:00:00. > :00:00.degrees. A bit of cloud and the risk of a few showers. That's all
:00:00. > :00:12.The Labour leader gets in a muddle during a radio hnterview
:00:13. > :00:27.I know he is doing a good job for Swindon, as leader of the council.
:00:28. > :00:31.But he is not the leader of the council. Why his mistake matters in
:00:32. > :00:45.this crucial electoral battle ground.
:00:46. > :00:48.With the local elections on Thursday we'll be assessing the statd
:00:49. > :00:53.The Somerset yachtsmen lost at sea ` Britain's top sailor welcomds
:00:54. > :00:59.If they are out there in thd liferaft there is a chance of
:01:00. > :01:04.survival. The funeral today of the actor
:01:05. > :01:06.Chris Harris, his family put on a show to make
:01:07. > :01:18.sure that he's leaving us sliling. The West has been awarded sdven gold
:01:19. > :01:22.medals in total, and a Best in show. We meet the producers who got that
:01:23. > :01:24.award in a moment after I h`ve done my tomatoes.
:01:25. > :01:28.The exhausting pace of the local election campaign took its toll
:01:29. > :01:32.on the Labour leader Ed Milhband today when he made a series of
:01:33. > :01:37.Appearing on the Breakfast programme on BBC Wiltshire Mr Miliband seemed
:01:38. > :01:40.to think Swindon council is run by Labour, it's actually controlled
:01:41. > :01:45.And to add to the confusion Mr Miliband couldn't name
:01:46. > :02:04.What do you make of Jim Grant? I beg your pardon? Has he done a good job?
:02:05. > :02:10.Lots of labour representatives are doing a good job across the country.
:02:11. > :02:17.You do learn love it is? Yot enlighten me, I'm job. Swindon
:02:18. > :02:21.Labour Leader. Will he feel support a minute if you don't know his name?
:02:22. > :02:28.He is doing a good job leaddr of the council and I think that is the
:02:29. > :02:34.case. As Swindon Labour Leader, G think people might be perpldxed why
:02:35. > :02:39.you wouldn't know who he is? Here's a doing a good job for Swindon, as
:02:40. > :02:45.leader of the council. But he is not the leader of the council. Ht is a
:02:46. > :02:47.Conservative lead counsel. He is doing a good job for Labour on the
:02:48. > :02:50.council. Let's join our political edhtor
:02:51. > :02:52.Paul Barltrop who's What's been the response from Labour
:02:53. > :03:04.in Swindon? This is such an important place for
:03:05. > :03:08.Labour, not just the council contest where the last election thex just
:03:09. > :03:12.got five seats less than thd ruling conservatives, but also anndxed
:03:13. > :03:15.years general election. It hs important, let's talk to thd man
:03:16. > :03:19.himself, Jim Grant. You are the leader of the Labour group, not of
:03:20. > :03:26.the council will stop are you ashamed, you embarrassed? It was
:03:27. > :03:31.slightly unfortunate what h`ppened, but I am impressed the presdnters or
:03:32. > :03:35.need to tell people who I w`s not of his leaving I am well known amongst
:03:36. > :03:40.the people Swindon and Wiltshire. Have you been told what went wrong?
:03:41. > :03:45.I have spoken to him, he apologised for the lack of briefing. These
:03:46. > :03:49.things happen. I don't think it is going to affect the elections in
:03:50. > :03:55.anyway, shape or form on Thtrsday. Why hasn't he come campaignhng here?
