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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A deal to move the rubbish from a Swindon recycling site. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
After burning for three weeks ` could the cloud of smoke over | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Also in the programme: The end of a long wait. | :00:12. | :00:34. | |
The emotions run high as students get their A`level results | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Preparing for the ride of their life. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
The region gets ready to welcome the Tour of Britain. | :00:44. | :00:56. | |
Find out how this can turn into this for charity and which rock band has | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
given three children ?2,000 towards their appeal. | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
First tonight, after almost a month, a deal has finally been struck | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
which its hoped will lead to a fire being extinguished | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
The burning waste at the site in Swindon, which is run | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
by Averies, has left a cloud of smoke handing over the town. | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
Robin Markwell has spent the day in the town. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Swindon, a town under a cloud. For 24 days the fire at this waste | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
facility has smouldered, filling the air with a stench of burning | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
plastic. It's proved too much for businesses nearby. This one forced | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
to close for nine days and local residents all say enough is enough. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
It's been really bad actually. There's been ash falling down. It's | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
really Smokey. You step outside to get to the car and you just stink. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Your hair, your clothes, it's been horrendous when it's blowing over | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
this way. It's been hard especially with the hot weather. We have not | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
been able to open windows and get fresh air. Can't hang washing on the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
line. It's been quite hot in the house and also the smell is just | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
horrible because it's not like a barbecue smell, but it's a rubbery, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
burning smell. It's been nearly a month now. This has been the problem | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
for firefighters. Tightly stacked mounds of 1,000 tonnes of household | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
waste, difficult to get to, difficult to put out. But today at | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
long last for local residents, a deal has been struck which could see | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
some of this waste that isn't on fire taken off site which would | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
allow firefighters better access to put out the flames. The council had | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
suggested dumping the waste at this park and ride site. But to the joy | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
of campaigners today that plan was ditched. Instead, the firm which | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
runs the site has been ordered to move the waste out of town and foot | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
the bill. They've been instructed by the Environment Agency to start | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
removing the waste from tomorrow. It will be then up to the Environment | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Agency if that doesn't happen to ensure that is carried out. And to | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
enable the Fire Brigade to get in and put the fire out. Firefighters | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
warn that removing the rubbish will in itself fan the flames, in a fire | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
that may yet have a mnt to burn. At least today a whiff of hope for | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
those fed up with the fumes. `` month. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
The Prime Minister has been in the West today as he cut short | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
his summer break to oversee Britain's aid mission to Iraq. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
David Cameron was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
He was shown the aid which is being packed to leave the airport | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Solar`powered lamps and water filters are | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
Thousands of teenagers are busily planning | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
their futures this evening after picking up their A`level results. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
More than three`quarters of students who took the exams in the South West | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
In a moment we'll be talking to a student advisor from one our | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
our major Universities but first Jules Hyam reports on a day of | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
The nervous looks, and the hugs of relief. They're scenes we see every | :04:20. | :04:38. | |
August from Stroud to Devizes. Not surprising that emotions run high on | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
A`level results day. Each envelope opened this morning has the power to | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
shape a young adult's future. That's exactly what I wanted. Wow, yeah, | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
two A*s and A. Yeah, happy. Three A*s and I am hopefully going to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Bristol, well I am going to Bristol to do psychology. Oh! I am lost for | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
words. Four A*s. Maths, physics, chemistry and further maths. It | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
means I can go to Cambridge next year which is great. All these years | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
have built up to a few seconds looking at these. It's weird. The | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
south`west is the only English region where the number of students | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
getting A* and A grades has gone up. While students have the weird | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
results experience this morning, their teachers knew how everybody | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
had done yesterday. Here at this school grades are just as good as | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
they were hoping for, but staff still have to be prepared to help | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
and support students who have to rethink their plans. It's a busy 24 | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
hours because we are getting ready to make sure that we are in support | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
of the one that is need it. There's lots to do basically. It's not a sit | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
