28/06/2011 BBC Points West

Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:

The female MP campaigning for thousands to start boxing - but

opponents say its a blow against Tough questions for the regulator

as MPs demand to know what went wrong at Winterbourne View. These

people are getting paid a lot of money to make sure the organisation

works. To have Winterbourne View happen on your watch is scary.

We'll tell you the best place to wave farewell to the last plane

from RAF Lyneham. And join me in St Paul's, where things are hotting up

Hello. An MP is today calling for thousands of youngsters to take up

boxing as a way instilling fitness and discipline in a new generation

of children. These are the images we usually see of the sport. Many

have said this is not the kind of thing we want in our schools. But

Charlotte Leslie - who boxed herself when she was a teenager -

is organising a campaign with MPs from all parties to boost the sport

in schools and communities. I have also seen how much people put into

boxing. Once sung heroes. Ever since the sport of boxing began,

there has been a debate about its merits. Now the North West Bristol

MP, Charlotte Leslie, who boxed as a teenager, wants to see it back in

school gyms - and has helped launch a parliamentary group to promote it.

She says it instils discipline and respect in young people. The sport

is certainly thriving, with pay per view matches making millions for

promoters, and some of our region's gyms reporting a 20% increase in

membership year on year. We have a great cross section of children.

They all mix in. There is a sense of camaraderie, discipline and

determination. I do not want to be a boxer. I came here from my

fitness. It has been quite a big dream of mine. I have always wanted

to be a boxer. The do not want to be a boxer. What I wanted to get

fit for football and order might sport. I think it is brilliant.

They are full of energy when they leave here. It will benefit them

long-term. But there have always been critics too. The British

Medical Association says it's not the kind of thing we should be

encouraging children to do. And it's not just doctors who are

against it. The brain is like a jelly in a box. Science tells us if

you keyed damaging that -- science tells us you keep damage in that.

The sport should have gone away and died a death. It is not a sensible

one. So as Charlotte Leslie continues to promote the sport, she

may well have a fight on her hands. And the MP for Bristol North West,

Charlotte Leslie, joins me now from Westminster. Good evening. What is

your dream, boxing available in every school? In it would be nice

to see boxing available to every child that wanted. There are non-

contact variance of the sport. Amateur boxing is safer than ever

before. Let's give the kids who want an opportunity to box, that

opportunity. If you have any qualms, go t a local boxing club and see

what happens. The aim of boxing is to knock your opponent out? In a

competition, that is the aim. There are a lot of dangerous sports

around. Bullfighting, cycling... Let's get real about the risks.

Yesterday we heard from a young Olympian who said his life was

going down the drain. Boxing completely turned his life around.

Life is a risky business. The risk of not letting these young people

do it is greater. Rugby is also dangerous but it is not the purpose

of the sport. The purpose of boxing is to knock your opponent senseless.

Is that why is to encourage schoolchildren did do that?

people want to box, I am not going to say they cannot box. The big

thing about boxing in schools is a lot of it is non-contact. One of

the boys UN did said he did not want to be a boxer but he wants to

train. -- you interviewed. If young people want to box, they are

feeling angry, what better way to do it than in a boxing gymnasium

where they can learn self-respect and self-esteem. It improves their

school work as well. That is the overriding message from teachers.

The worry is brain damage. Repeated blows to the head can damage your

brain. You accept that? Are I think at a professional level they raised

evidence that can happen. But we are looking at amateur. The number

of people competing is very small. Life is a risky business. The risks

of not allowing young people to do Our sports correspondent, Geoff

Twentyman, has been looking into the story for us today and joins us

now from a boxing gym in South Gloucestershire. Geoff, just how

much of a revival is there in the sport? There is a big revival. Look

at this facility. Yes, welcome to the Gordon Hazell boxing gym in the

Pomphrey Hill Sports Pavillion in Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire.

