:01:02. > :01:35.The last time the Prince of Wales came to Muchelney, he had to get
:01:36. > :01:43.here by boat. You see that field over there? That was two metres deep
:01:44. > :01:47.in water when we were last here. It is very different today. This is a
:01:48. > :01:53.wedding venue that I am talking to you from now and it was a venue
:01:54. > :01:59.badly affected by the flooding. It is now bone dry, as indeed the whole
:02:00. > :02:03.of Muchelney. The village is open for business. Prince Charles came
:02:04. > :02:07.here this afternoon and visited this wedding venue. He met the people who
:02:08. > :02:11.ran it and we will be talking to them in a second. He met a lot of
:02:12. > :02:16.other people as well making good his promise that he would come back to
:02:17. > :02:19.see how they were coping, to see how the village had recovered and to see
:02:20. > :02:25.what was being done to make sure that flooding didn't happen again.
:02:26. > :02:31.He wasn't just Muchelney that the Prince of Wales came to. It has been
:02:32. > :02:36.a busy day. Earlier today he was in Glastonbury helping to fly the flag
:02:37. > :02:40.for Somerset tourism. The royal visit coincided with market day in
:02:41. > :02:47.Glastonbury. A chance for an informal walkabout and maybe pick up
:02:48. > :02:55.a bargain. Organic veg much cheaper than yours. She didn't make the
:02:56. > :03:01.sale. There was largely a warm welcome for the future King. He is,
:03:02. > :03:07.says this man, one of us. We like him as a person and we like what he
:03:08. > :03:13.stands for. He is an alternative royal family member. Among those
:03:14. > :03:21.introduced was the founder of Glastonbury Festival. There has been
:03:22. > :03:27.much talk of Prince at Glastonbury but not this one. Did you invite
:03:28. > :03:32.this to the festival `` did you invite him to the festival? He has
:03:33. > :03:37.already been. Camilla is coming next year. Let us hope she remembers her
:03:38. > :03:44.wellies. There was a business edged this visit to help boost tourism
:03:45. > :03:48.which was why he was shown around Glastonbury Abbey, a hidden jewel in
:03:49. > :03:55.the heart of Somerset. They tried to bring history to life here `` they
:03:56. > :04:02.try to bring history to life here. It attracts thousands of visitors a
:04:03. > :04:10.year but it has suffered due to the floods. We lost around 25% in the
:04:11. > :04:22.first quarter of 2014 due to the floods. This is a royal dog? Am most
:04:23. > :04:27.definitely. Royalists came today in all shapes and breeds. Future King.
:04:28. > :04:33.We have to come and see him. Then it was onto a railway station where the
:04:34. > :04:38.Prince met a royal mother who had good reason to remember her train
:04:39. > :04:43.journey during the floods. My waters had broken. This little guy was
:04:44. > :04:48.eager to appear but not so eager that he appeared on the train. He
:04:49. > :05:00.hung on until we made it back to Bristol. Prince Charles left on the
:05:01. > :05:06.train to Paddington and yes, it was bang on time. That wedding venue
:05:07. > :05:13.that was badly affected is back in business. Angela, it was a torrid
:05:14. > :05:25.time. What did it mean to you today to have him here? It was a boost to
:05:26. > :05:31.everybody and he kept his promise. It was lovely to have him and he is
:05:32. > :05:37.a charming man. Do you feel he was pushing for things to be done? He is
:05:38. > :05:43.concerned about everything that was happening here. Paul, you help run
:05:44. > :05:50.the business. It was a terrible time for you. You lost weddings. It was
:05:51. > :05:53.hard times but we are back on the road to recovery and we are hoping
:05:54. > :05:59.that messages for people to come back to some set and come and see
:06:00. > :06:03.how nice the places. We wish you well. That was the message from the
:06:04. > :06:07.Prince of Wales today, not just for this venue but for the whole of
:06:08. > :06:14.Somerset. It is dry now. Somerset is back in business and open for you.
:06:15. > :06:17.The inquest into the death of a teenager from Wiltshire who was
:06:18. > :06:20.killed by a polar bear on a school trip to the Arctic Circle has been
:06:21. > :06:24.Michael Reid said he'd tried to shoot the bear
:06:25. > :06:26.as it attacked Horatio Chapple but the rifle wouldn't fire.
