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Police in Bath have called off the search | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
for 18`year`old Sammuel Amin after a body was found in the Rivdr Avon. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
This is the sixth death on a small stretch of water | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Tonight an extra ?400,000 h`s been promised to try | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Three other students have dhed in the river since 2009. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
In a moment, we'll speak to one of the city's universities abott what | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
they'll be doing as thousands of new undergraduates descend on the city. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
First thing this morning, and police divers were back | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
in the River Avon, searching the waters near the footpath whdre it's | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Then just before midday, the news that everyone had been | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
And although not formally identified, police are sure it is | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
An hour before we found the body, I went to see the family to update | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Less than an hour later, I had to go back and tell them the sad news | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
As you would understand, they were absolutely distratght | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
They are a religious family, very close`knit. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Many members of the family there when I had to deliver the ndws so, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Sammuel was last seen by his friends at the Opa club in the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
Today they were grieving for a friend who'd they known all | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
It needs to be sorted out because this can't keep happening. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
The council need to have done something not this year, | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
like years ago, when the first casualty arose from this. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
The 18`year`old from Twerton was due to start university next week. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
The path he took along by the river was a regular route home. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
This is a well used path but you can see there's no railings up there. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Unless you come down this slope if you've tripped, this is the only | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
There now been six deaths in five years and many people say this | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Last year following a safetx report, an 850 yard fence was installed | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
along a stretch of the river to improve water safety. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
For the parents of graphic designer Casper Flagg, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
who died when he fell into the Avon after a night out five years ago, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
I would have thought they could design this river to make it safe | :02:28. | :02:38. | |
They either have to do that work or shut this path late at night | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
or have street lights along, cameras along. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
You can't have people going along these rivers and not knowing | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Tonight, the waters of the River Avon look calm. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
But there's shock throughout the city that once again another | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
The extra ?400,000 pledged tonight will be spent on more railings, | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
life buoys and other measurds to give anyone that falls | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
But the campaigner responsible says that fencing alone won't be enough. | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
is we have to get out there with an awareness campaign. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
is we have to get out there with an awareness campaign. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
We have to get out and tell the universities, | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
Now, I bet not one of them realises we had a rhver | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
let alone probably the most dangerous river in the country. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
They have to be taught how to respect it. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Chris Ellicott is from Bath Spa University and he joins me now. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Thank you for speaking to us. What is another death here? Are xou | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
worried for the safety of your students? Can I say first of all | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
that this is a terrible tragedy and my sympathy goes to the pardnts of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the young man who has lost his life. We at the University lost one of our | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
students three years ago and it devastated the whole communhty. We | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
have worked so hard since then to raise awareness of the diffhculties | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
of the river, and tried to dncourage sorts of behaviour that will help | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
students stay safe when in Bath What are you doing to raise | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
awareness, low? We talk to `ll new students. We make them award that | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
there is a river here and wd have all sorts of measures to help them. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
We have a buddy scheme, we have student mentors to help advhse them. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
We encourage them to stick together in the evenings and check that no | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
one is missing from their group We have a bus service until three | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
o'clock in the morning and ` free taxi service. We even have wrist | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
bands this year, which young people respond to as a way of remelbering | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
that they should be aware of something, to remind them of the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
need to stay safe. Let's be honest, student drinking culture exhsts | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
everywhere, but what is going wrong in Bath? A lot of parents whll be | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
wondering about it. I would not say that the drinking culture is | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
necessarily limited to studdnts Certainly there is a drinking | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
culture amongst young peopld. Nor would I say anything is wrong with | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Bass. Six students... Four students have died in the last six ydars | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
there must be a problem, isn't there? This is not a problel limited | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
to Bath. There have been de`ths in rivers other `` in other pl`ces | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
across the country. We need to make students aware of the need to be | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
responsible when they are drinking. We also work with club and pub | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
owners to make them access their responsibilities as well in this | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
There are calls for an inquhry into why more wasn't done to prevent a | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
fire at a recycling plant in Swindon which burned for eight weeks. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
The flames at the Averies yard have finally been | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
put out, but the smell of sloke over nearby homes is yet to go away. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Councillors will discuss on Thursday whether to hold an investig`tion | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
Football now and all our teams were in action tonight. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
Amongst the games, League One leaders Bristol City | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
continued their unbeaten st`rt to the season away at Port Vald. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
While sixth`placed Swindon shared the points at home to Oldhal. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
And Bristol Rovers had a 3`0 win against Nuneaton in the Conference. | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
But for now here's Ian with the latest forecast. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
Some of you saw heavy showers today. We should not do tomorrow. @ lot of | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
cloud are wrong `` run first thing but the afternoon should become | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
breezy and quite warm. Tempdratures tonight down to about 15 Celsius, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
not particularly chilly. Lots of low cloud invading from the east and it | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
will spill into the M5 giving a lot of hill fog in central areas | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
tomorrow morning and it will take a while for it to disperse, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
particularly towards the North. A much better story into the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
afternoon, more sunshine around and remaining dry. Rather breezx, but | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
temperatures in the mid to low 0s. The next chance of rain, first into | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
Friday. you now with Darren Bett and the | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
national weather. This cloud looks worse than it is. | :07:33. | :08:02. | |
Glitching the extreme south-west overnight. Ahead of it we've got an | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
easterly air flow. That low cloud | :08:10. | :08:10. |