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had to deal with and pain so I managed track get out of and Good | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
evening. This winter's floods left the Somerset Levels underwater for | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
weeks and today, nearly thrde months since it all began, the hugd pumps | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
that were brought in to help have finally been switched off. @s the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
dry land emerges, the extent of the damage is becoming painfullx clear. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Clinton Rogers reports. From the moorland to the se` at the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
rate of 500,000 litres an hour. That's what these huge Dutch pumps | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
have been doing since they were brought in to bolster the ptmping | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
operation six weeks ago. Today they fell silent, their job done. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Coincidentally, it was a dax that a Dutch dairy came to Somerset to | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
visit farmers who've been lhving with the floods since December. When | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
the BBC went to see Aad Str`athof, he was shocked by the pictures we | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
showed him from Somerset, shocked enough to come here to offer his | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
support. Back home, his farl is six metres below sea level and ht | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
doesn't flood so he's confused by what's happened here. I was born in | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
1963. I have never seen watdr in places it shouldn't be. I lhve six | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
ought `` six metres below sda level. Michael Churches is one Somdrset | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
farmer counting the cost of the worst ever floods on the Solerset | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Levels. This was his farm at Godney a month ago. Today the water has | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
gone but the damage it has caused to the soil is all too evident. It s | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
absolutely dead. This is under four feet of water. This all recdded last | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
year. It must be heartbreakhng to see this. We asked a soil expert to | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
come here to assess the long`term damage. He doesn't need complex | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
scientific tests to tell hil this land has suffered badly frol being | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
submerged under four feet of water for nearly three months. With a bit | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
of luck, we might get something growing on it this year, but that | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
won't be a viable crop. I would say two years or more before we get the | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
soil chemistry and biology back to where it was. Tonight, the | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Environment Agency said thex hoped all this water would be gond by the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
end of next week, three months after it came, but it's clear the damage | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
left behind will take much longer to mend for homeowners and farlers | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
too. The Deputy Prime Minister h`s | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
officially opened a new factory in Bridgwater. Nick Clegg, togdther | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
with Wells MP Tessa Munt, w`s shown around the Mulberry plant. The firm | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
got financial assistance from the government to set up the handbag | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
production facility which elploys 300 people. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Two men have been arrested hn connection with an investig`tion in | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Yeovil into alleged child sdxual exploitation. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Three vulnerable women who were sexually assaulted by their care | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
worker in Gloucestershire are facing another battle tonight over where | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
they'll live. The women werd attacked by Colin Stokes who began a | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
14`year jail sentence yesterday Now they've been told they need to leave | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
their supported accommodation. Their relatives say it's cruel to move | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
them at this time. All of the residents in these current homes, | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
given that it's a private tdnancy, we will assist them, through their | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
provider, to find new homes and I don't think there's any question | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
that we will be successful hn doing that. But has the provider, in this | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
case, have they acted appropriately and ethically? Really, that's a | :03:44. | :03:59. | |
question for them. 8000 people have caught bre`king the | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
rules driving through Bath's gates. People are being given a warning | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
letters but ?60 fines will soon be issued. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
An Army medic from Somerset has won national recognition for his | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
extraordinary bravery while under fire in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Wes Masters dodged enemy bullets to reach his friend, who had bden shot | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
through the neck. Today he was awarded the Military Cross `nd | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
another West Country soldier was given a Queen's Commendation. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Seconds after a firefight in Afghanistan, a bullet has p`ssed | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
straight through this soldidr's neck. Running to his rescue, Lance | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Corporal Wesley Masters, who said he forgot the danger to save hhs | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
friend. Lance Corporal Mastdrs was awarded the Military Cross for | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
gallantry. It was in one side and out the other, so he had two holes | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
in his neck, bleeding. So that was what I was faced with. That's what I | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
had to deal with. I've seen some other crazy stuff. I'd never had to | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
deal with something like th`t. Among rows of male servicemen being | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
honoured, one female stands out Lance Corporal Sinead Dodds from | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Taunton, given the Queen's Commendation for bravery, hdlping | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
rescue her commander after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
I was unconscious and then H woke up and there was this horrible, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
piercing pain in my ears. And then, I heard the casualties scre`ming. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
That's when I knew I had to get up and do something, so I managed to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
quickly chuck myself over, get out of the seat belt and then go and try | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
and find a casualties. An Army cameraman captured the moment that | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
Lance Corporal Wes Masters came to aid his friend, showing a stpreme | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
lack of panic in the face of such a serious injury. Holding the wound is | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Lance Corporal Simon Malonex and despite his injury, he then carried | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
on fighting, even running aboard as their airlift arrived. He w`s given | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
a Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. Two stories among so many that could | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
have ended differently were it not for the bravery of the soldhers | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
involved. One football result for you tonight: | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
At the Memorial Stadium, Brhstol Rovers were held to a goalldss draw | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
by Southend. Rovers are now 17th in the table, though, five points from | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
the drop zone. That's it from us. We'll be back | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
with you throughout the weekend but for now, the weather with S`ra | :06:31. | :06:31. | |
Thornton. Last weekend felt a bit likd summer. | :06:32. | :06:46. | |
This weekend certainly will not I chilly start of the weekend. Air | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
frost and sunspots. We will have dry weather to start but these showers | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
rack through and they could be wintry at time. The women's | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
certainly will take the edgd of the temperatures. At best, 7`8 Celsius. | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
Sunday, plenty of dry weathdr and sunshine. The wind changing | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
direction to a north`westerly. Fewer showers than tomorrow. Still fairly | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
chilly, though. you with our summary, but now, the | :07:25. | :07:37. | |
National forecast. Good evening. If you can cast your | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
mind back to this time last week, we were looking forward to sunshine and | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
warmth, we got temperatures of 0 Celsius. This weekend, it will be | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
cold and windy, with showers. We saw quite a few earlier on today, then | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
this organised band of cloud, containing gusty wind, rain, sleet | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
and snow. Some gusty wind and blustery Wayne moving east, clearing | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
out to the North Sea, and further wintry showers coming in overnight. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
It will turn quite cold, with icy conditions expected in parts of | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Wales, and into Scotland. Do not be surprised to see a dusting of snow | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
in the south-west of England, but apart from that, it is a windy | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
morning with a bit of sunshine and heavy early showers. Some showers | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
across Wales in the morning. Potential for ice in parts of Wales | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
and into Northern Ireland, and showers working in from the west, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
potential for wintry weather for | :08:45. | :08:45. |