:00:00. > :00:17.Concerns about nuclear safety. BBC Two, and
:00:18. > :00:19.With cracks discovered at its sister plant,
:00:20. > :00:23.we find out if Hinkley is fit for purpose.
:00:24. > :00:26.The police warning about how your social media status
:00:27. > :00:43.And a risk of fog around tonight and turning colder in the next 24 hours.
:00:44. > :00:46.Questions have been asked about safety at Hinkley Point
:00:47. > :00:48.in Somerset, after the regulator raised concerns about cracks
:00:49. > :00:54.There have also been worries that the procedure to
:00:55. > :00:57.perform an emergency shut down might not work.
:00:58. > :00:59.The regulator has agreed that the reactors are safe
:01:00. > :01:06.Matthew Hill has this exclusive report.
:01:07. > :01:08.Hinkley Point on the Somersdt coast is now Britain's biggest
:01:09. > :01:12.Hinkley B nuclear-power station along with its Scottish
:01:13. > :01:17.sister Hunterston B, opened in 1976.
:01:18. > :01:20.The same year as this Bristol car hit the road.
:01:21. > :01:23.It's had lots of loving attdntion to keep it running long
:01:24. > :01:29.But keeping a nuclear-power station going much longer than it w`s
:01:30. > :01:36.The reactor cores are made tp of thousands of graphite blocks
:01:37. > :01:39.Bore, or channels, run though each block.
:01:40. > :01:42.Some channels contain nucle`r fuel rods, others have control rods
:01:43. > :01:47.Over time, the blocks are d`maged by intense heat and radiation
:01:48. > :01:53.We've obtained this image of one crack, contained in a series
:01:54. > :01:56.of reports from the nuclear regulator, which reveal a third
:01:57. > :01:59.of the channels inspected at both sites stations contain blocks
:02:00. > :02:07.The analysis that we have stggests that we can have more than 0000
:02:08. > :02:08.axial cracked bricks, and still be operating
:02:09. > :02:15.The graphite cores are held rigid by blocks that slot into kex ways
:02:16. > :02:20.It was announced last year that a total of seven cracks had
:02:21. > :02:23.been found in these key ways in Hunterston.
:02:24. > :02:25.An engineer involved in the design of these reactors believes
:02:26. > :02:27.if it gets any worse, that could jeopardise
:02:28. > :02:29.the reactor's stability if there was an emergency
:02:30. > :02:37.If you lose the homogeneity of the key way, that means
:02:38. > :02:40.the locking together, the way in which force can be
:02:41. > :02:42.transferred from one brick to another, is lost.
:02:43. > :02:44.So it becomes a loose, a very loose stack of bricks.
:02:45. > :02:47.So far none of these cracks have been found at Hinckley,
:02:48. > :02:53.but they could be in those parts not yet inspected.
:02:54. > :02:55.But EDF denies they pose a safety threat.
:02:56. > :02:57.Having a small number of cr`cked bricks in this massive structure
:02:58. > :02:59.is completely irrelevant to the safety function.
:03:00. > :03:01.The BBC has obtained papers from the nuclear regulator
:03:02. > :03:08.It says the discovery of thdse key way cracks invalidates
:03:09. > :03:12.Those papers also reveal EDF wants permission to operate with tp
:03:13. > :03:20.to 20% cracked bricks, twice the current limit.
:03:21. > :03:23.We as the regulator have influenced EDF to increase the resilience
:03:24. > :03:27.And they have installed what we call super articulated control rods
:03:28. > :03:29.which will allow shutting down of the core and also nitrogdn
:03:30. > :03:35.injection systems which agahn allows them to hold down the reacthvity
:03:36. > :03:37.in the core and make sure it continues to be
:03:38. > :03:42.Both EDF and the regulator hnsists safety is there any consideration.
:03:43. > :03:44.But antinuclear campaigners fear the pressure to keep these `geing
:03:45. > :03:46.reactors going longer, until Hinkley C is built,
:03:47. > :03:59.is stretching their safety case too far.
:04:00. > :04:10.And you concede that full rdport in Inside Out West.
:04:11. > :04:12.The police say too many people are encouraging burglaries,
:04:13. > :04:14.by advertising that their homes are empty on social media.
:04:15. > :04:17.All of our forces say they've seen a recent rise in burglaries.
:04:18. > :04:20.In Avon and Somerset, in 2014 there were around 4,200
:04:21. > :04:22.but already this year there have been 400 more.
:04:23. > :04:25.In Wiltshire, two years ago there were about 1,100 burglaries -
:04:26. > :04:27.and that figure is already tp to more than thirteen
:04:28. > :04:31.In Gloucestershire, there h`ve been more than 1,600 so far in 2016.
:04:32. > :04:36.Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.
:04:37. > :04:39.Downstairs all the drawers were open, all the cupboards
:04:40. > :04:41.were open, there were things on the floor in the lounge.
:04:42. > :04:44.It isn't her real name, but Sarah was burgled
:04:45. > :04:48.recently, just a few days after her father's funeral.
:04:49. > :04:50.We found my father's strongbox which had previously
:04:51. > :04:54.contained his war medals and my grandfather's watch,
:04:55. > :04:57.which was very sad indeed to see that that had been smashed open
:04:58. > :05:02.Sarah's house was secure but as she was away,
:05:03. > :05:04.the burglars had time and were determined to get hn.
:05:05. > :05:07.They took large amounts of sentimental jewellery.
:05:08. > :05:10.I think it is cruel beyond belief, in our circumstances,
:05:11. > :05:14.the room where the burglar had obviously been looking for things,
:05:15. > :05:17.to work out what to take, had an array of funeral
:05:18. > :05:23.There was my black funeral dress still lying on the bed upst`irs
:05:24. > :05:26.So everywhere he had been in the house, he would have seen
:05:27. > :05:28.this wasn't a family just doing normal things,
:05:29. > :05:31.this was a family that were grieving.
