:00:10. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:
:00:13. > :00:21.The female MP campaigning for thousands to start boxing - but
:00:21. > :00:30.opponents say its a blow against Tough questions for the regulator
:00:30. > :00:34.as MPs demand to know what went wrong at Winterbourne View. These
:00:34. > :00:42.people are getting paid a lot of money to make sure the organisation
:00:42. > :00:45.works. To have Winterbourne View happen on your watch is scary.
:00:45. > :00:48.We'll tell you the best place to wave farewell to the last plane
:00:48. > :00:58.from RAF Lyneham. And join me in St Paul's, where things are hotting up
:00:58. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.Hello. An MP is today calling for thousands of youngsters to take up
:01:04. > :01:13.boxing as a way instilling fitness and discipline in a new generation
:01:13. > :01:18.of children. These are the images we usually see of the sport. Many
:01:18. > :01:21.have said this is not the kind of thing we want in our schools. But
:01:21. > :01:24.Charlotte Leslie - who boxed herself when she was a teenager -
:01:24. > :01:34.is organising a campaign with MPs from all parties to boost the sport
:01:34. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:41.in schools and communities. I have also seen how much people put into
:01:41. > :01:51.boxing. Once sung heroes. Ever since the sport of boxing began,
:01:51. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:55.there has been a debate about its merits. Now the North West Bristol
:01:55. > :01:58.MP, Charlotte Leslie, who boxed as a teenager, wants to see it back in
:01:58. > :02:01.school gyms - and has helped launch a parliamentary group to promote it.
:02:01. > :02:04.She says it instils discipline and respect in young people. The sport
:02:04. > :02:07.is certainly thriving, with pay per view matches making millions for
:02:07. > :02:15.promoters, and some of our region's gyms reporting a 20% increase in
:02:15. > :02:20.membership year on year. We have a great cross section of children.
:02:20. > :02:26.They all mix in. There is a sense of camaraderie, discipline and
:02:26. > :02:35.determination. I do not want to be a boxer. I came here from my
:02:35. > :02:41.fitness. It has been quite a big dream of mine. I have always wanted
:02:41. > :02:48.to be a boxer. The do not want to be a boxer. What I wanted to get
:02:48. > :02:54.fit for football and order might sport. I think it is brilliant.
:02:55. > :02:58.They are full of energy when they leave here. It will benefit them
:02:58. > :03:01.long-term. But there have always been critics too. The British
:03:01. > :03:04.Medical Association says it's not the kind of thing we should be
:03:04. > :03:14.encouraging children to do. And it's not just doctors who are
:03:14. > :03:14.
:03:14. > :03:21.against it. The brain is like a jelly in a box. Science tells us if
:03:21. > :03:26.you keyed damaging that -- science tells us you keep damage in that.
:03:26. > :03:30.The sport should have gone away and died a death. It is not a sensible
:03:30. > :03:36.one. So as Charlotte Leslie continues to promote the sport, she
:03:36. > :03:46.may well have a fight on her hands. And the MP for Bristol North West,
:03:46. > :03:51.Charlotte Leslie, joins me now from Westminster. Good evening. What is
:03:51. > :04:00.your dream, boxing available in every school? In it would be nice
:04:00. > :04:04.to see boxing available to every child that wanted. There are non-
:04:04. > :04:09.contact variance of the sport. Amateur boxing is safer than ever
:04:09. > :04:15.before. Let's give the kids who want an opportunity to box, that
:04:15. > :04:21.opportunity. If you have any qualms, go t a local boxing club and see
:04:21. > :04:25.what happens. The aim of boxing is to knock your opponent out? In a
:04:25. > :04:33.competition, that is the aim. There are a lot of dangerous sports
:04:33. > :04:36.around. Bullfighting, cycling... Let's get real about the risks.
:04:36. > :04:41.Yesterday we heard from a young Olympian who said his life was
:04:41. > :04:45.going down the drain. Boxing completely turned his life around.
