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Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell. Our | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell Our main story tonight: Is Bristol's | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
drinking culture out of control? Bristol's drunks get a makeshift | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
hospital to scoop them off the pavements. It's the first drunk tank | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
outside London ` but who's picking up the tab? We all are. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Also on tonight's prgamme. Why a plane crashed into a garden in | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Cheltenham. The injured West soldiers nearing | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
their goal of reaching the South Pole. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
And restoring the landscape of a National Trust gem ` by cutting down | :01:10. | :01:22. | |
the trees. Paramedics in Bristol are setting up an emergency treatment | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
centre for Christmas party goers who drink to the point of collapsing. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
They and the police are promising it won't be a hotel for drunks ` rather | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
a camp bed and a chance to sober up. Scott Ellis is at Bristol's | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
harbour`side for us now, Scott? The harbour`side's busy ` it's the run | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
up to Christmas. Your entry more on facilitate you can then on a | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
stretcher. Excessively drunk people are a | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
burden on the NHS. From this Friday drunks in Bristol will be driven to | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
a makeshift room staffed by paramedics. They will get a field | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
bed, medical attention, and time to sober up. We saw some 17 patients | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
throughout the night which saved 17 ambulances and many hospital beds. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
It allowed as to focus those resources. A single ambulance does | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the rounds to a temporary treatment room staff by three paramedic. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Drinkers approved. The whole context as goods. I see a lot of people that | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
cannot handle what they are doing. I have been a teenager before. We have | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
all done it. It is a good idea. It is a waste of money. Get the drugs | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
off the street. Keep them somewhere safe and warm so they do not die in | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the gutter as I would have done on Saturday night. The term drunk tank | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
is used in the United States. Here it will be cold a recovery centre. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Before leaving they will be interviewed by police about how much | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
they have drunk and where. Custody might be the better route but | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
long`term it is about getting them the care they need if they have a | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
problem to alcohol. Bars found to be serving people already drunk will be | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
targeted by the police. The plan is to run the centre on six days over | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Christmas. It will be funded only NHS although senior police officers | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
are keen for such bunker tanks to be privately funded and the drunks | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
charged ?400 per night. There are sound medical reasons for | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
having the drunk tank but some people think but still has a place | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
with a drink problem. We will talk to an alcohol addiction expert. Does | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
this drug tank prove that things have gone too far? We are drinking a | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
lot of alcohol as a nation. We are drinking too much alcohol. That is | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
causing us a lot of money. Has Bristol got a specific problem with | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
all the bars along the harbour side? There is a sense that Bristol does | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
have a problem. We need to be doing more about it. Does opening a drug | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
tank encourage people to drink more. Hopefully not. The steeds to be one | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
of the policies in association with other policies. Nationally we have | :04:44. | :04:52. | |
dropped the minimum price for alcohol. We introduced that | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
something locally. What about the big drinks companies? Should they | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
pay for the drug tank? Absolutely. There should be a contribution. Do | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
we overstate the problem? Some research says that Debbie but are | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
drinking less than you and I. Alcohol kills more people in the UK | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
than all the other driver skills together. | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
The drug tank proved that beds were freed at. Money was saved. | :05:25. | :05:37. | |
A Bristol man has been found guilty of killing his four `month`old | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
daughter. He had admitted shaking the baby but the night manslaughter. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
His partner denied or zinc or allowing her daughter 's death. `` | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
denied causing or allowing. She was acquitted. | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
The baby was just 16 weeks old when she died. Her father admitted in | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
court he had shaken the baby but denied he had meant to harm her. He | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
was found guilty of manslaughter. A recording was played of an emotional | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
999 call. The baby was brought to this | :06:19. | :06:52. | |
hospital. When she was examined by doctors she was found to be | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
suffering from catastrophic head injuries. Three days later she died | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
from being damaged. Often in a fit of anger someone | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
shakes them vigorously and the head will jiggle accurate and performers. | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
That movement will trigger findings. `` the head will jiggle backwards | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
and four words. It will cause brain damage. | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
The prosecutor said that the one of the parents had caused the brain | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
damage. The father was described as having | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
learning difficulties and was a regular drug taker. | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
One of the witnesses said the couple were always rowing. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Eventually the mother won a court order preventing the father from | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
visiting her or the baby. During the trial there was evidence of a series | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
of agreements. The council refused to be interviewed about those | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
agreements. Although the serious case review has been completed the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
council will not make it public until the New Year. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
