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A new campaign to engage thousands of people | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
It might have been mis-sold until now but a lot of people are going to | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
be seeing what it can do for them. The plans for a green business | :00:29. | :00:29. | |
park which are making And rain won't be of any concern to | :00:30. | :00:41. | |
us but cloud cover could be, details at the end of the programme. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
There's a big push to tell 900,000 people in the West | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
that they're about to get a new leader. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Today it was confirmed that six candidates will be on the ballot | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
paper for the so-called metro mayor, covering Bristol, South | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset. | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
But getting voters interested could be the challenge. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
The government is pumping money into publicising the contest, | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
from billboards on the streets, to adverts on social media - | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
though that's sparked plenty of critical comments. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
The latest is a video with something of a local flavour: | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
We may not always see eye to eye but we care | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
about where we live and we | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
need to make a living and get around. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
These things excite us all which is why we are acting on the | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
All this excitement, 900,000 people will come under the new Mayor. | :01:37. | :01:51. | |
Especially when even the name has proved difficult. | :01:52. | :01:52. | |
The government don't use the term 'metromayor'. | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
They prefer to talk about a 'mayor', but different to the elected mayor | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
The new person will take charge of the snappily-titled West | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
That's been abbreviated to WECA, and it's already been | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
holding meetings involving the leaders from the three | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
But, yet again, the name's proving a thorny issue! | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
It is the West of England combined authority. | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
I want it to be called the west of England combined authority | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
and we will have a West of England combined authority Mayor. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
And there's plenty of that on their own video, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
put out to encourage people to vote on May the 4th. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Well, you've been letting us all know your feelings about the mayor. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Quite a few of you have been saying there's no need for a mayor. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Glyn says he won't vote and wonders how many others feel that way. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Ed Clarke is from the independent think | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
tank Centre for Cities, which has been campaigning | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
I asked him earlier if he understood the frustrations. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
It's an interesting case and this is part | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
of the general climate when it | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
comes to how people consider politicians at the moment. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
What we need to be clear about is the fact | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
that it doesn't come with a whole stretched | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
It's quite a slimline office and they are not going to come with | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
It's essentially about making decisions | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
that are being made in that place better, | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
so making decisions across | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
Regardless of decisions made, it is another level | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
of bureaucracy especially at a time when councils are making cuts. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
I think it is because it helps with those things. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
There is the capacity for savings and also the capacity to do things | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
better, so when we are making planning for housing and transport | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
You think that is better than preserving | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
I don't think it is an either-or, so essential | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
services will continue to be delivered but it is a way of | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
think it is an improvement because | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
you can make decisions which really matter | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
geography of the area they live and work their lives in, so when you're | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
commuting you don't think about what local | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
authority you are in, but | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
where you live, and that is all about transport and housing and | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
these things need to be planned for across the whole city region. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Do you think it has been badly sold and | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
marketed and that is why people are not interested? | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
A whole load of things are going on in politics which | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
means people are rather sceptical more broadly. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
To an extent we could say there isn't a whole load of | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
confidence for the Metro Mayor but in a year's time when we see these | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
things coming through and the quick things | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
they can do, like bringing in | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
an effective travel card which means you can travel across the city | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
region on one smart card ticket, things like that will be important, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
and also enacting a plan for housing so people can see how this is going | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
to be achieved rather than at the moment which is rather | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
ad hoc, so it may have been mis-sold up until now | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
but a lot of people will be seeing next year | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
but a lot of people will be seeing next year what a mayor can do for | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
It will be the most directly visible leader of the city region | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
they will have had so I think this can be a real benefit. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Centre for Cities will be part of our debate on the new mayor. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
