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changes to grading and assessment. That is all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. Our headlines: The copper thieves taking extraordinary | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
risks. They climb high voltage electricity pylons to strip the | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
metal ` inches from 33,000 volts. The flat`hunters being conned out of | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
?1000 on the promise of viewing exclusive properties that don't | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
exist. Firefighters go on strike right now | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
at the start of bonfire weekend And, 50 years ago, the Beatles | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
concert in Cheltenham that officially launched Beatlemania | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
Good evening. A seven`man gang will be going to jail after stealing live | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
cables from electricity pylons in a Gloucestershire field. The men | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
climbed up hundreds of feet near Frampton on Severn to cut down the | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
wires. The body representing the energy companies says the thefts | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
have become so extensive in recent years, it is adding pounds to our | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
electricity bills. Uma Chohan on the left, and, in the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
middle, his brother Vijay. They d denied being scrap metal dealers or | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
any involvment with the cable theft gang. Today, at Gloucester Crown | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Court, a jury decided otherwise The court heard that on the night 6 of | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
September 2010 a police Sergeant spotted a van and car in a lay`by. | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
The occupant said they had been out catching rabbits. When the cable | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
threat was uncovered they were arrested. They have been making | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
calls that night to a scrap metal ship in Cardiff. The judge has | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
warned all seven defendants they will be going to prison. There were | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
a series of cable thefts near Frampton on Severn in 2010. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Nationally, repairing theft damage costs power companies ?60 million a | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
year, a cost which is added to our electricity bills. In the last two | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
years, 20 people have been killed by electrocution, trying to steal | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
cables. But new laws regulating scrap metal dealers are deterring | :02:50. | :03:01. | |
thieves. The scrap metal industry has begun to do what we said it | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
would do, and that is clean its act up. We have seen as a result a | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
considerable decline in the number of metal thefts across England and | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Wales. Tonight, Western Power Distribution says it's pleased with | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the guilty verdicts. The BBC has uncovered a scam where | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
spacious and elegant flats are being advertised for rent in Bristol at | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
knock down prices. The problem is, the deal is just too good to be | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
true. Jack moved to Bristol to work at the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
BBC and thought he'd found his dream flat ` ?540 a month, bills included. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Advertised on Gumtree, the landlady wouldn't give the exact address | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
When she wanted more than ?1,00 up front, Jack got suspicious and | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
pulled out. In a market like Bristol's, people could fall for | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
this quite easily. It was quite clever. This flat is actually in | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
Mayfair, for rent through legitimate agents at more than ?3,000 a month. | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
The advert Jack had seen was a scam. It's not surprising he wanted this | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
place. Despite an increase in the number of flats for rent in Bristol, | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
demand still outstrips supply. It's very much a landlord's market, which | :04:43. | :04:54. | |
brings its own problems. All these cost pressures on tenants are making | :04:55. | :05:07. | |
it difficult for them to go to accredited agencies and some tenants | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
may go on to online websites, where fees are lower, rents are there was | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
the macro lower. The council does target rogue landlords through a | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
licensing scheme, which they want to expand. They know that what Israeli | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
needed in Bristol are new homes We have had a significant crash in the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
construction industry. Fewer properties are being built or | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
converted. There will always be rogue landlords, sometimes rogue | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
tenants. People need to be aware of these scams. All Jack can do is keep | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
looking, and follow Gumtree's advice to always visit a flat before paying | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
anything. The Government's controversial | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
badger cull ended in Somerset today. The aim has been to kill 70% of the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
badger populations in the pilot areas as part of efforts to tackle | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
bovine TB. The cull in Gloucestershire is due to continue | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
into December. Firefighters across the West have | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
just walked out on strike. Andrew Plant is in Bridgwater, where | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
there's going to be a fireworks display later. This is a 20 foot | :06:36. | :06:49. | |
effigy of Guy Fawkes. Setting this on fire will mark the start of the | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
Carnival here. There have been recommendations here across the UK | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
that people might have spoken their fireworks celebrations due to the | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
strike going on until 11pm. They say they have been working on this for a | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
year and they will not let it spoil their fun, and they have got their | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
own precautions in place. When this bonfire and fireworks | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
display begins to light up the skies around Downend later this evening, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
every fire station across the West will be closed and locked up. All | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
our brigades have contingency plans. The appliances will be driven by | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
nonunion and members of management. We will still be able to take 9 9 | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
calls and make a response, but that will be on a limited basis. This is | :07:51. | :08:04. | |
not a dispute of our making. The overwhelming number of firefighters | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
are union members and they're angry at the Government's decision to | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
raise their retirement age to 6 , when many of them won't pass new | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
fitness levels and so lose their pensions. The organisers of the | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Downend event say they have heeded the brigade's warning to take extra | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
care. The strike is set to end at 11pm, and another one is planned for | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
Monday morning. We have brought further precautions with regard to | :08:36. | :08:47. | |
fire extinction is to stop. Rita is here from the Bridgwater | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Carnival committee. You won't put off today by the strike? No we have | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
