30/04/2014 BBC Points West

Good evening. The media has obtained dramatic footage of the moment a

suspect was shot with a taser gun inside a Wiltshire Police station.

The officer who fired it was cleared of assault yesterday. The Chief

Constable had tried to stop the video being released and today he

has been defending that decision. Our home affairs correspondent,

Steve Brodie, reports. Suspect Daniel Dove has been ordered

to take off his clothes as part of a strip search, after being brought to

Melksham Police Station. But when he reaches his underpants, he flips

them at PC Lee Birch. The policeman fires the 50,000`volt stun gun into

Mr Dove's chest. Wiltshire's Chief Constable told me why he doesn't

think the public should see the film. I can accept that people might

wonder why I objected. My issue was one of principle. My principle being

that, in my view, I have to ensure fairness and I have a duty of care

to my officer ` who has been found not guilty. My view was that to

release the media could cause problems for my officer over the

next however many years he serves. An hour before, Daniel Dove had been

arrested outside this Trowbridge night club, in December 2012, for

being drunk and disorderly. He has then been brought here to the

custody suite at Melksham Police Station. He is booked in standing

handcuffed in front of PC Birch. The jury were told he was drunk and

difficult to handle. After the tasering, he was charged with

assault. But later he took out a private prosecution against PC

Birch. Then the CPS dropped its allegations against him and

prosecuted PC Birch instead. The Chief Constable agrees that justice

should be seen to be done. I fully support open justice. There is an

ongoing IPCC investigation. In my view, releasing the CCTV to the

media could have been prejudicial. I am responsible for making sure that

investigations are fair and in my view releasing the footage might

have prejudiced the investigation. The force have reviewed their policy

towards tasers. Meanwhile, PC Birch has returned to his job. Steve

Brodie, BBC Points West, Wiltshire Police Headquarters, Devizes.

More details have emerged of the extraordinary rescue operation to

save a woman who fell nearly 30 feet from a bell tower inside Wells

Cathedral. A doctor involved in the rescue says the tourist fell into a

two`foot wide cavity between two walls, which made the rescue very

challenging. Clinton Rogers reports. Come in and I will try to explain

the situation. James Hickman is a specialist trauma doctor with

mountaineering experience ` just the man for what turned out to be rescue

at height in a very confined space. This is the main tower in the centre

of the cathedral and the walls here are effectively double`skinned. The

woman, taking part in what is called a Cathedral High`Parts Tour, somehow

managed to fall into a narrow space between two bell tower walls. It is

a bit like the cavity walls you have at home ` obviously a lot wider, but

still only about 2`3 feet wide. There are openings into those

cavities. This lady appears to have fallen into one of these cavities

between the two parts of the wall ` from this level down into a cavity

here. It did present challenges because there was not much room down

there. The verger was helping her and I went down, supported by the

Fire Service ` who had a rope rescue team, on a rope. She was awake and

was able to talk to me. We were able to start the initial management of

her injuries in the small space. There were many teams there. The

fire rescue team, who are great in difficult environments like this,

helped to get the lady onto a special stretcher to lift her out

into the room in the tower. From there she was carried to the

cathedral roof and winched onto a rescue helicopter. I was relieved

that she was not more injured than you would expect from the height of

the fall that she had. Tonight, the woman continues to recover at

Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. Clinton Rogers, BBC Points West.

A quarter of a million pounds' worth of fines has been written off

following a public outcry over a badly signposted bus lane in Bath.

Council leaders are now reviewing the scheme on Dorchester Road and

have agreed to suspend it until better signage is in place. I have

just said that we are very sorry. Therefore, I am embarrassed that we

have upset people and I'm embarrassed that the experiment has

not been as good as it could have been. That was a simple mistake. We

did not get our signage right for this complicated junction. The

council will decide the future of the bus gate on Friday, once it has

analysed data from the experiment. A stained glass window has been

unveiled at Gloucester Cathedral this evening. It commemorates the

life of Ivor Gurney, the Gloucester poet and composer who was born in

1890. Ivor Gurney's poetry was inspired by the horrors he witnessed

in the First World War and his love of Gloucestershire.

Bristol snooker player Judd Trump needs just two more frames to make

it in to the semi`finals of the World Championships. He leads 11`10

against Neil Robertson, who won four of the first five frames this

afternoon. The winner will take on Mark Selby at the Crucible tomorrow.

Neil Robinson has just equalised. Newsnight is starting over on BBC

Two. First let us take a look at the weather with Ian.

Tomorrow there will be heavier showers and some thunderstorms. The

Met Office has issued a yellow warning. Particularly in Wiltshire

and Gloucestershire there could be heavy rain. There is also a threat

of flooding. Temperatures, 8`10 Celsius. Many areas will start dry,

but then as they get into the afternoon we will find heavier rain

in the North. It will last for quite a while. Tomorrow the temperatures,

as well. The outlook, it shows you it will get cooler as we had through

the weekend but brighter, although gardeners beware, night-time frosts.

It was a day of contrasts across the UK today, rain coming in from the

West but in the south-east, like winds and sunshine, up to 20

degrees. Contrast that with six degrees in the East of Scotland. In

between we've seen some thunderstorms and more general

showers coming in to the western side of the UK. Northern Ireland,

Wales and the south-west. The best chance of staying dry is across

Lincolnshire and East Anglia. A lot of cloud around generally

overnight, some patches of mist and maybe a few