:00:12. > :00:14.It's a Good evening. There's been a need it.
:00:15. > :00:17.It's a Good evening. There's been a sceptical reaction from flood
:00:18. > :00:22.victims to the proposals to prevent it happening again. A 20`ye`r plan
:00:23. > :00:26.has been produced, outlining ?1 0 million worth of measure to stop a
:00:27. > :00:29.repeat of the floods on the Levels. It will be presented to the
:00:30. > :00:38.Government tomorrow and Clinton Rogers was among the first
:00:39. > :00:43.journalists to see it. You just do not know where to start. It is the
:00:44. > :00:46.first time Betty has been b`ck to her flooded home in Moorland for
:00:47. > :00:54.three years. Almost everythhng here is ruined. She has no faith that the
:00:55. > :00:57.Government will keep to any promises it makes to stop this happening
:00:58. > :01:01.again. Do you think they will find the money for you? No way. Of course
:01:02. > :01:10.not, all promises, that is `ll it is. When you see this kind of
:01:11. > :01:14.devastation, it is easy to see why flood victims like here in Loorland
:01:15. > :01:17.want action and they want it quickly. The draft Somerset flood
:01:18. > :01:21.plan I have seen is an enorlous wish list, 23 pages long. It has got one
:01:22. > :01:26.big price tag attached to it. To do everything that is in the rdport
:01:27. > :01:30.would cost more than ?100 mhllion. So exactly what is in it? No
:01:31. > :01:39.surprises that top of the lhst is dredging. To start with, at least
:01:40. > :01:42.eight kilometres of rivers. They also want artificial channels
:01:43. > :01:45.leading to the sea widened, that is the King Sedgemore drain. There is
:01:46. > :01:53.also talk of raising road ldvels, including the A361 and roads leading
:01:54. > :01:56.to communities like Muchelndy. Among the most expensive suggestions is
:01:57. > :01:59.building a barrier across the river at Bridgwater, using its to control
:02:00. > :02:03.the flow of water from the sea into the rivers and vice versa, to reduce
:02:04. > :02:11.flooding on the moors and protect the town of Bridgwater. The big
:02:12. > :02:16.problem has always been we have got an environmentalist saying that you
:02:17. > :02:21.cannot dam rivers. But thousands of houses are under threat, so it is
:02:22. > :02:25.basically a no`brainer. Jamds has become the face of flooding on the
:02:26. > :02:29.Levels. Like most farmers, his business has been crippled by the
:02:30. > :02:38.worst flood in a century. Hd says the Government cannot ignord this
:02:39. > :02:42.report. The thing of it is, if they do not do something now, and then it
:02:43. > :02:48.happens all over again, and it costs millions if not billions, again you
:02:49. > :02:55.cannot afford to let it happen. You can see that they continue to dump
:02:56. > :02:59.water the nose, but still 23,00 acres of farmland is underw`ter I
:03:00. > :03:03.am told that the Prime Minister would get a personal copy of this
:03:04. > :03:08.report tomorrow morning and Owen Paterson will stand up in the House
:03:09. > :03:17.of Commons. People living hdre will be more than a little interdsted in
:03:18. > :03:20.what he has to say. A corondr has ruled a three`year`old heart patient
:03:21. > :03:24.died after a new NHS computdr system failed to schedule him for ` vital
:03:25. > :03:27.scan. An inquest heard todax that Samuel Starr's heart was
:03:28. > :03:30."disadvantaged" by the delaxs at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, which
:03:31. > :03:40.meant he hadn't had tests for 2 months following heart surgdry.
:03:41. > :03:48.Sally Challoner reports. He didn't play up. He was just so kind and
:03:49. > :03:51.gentle and he understood us. Samuel Starr was born with complex cardiac
:03:52. > :03:55.problems. He had heart surgdry in Bristol when he was just nine months
:03:56. > :03:58.old. But a vital follow`up scan at Bath's Royal United Hospital didn't
:03:59. > :04:02.happen on time, because a ndw computerised booking system failed.
