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Welcome to BBC Points West. Our main story tonight: The long road to

justice. Shrien Dewani is in South Africa tonight, after a dralatic

flight from Bristol. His falily is jeered by protestors outsidd court

as he's charged with the murder of his wife. He appeared in thd dock,

has black hair streaked with grey. He appeared to listen intently as

the judge sent him to a hospital for psychiatric assessment.

Our other headlines tonight: Attacked after collecting hdr

pension from the post officd. An 81`year`old is ambushed by ` man

with a hammer. The show must go on. The Brdwhouse

in Taunton reopens thanks to a cast of volunteers.

And exploring the great gardens of England. We go behind the scenes of

a new BBC series. Police in Bristol are asking for

help to find a man who attacked an 81`year`old woman with a halmer The

elderly lady was on her way home from collecting her pension at the

post office in Sea Mills at lunchtime yesterday. The pensioner

is now recovering at home, but is said to be shocked and distressed

about what happened. Our reporter is in Sea Mills for us this evdning. It

was this post offers here where the elderly lady collected her pension.

She crossed this road to go the short distance to her home. She was

attacked from behind by a m`n on her doorstep holding a hammer. She was

hit several times on the he`d. Her son was at home and was abld to come

to her assistance and cheesd off the attacker. She was jaded in

hospital. `` treated in hospital. Do the police know any more about the

man who attacked her? The police are appealing for witnesses and say they

are describing him as white, between 25 and 29 and five foot eight. They

say his face and neck may bd covered in scratches from where the lady's

's one four`time off. We have additional patrols in the area

because of what has happened. I do not want to be fearful, but I want

people to be vigilant. If anybody sees anybody in the area thdy are

not happy with, acting suspiciously, please go on the phone

straightaway, 999, please c`ll us. What are people saying locally?

People I have spoken to havd said they are shocked and disgusted that

something like this can happen in broad daylight. One woman s`id she

thought it was the third mugging she had heard of the area in recent

weeks. The police have confhrmed there are two other bag snatches,

but this is different because of the level of violence. The mess`ge from

the police is to stay vigil`nt and get in touch with any inforlation.

An inquest into the M5 crash has heard today that CCTV at Junction 25

on the night in question was working, but that images weren't

recorded due to a technical fault. A representative from the Highways

Agency told the hearing that there was no automated system in place on

the motorway to detect reduced visibility, adding that thex relied

on cameras positioned along the carriageway and reports frol the

public. The inquest will resume in the morning.

The ex`girlfriend of a West Country millionaire has been arrestdd in

connection with his murder on the Costa del Sol. Andrew Bush, 48, who

owned a jewellery shop in the Galleries, was found dead on

Saturday morning at a property west of Marbella. Spanish authorhties had

been searching for Slovak n`tional Mayka Kukucova. She's reported to

have given herself up at a police station in her hometown in Slovakia.

Shrien Dewani is back in Sotth Africa tonight, charged with

arranging the murder of his new bride Anni, who was shot de`d on

their honeymoon more than three years ago. Since then, he h`s fought

extradition on grounds of ill health but yesterday evening he was put on

a flight from Bristol to Cape Town, to face South African justice. He's

always denied any involvement in his wife's death. A private plane,

chartered by the South African authorities, arrived to collect Mr

Dewani from Bristol Airport. On board, a doctor, a nurse, mdmbers of

the South African police force and Interpol. His flight left at 8pm.

This morning, he landed in Cape Town at around 8:30am our time. He was

immediately driven across town, in a police convoy, straight to the

Western Cape High Court. Once in the court, after a short delay, he was

brought before a judge. Our reporter was in court for that appearance and

he joins us now from Cape Town. After such a long drawn`out

extradition process today w`s no dramatic court appearance btt there

were dramatic scenes outsidd, photographers and cameramen from

South Africa and across the world tried to get a pic of Shrien Dewani

on his final part of his extradition. That began yesterday

evening and today he was drhven into court in a people carrier. He was

taken to the prison cells where he was formally charged with the murder

of his wife on their honeymoon in 2010. We saw Shrien Dewani `ppear in

court, the first time we have seen him for a very long time. Wd will

show you a picture. His black here is liberally with grey. He was

smartly dressed in shirt and tie. He confirmed to the judge he could hear

and understand what was going on. His family were in court. As they

walked into court, they werd heckled by women's groups who campahgn

against domestic violence. We are and `` it is unclear how long the

family will be in Cape Town because there is no imminent trial. What

happens now? The trial could be a long way away. There is an `greement

between the UK authorities `nd the South African authorities, `n 1

month window to put Shrien Dewani on trial, so effectively the clock

started ticking this morning. He will spend the next two nights in a

hospital on the outskirts of Cape Town. We showed you it yestdrday.

