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Through Sunday and inch or two inches of rain, gales are possible | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Tonight we're at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
as thousands from across thd west prepare for a party in the skies. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Our headlines from the fiesta tonight. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The remarkable journey of the fiesta and how it?s lade | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the west of England the ballooning capital of the world. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
On a wing and a prayer ` what happened when a special shape | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
And we will remember them ` the fiesta pauses to reflect | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Hello ` the balloon fiesta soared off to a spectacular start this | :00:45. | :01:01. | |
morning with one of the most impressive mass lift offs in years. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
We are hoping for a repeat performance tonight ` but | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Many of the balloons are inflating behind us but we have been huddling | :01:11. | :01:24. | |
under a umbrella or though ht was meant to be 0% chance of rahn. The | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
balloons we understand are going to take off and they are heading | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
towards Kingswood. The event has become one of | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
the most important in the west country calendar ` with | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
world wide coverage worth mhllions We'll be finding out how thd | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
organisers have learnt a few tricks from the | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Glastonbury Festival to propel the But first ` that mass ascent | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
early this morning. Cooking bacon in the open ahr, a hot | :01:49. | :02:04. | |
cup of coffee. A breathtaking view. It is an adventure, waking tp in the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
dark, wearing pyjamas. We have been coming since wd were | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
their rage. As balloons only fly at dawn and | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
dusk, pilots are used to early starts and many have travelled a | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
long way to be here. Very very big meeting, yes. 130 | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
balloons, in Belgium, the m`ximum is 30. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
The fiesta is months in the planning. This production company is | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
the team behind events incltding Glastonbury and the summer solstice. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
This is their purpose`built office at Ashton Court. We have evdrything, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Wi`Fi, telephones, photocophers everything you need to run ` fully | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
fledged office. A team of 50 is in charge of keeping | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
the site litter free. People in Bristol have been using | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
these bins for years. They have got used to it. Back at the year 20 0 it | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
was a new idea. Now, people use them properly. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
The cans are full of Cannes. It is all about the balloons. With | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
near`perfect weather this morning, many enjoyed their first evdr | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
flight. I am amazed how many balloons in | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
such a small space. Hopefully that isn't one of them! It was the gun to | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
say the pilots can take off. Out over Bristol. What a wax to | :03:44. | :04:04. | |
start the day. We have liftoff! This place is like Heathrow Airport for | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
balloons. Very very busy. It looks so straightforward and easy and | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
peaceful. Not always. There | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
was dramatic landing for ond of the hot air balloons which was hnvolved | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
in last night's mass ascent. It came down in South | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Gloucestershire hitting a l`mp post. That was more of a dangle at the | :04:20. | :04:33. | |
end. It looks frightening. @mazing pictures. Imaging is out and about | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
someone in the crowds. Did xou jump out of your skin? | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Yes, you join me here on He`ven Hill. Heavenly because of the | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
wonderful view it gives us of the arena. The heavens have almost | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
opened but they have stopped for now. It has been a fantastic day. | :04:52. | :05:05. | |
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH SOUND There was a problem with thd camera. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Unfortunately we would go b`ck to imaging later. For now, we have an | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
extra treat. Look behind us. You can see the air is filled with hot air | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
balloons at the moment. It hs a hive of activity. When I spoke to a | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
balloonist earlier, I asked about the weather, he said it was tasty. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
I don't know what he meant. Windy on the ground. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
It is such a community. They all help each other out. It is | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
lovely. This is a special edition of Points West to mark an event that is | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
important for Bristol and the entire West Country. News and sport a | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
little late in the programmd. Just a reminder that this is | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
a special edition of Points West ` to mark an event that has bdcome | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
important not just for Bristol First ` the fiesta is supporting | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
a west country charity this year called Above and Beyond, | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
which raises money for hosphtals. The 40`year`old charity has | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
a brand new balloon to boost it s Over a hundred volunteers h`ve the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
full support of the fiesta to raise The balloon fiesta is such | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
a passionate event and it so mirrors the passion I see every day | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
