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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
South West rail passengers are being warned to plan ahead | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
as London stations Paddington and Waterloo face | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
Network Rail is carrying out its biggest ever | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
programme of maintenance from Christmas Eve onwards. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
It says it's confident it can avoid a repeat of the chaos two years ago. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
So what does it mean for travellers over the Christmas period? | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Network Rail has warned train passengers they face a crescendo | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
of maintenance over the festive season, as it undertakes its biggest | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
24,000 staff from its orange army, who famously repaired | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
the track at Dawlish, will be laying new track and signals | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
at 200 projects across the country, mainly for Crossrail and Thameslink. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
They will be anxious to avoid a repeat of the Christmas | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
chaos two years ago, when work overran at | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
But they say lessons have been learned since then. | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Passengers are now being advised to plan their journeys | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
The advice is, firstly, where possible, to travel early. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
So get those tickets from tomorrow if you can. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
If you cannot do that, then London Paddington | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
is closed from Christmas Eve to the 29th of December. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Trains will travel in and out of London from Ealing Broadway, | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
from where there is access to London Underground. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Or, as there is no step-free access at Ealing Broadway, | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
an easier route for people with disabilities or with bags | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
and luggage may be to change at Reading for Waterloo. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
But Waterloo is also closed on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
and there are reduced services on the 24th and 27. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
This is a key opportunity for Network Rail to do a significant | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
piece of work that will effectively allow us to run the brand-new trains | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Customers, for the majority of services, will have | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
It's just if you're travelling directly into London. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
What about alternative modes of travel? | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Well, motoring organisations see tomorrow and Saturday are likely | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
And Exeter Airport says they expect to handle 20,000 passengers over | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
A look at some of the day's other news now. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Two men have appeared at Exeter Crown court charged | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
with the murder of 30-year-old James Woodhouse. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
His body was found in a wheelie bin last month. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Brett Edwards of Okehampton Road pleaded not guilty. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Thomas Killen of North Lawn Court didn't enter a plea. | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
Their trial will take place next summer. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
A man has been treated for burns following a fire | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Fire crews were called to a commercial premises | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
The blaze in the ground floor spread to the flat above. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Fire fighters are still at the scene. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Two men from Devon - delivering aid and medical | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
supplies - have reached the Turkish-Syrian border. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
War photographer Paul Conroy from Crediton, and Dr Mark Hannaford | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
from Beer in East Devon left London on Saturday. | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
The supplies will be used to rebuild a children's hospital near Aleppo. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Avon and Somerset Police have been told to make | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons raises | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
concern about the way irritant spray is sometimes used to | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
in-capacitate detainees - as well as what it calls "some poor | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
and potentially unsafe use of restraints." | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
But the report praises staff - saying they are generally | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
The 89-year-old pensioner from Devon who put an ad in his local paper | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
looking for a job has just completed two full weeks work at a restaurant. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Joe Bartley from Paignton said he was dying from boredom | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Last night he celebrated as the Cantina held | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Squirrels have been blamed for the devastation of a mile-long | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
stretch of trees on the A38 between Dobwalls and Bodmin. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
The Boconnoc Estate, which owns the land, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
says the overgrown beech hedging along the Glynn valley had to be | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
chopped down because branches were dropping onto the road. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
The richly verdant Glynn Valley near Bodmin stimulates the senses | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
of any motorist travelling along the A38. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
That was until, during overnight closures of the arterial route, | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
saw a swathe of beech trees of more than a mile long cut | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Obviously, to have done them as it should have been done, | :04:41. | :04:53. | |
cutting out the larger ones and allowing smaller ones to grow | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
so that over the years they are coppiced, | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
The estate who owns this land says they cut the trees | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
because of squirrel damage and the danger of branches falling | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Wildlife experts say squirrel populations are so vast | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
here that the amount of damage to trees with them ripping off | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
the bark to get to the sap below is a real problem. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Nationally, squirrel damage to forests is costing more | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
This, on top of larch disease, ash dieback and sudden oak death, | :05:29. | :05:40. | |
causes poses a real threat to our green and pleasant land. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
The Forestry Commission says it supports what it | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
describes as a coordinated, targeted and locally | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
delivered control of what is increasingly seen as a pest. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Plymouth Argyle can look forward to a very happy New Year | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
after securing themselves a lucrative FA Cup tie with | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
