04/01/2017 Points West

Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.

Our main story tonight: Disabled by an accident at work.

Jamie, who was a keen sportsman, has lost a leg and two hands.

Now the community is raising money to help him rebuild his life.

Frome is a great little community in that respect and everyone

does pull together and, as soon as we heard, we knew

we wanted to do something to help, much the same as everybody else.

Our other headlines tonight: Under pressure.

Six hospitals across the West are on the highest alert.

A strain of bird flu is detected at Slimbridge.

Vehicle restrictions are in place to stop contamination.

The actor Joe Sims reports on Concorde as part of our

A father of baby twins, who was electrocuted in a freak

accident in Swindon, has had a third limb amputated

Jamie Mines, who is 33, was working as a scaffolder

when he received a severe electric shock just before Christmas.

Now the community in his home town of Frome have set up a fundraising

campaign to support him and his young family.

A young father, a talented sportsman, a great character.

But life changed for Jamie Mines in an instant and forever.

He was working on this industrial estate in Swindon as a scaffolder

just days before Christmas when, in a freak accident,

He remains in a critical but stable condition in Southmead having now

The initial target was ?10,000, which I think was achieved

within about 24 hours, which is extraordinary.

Friends have set up an internet fundraising page

He and his partner have twins aged just five months.

The timing of such an incident before Christmas is awful and it's

about how it makes people realise that things can change just

Jamie is very strong, fit, healthy young man.

His life is going to change so we all need to be there for him.

Jamie is a strong character and he is a strong guy.

If he comes through it, which he will, hoping that he does,

his two little girls will keep him strong and to pull through it.

Jamie was a talented footballer who played

for a number of local clubs, including Frome Town.

Now they have joined the fundraising campaign.

We are going to do a little collection on Saturday,

which is our first home game since it happened.

But also, we are looking to arrange a day for Jamie

We will have a little football tournament and a fundraiser that day

and support everything else that is going on.

The circumstances of the accident here are unclear but the Health and

Whatever the cause, the outcome is plainly devastating for a young

The fundraising campaign for Jamie is trending. The target is ?100,000.

Six hospitals in the West are tonight struggling to cope

The Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Childrens Hospital,

Southmead and Weston hospitals along with Yeovil in Somerset and the RUH

in Bath are now on the highest possible alert and asking people not

to go to emergency departments unless it's life-threatening.

They're also having to consider cancelling some operations.

Joining us now is one of the people trying to cope with this very

pressurised situation - Dr Peter Goyder, who's the clinical

I know you are on call and very busy. How bad is out there? The

hospital is a very busy at the moment. The numbers they are seeing

are high and the complexity of patients is very high. We have had a

lot of patience in the children's Hospital and people are getting

older and frailer and needing longer lengths of stay, and that has

particularly been more marked in the last week or two. We have always

been expecting a win to squeeze but the weather is still quite mild so

what is going on? I think the weather is extremely cold. It is a

prolonged cold over the last week or so and that has a big impact. We

have also got a lot of other illness is about. If you are older, frailer,

that has a great impact. Are people using the services appropriately?

Most people are the tip we can reduce the pressure on the emergency

departments, if someone has a simple matter the committee managed in the

pharmacy or general practice, it is much better to use it in those ways.

