are so many
:15:38. > :15:43.committed athletes that I learned so much from all the time. I can't wait
:15:44. > :15:47.to get back there and see them. Her achievement will be commemorated in
:15:48. > :15:49.many ways ` the most unusual so far, Cheltenham General hospital naming
:15:50. > :15:56.their training skeleton Yarney in her honour.
:15:57. > :16:01.I'll have to go and meet it! That is fantastic, it's nice to know I have
:16:02. > :16:04.been reaching out not just to children but also in medical wards.
:16:05. > :16:12.And the future? She's only 25, so will she defend her title in 20 8?
:16:13. > :16:17.I'm an athlete through and through. I've been so driven toward Sochi,
:16:18. > :16:21.and that was my goal. I was so proud that I not only got there but came
:16:22. > :16:25.back with a gold medal. I have no home, and I will enjoy a few weeks
:16:26. > :16:28.off, and then be back in the gym soon enough.
:16:29. > :16:31.Today she was at Downing Street with the other medal winners including
:16:32. > :16:34.Bristol snowboarder Jenny Jones They had the chance to meet the
:16:35. > :16:37.Prime Minister. Interviews and appointments are likely to dominate
:16:38. > :16:41.life for the next few weeks. When Lizzy does finally return to Bath,
:16:42. > :16:51.the University say they'd like to throw her a big party. I'm glad they
:16:52. > :16:54.are enjoying the spoils of it. And if you're suffering withdrawal
:16:55. > :16:57.symptoms from the Winter Olympics there's still plenty more to enjoy
:16:58. > :17:01.on the BBC website ` including this. Good to see that Team GB, including
:17:02. > :17:21.Jenny Jones and Lizzy Yarnold, were so happy out in Sochi.
:17:22. > :17:28.# Because I'm happy #. It's very heavy, and it around my
:17:29. > :17:34.neck! The although Swindon Town can be
:17:35. > :17:36.happy. `` let's hope that Swindon Town can be happy.
:17:37. > :17:40.Swindon Town can close the gap on the League One playoff places to
:17:41. > :17:43.just four points tonight. They have a home game against Crawley. In
:17:44. > :17:46.League Two, Cheltenham play leaders Chesterfield, and Bristol Rovers are
:17:47. > :17:50.away to second`place Scunthorpe A secret plan to train a seal from
:17:51. > :17:53.Bristol Zoo to sink enemy ships in the First World War has been
:17:54. > :17:56.uncovered. Records have also revealed how the gardens played host
:17:57. > :17:59.to injured troops during the conflict. 'World War One At Home'
:18:00. > :18:03.sees the BBC working in partnership with the Imperial War Museums, and
:18:04. > :18:16.as part of the series I've been to the zoo to look in the archives
:18:17. > :18:22.# And when they ask us how dangerous it was #.
:18:23. > :18:25.When war broke out, lads from villages, towns and cities rushed to
:18:26. > :18:29.join up, as keen to go abroad as today's students on a gap year. But
:18:30. > :18:32.all too soon, the excitement vanished, and before long Bristol
:18:33. > :18:40.became home to many hospitals for the injured. That's where the zoo
:18:41. > :18:44.found a new wartime role. Bristol Zoo is one of the oldest in the
:18:45. > :18:49.world. By the time the war broke out in 1914 it had been going for more
:18:50. > :18:53.than 70 years. Of course, it is still a very popular place to come,
:18:54. > :18:58.but 100 years ago this place would have been packed with wounded
:18:59. > :19:05.troops, and imagine what a treat it would have been to come here. Zoo
:19:06. > :19:10.was a refuge for the wounded in body or mind. Many had experiences so
:19:11. > :19:21.horrifying because never speak of them. These zoo tea parties were
:19:22. > :19:25.paid for by women in the munitions factories. There are some
:19:26. > :19:31.wonderfully evocative photographs here of soldiers arriving for these
:19:32. > :19:35.tea parties. They put on tea and cakes for the troops. Look at how
:19:36. > :19:41.neat it all is, china cups and beautiful cake stands with delicious
:19:42. > :19:45.looking things to eat. It was a very special occasion, I think. The zoo's
:19:46. > :19:48.mischievous monkeys have long been attraction, and their popularity was
:19:49. > :19:52.played on to raise money for the troops. Historians have found this
:19:53. > :19:56.little chap, who allegedly fought alongside British troops, was used
:19:57. > :20:06.at the zoo to encourage people to donate.
:20:07. > :20:10.He was supposedly a monkey from the front. Supposedly he fought at the
:20:11. > :20:15.front and was gassed and loss Eto'o. He was put on display with a
:20:16. > :20:22.sign that give all those details and said, please give me money so I can
:20:23. > :20:27.send it to our boys who are fighting. During the war food was
:20:28. > :20:31.scarce and takings were down. The zoo struggled to feel the animals.
:20:32. > :20:34.So they were delighted when the military took one of them off their
:20:35. > :20:37.hands for real work. This document tells us that seals
:20:38. > :20:42.were expensive to feed during the war, between ?2 and ?3 a week, so
:20:43. > :20:47.the zoo had to get rid of them. One was sent to the Admiralty in London
:20:48. > :20:50.to be used in experiments, and the zoo hoped they would be used to sink
:20:51. > :20:56.U`boats. It cost ?2 a week for their
:20:57. > :21:02.sustenance, silly bundled one after the Admiralty. That's right. Whether
:21:03. > :21:07.they were actually used to sink U`boats, we don't know.
