16/06/2011 BBC Points West

Welcome to Point West. They left him with broken bones and then

tried to cover it up. Two senior care workers are found guilty of

neglect after a pensioner falls out of bed and is left to suffer.

Also tonight: Decision time for Bristol City stadium plans. We are

live at the council house for the latest.

Join the crowds - the museum that has had more visitors in a month

than they once had in a year. And the row over cartoons drawn for

Macca's band Wings. Why he is demanding they are taken out of a

sale in Gloucestershire. Good evening. Two senior members of

staff at a care home in North Somerset have been found guilty

tonight of conspiring to neglect a man in their care. 75-year-old

Colin Lewis from Weston-super-Mare fell out of bed while having his

sheets changed. He broke his hip and his foot. But a senior nurse

and senior care assistant pretended it had not happened. Mr Lewis died

12 days later. His wife has spoken exclusively to our health

correspondent, Matthew Hill. The last fortnight of this trial had

been the longest two weeks after Margaret Lewis's life. Her husband

Colin, who was a photographer, suffered a stroke and was receiving

24-hour care at a nursing home in Weston. These were some of the

injuries he suffered when he fell out of his bed while his sheets

were being changed. Two women were today found to have conspired to

have covered up his injuries. It was eight days before Mr Lewis

received hospital care. He died of pneumonia within two weeks.

wouldn't do it to a animal. All they had to do when he was dropped

out of bed was to call an ambulance or call a doctor. He would have had

immediate treatment. They carried on changing him and dressing him

and washing him, all with a broken hip and the doctor said he must

have been in intense pain. He never spoke again? The only time he spoke

was two hours before he died. I was telling him I loved him because I

knew he was going to die and he said, "I love you." That was it. He

then went into a coma and died. During the case, another care

worker said she only failed to report the accident after the nurse

told her she would be sacked if she did. This serious charge was

brought against his carers under new mental health legislation

because he lacked capacity. The judge concluded that people who

place members of their family who are vulnerable in the care of

others must do so in the knowledge that basic care will be provided.

He said that while this matter was extremely serious, he was minded to

give a community order of unpaid work because of the previous good

character of the defendants. Brilliant. I am overwhelmed. It

wasn't what I expected. I am so pleased. Mrs Lewis says she hopes

the nurse will now be struck off. In the last hour, Bristol

councillors have taken an historic vote which could see a new stadium

built for Bristol City at Ashton Vale. There have been numerous

issues and discussions along the way so is this really it? David

Passmore is at the council house for us now. Good evening. Good

evening. This is a highly significant and a major step

forward, whether it is the final step, we will have to wait and see.

What councillors decided in there tonight was that a stadium could be

built on part of the site while part of the rest of the site should

be a town green where development can't take place. Let's put all

this into context. The club first proposed building a new stadium in

November 2007. Two years later, they got planning permission for

that 30,000-seater stadium and then in March this year, Sainsbury's got

permission to build a new superstore on the current ground,

Ashton Gate, thus unlocking funds for the whole project. Tonight, it

came down to an application to have the entire site made a town green.

This is how it looks, the current ground is Ashton Gate. The new site

is about a mile away. Those opposed to the stadium said the entire 42

acre site should be a town green but councillors said tonight that

half the site can be used for the stadium and the other half, the

southern half, be split between a wetlands nature reserve and a town

green. Feelings in and after the meeting were running pretty high.

Those opposed to the scheme saying it was a travesty, but the club was

delighted that their dream of a new stadium is a step closer. I am very

pleased that we have got to where we have got to. It is an

encouraging decision that has been taken. We need to wait and see

where it takes us and what happens next. It is an encouraging decision

and another big hurdle out of the way. A travesty of justice. What is

the point of going to an independent inspector having a 15-

day inquiry, having every witness called tested to the limit and then

when you get the result that you don't like, you then throw the ball

away? So is this the end of the matter? Well, probably not. The

town green applicants say they will now consider their position but

everyone here opposed to the scheme was determined that this shouldn't

be the end of the matter and that they will go to judicial review

which means the case will now go before the courts. So we will have

to wait and see. Thank you very much.

Police divers have spent the day searching the river in Bristol for

a university student who has gone missing after a night out. William

Appleby, who is 19, was last seen in a nightclub near Temple Meads

Station in the early hours of Sunday. His twin brother pleaded

today for him to come home. This is the last time Will Appleby

has been seen, out celebrating the end of his first year at university

with a group of friends. The time is 2.53am on Sunday. Nobody saw him

leave the club. At 3.15am a friend sent him a text, "Are you?" No

reply. The last time his phone was known to have been on was 3.27am.