down time, this is really busy for us. With extra places available at | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
many universities this autumn, disappointment today need not mean a | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
disappointing September and there are still a few weeks left to get | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
ready for life at university. Today's A`level results are | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
make or break for those student Some may have done better than | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
anticipated and others, It's been a busy day for our | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
universities fielding calls from The University of the West | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
of England has dealt with more than 4,000 phone calls from young people | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
trying to decide their next step. The person who has been overseeing | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
it at UWE today, Jo Midley, Thank you for speaking to us. What | :06:32. | :06:44. | |
kind of help are you offering? Well, we are offering a range of help. We | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
know this is a really critical and important day for young people in | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
our region and who are really keen to take university as the next step. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
So we have been providing them with a range of advice about the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
different courses available to them, what student life will be like here, | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
the accommodation options available to them and importantly, what | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
careers the degree courses here might lead to. I guess as | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
universities you operate as businesses, so what incentives do | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
you give to students to come to you? We don't provide incentives for | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
students to come to us. We think that the degree courses we offer | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
here are great. They lead to great outcomes for our students and we | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
don't have the additional incentives other than a fantastic student | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
experience for students who choose to come here. We have been hear | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
thering are more places than ever before, do you think high fees are | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
putting students off? We don't see that actually. Our numbers are | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
fantastic. This year we have had fewer places available in clearing | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
than ever before. We are now down to the last few and so we don't see | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
that these are actually putting students off. But we see is that | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
students are really keen understand the value they're getting for the | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
investment they're making in their future. They're really keen to | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
understand about the student experience and where the degree is | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
likely to lead them after gradiation. In a moment we will hear | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
about employers `` graduation. In a moment we will hear about employers | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
saying students wh are graduates don't have the stills necessary for | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the workplace. Are you finding students are more honed in towards | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
job`based courses? Certainly our experience is students are keen to | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
understand where the degree will take them. We spend a lot of time | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
making sure our courses prepare students for the real world so life | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
after graduation. In fact, our employers have reported how happy | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
they are with the skills we develop through our degree courses, not just | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
the academic ability of our students, but the opportunities they | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
take to get involved in work experience placements, internships | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
and develop skills employers are looking for, confidence, commune | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
indication and other skills that are critical if students are going to | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
have successful careers `` communication. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Although thousands of students will leave school with | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
A`levels, employers have told us they still lack the vital skills | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Business West asked 650 local companies if young people are being | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Only 28% of them thought university graduates had the skills needed. | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
That dropped to 10% when they were asked if A`level | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
students were ready and just 5% believe those who leave school at 16 | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
So what's gone wrong and what's being done about it? | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Our business correspondent Dave Harvey reports. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
You are actually having a business network meeting in your school. Yes, | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
it's double networking in the school hall. We are in Thorne bree at the | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
Castle `` Thorne bury at the Castle School. They're coming face`to`face | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
with companies to learn a vital lesson. People buy people, and | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
people buy people they like. Next year, these students will take their | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
A`levels, but already they've learned they need something else. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Something simpler and yet scarier. The ability to talk to somebody you | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
don't know. Our generation, people are scared to talk to people, to | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
pick up the phone and ring someone is terrifying. We are reliant on | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
using Facebook and Twitter and just connecting without being able to see | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
your face. Whilst they have the hard skills when they first leave school | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
or universities, they might know the maths that they need for accounting | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and suchlike, what they haven't got are some communication skills. It's | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