:03:56. > :03:57.He has been here before, he came in 2011, of Italy there are eldctions
:03:58. > :04:04.all over the country, he can't be everywhere. This could be a golden
:04:05. > :04:07.opportunity for Labour's opponents will stop there is a degree of
:04:08. > :04:11.sympathy for is we have hardwood with the Green party and thd
:04:12. > :04:16.Conservative leader of Swindon borough council. When you are a
:04:17. > :04:19.party leader you will on thd top rung and you are expected to know
:04:20. > :04:24.everything. I have a degree of sympathy, but given Swindon is
:04:25. > :04:28.apparently a target for thel, I would have thought he would have
:04:29. > :04:32.known some of the key facts. I did feel for him but when you are going
:04:33. > :04:38.on the media, on a radio, and I m relatively new, you do your
:04:39. > :04:41.probation, Evander in advance, your bullet point of Italy and when you
:04:42. > :04:49.don't knows thing say you don't know. The politicians are working
:04:50. > :04:54.very, very hard at the moment. I have been chatting to some of the
:04:55. > :04:56.Euro election candidates, the whole south`west is one large
:04:57. > :04:59.constituency, they have been training up and down the region
:05:00. > :05:02.working very hard indeed. N`tional politicians, Parliament is on a
:05:03. > :05:06.break, they can come out calpaigning as well. It is tough work. Hf people
:05:07. > :05:09.like party leaders are getthng in the middle, it is perhaps not
:05:10. > :05:11.surprising the public are not to engage with this election. They
:05:12. > :05:15.should be a referendum for Durope. Two days before 46 million Britons
:05:16. > :05:29.can go to the polls, a chance to The European and local election
:05:30. > :05:31.candidates outnumber the audience will stop it seems there is little
:05:32. > :05:36.public enthusiasm for these elections.
:05:37. > :05:38.Nearby a large reminder to Bristol's somewhat cynical electors.
:05:39. > :05:42.Politicians say it's not for want of trying.
:05:43. > :05:52.Tim Minchin to fears by outsiders. `` too much interference. It doesn't
:05:53. > :05:58.matter who it is, they are `ll the same. I am from India but moved to
:05:59. > :06:02.decade ago. I know the elections are very important. It is all a bit
:06:03. > :06:07.higgledy`piggledy. What of, who to vote for. Nobly does what they say
:06:08. > :06:12.when they get in. Politicians say it's not for want
:06:13. > :06:22.of trying. immigration and Britain's place
:06:23. > :06:25.in the EU. UKIP are making many headlines,
:06:26. > :06:35.sometimes to the frustration It does make a hard, it has been
:06:36. > :06:39.easy in the past when we have been in opposition. This is what gets the
:06:40. > :06:43.political blood coursing through the veins, it is what I enjoy about
:06:44. > :06:46.politics, being pushed to the limits, having to defend wh`t we
:06:47. > :06:51.stand for, having to communhcate to the public properly. This one is
:06:52. > :06:55.very different because if you give, they have stirred up a storl of it
:06:56. > :07:05.is really unhappiness and discontent. It exquisitely talking
:07:06. > :07:06.to people to talk them down for Mac. This is having some interesting
:07:07. > :07:09.dynamics. more interviews, but maybe
:07:10. > :07:18.no gaffes, until Thursday. We did invite onto this programme
:07:19. > :07:20.but he wasn't available. And for full details
:07:21. > :07:22.of the elections, including a full list of candidates standing
:07:23. > :07:25.in the European ballot, look on More tests are to be carried out
:07:26. > :07:35.on the body of a man who was found dead at his home
:07:36. > :07:39.in Bristol, after the post lortem He'd been assaulted
:07:40. > :07:46.and the property burgled. Police haven't confirmed
:07:47. > :07:49.if the two incidents are linked They want to talk to four mdn who
:07:50. > :07:53.were seen wearing hooded tops Police in Bath are searching
:07:54. > :07:59.for a man who ran off after the car he was in hit
:08:00. > :08:03.a teenager leaving the 19`ydar`old It happened near
:08:04. > :08:07.the Homebase car park in thd city at A 29`year`old man has been `rrested
:08:08. > :08:11.and released on police bail but officers are still searching
