:00:10. > :00:18.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. In our headlines
:00:18. > :00:20.tonight: Shot down and left for dead. 23-
:00:20. > :00:23.year-old Rico Gordon was killed outside a Bristol pub and two
:00:23. > :00:25.others are still in hospital. Fly-tipping on railway lines, we
:00:25. > :00:28.discover the true cost of the delays caused by dumping.
:00:28. > :00:33.Some great apes on the loose, celebrating 175 years of Bristol
:00:33. > :00:43.zoo. And bee afraid, the swarms
:00:43. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :00:52.bothering the people of Bath Good Evening. The police in Bristol
:00:52. > :00:57.are continuing to investigate a shooting which left one young man
:00:57. > :01:00.dead and two others, a man and a woman, injured. 23-year-old Rico
:01:00. > :01:03.Gordon from London was killed outside a pub in Easton in the
:01:03. > :01:07.early hours of yesterday morning. It is the third violent incident in
:01:07. > :01:16.the area in a week and there has been a strong reaction from the
:01:16. > :01:26.local community. Police officers continued to scour
:01:26. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:30.the scene on Stapleton Road today. Anything they deemed unusual or
:01:30. > :01:33.possibly significant is marked with yellow and evidence was taken away
:01:33. > :01:36.for further examination. We now have a better idea of what happened
:01:36. > :01:45.here just after 4:00 am yesterday as two rival groups from London
:01:45. > :01:55.chose this as their battleground. There were more trouble shots fired.
:01:55. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:01.Neither of these groups seemed to come from this area. This
:02:01. > :02:05.investigation is taking us to London and we are working hard to
:02:05. > :02:08.arrest those involved. 23-year-old Rico Gordon was fatally
:02:08. > :02:11.wounded two others are in hospital but their injuries are not life
:02:11. > :02:15.threatening. They are a man from London and a 19-year-old woman from
:02:15. > :02:23.Bristol. So far four young men from outside the city have been arrested.
:02:24. > :02:26.Their ages range from just 16 to 23. The shooting follows two stabbings
:02:27. > :02:29.last week and there is no link between the crimes but this
:02:30. > :02:37.community has had enough. One of those stabbings took place here in
:02:37. > :02:44.Abdul Malik's shop. One of the things that we need on this road is
:02:44. > :02:52.a major police operation that goes on for a while where people are
:02:52. > :02:57.searched and made aware that this type of crime will not be tolerated.
:02:57. > :03:03.This will not be tolerated here. And a local councillor says enough
:03:03. > :03:09.is enough. We cannot go on with this escalating violence that we
:03:09. > :03:17.have seen over the last few weeks. I call upon the chief constable to
:03:17. > :03:20.get a grip on this area. The council needs to give people in the
:03:20. > :03:30.East the chair and to live their lives in peace and not be
:03:30. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:33.threatened with violence. -- the chance to live their lives in peace.
:03:33. > :03:36.Senior police officers are keen to stress that progress is being made
:03:36. > :03:39.investigating all three attacks but they know that many in the local
:03:39. > :03:42.community are scared and want action rather than assurances. This
:03:42. > :03:44.is as diverse a road as you will ever find, ethnically, socially,
:03:44. > :03:47.economically, but there's a consensus on this is that these
:03:47. > :03:50.violent attacks must stop and they must stop now. We have seen overall
:03:50. > :03:52.levels of violent crime reduce but this will cause concern and we have
:03:52. > :04:02.got to work harder to ensure that we can prevent these issues
:04:02. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:20.If you travel by train you are probably familiar with the odd
:04:20. > :04:22.delay that is blamed on an obstruction on the line and this is
:04:22. > :04:26.often caused by rubbish being dumped on our railways. It costs
:04:26. > :04:29.Network Rail more than �2 million a year to deal with the problem and
:04:29. > :04:33.this week the company's trying to tackle the issue with a mass clean
:04:33. > :04:36.This may look like a grassy railway bank but nestled in here is tonnes
:04:36. > :04:46.of rubbish that has been dumped illegally. It is a danger and an
:04:46. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:51.eyesore and it is costing millions to get it cleared.
