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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Johnny Johnson from Bristol is the last British veteran | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
of the those daring raids into the Nazi heartland. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Now, Michael Buerk takes him back to Germany. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
The Dambuster raid was one of the most extraordinary raids in history. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
But the whole bombing campaign against Germany | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
in the Second World War remains strategically and | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Johnny meets a man almost killed in the raids, | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
as even some Germans call for Mr Johnson to be knighted. | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
The police stage a series of raids to cut off the drugs | :00:47. | :00:59. | |
A boxer on the ropes but still fighting. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
A fund to help an athlete diagnosed with cancer. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
Cancer is in the red corner but I am still strong in the blue. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Peaches Golding is the first black woman in Britain to be appointed | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Good evening, and welcome to a special edition of Points West. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
The growing calls for Britain's last surviving Dambuster, | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
George Johnny Johnson from Bristol, to be honoured. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Over 300,000 people have now signed a petition demanding a knighthood | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
for the man who took part in one of the most daring flying missions | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
When we hear "Dambusters", we automatically think of the 1950s | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
But that was just a dramatisation of one of the many missions | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
which RAF Bomber Command flew over Germany. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
The actual Dambusters raids began late one May evening in 1943. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
19 Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron took off from Britain to attack | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
three different dams, the Mohne, the Eder, and the Sorpe. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Johnny Johnson's squadron was heading for the Sorpe, | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
an altogether different design not at all suited to the bouncing bomb. | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
One which needed a completely different, more audacious approach. | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
As part of our 60th birthday year, we invited internationally acclaimed | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
reporter Michael Buerk, who began his broadcasting career | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
here at BBC Bristol, to take Mr Johnson back to Germany. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
They went to the place where he dropped his bombs and met | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
Johnny Johnson may be looking at the present, | :02:43. | :02:55. | |
He's back, three-quarters of a century, to a moonlit night, | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
As a young man, he was part of RAF Bomber Command. | :03:02. | :03:16. | |
Part of the sustained, lethal campaign against the Nazis' | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
war machine that all but destroyed many of Germany's cities. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
A huge lake held back by the great Sorpe Dam. | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
It's a tourist resort these days out of season. | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
But 74 years ago, it was the target for the most famous | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
The mission involved dropping specially invented bombs designed | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
The Mohne, Eder and Sorpe Dams, captured in the 1950s | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
As a bomb aimer, Johnny Johnson's job was to hit the Sorpe Dam. | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
Our briefing was to fly across the dam to drop the bomb | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
as near as possible to the centre of the dam. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
After six or seven of those, a voice from the back of rear turret, | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
"Won't someone get rid of that bomb out of here." | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
And, on the tenth run we were actually down to 30 feet. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
But ten times, you headed over the hill, over the town, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
down very sharply, 30 feet, drop it precisely in the middle, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Ten times you tried before you got it right? | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
It was something we hadn't practised at all in training, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
So it was practise, practise, practise here. | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Did you on this raid or any other have any thoughts for the people | :04:54. | :05:06. | |
Not doing the actual operation at that time. | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
Fritz Wortmann, then 14, was hiding in a tunnel | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The perfect air raid shelter, or so he thought. | :05:19. | :05:30. | |
TRANSLATION: We went to the dam and got down to about 50 metres. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
After a certain time we heard the sound of engines. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
The intensity kept going up and down. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Until suddenly there was a deafening explosion. | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
The doors inside the dam burst open, and there | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
Johnny's bomb was spot-on, but not enough to breach the Sorpe. | :05:58. | :06:18. | |
Eight Lancasters were designated to hit the dam that night. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
But the other Dambusters blew great holes in the Mohne and Eder Dams. | :06:22. | :06:33. | |
This old footage taken by an off-duty German soldier shows | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
the breach at the Eder Dam two days after the attacks. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
Industrial valleys were flooded, depriving war factories | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
of the water that they needed, badly frightening | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
ARCHIVE: Wing Commander Gibson VC who led the great | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
Lancaster raid over the dams, escorts the king during a visit | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
by Their Majesties to an air station in the north of England. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
It was a godsend to a nation desperate for a victory. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Johnny was there that day, personally congratulated by | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at RAF Scampton. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
..And resulted in enormous damage and dislocation to Germany's... | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
No matter 1,300 German civilians had died. | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
No matter the damage to Nazi war production was only temporary. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
The war's supreme feat of precision flying had dealt Hitler | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
Now as two old men by the side of a lake where they both nearly | :07:28. | :07:50. | |
Friends now, until the end of their days. | :07:51. | :08:04. | |
And later in the programme, Michael will explore why Mr Johnson | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
