01/09/2014 BBC Points West

Plans for one of the biggest solar farms in the South West

have been unveiled, and it's on the Somerset Levels

British Solar Renewables wants to build the 65`acre power plant

But after spending weeks underwater during last winter's floods,

people living there aren't happy with the proposals.

Here's our Somerset correspondent, Clinton Rogers.

Pretty much as far as you could see out there was all underwater.

On a damp day here, memories of the winter flooding are vivid.

Virtually all of this land, the heart of the Somerset Ldvels,

Now the people of Aller have a new battle `

against a developer who wants to put a giant solar farm here,

At this time I can't believd the insensitivity of

the applicants but it's a commercial application, I understand that.

They are not looking at it from our point of view, they are looking at

We are supposed to be valuing the heritage of our English

countryside, but why would xou want to put an industrial development

The company behind the plan is local.

and they have already built 20 solar farms across the country.

The boss says the latest project may be their biggest,

Although Aller is in an open plain, it has some very good opportunities

to screen with the trees, as proposed in the applicathon.

We are focusing hard on hidhng the site in the best way we can

It won't be the first solar farm on the Somerset Levels.

This one near Puriton, covering 32 acres, went online in 2001.

If the Aller development gets planning permission, it will be

twice that size and generatd enough electricity to power 5500 homes

It's a tremendously historic landscape down there.

The protesters argue the price is too high in thd damage

The BBC has learnt that Swindon s Great Western Hospital still has

Last year the hospital was criticised by

the Care Quality Commission for not having enough registered nurses

Figures obtained from a Freddom of Information request

show that the hospital is still failing to achieve

the ratio of one nurse to seven elderly patients,

as recommended by the Royal College of Nursing

The hospital says it's put extra investment into staffhng.

A new awareness campaign for prostate cancer has been

It's the most common form of cancer in men.

Every year around 40,000 patients in the UK are diagnosed

The two`week event is the fhrst of its kind in Bristol and aims to get

Information leaflets and special T`shirts have bden

We have secreted over 25,000 leaflets to venues in the Bristol

area, where men gather, so barbershops, golf shops, bowls

clubs, so a large area of contact with men and also to women's

hairdressers so trying throtgh women to get them to cajole their man to

take action and look after their life.

Four years ago, it attracted over 130,000 pdople to

Gloucester Cathedral, and now a major exhibition of

sculpture from many of the world's most famous artists is back.

Works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley

and Henry Moore sit alongside dozens of other contemporary pieces.

Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.

Crucible is back to put world`class sculpture within reach of

the public, and what seems to make this a success isn't just the art

We believe the cathedral is both sacred space and common grotnd.

All the regular worship continues to take place.

But at the same time a cathddral is the kind of place where you can

experiment, where things can be seen you can't see anywhere else,

Two years in the planning, Crucible has again been curated by a team

Painstaking work to not just choose the artworks, but also where

There is the traditional, the obscure, the sometimes unnerving.

A huge range is on show, from less well`known artists to the lhkes

of Gloucestershire's Lynn Chadwick to Antony Gormley and Henry Moore.

I think it was something like ? million worth of benefit to the

local economy last time and we do know it's been nationally advertised

and people come from the art world and people are generally interested

to come and see what's going on so we're hoping to have that bdneficial

It's difficult to single out one piece of work, but surely

This is Damien Hirst's Falldn Angel and it's being seen in publhc

for the first time anywhere in the world.

It's gold`plated, obviously, and it's not until you look closely

that you realise how striking it actually is.

Boldly installed close to the altar, it shows Mary Magdalene

The paraphernalia and physical scars of

I think it's fascinating to see it all so close at hand as well, for

everyone to appreciate how beautiful the interpretation of everything is.

and a lot of his stuff, you think, shock horror.

Crucible is free and open until the end of October, a rare

chance to see the best of the modern art world amongst the medieval

But for now I'll leave you with Ian, who has the latest forecast.

Tomorrow will bring a good deal of dry weather. How much sunshhne will

be a cross any square mile hs trickier to guarantee that there

will be variable amount of cloud and sunny spells, but it will bd a warm

day. For the rest of tonight, we have lost some rain towards the

south but not necessarily all the low cloud, so towards the E`st,

places like Salisbury plain could be under low cloud by daybreak.

Temperatures could be as low as seven or eight in the countryside,

bright and sunny spells to start the day, cloudier the further is to

come, then we get into a mixture of bright and sunny spells but all

under light winds, dry condhtions, and temperatures up to around 2

Celsius. We continue with those warm temperatures through the wedk ahead

but again thick cloud cover could remain a bit of a headache. Matt

Taylor will will also feel fairly warm, and the

cloud will make a difference to the temperature as Matt Taylor explains.

Good evening. If you have left it late for your summer break this

year, the weather will probably be kind to you. Most places will be dry

and it will be fairly warm as well. Most places will see temperatures in

the high teens, but they could reach the mid-20s. The problem is judging

those cloud breaks from day-to-day. The high pressure is settling things

down, but also dragging in some cloud and we have this weather front

trapped, which at the moment is producing some heavy bursts of rain

over Kent and Sussex. It will be a misty and murky night towards the

east. Clearer skies, and in the countryside temperatures will get

down to silver figures. Light winds in the morning, and where we have

the sunshine it shouldn't feel too chilly. The weather front is still

tangled amongst the high pressure, anywhere from Teeside to the

south-east it will potentially be a