got a good rapport with the Fire Service and police. We have got a | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
professional team doing the fireworks. Risk assessments have | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
been done, and everything is under control. It is looking great, but | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
this is just a taste of what is to come tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow we | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
start at 10am. We have got samba bands, majorettes, and the big | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
parade will start at 6:45pm. Tell us about the preparations that go into | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
this Carnival. We meet on a monthly basis. As soon as this is over, we | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
will have a debrief as to where we can improve, and it is just a | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
rollover. So it starts at 10:30am. Yes, and the parade officially | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
starts at 7pm. The fire strike goes on until 11pm. | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Still to come in the programme: Finder's keepers ` the free art | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
people have been snapping up on the streets. | :10:20. | :10:29. | |
And, a windy weekend on the way Those wins will be quite significant | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered in | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Bristol today to pay tribute to the visionary co`founder of one of the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
West's best`known cancer charities. Pat Pilkington helped set up the | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1 80, which later changed its name to the | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Penny Brohn Centre. Pat died at her home in Chew Magna in August after | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
being diagnosed with the disease herself. Today, those she touched | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
offered their thanks. Thanks from friends like actress | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Maureen Lipman who performed a sketch in tribute to Pat. Pat | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
co`founded the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1980 and faced criticism | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
of their revolutionary holistic approach. When I met her, she took | :11:24. | :11:36. | |
one of my hands in both of hers look to be deep in the eyes, and | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
just said, " I am so pleased to have met you" . She just made me feel | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
that I was the only person. It was very moving, even now. She made me | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
feel immensely special. But her persistence earned even Royal | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
approval, and eventually an MBE She was absolutely in the heart of it | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
all, and felt so passionately about helping people. That was everything | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
that she offered. The work that she The service heard that Pat was | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
giving motivational talks right up until her own death from cancer Did | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
was absolutely her passion. She gave everything to that. Her prayer for | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
others read; "May you be happy, may you be free from suffering, may you | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
be healed, may you be at peace. A pioneering woman's legacy in words. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Earlier, I popped down to St. She was very beautiful. Just to look at | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
her was a treat. And her husband. I went to him originally for some | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
healing, and I thought, my goodness, look at the bone structure on these | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
two people. You don't see this outside of alabaster busts. She was | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
good fun, you could have a laugh with her. What sort of legacy did | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
you think she has left? She has left the legacy of someone who was ahead | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
of her time. She was an early believer in alternative medicine, | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
when it was matched scoffed at to believe that the mind had any | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
bearing on the body. She was a very spiritual person. She believed in | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
something holistic. That is what we often talked about. You could talk | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
about God, the afterlife, coincidence with Pat. The kind of | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
hands`on healing, talking about what faces you when you die, the book | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
that is coming out. She prosaically said Christopher is writing a book | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
through me, which is all about how you die. How you handle it. We never | :14:26. | :14:37. | |
stopped talking. You are not quite, are you? No, I have my moments. It | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
was strange to come to the Theatre Royal in Bath for my 13th visit and | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
not to have dinner with her. Was that your regular meeting? Yes. She | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
was an actress, she trained at the Central School. There was a lot of | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
theatre in the church, and a lot of therapy in theatre. Thank you. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
It's been a year of upheaval on and off the pitch, involving sackings, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
cuts and near bankruptcy. Yet, against the odds, Swindon Town has | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
made another good start in League One. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
What a year it's been ` they took over in February. They've seen two | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
managers, including Paolo Di Canio leave, and to get the finances in | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
line, many of the players that got them to the playoffs. But, whisper | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
it quietly, things are going well and there's even talk of promotion. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
For Chairman Jed McCrory, every day of the last nine months has | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
presented challenges. His consortium arrived in February, inheriting a | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
club threatened by administration again, and spending beyond its | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
means. They've managed to bring those costs down, but losing a large | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
proportion of last year's successful squad wasn't popular. They with the | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
hardest people to deal with. They were quite hard on me at times. But | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
this club needed someone to roll their sleeves up, take some of the | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
hatred that had been created over the years of the administration | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
process that the club has been through. I think it just needed a | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
genuine come on, we are in it together. The consortium has just | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
finished its first audit, and there's light at the end of the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
tunnel. If you took away all the takeover costs, or the ridiculous | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
deals, with the greatest of respect to our predecessors, we are motoring | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
on in the black at a self`sustaining level. With a wage bill half the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
size of last season's, Mark Cooper's young side have surprised the | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
critics. Their average age last weekend just 22. The older boys have | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
had to look after the young ones. Now they are doing fine. A couple of | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
bad results of late, but to the eighth in the league at this stage | :17:33. | :17:44. | |
of the season is a long way in front of where we thought we would be | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
This season's highlights already include a cup game with Chelsea and | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
they're eighth in the league. Despite being more prudent, the goal | :18:04. | :18:16. | |
remains the same. We want to get permitted. Why can't it happen? I | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