may have been overlooked for a knighthood and why the men | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
of Bomber Command have never received a campaign medal. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Four people have been arrested in simultaneous raids in London this | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
morning in connection with the supply of class A drugs | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
The constabulary made the arrests with help | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs joined the operation | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
in Peckham and Lewisham in the early hours of this morning. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
This is the culmination of a long investigation. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Stand-by, stand-by, strike, strike, strike! | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
30 police officers from Gloucestershire carry out | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
simultaneous strikes on four buildings, to arrest four people | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
they believe are heavily involved in supplying drugs into the county. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Within minutes, all four targets are arrested. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Three men and one woman, all on suspicion of | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
All, apart from one of them, are also suspected | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
With the suspects in custody, specialist search teams | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
and scenes of crime officers look in every nook | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
At the moment we've seized a quantity of cash, | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
various mobile phones, documentation regarding | :09:19. | :09:19. | |
These arrests were part of Operation Sideswipe, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
aimed at targeting so-called dangerous drugs networks. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Effectively, gangs who prey on vulnerable users | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
They'll often take over someone's house to deal from, | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
so-called cuckooing, all under threat | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
This is one of the most significant operations launched | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
by Gloucestershire Constabulary in recent years. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
It's taken months of gathering intelligence and analysing that | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
intelligence, and detectives say it proves their determination to show | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
that Gloucestershire isn't an easy target for those who want to deal | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
These people think they can come in to Gloucester and commit | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
the crimes they are doing, selling drugs to our | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
young vulnerable people, and exploiting people. | :10:02. | :10:02. | |
This is why it's important that we do take the fight back to them. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
They know who we are, and we look at arresting them | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
and seizing their assets that are obtained through | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
All four arrested today are still in custody, | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
as the investigation into serious drug dealing in Gloucestershire | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
continues in and away from the county. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Steve Knibbs, BBC Points West, London. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Peaches Golding says she's delighted at being chosen to be | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
She'll be the first black person in history to be a lord lieutenant | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
when she takes up the role in six weeks' time. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
The ceremonial role means she's the Queen's representative | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
in the city, and Peaches says she'll do all she can to | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
I think the term you guys use is "gobsmacked". | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
That just doesn't happen to ordinary people like me. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
So, I guess, what it does prove is ordinary people can do | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
She says her father who was a civil rights campaigner has always | :11:05. | :11:16. | |
inspired her to fight for fairness and equality, something she says she | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
will continue to do as Lord Lieutenant. | :11:22. | :11:21. | |
Congratulations to her. A fundraising campaign's been | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
launched for a Bristol boxer who's been diagnosed | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
with incurable cancer. Dean Francis, who won many | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
titles in his career, has been told been by doctors | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
there's nothing more they can do. But now the boxing world is helping | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
him in his biggest fight yet. Of all these champion | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
boxers from Bristol, one has been handed | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
the fight of his life. Dean Francis has bowel cancer, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
and it's spread to his liver. He has between six months, | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
and three years to live. When they initially | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
told me, I was numb. Me and my wife were | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
looking at each other. I am going to approach it | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
in the same way, positive, Cancer is in the red corner but I am | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
still strong in the blue. And his support in that corner | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
led by a world champion. He has always been | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
a mentally strong person. He would come in the gym dancing, | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
so confident about himself. I wanted to be like him, | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
just the way he spoke to people I'm going to be just as strong | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
for him, we will together. We are convinced we are | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
going to beat this. The plan is to raise | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
?100,000 online, to explore At times, it makes me emotional | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
when I think about how much people My only wish is that, | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
when I was fighting, they were around so I could have | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
sold more tickets! But, yes, honestly, | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
it is heart-warming! The fight is still very | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
much in Dean Francis. Against the ropes, yes, | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
but he's never been beaten easily. His spirit is so admirable, | :13:15. | :13:32. | |
incredible. I am sure his positive vibes will | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
beat it. Gloucestershire's triple | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Olympic gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin has received | :13:39. | :13:39. | |
a CBE for services to equestrianism. She was presented with the honour | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
by Her Majesty the Queen. Charlotte is the most successful | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
