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Hello and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines tonight: | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
The co-founder of Live Aid urges everyone to help the children dying | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
in Somalia. Midge Ure gives a heartfelt appeal from his home city | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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in Bath. These people have got no water, no food, no money. If they | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
had money they would have nowhere to spend it. It is beyond | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
comprehension. Also tonight: The secret training | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
base for Churchill's guerilla army. Work reveals another possible | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
underground bunker in Wiltshire. Ready to rock on the beach in | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Weston as T4 returns to the seaside. And George Bernard Shaw exposed - | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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the playwright as you've never seen The co-founder of Band Aid, Midge | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Ure, is urging people across the West to help the millions starving | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
in the Horn of Africa. The '80s pop star, who lives near Bath, says we | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
mustn't become numb to the shocking pictures being shown of their | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
plight. Just after our programme tonight, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
leading British humanitarian agencies will broadcast an appeal | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
for donations following concern that refugee camps in Kenya and | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Ethiopia are struggling to cope with the huge numbers coming from | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
Somalia. In a moment we'll be hearing from Midge Ure, but first | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Andrew Plant has been finding out how the Somali community in Bristol | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
are doing everything they can to help their people back home. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Outside this Mosque in Bristol, buckets for donations after Friday | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
prayers. The Somalian community here have already raised almost | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
�30,000 to help those suffering back home. Today, the rain a minor | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
nuisance and easily avoided. But in East Africa it hasn't rained | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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properly for two years. More than 10 million are affected. My brother | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
passed away and someone else said that they did not know where people | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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are. The anxiety levels in the Moscow right now are very high. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
drought in Somalia is forcing mass migration. The situation is dire | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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and people are already dying. People die every day. Many in this | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
West country's O'Malley and community have extended family | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
members affected and they are anxious. News of individuals is | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
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hard to come by. We see all the stories on TV. It is really sad. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
The money they are sending to Somalia will help save many lives, | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
but with 10 people -- down 10 million people in affected, much | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
more will be needed. Earlier I met up with one of the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
men behind banded and Live Aid in that the 1980s and started by | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
asking him how he felt about the latest crisis. To be still seeing | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
that happening after all this time, is a horrible experience. I suppose | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
in a way, it was inevitable that it would happen. The problem that is | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
raging out there in the last fe years, we have discovered it is | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
global warm-up -- global warming. The rains would normally fail every | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
10 years and now they feel annually and so the crops disappear. The few | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
animals that they have died. They are left with absolutely nothing. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
Did you ever imagine that 25, 26 years after a banded, you'd be | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
seeing the same images? I think you'd be naive to think that, as | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
great as those things where and as much asDon people to change their | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
opinions, it would be naive to think that it was going to fix this. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
It was a sticky plaster and if you were dying as sticking-plaster will | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
not make a difference. It was a motivational thing. It helps people | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
see charity work in a different light. When I was a child, my | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
parents would say to meet think of all the starving kids in Africa to | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
meet you finish a meal, and that was back in the 1950s. It does not | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
go away. People sometimes get a sense of fatigue seeing these | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
images on their TV screens. Do you think it is easy for people to | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
forget that they are parents like you and I? It is all fall four | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
people sitting at home watching this saying, I saw the same thing | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
last year and people keep asking us for more and more. The bottom line | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
is that the level that people -- level of people -- level of poverty | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
out there is on a different level than we have here. We do not hear | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
of done of people starving to death in the UK. I think we live in a | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
switch of football society. We do not have to face it. Because it is | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
not necessarily our immediate problem. The reality is that these | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
are parents just like us, children are just like ours. There is no | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
difference. It is just that we have an awful lot more than they have or | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
that they will ever have. Maybe to as the idea of having to give up | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
your mobile phone or send back your satellite -, that is poverty in our | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
