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If you have heard a rumour that things will get colder and sweet, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
find out more on amid growing concerns over flooding | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
in Somerset. Good evening. Welcome to Spotlight. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
A local council says the situation is now so serious it urgently needs | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
extra support. The predictions are more people going to be flooded this | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
weekend. 200 to 300 people may be further affected this weekend. We | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
need outside help. Also tonight: A devastating disease | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
affecting sheep and cattle is said to be worse than previously thought. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Research has shown that the Schmallenberg virus is more | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
widespread than originally predicted. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
And destroyed by fire ` Western Greyhound believe they're being | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
targeted by arsonists after an attack on their Liskeard depot. | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
With more heavy rain forecast this weekend, a major incident has now | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
been declared in all parts of Somerset affected by flooding. Huge | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
areas of the county are underwater and there is a warning tonight that | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
several more hundred homes could be flooded in the next few days. In the | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
last hour, Somerset County Council has joined Sedgemoor District | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Council in declaring a major incident, in the hope it will | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
trigger outside help for the area, possibly including military | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
assistance. The knock at the door no one once. | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
Good afternoon. This afternoon, the fire service were going door`to`door | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
warning around 30 householders their homes are now at risk. Day and | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
night, the Environment Agency is pumping water of the Moors. As the | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
rains continue to fall, so in places the waters continue to rise. Civic | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
leaders say declaring this a major incident should open the door to | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
more help coming in. We are not getting on top of it and more water | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
is on the way. So we are saying to the Government, look, we need | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
outside help, whether in the shape of the military assisting, we have | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
had too many a roads blocked for far too long... Those at risk cannot | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
wait for help from the outside. They are preparing for the worst and in | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
the case of this man, making plans to evacuate his home. We are getting | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
ready to evacuate. My son and his family have come down to help put | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
things up on breaks and do what we can indoors to alleviate the | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
problem. Admit increasingly bitter rows about who is to blame for all | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
of this, people affected by the Flood staged a protest this | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
afternoon outside the offices of the Environment Agency. The organisation | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
they say has turned the problem into a crisis. They are not interested. | :03:04. | :03:12. | |
It is the responsibility of the Environment Agency to dredge the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
rivers to stop this happening again. The agency say they are doing all | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
they can in the face of exceptional weather. But they say these floats | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
will not be going down any time soon. There is definitely... It is | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
not going to go away in the next fortnight. It will be with us for at | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
least a month and further topped up during this period, so really it is | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
the long haul. Not a message that goes down well here. With more heavy | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
rain forecast at the weekend, and is turning to fear. | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
`` anger is turning to fear. More and a full weather forecast | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
late in the programme. You can also keep up`to`date with BBC radio | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Somerset and online. Next, a virus which causes birth deformities and | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
still buoyant in livestock. Now a survey into Schmallenberg in the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
South West reveals the number of cattle and sheep affected is far | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
higher than originally thought. The research, carried out by the Rural | :04:15. | :04:26. | |
Business School found out that many sheep tested had been exposed. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
This sheep might look perfectly healthy but it tests positive for | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Schmallenberg on this farm. The day we found out we had 70% exposure, it | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
was a shock and we sat down and talked about how best to go forward | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
and whether we needed to vaccinate. Schmallenberg is a disease which | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
first came to the UK two years ago. It is carried over the Channel and | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
spread by midges, but the effects can be devastating. You start | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
getting a number of lambs building up and it is very demoralising. With | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
the disease so new, the Royal business School was founded by deaf | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
and the EU to carry out the research last year. They tested more than | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
3000 cattle and 2000 sheep and the results showed many more were | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
affected by the disease than was expected. 80% of cattle and 70% of | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
sheep gave a positive result. We saw a series in packed in some farms at | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
the beginning of 2013 as a result of infection picked up in 2012. That | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
was very serious on particular farms. David has lost 18 cattle and | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
more than 30 calves to the disease. Six cars have died on his son's farm | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
