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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
thousands of days off sick due to stress and anxiety - | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
I was ending up just crying on every single night shift. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
I had three bleepers on me at one stage, | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
We'll be asking how the healers can be helped. | :00:19. | :00:32. | |
The 800 candidates seeking to run some of our biggest councils | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
and the six bidding to be the worst's first metro mayor. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Teaching infants how to survive in the water - | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
a mother who lost her son tries to prevent other tragedies. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
And on a roll - the lawn bowls player hoping for Ghld | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
New evidence has emerged about the pressures on doctors | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
with news that thousands of sick days are being lost | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
They account for about a third of all sickness | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
in hospitals across the west, but at the Bristol Royal Infirmary | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Our health correspondent Matthew Hill has been hearing | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
from one junior doctor who could not cope and has left the profession. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
The seniors, they just took me outside, they completely shouted | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
at me and said how much money I had cost their hospital. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
This doctor, who wants to remain anonymous, | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
says stress levels became so intense while working in A in Bristol | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
that she became suicidal, and that's why she left medicine. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Doctors like her also have to put up with abuse from patients, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
with one in four saying they suffer from it. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Elbowed in the throat, this hospital worker | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
is being attacked by a drunk, aggressive patient. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Nationally, last year, stress accounted for 37% of all | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
But our figures show that, for the NHS, University Hospitals | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
Bristol had 46% sick days attributed to anxiety, stress or depression. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
That's almost five years lost in a year alone. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
The trust has declined my request for an interview, but in statement | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
says it is concerned about this growth in absence from anxiety, | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
It says that it offers all staff a well-being programme, | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
which includes a health MOT, and it says it now gathers data | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
on absences and a much better way, but it's still not possible | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
to say whether they are due to problems at work or at home. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
But these figures may be an underestimate. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
As we've been told, not every doctor was willing to admit they took time | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
This doctor took time off from stress. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
At the time she didn't declare it and just said she was ill. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
So, it was very common for us to work 12 days in a role. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
A few of those would be 13-hour shifts, and you come in early, | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Often you don't get to take breaks, just | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
And even though people say, oh, you must take breaks, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
you feel like you can't, because if you do then somebody's | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
life, somebody's care might suffer for it, | :03:27. | :03:27. | |
and that would be on your conscience. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
The Department of Health says the latest staff survey shows that | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
some measures were improving, with levels of work stress | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
at the lowest levels nationally in four years. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
I really would describe it as a really strong sense of dread, | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
of not wanting to get out of bed, and then eventually I was like, | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
I sometimes would find colleagues hiding in cupboards crying, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Is and you'd just get used to that, as if that's a normal | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
With growing staff shortages, this unrelenting pressure | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
Matthew Hill, BBC Points West, Bristol. | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
Dr Lucy-Jane Davis is a junior doctor who is a member | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
of the British Medical Association, which represents | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
thanks for coming in. Medicine has always been stressful and life or | :04:10. | :04:23. | |
death, so what has changed? You are right it has always been | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
stressful. One of the things that has changed in the last year or so | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
is the funding has decreased, but also for junior doctors, we have had | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
a contract dispute which led to industrial action. That was very | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
stressful in itself. It has made a lot of people ask, what is the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
point? Where are we going? How do we cope? Morale has been undermined | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
significantly by what happened. All the consultants sitting at home | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
and saying that you should have been around in the 70s when I was | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
training when there were longer hours and a few resources. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
That is probably true and sometimes it is helpful to go back and look at | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
history. One of the things that has actually changed is how patients | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
come in now. People used to come and stay in hospital for several weeks | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
but now they must get sent home much quicker, so the job has changed a | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
lot as well. As we agreed, it has always been | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
stressful, but I guess doctors rely on their support from members of the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
team. And from their consultants and managers and so on. Is that | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
happening? Are those systems in place? | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Sometimes they are and when a team works really well that is great, and | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
that is what is needed. And sometimes the pressure on a | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
