22/03/2017 Points West

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

Two West primary schools were on trips to Parliament.

The children were on lockdown and sang songs to keep their spirits up.

Well, it's great relief for the parents in Hotwells today

as the the children from year six in the school had been

But now they're all safely on a coach and heading home.

We'll have the latest reaction from west country

I'm particularly concerned about my staff, who witnessed the whole

thing. It's deeply upsetting. We immediately after informed their

families that we are all safe. We are all shocked.

100 thousand pounds for the parents of a boy who died after being moved

And the Harbourside plays a major role in a new film starring

Children from the West on a school trip to Westminster were put

into lock down this afternoon, as a terror attack

The groups are from Hotwells in Bristol and St John

St Francis Church School in Bridgwater.

One of the teachers put a message on social media saying

they were singing songs as a distraction to

Tonight both primary schools say everyone is safe and they're

trying to get them home as soon as possible.

In a moment we'll be live at Hotwells school,

but first our reporter Robin Markwell has been hearing

from other eyewitnesses from the West caught up

The attack on the Bridge and then inside Parliament

Journalists and politicians from the West found

themselves in the middle of the unfolding drama.

We'd heard a bang. Me and my colleagues in round 12 of Parliament

were looking to see what that was and we suddenly saw a policeman

being pushed into the yard. It was strange because normally nobody is

allowed in the apart from MPs and those with passes. Suddenly, she was

pushed and lunged at many times. The attacker had a knife in his hand.

From what I then saw, a policeman approached him, dressed in black and

fired two to three shots anti-crumpled on the floor.

They were told to stay inside their offices.

Among those caught up in the lockdown, the Cotswold MP

I'm particularly concerned about my staff, who witnessed the whole

thing, which is deeply upsetting. Of course, immediate -- immediately

after it happened we all informed their families that we are safe. We

are shocked. We are a couple -- we are locked in the middle of

Parliament. We don't know when we will be allowed out.

The Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire took

to Twitter to describe the "frightening scenes outside".

Salisbury MP John Glen sent his "thoughts and

And the Wells MP James Heappey praised the doorkeepers inside

Parliament for their "unflappable attitude" A children's author

from Midsomer Norton happened to be on Westminster Bridge at the time

I was walking that -- across the bridge and suddenly a bus stop that

people started screaming. People came off the bus and seemed upset

and I saw what appeared to be a trainer by the side of the road. On

the other side of the vote, there was a body and when I would further,

there was another body and then when I looked over the side of the

bridge, they appeared to be a body in the water as well.

The Prime Minister is to chair an emergency meeting later.

A counter-terrorism inquiry is underway.

But for now many are still coming to terms with the shocking

I have just spoked to the MP for Wells, James Heappey,

I asked him to describe what is going on around him.

I am inside the Houses of Parliament. There are a lot of MPs

sat around, some pacing around. We can endure for a couple of hours and

I as I understand that we would be moved until the whole of the Palace

of Westminster is cleared and secured and then they will move us.

What did you see and hear? So, I was already working in the Palace of

Westminster when the division bell rang and this all happened, during a

vote this morning. So I just went straight to the division lobby and I

was 14, actually just behind the Prime Minister, and I saw somebody

her ear and she was taken away and I now understand that was harder being

taken off to a secure location. Really, the first I but it was when

colleagues started to arrive for voting, looking pretty flustered and

they had been on their way across from the office blocks on the other

side of the Parliamentary estate when happened. Some of them were

asked to get on the floor and take cover and it was really quite

dramatic. You say you saw the Prime Minister in front of you. What was

her reaction, as far as you could tell, from worried you where, when

she got the news that this was happening outside? I can't tell you

exactly which was told. She may have simply been told that there was an

incident and could they go with her. She remained as calm as you would

expect and was taken away. As I understand it, she was removed

immediately from the Parliamentary estate, but to me, in the QB entered

the fort, she was just being told something quite normal, as far as I

could tell. We know that there were two parties of Westminster School

children in the Palace of Westminster when this all unfolded.