:04:45. > :04:52.Life is a risky business. The risk of not letting these young people
:04:52. > :04:58.do it is greater. Rugby is also dangerous but it is not the purpose
:04:58. > :05:02.of the sport. The purpose of boxing is to knock your opponent senseless.
:05:02. > :05:09.Is that why is to encourage schoolchildren did do that?
:05:09. > :05:14.people want to box, I am not going to say they cannot box. The big
:05:14. > :05:17.thing about boxing in schools is a lot of it is non-contact. One of
:05:17. > :05:24.the boys UN did said he did not want to be a boxer but he wants to
:05:24. > :05:28.train. -- you interviewed. If young people want to box, they are
:05:28. > :05:33.feeling angry, what better way to do it than in a boxing gymnasium
:05:33. > :05:41.where they can learn self-respect and self-esteem. It improves their
:05:41. > :05:46.school work as well. That is the overriding message from teachers.
:05:46. > :05:51.The worry is brain damage. Repeated blows to the head can damage your
:05:51. > :05:58.brain. You accept that? Are I think at a professional level they raised
:05:58. > :06:03.evidence that can happen. But we are looking at amateur. The number
:06:03. > :06:12.of people competing is very small. Life is a risky business. The risks
:06:12. > :06:15.of not allowing young people to do Our sports correspondent, Geoff
:06:15. > :06:20.Twentyman, has been looking into the story for us today and joins us
:06:20. > :06:30.now from a boxing gym in South Gloucestershire. Geoff, just how
:06:30. > :06:34.much of a revival is there in the sport? There is a big revival. Look
:06:34. > :06:36.at this facility. Yes, welcome to the Gordon Hazell boxing gym in the
:06:37. > :06:41.Pomphrey Hill Sports Pavillion in Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire.
:06:41. > :06:51.20 young boxers here. I'm joined by Craig Turner, who's in charge of
:06:51. > :06:51.
:06:52. > :06:57.the Downend Boxing Academy. What about the anti- boxing comments?
:06:57. > :07:07.is not dangerous. No more than cricket, football Joyce macro bit.
:07:07. > :07:13.Is it popular? Are very popular. 20% increase nationally. You may
:07:13. > :07:20.say it is an art form. What do you teach them? Basic citizenship,
:07:21. > :07:30.respect for oneself and for others. Do they keep coming week on week?
:07:30. > :07:40.we lose some of them. It is not long before their come back. --
:07:40. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:51.they come back. Without boxing, we Craig Turner. 688 BC is when boxing
:07:51. > :08:00.first started. I would suggest this debate started the day after that
:08:00. > :08:04.and will continue into the future. I remember it! We will have some e-
:08:04. > :08:07.mails about the subject of boxing later. There's been sharp criticism
:08:07. > :08:11.by MPs of the failure to investigate what went wrong at a
:08:11. > :08:13.care home near Bristol. Last month abuse of patients at the
:08:13. > :08:18.Winterbourne View private hospital was exposed in a BBC Panorama
:08:18. > :08:23.documentary. It emerged the Care Quality Commission had failed to
:08:23. > :08:26.act after a tip-off. Today its chief executive apologised when she
:08:26. > :08:30.appeared before a parliamentary committee. Our political editor
:08:30. > :08:35.Paul Barltrop reports. It's a month since these pictures shocked a
:08:35. > :08:40.nation. Winterbourne View is no longer - it's now closed down, as
:08:40. > :08:43.police go on investigating what was captured on hidden cameras. Today
:08:43. > :08:46.the need to stop it ever happening again focused the minds of a
:08:46. > :08:56.committee of MPs as they questioned the boss of the official regulator,
:08:56. > :09:00.