Will east university accommodation is less than 15 minutes from Motion.

The obvious route home doesn't take him near the river. Today, day five

of the investigation, the police divers were called in. We have done

a lot of physical searching. Unfortunately, to no avail. This is

a measure that we need to take now to expand the search and obviously

put the dive team in to around the location of the nightclub.

William's a keen skateboarder. He was supposed to have been going on

holiday with his family tomorrow. Instead, his parents and twin

brother Alex are planning to come to Bristol in a desperate bid for

information. Wherever you are, just know we love

you and all we want is you home, like just - we are not bothered

whatever situation - if you can get home or get in contact, please do.

We are out of our mind. The missing posters are up all over town. The

police are keen to hear from anyone who thinks they might be able to

help. The nightclub's owner is adding his voice to the appeal.

seems to be a regular. We are well concerned about it. Everybody needs

to think back to Saturday night see if they saw this lad, if they have

any information at all, get hold of the police station. The worry is,

as time goes on, hopes of a happy ending start to fade away.

The big question now is where does the investigation go from here? The

police divers have spent all day searching this part of Bristol's

river system. As far as we know, they haven't found anything today.

When I spoke to a detective this morning, he said there were a

number of lines of enquiry they could pursue. One of those involves

trawling through hours of CCTV footage. The reason why that could

be important is because the last confirmed sighting they had was

still inside the club, that is 2.53am on Sunday. They don't know

if he left the club or if and when he did, which direction he went in.

That might help. The other thing they might do is to go back to

Motion, go back to the club on Saturday night and try to speak to

some of the 1,700 people who were there that night just to see

whether any of them hold the key to this investigation.

This is Thursday's Point West. Good to have your company. Two good

reasons to stay with us. We will be meeting the Wiltshire sculptor who

has turned a Gold Cup winner into a stunning bronze.

Animation altercation - but who is the real owner of Paul McCartney's

cartoon creations? First, a teenager from Taunton who

died in a road accident has been named. 13-year-old Amy Hofmeister

was hit by a car while riding her bike on Blackbrook Way yesterday

evening. Two men have been arrested and remain in police custody. A 19-

year-old woman, who was also arrested, has been released on bail.

The police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident to contact

them. The MP for Yeovil, David Laws, has

come to the end of a seven-day suspension from the House of

Commons. It followed a report which found the Liberal Democrat had

broken the rules on expenses when he claimed rent which went to his

partner. Mr Laws resigned as a Cabinet minister weeks after last

year's election. He spent some of the last week working in his

constituency. The luxury goods maker Mulberry has

more than quadrupled its annual profits. The company has doubled

the production of women's handbags as a result of a rapid increase in

demand. It is now expanding and 50 new jobs will be created.

Tomorrow sees the grand opening of Bristol's newest museum, the M-Shed.

It is hoping to tell the story of the city from its triumphs to its

tragedies. It is not the only museum about to open. The

refurbished Gloucester City Museum and the new museum of Somerset in

Taunton are both due to open by the end of the summer. So at a time

when many public buildings and services are being cut, it appears

that our museums are bucking the trend. No more so than in Bath

where one museum has seen more visitors since it re-opened last

month than past through its doors in a whole year.

One month on and still causing a stir. 21,000 people have visited

the museum this month, that is more than came in a whole year before

the refurbishment. The real test is now going to be sustaining those

visitor numbers. We need to keep those numbers up. There are so many

ways of doing that. Exhibitions are critical. We have a wonderful Peter

Blake show on at the moment and Gainsborough landscapes to follow.

Saturday art club for the children. We have a concert tonight. Then

events through the summer as well. Here in Gloucester, the city museum

is hoping to emulate the Holburn's success. It re-opens in August

after a refurbishment which might not be as dramatic but they hope

will be as effective. Thousands of people locally, who have not been

to this museum probably for decades because it hasn't changed very much

at all over that time. Now we have got this radical transformation of

what is here, it will be fresh and new. I hope people will want to

look and they are going to take an interest in the history of

Gloucester. As well as encouraging schools to bring their classes,

both museums have kept their entry fee low. The main museum is free.

There is a suggested donation of �3. Judging by the amount of notes here,

many are prepared to pay that and a little more. The idea is that those

that can pay and those that can't aren't put off coming to visit. It

is not just the ceramics upstairs that people have been flocking to

see, but here in the coffee shop cups of tea and coffee have been

just as popular. A high standard has been set. Now, it just needs to

be kept. There was a rather dramatic dress

rehearsal at the M-Shed this afternoon ahead of tomorrow's grand

opening and as the team carry out their last minute preparations, we

have been taking a closer look at some of the exhibits on show. Many

of them have been donated by members of the public including an

overall worn by an Asian butcher from Easton.