:05:32. > :05:35.So today a new police campahgn, with the clocks going back,
:05:36. > :05:38.they said they often see a spike in burglaries at this time
:05:39. > :05:47.According to the police survey here in Gloucestershire,
:05:48. > :05:50.half of us are still adverthsing that our homes are empty on social
:05:51. > :05:53.media such as Facebook, by posting pictures when we go
:05:54. > :05:55.on holiday, or checking into venues when we leave the house.
:05:56. > :05:59.More than a third of us are still leaving valuables on displax,
:06:00. > :06:01.which is a problem of coursd if burglars break-in.
:06:02. > :06:03.Three quarters of people apparently are still not putting their burglar
:06:04. > :06:05.alarms on even though they have them fitted.
:06:06. > :06:09.And one in five of us are still leaving the house and not
:06:10. > :06:12.It is really simple things like having timer switches on,
:06:13. > :06:14.making sure all your doors and windows are locked.
:06:15. > :06:16.Having sensor lights, just little practical things,
:06:17. > :06:19.making sure that if you are away, that you tell your neighbours
:06:20. > :06:23.so they can keep an eye on the premises.
:06:24. > :06:30.Police will also be targeting known burglars, one suspect was arrested
:06:31. > :06:33.early this morning, it is all part of efforts to stop
:06:34. > :06:37.I have no idea how people rdally ever get over this sort of thing.
:06:38. > :06:39.Because it does change you, it changes how
:06:40. > :06:50.The HSBC bank has announced more closures in Somerset today.
:06:51. > :06:52.Now a charity has accused the banking industry
:06:53. > :06:57.One local MP has also said lore needs to be done
:06:58. > :07:04.Here's our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers.
:07:05. > :07:09.Terry and Shirley Western are, it's claimed, a dying breed.
:07:10. > :07:13.In a computer age they still want to do their banking face to face.
:07:14. > :07:18.But today they learned their branch in Shepton Mallet is closing.
:07:19. > :07:20.So will they be using a computer now?
:07:21. > :07:26.Can't do nothing on computer, nothing like that.
:07:27. > :07:29.Not online or nothing like that, either.
:07:30. > :07:32.Only line we've got is the clothesline!
:07:33. > :07:35.HSBC is closing this branch and another in Burnham on Sda -
:07:36. > :07:37.because they say customer numbers are falling.
:07:38. > :07:47.In a statment HSBC say that 93% of contact with the bank is made
:07:48. > :07:51.either through the telephond, on the internet, or on smartphones.
:07:52. > :07:54.On top of that, they say, 97% of cash withdrawals
:07:55. > :08:02.And so, according to HSBC, most of their customers are already
:08:03. > :08:08.managing to conduct their btsiness without the need for a branch.
:08:09. > :08:11.But the local MP says banks are deserting the high stredt
:08:12. > :08:17.11 in his constituency alond in the last 18 months.
:08:18. > :08:28.He says the banking industrx needs to have a social conscience.
:08:29. > :08:31.We also need to make sure that we leave on our high street
:08:32. > :08:33.an accessible banking facilhty, be it a post office,
:08:34. > :08:36.or a community bank hub, so that people who cannot travel,
:08:37. > :08:38.cannot use the intranet, or small businesses,
:08:39. > :08:40.have somewhere that they can do their banking.
:08:41. > :08:43.The charity AGE UK says that banks are ignoring a potentially
:08:44. > :08:46.profitable part of society by closing branches.
:08:47. > :08:50.They can still keep those branches open by being more age friendly
:08:51. > :08:54.If they do that, they're going to encourage more elddrly
:08:55. > :08:58.So at the end of the day, they remain a resource
:08:59. > :09:01.within a community and they remain able to make money, to make
:09:02. > :09:03.a profit, to be a commercial activity.
:09:04. > :09:06.In Glastonbury they fought ` very public campaign to save thehr
:09:07. > :09:16.The fear is many other commtnities may now go the same way.
:09:17. > :09:22.Clinton Rogers, BBC Points West Shepton Mallet.
:09:23. > :09:25.If you have spent today carving pumpkins for Hallowe'en -
:09:26. > :09:29.These are all carved by mushc teacher Andrew Cleaver.
:09:30. > :09:32.He has so far recreated landmarks like the Clifton suspension bridge.
:09:33. > :09:37.Until now he has been posting his work anonymouslx
:09:38. > :09:40.on social media, but he dechded to own up to his hobby
:09:41. > :10:04.That is all from us tonight. Now the forecast. It is the fog that
:10:05. > :10:08.will grab attention through the course of the night and indded is
:10:09. > :10:14.already doing so. That will clear tomorrow morning to be repl`ced by a
:10:15. > :10:19.lot of clout and some patchx rain and drizzle. Then turning colder as
:10:20. > :10:25.the day wears on. For the rdst of this evening and into tonight we
:10:26. > :10:31.have a warning out for the fog, visibility down to 50 metres in some
:10:32. > :10:38.places. It tends to focus ftrther south heading through to thd early
:10:39. > :10:43.hours of the morning. Tomorrow morning the fog clearing first from
:10:44. > :10:49.the North, from the south of linguists for quite a while. And as
:10:50. > :10:56.the crowd comes in, that in turn starts to give us a sprinklhng of
:10:57. > :11:02.some drizzly light rain. Colder air moves south, temperatures only about
:11:03. > :11:06.12 degrees by the end of tolorrow and a
:11:07. > :11:08.side. Strong northerly winds, some sunshine and also some rain for the