:06:27. > :06:32.Our correspondent Sarah Ransome has been listening to the evidence.
:06:33. > :06:40.The expedition leader told the coroner 's Court this morning what
:06:41. > :06:43.happened on that morning of the 5th of August three years ago when the
:06:44. > :06:48.polar Bear rampaged through the camp that they had set up on this remote
:06:49. > :06:56.glacier near the Arctic Circle. He said he woke early to a bear attack
:06:57. > :06:59.in the tent nearby. He picked up the rifle and rushed out of the tent and
:07:00. > :07:05.when he got outside he saw a polar bear mauling one of the group who
:07:06. > :07:09.was still in his sleeping bag. He said he tried repeatedly to shoot
:07:10. > :07:15.the rife `` the animal but the rifle didn't work. The bear turned on him
:07:16. > :07:21.and it tried to gouge his eyes out. Eventually the pair turned away and
:07:22. > :07:26.he managed to shoot it. The court heard from the other leader who was
:07:27. > :07:32.also attacked by the bear. He said he was thrown to the ground by the
:07:33. > :07:36.bear and he came face to face with it as its paws on his shoulder and
:07:37. > :07:41.its claws were swiping across his face. Both of them also talked about
:07:42. > :07:47.the safety precautions around the camp and Michael admitted he knew
:07:48. > :07:50.the camp had been supplied with a faulty tripwire system but said he
:07:51. > :07:55.was very happy with the modifications the group had made
:07:56. > :07:58.using a paperclip and said if he wasn't he wouldn't have gone to bed
:07:59. > :07:59.the night before and after he checked it. The inquest is due to
:08:00. > :08:02.last until the end of the week. A Somerset MP has been talking
:08:03. > :08:05.about how she was sexually abused Tessa Munt, who represents Wells,
:08:06. > :08:09.says she's gone public to try to help other victims,
:08:10. > :08:12.after the government announced it She is rarely without a smile
:08:13. > :08:19.but this was different as Tessa Munt talked on camera for the first
:08:20. > :08:25.time about what she had suffered. This was something to happen to me
:08:26. > :08:28.in my teenage years over a period of years but it is something I
:08:29. > :08:31.didn't speak about until I was in my early 30s when I was expecting
:08:32. > :08:35.my first child. I understand, absolutely, how
:08:36. > :08:38.difficult it is to live with that It is immense pressure and you can't
:08:39. > :08:51.live with yourself because you feel Elected in 2010, she has campaigned
:08:52. > :09:02.on child protection issues and once worked with ChildLine and hopes her
:09:03. > :09:08.openness will help others. It is something in my history and I
:09:09. > :09:14.hope it makes me a better MP, I hope it makes me more able to
:09:15. > :09:17.understand how people feel I understand what it is
:09:18. > :09:21.like to feel like a victim. I don't feel like one now and that
:09:22. > :09:25.is the thing that I can offer, that there is hope to come out of that
:09:26. > :09:31.state and become yourself again. Yesterday, MPs were told there will
:09:32. > :09:34.be two reviews investigating child abuse and whether
:09:35. > :09:39.the authorities covered it up. I was a child
:09:40. > :09:42.and it took me 20 years to actually speak out about what has happened
:09:43. > :09:45.but this is not about me, it is about the victims of what
:09:46. > :09:50.happened over the loss of documents, the shredding of evidence,
:09:51. > :09:58.the destruction of evidence. That is important that
:09:59. > :10:00.the independent panel focuses If not, testament won't hesitate
:10:01. > :10:09.to once again speak out. You're watching Points West,
:10:10. > :10:15.nice to have you with us. And there's plenty still
:10:16. > :10:17.to share with you.We meet the athlete from Bath hoping
:10:18. > :10:20.to fire her way to European glory. And maybe it's always been rather
:10:21. > :10:23.British to talk about the weather ` the diary of
:10:24. > :10:26.a west country vicar who had a thing People living or working in and
:10:27. > :10:54.around Weston Super Mare are in for a bit more disruption on the roads