They have also been involved in the locked in as well. I have heard

that. In fact, some children were even in the House of Commons at the

time that the Loughton happened and they were still up in the public

gallery and hour and a half later, which acted quickly scooter for

them. You are an ex-military man, aren't you? You have seen conflict

of course, as it were. What are your personal thoughts about this? I

mean, the obvious thing to say is that not the policeman who was the

first line of defence on the gates of Parliament has tragically lost

his life, the reality is that the security effort around Parliament

appears to have worked very effectively. The incident seems to

have been brought to an end very quickly indeed and the house

authorities, working with the police, having run the process for

containing the incident and securing the Palace of Westminster. It seems

to me to have been done very efficiently and very effectively and

I think we are all very grateful to them for being as good as their jobs

as they are. Thank you for joining us.

Our reporter Tracey Miller is outside Hotwells Primary School

in Bristol where a group of year sixes, 10 and 11 year olds,

were on a trip to Parliament today when the terror attack unfolded.

Yes, we know that they are safe but the parents have had a very

stressful afternoon. The children from year six had been on a trip to

Westminster today. In the last few minutes, the headmaster has released

this statement saying that the children were not directly caught up

in it where -- but when you at the scene and they worked closely with

the police to put forward an emergency procedure and of they are

heading home and are safe, they are not aware of what has happened in

Westminster today. Earlier I spoke to a member of staff who was working

in the school today. When we came in all the teachers

were on edge, you could tell. And when they were talking,

you could hear something The caretaker said that year six

were on a London trip. We pieced it altogether and realised

that there was something going on. Another skill was also visiting

Westminster today. They were inside the Palace of whispered to win the

attack happened and were caught up in the Loughton but they managed to

put out a tweet from inside the building and they said that we are

all sat in the centre of the house of parliament, we are safe, happy

and lightening the middle of a song. -- likening the mood with a song. We

don't know what time the children will be getting home but the schools

are keeping the parents are home and I am sure they would be very

relieved to have them back tonight. This is a story we will stay with

the seating. Thank goodness they are safe.

The parents of a 7-year-old who died after heart surgery

at Bristol Children's Hospital have been awarded ?100,000 compensation.

Luke Jenkins was moved out of intensive care just days

after his operation, because of a lack of beds.

Our health correspondent Matthew Hill reports.

Stephen Jenkins has been unable to work since witnessing the death

We raised the alarm. We were the ones saying that they needed to get

somebody in here now. After life saving heart

surgery, Luke came here. He'd been discharged early

from intensive care. At the time, unlike other hospitals,

Bristol had no high dependency beds. A new report by the health service

ombudsman says Lukes parents were misled by staff about ward 32

being a high-dependency unit. We were saying that she was bleeding

and with the doctor to come and look or someone from the outreach team

and they were saying yes, yes, and they just weren't listening to us.

The HSO report also found maladministration in the Trust's

complain handling and that, "This has led to an injustice

It says, "Doctors and nurses failed to recognise and manage signs

of Luke deterioration", while he was on ward 32.

Luke should have been admitted to intensive care

And because of poor record keeping, they could not establish if these

According to this recording the Jenkins made of a leading doctor

from the childrens hospital, Luke's death was avoidable.

If it hadn't happened, she would still be alive. These are quite

difficult things to correct and we will do our best to correct them.

But despite this the HSO report concludes that because no obvious

cause of the catastrophic fatal bleed has been established,

they are unable to link Lukes death to any of the failings.

At the time, we believed we would get something from the inquest. We

put all hopes in the truth finally coming out and we walked away from

their just being a whitewash anything else.

The hospital say they have developed an action plan to address

the failings identified by the ombudsman.

In a statement they say, "The care Luke received has

been subject to several, independent, expert reviews,

none of which showed that we caused his death.

We fully accept, however, that there were failings in the care

and treatment we gave him and we also accept that,

after his death, we compounded the pain and grief of his family

by giving incorrect and incomplete information in response

We are deeply sorry for everything we got wrong and we have apologised

to Luke's parents for letting them down so badly.

The compensation awarded today means Lukes parents can now begin

to rebuild their lives, but they will always be

haunted by the question, would Luke still be alive if he had

Thanks for joining us this evening here on Points West.

We'll keep you up to date on events in Westminster before

We hear about the divide between urban and rural classrooms.

How the West features in a new blockbuster opening around

A teenager charged with the murder of a man in Trowbridge has been

Jordan Taylor, who was 25, died from stab wounds

after being attacked near the town's community hospital

This morning Hayden Maslen who is 18 and from Park Street in Trowbridge

didn't appear in court and made no bail application.

His trial is due to start in September.

Disruption caused by a derailed freight train in Somerset is likely

Replacement buses are running between Westbury and Castle Cary,

with many trains delayed or cancelled.