:04:51. > :04:57.Sites like this are completely inaccessible. There is no way to
:04:57. > :05:02.bring a lorry down here and load it up with rubbish. Instead, �30,000
:05:02. > :05:09.is being spent just on this stretch of road, where people will have to
:05:09. > :05:12.remove the rubbish by hand. And the rubbish is not just unsightly. Much
:05:12. > :05:14.of it can pose a danger to the public, like dumped asbestos and
:05:14. > :05:17.syringes. And household waste attracts rats, chewing through
:05:17. > :05:22.cables leaving Network Rail with the inconvenience and cost of
:05:22. > :05:28.repair. Over the next week the clear up will get underway. Network
:05:28. > :05:33.Rail hope that the public will start to get the message. We are
:05:33. > :05:39.working very closely with the local authorities and the British
:05:39. > :05:45.Transport police to stamp this problem out altogether and we are
:05:45. > :05:48.informing people that they should be removing their waste responsibly.
:05:48. > :05:56.If anyone is caught dumping rubbish on railways they can face
:05:56. > :05:59.prosecution and in the worst cases a prison sentence.
:05:59. > :06:02.A Somerset couple brutally attacked and left for dead while on holiday
:06:02. > :06:05.in the Caribbean island of Tobago have been offered less than �3,000
:06:05. > :06:07.each in compensation. Peter and Murium Green say the amount is
:06:07. > :06:17.beneath contempt. Meanwhile Points West has learned that detectives
:06:17. > :06:20.
:06:20. > :06:25.from Trinidad and Tobago will be visiting the Greens this weekend.
:06:25. > :06:27.It does not even cover our legal expenses.
:06:27. > :06:30.The letter from the Trinidad and Tobago Criminal Injuries
:06:30. > :06:33.Compensation Board has left them angry and dismayed. Peter and
:06:33. > :06:36.Murium Green suffered facial and brain injuries that will live with
:06:36. > :06:39.them for ever. But the maximum amount they will be offered in
:06:39. > :06:49.compensation is 25,000 Trinidad dollars. That is a little less than
:06:49. > :06:54.
:06:54. > :07:01.�2,500. It is so unfair. It has affected your wife very badly. How
:07:01. > :07:11.are you feeling? I know I am a burden to my wife. No, you are not.
:07:11. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:19.I cannot continue to be that burden. I need help. Just a recognition...
:07:19. > :07:27.We did not deserve this. They call it a chopping. It is great, isn't
:07:27. > :07:30.it? It was two years ago that the Greens were attacked with a machete
:07:30. > :07:33.and left for dead at their holiday home in Tobago. The BBC has
:07:34. > :07:37.followed their case closely ever since. At one time a local man was
:07:37. > :07:45.arrested but later released and so far no one has been brought to
:07:45. > :07:48.justice. We have learned that this weekend detectives from the
:07:49. > :07:51.Caribbean will fly over to meet the Greens in an attempt to resurrect
:07:51. > :07:55.the enquiry, not that the couple are optimistic. The one lesson we
:07:55. > :08:05.have learned about Trinidad and Tobago is that it disappears in a
:08:05. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:11.week or two and you hear no more. spoke to someone who has taken up
:08:11. > :08:16.the case as he was about to board a plane on foreign business. He says
:08:16. > :08:19.he is disappointed there has it been no progress on this case and
:08:19. > :08:23.has promised to raise it again with the government in Trinidad and
:08:23. > :08:26.Tobago. Peter's health is deteriorating every day. He is
:08:26. > :08:32.finding it harder to walk. But he says he is determined see justice
:08:32. > :08:38.done. You are watching Points West. Good
:08:39. > :08:41.to have you with us. Coming up: We will be looking back at this
:08:41. > :08:43.weekend's St Paul's carnival in Bristol. But before that: $$NEWLIN
:08:44. > :08:53.Tipping the balance in favour of the Brits. The Gloucestershire
:08:54. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :08:59.tennis centre determined to find us A man has been remanded in custody
:08:59. > :09:03.following a fire that destroyed a building in Cinderford. Matthew
:09:03. > :09:06.Pond was charged with arson after the fire broke out at around 3:00
:09:06. > :09:09.yesterday morning. It spread along a row of flats and shops in Market
:09:09. > :09:15.Street and several people had to be rescued by firefighters. The 25-
:09:15. > :09:19.year-old will appear at Gloucester Crown Court next week.