:08:12. > :08:15.for a man in his 30s who was thought The family of a man from Stroud
:08:16. > :08:20.killed after he was hit by ` train, have called him
:08:21. > :08:22.a 'fantastic husband and father ' Paul Martin, seen here with his
:08:23. > :08:26.wife, was 37 and had a young son. His wife's expecting
:08:27. > :08:30.their second child. He was riding his motorbike over
:08:31. > :08:32.the Frampton Mansell crossing British Transport Police
:08:33. > :08:41.are still investigating. Search and rescue teams
:08:42. > :08:43.from the United States Coastguard are this evening heading back out,
:08:44. > :08:49.into the Atlantic Ocean, to resume their search
:08:50. > :08:51.for four missing British yachtsmen. Two of those, Paul Goslin and
:08:52. > :08:56.Stephen Warren, are from Solerset. Their boat, the Cheeki Rafiki,
:08:57. > :09:01.got into trouble five days `go, halfway between the Caribbe`n
:09:02. > :09:04.and the Azores. Nothing has been heard
:09:05. > :09:08.from them since last Friday. After searching more than 4,000
:09:09. > :09:10.square miles, on Sunday, thd Since then,
:09:11. > :09:16.the men's families have been An online petition gathered nearly
:09:17. > :09:23.200,000 signatures and this afternoon,
:09:24. > :09:25.their efforts were rewarded, as the US coastguard bowed to pressure
:09:26. > :09:30.and said they would search `gain. Clinton Rogers has been
:09:31. > :09:38.following developments. Eventually I spoke to simplx quite
:09:39. > :09:44.high up in the Coast Guard. All day the family have been
:09:45. > :09:47.keeping up the pressure. Phoning anyone who'll listen,
:09:48. > :09:48.begging And this afternoon they got
:09:49. > :10:01.the news they worked so hard for . MPs have held, governed dep`rtments,
:10:02. > :10:06.thank you everyone. We have all pulled together and look wh`t we
:10:07. > :10:11.do. We have changed America's mine. Belief and disbelief, that, they
:10:12. > :10:15.have confirmed a claim will be up in an hour, it was believed news.
:10:16. > :10:19.Paul Goslin and Stephen Warren were part of a crew of four sailing
:10:20. > :10:26.All contact with their boat Cheeky Rafiki was lost on Friday, ` day
:10:27. > :10:31.The US coastguard scoured the ocean for two days then called
:10:32. > :10:39.Peter and Zara Davis know what the families must be going through.
:10:40. > :10:42.12 years ago they had to be rescued from the Atlantic when
:10:43. > :10:49.They say if the men got into a liferaft it's perfectly
:10:50. > :11:00.If they got into the liferaft, and if they were prepared that H would
:11:01. > :11:04.say there is a fair chance they would still be alive. We ard hoping
:11:05. > :11:08.and praying, along with the rest of the country, and their friends and
:11:09. > :11:11.family, that they are OK, and I still think they have got hope.
:11:12. > :11:15.Last night prayers in the vhllage of West Camel for two men wdll known
:11:16. > :11:21.Today it seems the prayers of the relatives have been `nswered
:11:22. > :11:29.The search will resume, though no`one is underestim`ting
:11:30. > :11:34.the scale of the task ahead in locating the men.
:11:35. > :11:39.There are so many unknowns, there is a long way to go in terms of finding
:11:40. > :11:43.the sailors in her `` such ` huge area for stop if they are ott there
:11:44. > :11:46.in the liferaft there is a chance of survival. Whilst there is a chance
:11:47. > :11:51.we should be out there searching for them. We have to be realisthc, I
:11:52. > :11:55.would love them to go home safe I hope that is what will happdn. We
:11:56. > :11:59.are all praying for that. It has gone now, they have been in the
:12:00. > :12:02.water long time. If they ev`cuated the yacht, they are all
:12:03. > :12:08.experienced, my husband is trained. They would all be, they would have
:12:09. > :12:09.taken on extra visions. All the experts are saying they could be
:12:10. > :12:12.alive. The next few days will be critical
:12:13. > :12:26.deciding whether this story has We just hope so, of course. You can
:12:27. > :12:33.keep up to date with this ddveloping story throughout the evening. In our
:12:34. > :12:38.late bulletin we will be talking to life to Steve Warren's sistdr. The
:12:39. > :12:45.country really is collectivdly just praying,, as we heard in thd report.
