12/07/2011 BBC Points West

Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West.

Our headlines tonight: The cost of learning is going up.

Universities set their fees. They're all charging at, or near,

the maximum of �9,000. Hot air in Swindon tonight as Honda

apply for permission to build windmills at their factory.

The King's new clothes - just some of the movie costumes going on show

in Bath. And lift off for the West Country

camera team who took these pictures But first tonight, allegations of

abuse are being investigated at a second home for people with

learning disabilities in Bristol. The BBC has learnt that four

members of staff have been suspended at Rose Villas in

Brislington. Our reporter Dickon Hooper is outside the home for us

now. Dickon what can you tell us? That is Rose Villas there, the

yellow building. People callously used to be an old people's home but

tonight as you say it is at the centre of more abuse allegations.

Four people have been suspended. We understand one person was suspended

in June after whistleblower was raised concerns, two last week

after the government regulator, the Care Quality Commission, after it

raised concerns, and one after allegedly mishandling a patient.

The Care Quality Commission has told this its report into what

happened here will be ready in the next few weeks.

Who runs the home, and what have they said?

It is run by a castle back. They told us today they have confirmed

the suspensions and notified and a working with the relevant

authorities as the inquiry is conducted. They have been in the

news recently, they ran all ran Winterbourne View in south

Gloucestershire which was at the centre of that Panorama

investigation into a piece and that home has now closed down. One final

piece of information, Avon and Somerset police have told us

tonight overworking with their partners on this as inquiries

continue. -- are working. They say no criminal offence has been

Thousands of potential students have found out the cost of learning

at the West Country's universities and it's not going to be cheap. All

the leading institutions are charging the full amount allowed,

�9,000 a year, but the others aren't far behind. There will be

schemes though to help students from poorer backgrounds. Here's our

political editor, Paul Barltrop. So now we know for sure. Students

heading off to the West's universities in a year's time will

face big fees. Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol and the University of the

West of England can charge as much as �9,000 a year while

Gloucestershire University's top fee is �8,250. There will be

reductions and discounts, so many student will actually pay hundreds

of pounds less. Our universities have committed millions to this and

to doing more to encourage young people from less well-off

backgrounds. Summer school at the University of

the West of England. In its art and design department a group of 15-

year-olds are trying their hand at animation. The university has

forged links with several local schools, often in less affluent

areas. For many, going to university seems daunting.

thought about it but the thought of it being really expensive puts me

off. I do want to go to university if I can afford it. I would like to

go to university but whether I do or not is another matter. Helping

them is someone who knows what it's like to miss out. Shawn Sobers came

as a mature student. He's now a lecturer. Myself, when I went to

school university wasn't ever on the horizon, that's what these

activities aim to do, interest kids, what it's like, open their eyes to

it. The university are investing �10 million in schemes to help less

well-off students. There will be financial support for those who

needed and we will make sure that is close to young people and their

parents so at the efforts we can make an hope we can continue to

protect the widening participation of work we see as so important.

Progress will be measured both by statistics, and by how many of

these teenagers go on to university. Now UWE was actually singled out

for praise by the government's regulator. When the Office For Fair

Access announced that it had approved the plans put forward by

universities, it faced criticism over the situation in elite

universities like Bristol. It's got oodles of history and lots of

students from affluent backgrounds. It's trying to change that, but

warns that pupils from private schools are more likely to get the

grades needed to come here: Universities have a role to play.

We are keen to play that role. But as we have pointed out there are

limits as to what universities can do, because the social deprivation

starts arguably for the year zero. However, we will do everything we

can in order to double playing fields so that people do have the

opportunity to come to a top university like Bristol.

