23/02/2012 BBC Points West

Tonight: The man accused of murdering the vicar of Thornbury

appears in court. Union officials being urged not to

work an office time. Nick Clegg and Vince Cable head

west to make factory work fashionable again. One in 10 adults

currently working manufacturing, but when you ask 11 and 12 year-

olds what they want to do, none of them say they want to work in

manufacturing. The latest stage in recommissioning

Britain's first nuclear power are The man accused of murdering the

Reverend John Suddards, the vicar of Thornbury, has appeared in court

for the first time. 47-year-old Stephen Farrow was also accused of

a second murder, and retired teacher from Worcestershire.

Today it was revealed that the police also suspect him of carrying

out a burglary of a house in Thornbury six weeks before Reverend

Suddards lost have to buy. -- lost his life.

Arriving for his first quarter parents, in a prison van flanked by

photographers, Stephen Farrow was brought to Northavon Magistrates

Court to face two charges of murder. Wearing a belief -- grey fleece and

grey trousers, he spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth,

and that he has no fixed address. Nine days ago reverend John

Suddards was discovered inside his vicarage, stabbed to death in the

nearby town of Thornbury. Police were quick to appeal for help in

finding Stephen Farrell, and he was finally arrested in a house in

Folkestone last Sunday morning. After the arrest came some shocking

news, police confirmed he was also suspected of a second murder.

Retired teacher Betty Yates was found stabbed to death in her

cottage in Beauly in Worcestershire on 4th January.

Police believe Mr Farrow may have been in the area before the death

of John Suddards. Today in court, it was confirmed that he also faces

a third charge, or for burglary, also won Thornbury, in December

last year. He is due to appear at a bail

A protest is under way in Swindon right now, over plans by the

council to stop paying for a union reps. Taxpayers pick up the tab for

two officials to do union work in office time, but with budgets tight,

Conservative councillors say they want to pull the plug. Let us talk

to is an correspondent. -- our correspondent.

The demonstration is loud and well- attended. They have got

representatives from across the South West, from Cornwall, Devon

and Gloucester. They have come to make their voices known. Swindon

Borough Council are meeting to set the budget, there are going to

freeze the council tax and get rid of 120 jobs. But it is two jobs

that is causing the angst. They are union representatives, on the

council payroll, but they spend the time doing union duties, which

happens everywhere. Unions worry that by getting rid of them it

could set a national precedent. He has been on the council payroll for

35 years, but Bob Cretchley's days you could be numbered. He is a

union representative, the job she has with Karla Bradford. -- he

shares his job with Karla Bradford. We are up against it all the time.

Like most trade union reps, we take work home and do it in their own

time. It is a legal right in the workplace for representatives to

spend time on union duties. But the Conservative-run council think this

arrangement is costing too much. Redundancy is looming. The more we

looked into it, we can find no logical explanation. It is a

politically motivated attack on the union. According to the TaxPayers'

Alliance, there are three full-time equivalent jobs in Somerset, for a

in Wiltshire, and 500 go. -- four in Wiltshire, and five in Swindon.

We already have union reps working in the council that we believe can

undertake this work, and we have other unions represented in the

same way, and do not receive any financial support. It is a cost-

saving measure, nothing more. admits it is a small saving, but

these are tough times. The council meeting gets under way

at 7pm. Some of these people are going inside to make their feelings

known to councillors who will be making the decision. Let us talk to

someone from the union. This is the regional secretary of Unison South

West. Most people in the public would be surprised there are union

people on the payroll, who only do union duties. I do not think that

is the case. Every employer does that, except they have more time.

Most employers find it is a beneficial way of making sure their

legal obligations Ahmed, and they meet their consultation

requirements and make the changes the need to make. There are fewer

staff working here who are union members, and a number of people

represented by unions has gone down. Should they not be reducing the

amount they spend on the service? There have been a lot of changes

already, but there are 1,400 direct employees here. There is one full-

time post, which has a small amount. Actually, the work is not going

away. The consultation on redundancies, change of terms and

conditions, that work still needs to be done. But compared to the

private sector where this practice exists, and is protected by law,

did as a lower level of union representatives and the private

sector than the public sector. compared to the membership. If you

look at the large private sector employers, they have the same

arrangements. Thank you very much. This has some support from

government, the idea of clamping down on unions. On Sunday Politics,

we will be hearing from Liam Fox, who has joined a campaign to reduce

union presence and organisations such as this.