:09:00. > :09:05.the Care Quality Commission. I am very concerned that in terms of the
:09:05. > :09:10.Winterbourne a situation, that real lessons will be learnt. It is
:09:10. > :09:19.absolutely fundamental. This is the critical thing. We must always
:09:19. > :09:23.learn. The issue of Winterbourne View, it was desperate to see that
:09:23. > :09:31.and to another potentially people had experienced some terrible
:09:31. > :09:34.things. She repeated her apology, and said a member of staff had been
:09:34. > :09:37.disciplined for failing to act when contacted by a whistleblower. But
:09:38. > :09:44.there were critical questions about the whole way the CQC operates.
:09:44. > :09:51.Winterbourne View is not an isolated example. We need to look
:09:51. > :09:58.at quality in care homes. I don't feel the CQC is taking it seriously
:09:58. > :10:07.enough. Another member of the committee was concerned by the
:10:07. > :10:13.CQC's insistence that it lacked the funding to work properly. These
:10:13. > :10:20.people get paid a lot of money to make sure the organisation works.
:10:20. > :10:24.To have Winterbourne View happen and your watch, that is scary.
:10:24. > :10:27.MPs have had their chance to look at what went wrong, and I can tell
:10:27. > :10:30.you away from cameras they were even more critical of the CQC. The
:10:30. > :10:37.committee now hope to bring out their report in the autumn. You're
:10:37. > :10:45.watching BBC Points West. Still to come: We're off to the pub quiz -
:10:45. > :10:49.but put your phones away, there's no cheating this time. What
:10:49. > :10:53.connects Swansea City, Peterborough and Stevenage? Yes, get your
:10:53. > :10:56.thinking caps on. We'll have the answer for you later. A man's
:10:56. > :11:02.pleaded guilty to hitting the captain of Cheddar AFC in the head,
:11:02. > :11:05.with a blow that killed him before he fell to the ground. Samuel
:11:05. > :11:07.Binning admitted a charge of manslaughter at Bristol Crown Court,
:11:07. > :11:10.after striking 24-year-old Jim Hewlett outside a takeaway in
:11:10. > :11:13.Cheddar. The assault happened as the 21-year-old tried to reach a
:11:13. > :11:17.friend involved in a fight in the early hours of New Year's Day. The
:11:17. > :11:20.judge warned Mr Binning to expect a prison sentence. After the threat
:11:20. > :11:23.of legal action over the future of a day care centre in
:11:23. > :11:26.Gloucestershire, the County Council says it will think again about
:11:26. > :11:29.closing it. Protestors were preparing to go to the High Court
:11:29. > :11:31.about the decision to shut Dursley Training Unit, which supports
:11:31. > :11:34.people with learning disabilities. The County Council says it remains
:11:34. > :11:37.confident in the original decision but will now reconsider the issue
:11:37. > :11:39.to avoid further uncertainty for the service users. West Country
:11:39. > :11:44.engineering firm Renishaw has announced it's to expand its
:11:44. > :11:47.operations. The company, based in Wotton-under-Edge, is purchasing a
:11:47. > :11:52.new site in South Wales and also wants to extend three existing
:11:52. > :11:56.facilities in Gloucestershire. Earlier this year, the firm was
:11:56. > :12:02.valued at more than �1 billion for the first time, with shares at a
:12:02. > :12:06.record high. The Crimewatch roadshow has been in
:12:06. > :12:09.Gloucestershire again. Today the team was on the hunt for a conman
:12:09. > :12:16.who tricked his way into a care home in Frampton-on-Severn, and
:12:16. > :12:18.stole money from the staff. Here's Steve Knibbs. Staff at this care
:12:18. > :12:24.home in Frampton-on-Severn spend their working lives caring for the
:12:24. > :12:27.elderly - for many it's a vocation. And on one day in May this year, a
:12:27. > :12:31.phone call to one of those staff members cost her thousands of
:12:31. > :12:34.pounds. It all started after a man had conned his way into the care
:12:34. > :12:44.home claiming he was selling books. But stealing the purses was only
:12:44. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:49.the beginning - next he called the victims. The person on the other
:12:49. > :12:54.end of the telephone said he was from Lloyds Bank and somebody was
:12:54. > :12:59.trying to use my card. He started to recite a transactions I had made,
:12:59. > :13:03.which were correct. He said my cards have needed to be stopped
:13:03. > :13:11.straight away. He asked if I knew the last three numbers of my card.
