11/06/2013 BBC Points West

Good evening, welcome to BBC Points West. Our headline, Weston

Hospital's bleakest month. A report says April saw a catalogue of

failures in most staff wouldn't want their loved ones treated there.

Jailed tonight for the supply teacher who used his position to

assault children. Think the verdicts today have ripped

away the mask of respect built that he has hidden behind all these years

and revealed him for what he he is, a predatory paedophile. The driver

for Honda who died on a test track trying out a new model.

And riding on the crest of a wave. Why surfers could be heading for

Almondsbury. Good evening. First the shocking

result of a staff survey at Weston Hospital. More than half of them say

they wouldn't send a loved one there for treatment.

Only 47% of those surveyed are happy to sew a relative looked after at

their own hospital or would recommend it as a place to work.

It also emerged today that it was a particularly poor month with long

waiting times and more than one patient a day suffering from a bed

sore. To add to the hospital's problems the results of a snap

inspection are expected to be published tomorrow and managers

aren't expecting good news. Here is our health correspondent.

This is the smallest district hospital in the country. But it is

now facing one of the biggest challenges.

Today, a report into the treatment of its patients listed a catalogue

of failings. At the heart of its problems, the Accident & Emergency

unit, which can't recruit enough doctors. Today's report shows the

unit failed to meet its four hour target to deal with patients for

seven months. All this came to a head in April, at the end of a very

cold winter. On one occasion a confused elderly

patient fell from their chair while they were in this department. They

were seen at the time by the doctor, but two days later, it was realised

they had fractured their hip. . They were eight patients who waited more

than 12 hours in A&E before being treated or discharged.

Two patients who acquired bed sores that were very serious while staying

here and there were also two children involved in serious

untoward incidents. And the latest staff survey shows

that less than half of those questioned, that is 47%, would

recommend the hospital to friends or family.

That is way below the national average of 65%.

For many in Weston this came as a shock. I think something can't be

right. You wouldn't have thought? Why would that be? I would have

really thought the figure should be a lot higher than that. Although to

be fair, we unfortunately did have to use the A&E department, I think

it was last September, and I must say we found it to be rather good.

To the daughter and widow of James Bollen who we featured yesterday,

this comes as no surprise. The 92-year-old was admitted to Weston

Hospital in April, suffering with a singness bug. Four weeks later he

died. His family say he wasn't fed or given adequate liquids and he

developed sores and infections during his stay They spend thousands

to get things right an which never learn. We treat our elderly

population appallingly badly. 44 nurses have been recruited from

Spain, today, the new man in charge said he hoped this would greatly

improve patient care. I am confident the staff we have got are competent

and able to deal with the patients we have got. Less than half of your

staff, 47% would recommend this hospital to a friend or a family.

That doesn't fill me with confidence. It talks about whether

or not you would be happy for friends, relatives to be treated

here but as a good place to work. The uncertainty round the future of

the hospital, and the winter pressures that we have felt and and

ourable to deliver sustainable services has probably impact on that

result. Another report into the hospital by the Care Quality

Commission is due to be published tomorrow.

That also may not do anything to improve the standing of this trust.

Well, joining us to discuss this further, is Matthew Hill. Are you

anticipating that tomorrow's report will be more positive? It is a

follow up report to an inspection done in OK where there were issues

with privacy and dignity. They went in in April, so I don't expect that

it will be a particularly rosy picture. One of the problems that

the hospital faces, is recruiting staff. Why do you think people don't

want to work there? This uncertainty that the report alludes to. It won't

be a foundation hospital which means it has to join with another partner

by April. That could be a private company for instance, so all this

uncertainty is not helping. What about uncertainty for viewers

who might have relatives or family members going into Weston Hospital,

what would you say to them? It is important to say this is the

hospital's own report so it is the hospital criticisingist. That is the

opposite to what we had with the Mid-Staffordshire hospital, where

they were covering up what was going on, so that is a good sign. Also, I

mean the Chief Executive, I put to him would he have a family member

and he said yes, without thinking about it. Work goes on as usual.

Business is carrying on prosecutesty much as usual and they are doing

what -- pretty much as usual. Being under scrutiny is often the best

place to be if they were subject to a serious report.

A supply teacher from Bristol is facing prison tonight after being

found guilty of sexually abusing schoolings in Bristol and

Gloucestershire. John Alway from Bradley spoke was convicted of 16

separate offences P One of his victims was only nine. John Alway

arriving at court, for the very last time, as a free man.

