:00:00. > :00:55.The headlines: Everybody out, thousands of public sector workers
:00:56. > :00:58.prepare for tomorrow's day of action. The cyclist who fell into
:00:59. > :01:02.the Bristol docks. White officials decided not to put up safety
:01:03. > :01:06.railings. And going where humans fear to tread, the West Country
:01:07. > :01:17.drawn inside a Japanese nuclear disaster zone. Good evening. A lorry
:01:18. > :01:25.has burst into flames on one of Bristol's busiest roads just as the
:01:26. > :01:28.city was gearing up for rush`hour. Eyewitnesses say they heard three
:01:29. > :01:42.big explosions. There are no reports of any casualties. Andrew Plant is
:01:43. > :01:46.at the scene. Some of the recovery trucks, they have got a bigger
:01:47. > :01:50.scripting stuff off the road. You can see what a massive job they have
:01:51. > :01:56.got ahead of them. The lorry has melted itself into this road. It is
:01:57. > :02:00.one of the busiest arteries in and out of the city. At this time of the
:02:01. > :02:03.issued be completely busy but the police have spent the last few hours
:02:04. > :02:07.clearing cars often either way of what you can see is that some of the
:02:08. > :02:12.roads either side are still blocked with cards. Problems for people
:02:13. > :02:15.getting in and getting home from Bristol. The driver spoke to us
:02:16. > :02:20.earlier, he said he had seen the fire in his rear`view mirror. He
:02:21. > :02:23.tried to tackle it with a fire extinguisher but realised it was too
:02:24. > :02:28.big and too quick. His car go probably added to the problem
:02:29. > :02:31.because he was carrying candles and wood covered in resin. That was
:02:32. > :02:38.highly flammable. Luckily, he was not harmed. I looked in my mirror
:02:39. > :02:47.and I saw smoke. I thought I would get out the cab and try my best, but
:02:48. > :02:55.it just went up in flames. A lot of flammable goods on it. I had to get
:02:56. > :03:03.those feet away. We just heard a lot of noise and calm ocean. You could
:03:04. > :03:08.see lots of black smoke in the sky. It is a lorry fire. It is the
:03:09. > :03:13.traffic jam what is bad. I am bored and tired and hungry. What the
:03:14. > :03:18.really need is a recovery truck and that is stuck in traffic. They said
:03:19. > :03:21.a police escort out to get it here more quickly. After this lorry has
:03:22. > :03:23.gone they will have to stress test the bridge because they need to know
:03:24. > :03:27.if there has been any permanent if there has been any permanent
:03:28. > :03:31.damage to the surface. Thank you very much. There will be
:03:32. > :03:33.traffic updates on BBC Radio Bristol as well.
:03:34. > :03:36.Parents are being warned that many schools in the West will be
:03:37. > :03:39.The National Union of Teachers is staging a one`day
:03:40. > :03:45.They're being joined by five other public sector unions,
:03:46. > :03:48.Here's our political editor Paul Barltro.
:03:49. > :03:53.Barton Hill Primary in Bristol will be closed, causing childcare
:03:54. > :04:12.I'm a single mum. It will be hard for me. It is bang out of order. It
:04:13. > :04:22.is inconvenient for people who are working. The National Union of
:04:23. > :04:27.Teachers and firefighters are in a dispute over pensions. He is an
:04:28. > :04:30.issue. For the PCS, GMB, Unison and the Unite union it is the issue. It
:04:31. > :04:35.was frozen for two years, since then it has gone up a less than
:04:36. > :04:37.inflation. That has hit this family from Bristol hard.
:04:38. > :04:39.Ian has worked for the Ministry of Defence for 25 years.
:04:40. > :04:41.Trudy works at South Gloucestershire Council.
