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still the potential. Quite nasty weather. To keep an

Protests over the fire that won't go out.

A row flares up over plans to move some of the tonnes

of waste to another site, 17 days after the fire started.

There is sickness and coughing from people who are working around it.

Well, move that up to here and you are expanding it.

A nurse who strapped patients into wheelchairs at a dementia home so

Grinning like an ape, but could a monkey possess

the copyright for these selfies and not the man who owns the camera?!

And the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta begins,

but could a change of weather put the wind up this year's event?

A nurse from Somerset who strapped patients into wheelchairs and

Melanie Doherty was supposed to be caring for people with dementia at

But another member of staff blew the whistle on her behaviour,

and as our health correspondent reports, it was the home itself that

This home specialises in dementia ` old and familiar surroundings can

But for two vulnerable residents what

The staff here are instructed to only strap patients in a wheelchair

But when nurse Melanie Doherty was giving out medication late one

Nurse Doherty was strapping in residents for her own convenience.

Residents who wouldn't normally use a wheelchair at all.

In one case an elderly lady was also barricaded

That lady actually stood up with the wheelchair attached to her back

What happened only came out because a colleague blew the whistle.

She had not slept much and she was concerned so she came to see us and

that was when we took a statement from heart and started the ball

rolling. Melanie Doherty had received all the

correct training, but despite that She used inappropriate language but

when has the she required help she was told just to be left alone. I

would shock at such a reaction. Nurse Doherty did not show up

at a misconduct hearing this week. The Nursing and Midwifery Council

found her fitness to practice currently impaired

and said she put residents at risk. But because it was an isolated

incident, she was not struck off, The nurse had indicated she did not

want to work But this ruling leaves

the door open for her. Matthew Hill, BBC Points West,

Martock. A demonstration's been held in

Swindon tonight over plans to store There's been a fire burning

at the Averies Recycling Centre But firefighters need more space to

put it out, so some of the charred rubbish is

being moved to a new place, much to Our Wiltshire reporter Will Glennon

has just sent this report. Around 50 people have turned out

this evening to tell the council how they feel about plans to put waste

at this recycling centre onto their doorstep. The park and ride has been

closed for years and the waste will be put your temporarily. The waste

will then be put back for disposal. As these placards should you, this

has not been a popular decision. 17 days and if I at this recycling

centre continues to burn, smoke drifting across Swindon. Thousands

of waste back into a small site is a headache for firefighters. They want

to shift the waste, clear a space and put it out for good. And this is

where they want to bring it, the old park and ride site a few miles up

the road. The Fire Service and Ken Soar see any waste brought Europe

will not still be on fire. But there are houses surrounding this site and

the people living in them want assurances that their help will not

be put at risk. It was chosen because it is a flat, hard surface

surrounded by trees. Various agencies have assessed different

sites and this is the worst of all available. The Environment Agency

are concerned as to whether there is the potential for any run`off into

the water courses but this particular site, everything can be

contained and managed any way that will not present problems. This fire

will head into a third week and who knows how much fodder, there is a

cost to all of this as well, already estimated at half ?1 million. Let us

get the views of some of the locals, talking to this local residents to

begin with. Why are people concerned about this waste? We have already

seen the people in Marsh Gate having to close their windows because of

the smoke and the smell. It seems that they are removing the problem

to another location and people are concerned, they have sick relatives,

we are concerned as well, this is a nice area for wildlife and we have a

spring where the waste could reach into. All of the ground is going to

be ruined, the council has not thought about this. The residents

are next to it. It does not seem the right location. Now here is the

local councillor, what did you say? I understand the issues that the

Fire Service have having spent 13 years of my career in it. The fire

will be out when it gets here but they do not know what they will be

racing here, this unknown quantity, otherwise why not get rid of it in

the one place? It will cost the taxpayers of Swindon money. Who is

going to pay for that cost? Let us get it out, keep to the landfill and

keep this ground safe. Thank you both very much. The council say that

this site is their number one choice and they are concerned and trying

hard to get this fire out as soon as possible.

Members of the Diocese of Gloucester are being sent an open letter,

asking them to pray for the Right Reverend Michael Perham

Bishop Michael was questioned on Tuesday about allegations

of indecent assault dating back to the 1980s.

The letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury also asks people to

pray for those who've made the allegations.

One of Bristol's most iconic events is just beginning.

The Balloon Fiesta attracts people from all over the world.

It's on until Sunday, but tonight is likely to be one

of the highlights as the weather is fine and the special`shaped balloons

You've come to me with perfect timing `

just as the special shapes and the balloons are about to take off.

It's the first night of a weekend of events here at Ashton Court.

After the mass ascent, tonight will also see the magical

nightglow when hundreds of tethered balloons will light up the arena.

Around half a million visitors are expected here over the weekend.

And it's hoped more than 150 balloons will fly over

But as well as balloons, there's going to be some incredible

sights including wing walkers and a display by the RAF Typhoon team.

More than any other festival, the weather is crucial.