department can be so great that actually things fall apart. The | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
other thing that has changed is the way that they work. We work far more | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
in shifts so we do not necessarily work in the same team, and that can | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
be very stressful at times. It is hard to get into medical | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
school and be a doctor, but as one of the things people are told over | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
again if this is a stressful environment. Is it for you? Can you | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
cope? Could you do a shift at A? What changed? People must say, yes, | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
I can, and then reality kicks in? I don't know. You start medical | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
school with absolute dedication, most people, that they are really | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
caring and compassionate and dedicated. But actually some of us | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
never wanted to do A I never wanted to do A That is not where | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
my heart lies and where I am good at, but we actually all go through | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the system and learn and do foundation jobs and other clinical | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
jobs as well. Actually, different people find different routes through | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
medicine soothed them. But the problem is when the stress and | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
burn-out becomes so great that actually all of that caring and | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
dedication is lost. And A is not the best part of what | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
you do? Lovely to have you on the programme. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
The three-month-old, who was from Swindon, died | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
at Bristol Children's Hospital last Friday. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Wiltshire Police say the man was previously arrested on suspicion | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Police say they've had several calls from the public following a renewed | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
appeal for information about a 30-year-old unsolved murder. | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
66-year-old Helen Fleet was killed in Worlebury Woods | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Following a re-appeal for information on the 30th | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
anniversary of her murder, police say some of the calls they've | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
had have provided them with names and they are looking | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
The men and women aiming to run the west for the next four | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
Several of our biggest councils are holding | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
elections in a month's time, while a brand new metro mayor | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
will also be chosen for the Bristol and Bath area. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Today was the deadline for anyone wanting to stand, | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Nearly everyone across the region will have local elections taking | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
The biggest single contest is for a west of England | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
mayor, covering Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Then, in the three neighbouring counties, | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Wiltshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire are all presently | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
So, who's thrown their hat into the ring? | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
The metro mayor contest is the big one, and, | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
while the official announcement will be tomorrow, it looks | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Conservative Tim Bowles, Labour's Lesley Mansell, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Stephen Williams for the Liberal Democrats, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Darren Hall of the Greens, Ukip's Aaron Foot, | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
But the numbers of candidates standing elsewhere gives an insight | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Across the three counties, the Conservatives have a full slate. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
The Lib Dems have got more standing this time, with gaps in just | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Ukip, who made their big breakthrough last time, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
face an uphill battle - the number they have | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
The Greens will contest nearly half of all seats, | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
But rather telling is what's happening to Labour - | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
they've struggled to get candidates in Gloucestershire and | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Wiltshire, and have fewer standing than last time. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
They tried not to let that overshadow today's | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Shadow Cabinet member Keir Starmer was the guest of honour | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
at the Guildhall in Gloucester to launch Labour's | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
For all parties, the candidates are in now place, and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Thank you very much. But let's take a bit deeper. | :09:37. | :09:50. | |
As we learn who is in the running to be the new mayor for the west | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
of England, we've been looking into what the job may entail. | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
It's a new position created by Government to channel more money | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
But so far it's yet to really engage the voters, as Robin Markwell | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
For 800 years, Bristol and mayors have gone hand-in-glove. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
There's the Lord Mayor, with all the pomp and ceremony | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
of the post, and, more recently, an elected mayor too, | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
a job currently held by However they Labour's Marvin Rees. | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
a job currently held by Labour's Marvin Rees. | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Now, at the bidding of Government, voters are being asked | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
to choose a third mayor, not just for Bristol but for | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset too. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
The idea is that they will bang the drum for the West in Westminster. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
My personal hope as an officer is that we get somebody | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
who is a strong spokesperson for the region, and is effective | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
in getting more powers, more money for the region. | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
The metro mayor would be based initially at Bristol's Engine Shed | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
On housing, they'd help choose how many homes | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
the region needs and decide whether they should be built. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
Whether or not it's on the greenbelt is the big bone of contention. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
