12/03/2017 Points West

Good evening. stories on the BBC News Channel.

First tonight, search and rescue teams have been

training in Wiltshire this weekend in a huge exercise to

test how they respond to a missing-person operation.

Recent figures show police in England and Wales receive

a call every 90 seconds about a missing person.

This is a mock up of a search for a high-risk missing person.

He's a 46-year-old man with a history of depression.

The police have traced him here, Coate Water Park in Swindon.

More than 100 members of the emergency services

and voluntary organisations have been called out.

They are searching land and also this vast expanse of

water, this huge lake here in the park.

To narrow down such a search, they rely on statistics and research.

One in five missing people have mental health problems.

We are using an international database to look at what they are

likely to go in the areas they are likely to be found in.

We can target resources in the right place as best

Calls about missing people are rising.

Wiltshire's Chief Constable is the national police

There is a lot more people who are trying to pull young,

vulnerable people away from their families.

There are certainly more pressures on people in society.

The hardships of people living in deprivation, suffering from

financial burdens, that all adds up to a toxic mix of pressures on our

society and that is probably the reason why we see a huge

increase in the number of missing people.

With a higher demand on rescue teams, they're aiming

In this practise exercise, the fake subject's found just in time.

They hope as a result real lives will be saved in the future.

Police in Wiltshire have launched a murder inquiry after a man

in his twenties was fatally injured in a serious assault in Trowbridge.

It happened in the early hours of this morning

in the Timbrell Street area near Trowbridge Community Hospital -

a friend with him also received minor injuries.

Police are calling for any information.

A rugby player from Cheltenham who was told he would never walk

again after a tackle left him with a broken neck,

24-year-old Zac France was playing for the Cheltenham Phoenixes

He also suffered a bleed on the brain.

He was paralysed from the neck down but with tremendous

determination and training, he's back playing

I have played rugby since I was six years old and I can't imagine my

all the time and I was in hospital. all the time and I was in hospital.

Talk about it my family every day. And you can find out

more about Zac's journey And more than 15,000 runners took

on the Bath Half today. The fast flat course makes it

one of the most popular Cool and dry, perfect conditions

for trainers on tarmac! There were a record number

of charity fundraisers this year, This year's winning woman

was from Wiltshire. To have all this crowd here,

the shouting, the clapping, I can't It makes you feel like you have

to crack on, finish the race and hopefully inspire some younger

female athletes to go out and give It was the end of a 200 mile

challenge for one Bristol man. John started on Thursday and has run

15 half marathons in a row! Very, very tired, but so happy

and I've met so many happy But with more people managing

to finish the race than expected Organisers have apologised

and promise they will Here's the late

forecast now with Holly. After having quite a cloudy day,

it'd actually clearing up Starry skies overhead

and a dry night on the way. It actually gets quite

chilly, we could get some spots getting a touch

of frost perhaps. Although although these

are typical temperatures in Certainly, a nippier start

for tomorrow morning then we have Good spells of sunshine to be had,

but gradually a bit more cloud. So some hill, coastal,

sea fog a possibility. It is mild, we are looking

at highs of around 14 or 15 As we head into Tuesday

and Wednesday, more cloud, A bit damp, but mostly

dry and staying mild. We're back tomorrow,

have a great week! But from all of us here,

have a good night. Good evening. For many places it was

a fairly cloudy day on suspend but there was sunshine for western areas

during the afternoon, and here are the clear skies at sunset in

Northern Ireland. Thanks to weather watcher Robin for this picture,

those clear skies have been making their way further east ward.

Temperatures are dropping away, we have seen temperatures of freezing

in parts of Northern Ireland. More cloud rolling in during the latter

part of the night but towns and cities down the five and six m the

countryside many of us will see the temperatures a degree or so above

freezing, so a slight touch of frost across the rural parts of England

and Wales for instance, Scotland too. We will see more cloud on

Monday edging south-east wards across England and Wales, the far

south and south-east holding on to more in the way of sunshine and here

the highest temperatures 15 or 16, also