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Welcome to BBC Points West, with so it's goodbye from me | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West, with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. Our | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
main story tonight: The care worker who abused his | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
trust. Colin Stokes raped three vulnerable women inside thehr own | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
homes. Today, he's been jailed for 14 years. It is probably ond of the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
most serious offences you h`ve to deal with, probably only second to | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
murder when you consider thd impact on victims and the families of | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
victims. A criminal records check revealed suspicions but the police | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
and social services didn't `ct. Our other headlines tonight: | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
The game's afoot. Bristol Rovers are on the move after Sainsbury's wins | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
the battle to redevelop thehr old stadium. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Farewell to Tony Benn, as the Queen agrees his coffin can be given the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
same privilege as Mrs Thatcher's. And Drink Up Ye Cider for Flood | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Relief ` the Wurzels stage ` concert tonight for charity. | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
A care worker has been jaildd for 14 years after raping three vulnerable | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
women he should have been looking after. Colin Stokes was branded | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
dangerous by the judge todax after what were described as remorseless | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
attacks. Further distress was caused to the | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
victims' families after it was revealed that Stokes had bedn | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
investigated some years before, for a sexual offence at the samd home, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
but no further action was t`ken Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Knibbs was in court. This bedroom should have bedn the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
safe haven for a vulnerable adult living in the home. But inshde, | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Colin Stokes abused his ulthmate position of trust and raped her He | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
also targetted two other wolen. None of the victims could communhcate | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
properly. It was his ploy to keep his terrible secret safe. Assault | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
that were branded in court today as disability hate crimes. Through my | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
dealings with him, I have not seen any sense of remorse in him and I | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
think it is going to be difficult for anybody to understand why he | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
would do what he did to such vulnerable individuals. Colhn Stokes | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
was arrested when a whistle`blower who worked at the home raisdd | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
concerns and called police. But the challenge for detectives was how | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
they were going to get the victims to tell them what happened. The | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
crucial breakthrough came whth the use of intermediaries who spent time | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
with the victims, building tp relationships and confidencd with | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
them. And for those who had no verbal communication at all, special | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
sign boards were used to get the evidence police needed. The original | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
boards that they had didn't deal with things have a sexual n`ture, or | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
emotions, so the police quite rightly realised this quite early on | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
and got a special intermedi`ry in who had a better board, who could | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
ensure that the communication from the victim was such that both the | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
physical aspects of the ass`ult could be described, but also the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
emotional aspects of the assault could be described. As Colin Stokes | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
starts a long jail sentence, we can now reveal that he was arrested back | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
in 2007 for sexual activity with a mentally ill woman at the s`me home. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
The CPS decided there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute and hd was | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
released without charge. And it appears it was because the crucial | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
work of intermediaries wasn't recognised seven years ago. The | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
police and the CPS at that time didn't really understand how | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
important and how beneficial intermediaries could be in | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
ascertaining evidence from victims of sexual assault. We did not | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
consider the offence such at the time that we could bring it to court | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and there would be a realistic aspect conviction. All I can say is | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
that if that complaint was brought to us now, we would look at it | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
considerably differently. So despite his arrest and council inspdctions | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
of the home where Stokes worked were opportunities missed to prevent | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
him raping his three victims? The council have today launched a | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Serious Case Review to find out but admit they can't prevent soleone | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
determined to offend in the future. Are you convinced now that ` case | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
such as: Stones could never happen again in the county? That is exactly | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
the question we are going to answer the Serious Case Review. `` such as | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Colin Stokes. Could we be doing things differently? There wdre so is | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
this risk of lone person with poor motivation and criminal intdnt of | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
perpetrating these things, so all you can do is the most you can do to | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
minimise this risk. Police now have a specialist team to investhgate | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
crimes against vulnerable adults in the county. And Colin Stokes is | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
still of interest to them. We have been back over the incident in 007 | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
and are not currently investigating that but we would be very interested | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
to hear from anyone who has any information about Stokes, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
particularly his working in care home settings. Relatives broke down | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
as the details against Colin Stokes were read out. The details `re | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
frankly too upsetting to report but the judge told Stokes that what he | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
did was cruel and depraved `nd he breached the trust of the vhctims | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
who were every bit as vulnerable as little children. As Colin Stokes was | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
jailed, one of the relatives shouted from the public gallery, "rot in | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
hell" . Colin Stokes not only devastated the | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
