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Points West. Our headlines tonight: The substances that could cost you | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
your life. They're easy to buy - but we've discovered the hidden truth | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
about what's inside. What they are consuming can not only cause | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
temporary harm, it can cause lasting, permanent damage and we | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
have seen a few terrible cases, death. We have the story from the | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
doctors who're seeing more and more victims of legal highs. Tonight we | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
have a special investigation into an alarming threat to young people's | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
health. And in other news. The two high profile women targeted for | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
abuse on Twitter - a Bristol man is arrested. And hard luck tales from | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
the hard shoulder - the stretch of motorway where four thousand drivers | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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have broken down. Good evening. Tonight an expose on the trade that | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
supplies young people with drugs and gets away with it. The substances | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
are known as "legal highs" and carry a warning that they are "not for | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
human consumption". But everyone knows what they're for. Following | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
the death of a young man in Wiltshire, who took a legal high, | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
BBC Points West has been doing some investigating. We bought three pills | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
and one powder on the internet and took them for analysis. We found | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
that one of them isn't legal at all. It contains a banned drug that could | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
kill you. Here's Scott Ellis. Chemical highs under forensic | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
examination. We bought for samples of AMT. It is synthetic, one of the | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
so-called legal highs. Legal, but not necessarily safe. Last month | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
23-year-old Christopher Scott died after taking AMT and this lab found | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
another reason to be worried. One of the purchases contains not just AMT | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
but also another chemical which is a synthetic drug that was banned last | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
month. The danger of having these chemicals together is when they are | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
ingested together, because they act in a similar way in the body, they | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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can overstimulate the brain. This could result in death. APB was | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
banned after being linked to deaths. We showed the South Swindon MP | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
results. Yet again, it it shows what a deadly risk people are giving | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
themselves by taking these drugs. Gone are the days when people can | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
predict the impact of certain kind of drugs. We have a multiplicity of | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
new kinds of drugs which can cause serious harm or death. The chemicals | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
are clearly labelled, not fit for human consumption but that is not | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
stopping people. There are calls for tougher regulations for the online | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
sellers. I would like to see all of them testing their products before | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
they send them out. They are buying them in batch from China and they | :03:37. | :03:45. | |
have no idea what the wholesalers are doing. This is a drugs war being | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
fought and molecular level. Take this drug. When DMT was banned the | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
chemists simply took a branch off and stuck another one on. It is the | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
same high but a different drug. have seen in the last five years a | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
big proliferation in the type of drugs that are out there on the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
streets. All we can do is constantly monitor what is out there and look | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
at the ones that creates dangerous situations for the members of the | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
public. We will always be one step behind, right? Go macro I think so. | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
AMT was designed in the 60s to treat depression. As they are banned they | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
reappear at the rate of one every six days. Research shows that the UK | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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is Europe's largest market for legal highs. And in this country around | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
670 thousand youngsters aged between 15 and 24 have taken them at least | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
once. For the doctors and nurses treating people who've taken them - | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
it's a problem that's growing at an alarming rate. The police tell us | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
it's a particular problem in rural areas. This report from our Somerset | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
correspondent Clinton Rogers begins with the story of a young woman | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
whose health has been damaged by drugs. To protect her identity we've | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
called her Jane. Her words are spoken by an actress. I saw what it | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
was doing to my mum. It destroyed her to watch her daughter ruining | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
herself. Jane knows what drugs, illegal and legal, can do to you. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Irregular heartbeat, chest pains and bad vision. Her message is simple. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
It is not worth it. You might think it is worth it at the time but you | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
do not know what is in them. It could be classed as AMT but could be | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
cut with something completely different. Parents frequently | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
asked, how can you tell your children that legal highs can harm | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
you when they are sold perfectly legal on the streets, never mind the | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Internet. The answer may lie in places like this hospital in | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Taunton. They have seen a surge in admissions of people who have | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
reacted badly to legal highs. This accident and emergency doctor is | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
seeing at least two cases a week, and her biggest problem is not | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
knowing what she is dealing with. do not know what chemical compound | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
they have taken. They are not entirely sure. As such, we cannot | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
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treat them easily. That must make it impossible for you as a medic. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
have seen cases in previous hospitals where we have lost the | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
patient from a legal highs. At the Taunton Association for the | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
Homeless, legal highs have become a problem. Here, they say, battling a | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
menace that has the word is legal in the title is almost impossible. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
definition, as a parent, it is harder to have that conversation | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
with a child because they will turn round and say, it is legal. No one | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
has an easy solution for the problem but everyone agrees that doing | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
