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for the first time spotter planes find debris. That's all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Liz News at | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Liz Beacon and David Garmston. Our main | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
story tonight: A new chapter opens on the Somerset Levels. The diggers | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
arrive to dredge the rivers after the Prime Minister's promisd to stop | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
another flooding disaster. Xou are looking in, they are all happy. And, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
as help arrives, one farmer who became the face of the floods brings | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
his cattle home. We'll be asking a local MP how much protection the | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
dredging will bring and at what cost. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Our other headlines tonight: Out of the Bristol marathon ` the disabled | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
runner told she would take too long to reach the finish line. They're | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
getting married in the mornhng ` a big day for Matthew and Mikd as the | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
law allows them to tie the knot And up for an award ` the young woman | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
whose petition has changed our country. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Good evening. After all thex've been through, people living on the | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Somerset Levels have finallx got their wish ` dredging of thd rivers | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
will start on Monday. The epuipment is already in place and ready to | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
drag tonnes of silt out of the rivers so they can take a greater | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
amount of rainwater in the future. It's a remarkable victory for local | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
people who've been told in the past that dredging is undesirabld and | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
unaffordable. And the diggers have arrived just as local farmers are | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
moving their animals back home. Clinton Rogers reports. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Back where they belong at l`st. And after months battling the flood | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
waters, and losing, today J`mes Winslade couldn't be happier. It is | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
nice to see the sheds with some cattle in them now. It's bedn empty, | :01:53. | :02:07. | |
before you got any noise `` void of any noise. This was the day last | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
month when James had literally to save his cows from drowning. The | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
floods were closing in, the waters rising quicker than anyone had | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
predicted. 550 cattle were sent to farms across Somerset. Todax James | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
is trying to get his own farm back in business. But it's not e`sy. His | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
stored feed is rotten. Many of his barns need repairing. The mdss left | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
by the force of the flooding will take months to clear up And as for | :02:33. | :02:45. | |
the farmhouse, inside there is little left. When do think he will | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
be back? A year, I expect. So, like many on the Levels, he is pleased to | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
see the promise of dredging becoming a reality. Even before todax's | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
machinery moved into place the Environment Agency were carrying out | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
tests to make sure whatever they did had science behind it. This device | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
is carrying out sonar readings of the river bed, getting a picture of | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
what is down there. When yot see weather like this, when you know | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
dredging is starting on Monday, do you pray it works? Yeah, ye`h. Do | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
you think it will? I figured at will, but it's not just the | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
dredging, you need to do other things as well. Most of which is | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
contained in the recently ptblished 20`year flood prevention pl`n. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Dredging Monday will mark a new chapter in the history of the | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
levels. How will the story dnd? Well, next winter might tell. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Well, we're joined now by the MP for Somerton and Frome David He`th, who | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
was an Agriculture Minister until October last year. Is this public | :03:54. | :04:05. | |
relations problems of? It is not public relations, certainly. Not | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
entirely problem solved either. It is great news that we have | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
dredging, it's been really hard work over the last few weeks persuading a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
complete change policy from Government, but it is something some | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
of us have been saying for lany years. The dredging on its own will | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
not stop inordinate flooding on the levels. There are elements that we | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
need, like the sluice in thd River Parrett, like the process for | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
maintaining the rivers, which are not yet in place. People living | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
where you are standing, whose homes have been flooded out, must be | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
saying, why was this not done in the past? You are absolutely right. We | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
have been saying for many, lany years, we have had 20 years or more | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
were the main rivers, the Rhver Parrett, the River Tone, thdy have | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
not been dredged. That has reduced capacity. Although it will not stop | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the flooding, it means the water can get away quicker, it means the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
flooding comes on later, it does not reach us many settlements and houses | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
as it would otherwise. We c`n finally get the water pumped for | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
longer. But at what price? There is a lot more to be done. Well, I think | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
it is a price that is necessary to pay in order to maintain thhs very, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
very unusual and very precious landscape that we have down here and | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
the Somerset Levels. This is reclaim to see, not a normal flood plain. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Unless you maintain it and do these jobs, it is simply going to revert | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
to the inland sea that it once was and I don't think that is in | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
anybody's address. A coroner says the death of a | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
toddler who fell from a third floor window at a block of flats hn | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Bristol was a tragic accident. 22`month`old Muna Abdirazak suffered | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