:10:55. > :10:57.at the busy junction with the M5. Work to improve and re`surface the
:10:58. > :11:00.area went on for most of last year. But now, it seems, there's
:11:01. > :11:16.a problem with the new surface and It was expensive and it caused a
:11:17. > :11:22.headache. The ?15 million Western package involved a whole load of
:11:23. > :11:27.improvements to make it easier for people to get in and out of the
:11:28. > :11:31.town. Now everyone agrees the destruction and the cost was worth
:11:32. > :11:38.it. Those long jams here are a thing of the past. Now bits of it need to
:11:39. > :11:43.be redone. It is not something you would noticed just driving around
:11:44. > :11:46.the roundabout and the slip roads but there was a problem with the
:11:47. > :11:49.road surface here. The council have known about the problem since the
:11:50. > :11:52.work was finished back in February but they have been waiting for the
:11:53. > :11:58.better weather in the summer to have it put right. The problem seems to
:11:59. > :12:02.be that the surface was laid in June the appalling wet and cold weather
:12:03. > :12:09.of last winter but it will now be put right with the contractors, not
:12:10. > :12:13.the council footing the bill. It is not embarrassment at all. We will be
:12:14. > :12:18.criticised if we didn't expect `` inspect the roadworks and finish the
:12:19. > :12:23.job properly. We have won a major award from the Institute of civil
:12:24. > :12:28.engineers last Friday for our work on the Western package. It has been
:12:29. > :12:32.a huge success. Resurfacing work will be carried out over night this
:12:33. > :12:37.week to avoid too much destruction to motorists and by the weekend it
:12:38. > :12:38.is hoped it would be over and done with and the road problems can
:12:39. > :12:45.finally be laid to rest. Warnings about the use
:12:46. > :12:47.of a drug which is prescribed for back pain are being changed
:12:48. > :12:50.following a 20 year campaign Ron Sheppard developed chronic
:12:51. > :12:54.problems after being given And he's finally convinced
:12:55. > :13:00.the world's biggest pharmaceutical company,
:13:01. > :13:02.Pfizer to change their guidance. Here's our
:13:03. > :13:05.Health Correspondent Matthew Hill. Even feeding the birds is
:13:06. > :13:07.a challenge for Ron Shepherd who suffers
:13:08. > :13:10.from severe pain throughout his body, a condition which he claims
:13:11. > :13:13.was caused by a series of epidural injections for back pain that he was
:13:14. > :13:20.given almost 30 years ago. I was screaming out in pain and the
:13:21. > :13:26.doctor told me to stop being a baby. The drug should be used
:13:27. > :13:29.for joint pain but it is not Mr Shepherd says over 2 million
:13:30. > :13:34.people have his condition and many of them develop the symptoms after
:13:35. > :13:39.being given the spinal injection. It is something he says he warned
:13:40. > :13:44.the government about 20 years ago. It was just ignored,
:13:45. > :13:47.which is a shame because more people have had this because of that
:13:48. > :13:52.and it has cost the country It is not licensed
:13:53. > :13:59.and that is a tragedy for people who are going into
:14:00. > :14:03.hospital to have these injections Mr Shepherd recently discovered that
:14:04. > :14:13.guidance has changed in New Zealand to say that it must not be used
:14:14. > :14:17.at all of epidurals. He then told the Royal College
:14:18. > :14:19.of Anaesthetics about this and they recently changed their
:14:20. > :14:25.guidance in line with New Zealand. In a statement,
:14:26. > :14:27.Pfizer have confirmed they have submitted label changes to
:14:28. > :14:43.the regulatory authorities. This drug has never been licensed
:14:44. > :14:47.for epidural use but doctors do have the clinical freedom to use it
:14:48. > :14:50.if they think it will help. Mr Shepherd used to manage Norman
:14:51. > :15:00.Wisdom, a career which came to an He now hopes,
:15:01. > :15:08.with the change in labelling, others Great Britain's modern pentathlon
:15:09. > :15:18.team has made its way from Bath to Hungary for this week's
