07/08/2014 BBC Points West

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A nurse from Somerset who strapped patients into wheelchairs and

Melanie Doherty was supposed to be caring for people with dementia

at La Fontana Nursing Home in Martock two years ago.

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

Here's our health correspondent, Matthew Hill.

This home specialises in dementia ` old and familiar surroundings can

But rather than a pleasant experience, two vulnerable residents

If you would like to hold my hands and I will help you to sit

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

But when nurse Melanie Doherty was giving out medication late one night

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 still attached to

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

She had not slept very much at all, she was really, really worried,

so she came in to see us and that was when we took a statement

from her and that is when we started the ball rolling, really.

Melanie Doherty had received all the correct training, but despite that

She used some inappropriate language but when she was asked by the carers

what can they do with the resident to help her, she just said,

What was your reaction when you heard that?

I was shocked because she could have harmed herself.

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 room to put it out,

so some of the rubbish is being moved across the town to the former

The various agencies have assessed a number of sites

and it is the least`worst site of all those available.

The Environment Agency are clearly concerned about whether there is

the potential for any run`off into the water courses, but this

particular site, everything can be contained and managed in a way that

The next phase of badger cull pilots is expected to

The government says 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

Here's our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs.

Early this morning near Stroud and a vaccination specialist

I've got my syringes made up and my scissors to clip their hair.

It's a careful procedure to make sure the badgers, caught in cage

traps overnight, are injected safely and allowed to return to their sett.

They tend not to even flinch, when you do it.

Then we cut the hair, we put a little clip mark on

the back of the badger, and that way we can identify them, cos we trap

So tomorrow if I recapture that same badger, I will know I've done it.

So I just do my welfare checks, then I'll let him go.

This is an intense vaccination program that

has been running for five years now, and between May and September

in a 100 square kilometre of Gloucestershire, around 1000 badgers

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

badgers with the vaccine and also trains others who want to

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 cattle TB and I would say that we are probably

wasting our money using it on diseased populations, we should use

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

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

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

With a cattle vaccine at least a decade away,

the government says badger vaccination is one of a number of

measures it's exploring, including culling, to tackle bovine TB.

A photographer from Gloucestershire says he's lost thousands of pounds

because of a row over the copyright of this "selfie" taken by a monkey.

David Slater from the Forest of Dean has repeatedly asked Wikipedia to

remove the image saying it's his picture, because he set up

But the web`based encyclopaedia claims he doesn't own the copyright

There was a dramatic landing for one of the hot`air balloons

involved in tonight's mass ascent from the Bristol Balloon Fiesta.

It came down in South Gloucestershire hitting a lamppost.

Meanwhile, the nightglow lit up the Bristol skyline

Well, Points West is live there tomorrow.

But to see what the weather will be doing, here's Ian.

Good evening. Many districts will see some fine and dry weather are

both but some of us could get from showers. `` some showers. It looks

good for the International Balloon Fiesta tomorrow. There could be some

showers in the late morning on Friday. We will not be sure how far

so some of these showers will spread throughout the day. In the brighter

spells, temperatures should get into the vote 20

fellow, I'm sure you have heard about it, the remnants of

ex-hurricane Bertha which will bring the potential for intense rain. More

details on that with the national forecast with Jay.

It is quiet overnight. The script is changed tomorrow. Rain in the

forecast which could turn out to be heavy. Warnings have been issued A

wet start today in the extreme south-east. It moves further inland.

A wet start in Northern Ireland as well. The central swathe may well

start on a dry note but it won't take long for heavy showers it get

going into the afternoon. Not all doom and gloom. I suspect the north

and east of Scotland doing well, in temples largely dry kvenlts western

Scotland will see wetter weather. The rain pushes through Northern

Ireland. Brightening up in the afternoon. Northern England down

through the Midlands towards East Anglia, some showers will be heavy,

thundery and slow-moving. A lot of rain in a short