They'd franchise bus services, pay for community transport, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
control key roads and have the power to bring in a clean air zone, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
and that could mean a ban on polluting vehicles. | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
They would have money, too, the best part of ?1 billion | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
over the next 30 years to go on infrastructure, and last | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
of all they might try to put up business taxes, raising rates to pay | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Well, Keynsham in North East Somerset as they come with a fair | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
few traffic problems of its own, so what would a metro mayor armed | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
with ?30 million per year to play with do for a town like this? | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
But on the streets it was a case of, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
"Election? What election?" | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Are you pleased to have another election? No. | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
You know what this person is going to do. | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
Well, I don't see why we need one, really. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Have you heard of the metro mayor? No. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
What you think it might be? Something to do with the Metrobus? | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
At the tattoo parlour, the thought of another | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
politician seemed painful, but the idea of spending that | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
If I was metro mayor for the day, well, maybe a given free transport | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
for old people and take them out for the day and do something. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
I am sure people will get into that as we talk about it more. At the end | :12:20. | :12:45. | |
of the programme we will give you details of how you can be part of a | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
special debate programme on the subject of the new mayor for the | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
West of England. Yes, and there's lots more | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
still to come, including: Why one mum is throwing children | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
in at the deep end to teach And make a wish - | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
Cheltenham's famous Fish Clock 250 soldiers from Wiltshire have set | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
off to join a Nato taskforce today, designed to deter Russian aggression | :13:01. | :13:15. | |
in the Baltics. Operation Cabrit will see UK | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
troops join up with others from France and Denmark, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
and is Britain's largest Nato British boots on the move - brought | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
in by bus into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire this morning | :13:23. | :13:36. | |
from their base camp in Bulford. Their ride was already waiting | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
on the runway, as the UK moves troops into the Baltic | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
state of Estonia, part of an international force - | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
a demonstration of strength There is a series of measures that | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Nato are activating at the moment, in order to deter that Russian | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
adventurism that we have The deployment of the enhanced | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
presence battle troops The 250 troops flying out of here | :14:03. | :14:14. | |
today will join a similar amount already in Estonia, and eventually | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
there will be 800 UK troops there. And that is the country's largest | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
contribution to a Nato deployment Last week, these heavy-duty green | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
machines headed out ahead by boat - armoured vehicles supporting | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
the 1,100 soldiers being stationed in Estonia | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
for the next eight months. There's Latvian, Estonian troops, | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
French troops, American troops, and several troops of different | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
nations taking part in exercises all around Poland | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
and so on and so forth as well. It's important that we all | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
band together, if you will, and show solidarity, | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
if nothing else. British troops will make up the bulk | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
of the Nato force there, joined by French, Estonian | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
and Danish soldiers too. Officially, they're called | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
an enhanced forward presence. They are, though, a warning | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
against any form of hostile Andrew Plant, BBC Points West, | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
RAF Brize Norton. I am sure we all wish them a safe | :15:11. | :15:24. | |
and successful tool. -- poor. A Wiltshire woman has become one | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
of the first in Britain to teach young children how to survive | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
when they fall into water. Olivia Rowe's three-year-old son | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
Jack fell in to their swimming She's since set up a charity | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
in his name, and, after an intensive training course in America, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
she's started lessons for toddlers Here's our Wiltshire | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
reporter Will Glennon. This is not a swimming lesson - | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
it's all about staying alive. This four-year-old is | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
being taught how to float and keep his head above water | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
if he fell in accidentally. For me, that's the most important | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
thing, is that everyone who goes... Every child who goes into water | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
and into a pool can see, you know, falling in a river, | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
you know, or a pond, that if that happens | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
they can save themselves. In July 2014 Olivia Rowe's son Jack | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
drowned in the family It was the day of his | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
third birthday. While she popped out, | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
and Jack was out of sight of his step-brother, | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
he somehow fell in. I had to take Ella to a school | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
disco, and when I was out I got the call from Harry, | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
my stepson, who was looking after him, | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
saying he I came home and then later | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
a friend discovered him at the bottom of the pool, | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
at the side of the bottom, Olivia set up a charity called | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