The overall kind of illustrates our trade. There is a huge change in

Bristol with different communities and in the last ten to 15 years we

have had a large Muslim community that has moved into Bristol. With

that, obviously that has had a huge effect on local trade in a positive

manner. As a butcher's we are very traditional as in providing to all

the communities, but we are very modern when it comes to the

traditional Asian trade. Halal fresh sausages, there is a big

demand for it. People like ourselves are building bridges

between very traditional community that has lived here for many years

and the new community in Bristol. It was difficult to persuade people

that it was a halal product. We have done that now. It is very

popular. We think our trade is one that's very, very relevant to

Bristol's recent history. We will be live at the M-Shed on

Point West tomorrow evening. We will bring you a whistle-stop tour

and show you all the highlights so do make sure you join us. If you

can't wait until then, Graham Torrington will be presenting his

show live from the museum tomorrow morning between 9.00 and 12.00.

Looks great. A music company from Bristol has

been named the official sponsor of this year's Harbour Festival. 30

companies each paid �1,000 to be in with a chance of winning the title.

The City Council came up with the idea to plug a gap in funding after

its own budget was cut. The Festival usually costs �360,000 to

run and attracts 250,000 people. The new sponsor is Jelli Records.

We look after local musicians, especially this young lady here,

who is signed to our record label, a small, local independent record

label. I'm over the moon and I can't believe this has happened. I

am still in shock. I have the champagne to prove it!

To celebrate the 40th year of the Festival, there will be a week of

special events at the harbourside leading up to the main weekend on

29th to 31st July. A Gloucestershire football club has

taken another step towards being truly green. Forest Green Rovers

banned red meat from being sold at the ground, now the pitch is being

grown and nourished organically. is something that I think is the

tip of the iceberg and it is very exciting to be part of it. The

organic ones do smell initially a little bit more than the other ones.

After a few hours, or two, it calms down. Somebody was here when we

were putting it on and yes, it did smell and we put the water on to

calm it down. It won't be a problem on match day. It could take about

two years for the earth to be declared organic by the Soil

Association. The draw for the first round of

football's Carling Cup has set up a local derby between Bristol City

and Swindon Town. The game will take place at Ashton Gate in the

second week of August. City finished 15th in the Championship

last season whilst Swindon were relegated from League One.

The match will be the second in charge for Swindon's new manager,

Paolo di Canio. Other fixtures The Swindon Robins are using money

from tonight's meet to support Lee Adams. The speedway legend left

intensive care this week after an off-road motorbike crash in

Australia last week. All the proceeds raised by programme sales

at the knockout cup tie tonight will be donated to Lee and to his

family. Now a set of drawings by Sir Paul

McCartney has been taken out of auction in Gloucestershire after a

legal challenge over who actually owns them. The cartoon characters

were drawn in the 1970s and were going to form part of a film about

Sir Paul McCartney's band, Wings. It was during the band's heyday as

Wings were riding high in the charts that Sir Paul McCartney

started doodling his pictures for an animation that was to be called

The Bruce McMouse Show. It featured a family of mice who lived under a

stage as the band toured Europe in 1972. The sketches were sent from

Sir Paul's hotel in Antigua to the Gloucestershire animator Eric Wylam.

Eventually, the project was shelved and the pictures stayed with Mr

Wylam's family for almost 40 years. Eventually, years after Mr Wylam's

death, his daughter decided to sell the pictures and they ended up here.

They were due to go on sale today but they had to be withdrawn

because the auctioneers were told the pictures still belonged to Sir

Paul McCartney. It is thought the pictures didn't live up to Sir

Paul's artistic standards. No-one from the auction house or Mr

Wylam's family, or Sir Paul McCartney's legal team have been

able to speak to us on camera today. Mr Wylam's daughter has said she

always believed the pictures belonged to her father.

Particularly after a passage of time, when they find something like

this that they may assume that, it is theirs, the difficulty of

understanding intellectual property law as to where the rights are

vested and those rights because this gentleman appears to have been

commissioned by Sir Paul McCartney, it means the rights would have been

his and not the gentleman who was commissioned. The pictures had been

expected to reach �25,000. Mr Wylam's family still believes

selling them will be the best way to bring them to the attention of

Sir Paul McCartney's fans around the world.

A young artist from Wiltshire is having a good week at Ascot. Not

just for backing a couple of winners! Charlie Langton has had

his first life-size bronze statue unveiled by the Queen. The

sculpture is one of the four-times Gold Cup winner Yeats.

Yeats is digging deep! Yeats is a racing legend. Powerful and popular.