:09:19. > :09:21.There has been a clash in the Commons over the route to be taken
:09:21. > :09:30.by funeral corteges after repatriations are moved away from
:09:31. > :09:33.RAF Lyneham. The Armed Forces Minister said the new route had
:09:33. > :09:36.been chosen in consultation with local people, but the Labour MP
:09:36. > :09:39.Paul Flynn said they were being denied the chance to pay their
:09:39. > :09:40.respects because it wasn't going through the heart of the
:09:41. > :09:44.neighbouring village. Dealing with blocked drains is
:09:44. > :09:47.about to become less of headache for some people in the West. At the
:09:47. > :09:50.moment, homeowners are responsible for sewers up to the point where
:09:50. > :09:52.they join the mains system. Changes to the law which come into effect
:09:52. > :09:59.this autumn mean water companies will take responsibility for
:09:59. > :10:04.thousands of miles of sewers which run under private land.
:10:04. > :10:08.It is a domestic crisis no one wants to deal with. Blocked drains
:10:08. > :10:13.can be expensive and under the current system you can end up
:10:13. > :10:17.paying for blockages in sewers that are not event under tour land. At
:10:17. > :10:22.the moment homeowners are responsible for their own drains
:10:22. > :10:32.are right up and to the point -- until the point they joined up here
:10:32. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:39.in the middle of the road. This all, what are companies will take
:10:39. > :10:45.ownership of many more serious. will be taking over the
:10:45. > :10:49.responsibility of these sewers and relieving the customer of the
:10:49. > :10:55.responsibility and potentially saving a lot of money. Good news
:10:55. > :11:00.for some of their customers but extra expense for the water company.
:11:00. > :11:05.At their headquarters they are taking on 22 new staff to help deal
:11:05. > :11:09.with the rising workload and they estimate 55,000 more blockages a
:11:09. > :11:14.year will become a problem. The company says it will cost them
:11:14. > :11:21.millions but they are welcoming it. We were having to inform the
:11:21. > :11:26.customer that it was not our public sewer system at fault. The customer
:11:26. > :11:29.was unaware that they were responsible. The change please the
:11:30. > :11:34.customer with responsibility for the short length of pipe that is
:11:34. > :11:38.just under their house. It could mean higher water bills in the
:11:38. > :11:48.future but the company says that the rise will be small and will not
:11:48. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:51.An 800-year-old listed building in Bath has been given permission to
:11:51. > :11:55.install double-glazing. St John's Hospital had to convince
:11:55. > :11:58.conservationists that the scheme would not compromise the look of
:11:58. > :12:01.the building. The Bath Preservation Trust has published guidance for
:12:01. > :12:05.occupiers of other historic buildings in the city which
:12:05. > :12:11.explains how to improve the heating of their homes while staying
:12:11. > :12:16.sympathetic to the architecture. Bath had the lions, but now Bristol
:12:16. > :12:22.has aped that with guerrillas. 60 gorillas were let loose from
:12:22. > :12:28.Bristol Zoo today to celebrate the zoo's 175th birthday. We have
:12:28. > :12:34.joined in too without own painted primates. Jules Hyam is in Bristol.