:12:46. > :12:49.We will stay across it. Coming up a bit later
:12:50. > :12:51.in the programme: The incredible letters
:12:52. > :12:55.and diaries found by a son, And West Country champions `t
:12:56. > :13:00.Chelsea, as once again our growers A funeral service has been held
:13:01. > :13:09.for a Gloucestershire teenager who Tributes were paid to Kaylehgh`Ann
:13:10. > :13:15.Palmer, who was 16 years old. She was attacked when she w`s five
:13:16. > :13:18.months pregnant and her boyfriend A plan to build homes
:13:19. > :13:30.in a Gloucestershire valley made famous by writer and poet L`urie Lee
:13:31. > :13:32.is being scrutinised. Last year,
:13:33. > :13:34.developer Gladman had a bid thrown out to develop part of the Slad
:13:35. > :13:38.Valley near Stroud which was loved An inspector is expected to take
:13:39. > :13:43.eight days to rule on the plans for 112 houses on two fields
:13:44. > :13:49.off Summer Street. One of the West's best`loved actors,
:13:50. > :13:51.writers and directors was remembered in true
:13:52. > :13:56.pantomime style today in Bath. Chris Harris,
:13:57. > :14:00.who died recently at the agd of 71, starred in and co`wrote the
:14:01. > :14:02.Christmas productions at Brhstol's And it was here that friends
:14:03. > :14:08.and family took to Ali Vowles was
:14:09. > :14:17.in the audience to watch thd magic. This was a funeral wake
:14:18. > :14:21.like no other, look at this. On stage actor Clive Mantle
:14:22. > :14:27.and Chris Harris' two sons Sam and Matt performing a classic h`rris
:14:28. > :14:37.sketch, it brought the housd down. They called this very speci`l
:14:38. > :14:44.tribute a jollification, Here's vicar and family fridnd, Nev
:14:45. > :14:50.the Rev, on Chris finding hhmself in Being Chris, being professional he
:14:51. > :15:04.sung happy birthday, Betty Windsor. Actor Clive Mantle learnt the tricks
:15:05. > :15:16.of the panto trade when he played Come, show your knick`knacks with
:15:17. > :15:23.me. I would share them with anybody. Set of my life is like the juiciest
:15:24. > :15:26.Wimbledon half volley for md to drop volley back.
:15:27. > :15:28.Chris's career spanned decades, from serious actor,
:15:29. > :15:33.But it was his in`depth knowledge of pantomime that made him
:15:34. > :15:35.an expert and one of Britains best loved dames.
:15:36. > :15:39.His sidekick and prodigy for many of the 15 pantos performed hn Bath
:15:40. > :15:46.was Jon Monie. Every panto trick in the book was used today
:15:47. > :15:51.An extra event. A great sendoff for a great man.
:15:52. > :15:54.Every panto trick in the book was used today
:15:55. > :15:57.in such style, here are his young grandsons up on stage to
:15:58. > :16:07.He would have loved it, he should have been here. Wonderfully fitting
:16:08. > :16:12.for an extra ordinary man who just gave so much to theatre. He brought
:16:13. > :16:24.so much joy to people every year. We brought children, grandchildren We
:16:25. > :16:28.would be so proud of him. One last standing of a. I think everxbody who
:16:29. > :16:33.has been here today will agree it has been the most special
:16:34. > :16:44.celebration for a very funnx man who meant so much to so many people
:16:45. > :16:49.I still use a Chris Harris lied when I say bye to my children. Knighted
:16:50. > :16:53.IT, pyjama pyjama. 50 years after his father dhed,
:16:54. > :16:57.a Cheltenham man has uncovered the diaries he'd written during his time
:16:58. > :17:00.fighting in the first world war The fragile papers are part
:17:01. > :17:04.of an archive left by William Roberts who fought with
:17:05. > :17:29.the Durham Light Infantry. fought to the last in the l`st and
:17:30. > :17:36.well embankments. Sergeant Farley was wounded. Just a few words in his
:17:37. > :17:39.diary read over a century l`ter by his son in Cheltenham. The written
:17:40. > :17:43.after the heat for would have been an intense battle. He had gone into
:17:44. > :17:49.it knowing he might have to fight to the last. And so having dond so but
:17:50. > :17:53.survived, he reportedly lost. That is the mind of a man clearlx
:17:54. > :17:57.prepared to die for his country And this is the little book that is so
:17:58. > :18:02.delicate. In brackets he has written taken prisoner, 27th of May, 19 8.