don't see why everyone has a moan. The | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
Gloucester's Billy Twelvetrees starts England's autumn | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
international against Australia He wins his sixth cap in a new`look | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
England midfield. And brothers Mako and Billy Vunipola, who grew up and | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
went to school in Thornbury in South Gloucestershire, start a Twickenham | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
international together for the first time. | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
The club rugby starts tonight with Bath at Worcester. Tomorrow, | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Gloucester and Bristol are both in Premiership and Championship action | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
respectively. Speedway, and the Somerset Rebels have been | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
celebrating their Premier League title with an open top bus tour | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
The mayor of Highbridge accompanied the team as they travelled through | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
Highbridge and Burnham`on`Sea. I was thinking they should have gone | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
on their bikes really, but they didn't If you were lucky, and quick, | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
then you may have picked up one of 200 free pieces of art that were | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
left out in Bristol today. Have any | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Called Free Art Friday the movement was started by an urban artist | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
called My Dog Sighs. Once a schoolteacher, now the artist known | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
as My Dog Sighs has shows around the world, opening today in Bristol New | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
York and Chicago. I am loving every minute of it. I am making a living | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
now, painting, which is a dream come true. Fame arrived after he kicked | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
and old can, and decided to turn it into art, which he then gave away. I | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
discovered street art, but I thought I was a bit old for wanting to go | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
out and damage property. By painting things that I found and putting them | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
back out on the street for people to find, I still have that link with | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
the urban environment, but I wasn't doing any damage. His counts now | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
sell for around ?500. Fans were queuing in Bedminster to buy them | :21:10. | :21:19. | |
from 4am. ?2000 for the big ones. You are very lucky if you found a | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
freebie. My Dog Sighs has left 100 stickered | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
cans out today, one lucky finder will wind a real hand painted one. | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
It took only minutes from a clue on social media to this fan grabbing | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
her chance. It is really unique And, at the same time across | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Bristol, 200 other works of all shapes and sizes have been left out | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
for people to hunt down. Free Art Friday has spread the world over but | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
today Bristol may have something with your name on it, even if not | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
your face. A gig in Cheltenham 50 years ago | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
tonight has taken a famous place in musical history. After the Beatles | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
concert in Cheltenham on the first November 1963, the term Beatlemania | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
was first coined. Tonight, a tribute band is recreating the evening, but | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
if they get anywhere near as many screaming fans... Well, it'll be | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
quite a night. Half a century ago, the Beatles live | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
in Cheltenham. The opening night of their first British opening tour. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
The stage was terribly badly let. Mike was one of a handful of press | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
photographers at the gate. Not that he heard much of it. Every time you | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
turned around to take another picture, the fans started screaming | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
again. Such was the stampede of screaming fans at the end, he had to | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
run into the wings to escape. I felt somebody grabbed my arm. I was | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
pulled out of the back door, into a van that was blacked out, and then | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the van drove off. Five minute later, we got out at the Savoy | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
hotel, and the Beatles were in the van with us. We didn't realise. The | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
lights went up, and Paul launched into it. You didn't hear a word | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
after the intro. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was just | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
bliss. We asked to see the Beatles, and down they came. Paul gave me a | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
cigarette, I didn't smoke but I took it anyway. It must have been | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
amazing. It was incredible, they were so nice. It wasn't just the | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
Beatles who played back in the 0s, but other big names. Today, the | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
Odeon is a shadow of its former self. It closed as a cinema in | :24:43. | :24:55. | |
2006, and 50 years on from that famous day, it is due to be | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
demolished. The venue may be gone, but the music isn't. Tonight, this | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
tribute act will be recreating the gig. It is magical to think about | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
the history and the fact that the Beatles were here in Cheltenham all | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
those years ago. We would like people who were at the original gig | :25:24. | :25:38. | |
to come along tonight so we can meet them. | :25:39. | :25:39. | |
gig. It Albeit a windy weekend right the way | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
through, it will be markedly that weight through Saturday, so we have | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
to be cautious of that at firework displays. Sunday will be somewhat | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
less windy. There is the potential into the evening that there will be | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
widespread rainfall from the south`west. Things will continue | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
through this evening, but tomorrow, as these isobars tighten up, this | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
denotes the much windier spell developing. It will not be on the | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
scale of the winds we saw on Monday, but nonetheless, some quite | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
meaningful gusts, particularly around the Bristol Channel. Some | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
light Shari Raine about in central areas through the night. `` showery | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
rain. Temperatures around seven or eight Celsius through the night | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Tomorrow morning, some brightness developing for a while as much of a | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
cloud starts to break up towards the North. Some rain around lunchtime, | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
some brighter spells through the afternoon. Quite heavy, blustery | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
showers into the evening. 30 or 40 mph wind speed through the evening. | :27:09. | :27:22. | |
Gusts of 50 or 60 mph around the Bristol Channel, so it won't be | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
great for launching fireworks. The Bristol Channel could have some big | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
waves, so do be cautious on the coastal fringes. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
A weekend for staying in and watching the telly. Sunday Politics | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
is on at 11am. We will | :27:46. | :27:49. |