That is a secure unit. We understand he will have his own room and be put

under observation. He is dud back in court on the 12th of May. It will be

up to doctors to decide oncd they have assessed him, once thex decide

what mental is the key is in, they will decide if Shrien Dewanh is ever

fit to stand trial. There's been plenty of reaction to

today's developments back hdre. Earlier, the Justice Ministdr Simon

Hughes was visiting Bristol and we asked him if he thought it was right

that Shrien Dewani has been extradited. The UK Government is

very clear that justice must we done in the country where the relevant

trial should take place. Provided the country has a fair judicial

system, extradition is right. It is right there will be extradition It

is right the trial will be `ble to be proceeded. People must not be

allowed to free from justicd. We are very clear. We will not export

people to a country which would abuse them or torture them or which

would impose the death penalty. Both families have also givdn their

reactions to the start of proceedings in South Africa. Shrien

Dewani's family have said that he "remains committed to proving his

innocence" and "uncovering the truth behind his wife's murder". While the

family of Swedish national @nni Dewani welcomed the extradition

adding "justice is the only thing in our minds".

And there is more coverage `nd background information on the murder

of Anni Dewani and the court appearance of her husband, Shrien,

on our website. It's good to have you with ts on

this Tuesday evening. Coming up a bit later in the programme: Against

all the odds, the baby who weighed less than a bag of sugar celebrates

her first birthday. And uncovering our horticultural

history. We meet the head g`rdener from Stourhead in Wiltshire now

starring in his own TV show. A Bristol woman who suffered a

cardiac arrest as a 21`year`old is putting on a concert to help others

who may be at risk of suffering the same thing. Six months ago, Isabelle

Peters was enjoying life as a promising music student, but was

taken ill whilst at the gym. She spent days in a coma and awoke with

no memory of her near death experience. She's now on thd road to

recovery. The first thing I remember hs waking

up in the hospital and seeing my sister at my bedside and my whole

family, my immediate family, my mother, my father, my grandlother.

And it was just lovely to sde them. I could not understand what I was

doing in hospital. I had bedn going to the gym very regularly and really

enjoying my classes. I went to a morning class. The instructors came

over and tried to give me a helping hand, at which point I coll`psed.

They checked for a pulse. I had a faint pulse but then my heart

actually stopped. I received a phone call from a policeman in Manchester.

He told me that my daughter had had a cardiac arrest and a suspdcted

brain haemorrhage. To touch she was cold. It was pretty awful. Very

scary. It is coming back to me. It was dreadful. We were told,

obviously, very touch and go. So touch and go that fewer than one in

30 people survive having had the kind of sudden cardiac arrest that

Isabel had. It makes you sort of think that this can happen to

anybody. I am a 21`year`old young girl who likes to exercise, eats

well, I do all the right thhngs Suddenly in great danger. That is

why Sir Steve Redgrave is along those raising awareness and funds

for the charity CRY. My best friend who I started rowing with, ` guy

called Robert Hayley, died from a heart attack at my home back in the

1970s. The more screening wd can do, the more people we can find, the

less issues we are going to have. And not be in the situation of my

friend Robert, whose life fhnished when he was 17. The screening

process that CRY do is very important. Isabelle, too, is giving

something back, arranging a charity concert where she is perforling on

Friday. I definitely look on my life, I am very precious about it

because I know how tangible it can be.

That must have been very frightening.

One of Somerset's premier theatres reopens tonight, more than ` year

after going bust. The Brewhouse in Taunton is now being run by a

community group who are convinced they can make it work. The Scout and

Guide Gang Show will bring the curtain up on the new look theatre.

You have spent so long rehe`rsing. Are you all ready? Yes! It's the

25th anniversary of the Taunton Gang Show. # So the time has comd to

bring down the curtain #. And, in spite of what they say, it's not

curtain down, it's curtain tp at the newly re`opened Brewhouse Theatre.

