24/06/2014 BBC Points West

Inevitable, I suppose. That's all from the News at Six. Goodbye from

me. On New developments

in the investigation into Avon and Somerset's chief

constable is told there's no He says he still doesn't know

what he's meant to have dond. This is the first time Nick Gargan

has commented since he was suspended The children who live in misery and

squalor ` a charity says thdy're Working nine to five `

teams at Glastonbury prepard for the arrival of Dolly Parton

and thousands of music fans. And Samantha Murray from Bath has

the game of her life at Wimbledon. The Chief Constable of Avon

and Somerset Police has been told that he will not be facing

a criminal inquiry He was sent home from work hn May

following complaints Today Nick Gargan claimed

the investigation against hhm has been downgraded but says he still

doesn't know what he's done wrong. This report by our Home Aff`irs

Correspondent, Steve Brodie. Nick Gargan,

seen here with the Police and Crime He has been suspended since May

after two women made complahnts Since then officers

from the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been

interviewing police officers and civilian staff at the force s

Portishead headquarters. Today

in a statement issued through the Chief Officers Staff Associ`tion the

Chief Constable broke his shlence on the allegations which have rocked

both him and his police force. He says he still hasn't seen any

detail of any allegations And says he's been told

the behaviour under investigation is not as serious as originallx thought

as it is no longer being investigated as a criminal latter

and he welcomes this. The IPCC say Mr Gargan has been

served with a gross miscondtct notice and say he will be

interviewed once all the information So what could happen

if found guilty? They would range from words of

advice to ultimately dismissal if it is gross misconduct. In between

those, you would have a find, final written warning.

The Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens, who may ultimately

have to decide Nick Gargan's future, says she's getting regular tpdates.

A childrens' charity in Bristol is demanding the government dods more

to help vulnerable youngsters, describing social services

The government has promised to end child poverty by 2020,

but Kids Company says time's running out and it's backing a new task

A new campaign video highlighting the plight of vulnerable yotngsters.

It's been launched by Kids Company which has helped 1500 deprived

children in Bristol, including Andrew Henderson, who was

I was sleeping on park benches in the middle of December.

There was snow on me and I had no food.

And he thinks most people don't realise just how many youngsters

You see all the homeless people and don't really think that kids get

Loads of people have problels and there are more kids having problems.

The charity launched its calpaign in Bristol today,

a city where one in four chhldren grows up in poverty, higher than the

Most deprived is Lawrence Wdston, where residents say there's been

We used to have playgroups `nd they used to help us in the commtnity

If you are in one area , yot don't get as much as the posher area.

The government wants to end child poverty by 2020.

And says spending on child protection's incre`sed

But cuts in the number of social workers worry manx.

Those that are left are working their socks off.

How can you really that you can do the most work

if you are trying to cope whth numbers that are coming up?

The city council says it has comprehensive significantly fewer

resources to the help children compared to Bristol a few ydars ago.

The council says it is having some successes.

There is a troubled families project that has been going for two years

and helped 1000 households and another in associating with

the police called first response which is getting help through to

Well, joining me now is Esther Keller who's the director of Kids

You say there is a crisis btt there is no more money. Most councils have

33% cuts. The government saxs children's services are being ring

fenced. There is less money and children's services than evdr

before. The report isn't pohnting fingers at social services. There

are fewer resources, the system is being stretched. I wouldn't want to

be a stroke `` social worker nowadays because there are so many

dire situations and the casdloads are so big. We are trying to say to

the public, stand behind us and let us tell everybody that we bdar

witness to what is going on and encourage central government to

change policy and let us redesign children's services. Poured money

into early intervention bec`use crises are always very expensive to

deal with. `` poor money. It is hard on central government. Are xou being

hard on the parents who allow their children to live in these conditions

that we saw in that film? Why should we because if they haven't got the

resources to provide for thdir children, it is not their f`ult

Letting their child's sleep on a piece of foam, is that not their

responsibility to make sure they have better facilities than that?

They should have the best that they can afford but if there is no money,

what can they do? In a housd like that, there would be no smoking no

television and no drinking? I doubted because if there is no

money, there is no money. Khds in Bristol are provided with food. We

do a food distribution to 16`year`olds with absolutelx no

money. Thank you. A judgement from the

UK Supreme Court which could change the law on assisted suicide is due

to be announced tomorrow. The case was initially brought

by Tony Nicklinson from Melksham. He had from locked`in syndrome

and wanted a doctor to be ldgally After his death his wife Jane

continued the fight Nine judges have been considering

if the law currently prohibhting assisted suicide,

is incompatible with the European Up to a 175,000 people are `bout

to descend on a farm in Somdrset. That farm is Worthy Farm,

because it is, of course, All the final preparations `re being

made before Every year, this festival sdems to

swell in size, not just in terms of numbers but it is the scale of the

site and the last`minute preparations. It gets busier and

busier before the gates open. There is the iconic stage. That doesn t

have to be ready for tomorrow. That is for Dolly Parton. There `re other

stages here. There are over 200 performers over the next five days

and all of those performers and people will be hoping the wdather

stays as it has been today. Rumbling to the tune of last`minute traffic.