Young people should dream of a job in a factory, said the Deputy Prime

Minister today in a visit to Bristol. Nick Clegg came west, with

the business sector tri Vince Cable and have a brother -- half-a-dozen

other ministers, to hold a manufacturing summit. The message,

making things is vital and we should make it fashionable again.

As a country we have over valued services and undervalued

manufacturing. It is becoming a familiar theme of the government,

but Nick Clegg drew gasps from the audience with a survey of dream

jobs. Guess how many 11 and 12 year-olds said they wanted a job

and manufacturing? Not one. These people make aeroplanes, and parts

for Formula One cars. The Deputy PM says it is time that making things

is cool. There is the idea that manufacturing was a declining

industry, and we need to work hard mistake with this generation of

youngsters, showing them that manufacture is excited. -- exciting.

This is the robot snake, used in nuclear reactors. And this is the

state-of-the-art wing factory in even life. It is world-class

technology. British Aerospace is one of the leading companies in the

world. They saw it all today, but they know West Country

manufacturers have a problem. a long-standing problem. It is a

shortage of craftsmen and graduated in juniors. We have a mixed bunch

of apprenticeships, and we're trying to target them. Are their

apprenticeships in this kind of thing? We are concentrating some of

the resources on advanced manufacturing.

It does not come much more advanced than this. Against that measures to

the millionth of a millimetre. The company makes money worldwide, but

they still can't get enough engineers. The most difficult to

agree to get his engineering, because there are a lot of lectures

to attend, and it is not so much social time if you take an

engineering degree, but there is a career at the end of it.

challenge is to build the world's fastest car, and along the way fire

fired enthusiasm for the engineers. Manufacturing is a slow business,

and making it cool again might take a whole generation.

We're in the Points West factory making television! You are watching

Points West. We have plenty more still to make

you, including the latest from Lake Placid, as the West's two queens of

the eyes go head-to-head in the skeleton World Championships.

And Mr muscle. We meet the Gloucestershire man in training to

become the world's strongest and pick up a few tips.

First, jobs at a call centre in north Somerset could be under

threat with the news that Comet wants to streamline its operations.

The electrical retailer employers support staff at two call centres,

in Clevedon and an Hull. But today the company announced plans to move

the jobs on to one site. It is not yet known which one. A three-month

consultation into the proposals as under way.

There has been a call to ride for the body that regulates health and

social care, the Care Quality Commission, to be completely

overhauled. It comes on the day the head of the CQC, so intimate --

Cynthia Blower resigned. We have been speaking to Sarah Barnett, the

whistleblower who raised concerns about Parkfields Care Home. The CQC

has also been criticised about failing to act on warnings about

alleged abuse here. It is about raising concerns on

safeguarding the remit of the CQC, and where they fit into

safeguarding procedures needs clarifying. And their methodology

around that needs Updating dramatic cliff. There are still many

problems with the CQC that need to be addressed, and we need to

natures and then a Bloor has gone - - make sure that Cynthia Blower has

gone. The head of the Care Quality Commission said it was time to move

on after a government report into his work was published.

The Duchess of Cornwall was in the West today, looking at a new state-

of-the-art facility at a veterinary school in north Somerset, before

visiting the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

120 students a year are trained at Bristol University's vet School and

Langford. They have been giving The Duchess has a real interest in

horses but Tom may have surprised her just a little. He's had his eye

removed, an operation made simpler for the student vets training here

thanks to the new facilities. Two equine operating theatres were top

of the shopping list. Their training was significantly improved.