20 young boxers here. I'm joined by Craig Turner, who's in charge of

the Downend Boxing Academy. What about the anti- boxing comments?

is not dangerous. No more than cricket, football Joyce macro bit.

Is it popular? Are very popular. 20% increase nationally. You may

say it is an art form. What do you teach them? Basic citizenship,

respect for oneself and for others. Do they keep coming week on week?

we lose some of them. It is not long before their come back. --

they come back. Without boxing, we Craig Turner. 688 BC is when boxing

first started. I would suggest this debate started the day after that

and will continue into the future. I remember it! We will have some e-

mails about the subject of boxing later. There's been sharp criticism

by MPs of the failure to investigate what went wrong at a

care home near Bristol. Last month abuse of patients at the

Winterbourne View private hospital was exposed in a BBC Panorama

documentary. It emerged the Care Quality Commission had failed to

act after a tip-off. Today its chief executive apologised when she

appeared before a parliamentary committee. Our political editor

Paul Barltrop reports. It's a month since these pictures shocked a

nation. Winterbourne View is no longer - it's now closed down, as

police go on investigating what was captured on hidden cameras. Today

the need to stop it ever happening again focused the minds of a

committee of MPs as they questioned the boss of the official regulator,

the Care Quality Commission. I am very concerned that in terms of the

Winterbourne a situation, that real lessons will be learnt. It is

absolutely fundamental. This is the critical thing. We must always

learn. The issue of Winterbourne View, it was desperate to see that

and to another potentially people had experienced some terrible

things. She repeated her apology, and said a member of staff had been

disciplined for failing to act when contacted by a whistleblower. But

there were critical questions about the whole way the CQC operates.

Winterbourne View is not an isolated example. We need to look

at quality in care homes. I don't feel the CQC is taking it seriously

enough. Another member of the committee was concerned by the

CQC's insistence that it lacked the funding to work properly. These

people get paid a lot of money to make sure the organisation works.

To have Winterbourne View happen and your watch, that is scary.

MPs have had their chance to look at what went wrong, and I can tell

you away from cameras they were even more critical of the CQC. The

committee now hope to bring out their report in the autumn. You're

watching BBC Points West. Still to come: We're off to the pub quiz -

but put your phones away, there's no cheating this time. What

connects Swansea City, Peterborough and Stevenage? Yes, get your

thinking caps on. We'll have the answer for you later. A man's

pleaded guilty to hitting the captain of Cheddar AFC in the head,

with a blow that killed him before he fell to the ground. Samuel

Binning admitted a charge of manslaughter at Bristol Crown Court,

after striking 24-year-old Jim Hewlett outside a takeaway in

Cheddar. The assault happened as the 21-year-old tried to reach a

friend involved in a fight in the early hours of New Year's Day. The

judge warned Mr Binning to expect a prison sentence. After the threat

of legal action over the future of a day care centre in

Gloucestershire, the County Council says it will think again about

closing it. Protestors were preparing to go to the High Court

about the decision to shut Dursley Training Unit, which supports

people with learning disabilities. The County Council says it remains

confident in the original decision but will now reconsider the issue

to avoid further uncertainty for the service users. West Country

engineering firm Renishaw has announced it's to expand its

operations. The company, based in Wotton-under-Edge, is purchasing a

new site in South Wales and also wants to extend three existing

facilities in Gloucestershire. Earlier this year, the firm was

valued at more than �1 billion for the first time, with shares at a

record high. The Crimewatch roadshow has been in

Gloucestershire again. Today the team was on the hunt for a conman

who tricked his way into a care home in Frampton-on-Severn, and

stole money from the staff. Here's Steve Knibbs. Staff at this care

home in Frampton-on-Severn spend their working lives caring for the

elderly - for many it's a vocation. And on one day in May this year, a

phone call to one of those staff members cost her thousands of

pounds. It all started after a man had conned his way into the care

home claiming he was selling books. But stealing the purses was only

the beginning - next he called the victims. The person on the other

end of the telephone said he was from Lloyds Bank and somebody was

trying to use my card. He started to recite a transactions I had made,

which were correct. He said my cards have needed to be stopped

straight away. He asked if I knew the last three numbers of my card.