Percussion provided by the sky folders and alter the relentless

beat of a boiling summer. A year's worth of planning has a few hours to

go. This temporary town must be ready to support 170,000 people 500

food stalls will feed them, 500 toilets will take their waste away

and 1200 acres of the farm will use them to sleep. Tomorrow, thdre will

be canvassed in every direction This final day is perhaps the most

frantic of the whole five`d`y festival. Stocking up on thd 11

million litres of water thex will need, even more if this son keeps

shining. These could be bestsellers this year. For one and a half

miles, this working dairy f`rm has undergone its annual transformation

and shortly after sunrise tomorrow, the world's biggest festival should

be ready to go. But far frol sleeping as the sun goes down, many

will be working through the night as somehow 1 million pieces of planning

all come together just in thme. You can see it is a bit of a buhlding

site here. You have to watch your step. There is so many cars

scurrying around to get the last preparations finished. It whll be

like that outside come earlx tomorrow as everyone tries to get

into the Glastonbury Festiv`l. The doors open at 8am. There is lots of

help for you if you are tryhng to travel through that lot. BBC

Somerset will be out and thdre will be details on our website. Thank you

so much. We've seen mud baths at Glastonbury

plenty of times before ` so is it The weather forecast has just gone

up and are `` on our Facebook page and we will have more what the

details later in the problel `` programme.

And there's lots more in tonight's programme incltding.

The one`man soap opera that started 40 years ago.

Thousands of cars built in Swindon are being recalled

Honda says it will contact owners of vehicles thought to have

A total of two million vehicles are affected worldwide.

Among them are five models built at its Swindon plant

Patients in parts of the West have been left waiting

hours for transport to take them to and from hospital.

Last year private companies took over the running

of the non`emergency servicd in Somerset and Dorset.

But there have been numerous complaints.

Our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill reports.

Bob Champion likes to remember his daughter Michelle in happier times

before a major stroke last xear that left her with little speech.

He says she was recently left waiting ten hours to return to

her care home after hospital treatment in Salisbury.

All sorts of things were beginning to upset her and it took a while to

keep her on the trolley in casualty. Until October, it was the

South Western Ambulance Service who took non emergency patients

between hospitals or back homes But since then, it's been

private firms doing the job. And in Somerset there

have been big problems. NSL who run services there failed to

meet three of the five basic standards on staffing, management,

and ensuring people's care There have been reports

of long delays in ambulances reaching patidnts

and appointments being missdd. A small minority may experidnce

delays. The vast majority of patients that we deliver to their

appointments early and on thme. This CQC is keeping an eye on how

patients are transported. L`st week it did a follow`up inspection with

NSL. Another private transport company is also falling foul of the

regulator. That comes as no surprise to

patients like Victor Redwood who It hasn't been very good. In the

beginning, it was awful. Thdy were getting here late and they were

picking people up to early `nd then not picking them up after dhalysis.

It is the not picking up after dialysis which is the worst bits

because that is when you fedl ill and that is when they arrivd late.

As in Somerset, the company responsible in Dorset admit there

have been problems at the start but say things are getting much better.

But over the coming months, the watchdogs will be monitoring

both companies in the coming months in the hope

that patients like Michelle Champion won?t have to conthnue

A tennis player from Bath has had the biggest match

Samantha Murray, who's no rdlation to Andy, faced the former Whmbledon

Maria Sharapova is one of the best players in the world and Sal is used

to playing in front of smaller crowds the mess. Today was different

as she was on number one Cotrt. Could that home advantage thpped the

scales her way a little bit? Support is always guaranteed. Today the

Farnsworth cheering for Sam and not Andy. The first match. She lay be a

bit shaky but I think she whll do it. Last year, the ladies m`tches

went a bit funny so she may do it. Come on, Sam. Sam's family were here

to watch her. She might get a shock. The real one might turn up but maybe

she will be a bit disappointed. This is her lifetime dream so we're

looking forward to a great latch. Goliath was nine foot six when he

was toppled by a shepherd boy. If she can play her best tennis today,

you might see a giant fall on Court number one. Samantha Murray has

never faced an opponent as tough as this or played in an arena near as

big as this one. Both players got a warm welcome. Back at Bath

University where Samantha h`s trained, they were watching closely.

She had a few surprises for the 2004 champion. Soon she had her first

game on the scoreboard. Marha Sharapova was stirred into `ction.

Murray still had the crowd roaring her approval, showing flashds of her

ability in set to. Maria Sh`rapova raced to victory in just under an

hour. I can see what the level is. She is one of the best in the world.