nothing is not the answer. Joining me now from his constituency office | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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in Taunton is the Minister for Crime Prevention, Jeremy Browne. It seems | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
that suppliers are running rings around the authorities. Once one | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
substance is banned, they remarket it and sell it again. I want to give | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
you credit for the amount of time you choosing to cover this story. It | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
is important that people are aware that there are dangers in taking | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
these drugs. They may be called legal highs, but just because they | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
have that name it does not mean they are safe to take. A lot of people | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
have suffered bad reactions from taking these jobs. What we try and | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
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do in this country is banned drugs on the basis of scientific evidence. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
The experts are looking at these drugs the whole time and last month | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
we banned two categories of legal highs. You are right, the problem is | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
constantly evolving and that is why people needs to be aware of the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
dangers themselves before they consider taking drugs. They are | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
taking us for idiots, aren't they? They are altering the drugs and they | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
are back on the streets. You will always be one step behind. I half | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
accept that. We have tried to ban a whole family of drugs. We have tried | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
to ban a whole branch of the tree and not just an individual twig. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
This. People altering the formula and putting them on the market | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
again. This is a constantly evolving problem. If you take heroin or crack | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
cocaine, these are serious drugs and their use is declining in Britain, | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
but we have known about them for decades. These legal highs are | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
coming into the country over the Internet and they are evolving all | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
the time. We are talking to other countries around the world, and I am | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
leaving that, about what lessons we can learn from others. What about | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
this cynical phrase that says, not fit for human consumption, when | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
everybody knows that is what they are for. I share your frustration. | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
That is contentious of the law. Some of the packaging has that but it | :10:06. | :10:15. | |
also says you must be 18 years old. If it is plant food, they honestly | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
would not need an age restriction on them. The difficulty is proving that | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
the person has sold the product different for the use that it is | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
intended to be used for. That is difficult. We do have trading | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
standards bringing test cases to see what we can do. Ultimately, people | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
are allowed to sell things unless they are banned, and we have to be | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
careful not to ban everything. We need to take a scientific approach. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
It is a problem and we are trying to deal with it. Thank you for joining | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
us. If you are watching tonight and you're now concerned or have any | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
questions about legal highs, or drugs in general, you can get | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
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confidential advice online from the website - Talk to Frank.com. You're | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
watching your regional news programme, BBC Points West, with | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
David Garmston and me, Alex Lovell. Stay with us tonight too, as we've | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
much more still to bring you. Caught on camera - We reveal why filming | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
badgers could show why they find some farms more attractive than | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
others. And the deckchairs designed by celebrities you might like to | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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take beside the sea. Police investigating abuse on the online | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
site Twitter have arrested a 32-year-old man in Bristol. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
arrest is in connection with threats of rape and violence sent to a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
freelance journalist who campaigned to have more women on UK banknotes - | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
and a female MP from London who supported her. Andrew Plant reports. | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
Caroline Criado-Perez, a freelance journalist, who campaigned to have | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
women on banknotes. During the campaign she received what she | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
called intense messages on Twitter threatening to rape and kill her. In | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
response to the abuse suffered on Twitter by several women in the | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
public eye over the last few weeks the police have made arrests. The | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
latest was here in Bristol. A 32-year-old man was arrested by | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
police under the protection from harassment act. The historian Mary | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
Beard is another woman who has reported abuse. She received a bomb | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
threat. Today we talked to a Twitter user from Bristol. She said she | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
suffered days of abuse online for expressing feminist views. I spent | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
the whole weekend getting rape and death threats, and being abused | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
because I am an online feminist. They said they hoped I would suffer | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
a pointless death. They called me a huge amount of expletive is. When | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasey showed her support for the | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
banknote campaign - she too became a target for online abuse. Twitter has | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
publicly apologised to victims - and says it's bringing in a button to | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
report abuse. Fellow MP Kerry McCarthy says that won't work - and | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
current laws should be sufficient to protect users. It would be very | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
difficult for Twitter to block people for tweeting offensive | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
things. I think it is important that the serious cases are followed up by | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
the police and used as an example to tell people they cannot get away | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
with it. Today's arrest is the third under the protection from harassment | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
act since the abuse began. No-one has yet been charged with any | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
offence. A murder investigation has been launched following the death of | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
a woman in Yeovil. Police were called to a property last night | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
after reports that a woman was being assaulted. She later died at the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
scene. A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
remains in police custody. More than 100 jobs could be lost at a food | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