in the last fortnight alone. I tried to talk to him last night and tell | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
him it it is not the end of the world, but I think he thinks it is. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
The survey also revealed that the prevalence of the disease was much | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
worse in 2012 than last year. This suggests cattle and sheep are | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
developing an immunity. The vaccine is now available but some farmers | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
claim the costs outweigh the risk. New research says there has been an | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
increase in the number of South West households living on an inadequate | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
income. The findings come from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and are | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
based on what the public thinks are the basic requirements for a decent | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
life. More from the organisation in a moment, but first we went to meet | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
a single parent who despite having a job still struggles. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
On the face of it, Sian is doing well, bringing and estate agents in | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Plymouth with the potential to own up to ?35,000 if she makes target. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
But the housing market is only just getting back on its feet, so bonuses | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
are far from guaranteed. For Sian, with a two`year`old to look after, | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
rent to pay and a car to run, money is tight. Paying for everything on | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
your own makes a huge difference and takes up the majority of what you | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
earn. Bills are paid and mortgage and rent are paid, food and | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
childcare, but it does not leave you with much. And that backs up new | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It looked at what it | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
calls people who no longer reach the minimum income standard, the measure | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
based on what numbers of the public think of the basics for a decent | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
life. It found that the South West has seen a big rise in the number of | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
minimum income standard households in the four years from 2008. Two | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
thirds of lone parents, like Sian, are now below the minimum income | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
standard. For a Labour MP from Plymouth, the findings do not come | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
as a surprise. I have increased caseload, 200, 300 people making | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
enquiries every week of one sort or another, and those people are in | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
significant personal debt, some of them, struggling to make ends meet, | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
concerned about the cost of living. They do not feel better off. But the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Government today produced figures which they say showed workers have | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
seen their take`home pay rise in real terms in the last year by 2.5%. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Read the message is that an implement is falling. We saw the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
largest drop for several years last week. The economy is getting better. | :08:38. | :08:46. | |
The arguments continue about the state of the economy. For people | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
like Sian, the day`to`day reality is how to ensure a decent standard of | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
living. Earlier I spoke to Donald Hirsch, a | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
co`author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report. I asked him why | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
so many people in the South West were struggling to have a reasonable | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
standard of living. As to back people throughout the UK have really | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
been feeling the pinch in the tougher economic times. `` people | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
throughout the UK. Our research looks at what people can afford | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
after paying things like rent. The two difficult things in the South | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
West art that earnings have not particularly done very well and on | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the other side, housing costs tend to be very high. They have gone up | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
quite a bit recently. So what people actually have left after paying rent | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
or mortgage can be we use very low, and people are struggling. The South | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
West is a region where the number of people whose disposable income is | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
below what we consider to be the minimum has increased the most in | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
the last years. How reflective are these figures today, bearing in mind | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
that the Government is saying that in the last year or so, people's | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
incomes and standards of living have improved because inflation has | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
started to come down, employment prospects are better and wages are | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
starting to improve. We certainly know that this year it is likely | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
that many people will at last be having wage rises that keep up with | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
inflation. It will be a long time before they get back to bed they | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
were. The Government is arguing that that coupled with changes to tax and | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
people having less tax taken away is also giving them more money in their | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
pocket. `` back to where they were. It is just about true if you do not | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
take into account certain things which you can point to take into | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
account. A lot of people on low incomes are dependent not just on | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
their wages and it is not just about tax, but they are also getting | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
things like tax credits. Even if they are in work they are getting | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
money from the Government, and that money has been cut. So I am afraid | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
it is quite a selective comparison and the people we are talking about, | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