lives of his victims, but their families too. Before today's | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
sentencing, relatives were hnvited to read victim impact statelents to | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the court. Powerful testimony of the pain and suffering Stokes h`s | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
caused. The mother and sistdr of two of his victims have spoken to Points | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
West. We've disguised their voices, to protect the identity of the | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
victims. Anger spills over as Colin Stokes is | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
taken from court. For the vhctims' families, an emotional day. Sitting | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
in court just feet away frol the man who raped their vulnerable | :06:13. | :06:13. | |
relatives. It wasn't until he said guilty that | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
it did hit me like a tonne of bricks. The emotion that ran through | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
me was horrendous. No one should have to feel that. And to sht there | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
and you can hear your mum and dad crying, it's not something that you | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
should have to hear in your life. It was awful. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Just appalling what has happened to us and what has happened to our | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
little girl. He has still got a life. He is still being fed and | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
watered and our lives go on. Just unbearable lives. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
For the relatives, who, in good faith, entrusted their loved ones to | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Stokes' care, feelings of gtilt and anxiety. | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
The guilt of putting her thdre will never, ever go away. It is really | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
unbearable to carry on with life sometimes. I just wish I cotld go | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and bring her home. I wish H could do it myself, really. If I could, I | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
would put her somewhere and look after her on my own. My sister is | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
still young, to think she h`s got the rest of her life in card, you | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
then have to think, you havd the trust all of these people again and | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
we are never never going to know, you will always have that doubt in | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
the back of your mind. Is something going to happen again? | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
And there are more unanswerdd questions. The families say they | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
raised concerns, but nothing was done. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
I used to make phone calls `ll the time. You know, I had concerns. And | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
my social worker used to sax, "Let sleeping dogs lie, don't rock the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
boat." You don't want to he`r things like that where my daughter was | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
concerned. The people who have been de`ling | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
with it all, I think they nded to be investigated into why it's gone | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
wrong. They have not checked that house properly at all. Therd have | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
been so many things that have happened in that house sincd my | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
sister has been there, that have been reported, and they havd not | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
done anything about it. And now this has happened. So they should be | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
ashamed of themselves. Dr Noelle Blackman is the Chief | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Executive of the charity Respond, who support people with learning | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
disabilities who have experhenced abuse or trauma. Thank you for | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
joining us tonight. How are the victims and their families dver | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
going to get over this? I rdally hope they are offered some really | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
good emotional support, somd counselling, both families `nd their | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
daughters as well. That will go some way towards it, but it is going to | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
be very hard for them to put trust in services again. You heard what | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
the relatives said about thdir concerns about the inspection regime | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
and regulation of homes likd this. Do you share those worries? Do. I | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
think the CQC are beginning to take some steps towards thinking about | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
this. One of the things thex are doing that I think is reallx | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
positive is they are working for more closely with people with | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
learning fifth disabilities and their families and what we heard | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
really clear was those families had many complaints about that home and | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
they were not listened to, they were not taken seriously, and falilies | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
are the best litmus paper about whether a service is safe or good | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
enough. One of the safeguards is supposed to be the criminal records | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
checks that workers had to go through. But if nobody acts on the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
information that is received, what is the point of them? Absolttely. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Well before we had the crimhnal records check, we had lists which | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
were a little bit safer, in some ways. They were not so good for the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
workers, they were things that brought up human rides... What are | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
they? If there had been concerns, like there were with Colin Stokes, | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
he would have been on such ` list. Employers would have seen that. In | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
this case, I don't know if ht would have worked, because he was working | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
at his home when it happened and they chose to ignore that and | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
allowed him to work on his own, at night, with vulnerable women, which | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
is unforgivable. One of the extraordinary things that h`s come | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
out of the cases the work that has gone in to get the evidence out of | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
those people who had been abused. What do you think about? It is | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
really heartening to hear stch good work from the police and CPS. There | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
are far too many cases that come to us at Respond were nowhere near such | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
good work is done and I'm rdally glad to hear they used | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
intermediaries. There are some really good resources out there | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
they probably were using solething called talking mats, there `re good | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
picture books about supporthng victims, called the books bdyond | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
words, and more and more police and Crown Prosecution Service mdmbers | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
need to know it is possible to get ready good evidence if you take your | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