:13:11. > :13:17.I told him I did not. I did not have my purse. He said the only way
:13:17. > :13:21.he could stop the cards was to use my PIN number. Unfortunately I give
:13:21. > :13:24.them over. Minutes after Kelly gave over her pin number in nearby
:13:24. > :13:27.Stonehouse, a woman was caught on CCTV using the stolen cards. Using
:13:27. > :13:30.the information from the stolen purse she persuaded the bank she
:13:30. > :13:38.was Kelly, and even persuaded the bank to extend her overdraft and
:13:38. > :13:44.cleared the account of nearly �2,000. A very confident, very
:13:44. > :13:46.brazen act. A terrible thing to happen to anybody. If you have any
:13:46. > :13:53.information then do call the Crimewatch roadshow team on 08000
:13:53. > :13:57.468 999. The RAF's released the route of a very special fly-past
:13:57. > :13:59.over Wiltshire this Friday. It's the farewell flight of the famous
:13:59. > :14:04.Hercules transporters, as the last handful of planes leave their
:14:04. > :14:10.historic base at Lyneham and head for Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
:14:10. > :14:15.Scott Ellis reports. They've been at Lyneham since the seventies.
:14:15. > :14:19.Come Friday, the Hercules will be gone for good. Along with them,
:14:19. > :14:23.decades of experience of flying on the front line. In Lyneham village
:14:23. > :14:30.today, more evidence the RAF base is on the move. Containers taking
:14:30. > :14:34.everything out, headed for Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. There's
:14:34. > :14:41.already been a royal farewell and fly-past. And this Friday the last
:14:41. > :14:47.Hercules planes will leave Lyneham. Pilots will make a low level flight
:14:48. > :14:52.across Wiltshire, starting at 10.30 am, and cross most major towns.
:14:52. > :14:59.It's a thank you for 70 years of support for the Lyneham air base.
:14:59. > :15:06.The station commander says they'll have heavy hearts. Those back on
:15:06. > :15:11.the ground will be sad to see them go. It will be a shame not to see
:15:11. > :15:18.them a flying over our House. I was going to take a video of the last
:15:18. > :15:24.flight. His love waving at them. It is fantastic. -- children love. We
:15:24. > :15:29.will be really upset. It is part of the community. It is the end of an
:15:29. > :15:31.era. There will be a big economic impact with RAF Lyneham's closure.
:15:31. > :15:41.The latest report suggests it'll drain the north Wiltshire economy
:15:41. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:52.of �52 million a year, and lead to the loss of 2,600 jobs. What next
:15:52. > :15:56.for RAF Lyneham? There is talk of a Holiday theme park. The big talk is
:15:56. > :16:02.that an army unit is relocated here from Germany. That would keep the
:16:02. > :16:12.local economy going. The Hercules will be deeply missed. On Friday we
:16:12. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:26.will be on the final flight. That will be quite an occasion. Chris
:16:26. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:43.basher will look back at the When the chorus stopped running,
:16:43. > :16:51.thousands were let off. A new education programme will begin in
:16:51. > :16:53.the autumn. The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust has become the first
:16:53. > :16:55.organisation to try vaccinating badgers against bovine tuberculosis.
:16:55. > :16:59.It's hoped the three month programme will prove vaccinations
:16:59. > :17:02.are a real alternative to culling badgers, in the fight to stop the
:17:02. > :17:07.spread of TB to cattle. Private donations are paying for the trial
:17:07. > :17:14.at nature reserves in the Stroud Valley. Now, can you name a mammal
:17:14. > :17:17.that lays eggs? Or tell me the capital city of Papua New Guinea?
