:00:09. > :00:14.Good evening. As we have bedn hearing, the Prime Minister has
:00:15. > :00:16.spent the day campaigning in the West Country. David Cameron visited
:00:17. > :00:20.Chippenham and Wotton`under`Edge before heading to the outskhrts of
:00:21. > :00:24.Bristol for an election rally. Last time, his party won three of the
:00:25. > :00:26.South West's six seats in the European Parliament, but thd
:00:27. > :00:31.Conservatives fear they'll lose out this time to UKIP. Our political
:00:32. > :00:35.editor Paul Barltrop has bedn following the PM.
:00:36. > :00:38.First stop Chippenham and a big photo opportunity. Everything was
:00:39. > :00:48.carefully controlled ` except the weather. Hello. Thank you for coming
:00:49. > :00:51.out in the rain. He hopes to win over Eurosceptics in both the
:00:52. > :00:56.population at large and his own party. I won't be Prime Minhster
:00:57. > :01:02.after the next election unldss I can be absolutely certain that there
:01:03. > :01:05.will be an in out referendul. Location mattered ` Chippenham will
:01:06. > :01:08.be a key battle ground in ndxt year's general election. So, too,
:01:09. > :01:11.his next stop ` the Stroud constituency, and a tour of
:01:12. > :01:14.engineering firm Renishaw. He wanted to focus on the country's good
:01:15. > :01:21.economic prospects but at a question`and`answer session the
:01:22. > :01:31.first topic was UKIP. Two words Nigel Farage. First question, how
:01:32. > :01:39.worried are you about him and his future? Nigel Farage. Two words I
:01:40. > :01:42.was thinking of other two words you could have said! His challenge ` to
:01:43. > :01:49.persuade people he'll keep this referendum pledge. You have made a
:01:50. > :01:55.pledge to hold a referendum. But you made a pledge before and broken it.
:01:56. > :01:59.I don't accept that. I made a pledge that while we had a Lisbon Treaty,
:02:00. > :02:04.we should have a referendum on it. By the time I became a minister it
:02:05. > :02:08.was no longer a treaty. His day in the West ended with a rally. The
:02:09. > :02:13.activists' mood was upbeat, but they know UKIP's advance could htrt them
:02:14. > :02:18.in next year's general election Of course, it hurts me if people don't
:02:19. > :02:22.vote Conservative. That is the only way in the end you can secure a
:02:23. > :02:27.continuation of our economic plan and recovery and the only w`y that
:02:28. > :02:31.you can secure that in out referendum on Europe. Let's fight,
:02:32. > :02:37.and win. He left, having pepped up his troops for the final two hard
:02:38. > :02:40.weeks of campaigning. Has Mr Cameron lifted what could be
:02:41. > :02:46.seen as poor morale amongst his troops here? Mr Cameron was in
:02:47. > :02:51.unflinching mood. They went down very well. Those activists will go
:02:52. > :02:56.home feeling that they can campaign with renewed vigour. But will people
:02:57. > :03:01.listening from outside the hall the liking what they are hearing? Sale
:03:02. > :03:12.how real is the UKIP threats to the Tories People's vote? The area is
:03:13. > :03:19.the heartland for the Tory party. `` for the UKIP party. So it is a real
:03:20. > :03:22.challenge for the Conservathves At the last general election, the
:03:23. > :03:27.Tories got three and the reckoning that they will lose what `` one of
:03:28. > :03:31.those on the 22nd of May. Btt more important is what happens ndxt year.
:03:32. > :03:36.In the general election, thdy need every vote that they can get. They
:03:37. > :03:39.are where the UKIP will erode their vote.
:03:40. > :03:46.And you can get full details for the European and local elections by
:03:47. > :03:49.heading to the BBC News website Onto other news.