Accused of 23 sexual assault, against eight different girl, some

as young as nine. It has taken a week for the jury to reach a final

decision on all the charges. Over the last few day, they have come in

slowly, charge by charge. What do you have to say to your

victims? Yesterday he and his family left court knowing he would be going

to prison Enough is enough. We have had enough. After being found guilty

of abusing six girls. He is innocent.

And so today, the jury had to decide about the most serious charges.

Which related to the eighth girl. She was forced to sharpen pencils in

an empty locked classroom, sitting on his lap, before he stripped her

naked, laid her on the floor, only stopping when someone at the door

interrupted him. She was left behind a desk while he told her to get

dressed. She was nine. Today the jury found him guilty of this. The

victims weren't in court today, as the verdicts were delivered. But

John Alway who stood in the dock shook his head in disbelief,

mouthing the words "This can't be happening." His son who sat reached

for a box of tissues and pronounced the verdicts farcical. I think the

verdicts have ripped away the mask of respect built that he has hidden

behind although years. And revealed him as a predatory paedophile who

has abused a number of very young defenceless girls. John Alway was a

supply teacher for nine years, in many schools across the West

Country. But these offences relate to four primary, Hillcrest in

Knowle, shields road in Filton, Blaise in henibly and St Michael's?

Stoke Gifford between 1997 and 2004. Today one of the councils

responsible for schools where he worked was keen to reassurance

parents that are safety measures are in place They have to have a senior

teacher who is responsible for safeguarding somebody that other

staff could go to if they are worried. They focus in the

children's curriculum, on feeling safe, keeping safe, and what to do

if children don't feel safe. As he spends his first night in

prison, the judge will spend the next few days listening to witness

statements, before sentencing him on Friday.

You are watching your regional news programme, BBC Points West with

David and Alex. Stay with us as there is much more still to bring

you, including some of the most important medieval manuscripts in

Europe. We find out,000s of pounds will preserve down side's valuable

collection. On the verge of showbiz. Two schoolgirls see the cast of

Matilda perform their song on the London stage.

Yes, that is coming up but first an inquest has concluded that a test

driver working for Honda in Swindon is most likely to have crashed and

died because of excess speed. A jury heard that David Allan was trying

out a new model when it span out of control. There were four other Honda

employees in the car. Scott, what more details emerged at the inquest

today? ? David Allan was a very experienced test driver, with Honda.

He has worked here on the site for 26 year, very well-known among

employees here and they have in fact put up a memorial on the entrance to

the main part of the Honda site. July 3rd last year he was at a test

facility called Mill Brook. He was driving a CRV prototype. The 4X4

vehicle but it was fully tested, it was just about ready for the market.

What he was doing was showing four engineers round the track, to show

them how it could be used to develop cars in future. He was very familiar

with the track. He was in a part known as the alpine section. Lots of

tight bends and steep ups and down, the speed limit round about 55mph,

the computer onboard the CRV showing at times he was travelling at 68mph

and in one bend the car went on the two wheel, roll and David Allan died

at the track side of head injuries. The inquest deciding it was an

accident #58 death most likely caused by that excess speed.

wasn't alone in the car was he? There were passengers and they have

given evidence, what did they say? Well, they were speaking holding

back tears at times at the inquest, recalling the accident, that feeling

of slow motion as the Carolling. One thinking we are in trouble. They

escaped with relatively few injury, they did say that it was a lot

faster than they could drive but they trusted David Allan, they knew

he knew the track well and they say the speed wasn't excessive. Members

of the family asking if a pothole on the track was to blame, but in fact

that was discounted. Finally Honda saying today they have lost a valued

employee but there were no defects found in the car.

Tributes have paid to the woman whose body was found on a road in

Wiltshire. Sarah-Jane Blackburn was 42 when she died in an accident on

the A3102 at Royal Wootton Bassett. Her husband said she would do

anything to make people happy, and will be missed forever. Police are

continuing to appeal for anyone who was in the area, late on Sunday, the

2nd June, to contact them. More than 2,000 girls from Bristol

are at risk of being taken abroad during the summer toll days to be

forced to undergo female mutilation. It came as the NHS launched its

campaign to raise awareness of the illegal practise. It is still common

in some African countries, aiding and abetting the crime can lead to

14 years in prison here, but there are concerns that no-one has yet

been prosecuted, in the UK. An attempt to build a new motorway

junction on the M 49 has suffered a serious setback. The Government's

turned down an application for �18 million of funding. The proposed

junction would open up land at Avonmouth to development. The west

of England partnership is considering other ways of funding

the scheme. Now, take a look at people surfing

waves. Not that strange until you realise they are not in the sea, or

even on the Severn Bore, they are on a lake. It is new technology that

has been developed in Spain and could be coming to the west soon.