struggling to get to a minimum, especially families with children | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
where if you work your wages are not enough and the Government top them | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
up, if you reduce the top ups it is just not true that you have more | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
money in your pocket. Derriford Hospital's emergency | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
department has been named as the best in the country for seeing | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
patients within national time limits. Latest figures showed 98.6% | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
of people attending A are seen within the four hour national | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
target. Bosses at the hospital say it is down to better planning and | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
hard`working staff. As promised, a full weekend weather forecast coming | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
up later in the programme, and we will be off to the Plymouth light | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
Centre where Dave will have all the sport for us. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
`` Life Centre. 400 youngsters in this year's | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
Disability Games. The police are investigating a fire which has | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
destroyed three buses at a Western Greyhound depot in southeastern | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Cornwall. The fire in Liskeard follows an | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
arson attack last May at the depot in Summercourt near Newquay, where | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
30 buses were destroyed. The fire at the depot broke out in | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
the early hours of the morning. People living nearby were awoken by | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
the flames and raised the alarm. This film was taken by a family | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
whose house overlooks the depot. At one stage they feared for their | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
safety. It looked like the actual depot as well as the buses had | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
started to catch fire. Today the company confirmed that three buses | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
had been completely destroyed in this fire. The entire depot has been | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
sealed off to preserve the evidence, and a specialist forensic team will | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
be brought in to examine the scene. The police and fire investigators | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
are conducting early enquiries to establish the cause of the fire so | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
that whether or not it is accidental can be qualified. Last May, 35 buses | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
were destroyed by an arson attack at Western Greyhound's depot at | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Summercourt near Newquay. This is still being investigated. The | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
managing director of the company told the BBC he believes his company | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
is being targeted. That must not be very comfortable. No, obviously the | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
vehicles are insured. There have been no deaths or injuries which is | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
fortunate. Buses can be replaced. But of course it is the effect on | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the public. The public are affected if the services are affected and | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
that is devastating. One has to wonder who is doing this. This | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
latest fire has caused disruption to local bus services. Two routes were | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
affected today and could be affected tomorrow. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
The campaign against major cuts in Torbay is being stepped up. Church | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
groups plan a vigil outside the council this weekend. They claim | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
cuts will hit the most vulnerable. The Leonard Stocks Centre in Torquay | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
could close. We have been finding out about the service it provides. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
There is no denying that David's life has been difficult. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
A recovering drug addict, he was released from prison on Christmas | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Eve. For the past few weeks he has been living at Torquay's hostel and | :14:47. | :14:59. | |
hopes to turn his life around. Thanks to this place, I have been | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
helped. But the centre that is home to 24 residents is fighting for its | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
life. Its funding is threatened and that could force the centre to | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
close. The people we are supporting need help and will continue to need | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
help. If we are not providing it it will fall to the police, health | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
services, the community to provide that help. And it will be much more | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
expensive. Torbay Council has to make cuts. They are insisting they | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
will find new ways of helping the wearable people. But some housing `` | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
Some housing associations are very wealthy and have tax`free profits. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
We are going to say to some of the housing associations, come and help | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
us with not only your expertise but your accommodation and staffing and | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
finance. The people behind the Leonard Stocks Centre say in four | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
years it has helped almost 450 people. They are now wondering | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
whether people like David will be their last. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Next week the Catholic Bishop of Plymouth, Christopher Budd, will | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
retire and hand over the reins to his successor. Our political editor | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
has been talking to him and reflecting on the period of his | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
leader `` leadership. He has been needed for nearly 30 | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
years. I time of change for the church and the people he served. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
When I first came to Plymouth, it was very white and English, that is | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
the best way to describe it. Node you have people from France, Spain, | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Poland, Germany and all sorts of other places. Italians have been | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
here a long time, like the Irish, though. His time in office also saw | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