We know that many people will not be able to be seen in primary care but

we know that GPs prioritise sink the urgent need and will always talk to

someone and assess what level they need. Otherwise, there is 111 who

can get you to the right place to see the right people. But what you

do no want is people thinking, I must not bother the doctor, even

though they may have symptoms which are worrying. Absolutely. If someone

has a conditional symptom they are not sure about, talk to family, the

pharmacy, the GP, 111, and through those roots, people will get the

care they need. If someone does have severe breathing difficulties or

chest pains or a significant broken bone, the A departments are the

right place to be, but we can make sure other people are seen in much

more community-based settings where their care can be effectively

managed. Are you saying the conditions this week with these

hospitals on the highest alerts is being made worse by people who do

not really need to be there? Gives examples of people who turn up and

should not be there. An example across the whole system is people

often call 999 and if you have an ambulance tied up with someone who

is not that seriously ill, that is an ambulance less for someone with

chest pains or a stroke. We have patience with infected toenails

going to the A Department only yesterday, and those things should

be managed in primary care. Gosh! Are A departments on high alert

safe places to be? Yes, they are. That is why we have got the

escalation processes to make sure we can get in the right number of

clinicians in the support. It's the first Wednesday of 2017

and you're watching BBC Points West Stay with us too as there's

plenty more still to bring you including: New Year,

new images on BBC One. We meet some of the stars

of the new idents fresh And the skies continue to play this

evening into the night. That will lead to a widespread frost tomorrow

morning. Your weather details at the end of the programme.

A man's been charged with murder in connection

The body of Mohammed Abdurezek was discovered in undergrowth

42-year-old Karl Cullen is accused of killing him and is due before

A second man aged 22 is still being questioned by police.

And in Wiltshire, a 34-year-old man has been charged with arson

and criminal damage in connection with a fire at a primary school.

The fire began at the Avenue in Warminster shortly after 3am

and was extinguished in about an hour.

The children's centre and nursery will be open as usual tomorrow.

Four birds have died of avian flu at the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust

A strain of the virus has been spreading across Europe.

This afternoon, Defra also announced restrictions on all poultry

will remain in place until the end of February.

Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs,

It sounds serious on the face of it and staff are taking it seriously

but there are thousands of birds here on the reserve. Perhaps it is

not unexpected. Staff have been tracking the movement of avian flu

across Europe and they have been outbreaks in Wales and Somerset so

maybe it is not too surprising it has happened here. Over Christmas, a

number of birds died on the reserve. They were sent to laboratories for

analysis and four of them came back to have had the disease. A

relatively small number but there are still a lot of migration due to

happen over the winter so staff watching things very closely here.

At the forefront of their minds is the risk to people not captive birds

and poultry farmers nearby so extra bio-security measures are being

brought in, vehicle restrictions in place as well as disinfectant mats

vehicles have the drive over. The reserve is still open to the public

but there will be extra disinfectant mats for people to walk over and

hand sanitises for people feeding the birds here. But important to say

that Defra have extended their restrictions for poultry owners and

owners of captive birds to how those animals until the end of Bradbury.

Those restrictions were due to end shortly but that has now been

extended until the end of February, also asking owners of those birds to

increase their own bio-security measures because at the forefront of

everyone's minds, difficult to control wild birds but controlling

the spread of the disease amongst captive birds, very important.

They've ranged from a revolving globe to a balloon

We're talking about the idents - the images you see between

Now they've been given a makeover by the acclaimed Bristol documentary

He was asked to capture an evolving portrait of modern Britain

The campaign launched on New Year's Day with the image

of a group of swimmers from Clevedon in North Somerset.

In a moment, we'll be hearing from Martin Parr

but first our reporter, Pam Caulfield, has been

It wasn't a one-off just for the cameras.

This group swim in the sea all year round in all temperatures

It makes you feel well. If you are grumpy and tired, when people come

out today, the difference in their attitude is mentally uplifting and

really good for you. Lovely! Marvellous! Does a marvellous job to

the brain. I get lots of back pain so it really helps me. You get in

there and you cannot feel anything else. It is all about swimming and

being healthy and happy and just loving what we have got here.

At temperatures of 6 degrees, most are out in minutes.

But not this brave lady - the last one in the water!

How do you stay so long and there? Do you get better at it?

The group were chosen because they're so close.

They were filmed in November but didn't know their film would be

New Year 's morning, I woke up with a thick head to find people phoning

me and saying, do you realise you on BBC One? Then it was shown all the

time. I will be swimming for the rest of my life.

While it might be a short moment in the limelight,

it's a snapshot of a hobby that lasts a lifetime.

A little earlier, Martin Parr joined us in the studio to talk to us

I began by asking him how he chose his subjects.