spectrum. Theirs is a whole different thing. They cannot feed | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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their children. It is that simple. In other news tonight, detectives | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
investigating the shooting of Rico Gordon on Stapleton Road in Bristol | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
are looking for a black hooded sweatshirt which may have been | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
discarded by a gunman. The 20-year- old was killed in the early hours | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
of Sunday morning during a gunfight by two groups, both from London. A | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
woman injured in the attack remains in hospital. Police want people in | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
the Belmont Street and St Mark's Road area of Easton to be on the | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
look out for the black top. I would ask anyone in that era to be | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
vigilant, but if they find what they think is this top not to touch | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
it because we need to prayer text it -- preserve it for forensic | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
investigation. The force is working closely with | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the Met in London, where all the suspects are believed to be based. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
The man detectives want to question over the death of a 51-year-old | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
woman in a village near Weston- Super-Mare is described as being in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
a stable condition in hospital. Julie Tottle, who lived in Kewstoke, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
died from head injuries following a sustained attack. Her husband | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Stephen Hotson, who police say fell or jumped from an upstairs window, | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
has been arrested on suspicion of her murder. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
A man is in Frenchay Hospital with serious injuries after an apparent | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
row over a taxi fare. The incident happened at 3 o'clock this morning | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
in the village of Chew Stoke. Today, roads were closed while police | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
examined a taxi on the side of Chew Lane. It's not clear how the man | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
got his injuries. The taxi driver is being questioned on suspicion of | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
causing grievous bodily harm. More secrets have been unearthed | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
today in a forest near Highworth in Wiltshire into the clandestine | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
world of Britain's wartime guerrilla army. Thousands of | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
volunteers were trained on an estate at Coleshill, ready to wreak | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
havoc on the Nazis should they ever invade. A week long dig's just | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
finished, telling us more about Churchill's auxiliary units. Scott | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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Ellis reports. The weeks after the evacuation at Dunkirk, German | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
soldiers had stormed west to the coast. Their generals were ready to | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
invade. Now Adolph had lasted, just as Napoleon's to do more than 100 | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
years before. -- Adolf Hitler. response, Winston Churchill set up | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
a secret army. He would wait for the Germans to occupy, then attack. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Three-and-a-half 1000 volunteers headed through Highworth to learn | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the art of assassination and sabotage. They were also literally | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
an underground army, they were trained to spend weeks concealed in | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
shelters. They would go to ground and the Germans would is that -- | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
establish themselves, at these guys would come out at night, do the | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
reading of the German's houses, find where the ammunition dumps | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
where and cause as much damage as they could. All week, they have | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
been digging here. Here is the sight of the Secret Army's signal | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
base. Evidence here perhaps of more bunkers used for training, plus | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
bullets and bombs. This was a well- equipped army. They had this kind | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
of machine gun long before the British Army did. They were issued | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
with a whole range of explosives, truck rolled -- truckloads of | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
explosives. They would have caused massive damage to the German | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
advance. This man was in a secret army patrol. He recounts being | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
trained to move quietly in forests. Carry a weapon on that side and | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
then when you move your foot, he will down first, and then... Many | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
of volunteers have never spoken about the auxiliary army. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Government files remain under lock and key so digging is the way to | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
find out more. There is another clue - a plaque in nearby harp -- | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
nearby Highworth. This women would need the volunteers and take them | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
up the hill for their training. This village was the gateway for | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
the are made. We're glad you could join us on | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
this showery Friday evening. Coming up later in the programme: | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
From her little pony to the dancing dressage horses - we meet our best | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
Olympic medal prospect. And the storm clouds that had a | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
sting in the tail for South Gloucestershire - Ian Furgusson has | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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People living in Filton on the edge of Bristol are worried there will | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
be traffic chaos in the area if the historic airfield becomes a huge | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
housing estate. The airfield owner BAE systems says it's now looking | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
at using the land for a mixture of housing and commercial development | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
when the runway closes next year. A public meeting is being held | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
tonight about the future of the land. People are worried about what | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
is going to replace the air-filled. People do not want to see it go. I | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