in hospital from doctors and nurses so I think the relationship between | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the fiesta and us is so pertinent at this point because it is gohng to | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
change health care services The appeal is already helping | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
patients at the Bristol Haelatology Providing the first specialhst | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
bone marrow transplant unit. Until now patients had to | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
travel between three hospit`ls. It was very tough going to London | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
every two weeks for two years Equally here being treated | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
in two hospitals you had And it would be great to be treated | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
under one roof where you get to know the staff and have a relationship | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
with them throughout your treatment. The unit is already being used | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
by patients, now they can have their famhlies | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
spend time and support them during The patients will be in potdntial | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
life`threatening situations where they need urgent treatment that they | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
will have to come in as emergency. That can be frightening but now we | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
are doing it under one roof so we will get to know the patients | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
and their families and see them Patients here at the Bristol Royal | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
Infirmary will also benefit from a new state of the art intensive | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
care unit provided by the appeal as well as many other projects to give | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
patients more privacy and dhgnity. More from the balloon fiest` very | :07:43. | :07:55. | |
shortly ` but first some of today's A no`fly zone is being put | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
in place over Bristol for three days The event will see world | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
leaders descend upon Celtic Manor, Many of the delegates are expected | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
to stay in Bristol for the summit, and light aircraft won't be allowed | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
above the city. The man who stabbed | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
his ex`girlfriend to death as she worked in | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
a Gloucester hair salon has launched Asher Maslin was jailed for | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
life last month for murdering twenty He was told it will be 24 ydars | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
before he's considered for release. The former Liberal Democrat leader | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
of Bristol City Council, Barbara The appointment of 22 new mdmbers | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
of the House of Lords was confirmed The former teacher says she sees it | :08:43. | :08:54. | |
as a chance to wave the flag The football season returns | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
tomorrow, and we're looking After their one`year adventtre | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
in the Championship, Despite finishing bottom of the | :09:02. | :09:17. | |
championship, the manager G`ry Johnson has rebuilt the squ`d after | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
a sum of departures. There `re ten new faces. And a new signing. As to | :09:23. | :09:32. | |
their chances of returning to the championship, the bookies expect | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
them to be challenging for the play`offs, 6`1 to go up. We asked a | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
supporter who has been going for 50 years to make his assessment. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
My name is Rich and I am a massive Yeovil Town fan. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
I've been coming here since the '60s, a massive fan since then. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
This is me against Swindon Town 1962. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
Last season it was a fantastic experience in the championship | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Best of luck to the teams. Back to and it is up to these lads to do | :09:56. | :11:32. | |
Best of luck to the teams. Back to the balloon fiesta now. Alex and | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
David. You are missing out hn the dreary old studio! We are on our | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
holidays at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta. It is the largest annual | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
balloon fiesta. One of the biggest anywhere in the world. Quitd an | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
achievement. The first fiesta only had a few balloons. | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
So, how did it go from its small beginnings to something so big? | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Scott Ellis has been looking back on the history of the | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
Ballooning as a hobby was ndw in Europe and a Glaswegian | :12:12. | :12:24. | |
aeronautical engineer from Bristol was the pioneer. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
It would worry me in case the fabric caught fire in this roaring flame. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
The hobby grew into Cameron?s balloons | :12:37. | :12:49. | |
Don gave a talk to the Junior Chamber of Commerce | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
about a transatlantic balloon race he had competed in 1978. | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
After that, they had drinks in Clifton and decided Bristol needed | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
It was completely open to the public. | :13:04. | :13:15. | |
The Fiesta grew doubling as Bristol?s summer show and | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
The not`for`profit event could remain free to enter. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
These days the show pulls daily crowds of 100,000. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
And Cameron's is the world's biggest balloon manufacturer. | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Don's daughter is also part of the business. | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
I can remember if I had to find my dad I would come to the balloon | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
So, yes, it is something th`t is growing much part of our lives. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
Making it happen is obviously in the genes ` thousands have helped | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
build Bristol's ballooning reputation but it all startdd with | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
a softly spoken Scot whose hobby became a hallmark for a citx. | :14:09. | :14:25. | |
It is lovely seeing that. It is a shame it is cloudy after all of the | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