:04:42. > :04:44.With two sons to bring up, their pay has in real terms been
:04:45. > :04:56.The morale is low, lower now than the 25 years I have been in the
:04:57. > :05:01.Ministry of Defence. The amount of job losses we have had. There is no
:05:02. > :05:06.stability. We don't know whether the Wii will have a job next year. I
:05:07. > :05:10.just had to try to apply for my own job. Luckily I got it. They have
:05:11. > :05:16.both experienced the cuts that have seen the loss of 400,000 public
:05:17. > :05:20.sector jobs. I am currently under threat of redundancy. The
:05:21. > :05:24.uncertainty that I have had over the uncertainty that I have had over the
:05:25. > :05:28.last few years as long as thousands `` along with thousands of my
:05:29. > :05:34.colleagues, it preys on your nerves. Chooses the most attic dispute. This
:05:35. > :05:38.zombie protest was to highlight what they say are excessive demands. The
:05:39. > :05:47.average teacher is working over 48 hours per week which is unsafe,
:05:48. > :06:03.unhealthy. So what we want to do is make sure that Michael Gove can talk
:06:04. > :06:06.to teachers and listened to us. It is going to disrupt their children's
:06:07. > :06:12.education. The strike ballot took place in 2012. It is based on a 27%
:06:13. > :06:18.turnout. How can it possibly be right for a rude education disrupted
:06:19. > :06:23.by trade unions acting in that way? It is time to legislate and it will
:06:24. > :06:26.be in the Conservative manifesto. The government insist pay must be
:06:27. > :06:33.held back to help the country get out of debt. That will not go down
:06:34. > :06:36.well with unions, who will repeat the marches they held three years
:06:37. > :06:40.ago. They are warning of more strikes to come.
:06:41. > :06:43.So are public service workers losing out from the recovery?
:06:44. > :06:47.I am joined now by Kevin Butler who is an economist who used to work
:06:48. > :06:51.Mr Butler ` there doesn't seem to be much of a feel good factor
:06:52. > :07:06.We have had an economic recovery now for about a year and a present `` a
:07:07. > :07:11.pretty decent recovery. That is tied up with recovery in the housing
:07:12. > :07:16.market. Unfortunately, wage growth and salary growth in the private and
:07:17. > :07:24.public sectors, including those affect it by tomorrow's working
:07:25. > :07:26.straight, has been held back. Inflation has been running faster
:07:27. > :07:31.than those increases in income and that means that people incomes
:07:32. > :07:35.continue to be squeezed. How long will the austerity have to go on
:07:36. > :07:41.for? The government expect that they have a strategy to rebalance the
:07:42. > :07:44.public finances, to try to and expenditure in balance. Originally
:07:45. > :07:49.there plan was to try and achieve this by 2015. They are not going to
:07:50. > :07:54.do that. The expectation now is that they will not achieve that until
:07:55. > :08:04.2018. It appears that we will be in a period of austerity for some time
:08:05. > :08:07.longer. The public services industry will seal, we did not cost this,
:08:08. > :08:11.this was down to the bankers, why should we pay for it? I have
:08:12. > :08:16.sympathy for their point of view. I am married to a teacher. But I also
:08:17. > :08:20.recognise that the government have a job to do in getting the economy are
:08:21. > :08:26.gone to a sustainable footing. I feel I have got a foot in both
:08:27. > :08:29.camps. Briefly, are public sector workers doing better or worse than
:08:30. > :08:34.their colleagues in the private sector? In the private sector also,
:08:35. > :08:39.although we are seeing new jobs being created as the economy starts
:08:40. > :08:44.to recover and recover in a decent manner, actually private sector
:08:45. > :08:51.workers are facing a squeeze on incomes and salaries as well. So it
:08:52. > :08:55.is actually most of the workforce are seeing very little increase in
:08:56. > :09:01.at the moment. Thank you very much for joining us.
:09:02. > :09:05.We are pleased that you can join us. We will have a full weather forecast
:09:06. > :09:09.later. There is much more to come on the programme tonight, opening the
:09:10. > :09:22.Royal Christmas presents meant for World War I troops in the trenches.
:09:23. > :09:26.The BBC's learnt that Bristol's tourism board objected to safety
:09:27. > :09:27.railings being put along a stretch
:09:28. > :09:32.40`year`old Sean Philips fell into the docks after losing control
:09:33. > :09:35.of his bicycle on sunken railtracks near the M`Shed last year.
:09:36. > :09:37.The tourism board ` and other groups ` thought the
:09:38. > :09:40.Scott Ellis joins us now from the harbourside.