They wanted to start with a new year swim so I came up with this idea of

going to the Cleveland swimmers. I knew what a great group they were

and the BBC liked this. They were very happy to oblige. It is a

massive brief you were given. It it is quite difficult to interpret. The

idea is to show different people who come together for different reasons,

in this case, the swim together, some are work-related. But the idea

is to show people who come together all the way around the UK. We have

done two in and around Bristol and two in Wales and now we're going to

London, North of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the whole of the

UK. We started here and will work our way around the country. We had

the swimming hippos and the kites and the helicopter and they were on

our screens for years and yours is a very different style. Why have

people been saying? I am surprised how big these have become. We say to

people, you will be on the BBC and you suddenly realise, when you watch

the telly, that it is a huge thing. I heard a few of the swimmers

talking this morning on the radio that they were amazed to see

themselves time and time again. These will run for a year. The hippo

has run for 40 years. Certainly this year but they may go beyond that.

Have we seen or the West Country once it? So far, yes. We have done

two. Much as I'd like to do it around Bristol, we do have to share

it. It is rather nice to be included in it! I think you will get an

invitation from the Cleveland swimmers now! I am a bit busy.

Now, as you may have heard, Points West celebrates its 60th

birthday this year and, to mark our diamond anniversary,

we've invited some celebrities with West Country connections

Tonight, we start with the Bristol actor Joe Sims.

Joe is perhaps best known for his role as Nige,

the creepy plumber in the ITV drama Broadchurch.

For us, Joe has been behind the scenes of the new aviation

museum in South Gloucestershire, which will open this summer

with the star attraction - the West's most iconic aircraft,

Concorde thundered across the Bristol skies on a November day back

in 2003. Ready for a final touchdown. The winter weather did

not stop thousands of people turning up to welcome her in. Some risking

life and limb to catch a glimpse of the supersonic jet, a performer to

the end. And since then, she has been waiting patiently on the

tarmac, just a stone 's throw's away from where she was born, waiting for

the next episode of her adventure. She is truly like family. My dad

works on the Olympus engines just over there on Rolls-Royce.

216 was one of 10 Concordes built at Filton in the 1960s and '70s.

It was built by an army of local engineers and designers.

After her first UK flight from Filton to RAF Fairford

Once in operation, the aircraft cruised at more than twice the speed

of sound, flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet.

Passengers lapped up the fine dining and paid thousands

The fleet was eventually grounded over financial and safety concerns.

But although 216's champagne days are over, she is about to be

Later in the year, Concorde is going to be moving here,

where she is going to be the star attraction of Aerospace Bristol,

a ?19 million museum dedicated to the aviation history

When it opens in the summer, this attraction will take

visitors on a journey, from 1910 when Sir George White

turned tram sheds into an aircraft factory in Filton.

Stories about the earliest flight in box kites over the Downs,

the Concorde years, and of course, the latest aerospace technology

will all be captured under one brilliant Bristolian roof.

The museum's taking shape but now an enormous technical

Actually getting Concorde in here is going to be one heck

of a piece of logistics, which means dismantling some

of the building and tarring all the way across the airfield.

She's got to come right into position, because all

the stairs coming off here will be there ready to meet her.

So she has got to get there within about a centimetre or so.

That is the margin for error, a centimetre?

A centimetre here and a metre or so coming in through the building.

You are feeling confident, everything is ready,

I feel like Jim Collins! But first, a little breather. Alan started as

an apprentice in 1975. How did you feel when Concorde was

decommissioned? A bit of sadness or cause I was a Bristol boy, so if

flying over the house. But we have to move forward with the aviation

industry. Thousands of people still work for the aerospace industry in

this part of Bristol and apprentices are looking at new technologies and

how they will propel us into the future. I'm excited to see how the

new materials and star Mark materials or impacts both the

function, design of the plane that also had a passenger interacts with

the plane. There may be changes in store for the passengers on board

the flight and how it might play out for them. All the best for your

career. It's going to be such

a big year for Concorde. Joining us now is actor Joe Sims

and Lloyd Burnell, who's in charge Concorde means a lot to you,

obviously. That in aviation industry is woven into the fabric of

Bristolian life. This was a real hot Marsh to a lifetime's work for a lot

of people. If you were a Bristol kit, you will know an uncle, aunt,

father or mother involved with Concorde. That's right. My own dad

worked on the Olympus engines so it personally gives me pride. So when

you got the chance to do this, was this a first for you? I had never

been an Concorde or ever thought I would get the opportunity. Like a

kid in a sweet shop? Pumps was sweating, I did not know why would

do. But to walk in the same businesses Joe Collins all of these

fancy people. How many selfies? She had two. She did not like to fly out

with anyone, apparently. She was won a apparently. What will it be like?