only the second and third visit to Britain by a reigning Pope will stop | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
do you feel some people, `` as some people in the church do, that with | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
some of these issues of morality and conscience, the church is being | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
pushed out? There is an element in our culture that wants to privatise | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
this, totally. We want to resist that and say, like anyone else, we | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
have a right to have our say and to argue the toss with the people over | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
whatever it is. And I wanted very much hope that that will continue. | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
We should not be edged out of public debate. It is not just a purely | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
private affair. The welfare of human beings, which the gospel is about, | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
to some extent, cannot be privatised. The Pope tweets, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
cardinals have blogs, do you think social media has a role to play? In | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
the time I have in my retirement, I may be getting into some social | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
media. Who knows? I baby become a real pain in the neck. `` I may | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
become. Blogging priests and bishops, I think there is a risk in | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
that. We should not do it too much. Most of the Bishop's predecessors | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
were not given the luxury of retirement. In the Isles of Scilly, | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
many years ago I said to a very small group, if I am still alive | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
when I retire, I will come and be your priest, so I am going to do | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
that. Mainly from the end of November until Pentecost, which is | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
normally May or June. He will consecrate and thrown his successor, | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
Mark O'Toole, next week. Time for the sport now and the | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
Plymouth Life Centre has been staging a special event today | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
involving hundreds of school children from across Devon. Dave | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
Gibbins has more. Here at the Plymouth Life Centre, it | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
is this year's Winter Ability Games. It is for children, 400`plus | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
children, of varying disabilities, plus 100 volunteers. That makes up | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
the Active Devon initiative, Active Devon being based in Exeter. More | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
about that in a moment, but first, Yeovil Town plan a big FA Cup shock | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
in the fourth round at Premier League Southampton tomorrow. They | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
will have more than 3,000 fans cheering them on at the St Mary's | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Stadium. Saints are ninth in the top league | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
and will provide a hard obstacle for Gary Johnson's team to overcome, but | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
this is the Cup and the Somerset Greens are up for it. I am not sure | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
they will necessarily enjoy playing us. We may not be a huge fixture in | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
their calendar. We have to upset the odds, work hard, believe in our own | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
tactics, and try to spoil theirs. So at least you go into the battle | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
believing that you can win it. And while the children from Tiverton | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
High School are enjoying the diving which is here at the Plymouth Life | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Centre, let's hope the weather relents for our region's League Two | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
sides. Plymouth Argyle look to recover from two home defeats last | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
week by Cheltenham Town at Home Park. The Gloucestershire team lie | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
just a point behind Argyle, who are 11th in the table. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Exeter City have lost two games to the weather. They hope for better | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
against Wimbledon, while Torquay United go for a second successive | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
win under new manager Chris Hargreaves at Oxford. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Exeter Chiefs' head coach, Rob Baxter, has been talking about his | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
induction into the Premiership Rugby Hall of Fame. It includes luminaries | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
such as former Leicester and England captain Martin Johnson, and referee | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Ed Morrison. Baxter leads the Chiefs into their final two pool ties in | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
this season's Anglo`Welsh Cup, starting with Ospreys at Sandy Park | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
tomorrow. Right from the board, right through to the cleaning staff, | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
we are all in it together. We went to Cardiff last week in the Heineken | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
Cup and I looked around and the whole office staff were in there, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
enjoying a day out in Cardiff. That is the kind of club we are, where we | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
enjoy being in the Premiership, we see it as an opportunity and | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
something to enjoy, not a battle to worry about. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
The Cornish Pirates will leapfrog London Scottish in the Championship | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
` that's if they win in Richmond tomorrow. A tough one for head coach | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Ian Davies, as the Pirates narrowly beat the Scots exiles 16`8 in | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
November. Plymouth Albion, eighth, have had | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
equally difficult ordeal with fourth`place Bristol on Sunday. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Quite a few sports going on just below me. For example, rowing, table | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
cricket, archery and seated volleyball. Yes, it is the Winter | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Ability Games. An Olympic bronze medallist from Beijing 2008 proved | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
popular with all at the Life Centre. Open water swimmer Cassie Patten | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
from Cardingham in Cornwall was the special guest, offering her advice | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
and expertise to the children, and those not necessarily in the pool. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