:09:41. > :09:52.First things first, barriers ` but temporary.
:09:53. > :09:58.This is because of the summer festivities. Let's have a look at
:09:59. > :10:05.the problem down here at ground level. It is these sunken levels.
:10:06. > :10:15.This is a historic working corner of the harbour`side. Following the
:10:16. > :10:18.inquest into Sean Phillips, the BBC has teamed it ten years of
:10:19. > :10:21.documents, e`mails, safety reviews, finding out who is in favour and
:10:22. > :10:27.against permanent railings down here. A remainder of the risks are
:10:28. > :10:31.long Bristol's waterfront, Sean Phillips' death last year in UN
:10:32. > :10:37.calls for permanent safety barriers here. The BBC has discovered
:10:38. > :10:40.destination Bristol thought railings would seriously undermine the
:10:41. > :10:50.heritage value of the site. Managers at the council owned M`Shed said
:10:51. > :10:55.they were reluctant to see railings weeks before the death. There is a
:10:56. > :10:58.question of these large numbers of people who we have encouraged down
:10:59. > :11:02.here with this development when you have to balance the heritage
:11:03. > :11:05.argument against the risk of a child dying. There is still an arguing
:11:06. > :11:13.here for barriers. Especially where the entrance' are. The objections
:11:14. > :11:21.from various groups came after an independent safety review in 2012.
:11:22. > :11:26.And a subsequent ROSPA report said railings were NOT needed.
:11:27. > :11:28.So long as cyclists were diverted away from the area.
:11:29. > :11:32.The signs ` missed by Sean Philips ` have been made much clearer.
:11:33. > :11:35.Crowds going to and from the M Shed remain an issue for some, though.
:11:36. > :11:45.I think it would be good, permanently, because you never know
:11:46. > :11:48.when a child will go near the end, they are very fast`moving. I don't
:11:49. > :11:52.think they should. It spoils from the atmosphere of what it is which
:11:53. > :11:57.is where the harbour is were the boots need to dock. The argument
:11:58. > :12:00.against railings is that it is still a working dog and permanent barriers
:12:01. > :12:10.could endanger the lives of those working on the books and cranes. ``
:12:11. > :12:16.on the boats. That speaks to the counsellor. You are seeing all of
:12:17. > :12:19.your members would object to permanent barriers. Last thing we
:12:20. > :12:24.organised a meeting to discuss this, the people that came, the members
:12:25. > :12:29.were unanimously opposed to permanent railings. You are willing
:12:30. > :12:33.to put athletics before people's lives? It is much more complex than
:12:34. > :12:38.that. This is a working harbour, a working railway. These creams do
:12:39. > :12:42.things for the people working here, holding another boarding and
:12:43. > :12:46.welding, permanent railings are a major hindrance. It makes their jobs
:12:47. > :12:51.more dangerous. 's temporary railings are fixed into place.
:12:52. > :12:55.Surely you do need railings. These are here during the summer because
:12:56. > :12:57.we have a lot of events like the Humberside festival where it is
:12:58. > :13:02.necessary to block off the harbour got up the volume of people but also
:13:03. > :13:07.because the council is not quite finished putting in the measures to
:13:08. > :13:11.prevent cyclists coming in here and getting into trouble. So you do not
:13:12. > :13:17.think there will be permanent railings here ever? Never say never.
:13:18. > :13:21.But there are no plans at the moment. It was not recommended that
:13:22. > :13:25.permanent railings were needed. You are not worried about being sued?
:13:26. > :13:30.The councillors was worried about being sued. The risks have been
:13:31. > :13:33.assessed. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said that
:13:34. > :13:37.the risks were manageable and if the council puts in an age as it is
:13:38. > :13:44.going to, they think it is thank you. Whatever the health and safety
:13:45. > :13:47.implications, certainly a beautiful place to spend a summer evening,
:13:48. > :13:49.perhaps on two feet instead of two wheels.
:13:50. > :13:52.A teenager who went on a schools' expedition to the Arctic Circle
:13:53. > :14:10.One after another, the young people friend was killed by a polar bear.
