23/03/2017 Points West

Reflecting on the bravery shown in Westminster.

Parents of the Somerset school children who were trapped

during the london attacks praise the staff who protected them.

The little girl from Bristol who disappeared

Now a man is charged with her murder.

And steady improvements in the weather tomorrow. Looking glorious

for the weekend. Details later. A teacher at a school whose pupils

were caught up in yesterday's terror attack in London has been talking

about how they coped. The group from Bridgwater spent two

hours trapped inside Westminster. Their teachers kept spirits up

by singing to hundreds of others who were told to stay

inside the Central Lobby For some of these ten-year-olds,

a very first trip to London. But shorlty after these photos

were taken, they were trapped Today, a parent of one of those

children was still visibly upset. If the first time I've

ever let my son go anywhere so far away

without me! He was very cuddly

when he saw me, The 53 children and seven

staff were ushered to A safe place, but still within 50

metres of where the police The deputy head kept spirits

up by singing hymns. We had a lovely ripple

of applause at the end. And beautifully, loss

of MPs and people of the layout congratulated our

children on how they sang and Meanwhile at the school,

texts were sent to worried parents. We said to parents they could come

in and we set aside a room and had tea and coffee and

the Salvation Army were here and our local vicar all helping parents to

process what was unfolding in front Today at the school,

we're told everyone's well, the hymns having helping

to drown out the gunshots. And back in the Commons,

the Prime Minister also impressed It must've been particularly

difficult for those children who were here

and being caught up in this, We should commend those

their teachers in offering them that The deputy head is more

modest and thinks it Safety in numbers

inside the Central Lobby. There may have been

some horrific things happening outside,

but we were having a lovely time. We were completely

unaffected by it and it certainly will not stop us

from doing things we want. But in the very worst

of circumstances. Well, our Gloucestershire reporter

Steve Knibbs has spent the day in London and reflects

on the atmosphere in the capital. Driving around London today,

the mood has been one, I think, You would like to think

that everything has changed here in the capital,

but in many ways, Londoners have dusted themselves off

and got back on with normal life. Along the South bank

it, the tourists have been taking photos

on the bridge and the buskers have been active

and the Millennium Wheel has And in the Houses of

Parliament, again, Both houses were held today

and the MPs were back to business. Emotional scenes, of course, as they

were remembering PC Keith Palmer, somebody they would have seen every

day as they went into Parliament. But this was today, a day

of normality, of defiance as well. A message to the

terrorists that this does not stop what happens here

in the seat of democracy On to some other news tonight,

and a man has been charged with the murder of a three-year-old

girl from Bristol, who disappeared She vanished from a beach

in Australia, a year Give us something so

we can go and mourn. A heartbreaking appeal to the public

from Cheryl Grimmer's brother speaking in

December last year. Part of a reconstruction by police

of her last movements before the three-year-old

vanished into thin air. That appeal that led to fresh

information and this morning, Do you know anything

about Cheryl's disappearance? A man charged with

Cheryl's abduction and murder 47 years

after she disappeared. The man we have in custody

was a person of interest. We centred our

investigations around him. As a result, we have gathered

information and corroborated certain information and stamens

back in the original investigation and it

will Cheryl's family emigrated

from Bristol in In January 1970, she was

an Fairy Meadow Beach in the seaside town of of Wollongong, with her

mother and three older brothers. Her father was away

working in the Army. The children went

to the shower block, Decisions I made

on the day were wrong. In this appeal last year, it was

clear the pain of losing their sister has never softened

in the decades since. Cheryl's parents died never knowing

what became of their daughter, and like the Madeleine

McCann case here in the UK, every Australian parent knows

Cheryl Grimmer's cautionary tale. The media interest

has never gone away. The 63-year-old suspect

would have been He will appear before

a judge in Australia Rents are rising sharply

across the West country, according to new research by Points

West. In Bath and the Cotswolds,

the average house now costs over The lowest rents are found around

Bridgwater and Gloucester, And when we compared today's rents

with five years ago, In south Gloucestershire, tenants

are paying 43% more than in 2011. But it's particularly hard

for people looking for somewhere Here's our Business

Correspondent, Dave Harvey. If you are earning average wages

or part-time because you have She and her husband

moved five times in the last eight years, battling

ever rising rents. I do not know anyone privately

renting, because the And what you are getting

for your money is not What really matters is how much

of your income goes on rent and that's why we have come

here to the Cotswolds, because here, we've discovered that rent takes

a bigger chunk out of people's

which than anywhere else In fact, announces a Government

official figures showed that for every ?100 of wages here

in the Cotswolds, ?46 goes on rent. Prices may be high,

but there's a queue A few miles outside Tetbury,

we look around a typical ?1200 a month -

and you'd better be quick. We would be hopeful

of getting somebody in in And that is the sort of turnaround

we've seen recently, properties go with so many positive

factors, it really helps property fly off the shelves

on they go quickly, in a We can't really argue

with that, as estate agents. The market pushes prices ever

upwards. But how long a local people afford this?

The chairman of Network Rail has said the line through Bath may

Last autumn the Government deferred electrification

work between Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads

New trains will have to be converted to run on diesel

Today Sir Peter Hendy, who lives in Bath, said he wouldn't

worry if the missing section was never completed.

There's more news on the BBC Website and on your local BBC Radio

We're back with you in Breakfast from 6.30 tomorrow morning.

But for now, I'll say goodnight and leave you with Ian,

Good evening. It is looking like tomorrow will bring a good deal of

dry weather for the bulk of the region. There will be some rain

around, particularly down towards the far south, in the course of the

morning. It will be starting with a lot of cloud, but as we move into

the afternoon, some of that will start to move away and be replaced

with sunshine and the winds will start to become less of a feature of

the day continues. Through tonight, every chance of seeing rain across

the south of our region, exactly how far north that my reach as we don't

know, but as we further north, better chance of staying dry. Quite

windy and temperatures around 5-6 C. windy and temperatures around 5-6 C.

Tomorrow, we will have imported a lot of cloud overnight as well as

patchy rain. That will fade toward the West through the first half of

the day. And into the afternoon. The cloud breaks up. It will be a breezy

day, especially in the morning. They will feel fairly mild. Certainly if

the sun breaks through, we may get 15 Celsius. The skies will continue

to clear tomorrow and overnight as we head into Saturday. This bodes

well for the weekend. I pressure dominates the pattern and dry

through Saturday and Sunday. It will be chilly by night and a breezy in

the south by day and pleasant by the part of the weekend. 1415 degrees.

Still quite breezy. Here's Thomas with the national picture.

Good evening. Some good news on the weather front of this evening. The

weekend is looking sunny for most of the UK. We have got clear skies

across the country and it promises to be