06/03/2017 Points West

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

a politician with the wind in his sails.

No, no, I'm never going to answer any questions from you.

when asked about his involvement with a possible wind farm.

I've been trying to find out whether the Ukip deputy chairman had not

been telling the truth. The fantasy life of

a highly paid health boss, he lied about

his qualifications. How clean is the air we all breathe?

Is there anything we can do about it, stay tuned to find out more.

the deer trapped on the allotments, but they're not short of food.

The BBC can reveal the deputy chairman of Ukip lied publicly

about his part in a proposed wind farm.

was personally involved in negotiating a deal

which could have earned his family ?100,000.

But in a television interview back in 2014, he denied any involvement.

Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop.

It's not a subject he likes talking about.

This was May 2014, and I was trying to find out

about a wind farm proposed for land he used to own.

William Dartmouth was at the BBC for a recording

of the Sunday Politics West, during which he was questioned.

And did you know that land might be used as a wind farm?

His party is totally against onshore wind farms.

Here's how Ukip's former leader put it.

It's very, very good for rich people.

If you're a landowner and you get ?1,000 a day

for putting wind turbines on your land, isn't that great?!

To get to the truth, I went to Slaithwaite Moor in Yorkshire.

The deal to put up wind turbines on this site

was agreed in May 2011, just three months after

William Dartmouth had given ownership to a relative.

Yet it turns out negotiations over the wind farm

I met the chairman of the wind farm co-operative.

He had face-to-face meetings with William Dartmouth.

I talked to Lord Dartmouth, I went down on behalf

and he was very co-operative, keen to help us if he could.

A substantial rent would have been paid.

For this kind of area, and you know, I can't give specific details

for this one still, but you might expect

?50-100,000 per year for the sort of development you're looking at.

The revelations have been seized upon by political rivals.

It seems that there's clear evidence that Dartmouth

has behaved dishonestly, and we expect higher standards

from our elected politicians, but it also does smacks of hypocrisy

because he had these conversations about potentially benefiting

from a wind farm development in spite of the fact that that

In a statement, William Dartmouth admits his involvement.

He says his views about wind farms changed to opposing them,

but it would not have been right to let down a local co-operative.

it's not known what action he'll take.

Well, Paul joins us now in the studio.

Paul, what is likely to happen as a result of these revelations?

We heard the statement, anything else from Lord Dartmouth? One very

long statement all about the wind farm, which, as he points out, was

never in fact built, but he says that he was ambushed back in 2014

when he came to the studios and bounced into dealing with a

complicated issue extending back several years. He talks about their

having been a misunderstanding, but he doesn't say what that is. What

are the obligations for him? We have been talking to Ukip since the end

of last week, the party leader has been informed. The impression I get

is that they are waiting to see just how bad it gets, how far up this

goes, how wide the publicity actually it garners, and then they

will take a decision. They have refused to say whether the leader

will take any action, if there is disciplinary action to be taken. It

comes at a tricky time for Ukip. Very difficult time indeed, they

have that by-election in Stoke not long ago, which was a big

disappointment for Ukip, and of course we then had a leadership

contest last autumn, which was, to put it mildly, rather farcical, and

then we have elections coming up, the local elections in May, very big

test for them, and it comes against a backdrop of rather falling

membership. They know that they have got to put up a good performance in

May and they are going to show that they are a force to be reckoned with

and a permanent feature in British politics. Paul, thank you.

Police say four people were stabbed in a fight

Emergency services were called to the Analog nightclub

on Queen's Road early on Saturday morning.

Several people sustained injuries - none of them were life-threatening.

Officers are appealing for information.

A nurse has been struck off after she was found to

have accidentally caused the death of a ten-year-old girl

Phoebe Willis, who had a long-term medical condition,

died 48 hours after Carrie-Anne Nash inserted a feeding tube

at Weston General Hospital incorrectly and with force.

Nash resigned from her position in 2013.

Today, a misconduct hearing concluded that her actions fell

significantly short of the standards expected of a registered nurse.

The police have been asked to investigate allegations

described as electoral fraud in Bristol.

A former mayoral candidate is claiming

that senior officers at the city council

misled councillors prior to last year's mayoral election.

A report last month said Councillors unwittingly passed a budget in 2016

that failed to include provision for a ?29 million deficit.

The council says it has been open and transparent

The former chief executive of a hospice in Somerset

has been jailed for two years, after admitting he lied

about his qualifications to land the prestige job.

Exeter Crown Court was told Jon Andrewes

earned more than ?1 million over ten years.