Plans have been drawn up to build a wave lagoon at Almondsbury. If it

goes ahead it will be the first man-made surfing lake anywhere in

the world. The sport of surfing. Virtually

always in the sea, on waves from Hawaii and Tahiti, to the West

Country coast. Not forgetting the brave souls who

surf the Severn Bore up river wave of course. But what about this? It

is a freshwater lake, with a breaking wave that looks, feels and

peels like a real wave in the sea. Developed at a test centre in Spain,

it was spotted by a Bristol company. Immediately when we saw it, we

decided that this would be a fantastic thing to bring into the

city, find a location close to the city to put it in, and to create an

adventure so that children and people of all changes, backgrounds,

could come along to the lake, get into the water, try surfing for the

first time. Be in the outdoor, experience nature on the doorstep.

It is not the first new wave we have ridden. Man-made ones were big news

in the 70s. The leisure pool has a wave machine, in there, which will

give off wave, which will break on the shall owe shall we are parts.

The water is warm and there is is a machine that creates waves. The

technology here is completely different though. This field near

Almondsbury is where the wave lagoon will be built. Surrounded by

landscaping, and adventure trays. Quite a challenge.

Given it is a world first, there is nobody with any experience of doing

something qiebg as unique as this, even arriving is a journey You leave

your car behind you come on site, and then you have got this basically

a playground and the woodland and gardens will be there. It's a day

out destination but might appeal to a surfer who wants to come for an

hour and get his fix. The plans are due to go out for public

consultation in a month. If all goes well the wave lake could be open by

summer 2014. Even though others are planned across the world, the west's

is on track to be the first anywhere. Now that is breaking news!

We will have to send do you do the first report from there. A new

meaning to the words Almondsbury interchange. We move on now, we have

heard a a band member from mum, they are due to headline at the

Glastonbury Festival had has to have surgery to remove a blood clot from

his brain. Details of Little Ted's condition have been revealed. It

said he had been feeling unwell and was taken to hospital for emergency

treatment yesterday. The band have called off their next three concerts

but they say they have no plans to cancel cancel or post moan any --

postpone any others. We wish him a speedy recovery. I am going to

Glastonbury this years I found out today as well. . Excellent. Surfing

and Glastonbury. You are a dude! So cool. The home of one of Europe's

most important collections of medieval manuscripts has been given

more than three-quarters after million to help preserve the work,

the Monastic Library as Downside Abbey houses many rare books and

documents dating back as far as the tenth century. It has been awarded a

Heritage Lottery grant of more than �850,000. This is to improve the

conditions in which they are stored and to create an online catalogue.

Here is our reporter. You can almost taste history as you walk round

here. There is certainly that smell that only leather bound printed

words seem to have. There are five floors of literary

treasure, dance, the 1477 edition from Venice. Take a peep behind

glass and there is a rare collection of Papal Bulls, and then there is

this. A prove for yum, it details the livs of the 12 major prophets

and dates back to 990. Hand-written, on vellum.

And bound, well its cover is wood. And there is more. 425,000 more bun

I think you will enjoy. This is a book of hours, from the 14th 90s. It

is from the book market which is one of the largest in gleefuld Europe.

It is quite an ex quay it is book because of the use of gold leaf

which is well used but the blue, which was a stone that is ground

down and put into a paste and turned into this rich blue.

It is unique. And very beautiful. With so many very rare delicate and

indeed valuable items in the collection, the focus is very much

on previous vagus. Now the conditions up here aren't bad but in

the basement there have been problems with damp. So some of that

money will go to creating climate control system, so all the rare

books can be kept very cool and dry. As well as preserving the originals

many of the works are going to be digitised. It will allow the vision

and promise of this library to be fulfilled. At the moment, we are

overwhelmed by people who want us to do their research for them, by

looking things up. I is just virtually impossible, whereas I

think the ding -- digitalising it will work well. The work should take

some time to complete but with selective pieces available on line

the library will be available to scholars round the world.