:21:08. > :21:11.But it meant didn't have to feed them. Yes, which was a positive
:21:12. > :21:13.thing for the zoo, with some of the animals to feed they had to cut
:21:14. > :21:17.expenses. Other zoos went even further ` this
:21:18. > :21:27.elephant was put to work on an English farm. Button's zoos Dave the
:21:28. > :21:33.soldiers a release from the pain and sorrow of injury and bereavement.
:21:34. > :21:37.But look at the faces from Bristol all those years ago, and reflect on
:21:38. > :21:46.the brave smiles of the lost generation. I look at those faces
:21:47. > :21:51.and think, that could have been us, it could have been powered
:21:52. > :21:53.generation. `` it could have been powered generation.
:21:54. > :21:56.Tomorrow night I'll be reporting on the mules who travelled from South
:21:57. > :22:00.America to Minehead. BBC Somerset will also be exploring the impact
:22:01. > :22:02.they had on the community at 8: 5am tomorrow morning.
:22:03. > :22:05.And some of those stunning photographs are on our Facebook
:22:06. > :22:09.page. Now, "If you don't ask you don't
:22:10. > :22:13.get" ` a little lesson in life that I'm sure you've passed on! Well
:22:14. > :22:16.pupils at a tiny school in Wiltshire decided to put that advice to the
:22:17. > :22:19.test. The children at Chirton Primary near Devizes did an exercise
:22:20. > :22:23.testing their powers of persuasion, by writing a letter to a rather
:22:24. > :22:30.famous couple. And as Ali Vowles has been finding out, they got a
:22:31. > :22:33.surprising result... There's a slightly regal air to
:22:34. > :22:38.today's recorder lesson ` not surprising, really, as the children
:22:39. > :22:41.are celebrating a great result. They wrote to Prince William and Kate
:22:42. > :22:45.asking if they'd consider sending baby George to their school ` a year
:22:46. > :22:54.ago it was saved from closure and all 29 pupils who make up Chirton
:22:55. > :22:58.Primary say he'd love it. And guess what ` the palace wrote back
:22:59. > :23:05.individual letters to each and every pupil who wrote.
:23:06. > :23:11.You certainly made a wonderful case for your school with its bright eyed
:23:12. > :23:15.and bushy tailed staff being the ideal school for Prince George.
:23:16. > :23:19.The Royal Highness 's were extremely impressed by the quality of your
:23:20. > :23:26.children's letters, which were certainly very persuasive.
:23:27. > :23:31.It's a small school, but the big family.
:23:32. > :23:36.I've never known this response to come to every child personally. What
:23:37. > :23:40.next? Perhaps the President? So, some very
:23:41. > :23:42.persuasive letters ` what would Prince George have to look forward
:23:43. > :23:50.to? Playing and having friends.
:23:51. > :23:54.He'd have loads of friends to play with.
:23:55. > :24:00.Why do you think he would like this school?
:24:01. > :24:07.Because of the slippers. Let's have a look at the slippers.
:24:08. > :24:12.It is surely the slippers that will clinch it. I know they will give
:24:13. > :24:22.Prince George a right royal welcome.
:24:23. > :24:26.Very sweet, and I should think the royal couple will probably now get
:24:27. > :24:36.some more letters. Miners in the post. Now the weather:
:24:37. > :24:40.it is a dry story here this evening, and I am expecting that as we head
:24:41. > :24:46.on into tomorrow many of you should see a good deal of dry weather.
:24:47. > :24:52.This shot on the Mendips will be a fairly typical sky across the West
:24:53. > :24:57.Country tomorrow. Although some of you will see some showers. But
:24:58. > :25:08.generally speaking, less in the way of showers compared to today. As we
:25:09. > :25:12.had beyond that, we will see that the course of the night sees the
:25:13. > :25:17.showers fading away towards the East. Although the graphics have
:25:18. > :25:22.failed. There will be further showers coming back in from the
:25:23. > :25:27.west. Some generally dry and clear whether about tonight. Temperatures
:25:28. > :25:32.will drop away, some of you may get as low as two Celsius, and the main
:25:33. > :25:38.urban areas around four or five Celsius. Tomorrow morning will see
:25:39. > :25:45.the return of showers in Western districts. I apologise I can show
:25:46. > :25:48.you these, but they will be their. Body to account for the possibility
:25:49. > :25:56.that one of two might be heavy. Some hail stones around. But less density
:25:57. > :25:59.of showers compared to today. The bulk of the showers in the first
:26:00. > :26:04.half of the day. Through the afternoon there should be a dry
:26:05. > :26:12.window for us all. In the sunny spot it will be a pleasant day. Wins
:26:13. > :26:19.touching 25 mph, and consequently it will feel fairly springlike. Ten
:26:20. > :26:25.bridges between eight and 10 Celsius will be typical. Overnight we can
:26:26. > :26:29.look out to the West for further rain. The signal will be increasing
:26:30. > :26:34.cloud through tomorrow afternoon, the sunshine becoming hazy, and late
:26:35. > :26:40.into the evening tomorrow for the rain will start to arrive from the
:26:41. > :26:45.west. Some will be heavy, as it crosses over. The rain should be out
:26:46. > :26:49.of the East of our districts by the rush`hour if not before on Thursday,
:26:50. > :26:52.leaving open the doors to the blustery day for the rest of
:26:53. > :26:59.Thursday. Heavy showers around, and a similar day on Friday. The photo
:27:00. > :27:12.was nice, though, wasn't it? Bad luck with the graphics! Dear
:27:13. > :27:14.diary, Ian said, " springlike. I'll see you after 10pm, the whole
:27:15. > :27:23.team is back tomorrow.