One of the pilots is Lieutenant Colonel Huw Parker, from

You are an engineer, what is the appeal of balloons? In using the

balloons we are commemorating the LA avionics used by the military. But

mainly today we fly balloons because it is good fun and there is an

opportunity for soldiers and their families to fly with us. What do you

love about the International Balloon Fiesta hole in particular? It is a

great fiesta, balloonists, from around the world, we get together

and we fly over Bristol, come back and there is an opportunity for

everyone to get together. It is great fun. Thank you for joining us.

That is all from me at the moment. I will be back later to tell you about

a special commemorative World War I events.

And tomorrow night the whole team will be live at the Balloon Fiesta.

We'll be taking a look back at the how the fiesta started over

40 years ago and just what it takes to put on such a huge free event.

The next phase of badger cull pilots is expected to

The government says though, that shooting the animals is only

a part of its plan to tackle bovine TB and vaccination is another.

Over the last five years, scientists have been injecting badgers in a 100

square kilometre area around Stroud and today they let the cameras in.

Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs was there.

Early morning near Stroud and a vaccination specialist

It's a careful procedure to make sure

the badgers, caught in cage traps overnight, are given the badger BCG

They tend not to even flinch, then we cut their hair at the back of the

badger is that we can identify them. So that if I recapture that same

badger I will know that he has been treated.

This ?2 million project is studying how practical it is to inject

badgers with the vaccine and training others who want to do

Badgers aren't tested for TB and there's no direct measure

of how TB levels in cattle here have been affected.

Jan Rowe, a Gloucestershire beef farmer who's part of

the company running the pilot badger culls in the county, believes the

We have no evidence that that is giving us any great benefit in terms

of reducing TB and I would say that we are probably wasting our money

using it on diseased populations, we should use it elsewhere.

Scientists who have been studying badgers here

Although they admit the vaccine won't stop animals

getting TB in the first place, it can have a beneficial effect.

I do not know of any vaccine that is 100% effective, but we have a

product that has been shown to reduce the severity of this disease

and badgers and if that can reduce transmission of the disease amongst

the badgers and onto cattle, that means this could be a valuable tool

in certain circumstances. With a cattle vaccine

at least a decade away, the government says badger vaccination

is one of a number of measures it's Now though, more news, and

a photographer from Gloucestershire says he's lost thousands

of pounds because of a row over the copyright of his most famous picture

` this "selfie" taken by a monkey. Yes, you did hear that right `

the monkey took the picture. But David Slater from the Forest

of Dean says it was his camera He wants it removed

from the internet. For professional wildlife

photographer David Slater, making a living means taking

thousands of photos. When he set up the camera on a

tripod and stepped away, I knew it was only a matter of time before the

monkey stepped in and looked at its own reflection.

Three years ago on a trip to the Indonesian Jungle, he took this

now infamous monkey selfie. Leaving his camera on a tripod,

he hoped the monkeys might press the buttons and take their own photo.

Now he says he's lost thousands of pounds,

after websites like Wikipedia decided the photo could be used

for free, saying copyright belonged to whoever took the picture.

In this case, a black crested macaque.

There is no dispute that I own the photo. But what these people are

saying is that it does not matter who owns the camera, the copyright

besides who pressed the button. `` decides.

Wikimedia ` which runs websites like Wikipedia ` has a section

"This file is in the public domain, because as the work of a non`human

animal, it had no human author in whom copyright is vested."

It's sparked a debate about copyright.

The author under copyright law is the person who puts in the skill and

effort and in this case the photographer has put in all of the

skill and effort and unfortunately the monkey has come along and take

in the photograph! `` taken. Meanwhile,

David is still earning nothing from a monkey photo he travelled to the

other side of the world to take. There was a poignant reunion today

as Wiltshire's Police and Crime Commissioner met the air

ambulance team who saved his life. Angus Macpherson had

a cardiac arrest in May. He's now back at work part`time and

today thanked the emergency services One that without these helicopter

heroes may never have happened. It is very humbling to meet the guys

that picked me up and took me to hospital. And to say they kept that

I was transported in because I have no memory of that happening.

Wiltshire and Swindon's Police and Crime Commissioner was

at a function in Trowbridge in May when his heart stopped.

The life of the man who is in charge of the force's ?100 million budget,

dependent on the speed of the charity`run air ambulance.

Did you think that these gentlemen saved your life that tonight? I

believe they must have played a very significant part.

The Great Western Air Ambulance attends around 100 calls a month.

It cuts travel time to hospital by about ten minutes.

