23/09/2014 BBC Points West

Welcome to Points West and Spotlight. We've joined togdther

this evening due to technic`l problems in Plymouth. Our m`in story

tonight: The new lead in thd investigation of a murdered Swindon

woman. Becky Godden's body was discovered

in a Gloucestershire field three years ago. She had been missing for

nearly a decade. Also in thd programme: Angry reaction to calls

for a summertime curfew on caravans on the roads. People power `

are introduced. And what makes the perfect Dick Whittington? Wd're

backstage as two pantos go head`to`head.

Sub at the BBC in Plymouth so please stay with us please. `` There is a

power failure. First tonight: Detectives

investigating the murder of Swindon woman Becky Godden, also known as

Becky Godden`Edwards, say they're making significant progress in

solving the case. Officers today appealed for help to trace ` car

that they say was used in the crime but has been missing since 2004

Becky was last seen alive in 20 2. Her body was found more than eight

years later in Gloucestershhre. Our Wiltshire reporter Will Glennon has

been following developments. She was an amazing child of school

`` at school and a top of the class all the time.

found, but still no`one has faced justice for her murder.

It is so unjust that somebody who murdered her has got away whth it.

Becky had fallen into drugs and by 2003 she'd lost touch with her

family. It's around then police belheve she

was murdered. Her body was found in a field near

Eastleach in Gloucestershird in March 2011.

Detectives were led there at the time by Swindon taxi driver

Christopher Halliwell. He'd already admitted killing Sian

O'Callaghan, but he couldn't be charged in court with Becky's

killing because police had breached arrest guidelines.

So, could this car hold the key to confirming the identity of the

On Points West and Spotlight: The police search which could be

connected to the murder of ` Swindon woman last seen alive 12 ye`rs ago.

And calls for a daytime curfew on caravans on the regions roads.

have all the details for yot at 6.30.

In Points West and Spotlight tonight: The Bristol residents

standing firm as the lines `re drawn in the battle for residents parking

zones. And new figures show the extent of the cost of keeping people

in emergency accommodation. The details coming up at 6.30.

Welcome to Points West and Spotlight. We've joined togdther

this evening due to technic`l problems in Plymouth. Our m`in story

tonight: The new lead in thd investigation of a murdered Swindon

woman. Becky Godden's body was discovered

in a Gloucestershire field three years ago. She had been missing for

nearly a decade. Also in thd programme: Angry reaction to calls

for a summertime curfew on caravans on the roads. People power `

residents in Bristol stand their ground as new parking zones become

are introduced. And what makes the perfect Dick Whittington? Wd're

backstage as two pantos go head`to`head.

Sub at the BBC in Plymouth so please stay with us please. `` There is a

First tonight: Detectives investigating the murder of Swindon

woman Becky Godden, also known as Becky Godden`Edwards, say they're

making significant progress in solving the case. Officers today

appealed for help to trace ` car that they say was used in the crime

but has been missing since 2004 Becky was last seen alive in 20 2.

Her body was found more than eight years later in Gloucestershhre. Our

Wiltshire reporter Will Glennon has been following developments.

For Karen Edwards the pain of losing her daughter Becky, is still with

She was an amazing child of school `` at school and a top of the class

found, but still no`one has faced justice for her murder.

It is so unjust that somebody who murdered her has got away whth it.

Becky had fallen into drugs and by 2003 she'd lost touch with her

family. It's around then police belheve she

was murdered. Her body was found in a field near

Eastleach in Gloucestershird in March 2011.

Detectives were led there at the time by Swindon taxi driver

Christopher Halliwell. He'd already admitted killing Sian

O'Callaghan, but he couldn't be charged in court with Becky's

killing because police had breached arrest guidelines.

So, could this car hold the key to confirming the identity of the

person who murdered Becky? A silver Volvo S80 saloon that's not

been seen since 2004. Wiltshire police want to find it.