:15:19. > :15:20.European championships. While the limelight might be on the
:15:21. > :15:25.former world champion Mhairi Spence, or the Olympic silver medallist
:15:26. > :15:29.Samantha Murray, there's one name we should all be looking out for,
:15:30. > :15:33.as Jenna Hawkey's been finding out. Being good
:15:34. > :15:36.at one sport is hard enough but Kate French represents Great Britain
:15:37. > :15:39.in a sport that comprises five French is the rising star of modern
:15:40. > :15:45.pentathlon, something she has been I started shooting
:15:46. > :15:51.when I was five years old Since then, the 23`year`old who
:15:52. > :15:57.trains at the University of Bath has become the highest
:15:58. > :16:03.ranked pentathlete in the UK. You won't hear her shouting
:16:04. > :16:06.about it. She is known among her teammates
:16:07. > :16:10.as the shy and quiet one. A lot of people say there is
:16:11. > :16:13.good and bad things from it. Because I am chilled, I can stay
:16:14. > :16:16.relaxed, especially for the shoot. Modern pentathlon involves running,
:16:17. > :16:22.swimming, shooting, fencing and showjumping
:16:23. > :16:25.and having Olympic medallist Samantha Murray in the squad makes
:16:26. > :16:35.training even more intense. It gets tough sometimes because you
:16:36. > :16:37.are fighting for the same spot but it keeps everyone on the edge
:16:38. > :16:41.and it keeps the standard higher. She has strength in her mindset
:16:42. > :16:43.and she works hard. I think she will be one of
:16:44. > :16:47.the athletes aiming to get qualified Great Britain's women will be
:16:48. > :16:55.defending their 2013 team title at the European Championships which
:16:56. > :16:58.starts on Thursday but with Olympic qualification up for grabs, French
:16:59. > :17:01.will have their sights set on individual glory
:17:02. > :18:45.and making that first step towards done much of this before? Some of
:18:46. > :18:49.the team had not done mountaineering before so it was a training period
:18:50. > :19:00.that we have gone through to get some experience up to one and a half
:19:01. > :19:07.years before we went. We had a rehearsal expedition. That looks
:19:08. > :19:13.like bright sunshine. One of the two days when the sun was shining. What
:19:14. > :19:19.does it leave you with having done it? Is there a gap where the sense
:19:20. > :19:24.of adventure used to be? We have been back ten days now and back into
:19:25. > :19:30.the normal training within the army. We are pretty busy from now on. Has
:19:31. > :19:34.it added something to your life? It has been a huge experience in terms
:19:35. > :19:42.of leadership and all the way through. It is thoroughly enjoyable.
:19:43. > :19:50.Are these things worthwhile doing? You are not likely to meet and Emily
:19:51. > :19:57.up the mountain `` an enemy of the mountain. It tests the rifle man
:19:58. > :20:01.right down to the basic skills of looking after yourself. Also there
:20:02. > :20:06.is teamwork and it is a great experience to enhance the way we do
:20:07. > :20:13.our job. Adam has had to sit in arctic gear in our studio. It is
:20:14. > :20:15.pretty warm. Now you see what we have to go through every day! You
:20:16. > :20:19.can sympathise. Now there was a rather unusual
:20:20. > :20:21.awakening for people living South Singers,
:20:22. > :20:25.violinists and even a brass section climbed aboard hot air balloons and
:20:26. > :20:28.filled the morning sky with music. Our reporter Scott
:20:29. > :20:33.Ellis joined them. A dawn chorus with a difference
:20:34. > :20:39.near Chew Valley Lake. The Avalonian Free State Choir
:20:40. > :20:44.in tune on terra firma. But what about hitting
:20:45. > :20:59.the high notes airborne? Can you sing and fly at the same
:21:00. > :21:06.time? We will find out soon. We will sing as well as we will fly. I am
:21:07. > :21:08.worried that it might fall off and be lost forever. I hope my boat
:21:09. > :21:10.doesn't catch fire. Local balloonist Rob Bayly
:21:11. > :21:26.and conductor Charles Hazelwood Will the music continued to cohere
:21:27. > :21:31.when they start to go adrift. Probably not. It may be magical.