a widespread complaint. Thousands of firms told business Best of their | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
exasperation with the quality of recruits. They have to do basic | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
training again. A lot of the attitude stuff. Getting up on time, | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
coming to work dressed properly. Attitude, the right attitude. A | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
combination of things. Skills, expectations and enterprise. It's | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
why so many employers turned up for this networking day. Not to recruit, | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
but to help people like Ben get ready for the world of work. So, | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
what has he learned? Obviously got enthusiastic, smiling face, looking | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
forward to meeting them, open body language, all these things. I came | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
here today, butterflies in my stomach obviously, but once I got | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
involved it becomes easier. So much easier to talk to people once I | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
relax. Can you get A*s in networking? Maybe you should. | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
It's lovely to have you with us this Thursday evening. It's been mixed | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
weather`wise. Bright and sunny one moment. Rain the next. An update | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
soon. There's plenty more still to come. Why these children's loomband | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
challenge attracted the attention of some major popstars. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
All that's still to come. A light aircraft narrowly missed | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
a tower in school grounds moments That's the finding of a report | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
into an accident near Downside Abbey Investigators say | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
the pilot did take action to avoid the tower but crashed | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
in a wooded area moments later. It was just before 11.00 on a Monday | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
morning when the aircraft came down. Despite a swift response from the | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
emergency services Glenn Packmeyer, an experienced pilot was killed | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
instantly. He had planned to started his journey home the night before | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
but delayed it to spend more time with friends. As the plane | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
approached the Abbey it came close to the tower. That was 30 metres. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
There were some people working on the roof at the time. They described | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
how the plane started an avoiding manoeuvre, ending nose up and | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
rolling to the right. The plane crashed into a tree in the Monday | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
astroery gardens soon after `` monastery. Today's report said the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
pilot's final manoeuvre had placed the aircraft at such a low height in | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
poor visible that it couldn't recover. We could have had boys and | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
girls from the school, staff injured, our workmen on the Church | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
roof seriously injured, but we were very lucky that there were no | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
fatalities, but sadly, the pilot himself died. The pilot had obtained | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
some weather information before the flight but it was thought to be | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
minimal. Investigators concluded it was a tragic accident. Glenn has his | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
own memorial here. He is believed to be a hero, believing he sacrificed | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
his life to save others. A Cheltenham man who was the first | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
to swim the length of Britain has Sean Conway swam from Lands End to | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
John O'Groats over the course of He's now running between the two | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
places, completely unsupported. His latest adventure didn't get | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
off to the best start. He was trying to take a selfie while | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
running and tripped on a rock. Roads are expected to be lined with | :14:28. | :14:40. | |
excited spectators in a few weeks' time as the UK's | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
biggest professional cycle race The tour of Britain will pass | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
through Gloucestershire, Bristol, Bath and Wiltshire | :14:48. | 2:46:55 | |
and is completely free to watch. On its first ever visit to Bristol | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the Tour of Britain will bring cyclists on the fourth stage of this | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
gruelling climb, Bridge Valley Road. Local cyclists gave it a go. I think | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
they're going to make us look rubbish. When I look back at the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
times they get up this, we will all look rubbish. It's an excellent | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
route. It's going to be fast. They'll come to a short left`hand | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
turn and it ramps up almost immediately for half a mile maybe. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
The tour will start in Worcester, tackling Snowshill before racing | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
along the A46, past Stroud, Dursley and into Bristol. This is where the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
finish will end, here on the Downs at about 3.00 on September 10th. It | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
will be a chance to see 20 world`class teams racing alongside | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
sir Bradley Wiggins. The tour had a huge welcome three years ago when | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
crowds excitedly lined the route through Somerset. The cycle fans in | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the West expect the route will be packed this year. It will be superb | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
seeing him in the Tour and having it finish on the Downs, the spectator | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
access will be immense. I expect there to be a lot of people up | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
there. It's going to be really good. What do you think about The Tour of | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Britain coming to Bristol? It's a fantastic thing for Bristol. Yes. I | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
shall be at the top of the Bridge Valley Road cheering them on. There | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
