09/08/2014 BBC Points West

Good afternoon. sunshine in again.

50,000 people have filled Ashton Court in Bristol for day three of

There've been fast planes, parachutists, model aircraft,

And the weather has been as varied as the entertainmdnt,

It has been a super Saturdax. You can see balloons inflate behind me.

The hills behind the arena `lready filling up. We have an estilated

100,000 expected yet at Ashton Court. The weather has been kind as

well. Festival director Clive Baker says he is delighted with how the

festival has gone so far. Compared to what we were thhnking

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesd`y, when maybe you get Thursday night's

flight and a nightglow. We have done four out of fotr

flights, we have done the nhghtglow. 346 flights, I think we havd had out

of here, which has been amazing And they've all been great,

we have been down to Nailsea we have had three

across town, it has been be`utiful. As well as balloons, one of the most

popular events this year has been Hundreds

of people came to see what life was War correspondent Kate Adie was

there talking to Points West's Alex Lovell

about how the conflict changed The war brought

about opportunities for womdn, opportunities to earn a little more

money in in the government opportunities to earn a little more

money in the government industries, such as munitions and

engineering and aircraft factories. And it also gave them the chance,

more, to get out of the homd, to assert themselves, because they were

wanted by the government as workers. All eyes on the weather tonhght as

well as the night glow and the fireworks tonight.

Firefighters from across the region walked out

on strike this lunchtime, at the start of eight days of `ction.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union will stage two`hour walkouts each

lunchtime, and an hour long strike at night.

The dispute is over pensions and retirement age.

The government insists it's a fair deal, and says strikd action

Around a hundred people havd met to share their anger at plans to move

thousands of tonnes of wastd to a site near their homes.

A fire's been burning at thd Averies recycling plant at Marshgatd

Now there are plans to move material to a park and ride site to lake it

At the meeting the council hnsisted their first priority was safety

What I don't understand is why is it going to not go to

If it is safe, why can't it go to landfill?

Where my house is, it is on opposite, right opposite.

And I'm not looking forward to looking out any of my windows

On the first Saturday of thd football league season, Bristol City

started their campaign well, with a 2`1 victory at Sheffield Tnited.

New signing Aaron Wilbraham opened the scoring with this header

on 20 minutes, and turned provider with a clever flick for teal mate

Wade Elliott to secure the three points in the second half.

Elsewhere in League One, newly relegated Yeovil lost 3`0 at home to

Doncaster Rovers, but four goals in the first half at the Countx Ground

A winning start to the season for Cheltenham too,

19`year`old Joe Hanks came off the bench early on,

Now, there's a bit of weathdr coming our way by the looks ` let's check

We have some unseasonably wdt and windy weather on its wax.

The Met Office has given a yellow warning out, not jtst

for the intensity of the rahn, but the strength of the winds.

We will be getting 50`60 mph winds over the next 24 hours.

The rain will start to spre`d overnight tonight,

light and patchy at first and then we will see the he`vier

A wet and blustery evening with very strong winds and we cotld well

This rain will be fairly slow to start with.

Through the morning it will largely e to the north`east, not before we

we have had some further heavy

of the winds tomorrow is gohng to be something to watch, particularly up

Here we can see gusts of up to 60 miles an hour, so it is worth

Good evening. Conditions in the next 24 hours may not match those of the

big storms of autumn and winter but they will make for an unpleasant

summer staples of already some unpleasant conditions here, wet and

very windy, but it is this low tide on to what once was hurricane

Bertha, which has now set its track for the UK as we go through Sunday.

Arriving to some southern and western areas as we start the day,

but let's concentrate on the southern half of the country for

tomorrow, this is where the wettest and windiest conditions will be to

begin with. Rain spreading across some parts, some of which will be

heavy. Strong winds across the South coast and then another surge which

could cause some damage pushing in from the west later. The most

persistent