manufacturing company in West Somerset. The Karro Food Group is | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
planning to close its slaughter and butchery operations in Wiveliscombe | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
because it says the site isn't profitable in the long term. The | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
local MP has written to the company asking it to reconsider. A keeper at | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Bristol Zoo has been suspended after allegedly punching a seal. It's | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
claimed that a senior animal keeper hit the South American fur seal when | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
handlers tried to weigh it. The head vet has since examined the seal | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
family and all are behaving normally and remain on public show. Cameras | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
are to be installed on farms across the West to track how badgers are | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
getting into buildings. The month long government study aims to help | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
reduce the spread of TB by finding out why some farms are more | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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attractive to badgers than others. Here's Steve Knibbs. Badger sets are | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
common on and around farmland. Without strict security measures | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
badgers have a habit of coming out at night and roaming around looking | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
for food - some even squeezing through gaps as small as three | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
inches to get in. As TB is passed between badgers and cattle - a range | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
of measures is being looked at to bring the rate of infection down. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
One high profile measure, of course, is the badger cull. But on this farm | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
in South Gloucestershire, which has been a victim of TB, technology is | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
being installed to track the badgers every move. They are motion sensor | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
cameras. We set it up so it has the date and time on it so we know when | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
the photos were taken. This study follows a recent one where 40 | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
cameras were being installed and it found that even though some farms | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
had badger sets nearby they were not getting any badger visits. This | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
study aims to find out what makes one far more attractive than | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
others. We are looking at the distance to a set, what sort of feed | :16:20. | :16:29. | |
they store on the farm, and also things like the sides of buildings. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Ultimately the aim is target areas on a farm to keep infection out - | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
that could include securing barns where feed is kept and metal plating | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
under gates to stop badgers getting in - so-called biosecurity. But the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
farmer at the site where these cameras are being installed says | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
that's easier said than done. I secure a field? How do I secure a | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
building? It is not possible. If I secure a building, that animal could | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
be outside and spreading it on the ground. There is no such thing as | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
bio-security in this case. I cannot see it. The pictures taken here will | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
be looked at along with over 70 other sites this year. It should | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
hopefully show where badgers are going and what attracts them to | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
certain farms - the challenge then is to try and keep them out. It's | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
been revealed that more than 3,500 motorists have broken down in the | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
roadworks around the M4/M5 interchange. The work, which has | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
been going on since early 2012, is due to be completed ahead of | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
schedule. But as Sarah Jane Bungay reports this will also mean an end | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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to the free recovery service for those who get stuck. We have a | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
broken down vehicle between the M 32 and the interchange. We have a | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
broken down vehicle on the M4 closing one lane. The average speed | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
is 25 miles an hour. It's not been the quickest of rides along sections | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
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of the M4 or M5 for the past eighteen months. While the work | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
going on here promises to eventually improve traffic flow, in the interim | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
it's meant a 50 mile an hour speed limit - and breakdowns have added to | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
the congestion. This morning bank manager Chris Barr was picked up for | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
free by the motorway recovery team - he has a puncture. I was going | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
straight up the slip road and it was coned off. Fortunately, I saw an | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
area where there was some space so it pulled in quickly. There have | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
been 3800 breakdowns in the roadwork section since work began in early | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
2012. Around four of these a month are down to overheating. Ten a month | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
have been down to motorists simply running out of fuel. Chris's | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
puncture was picked up on one of these monitors. There are 50 cameras | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
here set up temporarily to keep an eye on things in the roadworks | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
section. If you were fortunate enough to break down you would be | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
recovered back here for free, but that is to change. We will be taking | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
the 50 miles an hour limit and free recovery away from September. We | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
were originally due to finish in spring 2014, but things are going | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
well so far and if we continue that progress we could see the hard | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
shoulder running by November. Meanwhile, this vehicle, more used | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
to attending emergencies, was needing some assistance of its own. | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
I will not be sorry to say goodbye to those roadworks. Football now - | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
And all our teams were in action last night in the Capital One Cup. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
It was a bad night for Bristol Rovers. They lost 3-1 to Watford. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Cheltenham Town fared better beating Crawley 4-3. This goal in extra time | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
from Byron Harrison took the Robins to the second round. Bristol City | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
will join them after a comfortable 2-nil win over Gillingham. City's | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Jordon Winter scored his first goal in professional football. This | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
strike from Yeovil's Kevin Dawson secured a one nil away win to | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
Southend. And an 83rd minute goal by Andy Williams booked Swindon Town a | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
second round place as they beat Torquay 1-nil at home. The good old | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
deck chair has been enjoyed by visitors to the seaside for decades. | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
But now there's an exclusive range available. Some are even collectors | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