:04:03. > :04:08.During the lost six months, his heart got worse, and he then didn't
:04:09. > :04:11.survive urgent surgery. Samtel's surgeon had told the inquest his
:04:12. > :04:18.condition would have been phcked up if he'd been seen earlier. @nd that
:04:19. > :04:24.his heart had seriously detdriorated by the time he had the oper`tion in
:04:25. > :04:28.August 2012. He did have a convex heart condition, and if this could
:04:29. > :04:31.happen at any time, why was he not monitored? It is like Catherine
:04:32. > :04:38.said, it is unforgivable. They can say what they want. Samuel was never
:04:39. > :04:42.going to have a straightforward life, we knew that and we understood
:04:43. > :04:45.that, but we thought there was a care plan in place that he would be
:04:46. > :04:49.monitored regularly, seen b`ck in Bristol and we had a good as chance
:04:50. > :04:55.as any heart child surviving. And reaching adulthood. Samuel was not
:04:56. > :04:58.the only cardiac patient to fall through the cracks of the ndw
:04:59. > :05:04.system. 63 had their appointments delayed. We don't know the outcomes
:05:05. > :05:07.of those children. The RUH refused to be interviewed today, but in a
:05:08. > :05:10.statement they offered their sincere condolences to Samuel's famhly, and
:05:11. > :05:12.were very sorry for the del`y in his outpatient's appointment.
:05:13. > :05:20.They added that they've now improved the booking system that had failed.
:05:21. > :05:25.I don't think we have been `ble to properly grieve, because we've had
:05:26. > :05:29.this hanging over us. Maybe we will have some time to take out, remember
:05:30. > :05:36.Samuel as we want to remembdr him, rather than through medical notes
:05:37. > :05:39.and statistics. Samuel's parents are among at least ten families
:05:40. > :05:45.currently taking part in a review of child heart services in the Bristol
:05:46. > :05:49.area. They'll meet with the Government lawyer leading it next
:05:50. > :05:53.week. In the meantime, they'll get an independent medical opinhon into
:05:54. > :05:59.his care to try and find thd answers they still seek.
:06:00. > :06:05.Tolls from both Severn Bridges could be used to fund a third crossing in
:06:06. > :06:13.a few years' time. Ownership of both bridges reverts to the Government in
:06:14. > :06:17.four years. But Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, wants the tolls
:06:18. > :06:20.to be kept and the money usdd be used to build a third Severn
:06:21. > :06:24.Crossing. The County Council says it's thinking about it but no
:06:25. > :06:33.decision's been made on where a new bridge would go. That's it from me.
:06:34. > :06:39.The final word from the West tonight from the West is from Ian who has
:06:40. > :06:42.the weather. Tomorrow will be an extensively cloudy day, and there
:06:43. > :06:43.will be some patchy rain and drizzle, most of that out towards
:06:44. > :06:53.the West. No chance of any frost tonight, but
:06:54. > :06:59.there will be low cloud arotnd and indeed, some hill fog as well. That
:07:00. > :07:05.patchy rain and drizzle out towards the West, at times creeping towards
:07:06. > :07:11.the East, but moving east, xou're likely to have a dryer day with a
:07:12. > :07:17.hint of brightness. A moder`tely breezy day and mild, and 10 Celsius
:07:18. > :07:22.should be fairly typical. Looking towards the end of the week, we have
:07:23. > :07:27.a band of light rain drifting across as during the first half of Friday.
:07:28. > :07:30.Brightening up, thereafter. And a much improved forecast, verx mild as
:07:31. > :07:33.well into next week. exceed 15 Celsius. The unsettled
:07:34. > :07:40.weather will continue. With more on that, here is the National forecast.
:07:41. > :07:44.Good evening. I would like to start by showing you simply haven't seen
:07:45. > :07:49.the quite some time. After a three-month onslaught, finally I can
:07:50. > :07:52.show you a chart with high pressure across the whole of the UK. Yes
:07:53. > :07:57.things are settling down. You may have spotted, though, that says
:07:58. > :07:59.Monday, so we have a little way to go yet. We have some rain in the
:08:00. > :08:00.forecast. Not