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STORY LAST UPDATED:
02 January 2003 0808 GMT
Rain
causes flooding problems
Heavy rain has left many low-lying areas in the West flooded
and more rain is expected to hit the region.
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Train services have been disrupted, with flooding in the Chipping
Sodbury and Severn tunnels and there have been several accidents
on the M5 near Bristol.
Even the Bristol-Bath cycle-path flooded with water as high
as 2ft reported south of Bitton.
The Environment Agency is urging people with homes or businesses
in flood prone areas to take steps to protect property.
Several rivers are on flood alert, with a 20% risk of flooding
on the Avon and an alert on the Yeo in Somerset.
Merry festive sales
Christmas sale shoppers in the West appear to have spent more
than the same period last year.
According to initial figures, sales were up more than 20% on
the same time in 2001.
Retailers were concerned about the low sales figures leading
up to Christmas and worldwide economic slowdown.
But the Cribbs Causeway shopping centre in Bristol was particularly
busy with long queues of traffic on the run-up to Christmas.
It was so busy that the motorway junction was closed off by
police at one point.
Getting fit for New Year
Gyms in the West are already inundated with new members whose
aim is to get fit in 2003.
January and February are expected to be the busiest months of
the year for gyms, but by Easter many will have given up the
fitness programme and may be wasting hundreds of pounds in the
process.
Bristol's fitness instructors say sheer determination is needed
to reach their goals but the results will be more than worth
it.
Green Christmas
Community groups throughout the region are encouraging people
to recycle their Christmas trees this New Year, rather than
simply throwing them away.
From January 11th temporary chipping stations will be set up
around Bristol.
People can take their trees along for shredding, with the chips
then being used on gardens and allotments in the city.
According to the Recycling Consortium we throw away enough trees
to fill the Albert Hall three times over and many simply end
up in landfills.
They say this will ensure the trees are put to good use. |
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