So a life-size sculpture had a lot to live up to. No pressure then as

the Queen took the wraps off 800 hours of artwork. I'm over the moon.

I remember coming here when I was about 12 or 13, I think, and

thinking just how amazing it would be to have one piece here, painting

or a drawing, or something. But to have a life-size bronze in the

paddock here unveiled by the Queen on Tuesday, it was incredible.

stunning bronze has been well received. The Daily Telegraph are

calling Charlie Langton the golden boy of equine art. The sculpture

was created at his studio near Swindon. First from metal, then

clay. From which a bronze cast is moulded. The real art though is to

know your subject. I had a real strong mental image of him when I

came here and saw him running in the Gold Cups and had that mental

image of him walking exactly like that, long extension and the head

down, neck arched. This bronze Yeats is 10% larger-than-life. One

famous jockey can't get enough. is a very, very nice - I'm in love

with it. Very well done, Charlie. And Charlie says the Queen was very

complimentary, too. Now, let's turn to the weather.

To be fair, what's happened is what we thought would happen. It's been

a very mixed bag this week. A very mixed bag today starting with the

rainfall that came in overnight. Heavy rain, most of the areas that

got it were in the south. Still towards the north, a few sharp

showers continued right the way through the day. We are not quite

out of the woods just yet tonight. Accompanying the showers today was

a very strong wind. Once again, we felt those gusts, over 30mph, in

Bristol. Now, today, it was clouds like this that brought the showers

in. We did see some sunshine. Tomorrow, it won't look like that.

Wet, windy and distinctly chilly. That is because we have a big low

pressure system coming in later on tonight which will sweep its way

across very slowly pretty much the whole of the UK tomorrow. So cloud,

wind and rain on the way making for a pretty dismal end to the week.

For the rest of this evening and tonight, it is an improving picture.

Any remaining shower activity will begin to die away. Those showers

will push northwards and then we will begin to see a clearance of

the cloud. So clear spells for a time and our overnight low is not

too bad. Chillier in rural spots, but at least a period of settled

weather to take us into the early part of tomorrow morning. After

that, it is all change. Here is that low pressure system. The blue

on the map really does speak for itself. Once that system arrives,

it stays here all day. Accompanying it, that strong southerly wind.

Because of that, our temperatures tomorrow, they certainly are

struggling. 14 really I do think will be the average across the

region. The rain, not really letting up until the latter part of

the day when eventually we will begin to see some brightness. It is

a one-day feature. Unsurprisingly, the sun index is low. Humidity is

high. Then the outlook as we go into the weekend, it is unsettled

once again. Tomorrow's system pushes away. We get a bit of

brightness on Saturday morning before we get a lot of showers

coming in. Some of those showers sharp, heavy at times, possibly a

rumble or two of thunder and a strong westerly wind. Eventually by

Sunday, that shower activity will have died away. I do think on

balance Sunday is the better day of the week. More in terms of

brightness and sunshine. Still that wind means the highs will struggle.

So, for weekend activities, the chance of a shower for St Mary's

Church Fete on Saturday. By Saturday night, though, those

showers should have died away for showers should have died away for

the Montacute Carnival. Thank you. I'm not going to forget

my brolly! Let's return to our top story now

and that crucial vote at the council house in Bristol tonight

which could see a resolution in the Bristol City stadium saga. David

Passmore is there for us. Is the way clear now for the stadium to be

built? Well, Chris, you have been watching this story develop as long

as I have, four years in the making and counting so you never say this

is it. It is a very significant step and when I spoke to the club

this evening, Guy Price, the new Chief Executive, he was saying they

will now progress with the different things that they have had

on ice, they have still got to buy a couple of pieces of land, they

still have to sign contracts and put things in place before they can

start the building work. They will do that but they are mindful of the

fact that those opposed to the stadium still want to oppose it,

they still want to take this matter to judicial review, they want to

take it to the courts, get the courts to decide. That could drag

on for many months. At the moment, it is a big step forward. You are

talking about possible court action. What actually will be the next step,

do you think, for both sides? certainly, all the people opposed

to the stadium that I spoke to in the Council Chamber tonight, they

are determined that it will go to the courts, they will go to

judicial review. Those are the most passionate supporters of the town

green application, whether other people who put their names to the

town green application will continue the fight, we don't know.

All I do know is that someone from inside the camp has said they will

be meeting, probably tonight, certainly over the next couple of

days, to discuss what course of action they want to take. Any

judicial review would cost a lot of money. It will take a lot of time.

So whether they have the stomach for that fight, we will find out

soon. Thank you very much. That is it from us for this evening. I will