:14:11. > :14:13.One after another, the young people who were on that expedition to the
:14:14. > :14:17.Arctic with Horatio Chapple three years ago described what happened on
:14:18. > :14:24.the night that Wiltshire teenager was killed. First was Patrick
:14:25. > :14:27.Flinders from Jersey who still has the scratch marks on his face where
:14:28. > :14:32.he was clawed by deed poll or bare when it ripped its way into their
:14:33. > :15:55.tent that night. He said he was terrified, he closed his eyes
:15:56. > :16:05.The earthquake and tsunami in Japan killed more than 16,000 people.
:16:06. > :16:09.And on the northeastern coast, the loss of power to the cooling
:16:10. > :16:11.systems at Fukushima power station created one of the biggest nuclear
:16:12. > :16:17.More than 500,000 people were moved from their homes.
:16:18. > :16:22.Surrounding areas are now ghost towns.
:16:23. > :16:24.It's such a shame that you have all of this
:16:25. > :16:38.beautiful countryside poisoned by this radioactive fallout.
:16:39. > :16:40.Realising this was an international disaster, a team of scientists
:16:41. > :16:42.from Bristol began designing a piece of technology to help.
:16:43. > :16:46.And now their drone is being used to work out if it's safe enough
:16:47. > :16:54.We are looking to measure the distribution of the radiation to
:16:55. > :16:57.understand where the hotspots are so that they can be removed first
:16:58. > :17:01.before the rest of the land is cleaned.
:17:02. > :17:03.They're also working with Professor Yamashiki from
:17:04. > :17:06.Kyoto University who plans to use the drones to help measure the
:17:07. > :17:14.where it wouldn't be safe to send a human.
:17:15. > :17:18.This system is extremely helpful to catching a profile of the whole
:17:19. > :17:24.Armed with the latest data collected in the exclusion zone,
:17:25. > :17:36.the team heads to Tokyo to convince the company that runs Fukashima to
:17:37. > :17:44.They want evidence first it can be safely flown around the tanks that
:17:45. > :17:48.the team is back in the UK running test flights around sewage tanks
:17:49. > :17:52.already successfully mapped parts of the Sellafield nuclear site
:17:53. > :17:54.The company in charge of the decommissioning is now
:17:55. > :18:02.But what this team is really waiting for
:18:03. > :18:06.is permission to fly these drones over Fukushima,
:18:07. > :18:21.He retains. It gives you an idea of the scale and here is Doctor Scott.
:18:22. > :18:26.This is, this has received an enormous attention internationally.
:18:27. > :18:30.Has it surprised you? Yes. It was two years ago we had the idea of
:18:31. > :18:33.developing this system. With no proof of concept or principle so it
:18:34. > :18:39.has been a quick timeline to take it from an idea through to a product
:18:40. > :18:48.now that we can spin out as a company for the university and use
:18:49. > :18:54.all over the world. Who was it in the university that was thinking
:18:55. > :18:56.about this? My department in the School of physics is
:18:57. > :18:59.multidisciplinary. We brought together a team of engineers and
:19:00. > :19:03.physicists and geographers and even geoscientists. It was a diverse
:19:04. > :19:06.group we brought together and everyone else brought a different
:19:07. > :19:13.skill that we could all focus on to complete the project quickly. Why
:19:14. > :19:20.does it have to be this particular design? Why could you not fly a
:19:21. > :19:24.model helicopter over it? The design for this is specifically to fly on
:19:25. > :19:28.nuclear sites. If you flew a helicopter or aircraft over a
:19:29. > :19:31.nuclear site, if it crashed onto a building, it could cause a lot of
:19:32. > :19:36.problems for the building structurally. The design for this is
:19:37. > :19:41.such that it is a certain weight, and 70 Legrand 's which is a weight
:19:42. > :19:46.that would not damage a building if it fell on it. We have eight engines
:19:47. > :19:50.and four legs because if we lose one engine, we still have one spare.
:19:51. > :19:57.Through testing we know we can turn off half of the engine that it will
:19:58. > :20:00.still be in the ear fine. It is that deliberately designed redundancy
:20:01. > :20:05.that is required for flying. There are so many more things we want to
:20:06. > :20:08.know. But we don't have enough time. I want to have a play with it.
