:00:11. > :00:11.Good evening. news at Ten.
:00:12. > :00:13.Taunton has been chosen to become one of the large
:00:14. > :00:15.scale "garden towns", under new plans announced
:00:16. > :00:19.As we've just been hearing in the national news,
:00:20. > :00:21.the idea is to create new communities with green
:00:22. > :00:22.spaces, affordable homes and good transport links.
:00:23. > :00:28.Somerset's county town of Taunton is now an official garden town,
:00:29. > :00:36.which means it's unlocked ?350,000 to push forward
:00:37. > :00:47.The idea of this part of money is to enable better advice, better
:00:48. > :00:51.consultation, access to other parts of money and other funds, so that
:00:52. > :00:54.the housing developments we bring forward become much more
:00:55. > :00:54.sustainable, much more pleasant places to live.
:00:55. > :00:56.The plan is to build new distinct communities,
:00:57. > :00:58.with 8,000 new homes, alongside crucially good
:00:59. > :01:08.transport links, green spaces and local facilities.
:01:09. > :01:18.We've got 3500 people on the waiting list, for starters in Taunton. We
:01:19. > :01:21.have 74% of the people in Taunton working in Taunton, so the
:01:22. > :01:24.construction is important to us. We have the railway, the motorway, we
:01:25. > :01:29.have employment sites we are trying to develop. It is not just another
:01:30. > :01:32.housing, you see, what about the town itself and place making. We're
:01:33. > :01:33.pretty proud of our county town and want to improve it.
:01:34. > :01:38.The locals we spoke to agreed it can't just be about house building.
:01:39. > :01:46.You know, the hospitals, the schools, etc. The roads.
:01:47. > :01:49.So you need that as well as the houses?
:01:50. > :01:52.Yes. My family just have a struggle getting eight girl into school down
:01:53. > :01:55.the road, but they are building new houses near us. -- getting a girl
:01:56. > :01:58.into the school. So what you need to matter more
:01:59. > :02:01.schools? Yes, many more schools.
:02:02. > :02:03.Stop too many developers, put them somewhere else.
:02:04. > :02:07.But not in my backyard. But in body said that, we were never
:02:08. > :02:08.have any more homes! I don't care.
:02:09. > :02:10.This award will help unlock more funding for Taunton,
:02:11. > :02:12.and attention will soon pass to the town centre, next
:02:13. > :02:20.Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man
:02:21. > :02:22.was found stabbed to death on Christmas Eve.
:02:23. > :02:25.Mohammed Abdurezek's body was discovered in Syston
:02:26. > :02:35.Detectives investigating his death have also been searching a block
:02:36. > :02:40.Three men, one aged 42 and two who are 22, are being questioned.
:02:41. > :02:43.It's hoped around two thirds of artefacts which were being stored
:02:44. > :02:46.at a disused museum in Swindon could be saved, after a fire
:02:47. > :02:52.Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the blaze
:02:53. > :02:54.at the old Coate Agricultural Museum on Saturday.
:02:55. > :02:56.The museum had been closed for decades, but a number
:02:57. > :03:01.A charity which is opening a new hospice for children
:03:02. > :03:03.in Wiltshire says it's struggling to recruit staff.
:03:04. > :03:08.Julia's House already provides respite for over a hundred families
:03:09. > :03:13.at its hospice in Dorset, but the charity is opening
:03:14. > :03:18.It says a shortage of paediatric nurses has made it harder to recruit
:03:19. > :03:24.Empty properties in Bristol are being transformed by a group
:03:25. > :03:30.It's hoped the scheme could save the city council money,
:03:31. > :03:34.help people find homes and rehabilitate former prisoners.
:03:35. > :03:39.This two-bed terrace has stood empty for a year,
:03:40. > :03:47.But now, a social enterprise group's stepped in to provide
:03:48. > :03:53.They gave us a house and said, here you go,
:03:54. > :03:57.We turned it around and about seven working days.
:03:58. > :04:02.We can do it for this price, you know, that is
:04:03. > :04:06.We will not add on crazy extras and high cost and things.
:04:07. > :04:15.It is a shame to have so many buildings in Bristol that are empty
:04:16. > :04:17.and when we have got an issue with homelessness.
:04:18. > :04:20.Like many others, this place was due to be sold off.
:04:21. > :04:22.But since the scheme, the council is realising
:04:23. > :04:24.the financial benefits of holding onto its homes.
:04:25. > :04:26.We're taking them off the for sale list.
:04:27. > :04:28.We have got the resources to repair them.
:04:29. > :04:31.It's saving us a lot of money in terms of having to put
:04:32. > :04:33.people into B or hotels or private, temporary accommodation.
:04:34. > :04:38.So although we are spending money, we are actually investing money
:04:39. > :04:48.Each refurbished home could save the council ?400 a week.