British dressage rider ever. It's been confirmed that | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Gloucester Rugby head coach It follows Saturday's 30-27 defeat | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
by Harlequins at Kingsholm. Fisher later tweeted | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
that it was "time to make Bristol City take on Norwich | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
tonight at Ashton Gate, looking to climb out | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
of the Championship relegation zone. They dropped into the bottom | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
three for the first time this season on Saturday, | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
following their goalless City have won just twice | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
in 21 league games. We return now to our main story, | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
and the growing campaign to award a knighthood to Britain's last | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
surviving Dambuster George "Johnny" Earlier in the programme, | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
our guest reporter Michael Buerk took Mr Johnson back to Germany | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
to revisit the dam he bombed and to be reconciled | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
with his former enemy. It's hard for any of us to imagine | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
what Johnny and his fellow airmen would have seen and felt, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
as they flew low over the Sorpe Dam. We've created this 360 degree video | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
which hopefully will give If we run this video for you, | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
instead of approaching the dam from across the water like the other | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
two missions, Johnny's aircraft had to negotiate this hilltop | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
village into the valley so that he could drop his bomb | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
in the middle of the dam. They hadn't been able to practise, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
and it took ten attempts before Johnny finally succeeded | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
in hitting his target. They then had to make | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
their escape over the forest. This 360 film is on our | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Facebook page now. So to Michael's second film | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
in which he explores why the men of Bomber Command have never | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
received a campaign medal. And he joins us afterwards | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
to discuss why Johnny Johnson may have been overlooked | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
for a knighthood. It was by far the most dangerous | :15:45. | :15:45. | |
campaign of the war. Half those who took off to bomb | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
Germany never came back. Of those who returned, | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
only a few, now mostly 57,500 RAF Bomber Command | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
airmen were lost. Historians believe these aircrews | :16:00. | :16:11. | |
were responsible for the deaths of a quarter of a million | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
German civilians. Nobody doubts the bravery | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
and sacrifice. But what did it achieve, | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
and was it justified? It's still controversial today, | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
and the reason perhaps Bomber Command never | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
got its own campaign medal. Just this thin and nondescript | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
class, grudging, 70 years later, given to Bomber Command veterans | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
three years ago. Johnny Johnson, last of | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
the British Dambusters, despises it. Disgusted is the best | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
way I can describe it. I feel that there has been no | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
attempt to recognise the sacrifice ARCHIVE: The largest convoy ever | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
taken to Russia is feeling its way through the danger belt | :16:56. | :17:09. | |
north of Scandinavia. The worst journey in the world, | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Churchill called it. The veterans of the Arctic convoys | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
who took arms and munitions to Stalin's Russia were finally | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
recognised at the same time. It gives me huge pleasure | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
to give you that. They were given their own full-blown | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
campaign medal, the Arctic Star. It has made the surviving bomber | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
boys feel even more rejected and fuelled the arguments over | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
what they did, arguments I do think the reluctance to issue | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
a Bomber Command medal at this stage does reflect how controversial | :17:35. | :17:47. | |
it is, and the possible upset it would cause | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
in Germany if they do, oh, they're decorating these people | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
who destroyed our parents' cities. There is an embarrassment | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
and uncertainty about how we should The city was attacked | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
nearly 80 times. And now they are going | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
to reap the whirlwind. For years, it was the only | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
way Britain that could Five million Germans | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
lost their homes. But critics say Bomber Command's | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
impact on the war effort was less than claimed, | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
and the continued destruction of German cities when the war | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
was nearly won unjustifiable. Johnny Johnson is | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
having none of that. Do you think that one of the reasons | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
that Bomber Command wasn't properly recognised was almost a sense | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
of shame at the death and destruction that | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Bomber Command caused? But I am quite convinced that | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Bomber Command fought the war I have a better version for what I | :18:59. | :19:12. | |
called retrospective historians. Were you personally aware | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
of the circumstances The answer to both | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
those questions is, no. Johnny Johnson had | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
a troubled childhood. An ordinary boy swept up by the war | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
into the most famous RAF Not a hero, he says, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
not brave really. You say your lack of fear, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
your lack of emotion I had the misfortune or tragedy | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
of losing my mother a fortnight From my early youth, | :19:56. | :20:09. | |
a lot of the emotion They flew into history on the most | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
famous bombing raid of them all. He is the last one left in Britain, | :20:13. | :20:24. | |
the last one who can I feel very satisfied that I did | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
what I could during the war. And I feel, in fact, | :20:28. | :20:45. | |
honoured to have had the chance to take part, | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