:12:34. > :12:43.Who is your friend? I know you have both met this find
:12:43. > :12:47.the specimen. This is Custard, the BBC children In Need gorilla. He is
:12:47. > :12:51.just one of 60 gorillas which will be dotted around the City of
:12:51. > :12:56.Bristol over the next few weeks. Around almost every corner is a
:12:56. > :13:01.gorilla. Some are very colourful, some are very cool, but they are
:13:01. > :13:07.all proving rather popular. A number of the guerrillas have a
:13:07. > :13:13.real Bristol field to their designs. This one place for City, it would
:13:13. > :13:22.not be a Bristol Fein without disembarking Dunbar now. Some it
:13:22. > :13:26.seemed to have an identity crisis. this is just one of 60 gorillas
:13:26. > :13:30.that have been designed and brought to life by local artists. There is
:13:30. > :13:36.really quite a range. It is not just be big professionals that have
:13:36. > :13:40.been getting involved, there are also 100 smaller gorillas and they
:13:40. > :13:46.have been created by it slightly smaller artist. We were going to go
:13:46. > :13:55.for a silver back but it was not very interesting. So we thought we
:13:55. > :14:03.would use buttons in different colours. The we wanted to make it
:14:03. > :14:08.really colourful. We have used reds, yellows, greens and blues...
:14:08. > :14:12.have got over 100 schools involved in the project. Not just looking at
:14:12. > :14:18.the arcs side of it and the in credit -- the incredible creativity
:14:18. > :14:28.in schools, but also learning about gorillas and conservation problems.
:14:28. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:35.Then of course, there is our very own Custard,. I have not done any
:14:35. > :14:37.painting for ages. It was like being back at school. This is our
:14:37. > :14:45.creation and hopefully it will bring some money to Children in
:14:45. > :14:50.Need. Some of the guerrillas or the static -- saw the city in style on
:14:50. > :14:59.a boat trip. Who says that television is not quite as
:14:59. > :15:03.glamourous as he used to be? May be Custard did not have any fun
:15:03. > :15:07.getting here but he seems to be quite happy year. You can go and
:15:07. > :15:10.find them if they want to or you can go online and find a map and
:15:10. > :15:17.that will tell you exactly where they are. How do you do that?
:15:17. > :15:21.Hopefully, you will see the Web address on the screen now. Let me
:15:21. > :15:26.just show you a little bit more of Custard because he is going to be
:15:26. > :15:32.auctioned off for Children in Need. He has been signed. Laurence
:15:32. > :15:40.Llewellyn-Bowen has taken up all of the head. We have other people here,
:15:41. > :15:46.they little message from all of us, all the best, up from the Points
:15:46. > :15:55.West's team. Alex, you have any but one plays! Can we have another look
:15:55. > :16:02.at it? That is a big kiss. That is my defence. Plus, the boys that
:16:02. > :16:05.have not left any rooms. We have reached the time of year
:16:05. > :16:08.again. The Brits have failed to dominate at Wimbledon and the
:16:09. > :16:11.fingers have started to point out what is going wrong in the British
:16:11. > :16:16.game. Grass roots terraces looking pretty
:16:16. > :16:20.healthy in the West. On Friday, we featured 10-year-old Ola Pittak
:16:20. > :16:25.from Somerset who is already the number one tennis player for her
:16:25. > :16:30.age. Today, so we got has been to a new tennis club in Gloucestershire
:16:30. > :16:35.which has got hundreds reaching for their rackets.
:16:35. > :16:40.Another year, another British disappointment. Britain's only
:16:40. > :16:45.Wimbledon victory came in the boy's doubles. Maybe there is hope in the
:16:45. > :16:51.form of this brand the new tennis club, formed by villagers raising
:16:51. > :16:56.�40,000 and beat Lawn Tennis Association throwing in �100,000
:16:56. > :17:01.more. A quarter of the village has already signed up. You see people
:17:01. > :17:06.walking around the village with tennis racquets on their back. It
:17:06. > :17:09.is lovely to see the excitement. Today's players are from the nearby
:17:09. > :17:13.primary school. They also benefit from the Lawn Tennis Association's
:17:13. > :17:21.cash. In return, the club needs to keep its numbers up and it looks
:17:21. > :17:26.like they might be succeeding. Hopefully I can do a bit more if I
:17:26. > :17:31.can bribe my parents to pay for it. As well as starting them young, the
:17:31. > :17:38.club's professional coach is also hunting for talent. His is also a
:17:38. > :17:42.numbers game and says that the facilities are inclusive.
