:00:11. > :00:12.Good evening. Families of the four On BBC Two in a few moments, the
:00:13. > :00:15.Good evening. Families of the four missing sailors in the Atlantic
:00:16. > :00:18.Ocean are waiting anxiously at home tonight for news of their loved
:00:19. > :00:21.ones. The US Coast Guard's resumed the search today after an online
:00:22. > :00:29.petition and mounting presstre from the UK government. Among those
:00:30. > :00:32.missing are Paul Goslin and Stephen Warren from Somerset. Stephdn's
:00:33. > :00:42.sister, Kay Coombes, joins ts now from her home in Bridgwater. How are
:00:43. > :00:47.you feeling at the moment? Ht's been a very long day today. However, we
:00:48. > :00:51.have achieved something tod`y so it has all been worthwhile. It started
:00:52. > :00:56.very early this morning with interviews and things. The petition
:00:57. > :01:01.numbers have gone up enormotsly so we have done our job today, but I am
:01:02. > :01:12.exhausted now. Is there angdr that valuable time has been wastdd? To
:01:13. > :01:16.some extent, however, we can't change what is in the past, we can
:01:17. > :01:20.only look to the future and what is happening now. Have you had any
:01:21. > :01:29.indication of how long the TS Coast Guards are prepared to search this
:01:30. > :01:34.time? No. However, they havd got a further meeting planned in London
:01:35. > :01:51.with the ministers on Thursday, so we are hoping to hear more then I
:01:52. > :01:55.think at the meeting, they were confirming the US have started
:01:56. > :02:01.searching again and they were talking a bit about logistics and
:02:02. > :02:05.who else is involved and thd Canadians I think I've got ` plane
:02:06. > :02:09.up there helping asked. There are various boats out in the se` as
:02:10. > :02:12.well. It was very positive, what came out of that meeting thhs
:02:13. > :02:16.afternoon. I know you're yot're hopeful of a positive outcole but
:02:17. > :02:21.are you prepared of the prospect of bad news? We are very realistic
:02:22. > :02:25.about the chances, however, we haven't given up hope yet and the
:02:26. > :02:30.public have not given up hope either. We are all rooting for them
:02:31. > :02:38.and people out there are looking for them, so there is a small chance.
:02:39. > :02:41.Labour's campaign in one of the West's crucial electoral battle
:02:42. > :02:46.grounds has been dealt a blow by their own leader. Ed Miliband was
:02:47. > :02:49.interviewed by Ben Prater on BBC Wiltshire's breakfast show this
:02:50. > :02:52.morning but twice he wronglx suggested that Labour ran Swindon
:02:53. > :03:02.Borough Council and didn't `ppear to know his party's local leaddr.
:03:03. > :03:06.What do you make of Jim Grant? I beg your pardon? Jim Grant. Do xou think
:03:07. > :03:10.he's done a good job? I think that lots of Labour representatives are
:03:11. > :03:15.doing a good job right across the country and... You do know who Jim
:03:16. > :03:19.Grant is, Mr Miliband? Well, you will enlighten me, I am surd.
:03:20. > :03:23.Swindon Labour leader. Yeah, I think he's doing a good job and I think...
:03:24. > :03:27.Do you feel like you support him enough if you don't even know his
:03:28. > :03:31.name? Well, he's doing a good job as leader of the council, Jim hs, and I
:03:32. > :03:35.think that's the case. I me`n, it's Swindon Labour leader. Do you think,
:03:36. > :03:39.by your comments now, peopld might be a bit perplexed by why you
:03:40. > :03:43.wouldn't know who Jim Grant is? No, I'd know that Jim is doing ` good
:03:44. > :03:47.job for Swindon and I think he's doing a good job as leader of the
:03:48. > :03:50.council. But he's not the ldader of the council, is he, Mr Miliband
:03:51. > :03:54.It's a Conservative`led council I think he's doing a good job for
:03:55. > :03:57.Labour on the council. OK. He's doing a good job for Labour on the
:03:58. > :04:03.council. Our political editor, Paul Barltrop,
:04:04. > :04:06.joins us in the studio. Mr Liliband has apologised but how damaging is
:04:07. > :04:12.this for the party ahead of the elections. It's difficult bdcause of
:04:13. > :04:19.the place it has happened. Swindon is a key contest between Labour and
:04:20. > :04:29.Conservatives. It is only a majority of one in it. It wasn't good. Having
:04:30. > :04:37.said that, I talked to the other parties today. No one will lake
:04:38. > :04:42.great political capital out of this. The man himself, Jim Grant, is
:04:43. > :04:46.remaining philosophical abott it. I have spoken to Ed this morning. He
:04:47. > :04:50.apologised for the, obviously, lack of briefing that he had, but I think
:04:51. > :04:53.these things happen and I don't think it's going to affect the
:04:54. > :05:00.elections in any way, shape or form on Thursday.
:05:01. > :05:06.Two days before voting starts. Has campaigning stepped up a ge`r? It is
:05:07. > :05:14.at full throttle. Council elections, people out on the streets. But the
:05:15. > :05:20.real challenge is for the c`ndidates in the European elections. We are in
:05:21. > :05:24.this big South West constittency and six MEPs get elected. It is really
:05:25. > :05:28.hard. They are trying to get the public infused but it is not
:05:29. > :05:34.surprising that the public `re not too enamoured with politics at the
:05:35. > :05:40.moment. I am doing a protest vote. Too much interference in thhs
:05:41. > :05:45.country by outsiders. It dods interest me. I have looked `ll the
:05:46. > :05:54.television broadcasts. It doesn t matter who it is they are all the
:05:55. > :06:00.same. It is all a bit higgledy`piggledy. Everybodx who
:06:01. > :06:02.says they will do this and that never does what they say thdy will
:06:03. > :06:17.do. And Ben Prater will be back with the
:06:18. > :06:19.Breakfast Show on BBC Wiltshire tomorrow as will we here on BBC One
:06:20. > :06:36.from 6:30. Wednesday will bring a good deal of
:06:37. > :06:43.dry weather a bar and blue skies. Conversely, if you showers will
:06:44. > :06:51.develop. Tonight, a pretty puiet affair but cooler than of l`te. Mist
:06:52. > :06:54.and fog patches around. That won't last very long. Good deal of
:06:55. > :06:57.sunshine around first thing in the morning and then steadily through
:06:58. > :07:01.the course of the asked anile, clouds will increase from the
:07:02. > :07:10.south`east. That will start to usher in one or two showers. Many areas
:07:11. > :07:18.remained dry. Temperatures tomorrow, 18 or 19 Celsius. Thursday, on the
:07:19. > :07:25.other hand, will start on a wet note. First light, heavy, thundery
:07:26. > :07:29.rain. Heavy, thundery showers as well. I'm settled through the
:07:30. > :07:30.weekend and looking a heavy showers but also sunny spells.
:07:31. > :07:42.Maybe some showers for the weekend. Good evening, yet again we are
:07:43. > :07:45.finishing the day with some thunderstorms clustered across parts
:07:46. > :07:51.of Cumbria, some torrential downpours at the moment, and flashes
:07:52. > :07:56.of lightning. Along the front of this weather system, showers have
:07:57. > :07:58.developed. They are pushing their way northwards, and will continue to
:07:59. > :07:59.do