:20:09. > :20:10.Five brass boxes which were meant as Christmas presents
:20:11. > :20:13.for soldiers serving in the First World War have gone under the
:20:14. > :20:19.They were sent by the Royal Family to troops in the trenches
:20:20. > :20:29.Our reporter Sukhy Batchada watched as one of the boxes was opened.
:20:30. > :20:38.Lost for 100 years. The gifts that have never made it to the front
:20:39. > :20:45.line. It is great you are all sharing this. I would see it is
:20:46. > :20:50.probably pretty unique this. Lady any `` Lady Emma Kitchener invited
:20:51. > :20:56.to open the 100`year`old parcel under the watchful eye of her
:20:57. > :21:01.ancestor. I think for many of the soldiers it was the very first time
:21:02. > :21:04.they had ever been away from home at Christmas which is scary and then to
:21:05. > :21:10.be in the trenches, it must have been unimaginable. I think to
:21:11. > :21:15.receive something like that was a real big thing for them. Boxes from
:21:16. > :21:21.the time contained boiled sweets and tobacco but in these boxes, you just
:21:22. > :21:25.get a pencil. The most important tool for keeping in touch with loved
:21:26. > :21:28.ones. The maximum most of the tins that survived, a pencil is missing.
:21:29. > :21:35.The pencil is very rare. It has a The pencil is very rare. It has a
:21:36. > :21:41.sterling silver top. I think it is marvellous. Obviously it would have
:21:42. > :21:44.been great if there had been chocolates or more sweets or
:21:45. > :21:50.cigarettes but no, delighted that the pencil is there. And it is
:21:51. > :21:52.delighting collectors. For the guide price of ?300, a number have already
:21:53. > :21:56.been sold. Children from Bath are
:21:57. > :21:59.among those who've been invited to write what they imagine
:22:00. > :22:02.the unknown soldier at Paddington railway station might be reading
:22:03. > :22:06.in his letter sent from home. Everyday thousands of people, many
:22:07. > :22:09.of them catching trains to and from And Bath Spa University are
:22:10. > :22:15.behind a new project to help create a permanent memorial to
:22:16. > :22:19.the unnamed fighter. Here's what these youngsters
:22:20. > :22:35.from Weston All Saints Primary think Dearest father, my fear is not the
:22:36. > :22:41.same without you but we manage. How are you out there? Is everything OK?
:22:42. > :22:44.I think she caught a cold when we were a skating. The doctors say she
:22:45. > :22:50.will return to normal health in one week. So that is all right. You know
:22:51. > :22:55.that cheeky boy I told you about? He got the keen place today. He gave
:22:56. > :22:58.teachers such cheat. Mother is proud of you although she wishes you did
:22:59. > :23:03.not go. She tries to hide it but sometimes I hear her crying at
:23:04. > :23:09.night. I have told all my friends that when you come back I shall like
:23:10. > :23:13.lots of candles around the house. Very good writers, aren't they?
:23:14. > :23:15.People are still submitting their ideas of letters, even well known
:23:16. > :23:16.people like Stephen Fry. Now, what kind
:23:17. > :23:18.of things do you throw away? Well a recycling centre in
:23:19. > :23:21.West Somerset had to be sealed off today after a member of the
:23:22. > :23:25.public brought in a mortar shell. An Army bomb disposal team was
:23:26. > :23:27.called But then when someone brings
:23:28. > :23:41.in a mortar shell for recycling So around midday the site
:23:42. > :23:58.at Williton in West Somerset was closed to the
:23:59. > :24:01.public. And about three hours later They took one look at the shell `
:24:02. > :24:06.and decided it was safe enough to load into the back of their van
:24:07. > :24:09.and take it away ` so What isn't clear is who
:24:10. > :24:15.the person was who brought in the shell or why they would want
:24:16. > :24:19.to bring a mortar about this size to But the people who run these places
:24:20. > :24:39.say while they'll take most things That was a bit of a surprise. Let's
:24:40. > :24:46.get the weather forecast. Ian is up on the roof. We had some dramatic
:24:47. > :24:48.weather last eight. We certainly did. The number of
:24:49. > :24:50.people tweeting pictures of storm cells moving down through south
:24:51. > :24:55.Gloucestershire with some pretty dramatic clouds attached to those.