:17:42. > :17:46.junior rates are cheaper. And the coaching rates are affordable. I
:17:46. > :17:50.can still offer more and more things within the price as the
:17:50. > :17:55.programme grows. Interest could not be higher after the weekend's
:17:55. > :18:05.heroics but naming a champion is even trickier. I do not remember
:18:05. > :18:05.
:18:05. > :18:09.his fame. -- names. Novak Djokovic. The club emerged against the odds
:18:09. > :18:19.and aims to become a shiny example of what is good about British
:18:19. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:25.Bath's Recreation Ground is hosting tonight's Twenty-20 match between
:18:25. > :18:31.Somerset and Essex. The pitch is new and has been prepared on the
:18:31. > :18:35.rugby side of the ground which enables them to use the permanent
:18:35. > :18:40.stands for spectators. Essex won the toss and have decided to bat
:18:40. > :18:48.first. They have scored 209 for five.
:18:49. > :18:53.What do way grip of scored will -- schoolchildren have in common with
:18:53. > :18:56.EastEnders? Children from Chapmanslade Primary are joining
:18:56. > :19:00.together with children from Tower Hamlets to write a musical. Clara
:19:00. > :19:04.Grant was one of the first pupils to attend Chapmanslade Primary in
:19:04. > :19:09.the 1870s. She went down to become a champion of the poor in the East
:19:09. > :19:14.End. Break time at Chapmanslade Primary
:19:14. > :19:19.in Wiltshire. While they play, some of their older brothers and sisters
:19:19. > :19:26.are hard at work recreating life in the pubs of the East End. This is
:19:26. > :19:31.when you stand on the cockroaches. That is be cockroaches legs. This
:19:31. > :19:38.is them scuttling across the floor. This is the rubbish in the street.
:19:38. > :19:41.That is the sound when you get drunk and your head hurts. For the
:19:41. > :19:46.past three days, these children have been working on a musical
:19:46. > :19:49.about one of the school's first pupils. Clara Grant was drawn and
:19:49. > :19:54.brought up in this house opposite the school gates. She became a
:19:54. > :19:59.teacher and moved to London. She transformed the lives of people in
:19:59. > :20:03.the East End and built a school and a community centre. She fed them,
:20:03. > :20:10.cloaked them and gave Tories to children who knew nothing but
:20:11. > :20:17.poverty. She became known as the lady of Bo. She helps the children
:20:17. > :20:22.who did not have much. She built this arch and children that were
:20:22. > :20:28.short enough to go under the arch, were giving a farthing to get a
:20:28. > :20:32.bundle. For boys, it had blue ribbon and for gulls, pink. It made
:20:32. > :20:42.the children feel like they had something. I think she is really
:20:42. > :20:42.
:20:42. > :20:51.good, helpful and nice. It is quite amazing because she came from the
:20:51. > :20:54.school and she went so far. pupils from her village and the
:20:54. > :21:00.pupils from the Tower Hamlets's primary school are working on a
:21:01. > :21:03.musical. It will be performed at a festival on Friday. At Clara
:21:04. > :21:08.Grant's funeral, the streets of London were lined by families who
:21:08. > :21:18.had been helped by her. Now the children from two different
:21:18. > :21:18.
:21:18. > :21:21.communities will come together to Do not be afraid, swarms of bees
:21:21. > :21:25.have been spotted in the centre of Bath. Lots of people came across
:21:25. > :21:31.them on the weekend and have been posting their pictures on Twitter
:21:31. > :21:36.and Facebook. Why are the bees swarming?
