09/06/2014 BBC Points West

looks back at his life and career. Rik Mayall,

Good evening and welcome to Points West.

The online activist group, Anonymous, is targeting

the Cheltenham spy base, GCHQ, to highlight concerns over privacy.

The agency was named by forler US intelligence officer Edward Snowden

` who claimed GCHQ routinelx taps into everyone's internet data.

The base says all its work is necessary

Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.

It's now a year since Edward Snowden first leaked information,

claiming that GCHQ sieves through vast amounts

At the weekend Stephen Fry condemned the practice in a recorded lessage

The fear of terrorism we all have and the fear of the unknown that we

all share, the fear of enemhes who hate us is a duplicitous and

a deeply wrong means of exctsing something that is based as spyinh

The online activist group, Anonymous,

have long voiced their concdrns about Snowdon's revelations and

in a video posted on the Internet, they addressed GCHQ directlx.

We are left with no option but to come to you to show our

Anonymous is calling it a m`ss GCHQ protest and I met one

of the group at her home in Gloucestershire today.

She told me hundreds of people have pledged to turn up with money

The aim is trying to protect everyone's privicy.

Nobody wants to feel as though they are being watchdd,

as if every bit of data about them is being collectdd.

And people strongly believe it is illegal as well, so that is why we

are protesting to bring not just only more awareness to it,

The last time GCHQ faced protests was following the union ban

This time it could be potentially larger numbers

It may be a cause of concern is security, though police told me

today it was too early to dhscuss what they're response will be.

When asked to comment, GCHQ reiterated to me that the work

carried out in Cheltenham operates under a strict legal and policy

framework and it is all authorised, necessary and proportionate.

When it comes to the protest planned for August, a spokesman told me GCHQ

respects the right of people to protest peaceftlly

Well, earlier I spoke to Dr Julian Richards who used to work

at GCHQ and now lectures in security and intelligencd.

I asked him whether we'll see more internet

surveillance as the internet becomes a greater part of our daily lives.

The fact of life is that evdrybody communicates via the Interndt now,

So if the governments are going to be able

to protect us from terrorists and criminals, they need to be `ble to

have some mechanisms for monitoring what goes on on the Internet.

The question is how they do that technically and how they avoid

A man's been arrested on suspicion of causing death

by dangerous driving after two people were killed and thred people

The accident was between a van and a lorry.

It happened at around 4.30am this morning

There are to be cuts and ch`nges to the way the young and elderly

The county council is predicting it must make savings

of ?75 million because of rdductions in government funding.

It's begun a public consult`tion, and warned that social servhces

Here's our political editor Paul Barltrop.

Once more, cuts looming and yes we have been here bdfore.

Back in 2010, Gloucestershire went far and fast to reduce its spending.

Since then, the county council has made ?114 million of savings.

It has reduced its workforcd by 1900, but that's not enotgh.

It is now predicting that a further ?75 million needs to be

There has been pain and protest along the way, threats

to libraries caused particular outcry but they didn't closd.

Volunteers stepped in to fill the gap.

Now comes the hard bit, drastically changing the wax

If we don't make this radic`l change now, there's a great chance we will

not have the money to support people in the future, and that is not just

in Gloucestershire, that is a national issue as well.

We think if we make these changes now and start to work with

communities, we can deliver the changes and still be thdre

Looking after the elderly and disabled and protecting children

consumes about two thirds of the council's budget, but while demand

keeps growing, government ftnding will fall sharply next year.

If the people who do need to fund some care needs,

we estimate there are 16,000 older people in Gloucestershire who are

How are they going to afford those services?

So the anxiety is that people don't slip through the net

and are not going to be properly cared for in the community

and get the care they need, and the worse case scenario is that

So Gloucestershire launches a public consultation

After that, it'll be up to the councillors to decide how the

The Wiltshire snooker player Stephen Lee appeared in court this lorning

The court heard that Lee, who's the former world numbdr five,

had sold his personal cue for ?1600, and despite recehving

payment for it, had never sdnt it to the buyer in Hong Kong.

Even though Lee pleaded guilty, he told the BBC afterwards that he

The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited Somerset today

and spoke to flood victims in the village of Moorland.

As well as meeting those affected by the floods, the Royals also chatted

to some of the volunteers who've been helping to restore homds.

They went on to open a new community hospital

in Bridgwater and visited one of Somerset's most popular tourist

Newsnight's getting underwax over on BBC2, we're back tomorrow and

of course there's more news online, now lets get the weather st`rting

Are bright and breezy day tomorrow. Many areas should stay dry. Blustery

as you, west. We will have ` greater chance of showers. By the afternoon,

some could be heavy. We havd some outbreaks in the afternoon,

temperatures of 10 Celsius. Tomorrow morning will be dry and bright. As

the day goes on, we will sed there are showers moving up from the

south, and Western districts are more at threat. As we get to mid

afternoon some of those could turn rather heavy. Just a chance they

could turn thundery. It will be rather breezy and temperatures of

dissenting Celsius, which is pleasantly warm. Turn warmer as the

weekend goes on. Here is yotr national forecast.

of us, but I'll pass you overto Jay. -- over to jay now.

Good evening, it was the warmest day of the year. Warm for some, but

thundery for others. This line of really intense thunderstorms moved

through. Large hail and gusty winds and rain as well. That moved away

and now we look towards the south and you can see the rain moving

northwards. So let's look at the cloud which is heading our way and

some of it does look really quite threatening particularly in the

south-eastern corner there. That's going to bring heavy rain. With it

the risk of thunder and lightening. The rain will move away from the

South East, and out into the North Sea, but it may linger further

north. Just moving away from the south-west and into Wales and into

Northern Ireland by dawn. Another mild night. 12 Celsius in the north

and maybe 13 Celsius or 14 Celsius in the south. To start the day

across Northern England, it's looking good. It is dry and bright,

but there will be wetter weather around the borders and up towards

Shetland it will be wet. Heavy showers around in Northern