a severe head injury and later died in hospital. The coroner sahd it's | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
likely that she climbed onto a chair and table, and then fell from the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
kitchen window while her parents were sleeping. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Police in Swindon are hunting a man who robbed a bookmaker at gtnpoint | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
this morning. Officers say he went into the shop on Regent Circus armed | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
with a hand gun just before ten o' clock. It's thought he escaped with | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
a few hundred pounds. The c`shier is said to be shaken but unharled. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Police are currently searchhng the area and reviewing CCTV footage | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
A woman who lost both her ldgs in a fire has been told she can't compete | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
in the Bristol half marathon, because she'll be too slow. Joanne | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Blinman says it's discrimin`tion. But the council, which organises the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
event, says it can't afford to keep race support in place for what might | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
be days. Basically, both my legs werd burned | :06:44. | :06:56. | |
from the toes up to my bum. Jo Blinman is inspirational. 20 years | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
ago she lost both legs and two of her children in a house fird. Yet | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
this year she wants to walk the Bristol half marathon, to r`ise | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
money for new prosthetic legs. At the moment, they are too big. I | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
would love to walk a bit more. I'm not going to walk all of thd time | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
anyway, I'm told I will havd to spend most of the time in the chair. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
But this one doesn't bend. H've sometimes got off my chair, and I | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
have smacked straight onto the floor. So, I looked like a penguin | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
when I'm walking. Jo wants to enter with friends and supporters from the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
charity Paul's Place. They `pplied for six places, but were told, no, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
they couldn't take part The Bristol Half | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
I'm quite ashamed, really, H've always been proud to be frol | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
Bristol, but I'm quite ashaled. We should be able to do everything | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
anyone else does. The Bristol half marathon is run by the City Council. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Roads need to be closed, volunteers and race officials found and | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
trained. They've offered Jo's team the chance to enter as guests, as | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
long as they put measures in place, in effect organising there `n event. | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
Because they are anticipating taking longer, they would need to be at the | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
back with the slower partichpants. They can keep going as long as the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
roads are open. After that period of time, they will need to movd onto | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
the pavement. They are conthnuing beyond that time, they need to make | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
their own provision for medhcine, water, support generally. In the | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
past, some runners in the London Marathon have taken days, even weeks | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
to complete the course. Herd, runners also need to finish within | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
24 hours now. And in Bristol these pilots wanted to carry a helicopter | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
blade round the course. Thex were asked to provide their own support | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
too Come September the 21st this year, they hope they will h`ve come | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
to a compromise with race organisers. If not, they sax they | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
will be taking part anyway. Joining us now is the founder of thd charity | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
Paul's Place, that you saw hn that report. You are obviously | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
disappointed, but rules are rules. Isn't it the case that if you can't | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
finish in the allotted time, it is fair she does not enter? No, we are | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
not all the same. They have put something in place to say you will | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
have to be the same or you can't compete. We are not all the same. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
We're not asking to compete in that amount of time, we are saying, | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
please, we will do our own health and safety, our own risk, otr own | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
insurance in place, allow us to continue until the finished. Were | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
you ever expecting stewards to be laid on? It might take a wedk for | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
her to finish, were you ever demanding a sort of things? No, | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
weird is blamed that to the council. We said we would put our own safety | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
and risks in place, but still we were not given places. You `re told | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
you can wear numbers, you c`n have medals and you can start with the | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
competitors. Does it really matter if it is not officially the same | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
event? How can that be a qu`lity? How can it be if you have a | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
disability, that you are not classified the same as anybody else? | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
That has to be wrong, it can't be right to do that. What Jo h`s | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
achieved is incredible, where are you going to go from here? We are | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
all going to take part, things are right and things are wrong. We know | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
there is always a consequence of what you do and we are prep`red for | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
whatever consequence there hs, but we will be there at the start and we | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
will finish when we finish. We wish you the best of luck, thanks for | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
joining us. We live on BBC One on this Friday | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
evening from midnight tonight, same sex couples in the West will be | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
allowed to get married, following a landmark change to the law. Despite | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
some opposition, the act was passed in the summer. Catherine Powell has | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
been to meet a couple who'll be one of the first to tie the knot under | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
the new law. Matthew and Mike have been together for 20 years, but had | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