With tuition fees now definitely going up, all are stressing that

no-one has to pay in advance. Once they're working they'll have up to

30 years to repay their debt. The town of Wootton Bassett came to

a standstill again this afternoon, to pay tribute to a 20-year-old

soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. Highlander Scott

McLaren of 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, disappeared

from a NATO checkpoint in Central Helmand province sparking a 17-hour

search. John Maguire reports. As Highlander Scott McLaren was

carried by colleagues from his regiment, his coffin covered in the

union flag, another flag flew at half mast at this business on the

route from Lynham to Wootton Bassett. You expect the

repatriation to be dignified, sombre and respectful but it's also

colourful. Tom Fair's motorcycle a perfect example as this corner of

Wiltshire displayed Scottish colours. It is not just in Scotland

people are passionate about this, people are passionate about this

wherever they are in the world. This is something that needs to be

done to pay respects to people who give their life selflessly in

combat. This is Scott McLaren. Just 20

years old, immensely proud to be a soldier. His disappearance sparked

a major ground and air search. For some reason he'd left his post and

was found shot dead. The Taliban said they killed him. Today his

comrades stood alongside their forbears and more flags, this time

the Royal British Legion's standards were lowered in the act

The young soldier's family had joined the people of Wootton

Bassett and stepped forward as the cortege stopped. Strangers, friends,

family standing shoulder to shoulder. Each person with their

own reason to be here. We have never come before although we live

locally. We felt we would like to come wants to show our respect,

such a sad thing and very moving for me, for us, to be here. We know

they will not be here for much longer and we thought it was

appropriate when it was a Scot, and back. --coming. And the families

thanked Wootton Bassett for once again paying its respects in its

own unique way. The Union flag was raised and this soon to be royal

town returned to life as normal. Thank you for joining us on this

Tuesday evening. Still to come: turning this drab,

grey street into something to attract visitors from across the

country. Find that having a few minutes. -- found that -- find out

Ten men have been banned from their homes under new powers granted to

police to deal with domestic violence in Wiltshire. It's part of

a 12-month pilot scheme which began last week. The Protection Orders

allow individuals to be banned from their own home without the police

pressing charges. The idea is that victims don't have to move out.

Organisers of St Paul's Carnival are disappointed with the amount of

money this year's event raised. A new text service was introduced for

people to donate money. But fewer than 700 people did, leaving next

year's event with a shortfall of �8,000. 80,000 people attended the

event last weekend. Police have made another arrest in

connection with the murder of Rico Gordon who was shot dead in Bristol

earlier this month. The 21-year-old who was from London, was killed in

a gunfight between two groups in the Stapleton Road area of the city.

A man in his twenties was arrested at Heathrow Airport and is in

police custody. Tonight the corporate might of

Honda in Swindon comes face to face with its neighbours in a row over

giant wind turbines. The car maker wants to build three on its site,

each over 400 feet high. But hundreds living in villages near

the Honda factory are objecting and the RAF's worried they'll interfere

with its radar. Scott Ellis is in Swindon, Scott.

So many people have been turning up for the meeting, a very

controversial issue, anywhere between 304 hundred people turned

up to express their views, most against the turbines, but some were

there in favour of them, there were so many people the council couldn't

accommodate them all and that is including the main chamber and a

spare room where they have set up a television set so people could

watch the meeting. They were queuing out the corridor and into

the car park at the meeting has had to be deferred. Let's talk to one

of the protesters. What do you think about the fact the meeting

has been deferred? I'm disappointed tonight the people of Swindon

didn't have the opportunity to throw this abrogation out but am

glad to see the massive outpouring of public support against this and

I hope Honda will take note. We should point out that the

developers behind the turbines are confident there will be no noise

issues and that Honda have said they have put together a thorough

report which the planners can use to make their own decision about

this and that all have to be some time with them the next four weeks

at a much larger venue. A wildlife cameraman from the West

is going to extraordinary lengths to capture images of one of our

most camera-shy creatures. While there's plenty of evidence of wild

boar in the Forest of Dean, they are notoriously difficult to spot.

One artist is setting up a unique way of trying to spot the boar. Our

Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, has been to meet him.

In the depths of the Forest of Dean, tripwires are appearing. But its

nothing sinister, it's all in the name of art. Artist Daniel

Staincliffe has moved into a tent in the forest building camouflaged

cameras in an effort to catch wild boar on film. Unlike the ith the

attic, I like to think of it as a garden shed is the attic. -- 8th

erratic. They are all operated by tripwires. It will be tied to a

tree. When the animal crosses it. It seems low-tech. One of my

influences. So with Daniel's camera kit ready to go it was time to find

a place to set it up. Daniel's working closely with the Forestry

Commission which is as keen as he is to see the results. They've told

us about a secret location where boar are known to visit. And this

is perfect, evidence of a wallow, so a good spot for the cameras.

