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More on that and all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Young farmers in the West say they're being priced | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
out of agriculture and those already in the industry | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
An acre is worth more than ?10, 00 in some areas ` | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
the price driven up by demand from developers and investors. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
It's been a hot topic of discussion this weekend, | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
There's no shortage of youngsters wanting to get into farming. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
The problem is the land which they want to work is soaring in price. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Sally Phillips farms near Ilminster, where an acre of farmland has | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
We are what we called land locked because we have got neighbouring | :00:43. | :00:55. | |
farmers who are bigger than us by land next to ours. We have dasily | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
had a couple of plots of land being sold to travellers and they have put | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
planning permission in for housing. Land prices are rising by | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
about 7% a year, driven up by bids from property | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
developers, investors and f`rmers If you're a young farmer | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
about to inherit land, no problem. It makes it very difficult for young | :01:16. | :01:27. | |
people to get into farming. They need a lot of capital upfront to buy | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
land. Tenancies are rare th`n few land. Tenancies are rare th`n few | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
and far between so renting land is quite difficult from a young person | :01:35. | :01:35. | |
to get into it. Somerset's young farmers | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
want more share farming. That means they work someond | :01:42. | :01:42. | |
else's land and split the profits. It's an idea that | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
landowners are keen on. Him eight B of an age where he no | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
longer wants to do the 18 hours `` he might be of any age rain or | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
longer wants to do the 18 hours a day. Young farmers are quitd | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
longer wants to do the 18 hours a day. Young farmers are quite rightly | :02:03. | :02:02. | |
day. Young farmers are quitd rightly willing to do that. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
The Government says it wants farming to be an inspirational caredr choice | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
for young, talented people and welcomes a Common Agricultural | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
Policy reform which will pay more to young farmers in | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
The M5 in Gloucestershire is partly closed | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
No cars are travelling southbound from junction 7 all the way to | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
It's been causing some delays tonight. | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
A man's been arrested after hundreds of homes werd | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Bomb disposal experts were called to Cassell Road | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
in Fishponds where a parked car had been doused in petrol. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
A 42`year`old man was arrested in Emersons Green on suspicion | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
of causing a bomb hoax and is now being questioned. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
It's been a successful weekdnd for Britain's rowers | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
at the European Championships in Belgrade, with two gold ledals | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Olympic Champion Helen Glovdr added the European title to her tally | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
And in the prestige men's four, Gloucestershire's Alex Gregory also | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
He now holds current National, European, World and Olympic titles. | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
It is really nice to come and prove to ourselves that what | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
And the times have been pretty competitive with the rest | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
We can only come and race who is here. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Something to improve on, but something... | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Pete Reed in the men's eight came away with a bronze. | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
Finally, Bristol's Park Street was turned into a pop`up park today | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Another Special Sunday for the city ` no cars allowed | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
and families were able to enjoy games, music, arts and crafts and | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
It was a chance to celebratd the city, and give traders | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
an opportunity to showcase what the area has to offer. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
We do have rather changeabld weather with us for the week ahead. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
Tonight, we have got some rain around as well. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
Clouding over everywhere and some outbreaks | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
of rain arriving from the Wdst during the early hours of tomorrow. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Temperatures dropping no lower for most places than 11 or 12 ddgrees. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
It will be quite a cloudy start possibly some mist | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Also outbreaks of rain around in the morning. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Into the afternoon, turning a little more showery. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
Some drier, possibly brighter weather by the end | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
of the day and temperatures tomorrow still reaching up to 18 degrees. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
It is set to cool off by the middle of the week. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Tuesday is quite cloudy with a scattering of showers. | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
We could see some heavy showers on Wednesday and a few more showers | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Finally to the BBC's World War One At Home coverage. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
We'll be looking at life back here in the West | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
On BBC Wiltshire tomorrow morning and here on Points West, | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
we'll be looking at the importance of Salisbury Plain | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Troops from all around the world have made use of the area, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
and we'll be seeing how thex've left their mark over the years. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
That and more in the week to come ` that's all from me though ` | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Hope you had a nice weekend, it was a warm and sunny one across central | :05:00. | :05:15. | |
and eastern areas. A different story out west with signs of change. It | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
will be a different week this week with some rain around. Some sunshine | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
too. For a time, it will feel a good deal | :05:25. | :05:26. |