time and you do it sensitivdly coming using good resources. Doctor | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Blackman, thank you very much for joining us. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Bristol Rovers hope to start work on their new ?40 million staditm this | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
summer, after a high court judge ruled they can sell their ctrrent | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
home to Sainsbury's. The judicial review dismissed claims by ` local | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
campaign group that the council had failed to fully consider thd impact | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
on local shops. Alistair Durden reports. | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
The costly legal fight ending with their best result of the se`son A | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
High Court judge today told Bristol Rovers they could sell their | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
Memorial Stadium home to Sainsbury's. After a six`month delay | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
to this scheme, today, Mistdr Justice Higginbotham delivered his | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
verdict in less than a minute via a video link from Birmingham, with | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
three keywords. Judicial review dismissed. Absolutely delighted I | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
think it vindicates our poshtion. We have always felt we had a strong | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
case and the judge has provdd that. The merits of their case, wd were | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
never very comfortable with, and along the way, prices have gone up, | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
at least ?1 million on the build cost, let alone what we havd had to | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
spend on legal fees. The judge disagreed with local campaigners, | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
who claimed Bristol City Cotncil had played down the economic impact of | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the supermarket on local businesses. In a statement this afternoon, | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
campaigners said they were profoundly disappointed and would | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
review the details of the jtdgement, before deciding what to do next | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
They have one week to lodge an appeal. The council says it will try | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
to recover some of its legal costs from them, but admitted the taxpayer | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
will end up footing the bill of around ?20,000. One local MP who | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
packed the stadium and the supermarket says today's decision is | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
important for the city as a whole. If it hadn't gone through, people | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
would say, don't go to Bristol, nothing ever happens. We have shown | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
the country and indeed the world that stuff can and does happen in | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Bristol. It is brilliant usd. So what happens next? Bristol Rovers | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
say contracts for the staditm should be signed within the next fdw weeks. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
The diggers would move in over the summer to start work. And the first | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
game at the new stadium would be played in August 2015. Work can turn | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
to changing the Memorial St`dium into a supermarket as Bristol Rovers | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
look for a new home. Coming up a little later in the | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
programme: Meet the Chancellor's new drinking | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
buddies. George, thanks for the duty`free. Join us later on on | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
points West. Somerset's most famous cider | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
drinkers tell us why they'rd raising money for the county's Flood Relief | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
fund. That will be a bit of fun later on. | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
An investigation has begun hn Bristol after two Asian womdn | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
reported that they were rachally abused and one of them punched in an | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
assault by three white women inside a shop. | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
Avon and Somerset police sax that racist incidents such as thhs are on | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
the increase. We should warn you that some of the language used in | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
Steve Brodie's report is gr`phic. The attack took place here hnside | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
the shop in Bedminster. One woman, a nursery nurse, had just been served, | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
when she heard her cousin bding verbally abused by women in the | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
queue behind her. They said, "You immigrant, move out of the pueue. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
You're always pushing in." @nd then they said, "lackey, go back to your | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
own country." But when she went to intervene, words turned to blows. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
She did walk off, but she ddcided to come back and punch me thred times, | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
on my face, neck and shoulddr. She has left me in a state wherd I can't | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
go back to work, I can't le`ve the house. I'm scared. I walk ott and I | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
just look behind, thinking that someone is going to come and attack | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
me. Her cousin was equally shocked. She punched her and then just pushed | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
her like that, and punched. Then she walked out. Then after a cotple of | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
seconds, she walked right b`ck in punched her again in the face. The | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
head of hate crime has told me that this was a violent racial attack | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
and, as such, is completely unacceptable and will be thoroughly | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
investigated. This isn't a common offence. Bristol is a safe `nd | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
tremendously diverse city. We do know that hate crime is not reported | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
as fully as it should be and we would ask people who are victims of | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
hate crime to come to us and tell us what has happened, but it is not a | :15:43. | :15:53. | |
common offence. Obviously, this doesn't happen in our store, it has | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
never happened before in our store. A racial attack is going to be taken | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
very, very seriously and we just hope the perpetrator is brotght to | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
justice. The investigation hs being supported by a stand against racism | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
and inequality, which says that racially motivated crime, especially | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
in Bristol, is higher than this time last year. Obviously really | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
upsetting to hear that another very serious assault has happened on | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
members of our community who are just going about their day`to`day | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
business. I would like to s`y I am shocked. I am not shocked, really, | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
because obviously, we are gdtting the sort of reports into SARI on a | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
day`to`day basis, this sort of hostility happening to membdrs of | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
our community. And Avon and Somerset police said that in the 12 lonths | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
from April 2013, hate crime has gone up by 15%. But they also put the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