This is set up with a trip wire. We have got a path which we know has

been used and there is evidence of reading as well. -- rooting.

Daniel's got around 30 cameras to set up so the odds are good of

snapping something, although he's quite open to the fact the boar

might be camera shy. I like to create works that allow me to lose

control over what I am producing. I can put it out there and I have got

no idea what I will get back. Daniel's setting up his cameras for

the next three weeks and will be exhibiting the results later in the

summer. He hopes to catch a candid glimpse of one of the Forest's more

reclusive inhabitants. He will exhibit the results later in the

summer. And since Steve filmed that report,

Daniel has captured his first wild boar on one of the cameras. Here's

the picture he's just sent us, and you can see the boar's snout

setting off the tripwire. It worked. BT says it hopes to return phone

and internet services to customers cut off by the end of today. 1,400

homes and businesses lost services when Severn Trent cut through

underground Telegraph -- telephone cables last Thursday. Engineers are

working round the clock and they are hoping to reconnect everybody

by the end of the week. Seven ducklings had to be rescued

today after being stuck in a spillage of industrial blue on the

roof of the Winter Gardens of Weston-super-Mare. -- glue. A team

of volunteers work four hours. One bird had to be put down but the

remainder are doing well and staff hope they will be able to start

feeding later tonight. Organisers of the eventing festival

at that can have said next year's event will have to be moved forward

because of the Olympic Games -- back come. Captain Mark Phillips

and his son Peter are hoping the top riders will still compete and

are already making alternative plans. The team horse is going to

Greenwich will probably not run cross-country next year because it

is too close to the Olympic Games but we are hoping to put on the

combined test for those Timor's is so the spectators will get to see

them for the last time before the Olympic Games. This year's trials

take place at the beginning of August, a week after his daughter

Zara Phillips marries Mike Tindall. It could be the biggest urban art

installation in Europe, a dazzling display of colour on an

architectural scale. A group of artists will take over an entire

city centre street in August to create a celebration of Bristol and

its street art culture. Many of the works will be permanent and the

event hopes to leave a legacy that could bring thousands of tourists

to the city every year. Here's Jules Hyam.

This is Nelson Street in central Bristol. The kind of place that

inspires you didn't -- do nothing more than look at your feet. But

come the middle of August that will change. We are working hard to make

these buildings sort of exciting, but some people don't see them as

walls, but as a canvas, the space on which to create. And with the

owners' permission that's exactly what this man and others like him

are going to do. 12 internationally-renowned artists,

local groups and schoolchildren all adding colour to what has been

something of a cultural dead zone. The idea revolves around a concept

I did several years ago, the UK's longest continuous piece of street

art at the time. We will take it vertically and transform one of the

drabbest streets in central Bristol into an eye-popping rainbow of

I don't pay you could do this in another city in the country. It is

the most open to was art work creatively in the UK -- towards our

work. There is won in Melbourne. They do an annual event will be

repainted. We want to drive straight art tourism to Bristol. If

you go to Berlin a lot of people go there for the art and the same is

happening with Bristol. This will just add to what has been

progressing over the last five years and this is definitely the

biggest project to date. St art tourism. An unlikely economic

driver but one that is growing across the world. Here in Bristol

it is one reason why so many buildings on Nelson Street have

chosen to get involved. It is all about street art, Bristol.

Certainly for the hostel guests that is what they come for. We send

them to Stokes Croft and it would be great if it was on the doorstep

of event organisers hope tourists Now, take a look at this. A foam

box, covered with black tape and packed with little gadgets. It was

put together by a team of amateur scientists from Bristol who sent it

22 miles up into the sky to try and capture some photos of planet earth.

And they did pretty well. Two of them are here with us tonight,

Chris Cardwell and Gareth Dorrian. Welcome.