the Jack Rabbit Foundation, and went to Florida with her | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
swimming teacher friend Jo. They both trained in infant | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
survival techniques. Back home and they've begun | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
classes n Wiltshire. Back home and they've begun | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
classes in Wiltshire. Babies and toddlers are shown how | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
to work with the water, and survive. So, in the water, getting them | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
in and comfortable with the water. She was never confident | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
enough in water, and I thought, because this | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
is mainly about what water confidence and survival, | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
it's the best thing you can do It's amazing. | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
I love it. I already signed | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Archie up before they had even got back from the states | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
during their training. I just saw their videos | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
and so it was something I really wanted him | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
to do and be part of. This is just the beginning - | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
the charity wants to teach as many children as possible, | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
and, ultimately, roll classes out across the whole UK, | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
saving young lives in Jack's name. Will Glennon, BBC Points West, | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
Wiltshire. Bristol City have the chance to move | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
away from the Championship relegation zone this evening | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
when they play Preston. City are currently just a point | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
clear of danger, with seven matches Tonight's game is away from home | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
but is also being shown live It's a year to go until the start | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
of the Commonwealth Games, which will be staged | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
on the Gold Coast in Australia. There are more events and medals | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
to win than ever before, and it will also feature | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
the largest-ever para-sport Paul Brown from Bristol hopes to be | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
challenging for the gold in the para-lawn bowls, | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
and he's come in to talk to us Thank you for coming in. Very | :18:52. | :19:03. | |
exciting. How is the prep going? Very well and it is about to kick | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
off. We have got one year to go, so all the preparations now get going | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
really and we have just started our selection, being told about the plan | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
for the next year. It will be a busy year, but an exciting year. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
You started as an able-bodied bowler, is that right? | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Correct, yes. What happened is ten years ago I had a battle with cancer | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
which resulted in my right leg being amputated above the knee. I'd then | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
effectively took up balls from my wheelchair and did that for many | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
years. -- I took up bowls. I only stood up when Glasgow came round in | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
the classification system came round and I worked out several things. I | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
found out that I could bowl using a prosthetic and it presented a huge | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
challenge for me in that I had been bowling so long sat down, and so | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
there were a lot of new challenges. One of the challenges was noticing | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
how much my balance, basically, because I bowl of one like. -- one | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
leg. All upper body, and they get really | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
low, don't they? Randomly from a chair as well, so that must be in | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
your thigh muscles. My left leg is stronger than it used | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
to be, probably the biggest it has ever been in my life. | :20:31. | :20:42. | |
How much does bowls mean to you? It means a great deal, it has been | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
my stable, I started when I was 13 and then I lost my leg and I have | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
always gone back to the sport. The reason I like bowls is it is a sport | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
for all, no matter whether you are a young aren't old chap... | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
And a chorus sport. And I think it has changed people's perception | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
because people use to see it as lawn bowls, and now it is not a young | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
person's sport, as they thought, but not any more. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
It has that perception, but you get to the competitive thing and there | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
are good people. That is the good thing about bowls. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
You don't have to wear a Panama hat. I don't have to wear a Panama hat. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
How many hours do you practice a week? Do you have time for work? | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
It will wrap up now. The preparation for team England, they are very | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
about preparation. Our prep will start building now. Over the weeks | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
and months now, my level will increase. In Glasgow I was on the | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
Green four or five times... And it is definitely all be fitness. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
They go around all of the preparation and do the fitness and | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
all of this. At the end of the day it gets that final... | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
And that left leg. We will be watching you. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
Lovely to meet you. Thank you. Since 1987 Cheltenham's Wishing Fish | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Clock has been blowing bubbles and entertaining generations | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
of children, but, earlier this year, much of it was taken | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
away to be restored. It'll start ticking | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
again in all its glory at the end of the month, | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
but our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, has been | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
to see it being repaired. Back in January, the old golden | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
eggs were thrown away, and the famous fish blew its last | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
bubbles, before being carefully brought down to earth | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
for a wash and brush-up. And so, in this busy London studio, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