I'm appealing for members of the public to come forward in rdlation

to help him each raised a silver Volvo, the

registration is T661 LGP. I do not know what has happened to it, we

can't find it. I want peopld to come forward if they have any

information. Can you find it? The trail

has gone cold. In 2004 it w`s sold at auction to an Irish man who has

no connection with this investigation, so we do not know

what happened to it. Certainly, the national records are not assisting

us, so I'm appealing to the public. If you know it is, work if xou have

had it scrapped, please comd forward.

There have been other breakthroughs. Earlier this year

another bone belonging to Bdcky was found in Gloucestershire.

Police are also analysing a large number of items found when they

searched a pond near Ramsbury. What they hope now is that this

Volvo can be recovered and that vital evidence lies within.

With a team of 20 officers still working on the case, they s`y they

An inquest's heard that a shmple error may have led to the ddath of a

motorcyclist on a railway lhne in Gloucestershire. Paul Martin, who'd

been scrambling on bikes with two friends, was hit by a train at the

Frampton Mansell level crossing in May. His pregnant wife, Lorna,

described him as her "entird everything". The inquest was told

that if the men had phoned signallers, they'd would have been

warned about the train. The coroner recorded a verdict of acciddntal

death. Well, let us remind xou of when it happened. It was Sunday May

the 11th when what should have been `

pleasurable day turned to tragedy. In court today was the family Paul

Martin including his parents and is heavily pregnant wife. At the time,

she described Paul as my entire everything and said he was `ssaulted

with their son and their chhld to be. In court today, we had ` variety

of evidence, written statemdnts from Paul Martin's best friend, ht said

they had grown up together `nd could what does not wait get started their

right. Other evidence came from another man on the right who said he

was happy to go along. Giving evidence in person, John Wilson from

British Transport Police sahd he was satisfied the train driver had done

everything he could to try `nd avoid the incident. He also said the group

made one fatal mistake and that was that they did not phone signallers

in Gloucester who would havd alerted them to the fact the train was

coming. So the coroner said that Paul Martin had multiple injuries

consistent with being hit bx a train and recorded a verdict of accidental

A proposal from one of the South West's business leaders for caravans

to face a daytime curfew on the roads in the summertime has prompted

an angry reaction. John Gregory who runs a major haulage firm, says

during July and August caravans should only be allowed to travel

between 6pm and 6am. Simon Hall reports.

Residents of a street in Brhstol have blocked off their road with

wheelie bins and household furniture, to stop the council

painting in a new parking zone. The scheme could see households charged

up to ?72 a year to park outside their houses. But people on Morgan

Street say they didn't ask for it, and are refusing to budge. @ndrew

Plant reports. Behind a barricade of bins ` handful

of residentsare ready to st`nd their ground. As contractors arrived at

Morgan Street in St Paul's this morning,

Their plan to paint parking zones here was stopped by a computer on

top of a microwave and some hasty homemade signs.

Neighbouring streets saw no similar demonstrations of people power.

Workmen painted in the zones this morning, which mean people living

here buy a permit to park.Something the Morgan Street movement say they

can do anyway. It's not the first Parking Zone row

in Bristol. The scheme's proved deeply unpopular with some. These

protesters drove a tank through the town centre in the summer.

But others, of course, are strongly in favour of the new zones. In a

statement today the council said: "We respect the right of thd local

residents to have their say. We carried out consultation in the area

the interests of all those living and working in the area."

And they added: "Our contractors are currently

continuing work in St Paul's, but will not be working in Morg`n Street

today." Which suggests they might try their luck tomorrow.

Something tells me they won't be made welcome. But what about

tomorrow? No`one thinks the residents can keep

this up forever. but life wont be easy for anyone painting thdse roads

You're watching Alex Lovell and Sabet Choudhury with a spechal

programme bringing together Spotlight and Points West. Xes `

technical problems mean we're all together this evening ` and you re

most welcome. Coming up a lhttle later.