is a second chance to catch the Tour on Friday 12th September, starting | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
in Bath and snaking through wilts shire before we bid farewell to the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
peloton and its many tired legs `` Wiltshire. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Joining us now are Pete Thompson who has wanted the tour to come to | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Bristol store sometime and Andy Hawes who is the route director. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Pete, you wanted it to come to Bristol particularly for sometime. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
That's right, yeah. Having worked on it for, well, over a decade, and | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
been asking for it and eventually George Ferguson gave us the green | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
light just before he became the mayor. You think that was the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
tipping point, because he is keen on bikes? Yeah, he always popped in to | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the design office and asked us a few questions in the past about bikes | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
for charity events. Andy, let's talk about the route. Quite tough | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
especially around here, the hills and everything. Yeah, reasonably | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
tough. There are three categorised climbs that we have throughout the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
stage and two of them within this region, Snowshill and obviously the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
final, the Bridge Valley Road. You are covering a lot of the country. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
It must be tough because everybody probably wants it to come to them, | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
don't they? Yeah, it's a very tough thing to try and please the whole of | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the UK. Obviously it's The of Britain and we try and in as much as | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
we can, visiting areas that we can, but unfortunately there are winners | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
and losers each year with some regions missing out but hopefully we | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
try to get around the whole of the UK eventually. Pete, let's talk | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
about the atmosphere. What's the atmosphere going to be like, you | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
have seen it in Somerset? The closest we had to Bristol was a | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Wales finish. I was just going up in the car before and I was seeing | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
faces that I recognised from Bristol all over. If they're prepared to go | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
that far, Bridge Valley will be packed. That road, it could finish | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
your clutch off, it's a big ask. Our riders have big engines and | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
clutches. That's what it is, I am doing it wrong. A bit of a crash | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
there. That's another thing, watching the Tour de France, can | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
there almost be too much love and people taking selfies, as well? | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Yeah, I think that the crowds in Yorkshire for the Tour de France | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
were immense and we are hoping for similar for The Tour of Britain. The | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
selfie craze, I think it's probably just best, let's watch it through | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
your own eyes, instead of a screen. It's a craze at the moment. We got | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
some guidelines, try to put people off doing that because it can be | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
dangerous, you don't get a good feel of where riders are and you wouldn't | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
get a feel of how fast they're going to come past you. They do go fast. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Good luck. Looking forward to it. The next in our Wonders of the West | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
series and the City of Bath is well Tonight we're looking at one | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
of the oldest and most impressive it Yes, | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
I loved presenting Children in Need there last November and of course | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
it's Britain's only hot springs. Tonight Jenhi Osman explores | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the Roman Baths. Much of the modern city rests on the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
shoulders of the Roman engineer who is designed these baths. Despite | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
being around 2,000 years old, such is the brilliance of their design, | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
that a lot of the their plumbing and drainage systems are still in use | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
today. These are... This is an area not open to the public. But its | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
integral to the design of the complex. This round building, we | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
believe, is something that is a kind of room where there would have been | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
at the level or of our feet, piles of tiles which supported a floor and | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the hot air would have gone underneath that from a nearby | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
furnace. Like a sauna? Like a sauna but probably dry heat rather than | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
damp heat. Those rooms are actually quite pleasant rooms. Unlike the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
kind of house you may have lived in, in pre`Roman times, these rooms | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
separated heat from smoke. All this heat didn't just provide underfloor | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
heating, it heated the entire building. Here is an extraordinary | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
piece, that's where the hot air ended up in the roof structures. We | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
have the hot air coming from the bottom, up the walls in ducts, to | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the top. We have here the roof itself, we can see by the tiles, the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
concrete and then the heating system all in one. Fantastic piece. The | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
water comes out of the ground at 46C and it's still almost as hot as your | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
shower when it reaches the great bath. How did they actually get the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
hot water around the whole bath site? They used a very powerful | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
force, gravity. Of course it's good design, because gravity does all the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
work for you. It's sichly the water flows through the `` simply the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
