16/02/2017 Points West

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

The experiment which went dangerously wrong.

An investigation reveals a university student accidentally

made an explosive chemical used in terror attacks across Europe.

Businesses post Brexit - food firms in the West worry

recruiting staff in the future won't be a piece of cake.

More damage by the wild boar in the Forest of Dean -

the community meets to discuss how to tackle the problem.

Hello, Points West viewers, you all right, my lover 's?

And, yes but no but - Matt Lucas gets a degree

from Bristol University 20 years after he dropped out

An investigation has found a university student accidentally

created the same explosive chemical used in terror

attacks in an experiment which went wrong in the labs.

Buildings were evacuated last week and a controlled explosion

was carried out, after the PhD student mistakenly produced

The university says it's now reviewing its risk assessments.

It is a simple white powder that has become notorious for its use in

home-made bombs. The compound is both highly unstable and highly

explosive. It was an experiment under

controlled conditions that suddenly took

a very serious turn, as a PhD student worked in the labs

at Bristol University. They accidentally created a chemical

favoured by terrorists and used Triacetone triperoxide

is highly explosive. Known as TATP, it was

in the bomb vests used in the terrorist attacks in Paris

and was discovered by Belgian police after arresting suspects

in Brussels too. Professor Sidney Alford

is an expert in chemistry. The three substances necessary for

the creation of TATP need to be present in a pretty large

concentration. I can't imagine what chemical was intended to be produced

if it isn't that one. The university hasn't said

what the experiment two weeks ago The student, they say,

was following a set procedure and that a full risk assessment

had been done first. No-one was injured,

although buildings were A controlled explosion was later

carried out to safely A 36-year-old driver who killed

a cyclist in Stroud as he tried to flee from the police has been

jailed for five years. Gloucester Crown Court heard

Daryl Ackland had no insurance and was travelling at twice the safe

speed limit when he hit 71-year-old He admitted causing death

by dangerous driving. Police investigating a mass brawl

at a pub in Trowbridge say they want help identifying at least two men

who continued to fight The fight broke out

in the Albany Palace bar Officers say about 12

men were also involved in a confrontation afterwards -

outside the Santander Leading firms in the West's

food industry have been voicing their concerns over

what Brexit might The Government is under pressure

to cut levels of immigration Some local companies say this

could mean they can't find enough workers for their production

lines as they rely heavily It might have all the trappings

of being at the heart of government but this is Taunton, not Number 10,

and he's not Theresa May. But it's not stopped the men

from this Ministry - the Ministry of Cake -

from getting involved in politics. They've despatched their biggest

seller, chocolate fudge, to the Prime Minister and Foreign

Secretary, who wrote back. Thank you for your gift of a fudge

cake, it was eating in a flash, from your Foreign Secretary, auris. --

Boris Johnson. That letter and those cakes

were prompted by this. The Ministry of cake, a ?13 million

turnover company, has recently been bought by a French company. It

demonstrates that we can unlock global trade and it demonstrates

that the South West is a terrific place to do business. I absolutely

agree. Top. But while they were being praised

in the Commons as a symbol of economic strength

in the current turbulence, back in Taunton they have real

concerns about the future. One of the fun bits of being in

business is that you receive lemons and you make lemonade. Brexit is a

huge lemon the size of a small tank so we will be making a lot of

lemonade for some time to come. Chris' number-one worry

is access to migrant labour - like Lubo, who's Slovakian -

as he can't fill the 30 vacancies The average British school lever

finds it hard to come and work in a factory and stand at a production

line of the two or three hours at a time, when they can't talk to their

mates or go for a break. They have to be disciplined. I think the UK

food manufacturing and retailing and restaurant trade will be pretty much

decimated. But while some harbour concerns,

others say it's time to wake up A weaker pound might have pushed up

the prices of imports but it's also made British

products cheaper abroad. For this Bristol start-up,

it's given their caffeinated Fundamentally we have had a lot of

export enquiries and we are doing much more international trade and it

is part of our strategy going forward, so that is a good thing,

right, that it makes us consider international trade as part of our

strategy 's? Whether it's coffee or cake,

every business has a different There's no doubt many are unnerved

by the current uncertainty. But those who campaigned to leave

will tell you the future is sweet. Many who backed Remain

still say "you can't It did look delicious. You are

watching BBC points West. If you are off on half term, I hope it is going

well. School next week. Still to come, she

is a swimming star and now you can go to a pool in her name. Welcome to

the Stephanie Millward Pool in Horsham.