I told him I did not. I did not have my purse. He said the only way

he could stop the cards was to use my PIN number. Unfortunately I give

them over. Minutes after Kelly gave over her pin number in nearby

Stonehouse, a woman was caught on CCTV using the stolen cards. Using

the information from the stolen purse she persuaded the bank she

was Kelly, and even persuaded the bank to extend her overdraft and

cleared the account of nearly �2,000. A very confident, very

brazen act. A terrible thing to happen to anybody. If you have any

information then do call the Crimewatch roadshow team on 08000

468 999. The RAF's released the route of a very special fly-past

over Wiltshire this Friday. It's the farewell flight of the famous

Hercules transporters, as the last handful of planes leave their

historic base at Lyneham and head for Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

Scott Ellis reports. They've been at Lyneham since the seventies.

Come Friday, the Hercules will be gone for good. Along with them,

decades of experience of flying on the front line. In Lyneham village

today, more evidence the RAF base is on the move. Containers taking

everything out, headed for Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. There's

already been a royal farewell and fly-past. And this Friday the last

Hercules planes will leave Lyneham. Pilots will make a low level flight

across Wiltshire, starting at 10.30 am, and cross most major towns.

It's a thank you for 70 years of support for the Lyneham air base.

The station commander says they'll have heavy hearts. Those back on

the ground will be sad to see them go. It will be a shame not to see

them a flying over our House. I was going to take a video of the last

flight. His love waving at them. It is fantastic. -- children love. We

will be really upset. It is part of the community. It is the end of an

era. There will be a big economic impact with RAF Lyneham's closure.

The latest report suggests it'll drain the north Wiltshire economy

of �52 million a year, and lead to the loss of 2,600 jobs. What next

for RAF Lyneham? There is talk of a Holiday theme park. The big talk is

that an army unit is relocated here from Germany. That would keep the

local economy going. The Hercules will be deeply missed. On Friday we

will be on the final flight. That will be quite an occasion. Chris

basher will look back at the When the chorus stopped running,

thousands were let off. A new education programme will begin in

the autumn. The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust has become the first

organisation to try vaccinating badgers against bovine tuberculosis.

It's hoped the three month programme will prove vaccinations

are a real alternative to culling badgers, in the fight to stop the

spread of TB to cattle. Private donations are paying for the trial

at nature reserves in the Stroud Valley. Now, can you name a mammal

that lays eggs? Or tell me the capital city of Papua New Guinea?

Faced with questions like that, most of us turn straight to the

internet. But if you're taking part in a pub quiz, well that would most

definitely be cheating. Pub quizzes are worth millions to bars here in

the West, but internet phones mean cheating is too easy. So now

question-setters are trying to stay ahead of the game - they call it

google-proofing. Here's Andrew New data released in Germany

strongly suggests that locally produced what were the cause of the

E-coli outbreak? A few drinks, a few friends and the temptation of a

cash prize. The humble quiz has become the pub game. From small

beginnings to a multi-million pound industry. No phones please. A pub

will take �200 more on a quiz night. Across the west there are at least

250 every week. And at a time when many pubs are closing, that's more

than �2 million a year to the trade. We would not want to say anything

unless we kept them red-handed. This is our despatch room. Here at

the UK's biggest quiz supplier, they're making sure the answers

come from quick thinkers, not fast fingers. Each one has the please do

not use your mobile phone during the quiz logo. We will constantly

look at questions and think, can we come at it from a different angle?