summer days we have had. It has been growing year after year. Thdy expect | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
500,000 people this weekend. It will be really busy. Some people come | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
from all over the world, we will try to return to imaging, hopeftlly she | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
is with some of those peopld. Sorry you lost me earlier. H have | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
some facts and figures. There are nine different countries taking part | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
in the fiesta. Countries include Thailand, USA and the Seychdlles. I | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
am joined by two pilots who have travelled from Belgium. Thex are | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
mother and daughter. Elizabdth, thank you for joining us. Why do you | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
come to Bristol every year? Firstly it is the biggest event in | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Europe. It is a must come as a pilot to come and see. | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH SOUND You have your own fiesta back in | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Belgium. Tell me more. Well, it started in 1947 with gas | :15:42. | :15:51. | |
ballooning to commemorate the end of the Second World War. And it was gas | :15:52. | :16:07. | |
gas balloons, 44 hot`air balloons ballooning and then there w`s | :16:08. | :16:33. | |
gas balloons, 44 hot`air balloons and 16 special shapes balloons. | :16:34. | :16:33. | |
for four generations. How dhd you there are | :16:34. | :16:34. | |
get involved? It was my grandfather and friends decided to take off in a | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
gas balloon in Belgium. How many in your family? My mother, my | :16:38. | :16:38. | |
father... My brothers... My children! | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Brother`in`law. Ladies, enjoy your weekend here in Bristol. Th`nk you | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
for joining us. Lots more happening all weekend I | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
will be back tomorrow so I hope you can join me then. Back to D`vid and | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Alex. We have a few cameras dotted around | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
but also there is one looking at some of the shots you can sde now of | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
the balloons inflating. You can see them still squished in waithng for | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
the moment. This is live from a balloon. Anthony is zooming in. We | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
are down there somewhere, lhke a are down there somewhere, lhke a | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Lego person, matchstick men Back with me on terra firma. | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
Ordinarily, when it's not the balloon fhesta, | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
It's just west of Bristol and 100 years ago during thd | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
First World War, its mansion house was used as a Military Hosphtal | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
As part of this year's commdmoration of the Great War the BBC World War I | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
At Home tour has picked the fiesta as one of its locations. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
And earlier David went to h`ve a look around its impressive display. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
I have come to another part of the site. We are reflecting, thhs is the | :17:58. | :18:11. | |
World War I at home website, there is a series of events over the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
weekend to remind us of what happened 100 years ago would Britain | :18:18. | :18:31. | |
declared war on Germany and the lights went out all over Europe A | :18:32. | :18:43. | |
few celebrities dropping by including Larry Lamb. From | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
EastEnders and the one show. A lifetime at the BBC! | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
I am asking questions and answer my own question is about local | :18:53. | :18:53. | |
historians and specialists, Kate historians and specialists, | :18:54. | :18:53. | |
Adie is here this weekend, the BBC Adie is here this weekend, the BBC | :18:54. | :18:54. | |
will correspond and to find out about the effect of the war had on | :18:55. | :18:55. | |
with the efforts in World W`r I with the efforts in World W`r I | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Why is it important people remember? | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
Because it is getting so far away from youngsters now that thdy have | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
no idea. Frankly, you might as well talk about the Norman conqudst as | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
World War I. 100 years ago far back to connect. I ask people how many of | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
them actually knew somebody or was related to someone and it is very | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
few now. The stories are very poignant. | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Absolutely. They are. This is a way for | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
youngsters and all age groups really to get a sense of the changd and | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
what it was like. Things so rudimentary and so simple. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Larry, great to see you. Th`nk you for coming to us from the e`st end! | :19:45. | :20:04. | |
Every soul scene in these phctures has long departed this earth. Lost | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
in the mists of time. But 100 years after this film was shot, the | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
extraordinary story of the wartime railways can be told. Their role | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
taking the boys to war is wdll documented. But they had another | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
duty. Which is less well`known. To bring them home. | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
Today's expresses hurtle along the lines that Brunel built for GWR the | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
same tracks that led to war. In 1914, the railways answered the | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
nations call to arms and for the next four years, the great Western | :21:00. | :21:00. | |
was linked to the great war in life was linked to the great war in life | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
and death struggle which took the company to the brink of exh`ustion | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
collapse. We are in a steam Museum in Swindon housed in the buhldings | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
1914. It would have been a high of 1914. It would have been a high of | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
industry literally. There would have been people busying themselves, a | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
lot of the workers here would be going off to war and so the company | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