And I have been chatting to the comedian Matt Lucas, who is now the

holder of an honorary degree. With growing numbers of rough

sleepers in the region, charities say their resources

are being stretched as they try to help people

turn their lives around. As well as giving people

the skills to find work, building self-esteem is also

crucial, as Julia Causton's This workshop in the middle of Bath,

a place to learn a trade. It is quite difficult to understand

when you are in mainstream society, you have a job, you have purpose

and money is coming in. If you are not and the day starts

with waking up vaguely sometime, very quickly people get

into a routine that's not helpful. But just what does this

sort of scheme offer? It gives you a routine in life,

you get up, do stuff, come down here and meet people,

speak to the general public, and, yeah, gives

you structure in your life. Over in Bristol,

a different type of job. When I was homeless I had no money,

on the streets, had to sign up for the Big Issue,

I had no ID. The foundation has helped me

to get ID and now I've got The Big Issue has been

going for a quarter of a century. It is modelled to make people

salesmen, not beggars. What our guys are doing

is they are making a living, So we would urge that they be viewed

as salesmen, just like any other At the Mayor's house,

people who used to live on the streets are helping make

other people's homes more homely. It is our aim that we help people

to gain real work experience and a feeling of self-worth

so that they are then able to go off Charities like these say

that they do more than just offer Often homelessness can be associated

with a lack of self-esteem, something these organisations say

can be overcome by giving It's the stability in

life and the routine. No uncertainty about where the next

meal comes from and the weather, None of these jobs will make people

rich overnight but for those involved it seems to be the first

step to rebuilding a better life. And tomorrow we'll be finding out

about how businesses are trying The first meeting of a new group

that aims to tackle the issue of wild boar in the Forest of Dean

is about to get under way. In recent months there have been

more reports of the animals moving into urban areas and causing damage

as they search for food. Our Gloucestershire

reporter, Steve Knibbs, is in Bream, where discussions

will soon be under way. Could the meeting in this room the

start to the solution of the boar problem? What used to be some

routing in grass verges has turned into this. This is a football pitch

and an example of where boar are coming into urban areas, rooting

around and causing damage. All of the Councils have been invited to

the discussion about making the boar and asset to the Forest of Dean. You

want it to be an asset but keep them out of urban areas, how do you

achieve that? Hopefully you can make a start just by talking. It is the

first time anybody who is sat down altogether and tried to come up with

a real excuse the talking about the boar. People have been washing their

hands about it. It is time to draw a line under that, we have to get

together with the experts and work it out. Keep the boar in the forest

so that they are and asset to everybody. It has been controversial

and, there has been division in the meetings. We will lose people along

the way, it will be a horribly long road and a tricky one but with

dedication we can do it. This is 2017 and we need to do it for the

sake of everybody in the forest. We can have a look at pictures of wild

boar in the middle of Cinderford. They are tipping up the rubbish

bins, decimating our playing fields. If something isn't done we will have

no playing field, football field or rugby field playable because it will

be that bad. Do you have a solution, an idea? It has to be managed

properly. At the moment it is not. That is what the problem is. People

love them in the town at night apparently but they have been

feeding, that is the problem as well, that brings them in. I suppose

this is a very small step to sorting out a much bigger problem in getting

everybody together. You are in this for the long road? Absolutely. As I

said this is an extremely long road and it will be difficult, there will

be big division, but if we have the same end point and we want to make

these boar... We don't want to eradicate them, they are part of the

forest and we need to manage them well. There is real strength of

feeling in the Forest of Dean on all sides. We will be in the meeting and

give you an update in the late bulletin at 10:30pm.

There's new evidence of the enormous damage done

to the Stonehenge landscape during the 20th century.

Previously unseen pictures have been released of Stonehenge aerodrome,

a huge military base just a few yards from the stone circle.