:17:17. > :17:22.Faced with questions like that, most of us turn straight to the
:17:22. > :17:27.internet. But if you're taking part in a pub quiz, well that would most
:17:27. > :17:34.definitely be cheating. Pub quizzes are worth millions to bars here in
:17:34. > :17:37.the West, but internet phones mean cheating is too easy. So now
:17:37. > :17:47.question-setters are trying to stay ahead of the game - they call it
:17:47. > :17:48.
:17:48. > :17:52.google-proofing. Here's Andrew New data released in Germany
:17:52. > :17:57.strongly suggests that locally produced what were the cause of the
:17:57. > :18:02.E-coli outbreak? A few drinks, a few friends and the temptation of a
:18:02. > :18:07.cash prize. The humble quiz has become the pub game. From small
:18:07. > :18:12.beginnings to a multi-million pound industry. No phones please. A pub
:18:12. > :18:17.will take �200 more on a quiz night. Across the west there are at least
:18:17. > :18:27.250 every week. And at a time when many pubs are closing, that's more
:18:27. > :18:30.
:18:30. > :18:37.than �2 million a year to the trade. We would not want to say anything
:18:37. > :18:40.unless we kept them red-handed. This is our despatch room. Here at
:18:40. > :18:47.the UK's biggest quiz supplier, they're making sure the answers
:18:47. > :18:54.come from quick thinkers, not fast fingers. Each one has the please do
:18:54. > :19:00.not use your mobile phone during the quiz logo. We will constantly
:19:00. > :19:03.look at questions and think, can we come at it from a different angle?
:19:03. > :19:13.You want the same question but Britain had different way, which
:19:13. > :19:16.
:19:16. > :19:20.makes it harder to put the question into a telephone. This distribution
:19:20. > :19:26.centre is one of the go seven days a week. They shipped out 5,000
:19:26. > :19:31.quizzes every week. 150,000 people across the UK taking part in a quiz
:19:31. > :19:34.every single week. Some questions are easier to find than others. Ask
:19:34. > :19:44.how many times Fred Perry has won Wimbledon, and search engines take
:19:44. > :19:51.seconds. But ask about connections. What connects the Swansea City,
:19:51. > :19:55.Peterborough and Stevenage? That's a bit harder. I have definitely
:19:55. > :20:03.seeing people cheating and I have definitely cheated in the past,
:20:03. > :20:06.unfortunately. Using Google. We are a nation of quiz lovers, from
:20:06. > :20:08.crosswords to Suduko. But as technology puts encyclopaedias of
:20:08. > :20:18.knowledge at our fingertips, the battle is on to outsmart the
:20:18. > :20:23.
:20:23. > :20:30.smartphone. We did said he those questions earlier. A mammal that
:20:30. > :20:37.lays eggs, platypus. The capital of Papua New Guinea is chord more
:20:37. > :20:45.speed. Be why get a microwave of and as a prize?! -- do I get. What
:20:45. > :20:50.connects Swansea, Peterborough and Stevenage. I thought it was trains.
:20:50. > :20:56.Not the answer we are looking for. They all reached the play-offs this
:20:56. > :21:00.year. I do not get the holiday! The sequins are out, the sewing
:21:00. > :21:03.machines are whirring, and the dancers are already limbering up.
:21:03. > :21:06.Preparations are in full swing for St Paul's Carnival, which takes
:21:06. > :21:10.place in Bristol this weekend. And today's the day the costume-makers
:21:10. > :21:20.really get going in earnest. Emma Campbell's at carnival headquarters
:21:20. > :21:23.
:21:23. > :21:28.for us now. Hello. It is all pretty quiet at the moment. Come Saturday,
:21:28. > :21:34.this square will come alive. It will be heaving with people, with
:21:34. > :21:39.music. There was a team hard at work making the customs. Let's have
:21:39. > :21:49.a look back at how the carnival has developed since it first began in
:21:49. > :21:49.