water flows through the site and controlled by a system. Mark is | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
logicals impressed with the way `` is also impressed with the way the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Romans harnessed the springs. They had levels. They were letting it out | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
at a constant level in to the baths and in this place alone you have 45 | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
sheets of lead still remaining. In that pool? Half a ton each over an | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
inch thick. So, not only were Roman engineers brilliant at adapting | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
their technologyingses, the baths were also utterly revolutionary | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
compared to anything else in Britain at that time. `` technologies. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
The final part is tomorrow. Three schoolchildren from Frome | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
who've been busy raising money for charity during | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
the summer holiday were astounded to receive a donation from one | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
of the biggest bands in the world. Izzy, Henry and five`year`old | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Rudy Ford wanted to do something to They received lots of donations | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
online but this was one they weren't Twist it. Put it over the first two | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
fingers, which ever one. What do they say about old dogs and new | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
tricks? This is about as far as most people get. But not for Izzy, Rudy | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
and Henry. No, they've gone a little bit further than that. It starts and | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
goes through the hall, past the stairs, past the living room... | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Looming marvellous. Out to the garden there is hardly enough room | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
for it. It finishes over there. It's taken 35 hours to make. The children | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
reckon they're using 3,000 loom bands a day and although | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
measurements are tricky, we think it stretches 300 feet. It's all for | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
charity. They want to raise money for safe the children `` Save the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Children. In Gaza there is childs dying every single day and hour. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
What do you think about that? It's sad. Plenty of people have chipped | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
in, but one donation in particular stood out. Woke up and was informed | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
that we got a ?2,000 donation from cold`play `` Coldplay which was | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
amazing. Did you think it was for real? I don't know. I don't know if | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
I processed it actually. I could see the money was there and actually I | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
was contacted by Save the Children so that was really quite soon | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
afterwards so I knew immediately it was real. I didn't really have time | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
to doubt it or anything. No, I just went with it. Thanks to Chris Martin | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
and co, th they're well on the way to making ?3,000. From one huge | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
band, to another. Just spare a thought for mum. There | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
is always someone that needs to clear up at the end. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Well done! What a satisfying holiday. Brilliant work. Now another | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
really mixed day of weather. Sun, rain. Anything else? | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Funnel clouds, at least two, three. This one came across the districts. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
It's been a lively day all round. Flooding in Glastonbury. Tomorrow | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
you will be pleased to hear it will not bring anything as dramatic. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Showers around, most of them light but prolonged dry and generally | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
rather sunny spells. The showers have got going, packing | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
in through up to recently. The next line moving down, it's been giving | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
torrential downpours. All of that moving to the south`east through | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
this evening. Once it's out of the way there will be a tendency to get | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
a dryer night up and running and indeed a similar pattern to | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
tomorrow. You will see the sign for one or two showers around. The main | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
focus is to the east, late afternoon, evening. Pressure is | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
rising in from the south`west, weakly but sufficiently to ensure | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
that Saturday will be a dry day. Not so at the moment, though. The | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
sequence of showers will continue its journey down towards the | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
south`east. Gradually they will diminish and we should enter into a | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
dry night or a largely dry night. Temperatures under clearer spells | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Tomorrow we will start with a good Tomorrow we will start with a good | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
deal of dry weather. As the day wears on a few showers about, more | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
particularly towards the east of the M5. Those of you on Exmoor, probably | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
a dry day compared to some of the conditions of today certainly. Later | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
into the afternoon and the evening a tendency perhaps for one or two | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
somewhat heavier showers for a while before things dry out again. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Temperatures will be slightly up on today. Saturday is looking like a | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
dry day. Sunday we are starting to return to a blustery cooler set`up | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
that will prevail into next week, as well. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
Thank you. Commiserations or congratulations to all the A`level | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
students today. Especially actually Rose Hall, just because your mum has | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
just e`mailed us. There you go! Well done to everybody. That's it from | 2:46:56 | 2:46:55 | |
us. We are back in the 10.00 news. For now, bye. | 2:46:56 | 2:46:56 |