:24:56. > :24:59.No threat of that as we head through this evening or indeed as we head
:25:00. > :25:02.into tomorrow as well. Effectively we will be in this grease between
:25:03. > :25:07.two weather systems, one from the east, one from the West but the net
:25:08. > :25:10.result at least will be effectively a finance increasingly warm day
:25:11. > :25:14.across the West Country, albeit with more clouds starting to appear as we
:25:15. > :25:17.get through the course of the afternoon. The reason we have this
:25:18. > :25:20.grease is a warm front out towards the east of us and secondly a rather
:25:21. > :25:24.weak front coming the other way from the Atlantic. You will see that
:25:25. > :25:28.running up through the West Country into the West Midlands is a sort of
:25:29. > :25:32.spine of clear whether, in our rowing slot that will keep us into
:25:33. > :25:38.this dry, warm set of conditions through the course of tomorrow but
:25:39. > :25:42.the warm front to the East make some inroads towards us on Friday.
:25:43. > :25:46.Through the course of this evening it is a fine if breezy evening,
:25:47. > :25:50.pleasantly warm, it will continue tonight with no significant change
:25:51. > :25:54.in the broad setup. A quiet night under a largely clear skies and
:25:55. > :25:59.temperatures will be sitting somewhere between about ten to 13
:26:00. > :26:04.Celsius. Tomorrow should start with clear skies for a good number of you
:26:05. > :26:07.as we ran through the day, yes, more cloud out to the extreme west of
:26:08. > :26:11.Somerset including those of you who watch us from Lynemouth but even
:26:12. > :26:15.here a fairly bright picture and conversely out towards the east you
:26:16. > :26:19.will notice the signal for clouds getting as far as Reading with some
:26:20. > :26:25.patchy rain out in those districts. We don't expect that to impinge on
:26:26. > :26:29.East Gloucestershire and it's torture. You will have more cloud
:26:30. > :26:33.here. All of us is seeing more cloud later on through the course of the
:26:34. > :26:37.afternoon. A high pollen count tomorrow and high UV levels.
:26:38. > :26:43.Temperatures on the rise. 12 spots could see 24 or 25 Celsius into late
:26:44. > :26:47.afternoon tomorrow. As we get past that, we will find through the day
:26:48. > :26:50.increasing amount of clouds, in the morning some showery outbreaks of
:26:51. > :26:56.rain in the East. One or two showers in the afternoon, but the weekend
:26:57. > :27:00.will be characterised by warm, humid conditions, the threat of some
:27:01. > :27:06.thundery downpours as well. It has felt humid. It has. It has
:27:07. > :27:10.been lovely today. Before we go, let's return to the top story this
:27:11. > :27:13.evening. We want to show you pictures of what happened when that
:27:14. > :27:18.lorry caught fire and exploded on the Cumberland basin in Bristol. It
:27:19. > :27:22.dramatic side as you can see. You have been sending in footage, thank
:27:23. > :27:26.you. As you can see, it was an extensive fire because they had
:27:27. > :27:31.those candles on board. The large plume of smoke caused traffic chaos
:27:32. > :27:34.which has now spread. The good news is, the driver did get out safely
:27:35. > :27:40.and there were no casualties that we have heard about. We will put this
:27:41. > :27:45.on our Facebook page so please take a look at it. Luckily no one was
:27:46. > :27:54.hurt, that is the main thing. Have a nice evening.
:27:55. > :27:58.and this time the challenge is bigger than ever.
:27:59. > :28:01.Six young songwriters mark a major anniversary.
:28:02. > :28:05.It'll be really difficult to write a song for World War I.
:28:06. > :28:09.They're really going to have to put themselves in those people's shoes.
:28:10. > :28:14.Guys, did that go perfectly? Did we forget the tune?
:28:15. > :28:17.I just don't want to mess it up. There's a lot of pressure.