just three months to plan their big day. So, what time are you dropping | :11:18. | :11:32. | |
off the buttonholes? I'll bd with you at 8:30. Is that OK? Th`t's nice | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
and early. They only found out in December they would be allowed to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
marry in March. Since then, everyone has pitched in. Mike's mum lade the | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
cake and the dog is the ring`bearer, if he manages not to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
eat them. When I was born, ht was illegal for men to love each other, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
be together, have committed relationships. It was impossible. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
I'm amazed at how fast equality and attitudes have shifted. The decision | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
to allow same`sex marriages has met with some strong opposition, not | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
only from religious organis`tions but from some high profile gay | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
rights campaigners who belidve marriage is no more significant than | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
a civil partnership. It's ilportant people have a choice. Not everyone | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
will want to get married and some people will prefer to have ` civil | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
partnership. Some people will prefer not to do anything and just live | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
together, and that's absolutely fine. We are a committed, long`term | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
couple. But it always helps to me that a civil partnership wasn't | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
quite equality. `` always fdlt to me. It felt a bit like saying to | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
minority communities, we don't think that marriage is appropriatd for | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
you, but we'll set up a sep`rate structure, which is almost `s good | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
and take that and be happy. More than 70 of Mike and Matthew's | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
friends will be celebrating with them tomorrow. A day they s`y which | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
has been made even more special because they'll be making hhstory as | :12:52. | :12:52. | |
they make their vows. Congratulations to them, thdy should | :12:53. | :13:08. | |
have good weather tomorrow. A group of people who've achieved | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
amazing or inspiring things are being recognised at an awards | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
ceremony in Bristol tonight ` and they're all under the age of 19 | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Among the nominees, a boy who resuscitated his neighbour `nd a | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
schoolgirl who's campaigned against female genital mutilation. Fiona | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
Lamdin is there now. Fiona. You join us at Bristol's first`ever | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Young People's Heroes Awards. The rumour is not yet full, but it will | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
be full tonight, of extraordinary people from across the city. 55 | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
people have been short listdd, from teachers, community workers and | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
youth workers. We've spent the day with a special lady called Farmar | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
Mohamed. This girl describes herself as painfully shy. But she h`s | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
gathered over ten and 50,000 signatures urging the Government to | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
help stop female genital mutilation. I met Michael Gove, I got to write | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
to all schools, I'm still in shock. In just an hour, she had convinced | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
the Education Secretary of her plan. I was incredibly impressed by the | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
passion, but also the intelligence and empathy she brings to the | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
issue. I was delighted to bd able to say that her idea that we should | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
contact every school in the country in order to make sure that children | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
are protected as one that wd are 100% behind. Just days later, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
meeting the UN secretary`general, who described Farmar as deeply | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
inspiring. Today, instead of sitting her A`level mock exam, she was | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
addressing 200 headteachers from Bristol. As for Michael Govd, if you | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
imagine the husband of Sarah Vine being faced down by five brown girls | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
in headscarves, wanting to talk about vaginas... Yeah, he rdally | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
didn't stand a chance! Her teacher was in the audience. To havd | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
achieved what she has done `t her age, I think it is mind blowing and | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
she has done it with such htmility. I think she's extraordinary. Farmar | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
is the oldest of five girls and tonight they will all be chdering | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
her on. Everybody is keen to see who has been making the decisions and | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
who will win. Brenda, tell ts what you have been involved in. Xou have | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
to decide who wins tonight? I have been helping out with the jtdging in | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
all of the different categories I have to say, it was an incrddibly | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
hard decision coming down to the final three in each group. There | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
were so many deserving young people in there. I would have loved to have | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
given them all a prize. Could you give us an idea of the rangd of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
stories you have come across? The one I am particularly interdsted in | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
was the young carers. That was very emotional, reading those stories of | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
all of the work they have done supporting their families and also | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
still going to school, in most cases. That was really, really | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
inspiring. Do you think it hs very important that young people in the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
city are recognised in this way Absolutely. We have fantasthc young | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
people living in this city `nd it's great to be able to recognise them. | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
There are so many we could do this for. It has to come down to one in | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
each category, but it has bden fantastic looking at their stories, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
reading the applications sent in on their behalf, because they did not | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
do it, somebody nominated them. It's been really good. It's just so nice | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
to be able to recognise achhevement. Brenda, your decisions have been | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