:03:50. > :03:52.There's been a call today for an urgent parliamentary debate over the
:03:53. > :03:55.future of the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in
:03:56. > :03:57.Somerset. Bridgwater MP Iain Liddell`Grainger told the Commons
:03:58. > :04:00.assurances were needed over the ?16 billion deal the government signed
:04:01. > :04:03.with EDF. It follows warnings from legal experts that the contract
:04:04. > :04:13.could breach EU rules on st`te subsidies. Hinkley point is
:04:14. > :04:16.massively important to this country. It can produce a massive amount of
:04:17. > :04:19.LH is massively important to this country. It can produce a m`ssive
:04:20. > :04:22.amount of religious team nedded for the security of energy supplies
:04:23. > :04:26.Could we have time to debatd this? It has to be pushed forward because
:04:27. > :04:30.if we don't, we will have the lights going out in the future. In
:04:31. > :04:33.response, the Leader of the Commons, Andrew Lansley, said he would raise
:04:34. > :04:37.the issue with the Energy Sdcretary Ed Davey.
:04:38. > :04:41.Bristol Rovers have sacked their director of football, John Ward He
:04:42. > :04:44.joined the club for the second time as manager in 2012 but handdd over
:04:45. > :04:48.the reins to Darrell Clarke in March. Rovers managed just two wins
:04:49. > :04:50.in eight games after the ch`nge and were relegated from the Football
:04:51. > :04:54.League at the weekend. And Bristol Rovers' manager Darrell
:04:55. > :04:57.Clarke is on Twentyman Talks Back on BBC Radio Bristol tomorrow night
:04:58. > :04:59.from 6pm. The pioneering Bristol spacd
:05:00. > :05:04.scientist Professor Colin Phllinger has died. The 70`year`old stffered a
:05:05. > :05:08.brain haemorrhage. Born in Kingswood, he worked for NASA and
:05:09. > :05:12.went on to lead the attempt to land a probe on Mars. He has nevdr been
:05:13. > :05:23.forgotten by his west country friends. We lit one of his
:05:24. > :05:27.experimental rockets at the bottom of the garden there. It blew up
:05:28. > :05:31.Parts of it caught collars hn the eye, hence the sky `` the scar which
:05:32. > :05:34.he carried for the rest of his life. One of the most important events in
:05:35. > :05:37.the world equestrian calend`r got under way in Gloucestershird today.
:05:38. > :05:40.The Badminton Horse Trials sees horses and riders from across the
:05:41. > :05:44.world ` including former Olxmpic champions ` competing over four
:05:45. > :05:46.days. It also means a lot to local businesses, with over 100,000
:05:47. > :05:49.spectators expected to bravd the testing weather conditions.
:05:50. > :05:52.It has just been announced that Metallica will headline this year's
:05:53. > :05:56.Glastonbury Festival. It'll be the first time the US band has played at
:05:57. > :06:00.the event in Somerset and they'll be the only heavy metal band to have
:06:01. > :06:03.taken top billing. Arcade Fhre and Kasabian have also been confirmed
:06:04. > :06:14.for the three`day festival held at Worthy Farm in June.
:06:15. > :06:16.That's it. There is more news on the BBC website. We will be back
:06:17. > :06:26.tomorrow. Now, the weather. An improved story tomorrow. A great
:06:27. > :06:32.deal of sunshine and for most of you, a dry day. Having said all of
:06:33. > :06:41.that, it will be breezy and quite windy. It will remain breezx tonight
:06:42. > :06:46.but mild. There will be somd further showers, particularly in thd Irving
:06:47. > :06:51.`` early hours. You can see there are a few showers about tomorrow
:06:52. > :06:57.morning. They die away. Thex will be replaced with dry weather. Ht will
:06:58. > :07:02.continue like that with a low chance of a shower. Most areas will remain
:07:03. > :07:08.dry, sunny. Moderate pollen count and UV levels will be quite high.
:07:09. > :07:19.Cloud will thicken up after dark. They could be more rain overnight
:07:20. > :07:23.into Saturday. It should be a very pleasant afternoon. Looking beyond
:07:24. > :07:27.that, there will be further rain on the way. Quite heavy on Sattrday.
:07:28. > :07:30.The rest of Saturday, brighter spells and heavy showers. Shmilar
:07:31. > :07:32.story for the course of tomorrow and through
:07:33. > :07:46.the weekend as well. The evening. Hello there. Fancy escaping the rain
:07:47. > :07:54.this weekend? We will be looking at the weather further afield in a
:07:55. > :07:57.moment. Another area of low pressure out here is lined up to the weekend.
:07:58. > :08:00.There will be some sunshine in between. Overnight tonight, most of
:08:01. > :08:01.the