increase down to better working relations with organisations like | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
SARI. Both victims cannot understand why two women born and bred in | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Bristol can attract such vicious abuse, just because they we`r | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
different clothes. Meanwhild, the police say they have active leads in | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
their hunt for the attackers. Two more people have been arrested | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
by detectives investigating the killing of a Bristol teenagdr. | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
19`year`old Nicholas Robinson was stabbed outside his flat earlier | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
this month. A 43`year`old woman and 50`year`old man have been arrested | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
in Bristol today on suspicion of assisting an offender. Two other | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
people, arrested on the samd charge yesterday, have been releasdd on | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
bail. Detectives in Bath investig`ting the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
murder of Melanie Hall have issued a fresh appeal for a car which they | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
say is important to their inquiry. On BBC Crimewatch last night they | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
said they wanted to talk to anyone who had owned, or had inforlation | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
about, a white VW Golf GTi hardtop during the summer of 1996. Lelanie | :17:38. | :17:49. | |
was last seen alive in that year. Her remains were found in 2009. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
A special session of Parlialent has heard tributes to the former Bristol | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
MP Tony Benn today. Members of all the main parties shared thehr | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
memories of the Labour veteran, who died last week aged 88. Meanwhile, | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
it's been confirmed his fundral will take place next Thursday. Ldt's join | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
our political editor Paul B`rltrop, who's at Westminster. So wh`t was | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
the mood like? Well, it was sombre, but never sad. At times, it was | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
celebratory. There were a lot of MPs who wanted to pay tribute to Tony | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Benn. The session was due to last a one`hour, it went on for thd better | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
part two hours. The chamber, to serving Bristol MPs who had worked | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
alongside Tony Benn back in the early years, and sitting close by | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
them, Hilary Benn, the son of Tony. He recollected his father's 33 years | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
as an MP Felicity and how it was interrupted when he inheritdd his | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
own father's title so he cotld change the law and renounce his | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
peerage to resume his duties as MP. His fight to stay in the Colmons, I | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
think, had a marked and profound effect on his life. It was why he | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
was so determined to support others in their struggles, to bring an end | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
to apartheid, the death pen`lty in support of the miners, as wd have | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
heard, and to campaign for peace. Because it was war that had taken | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
from him his beloved elder brother Michael. Obviously passionate words | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
from his son and other Labotr supporters, but Tony Benn dhvided | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
opinion. What did other people in different parts of the housd have to | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
say? Yes, he was a divisive figure, but not at least within his own | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
party, but today was not of the day the criticism and across thd | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
chamber, MPs of all persuashons were keen to pay tribute. Nick Clegg the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Deputy Prime Minister, opendd the whole session and there was a | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
tribute paid to him by the leader of the house, Andrew Lansley. Tony Benn | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
himself said the most important thing in life is to encourage. If | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
anybody asked me what I would like on my gravestone, I would lhke, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
"Tony Benn, he encouraged us" , that would be all I need. He can rest in | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
peace in the knowledge that he did, indeed, encourage generations of his | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
fellow commoners. And we know a little bit more about his ftneral | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
now, don't we? Yes, it is going to take place in a week's time, insane | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
Margarets Church, just across the road from where I'm to you, and the | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
cop and will be brought herd and down into the crypt below `` in | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
Saint Margaret's church. It will be a last chance for people here to pay | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
their last respects to Tony Benn. Now, will you be running, swimming | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
or cycling this weekend to raise money for Sport Relief? Plenty of | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
people will be. Among the charities in the west that | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
have benefitted from the money raised in previous years is Bath | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Gateway Out And About. It hdlps people with a range of diffdrent | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
needs and as Matthew Pick found out, it's led by a dynamic indivhdual. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Run, run, run, Luke. Come on. Come on. Becky Morgan is one of those | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
people with endless energy `nd enthusiasm. Don't you come near us. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Go away. Wahey! She leads Bath Gatew`y Out | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
And About, a charity that hdlps people with a range of needs. She is | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
a mother hen, a shepherd without a crook, and nothing, not even a TV | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
interview, gets in her way. Why did you get involved with this? | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
I just love it, it is magic. I just love seeing them all coming out on a | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Monday evening, doing something positive. I need to go and check on | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
him, he has fallen over. Hold on. Thankfully, it was only a btmp. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Sport Relief has given the group ?5,000, which helps to pay some of | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Becky's wages and the activhties that gets this lot of the sofa. | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Tonight, it is rugby fun, whth stars from the Rec, but it is abott so | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
much more. I have enjoyed playing the tag rugby, running one dnd to | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the other end. We just go ott for meals and swimming and I just like | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
to hang out with my friends, which is good fun. What would you say to | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
anyone who is thinking about doing the running, the swimming or the | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
cycling this weekend and haven't made up their minds yet? Sorry, I | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
will just... BLOWS WHISTLE. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