One of my tasks for the day is to sign as many autographs as possible. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
In the programme there's a "Find Cassie Patten" section. Sometimes | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
just talking to young people and sharing your experiences can really | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
help inspire them to participate and then carry on with sport. It was the | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
biggest turnout for a Winter Ability Games, and the first time the event | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
had been held at the Life Centre. The superb facilities were a hit for | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
all concerned. Wow. I wish when I was young we had facilities like | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
this. Incredible. We are really lucky that our youngsters have | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
access to this today, because it is a stunning facility. Will you | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
becoming back next year, or do you try to get around the county? We try | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
to use different venues but when you look at this it is difficult to | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
compete with. So who's to say it will not be | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
returning to the Life Centre next year? | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Finally from me, the best of luck to Exeter Chiefs' Dave Ewers and Sam | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Hill, both of whom make their England Saxons rugby debut tomorrow | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
night against Ireland at Gloucester. And two more ` Dave Lewis and Henry | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Slade, are replacements. Back now to our top story, and a | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
major incident has been declared for part of the Somerset Levels, which | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
remain flooded. Our Correspondent Clinton Rogers is there with the | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
latest on the situation. Thank you. As you can see, it is | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
raining here tonight, and more heavy rain is forecast for Sunday. That is | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
the problem, almost as soon as the Environment Agency pump the water of | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
the Moors, nature puts it back again. The village behind me near | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Bridgwater, the septic tank drainage systems of most of the houses have | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
now been overwhelmed and there is sewage overflowing. The question a | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
lot of people are asking now is how soon before that becomes a public | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
health issue? Small wonder the Civic leaders have decided to call this, | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
as they have done today, they say they need help and in whatever form | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
this help comes, one big is for sure, it is desperately needed. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
`` one thing is for sure. The weather. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Hopefully some dry weather again tomorrow, but as we have just heard, | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
there is more rain in the forecast for Sunday, not just wet weather on | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
Sunday but windy conditions, too. We have had about 20 millimetres | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
today. The rainfall is now moving through Somerset that it will be a | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
while before that clears. The good news is it will be drier on | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Saturday, but more rain forecast for Sunday. Windy all weekend. Several | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
flood warnings in force. You can go to the Environment Agency website to | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
find them, or use the telephone number. Lots on this satellite | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
picture. Lots of cloud. Something of a break in that cloud out to the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
West of our land. That will arrive later on this evening. `` the West | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
of Ireland. A chance for some brighter weather tomorrow. We might | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
even get some sunshine. A few showers towards the end of the day, | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
mostly along the Bristol Channel and through central parts of England. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
This lump of cloud leaving the East coast of Canada will raise across | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
the Atlantic to bring us more wet weather on Sunday. But this is quite | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
fast moving so even though we have a very wet start to the day on | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Sunday, it moves away quickly through the afternoon. The rain we | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
have at the moment is stuttering along, not leaving particularly | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
fast. Brighter colours in their showing where the rain has been in | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
the last few hours. More of that to come for Somerset and Dorset for the | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
next few hours before it finally moves out of the way, and we are | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
left with slightly better conditions, improving visibility. | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Some mist about but not be low cloud and fog we have seen today. | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
Tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud, briefly some sunny spells, and then | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
towards the end of the day, a line of showers through Pembrokeshire and | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
then through the seven a street, so perhaps affecting North Devon and | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Somerset. But for most of us tomorrow a windy day. `` through the | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
Severn estuary. Not as warm. Quite a wind chill with the stiff breeze. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
From the Isles of Scilly, some of the best weather. | :26:42. | :26:53. | |
The waves are likely to be pretty big and not necessarily that clean | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
either. Cleanest along the South coast. | :27:00. | :27:11. | |
The wind starts at eight force five tomorrow and increases to six or | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
seven, particularly along the North Devon and Cornwall coasts. There is | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
a warning for the rain on Sunday. It will also be quite a windy day. | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
50 mph or 60 mph. Cold Monday and Tuesday next week, even with the | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
risk of some wintry showers. Your BBC local radio stations will | :27:35. | :27:44. | |
keep you up`to`date with the weather situation across the weekend. | :27:45. | :27:45. | |
Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:48. |