You want the same question but Britain had different way, which

makes it harder to put the question into a telephone. This distribution

centre is one of the go seven days a week. They shipped out 5,000

quizzes every week. 150,000 people across the UK taking part in a quiz

every single week. Some questions are easier to find than others. Ask

how many times Fred Perry has won Wimbledon, and search engines take

seconds. But ask about connections. What connects the Swansea City,

Peterborough and Stevenage? That's a bit harder. I have definitely

seeing people cheating and I have definitely cheated in the past,

unfortunately. Using Google. We are a nation of quiz lovers, from

crosswords to Suduko. But as technology puts encyclopaedias of

knowledge at our fingertips, the battle is on to outsmart the

smartphone. We did said he those questions earlier. A mammal that

lays eggs, platypus. The capital of Papua New Guinea is chord more

speed. Be why get a microwave of and as a prize?! -- do I get. What

connects Swansea, Peterborough and Stevenage. I thought it was trains.

Not the answer we are looking for. They all reached the play-offs this

year. I do not get the holiday! The sequins are out, the sewing

machines are whirring, and the dancers are already limbering up.

Preparations are in full swing for St Paul's Carnival, which takes

place in Bristol this weekend. And today's the day the costume-makers

really get going in earnest. Emma Campbell's at carnival headquarters

for us now. Hello. It is all pretty quiet at the moment. Come Saturday,

this square will come alive. It will be heaving with people, with

music. There was a team hard at work making the customs. Let's have

a look back at how the carnival has developed since it first began in

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As you can see, it is a hive of activity. People making costumes,

streamers. These are the water themed costumes. If we move further

round, these are the fire themed costumes. The amount of work that

goes into those, in terms of putting on the sequence... Let us

talk to clear Lake. She is the organiser and one of the performers.

How much work goes into this? is a lot of work that goes in. It

is something that brings the community together. We are based in

Ashleigh House in the centre of St Paul's. It gets more frantic as we

go on. We know it has been a difficult time lately. Has it been

difficult raising money? It has been difficult. We have been

fortunate enough to keep our Arts Funding Council. We are asking

everybody to please the text of a donation. That will help us a lot.

We have 18 hours of music. Thank you for joining us the match. Still

Before we go to the weather, a look at a novel way of controlling the

scrub on Bristol Downs. Yes, a herd of six goats were released today.

They'll live in a fenced off area for at least the next five years.

It's hoped their grazing will enable wild flowers and grasses to

enable wild flowers and grasses to I do not understand why they do not

heed the wild flowers. I guess they just do not love them. So many

Looking dry for St Paul's Carnival at the weekend. So far as tomorrow

is concerned, similar story. There will be a few showers. We will be

using a cold front overnight. Skies clearing. High pressure building

hinted tomorrow. A few showers tomorrow. The cloud is thicker as

we move further eastwards. Sky is tending to clear from the West this

evening. There have been some lightning showers in the East today.

But 4 us, it is essentially a drive story. -- a dry story. Still some

cloud. That will tend to fade away as we move into tonight. What those

conditions in mind, it will be a mostly cool night. -- with those

conditions in mind. Tomorrow will start on a dry note. A good deal of

sunshine. As we get to the morning, showers will start to gather.

Gloucestershire will be the focus from many of those showers.

Pleasant in Bristol, South Gloucestershire. Temperatures

tomorrow in the sunnier spots getting up to 17-19 Celsius. C

temperature tomorrow about 14 Celsius. -- the sea temperature.

There is almost an exact replica of tomorrow. A good deal of dry, find

conditions. Temperatures around 18 Celsius. High-pressure starting to

build as beget towards the weekend. -- as we get towards the weekend.

This area of low pressure being held at bay for the time being. It

bodes well for the St Paul's Let's get back into the boxing ring.

We have had some e-mails. Alex, who is a boxer, says that at a recent

medical her doctor said he had not tended to any serious trauma in

boxing. Rugby and football are far more dangerous. Someone from

Bristol has said he does not believe boxing Rees discipline but

violence. He and asked, why the Boxing authorities do not adopt the