:21:36. > :21:43.They certainly look dramatic. These be swarms were swept -- snapped
:21:43. > :21:47.over the weekend. Even Bath's Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams
:21:47. > :21:53.tweeted a snap from her phone. The police put a cordon up but today
:21:54. > :22:03.only a few stragglers were at home. What causes these swarms? They are
:22:03. > :22:08.about having enough room in the hive. When there is a new queen and
:22:08. > :22:16.she takes off, with part of the hive, to establish a new colony,
:22:16. > :22:21.based warm. Or a new queen takes her loyal group and establish his
:22:21. > :22:26.another colony elsewhere as the younger Queen asserts her. These
:22:26. > :22:34.bees show us that they are on the lookout for a new home. What should
:22:34. > :22:39.we do? The main thing to do is not to take off your jacket and start
:22:39. > :22:45.waving it. It is best to stand back. Swarming bees are not there to
:22:45. > :22:52.attack members of the public. Or way want to do is find a new home.
:22:52. > :22:56.When they are in a ball, they are deciding their next move. You have
:22:56. > :23:00.been sending in your pictures too. This was taken at Horton graveyard
:23:00. > :23:07.in South Gloucestershire yesterday. And today, they have been spotted
:23:07. > :23:13.at Bristol's Corn Street too. If they make themselves a home in your
:23:13. > :23:20.home, you need a beekeeper did take them away for you because they are
:23:20. > :23:25.a protected species. If you have seen any in unusual
:23:25. > :23:31.places, do let us know. They showed in Clevedon has been
:23:31. > :23:34.named shed of the year after becoming a cult music venue. A
:23:34. > :23:40.reporter went to see the shed last month when it was nominated for the
:23:40. > :23:47.award. John L set up a Songs From The Shed website two months ago and
:23:47. > :23:57.invited musicians to record their. Do stay with us for the best bits
:23:57. > :24:03.of the carnival. First of all, now It is all change. A pleasant
:24:03. > :24:13.evening to come. Get yourself down to the big screens if you are into
:24:13. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:20.the opera because that millennium's square in Bristol, there will be
:24:20. > :24:24.Madam Butterfly. Different story tomorrow as a band of rain comes in
:24:24. > :24:34.from the West. We will have an unsettled spell of weather through
:24:34. > :24:37.
:24:37. > :24:41.the second half of the week. Tomorrow morning, of you can see
:24:41. > :24:47.the band of rain moving in. This evening, by contrast, pleasant
:24:47. > :24:55.enough with a lot of hide serious cloud. The sunshine is
:24:55. > :25:05.progressively hazy. Light winds. The first signs of the Cold Front
:25:05. > :25:11.moving in. A noticeably mild night. Tomorrow morning, by a bout 6:00am,
:25:11. > :25:18.7:00am, the rain will have moved into Lynmouth. Just after the rush-
:25:18. > :25:23.hour, it will slip its way to the east of the M5. It will stay over
:25:23. > :25:27.our district until the middle part of the day. By late afternoon,
:25:27. > :25:37.through the evening, some dryer, brighter spots. Still the chance of
:25:37. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:47.one or two showers. Temperature wise tomorrow, it will be a lot
:25:47. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:58.fresher. It will also be breezier. Sea conditions, a fairly flat. That
:25:58. > :26:08.is positive if you are heading out. The graphics say it all. A breezy
:26:08. > :26:08.
:26:08. > :26:13.set up with further showers to come. That takes us all the way to Friday
:26:13. > :26:22.and the weekend. The low-pressure will be with us right until the
:26:23. > :26:30.weekend. For the British Grand Prix, take an umbrella and tent.
:26:30. > :26:33.That is it from us. Before we go, we will leave youth brought -- we
:26:33. > :26:37.will leave you with some pictures from St Paul's Carnival this