Our Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers has the story.

A pillar of local society - well respected, trusted.

But today, head down, Jon Andrewes appeared

at Exeter Crown Court exposed as a fraudster,

or as the prosecution described him, a Walter Mitty character.

For ten years from 2005, Jon Andrewes was chief executive

here at St Margaret's Hospice in Taunton.

During that time, he earned in excess of ?1 million.

But he lied about his qualifications to get this job,

and later two other senior positions within the NHS in Devon.

He even invented a PhD so he could call himself Dr Andrewes.

All untrue, and it amounted to criminal dishonesty.

Yet, in court today, his defence team described

his time at the hospice as an outstanding success.

Did you have any reason to doubt him?

say they checked his credentials at the time he was appointed.

Trustees at the time would have undertaken relevant checks,

they would have looked at his references,

they would have looked at his CV, and they would have looked

at the qualifications that he presented with,

and to all intents and purposes, they took that in good faith.

Andrewes admitted two charges of fraud

and one of obtaining financial advantage by deception.

This afternoon, a lawyer told the BBC any lie on a CV

can potentially land you in criminal hot water.

If somebody is going to rely upon that information

and give you the advantage over somebody else,

then, yes, you are potentially guilty of an offence.

As chief executive of the hospice, Andrewes shared

photo opportunities with MPs and other local dignitaries.

Tonight, though, he begins a two-year jail sentence,

"Your outwardly prestigious life was based on a lie,

You are watching BBC Points West, it is Monday evening, and Alex is back

with us! Thank you for choosing

to start your week with us. we've got lots more still

to bring you, including... Bumping along the bottom,

a bad result for Bristol Rugby, but their head coach

is still optimistic. The allotments which have come home

to two very well fed, clearly vegetarian deer, but now the plot

holders here are saying to their four-legged friends, the party is

over. Next, how clean is

the air we breathe? You might think living

here in the West, All this week,

the BBC is taking a closer look With experts saying that

in some places, it's so bad just going outside

can be harmful to our health. Laura Jones is in the thick of it

for us this evening. Laura, where are you? David, I am

right in the centre of Bristol, and it is probable in the best place to

get some fresh air next to this busy road. As you imagine, just after

rush-hour, the air quality is not great. The bad news is it is not

that great at other times either. In fact, this city, the green capital,

two years ago, is failing pretty miserably when it comes to the air

quality that we breathe in day in, day out. The rest of the West is a

bit better, Bath is pretty bad, I should add, but it really does

matter, because breathing dead here is really harmful to our health. For

people of all ages, but the people who are really suffering are our

children, with some experts saying on Sundays things are so bad in this

city that just going out to play can be harmful to their health.

School's out, and time to let off some steam.

because this afternoon this street in Bristol is closed to cars.

They try to do it once a week so that children living

Of course, closing the road means the children are safer and

there's more space for them to play, but it is also hoped that,

by doing so, the air they are breathing in whilst

This is an air-quality monitor we've brought with us

It measures how much nitrogen dioxide

and how many minute particles there are in the air.