It was that destruction which first prompted calls to clean

up the area and restore Britain's most famous ancient monument.

If you thought the stones had spent the centuries grouped

like this in open grassland, you'd be wrong.

100 years ago, their peace was shattered by this noisy neighbour.

The Number One School of Aerial Navigation

and Bomb Dropping, training pilots before they were posted

The British Government wanted more bombers in service.

No-one seemed to consider the nearness of the ancient stones.

Where we are standing pretty much is where the main hangars were.

They were facing in the direction of Stonehenge.

By the, you know, mid-1918 was the busy part of the aerodrome.

It was the technical buildings, the main accommodation block

It is straddling the main access route, the main road.

Are there any Americans in, ladies and gentlemen?

Visitors are often amazed to hear about this unexpected layer

Now they're pausing to look back just 100 years,

when dramatic changes here brought the future

The presence of it here in this ancient setting sparked the debate

as to what was an appropriate setting for Stonehenge,

for the stones themselves and the ancient landscape

There were calls for Stonehenge to have a more fitting setting,

and by the early 1930s all of the aerodrome

An official from the time wrote that unless it stood

in solitary grandeur, dominating the bare plain,

Words that will always resonate, as the Stonehenge

landscape is continually, and carefully, re-imagined.

On our Facebook page in response there has been a fantastic picture

put up of Stonehenge around 1900, it is a bit of a mess, gentleman

sitting in the middle of it, but go there.

You learn something every day on this programme.

Swindon Town director of football Tim Sherwood has been charged

for allegedly abusing a match official at Saturday's loss to Bury.

The Football Association claim he used insulting and/or improper

words and behaviour towards a match official around the tunnel

Mr Sherwood has until next Monday to respond to the charge.

There is a name in Wiltshire that is new tonight, the Stephanie Millward

-- pool. Now Stephanie is receiving an MBE.

Imogen is at the pool for us. Good evening. This is the swimming

pool where a young Stephanie Millward used to train for hours in

the morning before school, then home, home work, then back in the

evening for more training, in pursuit of her dream of becoming a

swimming champion. The pool has had a bit of a makeover since then and

today Stephanie was back here to the pool where it all began as a double

Paralympic gold medallist, in the hope of inspiring some young

swimmers of the future. Stephanie Millward

was just ten years old when she started swimming

at Corsham pool. She could never have dreamt that

one day she would be I've been coming here, you know,

6am, for years and years, and now it's not Springfields pool any more,

it's Stephanie Millward pool! She has been honoured not just

because of her huge Paralympic success, two golds at Rio last year,

but also to recognise the huge That is because aged

17 and showing huge promise in the pool

Stephanie was diagnosed Doctors said she would probably

never swim again and would end But, boy, was she determined

to prove them wrong. Nearly 25 years later

she is a Paralympic champion I thought, yeah, I still have

that dream and belief, I I didn't think that 18 years later

I would be standing here with two Everybody knows her,

she is Corsham, and, yes, all of the young people

and the old people, they want her autograph, they want

to see her medals. This is quite a week the Stephanie.

Today it is Corsham for the renaming of the pool, tomorrow it is

Buckingham Palace to receive her MBA. And the Golden girl is enjoying

every minute. Chippenham swimming club are

training hard. Stephanie goes to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to add

MBE to her list of titles. It is along way from the early morning

training here at Corsham pool more than two decades ago.

There were two familiar faces among the students

receiving their degrees from Bristol University

One of them was Don Cameron, the founder of

His company, Cameron Balloons, is now the world's largest

He's now the proud holder of an honorary degree in engineering.

Well, it's a wonderful honour and it was good or so to see all these

young people getting their degrees and making their start in life. I

might have a little glass of something later on, I think, but

most of the celebration has been this wonderful ceremony today.