:18:03. > :18:07.In tiny, neat handwriting hd used whatever paper he had to recall his
:18:08. > :18:13.experiences. At frog and sn`il soup. . At least they were given
:18:14. > :18:17.food, and they patched up. Xou might think he was treated badly. Other
:18:18. > :18:22.entries are stark and painftl, like the loss of a friend. Might average
:18:23. > :18:27.of 38.2 in the evening, Thorpe very much worse and died in the ward
:18:28. > :18:32.during the night. He being next to me, I did not get much sleep, until
:18:33. > :18:39.he fell into a peaceful sledp, and died of doctoral. It is livhng proof
:18:40. > :18:44.here is a man who actually did see active service in the Great War and
:18:45. > :18:48.a dance me it is my father H am talking about. He came out just
:18:49. > :18:52.before Christmas, 1918, he has got gunshot wound in the left knee,
:18:53. > :18:56.never disability, defective eyesight, he doesn't mention the
:18:57. > :19:01.fact he was severely handic`pped by mustard gas poisoning for stop later
:19:02. > :19:07.in life he developed emphysdma, a shot his lungs. It is prettx
:19:08. > :19:10.poignant. It is. I think thdre but for the sake of a couple of inches
:19:11. > :19:16.of bullets, I might not be having this interview with you herd now.
:19:17. > :19:25.It only scratches the surface of the diary. He has written across it
:19:26. > :19:29.killed in action, September 191 . Which is where my father was
:19:30. > :19:32.wounded. For his son, there are tangible and emotive account of how
:19:33. > :19:37.his father to five Quetta m`ny others felt. `` survived whdn so
:19:38. > :19:42.many others fell. There'll be more stories from
:19:43. > :19:45.our World War One At Home sdries In the meantime you can explore
:19:46. > :19:55.the BBC's World War One website It's a landmark for the
:19:56. > :20:14.Great Crane Project at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge
:20:15. > :20:16.in Gloucestershire. The chick is being hand reared
:20:17. > :20:23.and will hopefully be released onto time it was such a momentous
:20:24. > :20:26.occasion Stephen Fry was twdeting about it.
:20:27. > :20:29.The West's gardeners are celebrating after taking a clutch of medals
:20:30. > :20:33.Today was the first chance for the public to take
:20:34. > :20:43.Our reporter Andy Howard has been to meet some of the winners.
:20:44. > :20:49.There aren't many vegetable patches in the world as good as this. South
:20:50. > :20:56.West in Bloom celebrated 50 golden years with gold, and Best in show as
:20:57. > :21:03.well. In the centre of London and Ireland dedicated to the West
:21:04. > :21:10.Country. The success of the beetroot and tomatoes success `` shocked
:21:11. > :21:16.Terry. We really can talk to each other for a few minutes, we just sat
:21:17. > :21:19.back and looked quietly. If you don't aim high, you will not get
:21:20. > :21:27.time. We didn't expect to achieve it. There's been a lot of h`rd work,
:21:28. > :21:31.a good team that has done it. After 25 years of trying, these
:21:32. > :21:39.climbers from Clevedon finally brought gold. It is just as well,
:21:40. > :21:45.really. If we hadn't half ott gold this year award to have dislantled
:21:46. > :21:48.the stand at dismantled `` chucked them and Chelsea Bridge. Five more
:21:49. > :21:54.gold medals followed from botanic miseries Imogen, to Somerset's bulbs
:21:55. > :22:00.and conifers plans. And who knew we were expert bonsai. Swindon and
:22:01. > :22:03.Shepton Mallet, the best prtned of the bunch. The crowds have swelled
:22:04. > :22:09.to date to see these wonders from the West, 160,000 people will be
:22:10. > :22:15.here this week. They were qteueing for the champagne and Pimms bar at
:22:16. > :22:19.nine o'clock this morning. Outside, and the show gardens are a different
:22:20. > :22:23.world. Only seven designers have the chance this year. So step b`ck and
:22:24. > :22:30.relax in this Renaissance g`rden. Designed in Gloucestershire. It took
:22:31. > :22:38.18 days to build. Since Chelsea last year I have made gardens and
:22:39. > :22:50.everybody wants to be at Chdlsea. The first of the build, I'm almost
:22:51. > :23:03.disbelieved it can happen and, that is huge.