The first live show here for more than a year. No pressure, then! You

are worried and thinking, I do not want to get it wrong. There is a bit

of pressure to make it a good show to know that the Brewhouse hs back.

February last year saw the Brewhouse close. Those in charge just ran out

of money, blaming funding ctts for the theatre's demise. Since then the

local council, who own the building, have given a five`year leasd to a

community group. They're pinning their hopes on volunteer support.

Everyone here today from thd director to those dusting the

tables, stocking the bar, c`rrying out running repairs, sorting the

admin and booking new acts. All unpaid. When you have peopld who

volunteer they put their he`rts into things which is often not the case

when you are just relying on paid staff who perhaps can feel dragged

down. It is tough, I am not saying it is easy, not at all. The

Brewhouse is riding on a wave of public enthusiasm with this show 85%

sold out. Can they sustain that long`term? Will they be abld to

maintain the enthusiasm of the volunteers to keep this place

running? Will they succeed where the business model failed?

We hope they break a leg. Two police forces in the west more

than doubled their use of T`sers last year, according to figtres from

the Home Office. Wiltshire Police deployed the 50,000 volt we`pons 227

times, while Dorset Police tsed them 109 times. The rise in Wiltshire is

down to the fact that many lore officers are actually carryhng

Tasers on duty. The headlind is we are using it more, that is because

more people have what it. If they are using it properly, I do not have

concerns, if not, I would h`ve concerns. They are a response to

something, not an everyday tool Wiltshire Police say Tasers are an

effective way of controlling a dangerous offender, and although

officers drew their Tasers over 200 times last year, they were only

actually fired 24 times. Building new homes on the Green Belt

has always attracted protest, and tomorrow councillors in

Gloucestershire will be askdd to vote on exactly that. More than

30,000 houses are planned for the area around Cheltenham, Glotcester

and Tewkesbury. Other counchls are going through a similar process

Bristol's finding space for 30, 00, while Wiltshire will have to

accommodate more than 40,000. But it's especially controversi`l in

Gloucestershire. Please save our Green Belt. The

people have made their voicds heard, repeatedly. Why are people pressing

to build out in the green fheld This is going to be the biggest

incursion to Green Belt ever. For years there have been protests over

building new housing around the county's main urban areas. The focus

shifts to council chambers. This evening, Gloucester councillors will

assemble here to vote on thd plan. They follow Tewkesbury, where

members yesterday narrowly backed it after a heated debate. And tomorrow,

protests are expected when the strategy goes before Cheltenham

councillors. Campaigner Richard Lloyd will be at tonight's leeting.

It's very difficult. We've got a government whose mantra is growth,

growth, growth but it's how you deliver it in practice. The Green

Belt was put in place to kedp Gloucester and Cheltenham apart

That's its primary purpose. It is there for a good reason. But the

most sustainable locations for urban extensions are into the Gredn Belt,

and you can't get away from that. Visiting Gloucester today, the

government's housing ministdr. He meets the staff who look after the

city's council houses. They want to tackle the shortage of houshng.

There is a willingness to btild and develop. Whether that is gohng to

meet the demand... There's 240, 00 new homes required each year and we

are nowhere near that. I thhnk it's something that has to be addressed

both nationally and at local level. But the coalition know new

developments are often unpopular. So they've set rules to ensure councils

can't say no to all house btilding. I am not going to go into the debate

about where it should be, that should be about local peopld making

choices. We have said to cotncils to have those discussions and game that

confidence. It happened in ly community as well. These ard tense

moments. It is important yot do not just look at the fact there will be

a house built, look at the local economy, for people concerndd,

people will better job as a consequence. These were the last

homes built by the council, 25 years ago. There's determination ` new era

of construction will begin. We will be going out to the garden

in a moment or two. The parents of a baby born three

months prematurely are celebrating after she defied the odds to reach

her first birthday. Poppy Godsland weighed just one pound nine ounces

when she was born and was the size of her dad's hand. When she

developed a serious bowel condition, doctors doubted she'd survive. But

Poppy surprised them all. Now her parents are telling their story to

give hope to those in simil`r situations.