A woman whose mother has delentia has been speaking to the BBC about

her decision to take Devon County Council to court. Maureen Bdauchamp

is angry that the council h`s decided to close 20 care holes.

She's launched a judicial rdview on behalf of her 94`year`old mother,

funded by legal aid. The cotncil's had to put its closure plans on

100 kilos of cocaine have bden seized at Plymouth ferryport. The

drug ` thought to be worth lillions of pounds ` was discovered hn a

lorry carrying orange juice, which arrived from Santander in northern

Spain. A man from the Manchdster area has been arrested and bailed.

There've still been no arrests for the murder of Jersey man David

Miller and Hannah Witheridgd from Norfolk. Their bodies were found

with severe head injuries jtst over a week ago on the island of Koh Tao

in Thailand. David met Hann`h on the island whilst travelling. Thai

police have released this CCTV footage showing Mr Miller w`lking

alone hours before he died. His father believes he was attelpting to

save Hannah. Her friends have paid tribute to him today.

Figures show it has cost millions of pounds to keep people across the

south west in emergency "bed and breakfast" accommodation since 010.

Councils have a legal duty to house people who find themselves homeless,

and sometimes a lack of suitable housing means the only option is a

B Tamsin Melville reports from Cornwall.

Welcome again to viewers who normally get Spotlight at this time

You're watching Alex Lovell and Sabet Choudhury with a spechal

programme bringing together Spotlight and Points West. Xes `

technical problems mean we're all together this evening ` and you re

most welcome. Coming up a lhttle later.

A woman whose mother has delentia has been speaking to the BBC about

her decision to take Devon County Council to court. Maureen Bdauchamp

is angry that the council h`s decided to close 20 care holes.

She's launched a judicial rdview on behalf of her 94`year`old mother,

funded by legal aid. The cotncil's had to put its closure plans on

Hopefully they will look at what they are doing and they do not have

the right just to move them and get them suddenly up and out. Some

people have nobody to fight their cars and I am prepared to fhght

Devon County Council aims to save 10.7 million pounds by closhng its

homes. It plans to keep to specialist dementia centres in

Torrington at Newton Abbot. The facilities are first`rate. This home

gets as many points as the one that they are keeping open. Some

relatives I have spoken to have welcomed the action and are pleased

that the closure programme hs on hold at one union is taking a more

cautious approach. I am verx concerned for the families `nd the

residents of the homes who no longer know what is happening becatse

everything is in limbo. As ` trade union we are very concerned about

our staff. Three care homes have already closed and 100 residents

have been moved to stop Devon County Council say they will not comment on

the legal challenge but say they have lodged an appeal and expected

here the outcome shortly. ``expect to hear.

100 kilos of cocaine have bden seized at Plymouth ferryport. The

drug ` thought to be worth lillions of pounds ` was discovered hn a

lorry carrying orange juice, which arrived from Santander in northern

Spain. A man from the Manchdster area has been arrested and bailed.

There have still been no arrests for the murder of Jersey man David

Miller and Hannah Witheridgd from Norfolk. Their bodies were found

with severe head injuries jtst over a week ago on the island of Koh Tao

in Thailand. David met Hann`h on the island whilst travelling. Thai

police have released this CCTV footage showing Mr Miller w`lking

alone hours before he died. His father believes he was attelpting to

save Hannah. Her friends have paid tribute to him today.

He was obviously a really nhce guy and obviously smitten by Hannah

because he would not be? Anxone of us would try to step in if something

was happening her. Figures show it has cost millions of

pounds to keep people across the south west in emergency bed and

breakfast accommodation since 2 10. Councils have a legal duty to house

people who find themselves homeless, and sometimes a lack of suitable

housing means the only option is a B Tamsin Melville reports from

Cornwall. Cornwall Council has a legal duty to

house people like these who find themselves with nowhere to live In

the past four years at nearly ? million has been paid to

bed`and`breakfast when it is no other option. The bulk of the bill

is covered by housing benefht. It has been used to fill a gap because

we do not just have enough provision in the county to accommodatd

everybody in the private rented sector and we are working h`rd to

build up a catalogue of suitable properties and when they ard

available we make good use of them. That is not always the right

property in the right place which is sometimes a problem. She is now in

temporary accommodation but the children in school are at C`mborne.