Network Rail says some of the wagons which came off the track

were carrying stone or sand, and more work's needed

Princess Anne has told the BBC she believes genetically-modified

crops have important benefits in providing food The Princess Royal

The Princess Royal has told Radio 4's Farming Today

to use GM for crops and livestock on her own farming estate own land

I do think that in the future your gene technology has real benefits to

offer which will have, maybe, and occasional blindside, but I suspect

not very many. Princess Anne's views have today

been criticised by Green MEPs, who say she "doesn't speak

for the average UK farmer". Her position also appears

to put her at odds with her brother, Prince Charles, who's warned that GM

crops could cause an There's more from that

interview with Princess Anne on Farming Today tomorrow morning,

that's from 5.45am on BBC Radio 4. Rural schools in the West are

calling on the government to push The plans which are proving

very controversial, with the Prime Minister Theresa May

and Labour's Jeremy Corbyn battling it out in the Commons

today on the issue. When there's not enough money to go

round, changing who gets I think there is to be

a serious reconsideration Yet everyone agrees

the old system needs reforming. Some London boroughs get nearly

twice as much per pupil as the lowest-funded

areas of England. Under the proposals,

for the first time, the difficulties faced by rural schools

are being factored in. The school faced a kosher 17 years

ago for being too small and now it is one of the biggest winners, its

budget going up 23.5%. But even the winners are not that happy. On the

face of it, it looks marvellous for school, but in the small print you

can see that in the process of implementation of the new formula,

it means that there will be a cap on the first year of just 1.5%, so to

give a very long time for us to get the money.

At Misterton First School near Crewkerne in Somerset,

Under the proposals, they'll get an extra ?44,000.

It means they might be able to go from two classes back to three.

We are thrilled that the balance had been redressed and that

It has been really tough for small, rural schools.

The proposed changes are supposed to make the system fairer so you can

get access to a good aggregation, no matter where you are. The problem is

that what is good in one size is not necessarily end and others.

It's the cities which are feeling the biggest pinch.

A recent survey suggested Bristol's primary schools will lose

It's difficult for headteachers in Bristol to see the impact

of the proposed national funding formula changes as fair,

if it means that we get less money coming into schools to provide good

quality education for children across the city.

With schools already needing to find ?3 billion worth of cuts by 2020,

this review has stirred up a hornet's nest of discontent.

Last week, the Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown warned

the Prime Minister she could face a backbench Tory rebellion

Forest Green Rovers head to promotion rivals Lincoln

on Saturday with their noses in front at the top

Victory last night against Solihull Moors and defeat

for Lincoln meant the to two sides swapped places.

Forest Green left it late, with the winner coming

Bristol's harbourside is the backdrop for

which hits our cinema screens from this Friday.

Another Mother's Son, which stars Ronan Keating and Jenny Seagrove,

tells the true story of woman living in Nazi-occupied Jersey.

Prince's Wharf in Bristol like you've never seen it before.

In the new film Another Mother's Son it doubles

In 1942 it was the post that saw Englishman who hadn't been born on

the island reported to Germany and men who had been captured in Europe

brought the island and to work. The film tells the story

of Louisa Gould, whose son She takes in a Russian prisoner

of war and pretends he is her son Edward to save his life,

hoping it's what another mother This study of a mother and her love

and it's about community and courage and because it is a true story, it

mattered to us that we did it justice.

And part of that relied on recreating wartime

Today it's too modern, so the film turned to the westcountry for help.

Wells Town Hall became the Nazi's headquarters.

And do you recognise this 1940's steamship?

It is of course The Balmoral on the Bristol Harbourshide.

To go back there and have an old board and soldiers coming off, Nazi

soldiers, and the pitch yourself and imagining, something that we did it

all the time, all, my God, this really happened. It was very

distressing, actually. And so was what happened

to Louisa's brother Harold, He was the only Briton who survived

Belsen concentration camp. In total, the Bristol

scenes involved around 100 They will use accommodation and all

the knock-on effects. They will have eaten in the city. ?20,000 a day,

?40,000 in 2-D -- days and also the profile on the screen as well, it's

really important for Bristol. it's the bravey of Louisa Gould

and her community that they hope the audience will be left

remembering. Now we return to our top story

tonight and this afternoon's Joining us now is Professor

Bill Durodie, an expert in counter-terrorism

from the University of Bath. I guess this wasn't a huge surprise

but what is your assessment of these events? You're absolutely right, I

think this kind of attack is becoming all too predictable now.

