:00:09. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines tonight:
:00:12. > :00:18.The co-founder of Live Aid urges everyone to help the children dying
:00:18. > :00:28.in Somalia. Midge Ure gives a heartfelt appeal from his home city
:00:28. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:33.in Bath. These people have got no water, no food, no money. If they
:00:33. > :00:37.had money they would have nowhere to spend it. It is beyond
:00:37. > :00:40.comprehension. Also tonight: The secret training
:00:40. > :00:43.base for Churchill's guerilla army. Work reveals another possible
:00:43. > :00:47.underground bunker in Wiltshire. Ready to rock on the beach in
:00:47. > :00:57.Weston as T4 returns to the seaside. And George Bernard Shaw exposed -
:00:57. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.the playwright as you've never seen The co-founder of Band Aid, Midge
:01:01. > :01:07.Ure, is urging people across the West to help the millions starving
:01:07. > :01:10.in the Horn of Africa. The '80s pop star, who lives near Bath, says we
:01:10. > :01:14.mustn't become numb to the shocking pictures being shown of their
:01:14. > :01:16.plight. Just after our programme tonight,
:01:16. > :01:19.leading British humanitarian agencies will broadcast an appeal
:01:19. > :01:21.for donations following concern that refugee camps in Kenya and
:01:21. > :01:30.Ethiopia are struggling to cope with the huge numbers coming from
:01:30. > :01:33.Somalia. In a moment we'll be hearing from Midge Ure, but first
:01:33. > :01:39.Andrew Plant has been finding out how the Somali community in Bristol
:01:39. > :01:42.are doing everything they can to help their people back home.
:01:42. > :01:47.Outside this Mosque in Bristol, buckets for donations after Friday
:01:47. > :01:52.prayers. The Somalian community here have already raised almost
:01:52. > :01:56.�30,000 to help those suffering back home. Today, the rain a minor
:01:56. > :02:06.nuisance and easily avoided. But in East Africa it hasn't rained
:02:06. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:12.properly for two years. More than 10 million are affected. My brother
:02:12. > :02:22.passed away and someone else said that they did not know where people
:02:22. > :02:23.
:02:23. > :02:29.are. The anxiety levels in the Moscow right now are very high.
:02:29. > :02:39.drought in Somalia is forcing mass migration. The situation is dire
:02:39. > :02:40.
:02:40. > :02:44.and people are already dying. People die every day. Many in this
:02:44. > :02:48.West country's O'Malley and community have extended family
:02:49. > :02:58.members affected and they are anxious. News of individuals is
:02:59. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:04.hard to come by. We see all the stories on TV. It is really sad.
:03:04. > :03:09.The money they are sending to Somalia will help save many lives,
:03:09. > :03:16.but with 10 people -- down 10 million people in affected, much
:03:16. > :03:21.more will be needed. Earlier I met up with one of the
:03:21. > :03:26.men behind banded and Live Aid in that the 1980s and started by
:03:26. > :03:33.asking him how he felt about the latest crisis. To be still seeing
:03:33. > :03:42.that happening after all this time, is a horrible experience. I suppose
:03:42. > :03:46.in a way, it was inevitable that it would happen. The problem that is
:03:46. > :03:51.raging out there in the last fe years, we have discovered it is
:03:51. > :03:55.global warm-up -- global warming. The rains would normally fail every
:03:55. > :04:04.10 years and now they feel annually and so the crops disappear. The few
:04:04. > :04:10.animals that they have died. They are left with absolutely nothing.
:04:10. > :04:17.Did you ever imagine that 25, 26 years after a banded, you'd be
:04:17. > :04:22.seeing the same images? I think you'd be naive to think that, as
:04:22. > :04:28.great as those things where and as much asDon people to change their
:04:28. > :04:32.opinions, it would be naive to think that it was going to fix this.