:23:04. > :23:16.Once again our local growers have proved they are up there with the
:23:17. > :23:22.very West. This is suggesting it was modelled on him? That is my sort of
:23:23. > :23:29.garden. Not sure about back. All day you have been kind enough to send us
:23:30. > :23:33.your photos. They are on our Facebook page. Last night wd had
:23:34. > :23:50.storms. People sending in dramatic
:23:51. > :23:56.photographs. About quarter to nine last night we got this picttre. Look
:23:57. > :24:03.at the circulation base of this clown. I tweeted his picturd and it
:24:04. > :24:07.went worldwide, people describing it as a Spielberg spite which hs an
:24:08. > :24:12.adequate description. If yot ever have interesting photos to send them
:24:13. > :24:20.in. I will do my best to re`tweet them. There will be a good deal of
:24:21. > :24:23.blue sky tomorrow, a dry dax for the majority, at least, until wd get
:24:24. > :24:28.later on into the afternoon, evening. Once again, it will be
:24:29. > :24:31.returning to some comparatively won conditions will stop that is
:24:32. > :24:37.courtesy of a week, temporary ridge of high pressure that will kill off
:24:38. > :24:41.the showers. You will noticd out towards the south`east, if H run the
:24:42. > :24:46.sequence through to was the overnight period, the next `rea of
:24:47. > :24:49.concern comes out of the ne`r continent so that by around daybreak
:24:50. > :24:52.on Thursday morning, we could be left with this scenario, a lot of
:24:53. > :24:57.heavy, thundering rain stretching from Cornwall up to the north`east
:24:58. > :25:02.of England which means we whll be slap bang in the middle of ht. The
:25:03. > :25:07.Met office has put a warning out for that. They will be refined tomorrow,
:25:08. > :25:15.don't take the little posithon. It will clear away on Thursday. No
:25:16. > :25:21.concerns for this evening, ` good deal of fair weather about, we
:25:22. > :25:27.continue with a quiet story overnight. That of Mr Rand, a few
:25:28. > :25:37.spots. Neville concerns for top ten bridges will be a fair bit down on
:25:38. > :25:41.some recent nights. Tomorrow we start on a fair note. Gener`lly a
:25:42. > :25:44.good deal of sunshine. As wd run three to was the afternoon, there
:25:45. > :25:56.will be a steady increase in high and medium cloud. Many area still
:25:57. > :25:59.drive. As we get later into the evening some of the showers could be
:26:00. > :26:04.a bit more widespread. Likely to come that the further west. That is
:26:05. > :26:16.opening the door to developlents on Thursday. This is having through the
:26:17. > :26:20.rest of the week for. I am not sure I would feel about Spielberg sky
:26:21. > :26:26.above my house. We will stax across to rescue operation looking for the
:26:27. > :26:29.lots and `` yachtsmen. The Kos garbage be reaching the surgery
:26:30. > :26:32.within the hour. Where there is life, there hs hope.
:26:33. > :26:51.The act. Some people don't think real change
:26:52. > :26:56.in Europe is possible. Some people don't think real change
:26:57. > :27:00.is necessary. Some people don't think
:27:01. > :27:03.it's worth fighting for. But we want to make Europe work
:27:04. > :27:06.for Britain, and give you the final say
:27:07. > :27:11.with an in-out referendum in 201 . have made Britain's economy
:27:12. > :27:16.stronger and more competitive. a record number of people in work.
:27:17. > :27:22.And we're predicted to be the fastest-growing economy
:27:23. > :27:26.in the G7 this year.