certainly, and in A chance to do my bit | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
towards the war effort. That, I think, is the one | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
thing I feel a proudness. Yes, proud that I | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
was able to do that. Michael, thank you for coming | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
in to talk to us about this. What was it like to take | :21:09. | :21:22. | |
Johnny Johnson back to Germany? From my point of view, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
a real privilege. Living history, the last | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
remaining British Dambuster, of the most famous bombing mission | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
of the war, any war. To actually go back with him | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
to the very point where That's so patronising, | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
but really bright as a button. And to be there, you can see what it | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
meant to him, see it in his eyes. You don't get the emotion, | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
he is of that generation. As a television viewer, | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
or being there, the emotions going through his mind | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
even if he wasn't, even if his As journalists, we have | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
to keep out of politics. But what do you think | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
about this honours business? Well, his point of view | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
is that he would love a knighthood. On behalf of all the people who lost | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
their lives in Bomber command. And all those who went | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
through it all and survived And they never got this | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
campaign medal for all sorts And he feels, I think, as a lot | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
of people running this campaign, if he got a knighthood, this would | :22:33. | :22:44. | |
be the recognition that has so far A higher casualty rate | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
than any other units in the war. A lot of people feel | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
they weren't recognised, Then, the human cost | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
of it, in Germany. We could do a moral maze programme | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
about this, couldn't we? They bombed Bristol, bombed, | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Coventry, that kind of stuff. It was the only way we could hit | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
back for a large portion of the war. I think it becomes more morally | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
questionable when you get to the end of the war, | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
when this huge bombing campaign was going on, | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
and it was not particularly precise, Anyway, we were winning the war, | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
should it have gone on so long, should so many more | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
have been killed. Some morally questionable | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
areas there. But Johnny wasn't | :23:38. | :23:38. | |
having any of that. From his point of view, | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
you had to be up there When Points West started | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
going on air, this would What you brought out of your film | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
was a beautiful moment, this sense Yes, the other thing | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
that was interesting, in Germany, We haven't got one, | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
they have got one there! The chap who runs the Dambusters | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Museum who came to see us, he thinks Johnny ought | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
to get a knighthood. He thinks Bomber Command | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
ought to be recognised. If the Germans think that, | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
there is the interesting argument that perhaps we should | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
think that too. Welcome back to the west, | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
what was it like to come back? I came down White Ladies | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Road, and it all came You are welcome at any | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
time, just don't ask to present the news, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Michael! I did ask to present | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
the news all those years ago and they turned me down, | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
I'm afraid. And you can watch even more | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
of Johnny's journey back to Germany She is in London tonight. If Michael | :24:42. | :25:09. | |
would have asked to do the weather, he would have had a cracking | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
picture. Some of them sum up the day. Here it | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
is, blue sky with Cloud pushing towards us. Stretching all the way | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
back to the Atlantic which means normally you have some rain in the | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
forecast. That is what is happening in the next few hours, a rain band | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
pushing in, and a warm front bringing milder air. We see a tangle | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
of other fronts. Downhill in terms of the weather but uphill as it work | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
in terms of temperatures. As the rain pumps in tonight, it boosts the | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
temperature up to 11 degrees tomorrow morning. A different start | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
to this morning. But the continued to see more rain. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Flight and patchy through the day, some hill fog. Drier interludes | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
particularly in Gloucestershire before further rain by the end of | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
the day. Look at these temperatures, it will feel like spring even though | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
you have some rain, 13 degrees. The rain pushes away tomorrow night. | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Into Thursday, a ridge of high pressure builds in, meaning we are | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
looking at a cracking day on Thursday. Some cloud at first. Some | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
breaks in the clouds from the north in the afternoon, sunny and bright | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
styles coming through. On the breezy side but not significant winds. 14 | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
Celsius. It will feel very nice. Friday, continuing to hold onto the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
milder air. There could be some patchy rain at times. Bright spells | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
at weekends. Colder at the start of next week. | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
Thank you so much for being on tonight. | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
You've been watching a special edition of Points West. | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
Thank you for your company this evening. | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
We leave you tonight with just a few images of Britain's last | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Dambuster George "Johnny" Johnson on his emotional return to Germany. | :27:09. | :28:13. | |
I could be a boxing champ, AND build your computer. | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
I am more than just the beard or the nation's favourite dish. | :28:18. | :28:21. |