:04:32. > :04:39.It was a sticky plaster and if you were dying as sticking-plaster will
:04:39. > :04:45.not make a difference. It was a motivational thing. It helps people
:04:45. > :04:49.see charity work in a different light. When I was a child, my
:04:49. > :04:54.parents would say to meet think of all the starving kids in Africa to
:04:54. > :04:59.meet you finish a meal, and that was back in the 1950s. It does not
:04:59. > :05:04.go away. People sometimes get a sense of fatigue seeing these
:05:04. > :05:10.images on their TV screens. Do you think it is easy for people to
:05:10. > :05:14.forget that they are parents like you and I? It is all fall four
:05:14. > :05:18.people sitting at home watching this saying, I saw the same thing
:05:18. > :05:23.last year and people keep asking us for more and more. The bottom line
:05:23. > :05:28.is that the level that people -- level of people -- level of poverty
:05:28. > :05:33.out there is on a different level than we have here. We do not hear
:05:33. > :05:41.of done of people starving to death in the UK. I think we live in a
:05:41. > :05:45.switch of football society. We do not have to face it. Because it is
:05:45. > :05:50.not necessarily our immediate problem. The reality is that these
:05:51. > :05:56.are parents just like us, children are just like ours. There is no
:05:56. > :06:04.difference. It is just that we have an awful lot more than they have or
:06:04. > :06:11.that they will ever have. Maybe to as the idea of having to give up
:06:11. > :06:15.your mobile phone or send back your satellite -, that is poverty in our
:06:15. > :06:25.spectrum. Theirs is a whole different thing. They cannot feed
:06:25. > :06:46.
:06:46. > :06:49.their children. It is that simple. In other news tonight, detectives
:06:49. > :06:52.investigating the shooting of Rico Gordon on Stapleton Road in Bristol
:06:52. > :06:55.are looking for a black hooded sweatshirt which may have been
:06:55. > :06:58.discarded by a gunman. The 20-year- old was killed in the early hours
:06:58. > :07:01.of Sunday morning during a gunfight by two groups, both from London. A
:07:01. > :07:05.woman injured in the attack remains in hospital. Police want people in
:07:05. > :07:13.the Belmont Street and St Mark's Road area of Easton to be on the
:07:13. > :07:17.look out for the black top. I would ask anyone in that era to be
:07:17. > :07:21.vigilant, but if they find what they think is this top not to touch
:07:21. > :07:26.it because we need to prayer text it -- preserve it for forensic
:07:26. > :07:29.investigation. The force is working closely with
:07:29. > :07:32.the Met in London, where all the suspects are believed to be based.
:07:32. > :07:35.The man detectives want to question over the death of a 51-year-old
:07:35. > :07:38.woman in a village near Weston- Super-Mare is described as being in
:07:38. > :07:42.a stable condition in hospital. Julie Tottle, who lived in Kewstoke,
:07:42. > :07:45.died from head injuries following a sustained attack. Her husband
:07:45. > :07:51.Stephen Hotson, who police say fell or jumped from an upstairs window,
:07:51. > :07:54.has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.
:07:54. > :07:59.A man is in Frenchay Hospital with serious injuries after an apparent
:07:59. > :08:03.row over a taxi fare. The incident happened at 3 o'clock this morning
:08:03. > :08:07.in the village of Chew Stoke. Today, roads were closed while police
:08:07. > :08:11.examined a taxi on the side of Chew Lane. It's not clear how the man
:08:11. > :08:15.got his injuries. The taxi driver is being questioned on suspicion of
:08:15. > :08:18.causing grievous bodily harm. More secrets have been unearthed
:08:18. > :08:23.today in a forest near Highworth in Wiltshire into the clandestine
:08:23. > :08:26.world of Britain's wartime guerrilla army. Thousands of
:08:26. > :08:32.volunteers were trained on an estate at Coleshill, ready to wreak
:08:32. > :08:36.havoc on the Nazis should they ever invade. A week long dig's just
:08:36. > :08:46.finished, telling us more about Churchill's auxiliary units. Scott
:08:46. > :08:47.
:08:47. > :08:52.Ellis reports. The weeks after the evacuation at Dunkirk, German
:08:52. > :09:00.soldiers had stormed west to the coast. Their generals were ready to
:09:00. > :09:10.invade. Now Adolph had lasted, just as Napoleon's to do more than 100
:09:10. > :09:16.years before. -- Adolf Hitler. response, Winston Churchill set up
:09:16. > :09:20.a secret army. He would wait for the Germans to occupy, then attack.