The judge said that the father of the baby will be sentenced tomorrow. | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
The man who stabbed a Bristol teenager to death has been jailed | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
for life. 17`year`old Jake Milton, from Bedminster, was killed in | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Knowle West this summer. 18`year`old Lewis Talbot was told he would serve | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
a minimum of 16 years. 20`year`old Nathan Warburton has been sentenced | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
to nine years for manslaughter for his part in Mr Milton's death. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
A 14`year`old girl's been left with a torn ear and severe swelling to | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
her face, after being repeatedly kicked in the head by a gang of | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
girls in Swindon. Police have described the attack, at a bus stop | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
on Fleming Way on Tuesday evening, as vicious. Three people have been | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
arrested. An inquest into the deaths of seven | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
people killed in a motorway crash will take place next year. If you | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
think will resume in March. It follows the acquittal of the man in | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
charge of a fireworks display on the night of the crash. | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
Investigators have found a plane which made an emergency landing by | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
parachute into back gardens in Cheltenham came down because the | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
pilot was confused and distracted. The small aircraft was heading for | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Gloucestershire airport when the pilot misunderstood the automatic | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
settings. Andrew Plant reports. A giant parachute falling from the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
sky. It is a plain suspended underneath. The residents captured a | :10:06. | :10:23. | |
small aeroplane. It crashed through the trees in their back gardens | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Inside the single engined light aircraft a 76`year`old pilot who | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
walked away unharmed. He'd been flying from Denham Aerodrome heading | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
for Gloucestershire Airport. But as he approached his runway He lost | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
control and deployed the parachute system in the skies above Langdale | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Road. After lining up for landing and switching on his autopilot he'd | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
then switched it off to adjust the plane. When he switched it back on | :10:50. | :10:58. | |
it was in a different mode ` trying to continue to turn. Today the Air | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Accident Investigation Branch released its report. It said the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
unnamed pilot did not notice that the autopilot was operating in | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
different modes from before, that the pilot was confused and | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
distracted by the unexpected aircraft behaviour, and that he | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
deployed the aircraft ballistic recovery system after he became | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
disorientated. This type of plane ` the SR22 built | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
by Cirrus aircraft ` weighs just over a tonne. Popular with charter | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
companies and private pilots alike, every model is fitted with the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
parachute which almost certainly saved the life of the pilot in this | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
crash in June and potentially more lives in the streets below. | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
It's only 13 days to Christmas. The cube Cinema in Bristol had only | :11:47. | :12:13. | |
three weeks to find the cash to survive. | :12:14. | :12:31. | |
Their Gloucestershire firm which operated the helicopter which | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
crashed into a Glasgow pub has grounded 22 of the same aircraft. | :12:35. | :12:54. | |
In bat and North East Somerset the council has put plans to close | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
public toilet blocks on hold. A peep a smart card for `` a PPA smart card | :13:05. | :13:19. | |
will be trialled. The city council is working with bus operators. | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
Somerset council has rejected an idea to take over debts speed | :13:31. | :13:46. | |
cameras. Yesterday Bristol's mayor said the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
city would be working with the police to switch 26 cameras back on. | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
Sarah`Jane Bungay has more. Nick Gargan put his thoughts in | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
writing to five local authorities. With Bacon said turning the camera | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
is back on `` rued the consider turning the camera is back on? The | :14:16. | :14:29. | |
cameras we have are so old that they would be of no use. We would prefer | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
to replace them where necessary. to replace them where necessary. | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
People can have them for nothing because they are only worth scrap | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
value. The chief cold to has admitted there | :14:48. | :15:30. | |
could be a small surplus generated by turning the camera is back on. He | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
said that could be turned into training qualified drivers. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Two injured soldiers from the West are hoping to complete their | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
challenge to walk to the South Pole tomorrow. Guy Disney and Kate Philp | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
are amputees. They were both injured while serving in Afghanistan. They | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
set off nine days ago as part of a team cold Walking With The Wounded. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Alice Bouverie's been following their progress. We can see the end | :16:02. | :16:15. | |
in sight. Expedition director Ed Parker | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
speaking last night, on the verge of an extraordinary achievement. 11 | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
speaking last night, on the verge of an extraordinary achievement. 1 | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
men, one woman, walking to the South Pole, all of them overcoming | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
life`changing injuries. Kate Philp was hurt in Afghanistan in 2009. | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
life`changing injuries. Kate Philp was hurt in Afghanistan in 2009 The | :16:32. | :16:32. | |
was hurt in Afghanistan in 2009. The armoured vehicle she was commanding | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
was hit by a roadside bomb and her leg had to be amputated below the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
knee. After 16 months of rehab, she returned to work for the Army at | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
Bulford in Wiltshire. Skiing is easier than walking. But I have to | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
check for any abrasions. Research on how prosthetic limbs | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
would react to the cold was carried out on previous expeditions. Guy | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Disney from Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire went to the North | :17:07. | :17:19. | |
Pole in 2011. And this was just six months after he'd had his right leg | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
amputated. He'd been hit by a rocket`propelled grenade, also in | :17:24. | :17:24. | |
