29/05/2014 BBC Points West

prove it is not unlucky for some. Good evening.

The surgery to remove catar`cts is relatively simple but the waiting

list at Musgrove Park Hospital had grown to nearly 400 pathents.

In May the hospital took the decision to bring

in a specialist eyecare company to set up a mobile surgery to carry out

After just a few weeks, there were problems.

It was really about 15 or so patients had a significant problem

but we have seen all of those patients now and examined them to

make sure they are getting the right treatment now and they will continue

to be followed up here by our own staff to make sure we look

Obviously, we are deeply sorry that this has happened.

Those 15 patients could be looking at further eye surgdry

Vanguard who were the private healthcare providers say

they always use highly qualified surgeons and they are now

cooperating fully in the investigation to find out

Malcolm had his cataract surgery performed at a different hospital.

It was quite frightening to be losing your sight.

I didn't notice how much my sight was deteriorating

Then to get it back again, it was lovely.

Malcolm is one of the thous`nds who every year have

For those waiting at Musgrove Park Hospital,

Wiltshire Police are asking people to be on the look`out

for a prisoner who was rele`sed from a Leicestershire prison

It's believed Edward Stirling, who's classified as high risk,

could be in the Swindon or Thames Valley area after he failed to

He was serving a sentence for possession of a firearm

Stirling is described as being 5 feet 6 with short dark

hair and speaking with a Northern Irish accent.

The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson says he's confident

the plan to dredge the Somerset Levels is on target.

The assurance comes after concerns from farmers that

silt isn't being removed from the rivers fast enough.

Scott Ellis reports from the Royal Bath and West Show.

Ensuring Somerset's flooding stays high on the political agend`,

the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson politely ambushed

They are worried that less than 10% of the dredging is complete

At that rate they say, only a third of the promised eight kilomdtres

If somebody would offer me an excavator I would go

and have excavator lessons and go and do it myself.

You know, there is a lot of, you know, massively emotion`l people

They need to be able to see it happening to be able

We desperately need 100% of the dredging done.

We have a heaven sent opportunity to get it right, once and for all.

If they are on schedule, as they say they are, then just show

us the evidence and people will be in a position to believe.

The Environment Agency says two teams are working on the

River Parrett. At the weekend, another will start on the Tone.

By June they say six teams will be on the river banks,

part of a planned increase in work rate.

At the Bath and West Show today Owen Paterson wanted to reassure

I've come down here to talk to the local farmers and talk to

the local representatives of the Environment Agency

I'm clear that the Environment Agency itself is sure they `re

The Secretary of State will be in Somerset again tomorrow.

This time to review the county's ?100 million 20`year action plan to

ease flooding, of which dredging is a small but highly emotive part

The only case against a badger cull protestor accused of breachhng

The injunction was brought by the National Farmers' Union to keep

the public away from the cull areas in Somerset and Gloucestershire.

Cathy Scott from Coventry was accused of running into a fheld

It's not yet clear why the Crown Prosecution Service

An ambulance service, criticised for poor performance

in rural Gloucestershire, is to spend ?700,000 on more vehicles.

Figures last month showed fewer than half of 999 response vehiclds

in the Cotswold area reached their destination within

The Trust is now buying an extra ambulance

Bath based publisher Future has confirmed plans to cut

The figure has emerged as part of the company's

The news follows the start of a transformation programle and

Future says they're restructuring under a new leadership team.

Bristol Rugby players have apologised to fans

after losing to London Welsh last night by 27 points to 8

in the first leg of their play`off final.

Bristol are facing up to another season of Championship rugbx

unless they can produce a m`ssive comeback in their play`off final.

They insisted they can turn the tie around and win a place

If there is any side that can do it, we can.

We have done it before this season, we have overturned

We have had times where we've been 19 points up in the first half.

If there is any side that can do it, we can.

We're just going to have to draw on everything.

We are a very tightknit sidd, we're going to have to pull

together and we're just going to have to make it happen on the day.

There's more news on the BBC Website.

We certainly had some very sharp showers today, helped by sole warm

showers today, helped by some warm air. Sunshine broke through the

clouds but showers have been sharp and are still few rumbling `round

but they will clear by tomorrow morning. For the couple of days it

is an improving picture, drx morning. For the couple of days it

is an improving picture, dry and is an improving picture, dry and

bright and good spells of stnshine. bright and good spells of sunshine.

Turning cloudy and damp oncd more by Turning cloudy and damp oncd more by

Sunday, couple of settled days Turning cloudy and damp once more by

Sunday, couple of settled d`ys to Sunday, couple of settled days to

enjoy. That low pressure steadily moving to the south taking the

showers with it and by tomorrow morning it is not too bad. We may

have a couple of showers around in parts of South Somerset and Dorset

but in the main it is dry. Not load of sunshine but a lot more settled

than we have seen. Brightness will be coming through, enough to lift

those temperatures to 19 Celsius. That is much more what we would

like. Saturday is much the same, good spells of sunshine and it is

Sunday where we see a changd, good spells of sunshine and it is

Sunday where we see a changd, wet and rainy

Good evening. Most of us look like ending the week on a dry note. Some

of us end it today on a particularly wet note. Notably across parts of

south-west England and up into the Midland, a line of vicious storms

and thunder in there too. They have been spreading further west in parts

of Wales and southern counties. They'll tend to fade away the rest

of the night, but one or two lingering on. Most other places

having a quiet night. Cloud and mistiness out there.

Across the glens of northern Scotland, temperatures will