think we have to be realistic. They have decided to sell it and there | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
will not be anyone to come along with the amount of money necessary | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
to keep it going so we have to be real and look to the best deal. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Plans to keep the Concorde museum on the airfield site - rather than | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
moving it to Cribbs Causeway - will also be discussed tonight, though | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
no decisions will be made. Weston-Super-Mare's economy could | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
be boosted by up to �1 million this weekend, as thousands descend on | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
North Somerset for one of the biggest pop roadshows. The weekend | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
extravaganza T4 on the Beach is a sell-out, and the seaside town is | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
bracing itself for the influx of visitors, traffic and music. Here's | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
Jules Hyam. This weekend at Weston-super-Mare | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
is very much at the heart of the whole of the pop universe. It is | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
all because of this. This festival is back in the town for its 7th | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
consecutive year. This year it is bigger and better. This year there | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
is an you look, new lighting and the stage itself juts right out | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
into the beach to get you, pop fans, much closer to the action. | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
really is that crowd that is unrivalled. His is the best crowd | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
we have in the country so that is why we keep coming back. It is | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
definitely more, more, more of this year. Backstage, we have more at | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
social media. The whole event is streamed live on Facebook. We're | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
also trying to convey a greater sense of where this event is staged. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
The team have been setting up the whole production for about a week. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
They have been making it look perfect for the audience and for | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
the millions watching at home, both live and then after each of the | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
repeats. That is all good PR for Weston-super-Mare. We would hope | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
that it would encourage the younger generation to get a first look at | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
the seaside resort and hopefully come back for years to come. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Weston-super-Mare's media profile is very much on the up. This is | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
creek cash from the royal family directing his new sitcom. Another | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
TV appearance -- Appearance and another chance to sell the time to | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
visitors. The problem with being a seaside resort is that much of the | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
local economy relies on tourism and that relies on at the weather. | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Events like this are so important for the area. People will come and | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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Let us hope the sun shines. Sport now and the good stages of | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
the Twenty20 Cup are moving towards their conclusions. There is an | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
important derby between Somerset and Gloucestershire tonight. He big | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
crowd, I understand. So far so good. It is a sell-out. | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
The seats are all full. About 7,000 or 8,000. Somerset are batting | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
first. We are in the 18th over. Gloucestershire cannot make the | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
quarter-finals but Somerset will need to when, currently in second | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
and with just one match to play. Everyone here is just pleased to | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
see some cricket. Really enjoying it because they have not done well | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
with the weather - four of their eight home matches have been | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
affected. Not great for players or spectators. Twenty20 cricket does | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
generate a lot of revenue so it is not good for their finances either. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
Everyone very happy to see this game on tonight. Elsewhere, more | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
good news for Wiltshire swimmer Stephanie Millward. She has picked | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
up another gold medal at the Paralympic Championships in Berlin. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
This time in the 400 metres backstroke. -- 100 metres | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
backstroke. That is to add to her medal in the 400 metres freestyle. | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
She also picked up a silver medal in her 100 metres race on Friday. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
The latest in our Olympic hopefuls, those who are really making -- | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
hoping to make a big impact in London in one year, we are taking a | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
closer look at those who are working hard to be a big part of | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
next week's games. Laura Bechtolsheimer from Ampney St Peter | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
in Gloucestershire is one of our best hopes. She will compete in the | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
dress as. She has been confirmed today as the number two rider in | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the world. This is where Laura | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Bechtolsheimer's Olympic dream has been nurtured. Not just the family | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
home in Ampney St Peterborough an equine centre of excellence. It has | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
been dubbed the Hilton of horses. This is the blow dryer for horses... | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
It is all aimed at giving her the best chance for success. The family | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
also breed and trained horses. Before I was old enough to her | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
right, my father had me in his saddle. I have always done | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
something horse related so it is exciting to write horses that use | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
of being born, and to be able to write them later. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
She has been committing -- competing with her horse Mistral | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
Horjis, or Alf as she calls him, for seven years. Dressage is best | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
described as ballet with horses. It has to be assured man but obedient | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