I wonder if he arrived by balloon! Thousands of students

have been receiving their degrees today,

and among them - the comedian, studied at Bristol University

but left before he So today they made him

a Doctor of Letters. I went along to see one

of Britain's most loved - Thank you for inviting

me here today. Congratulations to all

of you with actual degrees. Graduation ceremonies

are seriously joyful occasions, but today's at Bristol University

was downright funny. Today you bring the entire

university honours Yeah, I'm gay, get

with the programme. Comedian Matt Lucas -

a master of dressing up - donned yet another costume to become

a Doctor of Letters, from a university he

left without a degree. I've been made a Doctor

of Letters by the Bristol But I didn't know that you hadn't

finished your course when you were here at Bristol

University. No, I did two years

at Bristol University and then I left in 1995,

because during my second year I was filming Shooting Stars and it

all sort of blew up, really, so I left with the intention

of just taking one year off. I left with the intention

of taking just one year off He's now working on Doctor

Who, so I asked him, as a Doctor of Letters,

if he fancied the top job. I think that would be impossible,

almost, because I'm a companion already, and I don't think there's

any precedent for anyone being a companion and then

immediately becoming the Doctor. Plus I also think it needs someone

who can do proper acting, and I'm more of an,

erm, an idiot. No, but yeah, but no,

because what happened was right, something you don't

know nothing about. Shut up, I wasn't even supposed

to be anywhere even near there. Meredith came over and started

stirring it all up, started calling me all these things

all about this thing that I always think of Vicky Pollard,

who's now become almost... Yeah, it's always a surprise to me,

but even today, when there's a story about someone with an ASBO

or something like that in the paper, then you will see a picture

of Vicky Pollard next to them, And on the stage here today

we had some professor, a very learned man,

saying yeah but no but. I'm a Doctor of Letters but I'm not

supposed to use the title Doctor Matthew Lucas,

but I am going to, and as I mentioned in my speech

I might just open up a general Once you get famous there's this

odd thing that happens, which is people laugh even

when you're not really You just say hello,

people go...ha-ha-ha! And so sometimes if I'm annoyed

about something, you know, if I complain in a restaurant that

I've been waiting half an hour for my food, I say,

I'm sorry, is the food coming? Like that, because they

just think I'm joking. It's almost a bit of a curse,

because when you're in a bad mood people just think you're

playing it up. Well, Doctor Matt Lucas,

it's been lovely talking to you. Thank you very much, and if you'd

like to have an examination then He was a nice man and he had time

for everybody there. Now, just before we go

to the weather, just take a look at the Vale Wildlife Hospital

in Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. It's very late for hedgehogs to be

born - and this baby was abandoned by its mother as she couldn't

look after it. It's just ten weeks old -

its eyes are even still closed. It is getting closer to the weekend

so let's catch up with the weather. Ian is on the roof with our

forecast. Good evening, everybody. Let's take

you through the expectations for the next 12, 24 hours. Another mild day

tomorrow, dry until perhaps late in the evening there might be some

light patchy rain creeping in from the west. The key query mark will be

the balance between brightness and any wet weather. It will probably be

a mixture of the two. -- brightness and any cloud. This will rotate

round to more north- south orientated. It will lead us into

tomorrow with a mixture of cloud, some brightness, ahead of another

system trying to squeeze in from the west which could bring patchy rain

by the tail end of tomorrow. This evening, for northern areas, expect

periods of patchy rain. Some fog forming in places as well and

equally some areas of low cloud. Temperatures broadly in the rain of

four to seven Celsius by first light and we will start the day with dry

conditions. We expect a slice through the middle of the week and

of somewhat right weather. I wouldn't take the position of it too

literally but it will be competing both East and west with areas of

more extensive clouds. Towards the evening a sprinkling of wet weather

creeping in but until then it should have been dry with light winds and

it will be mild, temperatures from nine to 12 Celsius, while two spots

up to 13. In the weekend the balances towards a lot of dry

weather, Saturday and Sunday. There might decent patchy rain at times

but otherwise a midst of varying cloud, some brighter spells. Mild

underpinnings continuing through the weekend. There may well be cold

phase developing later next week, we will keep an eye on that for you.

Right, I think you have your appointment with Doctor Lucas now

for your examination. Don't go there! Otherwise we will

see you tomorrow, have a good evening.

Two challenges await you today, and our genre is Landscape.

The conditions are a wee bit challenging.

I've really got to convince the judges

It's colourful - but it was meant to be muted.

From this point, it's band versus band.