Events in Neath last summer, through the attacks on the German Christmas

market at Christmas to this today, the one thing I would say is that

there appears to be a diminishing rate of return for the perpetrators.

Obviously, this is a terrible tragedy for all those caught up in

this incident, but we are looking now, really, at individual attackers

who, I would say, are so completely misguided that they have completely

lost any sense of having a moral anchor. Professor, what is your

assessment of the reaction to the events by the security forces today?

I think it is understandable that, considering the location that

everything has gone into Loughton, but I also think and I suspect the

authorities will concur, that the sooner that we can return to

normalcy, the better, because otherwise, we end up completing

every act of terrorism. This two elements to an act of terrorism. The

event itself and how society response to it. I think the best

thing we could do is to say, this is the lone individual who is obviously

not just misguided, without any moral attachment to any community

and it's an act of criminality, more than an act of terror and we now

need to get on with our lives because we have more important

things to do than to give too much airtime to individuals like this.

This happened in one of the most heavily guarded areas of the

country, of course, in Parliament. What must be a neat mirror scenario,

I suppose, is something happening here, or out in the provinces, where

there aren't armed officers available so quickly. Yes, obviously

we can think that way, but I think the important thing is to speculate

and extrapolate too much. The fact that that has happened where it has

happened should teachers that there is no level of security that can be

assured to all people in all places, at times. It enters the security

myth that no doubt members of Parliament will be propagating soon

after these events, to say that we need even more security. There's a

limit to what we can do and, as I often see as the stains, what we are

facing here is not the much a security problem as a social

problem. There are individuals who are so thoroughly misguided in our

communities, it asks awkward questions as to who is guiding them

and what our role is in providing direction and moral values to

society. Certainly, the Home Secretary is Colin and urging calm

and Theresa May is going into Cobra now. Thank you for joining us.

Good evening. Certainly decent enough well the sunshine was around,

much like yesterday, some of you had a different experience with the

number of showers around. As we head into tomorrow, it will be the study

of some early rain, which is likely to be heavy and places. That will

clear the way out to watch the west of us. I suspect many other

districts will be dry but there is a risk of further in and -- affecting

southern areas and the question is how far north that might stretch or

not. For lovers, noticeably windy day with wind coming in from the

north-east. That inevitably means there will be another sheer wonder

child to add to proceedings. No pressures to think the worst parts

of France and I the BDO where we we will see a in situ for the rest of

the weekend. We have these areas of rain and sure affecting those at

least two stages through the course of the model and you can see that

for coming in from a north-east a quarter which, still at this time of

year, there's still a cold direction. For the rest of this

evening, one or two showers left, particularly over Somerset. Tending

to die -- tending to die away. Turning cold as well. This area of

rain starting to come in from the south-east as we head through the

second half of the made, such that there is position will be roundabout

when you see there by 6am. A decidedly wet start for many of you,

but not necessarily all of you. Temperatures dropping low enough

that they could have a touch of Frost before that grin appears.

Through the course of tomorrow morning, bad rain will run its weird

to the west, so freely heavy. As it does so, the fit next -- the next

feature of interest will be the South. There is uncertainty how far

north that and will be no stretch. As you can further northwards, as it

stands, it is looking drier and perhaps somewhat greater of the

afternoon, but if you been watching the wind arrow sticking around, they

are quite pronounced. Temperatures up to nine or other than Celsius,

but as I mentioned, if you're exposed to the wind, it will be

feeling that bit more cold. That will be the case into faded, not

dissimilar in some case -- respects some areas of rain, generally

lighter, certainly a lot of cloud around and make time to break up --

tend to pick up later. From the north, that high-pressure starting

to Dublin and build and that bodes well as we head into the weekend. A

cold night, certainly. Still that north-easterly breeze.

Before we leave you, a reminder of today's main news.

There's been a terror attack in the heart of London.

Four people including a police officer are now

known to have been killed close to the Palace of Westminster.

More than 20 people are in hospital tonight,

some with what's being described as "catastrophic injuries."

The Prime Minister, Theresa May will hold an emergency meeting

of the Cobra committee tonight, in response to the day's events.

We heard the MP from Somerset saying that she was behind the Prime

Minister she was given the news. We are back in again at 10am.