:09:20. > :09:26.Three-and-a-half 1000 volunteers headed through Highworth to learn
:09:26. > :09:31.the art of assassination and sabotage. They were also literally
:09:31. > :09:37.an underground army, they were trained to spend weeks concealed in
:09:37. > :09:41.shelters. They would go to ground and the Germans would is that --
:09:41. > :09:46.establish themselves, at these guys would come out at night, do the
:09:46. > :09:51.reading of the German's houses, find where the ammunition dumps
:09:51. > :09:55.where and cause as much damage as they could. All week, they have
:09:55. > :10:01.been digging here. Here is the sight of the Secret Army's signal
:10:01. > :10:07.base. Evidence here perhaps of more bunkers used for training, plus
:10:07. > :10:10.bullets and bombs. This was a well- equipped army. They had this kind
:10:11. > :10:16.of machine gun long before the British Army did. They were issued
:10:16. > :10:19.with a whole range of explosives, truck rolled -- truckloads of
:10:20. > :10:26.explosives. They would have caused massive damage to the German
:10:26. > :10:31.advance. This man was in a secret army patrol. He recounts being
:10:31. > :10:39.trained to move quietly in forests. Carry a weapon on that side and
:10:39. > :10:42.then when you move your foot, he will down first, and then... Many
:10:42. > :10:46.of volunteers have never spoken about the auxiliary army.
:10:46. > :10:52.Government files remain under lock and key so digging is the way to
:10:52. > :10:57.find out more. There is another clue - a plaque in nearby harp --
:10:57. > :11:02.nearby Highworth. This women would need the volunteers and take them
:11:02. > :11:07.up the hill for their training. This village was the gateway for
:11:07. > :11:12.the are made. We're glad you could join us on
:11:12. > :11:15.this showery Friday evening. Coming up later in the programme:
:11:15. > :11:22.From her little pony to the dancing dressage horses - we meet our best
:11:22. > :11:25.Olympic medal prospect. And the storm clouds that had a
:11:25. > :11:35.sting in the tail for South Gloucestershire - Ian Furgusson has
:11:35. > :11:36.
:11:36. > :11:39.People living in Filton on the edge of Bristol are worried there will
:11:39. > :11:43.be traffic chaos in the area if the historic airfield becomes a huge
:11:43. > :11:46.housing estate. The airfield owner BAE systems says it's now looking
:11:46. > :11:52.at using the land for a mixture of housing and commercial development
:11:52. > :12:00.when the runway closes next year. A public meeting is being held
:12:00. > :12:05.tonight about the future of the land. People are worried about what
:12:05. > :12:12.is going to replace the air-filled. People do not want to see it go. I
:12:12. > :12:16.think we have to be realistic. They have decided to sell it and there
:12:16. > :12:23.will not be anyone to come along with the amount of money necessary
:12:23. > :12:26.to keep it going so we have to be real and look to the best deal.
:12:26. > :12:29.Plans to keep the Concorde museum on the airfield site - rather than
:12:29. > :12:32.moving it to Cribbs Causeway - will also be discussed tonight, though
:12:32. > :12:35.no decisions will be made. Weston-Super-Mare's economy could
:12:35. > :12:42.be boosted by up to �1 million this weekend, as thousands descend on
:12:42. > :12:45.North Somerset for one of the biggest pop roadshows. The weekend
:12:45. > :12:52.extravaganza T4 on the Beach is a sell-out, and the seaside town is
:12:52. > :13:00.bracing itself for the influx of visitors, traffic and music. Here's
:13:00. > :13:04.Jules Hyam. This weekend at Weston-super-Mare
:13:05. > :13:12.is very much at the heart of the whole of the pop universe. It is
:13:13. > :13:17.all because of this. This festival is back in the town for its 7th
:13:17. > :13:22.consecutive year. This year it is bigger and better. This year there
:13:22. > :13:31.is an you look, new lighting and the stage itself juts right out
:13:31. > :13:34.into the beach to get you, pop fans, much closer to the action.
:13:34. > :13:39.really is that crowd that is unrivalled. His is the best crowd
:13:39. > :13:44.we have in the country so that is why we keep coming back. It is
:13:44. > :13:50.definitely more, more, more of this year. Backstage, we have more at
:13:50. > :13:55.social media. The whole event is streamed live on Facebook. We're
:13:55. > :14:00.also trying to convey a greater sense of where this event is staged.
:14:00. > :14:03.The team have been setting up the whole production for about a week.
:14:03. > :14:08.They have been making it look perfect for the audience and for
:14:08. > :14:14.the millions watching at home, both live and then after each of the
:14:14. > :14:18.repeats. That is all good PR for Weston-super-Mare. We would hope
:14:18. > :14:25.that it would encourage the younger generation to get a first look at
:14:25. > :14:30.the seaside resort and hopefully come back for years to come.