made. We will hear about it just before our late bulletin. Wd will | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
bring you the news that 10:35, telling you who the lucky whnners | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
were. It's very hard to judge who is going | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
to win these things. Everybody nominated there is definitely a | :17:16. | :17:16. | |
winner. There's been a surprise announcement | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
at Bristol Rovers today. Alh Durden is here with the sport. Ali what's | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
happened? It's a change of lanager, they don't come much bigger than | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
that. John Ward, who was in the job, has changed his role to dirdctor of | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
all. You'll be looking after scouting and that sort of thing | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
Daryl Murphy, who was his assistant, has now stepped up to do thd top | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
job. Let's tell you about who he is. 36 years of age, he arrhved at | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
the club last summer. The plan was always for him to be the manager in | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
waiting. The timing is perh`ps a bit of a surprise, with eight g`mes of | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
the season left. Rovers are just three points above the relegation | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
zone at the moment. About three four weeks ago I spoke to the ch`irman | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
and said we need to look at it now and give him the opportunitx to move | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
on, whether he is arranging preseason games, bringing players | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
in, being in charge of it, because that is what we agreed to do. I | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
think it's the right time. H am my own man, I make the decisions, | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
picking the team, formations. We don't always share the same view, | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
but that is what football is about. Managers and coaches have dhfferent | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
opinions about how the game should be played and wants to be played. | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
I'm hoping and going to bring a freshness to it, do it my w`y. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Hopefully, we will get it over the line and kick this Football Club on. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Its Daryl Clark? Lets get hhs name right! It's a bit of a gamble to | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
change at this stage in the season? It's a roll of the dice, thd players | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
know him, he's been there all year. A fresh voice in their ear can | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
sometimes make a difference. That is what they'll be hoping. He's got | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
experience of success in non`league football with Salisbury, won a few | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
promotions with him. But he hasn't done it at a foot or league club | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
before and he's got eight g`mes to make his mark between now and the | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
end of the season. The first of those is a home game tomorrow | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
afternoon, so he'll be hoping for a full house and get lots of support | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
behind Bristol Rovers. The other games, the standout porn is Yeovil | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Town's home match against B`rnsley in the Championship. `` the standout | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
one. Both of those sides ard in the bottom three at the moment. Rugby, | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
it is third against fifth in the Premiership as Bath take on Sale at | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
the Rec. Full back Nick Abendanon makes his 200th appearance hn the | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
Bath shirt. Tomorrow Gloucester visit Exeter knowing a victory would | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
see them jump above their Wdst Country rivals. On Sunday Bristol | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
host Ealing in the Championship Now, ice`hockey doesn't get too much | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
coverage in this country but the Swindon Wildcats will try to put the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
sport on the map this weekend. They've made it to the Premher | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
League playoffs. They say the sport is growing in popularity and they're | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
expecting another sell`out crowd tomorrow. | :20:08. | :20:20. | |
This is life in division two of English hockey, where the g`me is | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
still fast and physical. Thd Wildcats train at Swindon's Link | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Centre, a 1,200 seat venue. And they've been selling it out this | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
season as the game's popularity grows. Hockey is getting faster | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
every year, the imports are getting better and better every year. I m | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
sure the fans think it is gdtting better every year as well. Ht's | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
still a minority sport in this country, and so about half of | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Swindon's 18 players are part`time. But they are allowed to bring in | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
four overseas signings, frol hockey`crazy countries like Sweden. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
UK hockey has been getting bigger and bigger every year, sincd I have | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
been here. It's the third ftll year. It's been much bigger, the league | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
are starting to get better dvery year. It is on the way up to the | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
top. White The recent Winter Olympics showed off both thd sports | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
elegance and its physicalitx. And the Wildcats say life is no | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
different at their level. There are a few guys in the team that like a | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
dustup. We have seen bigger, stronger guys and because of that | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
the physicality has gone up. Personally, I quite enjoy it. Now | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
the team have the chance to make a lasting impression. After whnning | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
seven games in a row, they're into the playoff quarterfinals. We have | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
the best team we have for a few years, we have a lot of teals in the | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
league that are scared to play against us. We've got a good chance | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
to go further than we ever have To be rewarded with that at thd end of | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the season would be great. @nd they're already inspiring a new | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
generation of players. Boys and girls hoping the Wildcats sdarch for | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
a place at the final will go without any slip ups. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Ouch, that looked like it htrt! No pain, no gain. We will definitely | :22:16. | :22:27. | |
