12/01/2017 Points West

People in Bristol find out which council services they'll

And the paramedic whose dying wish is to leave a legacy

And we have the risk of icy roads tonight added to which the risk of

snow showers. Details at the end of the programme.

People in Bristol have tonight been told they'll be paying higher

council tax in the coming years while services are

The City Council has revealed some of the largest cuts

And there was more dim news for the city with the announcement

that its planned new arena will be delayed even further.

This report from our political editor Paul Barltrop.

From libraries to bins, from parks to buses,

Bristol is cutting spending across all departments.

More than ?60 million will go over the next five years.

Council tax will rise by nearly 5% with a similar increase

likely the following year. Cuts from the central government

are leaving us in a position that we have to take that additional

The increase in pressure from an elderly population and more

children, I think the child population has gone up

by something like 15%, it's huge on city council's.

The mayor who took over eight months ago has described the changes

Among the bigger hits, ?4 million will go from parks.

Libraries are under threat with a ?1.4 million cut.

And raising car parking charges will bring in an extra ?1 million.

Plus, there's an end to the free on-street Sunday parking,

which was initiated by the former Mayor, George Ferguson, in 2012.

They'll do anything to get the money.

I drive in from Bath to Bristol on a Sunday to go to the library

so if they are going to do that, that is not great.

Putting the car parking cost up at a time of austerity doesn't feel

Lots of organisations will see their council funding fall.

this city centre youth hub works with hundreds

We have got to the point where there have been cuts upon cuts

and we have scraped together the money to keep the services

going and the opportunities going for young people.

I have to say at this point, any further cuts are going to translate

into a direct cut to services for young people.

At council headquarters, it was a gloomy day.

Hundreds of jobs have gone in recent months with more to follow.

Morale is very difficult at the moment.

It is not just this one occasion, it is part of a series

They have been working harder and harder, covering more work

It has been a constant struggle for them and to know

that is going to carry on for years to come, as we have seen from these

Today we learnt how much money will go from different areas.

Much more detail and controversy is still to come.

Well, a little earlier I asked Paul Barltrop how hard

this all is for Bristol and its new Mayor.

The reality is it is difficult for every local authority

across the West country at the moment.

They are grappling with falling funding coming from central

government, rising demand for services and so they are going

to have to put up a council tax as well as making the cuts.

But for Marvin Rees, just eight months into the job,

this is very tough indeed, ?100 million he has got to save over

the next five years, he knows it's going to be tough.

We need to get a grip of the finances of local government, OK.

Whatever was going on, we wouldn't be facing this situation

if we didn't have a proper grip and we have brought

in a fantastic finance lead, she's on the senior leadership team.

We are going to get a grip but we are staying

Our commitment around housing, breakfast clubs

for primary schools, mental health intervention.

In fact today I've about all those three things with our plan

And Paul, there's also been bad news about Bristol's arena today.

Well this is a flagship project for the city,

one that was begun several years ago but has been stalled

Construction hasn't started because there has been a big falling

out between the City Council and the firm who are

They have parted company, the City Council have now got to go

back to the drawing board and find another firm who will undertake

Nonetheless, the last Mayor, George Ferguson, is optimistic

We've got the site, we've got the planning,

we've got the funds, we've got the operator,

the operator is absolutely key and this will be a profitable

All agree, though, that time is of the essence.

The City Council worked out last year that every month's

delay costs the council and its taxpayers ?80,000.

A 30-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murder

after a collision in Bristol on Tuesday night.

Shakrun Islam from Chipping Sodbury is alleged to have killed

27-year-old Kyle Clarke after he was trapped under

A paramedic says she's determined to leave a legacy

and save the lives of others, after being told she has

As a last hope, Kath Osmond, who worked for the South

Western Ambulance Service, had cutting edge treatment

Andrew Plant has been following Kath's journey,

and she's been telling him about her fight to find

a cure and the memories she wants to leave behind.

Kath Osman spent 16 years saving lives, but six years ago

discovered a mole that changed her life forever.

Your hope is that you respond to the drugs and you respond well

and you get years out of these treatments but that's

She tried every treatment but she found herself

The rivate treatment that promised the chance

That's where the Running Man challenge kind of

Kath's ambulance colleagues organised this dance called

the Running Man and it went viral on the internet, viewed by tens

of thousands of people, which helped bring in donations.

Basically the news came back that the melanoma was not only

coming back or hadn't responded well but it was aggressive.

She's using her time to make sure her partner Sara

and their three children are taken care of and to warn others

I am really keen to help as many people as I can to get that message

out there that a tan is not a good thing to have.

I've been kind of on the cutting edge of science and unfortunately my

cancer is developing quicker than science is developing.

My hope is that something out there can buy me enough time that

that sort of magic bullet is there and would have brought me

Kath believes that one day skin cancer will be a curable disease.

The West is braced for icy road conditions tonight

and into the morning after rain, sleet and snow through the day.

Local councils are asking people to take care when they're

They're also urging them to check on vulnerable neighbours

who might be affected by the freezing conditions.

Our reporter Andy Howard sent this report from a gritting

On nights like this, it's all systems go.

Just off Junction 13 of the M5 here, 2000 tonnes of salt are ready to be

taken out and it is taken out in batches of 100 tonnes at a time

They have been going since 4pm this afternoon and I imagine Chris

That's right, we'll be treating the network

We are expecting some wintry showers overnight and some

That moisture on the roads is going to lead to icy conditions

so we will be going out and treating the roads on our key networks

Is this anything out of the ordinary tonight?

Has the lack of snow helped you have it?

The lack of snow does mean that we won't be using our snow

plains but this is business as usual for us.

We will be out treating our network and keeping Gloucestershire's road

you can listen to the latest in your area

on your BBC local radio station tomorrow morning.

Andy Howard, BBC Points West in Gloucestershire.

So, it looks like the gritters are going to be busy.

Ian's up on the roof in the cold - what's due to happen

tonight and tomorrow, Ian?

Thank you. Good evening everybody. Busy gritters across all about

districts, I have seen some of those out this evening. And for good

reason because we have had this rain, mix of rain, sleet and some

snow as well, as this picture demonstrates. Tomorrow, is going to

be bitterly cold. It will bring a fair amount of sunshine around,

possibly a few wintry showers as well that it will be accompanied by

a keen wind which will add a significant wind-chill wherever you

are exposed to that. Tonight, we have the added convocation that as

well as the general freeze over where we have had untreated surfaces

romp the rain -- the added complication. We also have in

western parts of Somerset over the uplands and in the Forest of Dean

and out of Wales we have reports of snow. So we could cater for a few of

those showers but in particular in western and north-western extremes.

Temperatures falling towards freezing or below. Surface

temperatures similar, hence the gritters being out and hence the Met

office warning. But where the untreated roads tomorrow morning.

There could be wintry flurries affecting parts of Gloucestershire

during parts of the morning as well, adding snow jubilation here.

Elsewhere it is dry, windy with sunny spells and temperatures speak

for themselves. At the wind-chill to thing, Sunday will be cloudier and

milder. Good evening. It was such a mild

December, wasn't it, but winter has