These things can be dry and dull. What are you doing to make a

standout? There will be a fantastic light and sound show projecting on

the surface of the aircraft so that will be a big thing for when people

come in. As well as all the exhibitions. In the other buildings

we have got, there is all the aviation heritage and learning

centre with immersive technology. It will be a great family attraction.

Has your heart always been in this? Was it before or is this a love

affair that has grown? It is a love affair that has grown with the

determination and steeliness to see this through to its fruition. It

would mean so much to so many people in the Bristol region. Before we go,

what plans have you got this year? Lots of actor type things? I felt

terrible for saying this, but if you chewing on the ITV take GM, you

might see me in Midsummer murders! Is a long part or do you die

quickly? I could not possibly say. I love that show! It is great. Thank

you so much, really great to see you.

Finally tonight, i9t was a bespoke limousine once built

especially for Donald Trump, billionaire businessman and now

President-elect, now owned by a mechanic in Gloucester.

The limo may be 30 years old now but it has all the gadgets

the 80s had to offer, as Tracey Miller has

Designed and made for one of world's most famous billionaires.

And it was actually made for Donald Trump, wasn't it?

When they got made, obviously Donald Trump never ordered the rest,

so there was only actually two, but only one of these Gold Series.

And what is in here, because it is incredible, isn't it?

It's got all sorts of things that you would have been

Besides the safe to keep Donald's cash, there's a TV

A fridge for Donald's ice and a specially designed drink

dispenser that will give you gin, vodka - what ever you fancy,

The limo is now 30 years old and was a wreck

We just got it up together over the last nine years.

And it's just something he loves to keep?

It wasn't bought for any other reason, than he just

I think it's got more sentimental value to him

Yes, it's little piece of history, I think.

I think it's the White House for you.

I think it would have a Twitter button. Better not go there. I said

it was a mild winter but I was corrected by the doctor.

As I mentioned yesterday, the extreme cold will head out towards

the Balkans, Greece and parts of Turkey as we head over the next few

days but for us, we will get a taste of something colder and that will

bring a widespread frost which will be with us tomorrow morning and then

we are in for a beautiful day. Clear blue skies and remaining that way

from start to finish. Here is a wider look at how things are shaping

up. We have had a weak cold front today. You see the blues appearing

on the map. Another northerly flow and plunge of cold air. Not quite as

cold as PM Mass we had early this week but nonetheless, when you reach

for the ice scraper tomorrow morning, you will think it is

identical. For the rest of this evening, the last of any patchy

cloud departing, the sky is continuing to click on the north and

the war widely do so through the course of the night. The frost

extends its reach as the night wears on. The temperatures we expect by

the end of the night will be from -2 to -4, some locations getting down

to minus six. The Hawthorn deposits not as a bun didn't but that does

not mean it will not be a frosty start. But it means there will be

the odd patch of bruising fog around, shallow nature by tomorrow

morning. It will disperse quickly. Through the rest of the day,

beautiful day, light winds, but a sign that through the far west, it

will encroach there and that will become more of a feature as we

continue overnight towards Friday. Temperatures tomorrow in inherently

cold, too -- four Celsius, but the winds will be light, so no

wind-chill. With the sunshine, it should be a pleasant day to be out

and about. Friday, for more abundantly out towards the far east

of the region and hill fog and rain pushing across as it turns milder

from the south-west. It is not look that way into next week. I think

that is the trouble, we have had a bit of everything. It has been mild

in very cold. Anyway, the Trump Mobil is waiting to take us home.

Let us hope it does not crash into any walls

as he explores Naples, Venice and Florence.

It's like we're walking through a giant's armpit.

We can follow the escape route of Michelangelo.

Mildred is our first student from a non-witching family.

'I've got a good feeling about this year.'