:14:30. > :14:36.Weston-super-Mare's media profile is very much on the up. This is
:14:36. > :14:40.creek cash from the royal family directing his new sitcom. Another
:14:40. > :14:46.TV appearance -- Appearance and another chance to sell the time to
:14:46. > :14:55.visitors. The problem with being a seaside resort is that much of the
:14:55. > :14:59.local economy relies on tourism and that relies on at the weather.
:14:59. > :15:09.Events like this are so important for the area. People will come and
:15:09. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:16.Let us hope the sun shines. Sport now and the good stages of
:15:16. > :15:21.the Twenty20 Cup are moving towards their conclusions. There is an
:15:21. > :15:30.important derby between Somerset and Gloucestershire tonight. He big
:15:30. > :15:36.crowd, I understand. So far so good. It is a sell-out.
:15:36. > :15:43.The seats are all full. About 7,000 or 8,000. Somerset are batting
:15:43. > :15:47.first. We are in the 18th over. Gloucestershire cannot make the
:15:47. > :15:53.quarter-finals but Somerset will need to when, currently in second
:15:53. > :15:57.and with just one match to play. Everyone here is just pleased to
:15:57. > :16:02.see some cricket. Really enjoying it because they have not done well
:16:02. > :16:08.with the weather - four of their eight home matches have been
:16:08. > :16:14.affected. Not great for players or spectators. Twenty20 cricket does
:16:14. > :16:19.generate a lot of revenue so it is not good for their finances either.
:16:19. > :16:24.Everyone very happy to see this game on tonight. Elsewhere, more
:16:24. > :16:29.good news for Wiltshire swimmer Stephanie Millward. She has picked
:16:29. > :16:36.up another gold medal at the Paralympic Championships in Berlin.
:16:36. > :16:42.This time in the 400 metres backstroke. -- 100 metres
:16:42. > :16:51.backstroke. That is to add to her medal in the 400 metres freestyle.
:16:51. > :16:56.She also picked up a silver medal in her 100 metres race on Friday.
:16:56. > :17:03.The latest in our Olympic hopefuls, those who are really making --
:17:03. > :17:06.hoping to make a big impact in London in one year, we are taking a
:17:06. > :17:12.closer look at those who are working hard to be a big part of
:17:12. > :17:17.next week's games. Laura Bechtolsheimer from Ampney St Peter
:17:17. > :17:24.in Gloucestershire is one of our best hopes. She will compete in the
:17:24. > :17:28.dress as. She has been confirmed today as the number two rider in
:17:28. > :17:33.the world. This is where Laura
:17:33. > :17:38.Bechtolsheimer's Olympic dream has been nurtured. Not just the family
:17:38. > :17:45.home in Ampney St Peterborough an equine centre of excellence. It has
:17:45. > :17:51.been dubbed the Hilton of horses. This is the blow dryer for horses...
:17:51. > :17:59.It is all aimed at giving her the best chance for success. The family
:17:59. > :18:04.also breed and trained horses. Before I was old enough to her
:18:04. > :18:10.right, my father had me in his saddle. I have always done
:18:10. > :18:19.something horse related so it is exciting to write horses that use
:18:19. > :18:23.of being born, and to be able to write them later.
:18:23. > :18:30.She has been committing -- competing with her horse Mistral
:18:30. > :18:36.Horjis, or Alf as she calls him, for seven years. Dressage is best
:18:36. > :18:40.described as ballet with horses. It has to be assured man but obedient
:18:40. > :18:49.as well. It is about extravagance of
:18:49. > :18:54.movement. But also, being 100% in harmony and controlled by the rider.
:18:54. > :19:02.I have to look good on top and he looks like he is just doing it
:19:02. > :19:06.himself. This is her first time on a pony.
:19:06. > :19:11.Laura's father has been a big inspiration. As well as buying her
:19:11. > :19:17.first pony when she was three years old, he also competed for Great
:19:17. > :19:23.Britain in the 1990s. She is great under pressure. She
:19:23. > :19:28.excels and is always getting better. It is always nerve-racking, and I
:19:28. > :19:34.am always quite exhausted by the time she is finished.
:19:34. > :19:38.Lord are won silver at last year's world championships but to win
:19:38. > :19:46.Olympic gold, she is likely to be up against the world's most
:19:46. > :19:51.expensive horse, recently bought for a reported �10 million.
:19:51. > :19:59.Jess - horses hardly ever go for that kind of money so it is crazy.
:19:59. > :20:04.-- dress as horses. If I do the best performance that I can, I will
:20:04. > :20:14.be extremely happy. Greenwich Park will help -- host
:20:14. > :20:24.the competition next year. Good luck to her. We are just
:20:24. > :20:25.