the beloved fish is getting its TLC. The bubble machine was leaking | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
into the belly of the fish, which was then leaking | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
through the wood, and stripping the varnish and damaging | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
the wood underneath. So we've flipped it over, | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
sanded it back We've still got another, maybe, | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
four or five coats to do so that it remains as shiny as the rest | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
of the fish. And one of the challenges | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
of the project has been the lack of original plans, | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
which no longer exist. And then they are the mice who pop | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
out and annoy the snake. A lot of Kit Williams' designs | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
were compromised back in the '80s due to the budget, | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
so now Kit's original vision is finally being realised, | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
and the mice look more mouse-like, As the mice get pushed out | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
of the clock by a piston, the tips of their noses open | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
the door, so some parts will wear down over time, | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
so what we've done is we've made a little removable nose and we're | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
going to cast this in rubber And that master mouse is then used | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
to make a new silicon mould from which all the new mice | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
are being cast in fibreglass. It's always a slightly hair-raising | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
moment when you take something out of a mould for the first time, | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
but I'm really pleased with that. The reason they don't want to show | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
you everything that's being worked on is because they want to save it | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
for the unveiling, so today we can only really give you a sneaky peek | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
at some of the work - Steve Knibbs, | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
BBC Points West, London. He is being a tease. He is such a | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
tease. It is beautiful, isn't it? Now let's take a look | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
at the weather. What has it been like to date? Sunny | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
in places? A bit of everything. Hello, | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
everybody. The cloud has been breaking up from the West, much as | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
expected, a lot of sunshine across many of our district. Now the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
forecast, as we head into tomorrow. Likely to start with a lot of | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
sunshine around, but a general trend to increase the amount of cloud from | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
the north. It could mean it is only Northern district seen that because | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
of the afternoon. It should come further south and south-west words | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
and the best of the sunshine will prevail, but for all about it will | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
be a dry and settled day. A wider look at how things shape up. High | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
pressure dominating the Padron and will do so about the rest of this | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
week, and settled conditions. A story of these cloud amounts. Cloud | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
coming in from the North later tomorrow associated with a weak warm | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
front. It will have no rain on it associated for our particular part | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
of the British Isles, and this is the course of this evening. Because | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
continuing to break up and disappear. As we head into | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
tonight... Ultimately a lot of clear sky around and that will be a recipe | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
for a decidedly chilly night developing. Not impossible that some | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
parts of countryside, may be part of Somerset, dropped down to freezing, | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
but one or two Celsius above the net result for some parts of the | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
countryside, and in some places fairly chilly. There could be a hint | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
of grass frost around I first like tomorrow, but not lasting long, | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
because we expect a lot of sunshine through the first part of the day. A | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
little bit of cloud but then the trend as we head into the afternoon, | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
cloud becoming moribund and from the North. Still fairly fragile and some | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
pockets of brightness. All in all, it should end up a fairly bright day | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
for all of us, and the best of that sunshine down towards the south-west | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
by the tail end of the afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow, don't look | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
that impressive. 11 or 13 or 14 Celsius. Adding on the Sun generally | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
have got it it trivial decent. That should be the case for Thursday. On | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
Thursday, tip the balance towards more in the way of cloud, but I | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
expect that will reverse for the weekend. | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Thank you for that and that is just about it from us. We will be back | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
with an update at 10pm. Thank you for watching. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
We'll leave you tonight with details of an exciting opportunity to be | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
part of a special debate programme on the subject of the new mayor | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
for the west of England, or metro mayor. | :27:02. | :27:02. | |
Bristolians already have a Lord Mayor and an elected mayor. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
On May the 4th, voters here in Bath and North East Somerset, | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
in South Gloucestershire and in Bristol go to the polls | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
for a new role called the metro mayor. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
They'll have powers over housing and transport, | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
as well as ?30 million a year to spend on infrastructure. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
If you'd like to attend the BBC debate on the 19th of April or put | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
a question to the candidates, then let us know at: | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
That's "A Mayor For The West: A BBC West Debate", coming soon. | :27:41. | :28:00. | |
HORN BEEPS That car. | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
John, John, you've got mud all over your pants. Come here. | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
I've got spit on them now, haven't I? | :28:11. | :28:14. |