as well. It is about extravagance of | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
movement. But also, being 100% in harmony and controlled by the rider. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
I have to look good on top and he looks like he is just doing it | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
himself. This is her first time on a pony. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Laura's father has been a big inspiration. As well as buying her | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
first pony when she was three years old, he also competed for Great | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
Britain in the 1990s. She is great under pressure. She | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
excels and is always getting better. It is always nerve-racking, and I | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
am always quite exhausted by the time she is finished. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
Lord are won silver at last year's world championships but to win | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Olympic gold, she is likely to be up against the world's most | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
expensive horse, recently bought for a reported �10 million. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Jess - horses hardly ever go for that kind of money so it is crazy. | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
-- dress as horses. If I do the best performance that I can, I will | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
be extremely happy. Greenwich Park will help -- host | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
the competition next year. Good luck to her. We are just | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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coming to the end of the 19th over here. 147 for four. They have | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
dished out some hard hats as part of the marketing campaign. We will | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
have to see some more bake sixes before they are used. If you want | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
to hear more, a local radio stations have all the commentary. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
Thank you very much. Let us hope the rain holds off for you. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
As set of never seen photos taken by the writer George Bernard Shaw | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
has gone Elton's -- on display in Wiltshire. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
The exhibition features the thousands of his photos including | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
self portraits, one or two of which have raised a few eyebrows. | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
This proves what most of us have guessed - Bernard's shot is an | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
institution in himself... He gained that status because of | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
his gift forwards. This is him toiling away on a typewriter. Here, | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
at the only gallery dedicated to photography, George Bernard Shaw is | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
in the spotlight. He was known as a great literary | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
voice but he was also clearly an accomplished photographer and a | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
bold one as well. Some of his photographs that have attracted the | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
most attention are his nudes. A little unusual for their time. He | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
did not photograph anyone else in the nude, just himself. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
The photographs come from a collection held by the London | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
School of Economics, which George Bernard Shaw founded. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
I have got this down to 150 images, but that was too many, and it was | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
very hard to get it down to a small number of images that were | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
representative of his work. It is a set of images that were | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
well received by the first visitors to the exhibition. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
I think they are very interesting. Your associate George Bernard Shaw | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
whether writing that this is something very different. It is | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
really quite revealing, what else he was doing apart from writing. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
It is revealing in more ways than one. Whether it is subtle portrait | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
of nudity or stark seascapes, this is a side of George Bernard shot | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
that is worth a look. I will not see him in the same | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
light again. Yesterday evening there was some torrential rain | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
across the West. We understand that you were out | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
there in Europe -- with your Yes, we were storm chasing | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
yesterday. We have had some lively weather. Small tornadoes reported | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
in Bognor Regis and in Bolton. We have had some lightning as well. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Yesterday, if you were in south Gloucestershire at around 9pm, this | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
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is how the rain fall looks. This was the sting in the tail. This is | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
not a common sight in the British Isles. Some strong winds in the | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
front of that thunder storm as it marched up the seven. -- the River | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
Severn. If you get good weather pictures, send them to us. For the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
rest of the weekend, showers will become less of a feature. The | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
balance is tipping towards sunnier and warmer weather. The same story | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
at Silverstone if you're going there for this weekend's Grand Prix. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Similar to yesterday, with a few more showers following. It will | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
take a while to lose the last of these. This is the prediction | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
taking things forward from here. Generally, we will lose the showers | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
inland as the night wears on. It will not be a particularly cold | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
night with temperatures getting down to around 11 degrees Celsius. | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Tomorrow, the balance shifts more towards sunny spells. A moderately | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
breezy day. A few of these showers ft across as well. About 30% chance | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
of catching one of those. By tomorrow evening, the showers are | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
out of the way. Temperatures will feel warm were in those conditions | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
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at around 21 Celcius. Sea conditions will mellow as well. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Generally try, with better conditions, temperatures getting | :25:56. | :26:01. |