What have we got inside? I love the fact on the top is as harmless

scientific experiment. If we look inside, take us through what we

have got. A couple of cameras to photograph

downwards and outwards, a video camera to film -- film the whole

event. How did it cope with all this equipment at the temperatures

it reached? It gets to about -- it gets pretty cold so we used the

Frome for insulation and we have got these little hand warmers use

when you are hiking. Someone is running the!

What do do question marks Robert Andrew the space shuttle? It was

attached to a large weather balloon. It does a pretty rapidly. -- it

goes up. About 20 miles. We have got pictures as well. You

knew it would reach about 22 miles. Look at this. You must have been

chuffed to pieces when you saw this. Absolutely. We weren't even sure we

were going to get it back. Over the moon. There are many people who can

take photographs like that. When we see the images from the so --

shuttle and things, you think ordinary people can do this. This

was on a budget of a few hundred pounds. You don't need a multi-

million-pound budget to achieve things like this. Why did you do

it? The idea of getting yourself a challenge? You are a physicist and

you are a photographer. Why do this? A few months ago I went to a

sound conference in North Wales and some PhD students from Sheffield

were doing a similar project and a show that the year they made to

some of my friends here and Chris suggested we have a go ourselves.

He got it opera and his pictures, then the other trick is to get it

back, what happened? -- you got it up there. The dubious doesn't work

above a certain altitude so the Blean disappeared and we had no

idea what happened to it -- balloon. We started receiving signals and we

got in the car and followed the location to track it down, a

treasure hunt. It was all in one piece? It was dangling from a very

high tree above a river. Five hours later it came down in

Worcestershire. You have all got one of these pictures on a wall.

Not yet, but we will. Thank you And we've put lots of those amazing

Here is your chance to get up close and personal with an Oscar winner.

Maybe Colin Firth. They are not there but the costumes they walk

are there. N exhibition at Bath Bath Museum should is his 40 iconic

pieces. -- an exhibition at Bath's fashion museum showcases 40 iconic

From the Duchess, to The King's Speech and Gladiator, to Pirates Of

The Caribbean, the costumes that helped stars like Keira Knightley

and Johnny Depp to shine on screen collected her for closer

examination. -- here. A history of British designers who helped make

Hollywood look good. His Majesty... Firth's film about a

king who overcomes his stammer won four Academy Awards and received a

BAFTA nomination for it's costumes. -- its. Because these were

questions actually worn by stars, that is what people want. We are

highlighting the design element, it is the fact Colin Firth's DNA is in

his costume that people are really excited about and it will be hugely

popular. Opening in Bath for the summer but proving popular even on

day one. Getting to see how they are made and constructed, the

amount of care, being able to seek it, remarkable. To a lot of people

they are more interested in he wore it and it is a way of getting close

to that person, lots of people like Orlando bloom so they were will be

like this. A lot of times when you see a film you cannot see all a

little tiny hand stitches that went into the lace collars and things

like that. It is great to be able to see them up close and look at

all the time and care put into each The tiny details on display here

making things look real on the big screen.

Colin Firth's DNA could be there! They could have one for you and

your frocks. Would they have room? He is quite

The weather is not looking to back. Some cloud pictures Chris and

Gareth took which grabbed my attention. Another one when they

took off with his radiation, fog, Kemal of cloud. For many of you a

dry day to come. A ridge of high pressure starting to build which

will calm things down into Thursday. Progressively through the rest of

this evening a fair amount of the card will have disappeared. Showers

not completely gone. One of two recently skirting down at the

Forest of Dean into the 7th. Bash into the River Severn. -- into the

River Severn. The wind is gradually falling lighter. Dawn tomorrow, a

cold night that we have seen of late. -- A Cole tonight than we

have seen. Tomorrow morning rush- hour start and a dry neck. -- dry

note. In the afternoon more in a way of cowled generally. -- more in

the way of cloud generally. Dry, right the way through the evening.

As we look beyond, etc. Thursday brings more of the same. Less in a

way of cloud. Friday, a day of transition. More in a way of cloud,

drive through the daylight hours. The breeze starting to pick up.

Inclement spell of weather for the weekend. At the weekend wears on it

will wear itself down across parts of England. Three Saturday, Sunday,

increasingly breezy, windy. On Sunday less in the way of showers.

You would love a balloon camera. I would love one.