bring you the rugby results later on. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
If you were with us last night, you'd have seen some schoolchildren | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
having a go at doing our jobs. In fact, they were so good we've got | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
more tonight! It's all part of the BBC's School Report and in tonight's | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
film, pupils from Somervale School in Midsomer Norton have been | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
investigating their town's links with the First World War. | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
Here at Somervale School, wd have been researching the historx of | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
World War I in our local arda. We were very interested to find out how | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
it affected people in Midsoler Norton. We went down to the local | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
war memorial to meet an historian who used to work at our school. | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Midsomer Norton lost 172 soldiers. There is one chap on there, he used | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
to come up through the High Street on his horse and cart, sellhng fruit | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
and vegetables. Then he had to go to the war. One year later, a lan who | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
knew him from Midsomer Norton went to talk to him, just as a Gdrman | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
soldier came and put a bayonet through him. It's awful to think | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
that a man who was just an hnnocent chap, delivering fruit, shall, | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
within a year, be wearing a uniform and being killed. Once we found out | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
about the soldiers on the mdmorial, we wanted to know about the war they | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
fought in. Did all of the pdople come to the war together or was it | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
separated? They went over a period of four years. At the beginning a | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
lot of them did go together because they belonged to the Territorial | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Army. In other words, they were not professional soldiers. Therd were | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
sent out to India. Another thing that was different was our school. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
This site was used as a trahning ground and headquarters, solething | :24:15. | :24:14. | |
that we are never going to forget. Well done to the team of Colby, | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
Molly, Lucy, Billy and Ted from Somervale School. And, of course, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
the boys and girls behind the scenes that made it happen. They also did | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
some filming behind the scenes and spoke about what it was likd to be a | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
reporter. You can find that on the Points West Facebook page. @nd if | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
you want more of an inside view of what it's like for us to work here, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
have a look at the Twitter `ccount, @Bristol52, where Anthony W`rd, one | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
of our cameramen has been tweeting all week. It is well worth ` look. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Let's find out what the weather has in store. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
A pleasant weekend on offer. It is one that will be under a lot of hazy | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
sunshine. That is the point to stress first of all. Don't dxpect | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
the skies. There will be a lot of high cloud around that will temper | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
the sunshine to varying degrees Once we clear brain out of the | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
district 's first thing on Saturday, aside from the low chance of one or | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
two showers creeping back in at the very tail end of Sunday, thdy are | :25:20. | :25:31. | |
surrounding a dry weekend. Puite a lot of heavy showers still with us | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
currently. There is a poll of all text `` polar vortex out here, and | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
that will affect parts of Ireland, rather than us. You can see little | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
kinks in it coming into the south`west. We think that is go to | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
stay far enough out towards the West that it is not going to thrdaten our | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
district with anything in their way of rain or particularly thick cloud. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
We'll start with temperaturds tonight. Suffice to say the showers | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
that some of you have, and some of them are still heavy, some potent | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
thunderstorms in Gloucester, that will drift away. They dry nhght | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
following, temperatures fivd or seven Celsius should be fairly | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
typical. I first light tomorrow morning, quite a lot of clotd around | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
associated with this front, that is starting to grow. It bizarrd that | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
heads up towards the west, so fairly quickly during the morning ht will | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
start to brighten up and thdn we are in to this day with a lot of high | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
cirrus cloud around. You will notice the wind speed, it will be ` breezy | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
day. That is not going to t`ke the shine of things in terms of the feel | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
of things, as it will be noticeably milder, if not warm. Temper`tures | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
should get into the mid`teens. There could be some spots where you get | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
high as 1617 Celsius, something in that sort of order. Another mild | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
night as we head through into Sunday. Sunday started a sililar | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
fashion to where we left thhngs on Saturday, hazy sunshine arotnd. A | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
dry dry day on offer. Not as breezy, at least not quite so breezx. If | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
anything, it will feel any bit as warm, if not warmer still. By then, | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
temperatures will be more whdely 16 or 17 Celsius. Some spots, parts of | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Gloucester and Wiltshire, gdtting closer to about 20 Celsius. A great | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
weekend for anything that you're doing outdoors. We keep those | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
temperatures into next week, but the return of heavy showers and | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
thunderstorms for Monday. A similar pattern through Tuesday. Thdre will | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
still be drier and sunnier interludes as well. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
I'm looking forward to 16 and 1 . Pretty impressive. A quick tpdate | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
before we go, a 25`year`old man has been arrested on suspicion of armed | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
robbery after that incident at the bookmakers in Swindon. | :27:48. | :27:48. |