:21:32. > :21:55.Music and a view. What more could you want? I played much better than
:21:56. > :21:57.I have ever played before. Leaving pilots hankering
:21:58. > :22:10.for a big band. It would be great. Maybe we could
:22:11. > :22:17.have a band at the balloon Fiesta. This is all part of a rehearsal
:22:18. > :22:21.for an opera at the Bath and West Raising money
:22:22. > :22:24.for Somerset flood victims. Mind you, that didn't stop the odd
:22:25. > :22:39.amateur from bursting into song. That is a wake`up call. Better than
:22:40. > :22:44.an alarm clock. Ian will be here with
:22:45. > :22:46.the forecast in a moment, but do you know what the weather was
:22:47. > :22:50.like in Bath 250 years ago? Well a new diary has been discovered
:22:51. > :22:53.which chronicles the city's forecast It was written
:22:54. > :23:14.by a little known Rector of This is an unusual notebook. An
:23:15. > :23:22.unlikely history of back from 250 years ago. We think the weather
:23:23. > :23:27.diary was kept by the Rector of Bath at the date the diary was kept. The
:23:28. > :23:38.reason we think that was if we turn the volume around, this end contains
:23:39. > :23:42.a record of the income of Bath Abbey at the same date. We think he was
:23:43. > :23:46.keeping a record of the income at one end and using it for a weather
:23:47. > :23:52.diary at the other end. Very little is known about the author of this
:23:53. > :23:57.notebook. No picture has so far been discovered of the reverend but his
:23:58. > :24:06.words have left are valuable mark on Bath's historical canvas. It was a
:24:07. > :24:11.cold, wet and disagreeable day. Very heavy rain which began very early in
:24:12. > :24:16.the morning and continued almost the whole day. It would be lovely to
:24:17. > :24:23.know more about his circumstances and find out a bit more about his
:24:24. > :24:30.life. We know so little about him. 1759, the weather for this week past
:24:31. > :24:34.as being uncommonly severe, occasioned by a strong, sharp
:24:35. > :24:38.north`east wind which has Rover `` frozen river so hard that the people
:24:39. > :24:46.have walked over it in great numbers for three days past. Reverend Taylor
:24:47. > :24:51.kept a journal from 1756 to 1761 and it is now being rediscovered in Bath
:24:52. > :25:00.in North East Somerset Council's archives. Painting a picture of the
:25:01. > :25:06.skies above Bath 250 years ago. My late father did that for 20
:25:07. > :25:11.years. Every single day. I think we will keep that now because one day
:25:12. > :25:16.it might be a thing of history. In those days, the weather was even
:25:17. > :25:25.more important. When did records begin?
:25:26. > :25:29.It demonstrates the things that are described there. The extremes are as
:25:30. > :25:45.norm as we see now. Some of you have seen some lively
:25:46. > :25:48.weather today. Thank you to my crew took this beautiful picture of the
:25:49. > :25:56.sudden thunderstorm over Weston`super`Mare earlier today. We
:25:57. > :26:01.are not going to see that tomorrow. It will be a dry day throughout,
:26:02. > :26:08.breezy through the afternoon but noticeably warmer than today. The
:26:09. > :26:14.radar as some intense echoes of the Northern Somerset. The shells have
:26:15. > :26:25.been fading through the evening. `` the showers. It leads us into a dry
:26:26. > :26:32.night and as we had through the night, high`pressure develops and
:26:33. > :26:36.you shouldn't see any showers tomorrow. This warm front will
:26:37. > :26:45.introduce more higher Josh Moffett I Clyde tomorrow and for Thursday it
:26:46. > :26:51.will introduce some rain. `` this warm front will introduce more
:26:52. > :26:57.higher cloud tomorrow and for Thursday it will introduce some
:26:58. > :27:02.rain. Temperatures tonight around tensile see us. Tomorrow, really it
:27:03. > :27:07.sets up a story of light winds through the morning which will get
:27:08. > :27:10.brisker as the afternoon wears on. Generally a fair amount of sunshine
:27:11. > :27:19.around with variable amounts of cloud. Strong UV levels with a
:27:20. > :27:26.moderate pollen count. Temperatures up on today. It will turn more
:27:27. > :27:32.unsettled towards the end of the week.
:27:33. > :27:39.That picture was phenomenal. That is it from us for now. Things are
:27:40. > :27:44.changing a little bit later because of the football. The late news is on
:27:45. > :27:47.very late. If you can stay up for that. I will see you at lunchtime
:27:48. > :27:54.tomorrow. This is the first example we know of
:27:55. > :28:05.of infrared communication. Imagine if you could
:28:06. > :28:07.talk to the animals. Zoologist Lucy Cooke
:28:08. > :28:13.is going to show us how. This is the first example we know of
:28:14. > :28:17.of infrared communication. This is amazing.
:28:18. > :28:20.So this is a dolphin greeting? Are you telling me we're really
:28:21. > :28:27.going to speak to a firefly?