05/09/2014 BBC Points West

A family of travellers from Gloucestershire who made

millions from their paving business, while treating people like slaves,

have been ordered to pay back much of their fortune.

The Connors family lived the high life,

Meanwhile, the men who workdd for them lived in squalid c`ravans,

Today the five family members werd told to

It's the most Gloucestershire police has ever confiscated from criminals.

Police footage of William Connors, in the yellow jacket.

But the workers here were vtlnerable men, some picked up

They were exploited and intimidated and forced to work.

It was hidden in bank accounts and even stashed in caravans.

The family made more than ?5 million.

They made a fortune and thex would charge whatever they could charge

the householder. There was ` man prepared to pay ?10,000 for a

driveway, and they would take that. When police arrested the falily

they found the workers living in appalling conditions. Squalhd

caravans with filthy bedding. We have captured on camera as they were

abused and beaten. William Connors was sent to prison along with his

wife and two sons. His son`hn`law was also convicted. They will now ``

now have two hand over their ill gotten gains. They all more than

1675 million pounds. They mtst each paid this amount of money. Of the

?2,272,000 they will have to pay, the police say they already have

access to almost ?600,000 from various cat that `` bank accounts

kept in their names. The rest will have to be made back from the family

selling their assets. They lust do that, or they face more timd in

jail. He ran his business on the back of forced labour, and those he

exploited will get compensation 12 of them will share almost ?050, 00.

Payment for the wages they worked for, but never received.

An inquest has decided that a man from Somerset probably died because

Dennis France was killed in March last year when he drove over

a railway crossing, even though the barriers were down.

His car was hit by a train travelling more than 100 miles an

hour. This afternoon a coroner sahd it

was a desperately tragic accident. Scientists in the west have found

a way of slowing down the growth They've been using a heart drug

in their tests at the Public Health It's early days, but they hope

this could be a breakthrough which Our Health Correspondent Matthew

Hill reports. A patient with suspected Ebola

arrives at Freetown Hospital With two million people livhng

mainly in slums in the capital, conditions are right for

the deadly virus to spread widely. This was filmed recently by Pete

Nelson, an environmental consultant. He says the effect on

the country has been devast`ting. That's why scientists here `t

Public Health England's Porton Down He says the effect on

the country has been devast`ting. The president of Sierra Leone has

eight has been promised, but is slow to arrive. With the closure of the

airlines there is virtually no way of getting supplies or technical

assistance into the country. Frankly, that is the most ilportant

thing the country needs. That's why scientists here `t

Public Health England's Porton Down are trying to find ways

of treating the virus. They've just published a paper about

a trial they've been doing with a The drug, called Ouabain, is derived

from a powerful tribal arrow poison. It has an effect

on a human protein that the virus Through using this heart drtg

on infected human cells in the laboratory,

scientists have found that they ve managed to slow down the growth

of the virus by around 50%. If you cancel the buyers down in a

wheel person it would buy thme for them. Hopefully the patient would

recover. We are long from that because we are working in

experimental laboratories. Ht is an interesting breakthrough from our

point of view because we have something that could potenthally

have some effect. The scientists need to raise around ?3 million

before human trials can beghn. Given the Civic `` scale of the threats,

it could be money well spent. In Rugby, Gloucester took a pounding

in their first game to kick off the new Premiership season, with a

loss away to champions Northampton. The Cherry and Whites brought

in a whole new coaching teal over the summer, as well

as adding several new players. But it wasn't enough to sectre

a win. Northampton ran in four trids,

while Gloucester only managdd to score off the boot of James Hook

and Greg Laidlaw. The President of the United States

of America is flying over the Atlantic tonight after `ttending

the NATO summit in Wales. But before he left he made

an unannounced visit to Stonehenge He was given a guided tour

of the stones. Mr Obama then made his way to RAF

Fairford to board Air Force One There's more on that story

and rest of today's news on the But for now that's it from `ll

of us here. We're back with you throughout

the weekend. But for now, I'll leave you with Ian

who has the latest weather. A good deal of dry weather `bout it

during the course of the wedkend. The only threat of showers hs later

on Saturday. There will be variable cloud around, but also a fahr amount

of sunshine. The rest of thhs evening and tonight has dry

conditions. It will be repl`ced by more cloud in the second half of the

night. That cloud cover shotld help suppress the formation of any hill

fog or low`level cloud, but rather a dull start tomorrow morning with

brighter spells starting to prevail towards lunch time. It is into the

evening that we have the ch`nce of seeing a view showers. `` a view

showers. Many districts will avoid them.

Hello. I am sure you cannot wait to find out what the weekend wet ler be

like. I have to say -- weather will be like. I have to say it is looking

good for most of us. Some of us may have to use our umbrellas, but

hopefully for a short moment. This is the satellite today. You will

notice this cloud, this is a weather forecast we have said for the past

couple of days. Here it is, through this evening, it is affecting the

north-east of England, the north-west of England, nudging into

Wales. To the north of that we have cool, fresh conditions. To the

south, cloudier areas w a bit of mist and fog. Mild, around 15-1

Celsius. We start with the south of the country. This is 9am on Saturday

and temperatures around 15-16 Celsius. Quite cloudy for a lot of

us. It has been a repeating process for the last few days. We wake up to

grey skies and have to wait a few hours until we see the sun. This is

the front from the north. Across Yorkshire, probably some rain and in

Scotland and Northern Ireland we have a fresh start here with a few

showers and an