I don't think I was that far away from her. The level, it is good but

it is match ball and I can go back and work on it and see what I need

to improve. She gets ?27,000 in prize money for competing in the

first round here today but `s she said, the lessons she will have

learned, the clues she will have got to know what she has to do to

improve her game to get to the next level and make sure she gets more

days like this. She is so positive. Hundreds of people lined thd streets

of Bath earlier to celebratd the return of the soldiers? final

tour of Afghanistan. Over 200 servicemen and womdn

from 21st Signal Regiment, based in Colerne,

paraded through the city centre It followed a homecoming service

at Bath Abbey. We have such popular support from

the people of Bath. It is a special day. It is so wonderful that they

are back and safe. It is good to be home and back to normality. It is

fabulous to have everybody back The officers and soldiers h`ve been

working in communication roles throughout Afghanistan for

the past seven and a half months. The wild boar population

in the Forest of Dean is now so high, the Forestry Commission

thinks hundreds need to be culled. There's been a big leap in numbers

and experts and scientists have come Here's our Gloucestershire

reporter Steve Knibbs. A morning stroll in the fordst,

but this is also boar territory and signs of them rooting

for food are plentiful. The latest thermal imaging

survey has found 819 wild boar It's likely there are many lore

but when you compare it to last year's survey when 535 were found,

the growth in numbers are obviously significant and that's leadhng to an

increase in the problems whhch the Forestry Commission say

the boar are causing. The ntmber of sports pitches that got hnvaded

during the winter rose last year. The number of people's garddns

that were invaded last year rose. The number of reports of attacks

on dogs, serious injuries to dogs. So the Forestry Commission now faces

its biggest ever cull In Germany, wild boar numbers are

increasing but culling hasn't made Sterilisation is also being

researched in the UK, But there are those who say

the Forestry Commission's fhgures are overblown and that the boar

population will actually look after The numbers in the forest now

would coexist quite happily The yearly increase in numbdrs

of piglets would naturally dissipate through the forest to find

their own territories, which they would then either be

killed by farmers or more n`tural If you leave this population alone,

it will not increase Whatever side of the debate,

the general consensus is, that wild boar are here to stay and c`n live

happily in reasonable numbers. Achieving that though,

isn't so straightforward. One of Britain's longest`running

radio dramas comes to The soap`opera Acrebury has been

telling the everyday stories of And what's made it unique is that

it's all the work of one man, Meet Jerry Hughes, a one`man soap

opera. Creator, writer and producer of Acrebury.

He has been doing this for 40 years. First on hospital radio in Swindon

and then on BBC local radio. That is all right vicar. 2000 episodes set

in a fictional Wiltshire village full of scandal, gossip and drama

and every voice is his. A Gtinness World Record for the longest running

soap opera. He has played 90 different characters. Children, men

and women. You do a female voice and then you can do her mother. If you

give her a posh voice, you have another character. If you go down

there like that, you have another. The characters are based on real

people that he has known in rural Wiltshire. The storylines from his

imagination. Did you hear that? Yes, I did. It was a gunshot. He deserved

it, Carol. Repeat these words after me...

Blood, oh my god estimation mark he is losing it, fast. Who the hell has

done this? You get on and you do it and nobody lets you down. No

artistic differences? Only with myself but that is another story. He

promised me one but he never got it. For decades after it began, tonight,

Acrebury comes to an end. Jdrry is retiring and his characters are

saying fire well. Doing this on his own and in his own time for tens of

thousands of hours has dominated Jerry's life but he is not giving

up. He is thinking about turning it into a book. I love it. It hs the

turning from one microphone to another. He is just brilliant. It is

up to the weather now and I`n is on the roof. You have done a special on

Glastonbury. If you are going to Glastonbury you

will find the first of the weather forecast updates on our website

Matthew has tweeted me saying there should be enough capacity in the

ground for extra rainfall. Ht is the heavier showers or thunderstorms

that could be problematic. No such worries for tomorrow. If we put the

graphics are up, we will find a good deal of fair weather tomorrow,

albeit plenty of cloud that will come with it. High pressure is still

dominating but a cold front is running through it during the course

after night. It will bring with it more cloud. Through tomorrow, is

will offer towards Somerset. There is a fair amount of bright weather

with that. Through this evening fine conditions are dominant. The

cloud is increasing and we have one or two isolated showers. By daybreak

tomorrow, there will be a great deal of cloud around. Temperaturds will

be in the mid teens once ag`in. Then we are into tomorrow. There is a

light breeze and sunny spells are becoming more prevalent. Thdre is

some showers around. The cloud will be quite inefficient. They shouldn't

affect Glastonbury too much. The temperatures are dropping btt not

think `` nothing too drastic. Further ahead, you will see this

change by the tail end of Thursday. This is where no pressure t`kes

over. The local detail of where it will rain versus Shine is going to

be difficult at this range. We could see some hefty downpours. That is it

for us tonight. The football is on later and the late bulletin is

later. For now, goodbye.