:20:25. > :20:30.coming to the end of the 19th over here. 147 for four. They have
:20:30. > :20:34.dished out some hard hats as part of the marketing campaign. We will
:20:34. > :20:43.have to see some more bake sixes before they are used. If you want
:20:43. > :20:48.to hear more, a local radio stations have all the commentary.
:20:48. > :20:52.Thank you very much. Let us hope the rain holds off for you.
:20:52. > :20:57.As set of never seen photos taken by the writer George Bernard Shaw
:20:57. > :21:00.has gone Elton's -- on display in Wiltshire.
:21:00. > :21:08.The exhibition features the thousands of his photos including
:21:09. > :21:14.self portraits, one or two of which have raised a few eyebrows.
:21:14. > :21:19.This proves what most of us have guessed - Bernard's shot is an
:21:20. > :21:27.institution in himself... He gained that status because of
:21:27. > :21:32.his gift forwards. This is him toiling away on a typewriter. Here,
:21:32. > :21:40.at the only gallery dedicated to photography, George Bernard Shaw is
:21:40. > :21:44.in the spotlight. He was known as a great literary
:21:44. > :21:48.voice but he was also clearly an accomplished photographer and a
:21:48. > :21:55.bold one as well. Some of his photographs that have attracted the
:21:55. > :22:00.most attention are his nudes. A little unusual for their time. He
:22:00. > :22:05.did not photograph anyone else in the nude, just himself.
:22:05. > :22:11.The photographs come from a collection held by the London
:22:11. > :22:19.School of Economics, which George Bernard Shaw founded.
:22:19. > :22:23.I have got this down to 150 images, but that was too many, and it was
:22:23. > :22:27.very hard to get it down to a small number of images that were
:22:27. > :22:32.representative of his work. It is a set of images that were
:22:32. > :22:36.well received by the first visitors to the exhibition.
:22:36. > :22:40.I think they are very interesting. Your associate George Bernard Shaw
:22:40. > :22:44.whether writing that this is something very different. It is
:22:45. > :22:51.really quite revealing, what else he was doing apart from writing.
:22:51. > :22:57.It is revealing in more ways than one. Whether it is subtle portrait
:22:57. > :23:03.of nudity or stark seascapes, this is a side of George Bernard shot
:23:03. > :23:07.that is worth a look. I will not see him in the same
:23:07. > :23:11.light again. Yesterday evening there was some torrential rain
:23:11. > :23:21.across the West. We understand that you were out
:23:21. > :23:26.there in Europe -- with your Yes, we were storm chasing
:23:26. > :23:33.yesterday. We have had some lively weather. Small tornadoes reported
:23:33. > :23:39.in Bognor Regis and in Bolton. We have had some lightning as well.
:23:39. > :23:49.Yesterday, if you were in south Gloucestershire at around 9pm, this
:23:49. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :24:02.is how the rain fall looks. This was the sting in the tail. This is
:24:02. > :24:09.not a common sight in the British Isles. Some strong winds in the
:24:09. > :24:19.front of that thunder storm as it marched up the seven. -- the River
:24:19. > :24:24.Severn. If you get good weather pictures, send them to us. For the
:24:24. > :24:30.rest of the weekend, showers will become less of a feature. The
:24:30. > :24:40.balance is tipping towards sunnier and warmer weather. The same story
:24:40. > :24:45.at Silverstone if you're going there for this weekend's Grand Prix.
:24:45. > :24:51.Similar to yesterday, with a few more showers following. It will
:24:51. > :24:59.take a while to lose the last of these. This is the prediction
:24:59. > :25:07.taking things forward from here. Generally, we will lose the showers
:25:07. > :25:11.inland as the night wears on. It will not be a particularly cold
:25:11. > :25:18.night with temperatures getting down to around 11 degrees Celsius.
:25:18. > :25:25.Tomorrow, the balance shifts more towards sunny spells. A moderately
:25:25. > :25:35.breezy day. A few of these showers ft across as well. About 30% chance
:25:35. > :25:39.of catching one of those. By tomorrow evening, the showers are
:25:39. > :25:49.out of the way. Temperatures will feel warm were in those conditions
:25:49. > :25:51.
:25:51. > :25:56.at around 21 Celcius. Sea conditions will mellow as well.
:25:56. > :26:01.Generally try, with better conditions, temperatures getting