Not only is it designed for them to be able to see the procedures,

there is more room for them, more animals can come through the

hospital every day. We need an operating table be enough for a

horse. This is the course equivalent of a recovery room, it

has soft walls and soft floors so that when a horse comes around it

will not endear itself. -- India itself. -- injure. An ultra sound

of a horse's eye was next - followed by a tour of the new small

animal unit where this CT scanner can cater for animals large - and

small. A cuddle with baby Nathan at the Royal United Hospital. Sir

James Dyson gave half a million pounds to the funding of this unit

- it'll care for 500 sick and premature babies every year. If you

came here before you read C P Evans crashed in the corner and it was a

very stressful time. -- you would see parents crashed. This is much

more relaxed at finer environment. And as a final farewell - flowers

and pictures from three enthusiastic triplets. Cared for at

the Unit when they were tiny, but now full of beans. It's two years

since they sealed up the nuclear reactor at Berkeley Nuclear power

station. They let me switch off the lights for the last time before the

building was locked up for 64 years to allow any last nuclear traces to

waste away. But that was just the beginning of the process - and a

new stage was reached today - as Luke Hanrahan reports. These

boilers are enormous. They created power for a city the size of

Bristol every single day. Now that they are out of commission they

have been lying on their sides slowly rusting. Thousands of people

work here and for almost 30 years its electricity flowed into the

national grid. It was switched off in 1989 but it takes years to

decommission a station and hundreds of people still work on the site.

This man worked year when it first opened in 1962. It was very sad

when the station shut down. Since then I have been on be

commissioning and I just want to see the police put to bed now.

of these boilers weighs 310 tonnes, the equivalent of 37 fully-grown

elephants. It is the task of the engineers here to decide what to do

with such massive objects. They are massive imposing structures on the

site. We walk past them every day. They have been here for a long time.

Getting to grips with it now I am happy to be involved. In the next

few weeks five of them will be shipped to Sweden to be melted down

and recycled. The remnants of nuclear power will be here for a

long time to come. The process is not expected to be finished for

another 62 years. This technological marvel of its day is

now being sent to the scrapyard and with the future of this region in

the balance, how kind will be future be now? I am afraid that

final be commissioning is one story I will not be working on! Now to

sport and in a story with more intrigue than an episode of

Sherlock Holmes, Bristol City's plans for a new stadium are back on

hold! Our sports editor David Passmore is back again with the

latest on this planning saga. What's happened today, Dave? It

defies belief. It's like watching a tennis match at Wimbledon. On

Monday the council announced with a fanfare the �90 million project in

south Bristol could go ahead. A resident who halted the stadium

with a legal challenge pulled out. He also made it clear in this

letter to the Council he did not want any new legal challenge. So

15-love to the council. But this morning solicitors for those

opposed to the new 30,000 seater stadium announced that a judge had,

after all, allowed a new legal challenge. A new applicant has

applied to make the whole matter the subject of a judicial review.

So that's back to 15-15. So what has the council said in reply?