The Pilgrims beat Newport in a replay to make it | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
to the third round - a game which could be worth | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
more than half a million pounds for the club. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
That's more than twice Argyle's operating profit | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Well, fans will be keen to know how they can get their hands | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Earlier Natalie spoke to the Chief Executive Martyn | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Starnes who's been in talks with Liverpool this morning. | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
They have allocated us just over 8100 tickets for the game. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Clearly there is going to be substantial demand for those | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
tickets, but we are under an obligation to allow | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
members to have first efforts to buy the tickets. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
We will be doing that over the Christmas weekend. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
We will be putting some tickets online. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
And then on Boxing Day we are planning to open at nine | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
o'clock so that members can come along and get their tickets | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Baking has become a favourite past time for many after the huge success | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
But in one village in Dorset volunteers have decided to combine | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
learning how to make bread with helping others. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
The project based near Weymouth gives people a chance | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
to practise their kneading and cooking, and the end products | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
are handed over to charities who are supporting the homeless | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Our Dorset reporter Simon Clemison has been to meet | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Right, ladies and gentlemen, today is our last meeting before | :07:15. | :07:26. | |
Christmas, and we're going make a centrepiece Christmas tree loaf. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
Homelessness is always important, but it must be particularly | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
lonely at Christmas, being on the street, on your own. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
And it must be gratifying to feel that people care | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Are they in your mind when you are making the bread? | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
You concentrate on kneading the dough as you are actually doing it! | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
But once you put it in the oven, you think about where it goes. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Every month we have at least one day where we each bake loaves | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
in our own kitchens and then take them down to either Soul Food | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
or the Lanterns or anywhere else that homeless people need food. | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
You have obviously been baking bread on a larger scale | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
since the Industrial Revolution, but is it the simplicity | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
here of baking for someone else that draws so many people in? | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Absolutely, these bakers love to make bread in their own homes. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
They want it to be a special craft that they have learned, | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
and now they are passing it on to someone who really needs it. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
This is just a white loaf, it has been put into a plait. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
So what happens to our large, seedy, plaited white loaf now? | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Hopefully today it will go off to one of the charities, | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
and one hopes that they will get to eat it for tea tonight. | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
It shows people that others are thinking of them. | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
You have got people like bakers that are kindly doing this and giving, | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
and those that maybe don't always appreciate and respect the nature | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
We have got to say to the bakers of Sutton Point... | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Are we going to feel the effects of her came Barbara. We will feel the | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
strength of the rain. -- correct strength of the rain. -- correct | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
came Barbara. Very unsettled weather across the south-west of England. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
After a bright start of the rain will turn later and also very windy. | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
A warning about the strength of wind. We are seeing the least | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
strength, for us, 50 or 60 mph associated with Hitler found through | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
the afternoon. Some bright and dry weather ahead of that but it is | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
moving quite -- are associated with her Keynes. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
We see cloud and outbreaks of rain returning. The temperature is | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
unusually mild. Tonight he temperatures have not fallen. They | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
will continue to drop overnight to give us a touch of frost. Brief | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
leader will be some ice on car windscreens and the grasp of through | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the day tomorrow the milder air starts to return because the wind | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
picked up. They will become strong and eventually gale force. It will | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
move through quite fast. Slightly cooler air is then heading in. For | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Christmas eve itself quite a bit of cloud around. Nor does windy with a | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
few spots of drizzle and it stays mild through Christmas Day. Thank | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
you. But is it for this evening. You can catch the early bulletins | :10:54. | :10:54. | |
tomorrow morning. itself, it's not white, but it's | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
warm. Temperatures could reach 15. I suppose you could say today was | :11:02. | :11:14. | |
the calm before the storm. A winter chill, plenty of sunshine, but more | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
wintry showers in Scotland, more snow over the higher ground. Some of | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
this snow will melt for a time tomorrow because there is wind and | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
rain coming in from the Atlantic. So we'll leave the Highlands behind, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
head out and look at the cloud here, this tell-tale hook of cloud, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
signifies a storm is developing, this is Storm Barbara, of course, it | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
is a deep and deepening area of low pressure, rushing towards the | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
north-west of Scotland. Steppingening the winds and bringing | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
rain into the north-west by tomorrow morning. Ahead of it fairly quiet. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Already the showers in the north less wintry. Fewer and clearer | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
skies, across England and Wales for a time, it could be chilly. One or | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
two mist and fog patches. Out to the west winds pick up later, cloud | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
increases and the rain arrives and very quickly tomorrow across | :12:02. | :12:02. | |
Scotland and Northern | :12:03. | :12:04. |