12/02/2017 Points West

Good evening. on the BBC News Channel,

A new service has been launched in Somerset to reduce hospital

admissions and relieve the pressure on accident and

The scheme involves GPs responding to some 999 calls.

It's one of the first places in the country to try out the idea,

and it's led to 80% of patients being treated at home.

Just to let you know the GP 999 car from Taunton

is online and we're available for any jobs, over.

This is one of two first responders running at the weekend

But they're only sent out to selected emergencies.

Often people with more complicated problems,

such as mental health problems, end of life problems,

or complicated medical conditions which involved a lot of different

It's not long before such a call comes through.

An elderly woman, in a state of confusion.

As a GP, he can do more than a paramedic -

prescribe drugs and look up medical records.

It means he can treat this patient at home.

It's very likely this lady would have been taken

to an emergency department for assessment by the emergency

doctors there, which would have been distressing for her potentially

and might have made her confusion worse.

Then she possibly would have been admitted to hospital.

And, in two months, 80% of those seen by the service

It's improved patient care, good for the use of the resources

in the local NHS, potentially frees up hospital beds for other patients.

It's being funded for another year and extended to weekdays.

In this case, social care took over, leaving GP 999 free

Police are investigating the death of a woman

Police believe she may have been hit by a vehicle.

They're trying to trace it and want to hear from witnesses.

Officers were called to the area an hour previously after reports

of a woman walking in the road, but they couldn't find her.

A vigil was held in Stroud last night for an army gunner

Family and friends of 24-year-old Jack Mitchell gathered

at the Baptist church until the early hours.

He was a gunner based at Larkhill in Wiltshire,

and died following an alleged fight at the Warehouse

Researchers and leading aerospace companies have come together

at the University of the West of England this weekend for a world

For the first time, enthusiasts were flying autonomous drones

controlled by software, not manually from the ground.

The challenge was to build machines and systems that work well

It's been a frustrating weekend of football for our league clubs -

More joy in the National League though.

Bristol City went 3-0 up in the first half at Derby.

Matty Taylor scored his first goal, in red,

But Derby hit back with three of their own, to draw.

Bristol Rovers went in front too, through Chris Lines,

but were pegged back by Bradford and had to settle for a point.

Swindon's poor run continued with an away defeat at Bury.

This penalty in the first half was the only goal of the game.

In League Two, Yeovil looked like they'd got all three points

at Huish Park against Leyton Orient, after Francois Zoko

But the visitors levelled with just two minutes to go.

And Cheltenham lost 2-1 at fellow strugglers Notts County.

This consolation goal three minutes from time was too little, too late.

Finally, Forest Green kept pace with the National League leaders

Gloucester were the only one of our rugby sides

in action yesterday, but were well beaten at Leicester.

The home side ran in three tries and a penalty try to win 34-9.

Defeat ended Gloucester's five-match winning run and left

And finally, Bristol has a brand new site of special

It's a 200 million-year-old cave, far below the streets of Southmead.

Pen Park Hole has a deep lake which supports a nationally

important community of blind shrimps, would you believe!

The BBC's Laura Rawlings has been exploring, braving the tight spaces

It is wow, I've just not got to feel terrified of the enclosed space.

We are in a very enclosed space right now.

I can touch every single bit around me.

And I know that I couldn't just make it out if I wanted to.

And you can follow Laura's journey down under on Inside Out West

Time for a weather check now with Jennifer Bartram.

Quite a cloudy night to come tonight with a few showers

in the forecast at first but, heading through the night,

Temperatures overnight dropping to around two or three degrees

Monday looks much better than we've had over the weekend with plenty

of dry, fine weather and some bright sunshine for a time,

but it will be windy from the east, taking the edge off

the temperatures, which should get up to ten or 11 in some spots.

The rest of the week looks like it will stay mild.

There will be a few showers in the forecast

The wind easing down by the end of the week.

We're back after the Baftas tonight, later than usual.

Good evening, dull, grey, cold, miserable. And that's just me! The

weather hasn't been great leader for most of us, it will be chilly out

there with this nagging easterly breeze, wetter weather for Northern

Ireland, by the end of the night most of the dampness across parts of

Eastern Scotland and North East England, most of the high ground

Luus will have faded away as well. But not warm, another chilly