are very angry. They believed they had an open and shut case. And they

have said they will do everything in their power to oppose it. To

quote from their statement. "Clearly this astonishing turn of

events is deeply frustrating. Our legal representatives were not

invited to be present, or even made aware, that the courts were due to

make this decision on a new judicial review by another

anonymous person. We shall be seeking to reverse this decision in

the strongest terms next week when it is reviewed by the courts." So

15-all Council to serve. It could go to five sets. And staying with

stadiums, Sainsbury's plans for a new store on the site of Bristol

Rovers Memorial Stadium are about to go on display. The supermarket

chain is putting up the plans for public inspection tomorrow and

Saturday at the stadium. The project still has yet to receive

planning permission and will only go ahead if the football club

builds a new stadium next to the University of the West of England's

Frenchay Campus. Well, now to Skeleton and Shelley Rudman who

comes from Pewsey in Wiltshire is in third place at the half way

stage of the world championships in North America. Amy Williams from

Bath who won Gold at the Olympics two years ago is currently in 6th

place. It's the first time these rivals have faced each other in a

major championships since the Olympics. Shelley Rudman went into

the world championships today having already won the world cup

series two weeks ago for the first time in her career. She lead the

competition ater the first of her four runs. -- led. But slipped to

third after her second run. Amy Williams however improved on her

first run moving up from 9th place to sixth. The final two rounds take

place tomorrow afternoon our time. Ben Morgan who grew up playing his

rugby in Gloucestershire has been included in the England side to

face Wales this Saturday. Morgan plays for the Welsh side Llanelli

Scarlets. But played his junior rugby at Dursley and went to school

in Wotton-under-Edge. The number 8 forward will be lining up against

four team mates from Scarlets who are in the Welsh side. In football,

Nigel Spink the former Aston Villa goalkeeper has joined the coaching

staff at Bristol City until the end of the season. He'll look after the

goalkeepers after the departure of Stuart Naylor who joined the club

back in 2005 and worked with all the club's goalkeepers including

David James. And Yeovil have signed the former Chelsea and Leeds

midfielder Michael Woods. The 21- year-old is the third new signing

this week after the arrival of Jonathan Grounds and Jonathan

Franks from Middlesbrough. By probably will not be back with more

stadium used tomorrow, but you never know! He's 6 foot 2 inches

tall, weighs 23 and a half stone and he's currently the fourth

strongest man in the entire world. Laurance Shahlaei from

Gloucestershire had his best ever season last year and is now in

training for a major competition in America next week. Will Glennon

went to see him. Laurance Shahlaei's 29-years-old and he can

pick up things that you would not believe. Last year he broke the

world deadlift record, lifting 430 kilos, that's 3 times his

bodyweight. And this in a sport he joined because it looked fun on TV.

As a kid I was always interested in lifting heavy stuff up. I played

sports all my life, I was always competitive. It is not just about

being strong, you need to be an athlete, you need to be able to

move and you need that competitive edge as well. Laurance came 4th in

the World's Strongest man competition last autumn, his best

ever placing. I want to step up two or three places this year, I want

to be world's strongest man. eats six meals a day, and trains

from 3 to 5 days a week So what's the key to lifting massive weights?

You pull your shoulders back and down. There is a lot of preparation

before that. I had to decide which version of me would be best placed

to have a go. The middle one. 60 kilos was a good start, then I

lifted my own body weight, 80 kilos. And that's as far as I managed.

Laurance meanwhile moved on to greater challenges. And do you know

what, there is not a lot Lawrence cannot left. Laurance heads to

America next week for the Arnold Classic, then it's Europe's

Strongest man in June. With what he can pick up, you wouldn't bet

against him lifting the trophy. Now the final preparations for the

toughest dogsled race in the UK have been taking place this evening.

Competitors are coming from as far as northern Scotland and southern

Ireland. Teams of up to eight dogs have to compete in four races in

the daytime and at night. We have got a really be read programme

tonight! We have got it all! Just before the weather we are grateful

for this picture, it says 16.9 on his thermometer. An unbelievable

temperature for this time of year. That is not his central heating

dial! We will now catch up with the forecast. Good evening. We have had

quite a contrast across the region today. We have temperatures peaking

at around 15 degrees. The Bristol Channel is stuck around 10 with the

mist and fog. Tonight and tomorrow it will remain relatively mild but

we will continue to sea mist and low cloud along the Bristol Channel

coast. In the east there may be brighter skies but later in the day

tomorrow some drizzle will arrive from the north. A weather front

across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland will sink slowly

southwards overnight and lie across the Midlands by the end of the day

tomorrow. On Saturday it will reach the South West. The cloud today has

been breaking across many central parts. Tonight the cloud will

quickly return and it will be low cloud so expect poor visibility

over high ground. Tomorrow we have got mist and fog in the morning, it

may brighten up for a time with some sunshine, particularly in

parts of south Somerset and South Wiltshire. Do end the day it clouds

over as the weather front drifts in from the north. The visibility

through the Bristol Channel is very poor with mist and low cloud.

Temperatures not quite so warm as The outlook into the weekend is for

a lot of fine weather on Saturday, the unsettled conditions will

trickle back on Sunday and it will become cloudy and the killer by

Monday. -- cooler. Good evening. That is just about it from us. We

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