I would say these kind of events change people's lives, they make | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
people smile when they weren't smiling before and if you c`n do | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
that to one person, it is worth it. You can find details of how you can | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
enter the Sport Relief Games near you by logging onto the BBC website. | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
This lot would certainly encourage you to take part. | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
Don't they just encourage you? Brilliant. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Absolutely. People affected by the winter floods which have left large | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
parts of the Somerset Levels under water have seen offers of hdlp from | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
across the world. So it's not surprising that one of the county's | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
most famous exports has also stepped forward to help. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
The Wurzels are performing ` benefit gig in Bridgwater this evenhng to | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
raise money for the flood rdlief effort. Our reporter Julia Causton | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
has been to meet some of thd band ahead of tonight's show. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
Pete Budd and Sedge Moor have joined me ahead of gig in Bridgwatdr this | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
evening. `` head of the. Sedge, what made you want to get involvdd with | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
the Flood Relief efforts? Wd saw the things that were happening on TV and | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
it was just fairly, kind of, upsetting, really and I just felt we | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
should get involved somehow. And hopefully, make a bit of a | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
difference, really. Pete, how did it make you feel, seeing how Somerset | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
was suffering? Well, Somersdt is our favourite county, obviously, because | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
we sing about it all the tile and we work in Somerset most of thd time | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
and the thought of it, when you are married and you have a home and you | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
have spent thousands of pounds on getting your hands together and | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
overnight, the water comes `nd takes that away... But it didn't stop | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
there, because they have to clear it all up now and it is a very hard | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
task. And what about the wax people have rallied round and helpdd with | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the relief effort? Fantastic. I saw on the news the other day how the | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
farmers in the other parts of the country were bringing hay down for | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
the cattle and using their own diesel and tractors, from all over. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Young farmers all involved hn it. It goes to show, we are a farmhng | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
community and you can't beat a farmer, there is no better live than | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
living on a farm. Finally, ` bit of good news for the Somerset cider | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
making community, the duty was frozen again. How does that make you | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
feel as cider fans? He has done it again, Mr Cameron, thank yot very | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
much, sir. We will all be vdry pleased with you in the West | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Country, believing. On that note, Pete and Sedge, let's say cheers and | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
drink up our cider. Let's trinket. All the best to you. | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
Cheers, my lovelies. Well done to the Wurzels. Now, Ian is having a | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
lie down tonight. He is. | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Georgina Burnett has our we`ther forecast this evening. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Good evening. Well, some ch`ngeable weather around for many of ts today | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
with some bright spells, but also, a bit of a damp end to the dax. The | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
good news is, though, that dastern parts are now seeing the back of | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
that rain. Temperatures reached around 13 degrees Celsius this | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
afternoon, but tomorrow, a lixture of sunshine and blustery showers, | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
really, but turning a littld sour come the evening. Let's just take a | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
look at that band of rain that pushed its way down from thd | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
north`west earlier on, bringing with it around 10mm of rainfall through | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
the Mendips, but that reallx was the exception as opposed to the rule. We | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
can just see it moving off to the south`east there. Behind it, much | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
colder conditions, so likelx to have clear skies tonight. A little bit of | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
a cloud, but mainly clear, so it will feel quite chilly as wdll. It | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
is likely we will have frost in more rural parts, away from the coast, | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
away from the towns, with temperatures close to freezhng in | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
some parts but, across the board, we're looking at lows of two or | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
three Celsius. The winds drop slightly as well, but they pick up | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
again tomorrow, and we have that south`westerly wind, bringing with | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
it some blustery showers as well. As is the nature of showers, not all of | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
us will see those and there is a fair amount of brightness around | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
tomorrow as well. As we head towards the evening, that is when it becomes | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
a little problematic. We have another band of rain pushing | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
through, an extended period for many of us, three or four hours, but it | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
is the heavy bursts within that bringing with them hail and thunder, | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
that you are really likely to notice. In the afternoon, wd are | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
looking at temperatures reaching about ten, perhaps 11 degreds | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
Celsius, but a bit below th`t elsewhere, so quite a drop from | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
today's highs. And the weekdnd is going to look like a very dhfferent | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
beast to last weekend. Saturday really a mixture of sunshind and | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
showers, quite a cold night on Saturday night. And on Sund`y, a | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
fairly frosty start to the day, some showers still lurking but not as | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
many as on Saturday. And thdn on Monday, we have just got a | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
short`lived ridge of high pressure that is going to give us a crisp, | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
wintry day. It becomes wet hn the middle of the week, but milder | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
towards the end of the week. But certainly cover up those daffodils | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
over the next few nights. Thank you, Georgina. Cover tp your | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
daffodils. I will indeed. We are back `t ten, | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
the whole team returns tomorrow Goodbye for now. | :27:46. | :27:47. |