I think there are better waxs to go about it. Why not just build more

temporary accommodation likd this and they have two? Although this is

not ideal as is better than being in a bed`and`breakfast with three young

children and paying all that money for cereal and toast. Spendhng for

emergency bed`and`breakfast has gone down in Cornwall since 2011 is a big

efforts are made to get people in crisis into private rented

accommodation instead. But the problems do not end there. There are

over 27,000 on the housing register and anybody who goes into tdmporary

accommodation will be able to go on to the register and then it is a

case of finding the right accommodation and we are colmitted

to finding as many affordable homes as we can in the next four xears.

She would like to live somewhere more permanent by Christmas but is

not holding out a great deal of hope.

Welcome again to viewers who normally get Spotlight at this time

of day. Do stay with us, we'll have a bumper weather forecast for all of

Bosses at Imperial Tobacco hn Bristol have left gasping after

Labour's pledge to tax their profits to help fund the NHS.

The promise was announced bx the Labour leader Ed Miliband at the

party conference today. The industry employs hundreds of

people in Bristol and much of the city's wealth was founded on

tobacco. David is at the conference hn

Good evening ` Ed Miliband told the conference that his job intdrview

with the British public has just begun.

If he's to get that top job he will have to convince tens of thousands

of voters in the west to trtst him ` and his six`point plan.

the country is still skint? Well, taxing Imperial Tobacco in

Bristol and others like it ` was one idea.

We will raise taxes from thd tobacco industry who make profits on

ill`health. The problem is that so calldd "sin

taxes" impact ` on the poor ` a point I made to the Labour LP Dawn

Primarolo. The tax is already very high and

cigarettes and we quite rightly discouraging people to smokd but I

think it is fit enough to consider and I think a lot of people will

support it. Is Ed Miliband the man for the job? Yes he is and hf you

look at how the Labour Partx has changed we have changed our policy

to involve our members. Of course he is prime ministerial materi`l and he

will be able to make sure that the people of Bristol who want lore say

on public transport in the city will get that power. People in Bristol

who want more say in how we sort out our housing crisis will get more

power, but also all the people will understand that there are some

decisions you have to take nationally. We have been asking some

people on the streets of Kingswood if they think Ed Miliband as a

future Prime Minister. They are a little bit in crisis and I do not

think Ed Miliband are reallx gets over their point of view very

strongly. I personally do not think is the man to lead the Labotr Party

and I do not think he is strong enough. I have voted Labour all my

life so I do not see why should change now. Those views werd

recorded before the party ldader made his speech.

I am joined by our political editor Paul Barltrop. Paul, he spoke of

more devolution for England ` we will come on to that ` but first

It is one of the main functhons of the confidence to send them away

with a spring in their step and in the hall they loved it. There were

only a few jokes Ed Miliband that he got several standing ovations,

especially for the NHS so ldtters `` lets get the view of a young

activist. He is the youngest candidate in the country. It was

what we needed before the election and I think it was really wdll

delivered and I thought it was fantastic. One very happy young man.

Mr Miller band also talked `bout devolution. This is very important

to us in the West Country in the light of what happened in Scotland.

What was your take on that? He wants to make sure that Labour is not seen

as an anti`English barking. They will not put forward concrete cup

proposals `` concrete proposals that there will be big regions stch as

the city of Bristol and Somdrset and Gloucester running their own affairs

but that is the kind of thing that is most easily said in opposition

and not often said in government. Tomorrow we hope to talk to Mr

Miller band but I will say goodbye for now. ``Mr Miliband.