Will closing the road make a difference? I'm curious to see what

the monitor says, I don't know, but I imagine there should be a

difference. Even closing the road for an hour makes people think about

whether aren't they need to get in their car if they are just going to

the shops, do they need to get in the car? Even that is going to make

a difference with air pollution. In fact, for the two hours

this road was closed, the air was the cleanest

it had been all week. In technical terms,

there were just nine micrograms of nitrogen dioxide

per cubic metre. When it reopened, that figure

jumped to more than 50. Of course, our results are not

scientifically proven and are not conclusive, but experts are worried

about our children's health. Going outside in air pollution

when you have asthma or other chest If you want to then play,

you breathe a bit harder and breathe So both exposure

in highly polluted areas as well as activity in those areas

gives you a double hit. ARCHIVE: Fog, the longest

and thickest on record, brings Britain its darkest days

since the blackout... Over the years, the quality

of the air has changed. In some ways, it's better than it

used to, but in other ways Here in the West two of our largest

cities regularly break WHO guidelines. The levels of air

pollution in UK cities and worldwide would suggest it is a major issue,

and certainly it has a strong effect on our health, and everybody's

health, we all have to breathe air, and so, yes, I think we should

really be calling for something to be done to reduce levels of air

pollution globally and locally. As with all conflicts problems, there

are no easy answers, but what we do know from our fairly simply stick

measurements here is that even small, very localised actions can

have a big impact on the quality of the air we breathe. Laura Jones, BBC

Points West, Bristol. Well, one European city

which is beating the battle against air pollution

is the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Earlier, I spoke with

Kare Press-Kristensen, a senior advisor on air quality

with rhe Danish Ecological Council. I asked how much better

the air had become in Copenhagen. Well, we really managed

to decrease air pollution quite a bit in Copenhagen,

it's much better today So what were the main methods

that you used that perhaps like Bristol

or Bath could employ? We did several things -

we introduced district heating for all homes in Copenhagen,

we promoted bicycling, to have more and more people

using a bicycle instead of cars. And then of course we improved

public transport, and thereby we limited

the number of private cars. What was this idea that you said

about district heating? Yes, we used large plants in Denmark

producing electricity, and you can't then convert

all the energy in the biomass to electricity, lots of waste heat

is produced, and that waste heat, in Denmark, is used to heat up

houses, and thereby we managed to increase the efficiency

of our power plants So it was actually doubling

the efficiency of the power plants using district heating, and thereby

making the waste heat useful instead of just dumping

it into the sea. Interesting - there's lots

to think about, of course. When you were first introducing

some of these ideas, did you find

there was much resistance? Well, of course, in the beginning,

when you want to make a change, there's always resistance,

because people know what they've got, and they don't know

what they're going to get. But after some time, people get used

to using the bicycle, they get used to all the bicycles

in the city, and the car owners still on the streets, they realise

it's great for them as well, because when more people bike,

we have less congestion. Though it's great for the people

choosing the bicycle, free exercise, and avoiding congestion,

and there's more space for the cars, more parking space for the cars,

so everybody is actually happy. Well, obviously something

any city would strive for. Kare Press-Kristensen,

thank you for joining us. And on tonight's Inside Out West,

Seb will be looking at the quality of air in Bath, with some surprising

results, that's on BBC1 at 7:30. There is a good old discussion about

it on Facebook as well if you want to have a look at that. Yes, do,

won't you? One of the region's most

successful breweries is making a multimillion-pound investment

in the business. St Austell Brewery, which bought

Bath Ales in Warmley last year, are planning to double the

brewing capacity at the site with Work on the Hare Brewery

will get under way in September and is hoped to have the most

technologically-advanced Bristol Rugby's chances

of avoiding relegation are looking bleak

after their defeat yesterday. says they haven't given

up hope of staying up. had given supporters a new hope

of avoiding the drop. This game was the chance

to move off the bottom. Come on, Bristol!

Come on, Bris! Two years ago,

Worcester was the scene of Bristol's painful

last-minute play-off defeat. This time, they were undone

in the first minute. A player sin binned

and a penalty try conceded By half-time,

Worcester had scored three more. The second half was better,

as Bristol closed the gap - But even that was extinguished

by another mistake, leaving Bristol deflated

and their fans fearing the worst. It's going to be pretty tough

for them to get many points out So yeah, you do fear

they probably have. It's always possible

when we still have points, At least we know where we stand now.

Going down! We let our fans down,

and we let the supporters down. It is disappointing,

but there is no way until it is mathematically

impossible to stay up. And come the Gloucester game,

we'll be fighting for every inch. Three Bristol's remaining five games

are against title contenders. may not be enough to prevent

a return the Championship. A former plasterer from Somerset

says he's over the moon to have won the biggest fight of his new

mixed martial arts career so far. Mark Godbeer from Bridgwater scored

a unanimous judges' decision at the Ultimate Fighting

Championship 209 event in Las Vegas. There was a couple of times I could

have had the guy finished but, you know, I stayed calm, I got the win,

I took at the distance, the first fight I have been to the distance, I

got the win and I am in happy, in Vegas as well, so really happy with

that. Despite the win, Godbeer still feels

he could have done better and says he's getting straight back

into training to make improvements. 209? I'm not actually sure.

Let's return to a story we touched on last week.

Allotment holders near Bristol say they're planning to try

to help two deer that have become trapped on their plots to escape.

The animals have been stuck since a new fence was put up

Scott Ellis is at the allotments for us tonight.

Hi, Scott. Good evening, yes, there is this

eight foot high fence around the allotments here, put up as part of

the Metrobus works by the M32 just beside us, and it has trapped two

deer within the allotments. Now, Metrobus, Bristol City council, the

landowners, many groups are saying to the plot holders, leave the gates

open and the deer will leave when they want to, but the gates have

been open for quite a long time now, and it would appear the two deer are

very happy being here. The plot holders are getting a little bit

impatient, the plan is to try and remove the deer this weekend.

