17/06/2014 BBC Points West

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Six months after the Somersdt flooding, MPs say not enough money

The report is highly critic`l of the lack of work to stop thd floods

and says more needs to be done to prevent a repeat of the dis`ster.

The Select Committee is worried that funding for river maintenance is

MPs warn that dredging along here at Moorland needs to be dond year

after year and not just in response to a crisis.

Farmers need a better deal too, say MPs.

John's grass may be green but prolonged flooding leavds

It is very coarse, the leavds haven't got any sugars in them.

The Select Committee says f`rmland need better production from flooding

and isn't just sacrificed to save urban areas further downstrdam.

We have been the cheap option up until now.

Now that is acknowledgement that the land is worth something

and it produces food, it has a business value.

I think that can only be a good idea coming forward.

The government says it is spending more than ?3 billion on flood

Will it be enough to stop flooding in the West this coming winter?

A question bidders will be `sking themselves at auction tomorrow

when this three bed bungalow with three three acres

I don't see a problem with anticipating good interest to

the bungalow because of the opportunity it presents itsdlf to

somebody who is thick`skinndd about what might happen in the future

It has happened the last two years running.

Mr Cameron is the Prime Minhster and what he says goes.

We are going to spend a fortune on this before it happens again

The reality is the house has gone unrepairdd

Cash buyers only and ones that believe DEFRA,

A teenager who's living hundreds of miles away

from her Gloucestershire hole so she can be treated in psxchiatric

units says her condition has worsened because of the isolation.

Layke Smith suffers from an eating disorder and also self`harms.

Here's our health correspondent Matthew Hill.

The last time Layke Smith s`w her family was three months ago. That is

because she has moved to another psychiatric hospital hundreds of

miles from her Gloucestershhre home, this time in Stevenagd. When

she first started self harmhng three years ago, Layke had to stax in

psychiatric units in Birmingham and Manchester. She feels the isolation

has not helped her condition. I think it is important that helping a

mental illness or mental he`lth difficulties coming you shotld not

have to choose between eithdr getting treatment and being near a

family. It is every parent's instinct, if you have a distressed

call from your child, you would want to say, I am on my way, I whll be

there. It is not something xou can do. You hang up the phone and feel

helpless and it is upsetting to think of her, so far away, xet you

can't reassure her with your presence. The nearest speci`list

beds are in Bristol but those are for local patients. Not for

youngsters from Gloucestershire NHS England, which is in charge of these

specialised services, is carrying out a review. In a statement they

say that every effort is made to treat patients close to homd, but in

urgent cases this is not always possible. Health bosses in

Gloucestershire say demand for these services needs to be looked at as a

priority. Until they are, then families will still have thd

emotional turmoil not only of serious mental illness to ddal with,

but also very little contact with their loved ones.

The region's cider makers are being urged to sell more ovdrseas.

It?s after a West Country producer signed a big deal with an Atstralian

Our business correspondent Dave Harvey reports.

A lesson in Somerset cider for an Australian brewer. Tim `` Thm Cooper

has just signed a deal to sdll Martin Thatcher's cider for ten

years. People are more discriminating about what they are

drinking. They are not just drinking gallons of beer or lager, they are

now trying different beers, they drink ale and stout and dark ales.

Somerset still has the heritage That is the home of cider from our

point of view. This thoroughly traditional industry is thrhving.

Last week that showed's thrdw a party. Prince Edward and thd

counters of ethics opened a ?3 million plant. They now makd 60

million pints of cider a ye`r, employ 100 people. The Australian

deal has turned even experidnced heads. It is very rare to fhnd

something that has anything more than transactional deals th`t are

based on demand. To sign a contract that has ten years' life in it with

a great Australian brand is almost unprecedented. So today, cider

makers from across the country gather here in Bristol for what they

are calling the cider trends summit, it is packed at the bar here

and they are not talking about just selling to Britain but to the whole

world. Australia, where next? Australia is about as far as you can

go from Somerset, I think. So probably somewhere closer to home,

maybe China at sometime in the future. Sandford to Shanghah? Why

ever not? Newsnight has started on BBC Two.

There is more news on the BBC website. We are back in bre`kfast

tomorrow but for now, the l`test weather with Jemma Cooper.

Hello, plenty more sunshine to come, but tomorrow a little cloudx. There

will be a few showers in thd frontal system pushing through tonight, but

sunny spells will break through later on. With high pressurd in

charge until the end of the week it is this system that dominatds. We

have a few showers overnight and into tomorrow morning and a few

during the course of Wednesday. For most of us it is a dry, bright,

sunny and pleasantly warm story The frontal system pushes through

tonight. It leaves cloud in its wake for tomorrow morning and a few

showers coming down from thd north. Some of the hot air that is

generated tomorrow will perhaps create thunder in the afternoon The

north`easterly breeze lessons tomorrow. 22 or 23 Celsius hs

achievable in the June sunshine Remaining settled until the end of

the week. Dry and sunny. I leave you with the

days, a dip in temperature Friday with warmer temperatures over the

weekend. The main theme through this week is

one of mainly dry weather but with important variations from place to

play sand from day-to-day. That was the case again today. A sizzling day

across parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. Plenty of sunshine. Not 1

million miles away, down across the border into northern England, a lot

more cloud and some places struggled to get higher than the mid-teens.

This is where the thickest of the cloud