Afghanistan. A high`profile member of this latest | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
challenge has been Prince Harry. challenge has been Prince Harry. | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
He's patron of the trek, helping to raise thousands of pounds for | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
charity. Everyone is feeling tired but we're getting into the rhythm. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
The challenge had originally started off as teams racing to the Pole. But | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
The challenge had originally started off as teams racing to the Pole But | :17:43. | :17:42. | |
off as teams racing to the Pole. But last weekend the race element was | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
suspended for safety reasons. They're now all walking to the Pole | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
as one group and hope to get there sometime tomorrow afternoon. | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
Another team of volunteers who'd set themselves a challenging target this | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
year have achieved their goal. The Cube Cinema in Bristol is a | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
nonprofit arts centre run entirely by volunteers. They had until the | :18:07. | :18:18. | |
end of this month to raise ?185,000 end of this month to raise ?185,000 | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
to buy their building and secure their future. And last night they | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
did it. Will Glennon reports. The time it was passed with three weeks | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
still to go. All being well this building will soon belong to its | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
users. It has been run on love for the last years. Does not feel real. | :18:41. | :18:56. | |
We have done it before the deadline. It is a celebration. From next year | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
the cube will no longer pay rent so all the takings can go into the | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
programmes. The ethos will not change. Staff work for free. It is | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
about the quality of the events rather than making money. Because | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
nobody gets paid everybody is here because they want to be here and | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
because they love it. It has got a great atmosphere. What is even more | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
impressive is how successful the appeal has been given the general | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
economic climate. The arts have been capped heavily. It makes sustaining | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
activity difficult. When they set out now one could be certain they | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
would get there. It is fantastic that they have stopped. | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
The arts council chipped and ?90,000. The rest came from | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
donations from people. As the cube prepares for the next big chapter. | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
Wildlife and adventure presenters are getting together in Bristol this | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
weekend to raise money for those affected by the Typhoon in the | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
Philippines. All the money raised from ticket sales will go to the | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
charity Shelterbox, which is providing tents, cooking equipment | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
and tools for rebuilding homes in the Philippines. It's the brainchild | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
of Monty Halls and he joins us now. I wish I could say I was the | :20:51. | :21:02. | |
inspirational figure. We were all horrified by the images. I thought | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
it would be nice to do something. I had the idea of doing a lecture. | :21:07. | :21:07. | |
it would be nice to do something. I had the idea of doing a lecture. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
That seed of an idea has blossomed into this large`scale event. Other | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
wildlife presenters wanted to be involved. It is fantastic. These are | :21:20. | :21:36. | |
the giants of presenting. Ben cold me. He wanted to be involved. Why | :21:37. | :22:06. | |
did you choose Shelterbox? It is a local charity. One of the key things | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
that people need out there is a home. Shelterbox provides that. They | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
also provide tools in the box and toys for the kids. We are going to | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
follow one box and tell the story of the family it helped. | :22:35. | :22:54. | |
Thank you for coming in. The National Trust says it's reached | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
a milestone moment in restoring the landscape at Woodchester Park in | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Gloucestershire. Hundreds of trees are being cut down in order to | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
return the area to pasture ` as it was before many of the trees were | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
planted for profit. Here's Jules Hyam. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
As far back as most of us can remember Woodchester park was | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
woodland. Often a single species of tree lining the side of the valley. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
But as winter sets in the landscape is changing dramatically. Hundreds | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
of trees are being felled. The scenery is being returned to the | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
pasture it was a few centuries ago. It is a historic restoration | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
project. It will also be tree seeding areas. | :23:40. | :23:53. | |
The horseshoe bat is not a fan of dense forestation. 2000 trees are | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
being put down. The landscape is being returned to the grassland it | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
once was. You will get all sorts of flowers growing in the grassland. | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
That will increase the number of bees and invertebrates. That will | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
improve the diversity of the estate. All wildlife needs a helping hand. | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
It will take some time to fully re`landscape the park. This part of | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the valley is already looking difference. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
If you want to find out more details of the event that Monty was talking | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
about there are details online. Here is the weather. We are going to | :24:53. | :25:02. | |
head into a night that will be noticeably mild. There will be | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
outbreaks of rain. Some of those could be moderately heavy at times. | :25:11. | :25:35. | |
A slightly drier slot. For the time being you can see the trend to | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
increase the amount of distribution of that is evening wears on. | :25:42. | :25:54. | |
It will be one of those nights where you can turn the central heating | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
off. Tomorrow will start with patchy rain in the East. | :26:03. | :26:26. | |
Behind that things. To brighten up. A temporary ridge of high pressure | :26:27. | :26:42. | |
overnight into Saturday. There will be a ridge of high | :26:43. | :27:00. | |
pressure on Saturday. Next week there will be more and settled | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
weather. Time to open the door on our Advent | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
calendar. It is a frozen calendar. `` are | :27:18. | :27:32. | |
frozen fountain. Please continue to send as your | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
pictures. Goodbye. | :27:37. | :27:45. |