It is on the 19th of April and if you'd like to take part | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
or send a question to the candidates let us know at: | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
This is the huge green technology development which could be built | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
It was dreamt up by Dale Vice, the founder of the green energy | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
It includes offices, a nature reserve, and a brand | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. | :06:01. | :06:12. | |
These are ambitious plans - a green science and technology | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
business park on one side - which Ecotricity claims | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
will attract up to 4,000 jobs, and on the other side a high tech | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
sporting facility with a new 10,000 seat Forest Green Rovers | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
And everything pushing the boundaries of sustainability. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Somebody asked the question, would we adhere to | :06:29. | :06:41. | |
green standards and the answer is we want to do better than that, so our | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
buildings will be the most sustainable buildings that have been | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Today, companies interested in building | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
and being part of the ecopark quizzed Dale Vince | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
A vision of tapping into and promoting the green | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
When you put like-minded businesses like this together, they start | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
sparking ideas and opportunities to work with each other and spin of new | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
businesses, and that helps grow the sustainable economy and also | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
local services and the economy to support | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Then they build up opportunities to move abroad. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
But with a project this size come concerns - | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
many locals in Eastington say junction 13 - the gateway to Stroud | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Ecotricity say they'll fix this with a new dual carriageway | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
But also the ecopark isn't part of Stroud's recently | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
published local plan - and those opposing the park say | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
there's just no clearly identified need for it. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
We have very high employment in the local area, so the risk of a | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
shortage means there is no requirement for extra jobs, and we | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
need development space for all businesses in the near future. | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
It is the biggest and most complex planning decision made here since | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
It is still early days and hasn't even gone through planning yet. | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
If it does go through planning it will | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
be at least three years before the first ball is kicked in anger at | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
what is hoped to be the most sustainable | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
football stadium in the | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
Workers at Mini in Swindon took part in a 24 hour walk out today, | :08:13. | :08:24. | |
The Unite Union is protesting over plans to ditch the company's | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
It claims some workers could lose up to ?160,000 in retirement income. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
The parent company, BMW says it has to act now to secure the long term | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
A young girl who is being treated for leukaemia for the second time | :08:36. | :08:49. | |
has been praised for thinking of others during her | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
13-year-old Tatiana has spent the last month | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
She decided to use her time to raise money for a charity | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
which supplies Lego to hospitals, so other children have | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
think it is nice to be helping think it is nice to be helping | :09:04. | :09:25. | |
others and making a change. To somebody's life. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Today her dad had his beard shaved off so he could help | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Before I hand you to Ian, take a look at these pictures | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
Taken by our cameraman Simon Graham near the second Severn crossing. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
These sunsets dictated by the cloud covered and for many of you very | :09:47. | :10:07. | |
little of that for a fair part of the day. Tomorrow might well be a | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
different story with the computer models struggling with cloud amounts | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
and I suspect tomorrow will be more of the same so take it with some | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
caution. There will be variation. For the rest of tonight a fair | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
amount of cloud with the temperature nowhere near as chilly as last night | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
around 6-8. Tomorrow it is all going to be about how much cloud is across | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
us to get the day under way and how much of that tends to break up and | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
retreat. In coastal lady is the best chance of seeing sunshine and the | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
more reliable sense of things. A mix of cloud cover and land, some of | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
that fragile. A Friday right the way through and the temperature in the | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
low teens. Looking beyond that, more of the same with | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
weekend and we could see the low 20s by Sunday. Here is Darren with the | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
national weather. Hello. The weather has been a big | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
news in North America across the Masters in Augusta, for the first | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
time the par-3 competition was abandoned, the storms moving away | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
and sunshine windy for a while. Temperatures about 17, which is on a | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
par with what we had today in the south-east of Wales, blue skies | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
around here. That's from one of our weather watchers. More sunshine over | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the next few days. Little or no rain once again, it's looking dry and as | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
we get more sunshine, especially in England and Wales this weekend, it | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
will be warming up. In stark contrast with what we are seeing at | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the moment, dhil chilly out there where we have clearer skies across | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
the West Country, eastern Scotland, north-east England. | :11:54. | :11:55. |