would be busying itself transporting troops and also trying to work out | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
how they will replace the mdn that were going off to war. The war | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
changed the course of history in many `` and many books have been | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
written but there is a small innovation that has never h`d any | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
publicity even though it helped save many lives. It is all down to a man | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
who worked here are a middld manager called Frank. Frank is one of the | :22:20. | :22:20. | |
unsung heroes of the conflict. He worked on the ambulance trahn | :22:21. | :22:21. | |
project transporting sick and injured troops. This book of old | :22:22. | :22:22. | |
photographs show Frank?s idda in action. He redesigned the inside of | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
beds on top of each other m`king the beds on top of each other m`king the | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
middle bunk foldable so you can put middle bunk foldable so you can put | :22:26. | :22:25. | |
the bed below increasing capacity. the bed below increasing capacity. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
It meant more people could be rescued from the front and brought | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
back home for survival. On the front, workers from Swindon helped | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
lead the tracks and the trahns supplied to the British and | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Americans were a place of pdace Men, horribly injured were tended by | :22:52. | :23:03. | |
their comrades and then entrusted to the care of gentle nurses. @nd the | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
trains took them away from `ll of this, from death to the chance of | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
life. As for Frank, the man who did so much to bring them home, he was | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
awarded both the CBE and OBD and died just after the war. More | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
thoughts on the great War 100 years ago, not that long when you think of | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
it. To put on a free event as bhg | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
as this takes months and months One of the driving forces | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
behind the fiesta is the husband and They've both been involved | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
with the fiesta for a long time and are both very experiencdd | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
balloon pilots. Our Kamran `` cameraman is tp with | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
Clive. Yes, amazing. We can see some of the shots. | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
This is what you can see. I wish I was up there. We are with you. | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
How optimistic argue about the rest of the weekend? | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
It looks good for the morning and we hope for a big ascent to row night. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
There was also the wonderful night glow. It is a must. You must come | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
down. It is more difficult for the special shapes. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
The wind has to be light of the special shapes. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Some of them are taking off tonight. We hope to write morning thdre will | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
be more. Nice to see. Thank you. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Now of course the weather is hugely important for balloonists. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
So what's it looking like this weekend. | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
The balloons are up and running we are hopeful for tomorrow morning. | :24:53. | :25:05. | |
Let's bring the graphics up. Saturday, there will be a fdw | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
showers developing but they will run through quickly. There will be dry | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
and sunny weather as well. Sunday, a much more inclement day, hurricane | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Bertha coming our way. A wet day but it is a question of how windy it | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
will be. There is a Met Offhce warning. There is a threat of wind | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
and coastal flooding. It cotld be an issue on Monday and Tuesday. | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
warning. There is a threat of wind and coastal flooding. It cotld be an | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
issue on Monday and Tuesday. We will be keeping an eye on that. Keep | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
up`to`date with the forecast. As we head into tomorrow, the balloons go | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
up at six o'clock. They will follow a similar track to today, ott | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
towards East, Bedminster and towards East, Bedminster and | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Keynsham. Keep an eye out. @ wider look at the weekend, it is ` | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
question of a fair amount of dry weather about despite mediul level | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
cloud. Some showers but as we head into tomorrow you will see some | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
showers coming in from the West By the end of the day, more in the way | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
of outbreaks of rain. Tonight, temperatures will be down to 14 or | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
15 Celsius but to write morning a dry and bright start and a few | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
showers running in from the West. They will push quite quicklx and you | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
will notice some people will avoid the showers, the wind will turn | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
brisker and eventually more sunshine `` showers in the evening pdriod by | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
ten o'clock. That signals the arrival of Bertha. 20, 20 when | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
Celsius to arrive. This is the outlook, it is focused towards | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Sunday and just how bad conditions will be. There is some uncertainty | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
about that. For sure, on Sunday expect some heavy rain. We will now | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
enjoy the balloons! Some exciting `` excited children behind you. I will | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
be interviewing Kate Adie tomorrow about women in the First World War. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
There is an update at 10pm `nd we will see one Monday. Have a lovely | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
weekend. Safe flight! Goodbxe. | :27:31. | :28:05. |