items. They can all be found beside the sea at Clevedon Pier. | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
Interested? Tracey Miller has the story. Nothing is more seaside than | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
the humble deckchair and the people here have challenged the public to | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
design their own deckchairs. This was one of 180 entries into the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
competition. All of the winners have been printed onto deckchairs and are | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
on display at the pier. Above the shop other designs by children, | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
artists and celebrities. The Worzel 's happened to be on the pier doing | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
some filming and I asked them and they were more than happy to judge | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
the entries. The six celebrity designs are being put up for auction | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
but the pier hopes it can raise money with all designs. The proceeds | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
will go towards a new visitor centre for the pier. Geraldine has come to | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
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see her winning design. I like to do art, it makes you smile, really. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
They are all on show so you can pick out a favourite. My favourite? This | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
one is particularly nice, the mermaid in the deckchair. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
deckchairs come in all of the colours and all sorts of sizes. | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
There is even one for your mobile phone! Designer deckchairs, it is | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
the way forward! And staying by the sea - The BBC programme The One Show | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
is broadcasting a special live programme from Weston super Mare | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
tonight. The show has been staging its first ever summer festival here | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
in the West over the last two days with free workshops and events on | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
Weston seafront. Tonight at seven o'clock straight after us, the show | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
will come live from the resort with their presenters Matt Baker and Alex | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
Jones. Do stick with BBC One for that. It's been quite warm today. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
The Bristol Balloon Fiesta starts this Thursday with the special | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
shapes and the night glow - What's the forecast looking like, Ian? | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
Hello. I have been looking at how things will shape up. I will be | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
doing regular updates through my Twitter account. Let's take a wider | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
look at how things will shape up for tomorrow. The morning will be | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
characterised by a lot of sunshine and increasing cloud through the | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
afternoon. The breeze will pick up as well. It should stay dry until | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
much later on in the evening. That will come in from the West and by | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
that time the cloud would be a good deal figure. The Met office has | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
given us access to its highest resolution models. This is how they | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
are shaping things. It looks like a pleasant afternoon. The breeze will | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
not be much of an issue. I am sure the flight directors will be keeping | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
an eye on that. As we get towards the night glow, the end of the | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
evening, there is a lot of cloud around, and a spot of rain perhaps, | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
but nothing that will take the shine off things. Let's have a look at the | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
next 12 to 24 hours. It is a benign spell for the next few hours. A bit | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
more cloud through the afternoon tomorrow and maybe one or two | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
scattered showers, but not much of an issue. So, the rest of this | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
evening, then. We have had one or two showers around Gloucestershire | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
but they are fading away and cloud will break up quite nicely. A | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
pleasant even developing and broadly speaking, tonight, there will be | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
clear skies. It will once again be a fairly cool night and temperatures | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
will be around eight or nine Celsius in the countryside and you can see | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
the range there for urban areas. A pleasant summer's morning tomorrow. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
That cloud will increase through because of the afternoon some of | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
that may bubble up to give a light shower but they will be fairly | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
isolated. Things will continue like this in the early evening. The cloud | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
base will lower and this will bring in some light, patchy rain into the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
evening. Temperatures tomorrow will be pleasantly warm at 22 or 23 | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
Celsius. Moderate amounts of pollen and UV. Ian, thank you. Back to our | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
main story tonight - And an investigation by BBC Points West has | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
revealed a drug sold as a so called "legal high" is in fact illegal. We | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
bought three tablets and a powder online and sent them for testing. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
the powder, our expert found traces of a banned substance. It's not | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
legal and it could even kill you. Tonight, speaking on this programme, | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
the Home Office Minister, Jeremy Browne promised this. These legal | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
highs that are coming into the country through the Internet are | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
evolving all of the time, and the government is trying to speed up the | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
mechanisms to deal with the drugs. We are talking to other countries | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
around the world, and I am leading with that in government, about what | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
lessons we can learn from others. Joining us now is our Home Affairs | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Correspondent, Steve Brodie. Some worrying findings from our | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
investigation, Steve. We've passed on our information to Wiltshire | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
Police tonight. What's been their response? Acting Superintendent | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Keith Ewart, Swindon has advised us to hand in the drugs to Wiltshire | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
Police along with any chemical analysis, so that this can be | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
investigated. He makes the point - and I quote - that "Many legal highs | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
can be bought on the internet, but it's still very difficult to know | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
exactly what is in them and the affect they might have on an | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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individual." And he told me, as we have found out tonight, that legal | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
doesn't mean safe. There is no way to know what is contained in these | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
drugs - which he says, is a risk not worth taking. So, will the police be | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
taking any action? Well following our expose tonight Wiltshire Police | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
say they will now be investigating the company involved in the sale. | :27:27. | :27:33. |