It's been sitting derelict on Weston`super`Mare's sea front for

the past 14 years, but this evening, a decision will be taken whhch could

bring the Tropicana back to life. If councillors support the

I have in my hand a piece of paper. It is from Somerset

Council and says the Tropicana will soon be back in

Business. The people of Western Avenue had all before. Not `gain. We

are fed up with hearing it. Plans to redevelop the Tropicana havd

collapsed again today. What is new this time? This is a short`term plan

costing three quarters of ?0 million of council money. To open up the

doors and a few cafes and ghve the place a lick of paint.

I asked the council in charge if this w`s a

patch`up job? No,it's not a patch`up job. We're

doing bring the refurbishment to light And

that building back into use. Doesn't prevent future development

by Trop Trust or anybody else who comes along with a viable scheme.

Trop Trust was mentioned thdre. It is a group of local business people

in Western who want to restore this to its former glory. Here is one.

Hopefully it is the end of the battle. Tonight might just be the

time both sides in this long`running story live happily ever aftdr. We

will have the result from the council vote in our news at ten

o'clock. Two of the biggest theatres in the

south west unveiled their p`nto line`ups today. And it turns out

that the Bristol Hippodrome and the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon are both

staging Dick Whittington. Btt which will have the audience laughing in

the aisles? Fiona Lamdin and Michelle Ruminski have been finding

out. We may be in balmy September and

Christmas may feel like a vdry long way off, but can you believd we seem

to already be in the panto season? And as you can see behind md, the

countdown is on for the ulthmate some of the line up ` Britahn's Got

Talent Winners Ashleigh and Pudsey` Ben Faulks otherwise know as Mr

Bloom from Cbeebies is playhng Dick` so clearly Bristol is the bdst,

isn't it? Oh, no, it isn't! Here in Swindon we have Nigdl Haver

's and pantomime favourite David Ashley. And we have more musical

numbers than even Dick Whittington can shake a stick at. I would say

that the pantomime of Bristol is the best in the South West becatse we

have a 3`D underwater sequence. We have special effects claw. Dvery

audience member in Swindon gets an intimate experience and I h`ve a

very good thigh slap. Bristol does not just have a cat but also the

most famous dog in the country. I am Ashley and this is Patsy and we re

standing in the only panto with the dancing dog. `` Ashleigh and this is

Pudsey. I am going to be thd most evil Came Rat and my most f`vourite

thing is to scare children to death. Whether you fancy Bristol Swindon

either is going to be paved with gold. `` King Rat.

Now here's Alina Jenkins with the weather for the whole of thd West

If you have a garden as dry as mine you might be pleased with this

forecast because that is little bit of rain in it. This frontal system

has slowly been pushing its way south`eastwards. You can sed this

bank of cloud connected to the front and ahead of it there will still be

some good spells of sunshind for us and the south`west.

Not everybody will see the rain but we will notice as the night goes on

that the window starts to phck up a little bit. With the cloud `nd the

way and it will be a much mhlder night with temperatures in towns and

cities being 17 Celsius or 08 Celsius. It will be a very dull

start tomorrow morning and the rain could still be on the heavy side

towards Dorset and Wiltshird but towards the later part of the day it

will be warm although the strength of the wind will be more brhsker

than we have seen in recent days. Some fine weather across thd Scilly

Isles will extend into Cornwall and there will be some breaks in the

cloud. Temperatures will respond quite nicely up to 18 or evdn 1

Celsius. It will be a fine `fternoon after a fairly dull and damp start.

Here is the insurer what ard forecast which covers from Lyme

Regis. ``inshore waterforec`st. . There will be quite a bit of cloud

around on Thursday morning `nd still noticeable breeze on high ground and

along the course. 18 or 19 Celsius will be above average for the time

of year. There will be quitd a bit of cloud on Friday but it whll still

be predominantly dry and thd wind will start to ease down. Thd wind

will ease down all the whild so some fine weather on the cards. We are

back with you at the Ten O'Clock News and until then we