:21:49. > :22:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:22:35. > :22:42.As you can see, it is a hive of activity. People making costumes,
:22:42. > :22:47.streamers. These are the water themed costumes. If we move further
:22:47. > :22:53.round, these are the fire themed costumes. The amount of work that
:22:53. > :22:58.goes into those, in terms of putting on the sequence... Let us
:22:58. > :23:03.talk to clear Lake. She is the organiser and one of the performers.
:23:03. > :23:09.How much work goes into this? is a lot of work that goes in. It
:23:09. > :23:14.is something that brings the community together. We are based in
:23:14. > :23:19.Ashleigh House in the centre of St Paul's. It gets more frantic as we
:23:19. > :23:24.go on. We know it has been a difficult time lately. Has it been
:23:24. > :23:31.difficult raising money? It has been difficult. We have been
:23:31. > :23:37.fortunate enough to keep our Arts Funding Council. We are asking
:23:37. > :23:43.everybody to please the text of a donation. That will help us a lot.
:23:43. > :23:52.We have 18 hours of music. Thank you for joining us the match. Still
:23:52. > :23:56.Before we go to the weather, a look at a novel way of controlling the
:23:56. > :24:00.scrub on Bristol Downs. Yes, a herd of six goats were released today.
:24:00. > :24:02.They'll live in a fenced off area for at least the next five years.
:24:02. > :24:10.It's hoped their grazing will enable wild flowers and grasses to
:24:10. > :24:15.enable wild flowers and grasses to I do not understand why they do not
:24:15. > :24:25.heed the wild flowers. I guess they just do not love them. So many
:24:25. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:37.Looking dry for St Paul's Carnival at the weekend. So far as tomorrow
:24:37. > :24:44.is concerned, similar story. There will be a few showers. We will be
:24:44. > :24:54.using a cold front overnight. Skies clearing. High pressure building
:24:54. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:01.hinted tomorrow. A few showers tomorrow. The cloud is thicker as
:25:01. > :25:11.we move further eastwards. Sky is tending to clear from the West this
:25:11. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:19.evening. There have been some lightning showers in the East today.
:25:19. > :25:26.But 4 us, it is essentially a drive story. -- a dry story. Still some
:25:26. > :25:31.cloud. That will tend to fade away as we move into tonight. What those
:25:31. > :25:40.conditions in mind, it will be a mostly cool night. -- with those
:25:40. > :25:49.conditions in mind. Tomorrow will start on a dry note. A good deal of
:25:49. > :25:53.sunshine. As we get to the morning, showers will start to gather.
:25:53. > :26:01.Gloucestershire will be the focus from many of those showers.
:26:01. > :26:08.Pleasant in Bristol, South Gloucestershire. Temperatures
:26:08. > :26:14.tomorrow in the sunnier spots getting up to 17-19 Celsius. C
:26:14. > :26:19.temperature tomorrow about 14 Celsius. -- the sea temperature.
:26:19. > :26:27.There is almost an exact replica of tomorrow. A good deal of dry, find
:26:27. > :26:37.conditions. Temperatures around 18 Celsius. High-pressure starting to
:26:37. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:46.build as beget towards the weekend. -- as we get towards the weekend.
:26:46. > :26:56.This area of low pressure being held at bay for the time being. It
:26:56. > :26:56.
:26:56. > :27:04.bodes well for the St Paul's Let's get back into the boxing ring.
:27:04. > :27:09.We have had some e-mails. Alex, who is a boxer, says that at a recent
:27:09. > :27:15.medical her doctor said he had not tended to any serious trauma in
:27:15. > :27:20.boxing. Rugby and football are far more dangerous. Someone from
:27:20. > :27:25.Bristol has said he does not believe boxing Rees discipline but
:27:25. > :27:33.violence. He and asked, why the Boxing authorities do not adopt the