Minutes that, those behind these controls say are

We bring the emergency department to the patients so that we can perform

things like putting you to sleep, Anastasia and performing complex

procedures. He required to be treated very quickly and drugs to

keep his heart beating faster, that is the sort of things we had to do

to save him. We were able to offer those besiegers as soon as we

arrived. Angus MacPherson is now recovering

and back at work two days a week. Firmly focussed on the job,

but now with first`hand experience of the vital work

of the other emergency services. It's two days and counting until the

new football season, and tonight The club is used to proving

its critics wrong, and again they'll have one of the more modest

wage bills in the league. The question for Cheltenham is can

they defy the odds and make The man who has to make the money

count is Mark Yates ` he's coming up to his 5 year anniversary in charge,

making him the 3rd longest`serving Last year was a disappointment,

they finished 17th, and there are The bookies remain to be convinced

and think Cheltenham will find it One other change has seen former

captain and long`serving player Steve Elliott take

on a player`coach role. I've been to see how he's adapting

to the next phase in his career. After an 18`year playing career,

Steve Elliott is no longer just one Whole`hearted and well`respected,

the defender's first priority is But he's now looking at passing

on his vast experience. I have played plenty of games and I

have played in every league, so I believe I have something to offer

for the younger lads and the defensive side of it and I will put

across my opinion. It is exciting times and I am enjoying it. I will

see how it goes. He has been a good link between the dressing room and

the staff room, he is going to do more work and more coaching as we

go, it was important that we kept hold of him, he has been a big part

of what we have achieved recently. Steve's been at Cheltenham for five

years, clocking up over 150 games. Now at 35,

he's having to work a little harder Cutting out carbohydrates

from his diet has helped him trim The hardest but as the recovery

after games. It gets difficult but I feel OK, I feel as strong as ever,

so I am just hanging on and trying to play as long as possible.

Neutrals are expecting it to be tough for Cheltenham this year,

but it's nothing Steve hasn't heard before.

We have goals that he wants to achieve but that is for us to know.

You are almost speaking like a coach! Yes, we have our own targets

and we know what we must achieve. If we get promoted, we will have done

that. Steve has a wedding to plan too,

after proposing to his girlfriend. But the only big date he's really

thinking about at the moment is Saturday's first

game of the season at Bury. Events to mark the 100th anniversary

of the outbreak of World War One are We've been running our own series

of special reports here on BBC Points West and at the

Bristol International Balloon Fiesta there's a special area dedicated to

the Great War. Let's go back to Imogen Sellers

who's at Ashton Court now. Welcome back to the fiesta

and the BBC's special There are lots of things to do and

experience, basically to try to give you an idea of what life was like

during World War One in the West. Celebrities including Larry Lamb

and Kate Adie will be here, as well as lots of Points West faces

you'll recognise. It's all, of course,

because this year is the centenary of the war and tonight we're heading

to Bath where they're honouring a songwriter whose music touched the

hearts of soldiers in France, and Amanda Parr's been getting to know

Fred Weatherley, He was a lawyer, a broadcaster and

he wrote thousands of songs, including his favourite, Danny Boy.

Born in Portishead in 1848, he spent much of his life in the West. 40

times he lived in Edward Street in bath. You can see this plaque on the

wall in his memory. There has been talk of a statue being built to

honour him in the city, but for the moment has songs and words are what

I remembered. He had the great ability to provide hope in the

darkest of times. I had a chat with his great nephew Philip who started

to bring his character into focus. A very small, jolly, slightly

eccentric, perhaps a little bit of a womaniser, someone who was obviously

a very busy, that is the sort of story that has been handed down. One

of his best wartime sellers was the Roses Off Picadilly.

That's probably was selling 15,000 copies each week during its early

days of publication, it became one of the great songs of the First

World War. He speaks about the war as something that inspired him to

increase the amount of writing that he was doing, he produced a song

that warmed the hearts of the soldiers. This man attends the grave

of Fred and wants to make sure his music lives on. 100 years ago the

songs that were song where the songs belonging to the communities and

they were song to keep the communities together and to lift

spirits. They were songs belonging to the people. He was a hugely

respected man. He was a celebrity in every way, shape and form, all five

foot one of them! A small tribute here and then to Bath Abbey. To hear

the song that touched hearts on both sides of the channel almost 100

years ago. That has given me goose bumps! What

a story, that proves that music really can you rate `` unite people.

This map gives you an idea of what is going on at the International

Balloon Fiesta. There are lots to do and say, so please come along. Of

course, at the fiesta, all eyes are on the weather and here is our

forecasts. Things that should remain for the

next 24 hours and tomorrow morning looks decent. As the day moves on

there is the threat of one or two showers but it is worth stressing

that not everywhere will see them. Tomorrow morning at six o'clock, it

is difficult to pin down the direction of the winds. Either way

we have good confidence that the balloons should be able to take off

and move away. Low pressure will take over at the weekend. That will

create some heavy and thundery rain across the East of England and some

of that could move into the West Country later in the afternoon. Aid

is taught part`time, yes, but it does not mean that it will affect

all of us. Today has been good and there is a fine evening to come.

Overnight, there could be a bit of Mr Redmond but nothing of any

significant note, temperatures down to 13 or 14 Celsius. Tomorrow

morning, there could be some missed about for the West Country,

otherwise it will be a bright start. Late morning, one or two

showers could it in closer to Gloucestershire as they get into the

afternoon. We have this band showers for the evening and you could find

some put towards the East. It makes it difficult to pin down exactly

where we will see showers for the second part of the day. Temperatures

up to 22 Celsius and four Saturday it will be a bit more breezy. Mixed

with some rain. We have a yellow weather warning for Sunday. What of

uncertainty. `` a lot of uncertainty.

Thank you for that. The choir that you just heard, they will be at the

International balloon festival on Sunday. `` International Balloon

Fiesta. Goodbye.