That was very relaxing, not far from there a nine foot high circular seat

has been installed at the bishop's peninsula Palace in Wells. A crane

was needed to lower the stone structure into the Garden of

Reflection which is described as sparse, unfurnished space where

visitors can pray. It is set among a glade of silver birches and is one

of several large-scale artworks planned for the garden. Very

beautiful it is too. To football and Bristol City have signed Swindon

Town defender Aden Flint on a four year contract. City made several

unsuccessful bids for the player before agreeing a deal with their

rifles. Flint joined from Alfreton Town in January 2011. At 6'6 he is

the imposing centre back the club say they have been missing. It is a

difficult decision, because I was a Swindon Town player and I enjoy my

time there, but, I think when an opportunity like this comes along

you have to take it. It's a bigger club. It is the same level, League

One, but Bristol City is a different channel for me, that is what I want

to pursue. When you lock at the team, we have had a problem all

season keeping clean sheets. Is the strikers might be the glamorous part

of football but we needed somebody that when you look at the size of

him he is a defender. He is at the start of his career. So hopefully it

will be a good signing. A mural has just been completed in

Bristol. It deeffects Jesus break dancing. It took a week to complete,

and it contains a kilo of gold glitter. Cosmo Sarson who is from

London won a competition to paint the wall. It is opposite Banksy's

Mild Mild West. The artist said he was inspired after an actual event

many Vatican where break dancers performed to an applauding Pope John

Paul II in 2004. This has been a week of painting, it

has a kilo of glitter in it. I have did it the old traditional way in

the same way Michaelangelo would have painted frescoings, so I did a

charcoal draws, pin-pricked through paper, that gave me the shape of the

piece, from there it was colouring it in. I wonder what you think of

that. I will be interested to know. Two young composer from Cheltenham

went to London to see their song performed on a West End stage.

The students from a gram -- grammar school wrote it based on the story

of Matilda. Our Gloucestershire reporter went to the West End with

them, to see it happen. Welcome to co-haven't garden and

meet two very excited 12-year-olds. . Eco-vent. Isobel and Joanna have

become West End composers for the day. How you feeling? Really

excited. I am looking forward to see how they bring our scene to life.

Their charge was to come up with a song based on Matilda the musical.

It is the story of little Matilda, intelligent beyond her year, bullied

by her parents she gets sent to school to suffer of the fate of the

terrifying head mistress. exception to the rule.

In my school? The RSC brought to it the stage but

wanted to see what those closer to Matilda's age could come up with.

wanted them to create a new character. I wanted to make sure

they wrote about something they knew so it could be anybody, any

character, it could be a dinner lady, it could be a young person.

Isobel and Joanna got writing back in Cheltenham.

We made up a really spoilt girl called Beatrice and in the scene she

has been left with Matilda by the head and she sings her song.

And the good news is their song was one of a select few to be given the

West End treatment by the Matilda cast.

# Ooh, you're rolling in the money. It was amazing seeing how they

brought it to life after we spent hours working on it. It was beyond

everything I imagined. They hardly changed it.

# There is no-one quite like me! # I think the song was great. I was

honoured I got chosen to do it. The kids seemed to laugh and it was

different from what we have in the show, which was great. A lovely

piece that could have fitted in with the rest. There aren't many

12-year-olds who get their songs performed on the West End stage but

I get a feeling these girls have a taste for it now, so remember where

you saw them first. We will, we will keep that safe inst

archive, that must have been intense to watch your piece on the West End

stage. The songs from the show, you can't beat it. Let us move on to the

weather. I seem to have missed the weather. I seem to have missed the

good weather. The good news is the wind will pick

up, so in between growing your dreadlocks for Glastonbury it will

get better. I we haven't lost the sunshine but it is heading in that

direction. A lot of cloud round tomorrow, a breezy day, turning

windy by tomorrow and there will be rain about. That will be a feature

into the second half of the day, let us run a composite of the radar.

Here is the clearer brighter slot that has come across, there we go,

second, here comes the thicker cloud that will dominate, bringing

conditions much as we had last night. So hill fog, some drizzle,

but the breeze picking up at the same time, but as we head into

tomorrow, apart from light drizzle it will be the afternoon this wave

like feature will introduce every -- heavy rain. All of us will see a

phase of rain into the afternoon. For the rest of this evening,

brighter spells for some. The cloud has broken well, the cloud

thickening up as we run this each hour. Starting to bring some patchy

drizzle here or there and so things will dominate during the overnight

period. Hill fog, turning breezy as the night wears on, it will be mild.

Temperatures in urban areas 13 or 14. So tomorrow, for the rush hour,

still some drizzle about, still a pretty murky claggy start. As we run

through the morning this zone of shallow moist air breaks, and at

some stage through the mid-to-late afternoon the heavier rain starts to

spill back in. The heaviest more to the south and east. You will catch

some northwards before it becomes lighter and patchier, but the win at

this stage still starting to pick up. We could get gales into

Thursday. Temperatures tomorrow will struggle. -- gales.

As we look through the rest of the week, there will be some drier

phases but the threat of further rain or showers. Tonight claggy?