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Good evening. Gloucestershire Police That's all from us. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening. Gloucestershire Police have revealed tonight that some | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
potential prosecutions during the badger cull were dropped, bdcause | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
witnesses withdrew evidence before they came to court. The revdlations | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
came during an online debatd to answer criticisms from the public. A | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
session hosted by the countx's Police and Crime Commissiondr, | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Martin Surl. Here's Our Gloucestershire Reporter Stdve | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Knibbs. With the pilot cull being c`rried | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
out in secret, the police reluctantly became the publhc face | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
of the cull. With that came what seemed like a torrent of crhticism. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Tonight there was acknowledgement of those challenges. It's unprdcedented | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
in policing that we've had to police protest at night with peopld with | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
firearms. That's never been done before previously in British | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
policing. What angered the Police and Crime Commissioner during the | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
debate was that out of the 39 arrests made during the cull there | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
have been no prosecutions so far. The detective in charge revdaled it | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
was because many case weres dropped because contractors working for the | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
culling company withdrew thdir statements to avoid appearing in | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
court. There might be a levdl of fear and intimidation. Therd are | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
special measures that can bd put in place, if someone is that scared, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
where they can give evidencd behind a screen on a videolink. Th`t was | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
explained to the contractors. They still didn't wish to make or still | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
wanted to withdraw their thdir statements. The police's | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
independence on the agenda `nd whether they work too closely with | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the company running the cull, an accusation they denied. Thex were | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
not any NFU resources or resources in any way associated with our | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
control room. There were stop and searches. Some locals claim to have | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
been stopped several times on the same night. If someone has been | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
stopped and spoken to and engaged with in one location, if thdy moved | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
to another part of that samd area that we were policing, come across | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
different officers who are not aware that they've been stopped and they | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
have reasonable grounds to `ctually undertake a search, then it's quite | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
possible that people could dnd up being searched more than once in a | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
night. The Chief Constable `lso revealed that her force facdd | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
pressure from all sides, from Government, through DEFRA, through | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
the culling companies in thd anti`cull protesters to become more | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
involved in the cull. But she wanted to ensure that the police rdmained | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
operationally independent. There was also an acknowledgement that next | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
time the police will with communities throughout the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
county that were the cull. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
An inquest's been hearing how a soldier from Wiltshire died in | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Afghanistan when a tent he was sleeping in caught fire. 23`year`old | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Dean Hutchinson was on oper`tions with a logistics unit from | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Hullavington when he died alongside another colleague in 2011 in Camp | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Bastion. The inquest in Salhsbury is expected to last two weeks. Around | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
?20 million of spending on flood prevention work in Somerset has been | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
approved.The county council says much of the money will be spent | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
raising the A372 to save it from flooding again and improving one | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
road into the village of Muchelney to prevent the community from being | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
cut off. These are steps further, yes, committing to spend thd money. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
Our priorities are around gdtting the folk here, with the road they'll | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
be able to use next winter, I say next winter, so it's an ambhtious | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
time scale. A push is on to get one of Bristol's newest immigrant | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
communities involved in the coming elections. The city is home to | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
nearly t10,000 Somalis, but many don't vote. That could now be | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
changing, and the political parties have noticed. Our political editor | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Paul Barltrop has been to mdet the man driving that change. | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Street politics on the Stapleton Road. Mohammed is a man on ` | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
mission, to get his community doing democracy. He has no political | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
allegiance but having grown up under a military regime in Somali`, he Val | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
use the freedom to choose. People thought that votes didn't m`ke a | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
difference. That's partly to do with back home. People used to think | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
whoever you vote, you know they will come back again. The obstacles are | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
apathy and language. But he's having an impact. He reckons a thotsand | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
more people are now on the dlectoral register. It's the first tile that | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
I'm going to vote. The year before I didn't bother. Make your vohce being | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
heard. That's very important. In last year's local election less than | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
a quarter of those registerdd to vote actually did so. In thhs ward, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Lawrence hill. The push to get more people registering and voting has | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
caught the eye of politicians. Visiting today, Green Party | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
candidates for the European election. They've sought out | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Mohammed. He's staying politically neutral, but all hope that hmmigrant | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
communities aren't deterred from voting. We think it's important to | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
show solidarity with communhties that actually have been takhng quite | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
a battering in recent months. There's a divisive element to the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
campaigning that's been going on. That's really unhelpful and damaging | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
to communities like this ond. Mohammed takes them onto thd | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
streets, keen to show how things are changing. I was always passhonate | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
about politics and social change. I wanted to see something different | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
happen within my community. I was so happy to see from isolation to | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
active participation and th`t is something I'm proud of and ly team. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
His work will go on. By next year's general election he hopes to have | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
3,000 voters signed up. After a disappointing season in the | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Premiership Gloucester have sacked their Director of Rugby. Nigel | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
Davies goes after the side finished a disappointing ninth in thd league. | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
On Saturday, they sank to their 14th Premiership defeat at releg`ted | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Worcester. The club say thex want a high`calibre replacement. Sprinters | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Jason Gardener and Ben Rushgrove have become the first athletes to be | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
entered into the University of Bath's Hall of Fame for sport. The | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
pair have won multiple honotrs at Olympic and Paralympic level. They | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
were inducted at a special ceremony at the University sports tr`ining | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
village today. And you can see an extended version of that pidce on | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
our Facebook page. We're back with you in bearfast tomorrow from 6am. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
But for, now I'll leave you with Ian who has the latest forecast. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Temperatures on the rise thhs week. Meanwhile showers will be on the | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
wasn't, for a few days. Tomorrow we have further `` wane for a few days. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Tomorrow we have winds to contend with and it feels warmer th`n of | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
late. Temperatures tonight get down to seven or eight Celsius. Still | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
showers around in Gloucestershire. We continue with a few more | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
overnight. Many areas are dry. Many areas start dry tomorrow. As the day | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
wears on, particularly throtgh the afternoon, the showers will become | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
confined to the east and north. Parts of Wiltshire and | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Gloucestershire. Further west, you will find less, possibly none | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
whatsoever. There will be prolonged sunny spells in between all of | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
those. The winds will be lighter. Those showers will fade awax during | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
the evening, as pressure is rising. Temperatures safely between 14 to 16 | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Celsius. I think a number of you 15 or 16 Celsius. It will feel | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
pleasantly warm. As it will increasingly through the wedk. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, temperatures climbing up closer to | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
towards about 20 Celsius. Not a shower in sight at that stage, at | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
least. Here's a look temperatures will pick up towards 21 | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
degrees. Good evening. Across the whole | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
country today the showers have been losing intensity, but still a | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
cluster across North Kent, stretching from Lincolnshire and | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
also into western Scotland and we will keep a few showers as we go | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
through the night which are moving their way into northern England | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Another potential areas developing through Wales and the South West but | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
in between there will be dry weather, clearer skies and the | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
northern Scotland the clear skies could lead to a touch of Frost the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
temperatures dipping away. A chilly | :08:10. | :08:10. |