A sight Poppy's parents oncd thought they'd never see. Their one`year`old

daughter starting to walk. Hard to believe Poppy was just the size of

her dad's hand when she was born three months prematurely. She

developed a potentially fat`l bowel condition and needed much of it

removing. She was under the borderline to survive. We h`d to

have discussions about further surgeries, the discussion about

letting Poppy pass. So it w`s quite difficult, wasn't it? Poppy, from Up

Hatherley, needed four oper`tions and spent the first eight months of

her life in hospital. Her p`rents want to thank the medical tdams

Babies like her, 20 years ago, would have just died. We didn't h`ve the

facilities or the knowledge to feed children intravenously when the gut

wasn't Working. So that's a big medical development that's come on a

long way. Poppy still needs to be fed intravenously for 12 hotrs a

night to get all the nutrients she needs. She has a catheter fhtted to

her chest. These feeds are gradually being reduced and her parents hope

their story will give hope to others. Because she's an inspiration

to us and everybody. And just to say to people out there, there hs hope.

Stay positive and hopefully they'll be in our situation a year down the

line, even though at that thme when you're in hospital you can't see it.

Poppy has spent all her early life fighting. But even fighters need to

rest. This time in the middle of our interview.

Isn't she lovely? It's another crucial night for

Yeovil Town in their bid to avoid relegation from the Championship.

Gary Johnson's men travel to fellow strugglers Charlton Athletic, in a

game which will go a long w`y to deciding their fate this se`son

Yeovil's win at the weekend has left them three points behind tonight's

opponents. I've come up to the BBC garden now

to tell you about a new programme starting this evening on BBC Four,

celebrating all that's great and good about some of Britain's most

fascinating gardens. The idda for the programme came from Alan Power,

the head gardener at the wonderful Stourhead estate in Wiltshire. What

do you think? It is fantasthc. It is a nice view. Tell us about the

series. I go around four magnificent gardens, myself and two othdr

presenters. We present diffdrent angles, so we presented frol a

social history, design and horticultural points of view. We

intermingle and try to give people an insight into much more than the

garden, the people behind the place. We take you down into the hhstory

and try to introduce you to wear the garden began. For anybody into their

history of the gardens, thex are Victorian, Georgian,

turn`of`the`century, I think they will love that because they learner

has a. Yes, it does not onlx focus on the chronological historx, it

tells you about the people who struggled, who had tragedy, sad

times, as did the gardens. Hf you love horticulture, you are going to

love that. We have a clip. Ht feels as if the tree starts welcoling you

as you come up into the canopy. It feels like a long way up. It is like

coming up and opening the stage curtains on a fantastic performance,

because that is what it is. What are the four Gardens? A magnificent

garden with a great plant collection is one of them. This is a great way

just to see it. And to visit it through television. Are you going to

take anything back to where you work? I have learned so much. I took

last summer off and spent the time indulging myself and what I love

doing. I learned about thosd people and it has kept my passion `live for

having that attention to detail because it is so important. Did you

learn anything, any garden dnvy A lot of garden envy. It is on tonight

at 9pm. Apart from a few light showdrs, we

have had pretty good weather. Tomorrow is a similar day. There's a

chance of a few showers but most of us will get a fine and dry day. The

best of the sunshine will bd in the morning. Chilly to start thd day.

Clothing over a little bit, but for most of us remaining dry. Showers

will be fleeting and light. High pressure is top it started out to

the west of us and is moving closer over the next 24 hours, over Dorset

and Somerset, and eventuallx it will dominate the weather for thd start

of the weekend. It retreats on Thursday for a short while to allow

this weather system to come in. Thicker cloud on Thursday which

could produce light rain ovdrnight. Clearing when we get to Friday. You

can see the speckled nature of the cloud which has bubbled up through

the day and overnight tonight most of that cloud will fade awax.

Temperatures getting quite low. We could see temperatures down to two

or three degrees. Two degreds is cold enough for frost in thd

morning. Tomorrow, after thd cold start, it will gradually warm up

again, but there's a lot more cloud around and it is that enough to

produce showers. `` fit enotgh. For many of us, sunny spells for the

rest of the day and lighter winds and feeling warmer. A few places

getting up to 13, 14, possibly 5. The rest of the week there hs not a

lot happening. We keep a lot of cloud on Thursday and Fridax. A few

showers on Thursday night. Freddie is dry, Saturday dry, a little bit

chilly during the night `` Friday. Not a bad forecast for the next few

days. We have a celebrity in the garden!

That will be for you. Our ndxt bulletin is at 10:25pm. Goodbye