03/08/2014

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:00:33. > :00:38.Hello. Today, the West has been prdparing

:00:39. > :00:42.to remember. World War One began 100 years ago tomorrow and this weekend,

:00:43. > :00:46.many have already been making their own tributes.

:00:47. > :00:56.Special projects have been set up to remember those who were lost.

:00:57. > :01:00.And communities are making sure the story of the great war is p`ssed on

:01:01. > :01:02.to the next generation. This is the culmination of decades

:01:03. > :01:07.of work. Researchers have catalogued every

:01:08. > :01:08.man from Cheltenham lost in the Great War.

:01:09. > :01:12.Yellow dots show where they lived. Some streets lost dozens of men

:01:13. > :01:14.Judy Marsh came here today to find out about Private Gilvert C`rter,

:01:15. > :01:16.who lived in her house a century ago, and was killed in action in

:01:17. > :01:25.1916. He could walk out into the garden

:01:26. > :01:31.and see review. He was reported missing. As parents presumably lived

:01:32. > :01:33.in the house and must have been waiting for a telegram to come for

:01:34. > :01:38.some to come. 1916.

:01:39. > :01:44.At Gloucester Cathedral tod`y, a poignant service of commemoration.

:01:45. > :01:48.People from every parish prdsented the names of their war dead at the

:01:49. > :01:53.altar. Tomorrow, they will be read out in

:01:54. > :02:05.the chapel ` a time to refldct, but also to consider the impact of war

:02:06. > :02:09.If we do not remember how this happened, we will never learn from

:02:10. > :02:16.it. also to consider the impact of war

:02:17. > :02:19.today. In Bishopsworth tomorrow night, they

:02:20. > :02:22.will extinguish dozens of c`ndles one by one, until a single flame is

:02:23. > :02:27.left. And hoping to pass on the story of the war to those for whom

:02:28. > :02:30.it so long ago. In Frome, a new war memorial for the town was dddicated

:02:31. > :02:43.today ` a bronze of local soldier Charlie Robbins.

:02:44. > :02:48.I do not know a lot about World War I, but it is very important that we

:02:49. > :02:59.spread the word. All part of the West's

:03:00. > :03:02.commemorations of the war that changed the course of history.

:03:03. > :03:05.A postmortem examination is being carried out after the body of a

:03:06. > :03:07.Swindon man was found at a Bristol recycling depot. Wiltshire Police

:03:08. > :03:10.have confirmed he was 34`ye`r`old Matthew Symonds. He was frol

:03:11. > :03:14.Swindon, but had no fixed address. It is thought his body was somehow

:03:15. > :03:16.carried from the town to Avonmouth among a commercial waste delivery.

:03:17. > :03:33.Police and waste company Biffa continue to investigate.

:03:34. > :03:36.Last night was an extraordinary one for Danny Talbot from Hilperton near

:03:37. > :03:39.Trowbridge ` he was the lucky athlete who got to race head to head

:03:40. > :03:42.with the mighty Usain Bolt hn the final leg of the men's four by one

:03:43. > :03:44.hundred metre final in Glasgow. Their pre`race preparation

:03:45. > :03:48.techniques were poles apart England held their own against Jamahca from

:03:49. > :03:50.gun to tape, but in the end, another stellar Bolt performance left a

:03:51. > :03:52.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:03:53. > :03:53.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:03:54. > :03:55.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:03:56. > :03:57.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:03:58. > :03:58.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:03:59. > :04:00.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:04:01. > :04:02.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:04:03. > :04:02.credible silver medal for England, and Talbot.

:04:03. > :04:07.For a moment, I thought I could get, but then his foreign khck ten.

:04:08. > :04:09.But I had to quickly remembdr that there are other people I have to

:04:10. > :04:13.stay in front. Fortunately, I managed to cross the line in second

:04:14. > :04:21.place. And on the final day of the games, England men's hockey team,

:04:22. > :04:26.which includes local boy Silon Mantle, beat New Zealand to claim

:04:27. > :04:34.hockey bronze. No, letters get the latest weather.

:04:35. > :04:45.Lengthy clear spells to originate and fairly male temperatures

:04:46. > :04:56.overnight. Tomorrow, the risk of a smattering of showers. A less breezy

:04:57. > :05:01.day. Temperatures getting up to the 20, 21 mark. On Tuesday, soleplace

:05:02. > :05:10.bills, but the chance of he`vy and thundery showers. So, World War I

:05:11. > :05:12.began 100 years ago today. This week, we are looking back whth a

:05:13. > :05:37.special series of In 1914, the railways and shmply

:05:38. > :05:44.calls to arms and over the next four years, trains were essential to the

:05:45. > :05:59.war effort. The invading German army devastated the land. One falily took

:06:00. > :06:06.any family of 17. You have been put to the pitch. That is the alount of

:06:07. > :06:09.ground that a lot of ground that and ground that a lot of thousand men

:06:10. > :06:19.gave their lives for, the ldngth of the rugby pitch. Some incredibly

:06:20. > :06:22.moving stories to tell in this coming week. We are back after the

:06:23. > :06:34.closing ceremony Good evening. Some of us have had a

:06:35. > :06:38.sunny weekend but for others it has not stopped raining for the last

:06:39. > :06:44.couple of days, you can see where on the satellite picture, big swell of

:06:45. > :06:48.cloud, dominating things. Torrential storms, if you see the coverage you

:06:49. > :06:51.can see how much rain there has been, that has caused issues.

:06:52. > :06:56.Thunder and lightning thrown in as well. This area of storms moves

:06:57. > :06:59.north out of Glasgow but this clutch of heavy downpours pushing into the

:07:00. > :07:04.south-west of Scotland, we will have to keep an eye on that for the

:07:05. > :07:07.closing ceremony. One thing is for sure, which showers and blustery

:07:08. > :07:11.wind, it will not be anything like as fine and warm as it was the

:07:12. > :07:16.opening ceremony. Further south across the UK, no such problems the

:07:17. > :07:23.odd shower, they will to fade away, most places will settle into a dry

:07:24. > :07:32.night, further blustery showers Temperatures will ease away and as

:07:33. > :07:36.we had last night, in Wirral spot -- in rural spots, single figures. It

:07:37. > :07:38.is in the way to the far north-west, and we will have a reasonable day,

:07:39. > :07:39.some showers will break