:04:49. > :04:51.There are plans to renovate 50 empty properties.
:04:52. > :04:54.That adds up to around a million pounds a year.
:04:55. > :04:58.And - as all those employed are former prisoners -
:04:59. > :05:03.they benefit too from career opportunities.
:05:04. > :05:05.Some are given the chance to stay on the right track,
:05:06. > :05:08.and others get the chance to get off the streets.
:05:09. > :05:16.With housing associations also looking to renovate rather
:05:17. > :05:21.On to sport, and it has not been a great start to 2017 for our football
:05:22. > :05:24.teams. Bristol city lost the next time to
:05:25. > :05:28.Reading in the championship, having been ahead for a lot of the match.
:05:29. > :05:34.Bristol Rovers lost 4-1 away to Charlton. Meanwhile, Swindon managed
:05:35. > :05:40.a goalless true against Southend. -- goalless draw. In League 2, but
:05:41. > :05:42.Yeovil and Cheltenham lost 2-0 away from home. Let's catch up with the
:05:43. > :05:49.weather now. Ian has our forecast. Good evening to you. We are in for a
:05:50. > :05:50.cold night, with widespread frost around, but tomorrow morning,
:05:51. > :05:57.Agudelo sunshine together day underway. A general trend of Seymour
:05:58. > :06:00.cloud into the afternoon and evening. We have a Met Office
:06:01. > :06:04.warning out through tonight and tomorrow morning for the likelihood
:06:05. > :06:08.of icy stretches on roads and pavements. That is courtesy of the
:06:09. > :06:10.frost which will be in some abundance first lights tomorrow.
:06:11. > :06:16.Unsurprisingly, with temperatures dropping perhaps as low as -5 in
:06:17. > :06:20.some parts of Somerset. So, tomorrow morning, frosty start likely, maybe
:06:21. > :06:23.the odd patch of freezing fog around, most areas starting with
:06:24. > :06:26.plenty of sunshine. The general theme as we run through the day will
:06:27. > :06:29.be a bit more in the way of cloud around. Still some brighter spells,
:06:30. > :06:33.but their club will be thickening up towards evening from the north, and
:06:34. > :06:37.it is here where we might just get one or two spots of light rain as
:06:38. > :06:41.they get late into the day. Temperatures tomorrow recovering
:06:42. > :06:46.after that cold start, could get up to a 5-7 C in afternoon. We will
:06:47. > :06:49.find the week wears and that there is something of mixed fortunes with
:06:50. > :06:54.temperature trends. They will drop off again at the tail end of
:06:55. > :06:57.Wednesday into Thursday. Lots of sunshine around by Thursday.
:06:58. > :07:01.Thereafter, much more cloud, but Ambridge is continuing to climb
:07:02. > :07:03.towards the weekend. Looking fairly mild by them. -- temperatures
:07:04. > :07:10.continuing to climb. And before we go, have you made a
:07:11. > :07:12.New Year's resolution? . We asked to review what you are hoping to
:07:13. > :07:16.change. I don't make them. If you want a
:07:17. > :07:20.goal, set your goal and do it any time of the year.
:07:21. > :07:24.Give up smoking. Still like my drink, so I can't give that up.
:07:25. > :07:30.It's always lose weight, isn't it? That's the top one. Or stop
:07:31. > :07:35.drinking. But you don't, do you? Really good, obviously! Drink more
:07:36. > :07:42.cider! That's about it! Well, tomorrow, we will be meeting a
:07:43. > :07:45.woman who gave up sugar completely. Becky Murray cut it out after she
:07:46. > :07:51.was diagnosed with diabetes. Join us tomorrow to find out how she got on.
:07:52. > :07:55.That is at 6:30 p.m.. That is it from us for now. We are back with
:07:56. > :08:04.the News at ten o'clock. For now, I will say goodbye MCU later. Goodbye.
:08:05. > :08:13.Good evening. It has been turning colder and clearer and our weather
:08:14. > :08:16.watchers have been capturing the sunshine. Here is the scene in
:08:17. > :08:22.Derbyshire and where we have had the clear skies by day, we are in for a
:08:23. > :08:26.cold night tonight. Temperatures already plummeting, particularly
:08:27. > :08:29.towards the south with some icy stretches across parts of central
:08:30. > :08:33.and southern England, and into Wales. For the north-west, not as
:08:34. > :08:39.cold, as we have the cloud building. But to the south we could see
:08:40. > :08:43.temperatures down to minus four or five first thing Tuesday morning. If
:08:44. > :08:47.you have a commute back to work, bear in mind you will have to scrape
:08:48. > :08:53.the car and there could be the odd patch of mist and freezing fog. But
:08:54. > :08:54.many of us staying dry. More cloud in the north and west.