Strawberry plants stripped, cabbages consumed,

At first, growers didn't know what had hit them -

until this on-plot camera caught them in the act.

Everybody I knew was saying that last year was a bad year for crop

and we were going, "Why should it have been?"

It turns out we've got vandals, four-legged vandals roaming around.

They're ever so quick, and they jump bloody high too.

But catching sight of them is tricky...

It wasn't until Di the deer hunter turned up...

They kind of go around the perimeter.

..that we spotted one of them hiding in the undergrowth.

They're scared, you know, we've only got another couple of weeks,

bit of nice weather, and the place will be packed,

and they're going to become extremely stressed then.

They have tried to lead the deer out by leaving the gates open at night.

So what I've done is I've brought a load of sweetcorn,

and I've created a trail all the way out up to the road,

and what the deer have done, they've come out on the night,

ate the sweetcorn, and then come back in.

The plan now is to coax the deer into a horsebox at the weekend,

although that does go against RSPCA advice,

which is to leave the gates open at night for a while longer yet

in the hope the deer leave of their own accord.

Well, Steve is a conservation is too is going to oversee the operation at

the weekend, how are you going to remove the deer? Well, the plan is

to set up a horse box and bundling system, to try to coach the deer

into the back of the horsebox with the allotment holders and a few

other people, and hopefully to move them out. It goes against the advice

of Metrobus, the City Council, the RSPCA, they all say that the deer

could be injured doing that. There is that possibility, but it will be

done and a professional guidance, but by leaving the gate open, that

hasn't made any difference. There is a good potential that they could be

a vitality on the main road. But they also say that they will try to

come back. That is a possibility, but the aim is to regroup them with

their herd. And you think the female will be pregnant? Yes, at this time

of year they are pregnant, and she will give birth in May. And she will

be more stressed? Absolutely, very stressed. It goes against the advice

from Metrobus and the City Council, and the plot thickens, because a

local MP, Kerry McCarthy, has written to the RSPCA and ask them to

evaluate the safety and welfare of the deer. Back to you.

Oh, I do feel the concern, that is a real dilemma.

I know a couple of people who have its deer in their cars, tremendous

collision. And pregnant as well. We will keep

up to date with that one. Just before we go to Sara

with the weather, we have to tell you about something

in tomorrow night's programme. As part of our Points West 60

anniversary, we've been working with Britain's last Dambuster,

George "Johnny" Johnson looking into the role he played

in the most famous bombing raid We asked the journalist

and broadcaster Michael Buerk to find out about the man

behind the headlines. Tomorrow, I'll be here in Germany

at the Sorpesee with Johnny Johnson as he recounts the night he had that

dam in his sights. It is the most incredible story.

It is, a beautiful film that Michael is made for us, and we have an

interview with them that we will show tomorrow.

Let's go to the weather, how are you, Sara?

Very well, we saw some sunshine today, a lovely Weather Watchers

picture to sum it up, but I start the globe with everything on it,

because no two days are exactly the same this week, all of it in the

forecast. A beautiful picture from the Weather Watchers, showing we had

a bit of spring sunshine at times. But a mixed bag of a forecast in the

wake of that sunshine, a chilly nights to come, chilly start

tomorrow, milder from Wednesday, you will notice the difference, but it

does not necessarily equate to sunshine, there will be cloud and

rain around. We have a couple of showers around just now at the

moment, they are fizzling out, pulling away nicely. Behind that, a

ridge of high pressure building intrigues us dry and settled

overnight, but it will lead to a chilly night. Once the showers are

cleared away, clear skies. Breezy early on, the winds back row start

to ease away, allowing temperatures to come down, and we will see lose

close to freezing. With the frost tomorrow morning, some sunshine,

should be a really pleasant start, the ridge of high pressure with us

for a time before the next frontal system comes in. A warm weather

front, milder air, temperatures rise tomorrow night with some rain. These

sunshine to start us off, quite springlike despite being on the

chilly side, pleasant sunshine, late afternoon onwards the rain will

start to spelling, quite a bit of it, the wind is picking up as well.

In advance of the rain, temperatures in single figures, but as it comes

through, it will lift the temperatures. You can see a tangle

of France behind it, so the warmth does not necessarily equate to

sunshine. -- fronts. That rain overnight into the start of things

on Wednesday, we start at ten or 11 degrees on Wednesday, 12-14dC on

Wednesday afternoon, feeling a bit milder at the end of the week.

I was off last week, a bit of a staycation, and it was just wind and

rain. But it is March! Right, there is an

update for you at ten, otherwise we will see you again tomorrow. Don't

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