:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West.
:00:13. > :00:16.Our headlines tonight: The tragedy of a neglected toddler. Little
:00:16. > :00:21.Daniel drowned in a garden pond, his parents and grandmother are
:00:21. > :00:26.guilty of not looking after him. New insights in the turbulent
:00:26. > :00:30.marriage of Shrien and Anni Dewani. Another phone hacking story but
:00:30. > :00:34.this time it's a drill that cuts hundreds of lines.
:00:34. > :00:37.Happy birthday Bristol Zoo! We will be live here at a special party
:00:37. > :00:47.with hundreds of people and Larry the Lima as they celebrate 175
:00:47. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:53.Good evening. A little boy who was neglected by
:00:53. > :00:56.his mother, father and grandmother fell into a pond and drowned, and
:00:56. > :00:59.nobody noticed. Two year old, Daniel Rees-Smith, was at his
:00:59. > :01:02.grandmother's house in Hanham when the tragedy happened.
:01:02. > :01:10.Today, charges of manslaughter against his family were dropped and
:01:10. > :01:13.they pleaded guilty to not properly caring for the boy.
:01:13. > :01:18.Grandmother, Hilary Rees, who was looking after Daniel when he died
:01:18. > :01:20.refused to comment as she left court. Daniel's mother, Charlotte,
:01:21. > :01:26.and his dad, Andrew Marshall, also wouldn't answer questions about why
:01:26. > :01:30.the little boy was left alone. Daniel was discovered in the pond
:01:30. > :01:33.late on the Friday evening of June 4th last year. He was rushed to
:01:33. > :01:37.Bristol's children's hospital where he was pronounced dead. He'd fallen
:01:37. > :01:41.into this pond in the back garden of his grandmother's house in Mount
:01:41. > :01:45.Hill Road, Hanham. His parents were in the nearby Cross Keys pub while
:01:46. > :01:47.Hilary Rees was in left charge of the two year old. After his death
:01:48. > :01:54.both Charlotte Rees-smith and Andrew Marshall left emotional
:01:54. > :01:58.messages about their son on Facebook. In court they spoke only
:01:58. > :02:01.to confirm their names, but Daniels' mother cried in the dock.
:02:01. > :02:04.The charges of child neglect covered a period between April 2009
:02:04. > :02:12.and June 5th 2010 for both women and for Andrew Marshall just for
:02:12. > :02:15.the one day - the day that Daniel died. In accepting the guilty pleas
:02:15. > :02:20.to child neglect, Rupert Lowe for the prosecution said "This was not
:02:20. > :02:23.an easy decision to make. But we took into account the public
:02:23. > :02:30.interest". The prosecution then formally withdrew the charges of
:02:30. > :02:32.manslaughter against all three defendants. The judge told the
:02:32. > :02:36.three that they had committed serious crimes and they shouldn't
:02:36. > :02:45.take any indication from the fact he was granting them bail. All
:02:45. > :02:48.three will be sentenced next week. A group of travellers have moved
:02:48. > :02:52.into an industrial estate in Bristol. They arrived at the
:02:52. > :02:55.Liberty Industrial Park over the weekend. A local businessman, who
:02:55. > :02:58.rents a nearby unit, said it's the second time this year a convoy has
:02:58. > :03:01.moved onto the estate. The travellers are due to be evicted
:03:01. > :03:05.this evening. A new rehabilitation centre in
:03:05. > :03:08.Wiltshire for injured soldiers has taken in its first patients today.
:03:08. > :03:11.�17 million has been spent turning Tedworth House in Tidworth into a
:03:11. > :03:21.specialist recovery centre. It's one of five centres being opened by
:03:21. > :03:22.
:03:22. > :03:25.the charity Help for Heroes across the country.
:03:25. > :03:28.The residents of 21 care homes in the West are facing an uncertain
:03:28. > :03:31.future after today's news that Southern Cross is closing down. The
:03:31. > :03:33.company is the biggest care home operator in the country. Our
:03:33. > :03:36.business correspondent, Dave Harvey, has been looking at the
:03:36. > :03:46.implications. Dave, does this mean these homes will close down as
:03:46. > :03:47.
:03:47. > :03:52.well? The biggest question is just that, although Southern Cross is
:03:52. > :03:57.getting out of the business, the homes continue. First of all there
:03:57. > :04:03.are 21 homes across the West Country. This is Haven Lodge at
:04:03. > :04:07.Portishead. About 200 people live there. Paid for mostly by the NHS
:04:07. > :04:12.and the local council. Mick is run by Southern Cross but it is not
:04:12. > :04:16.owned by Southern Cross. Like all there of the homes, there is a
:04:16. > :04:21.landlord that owns the building. Up until now those landlords have
:04:21. > :04:25.thought they could do better job of it, both for their shareholders and
:04:25. > :04:29.themselves making profits, but also for the residents and relatives
:04:29. > :04:32.providing better care by being part of Southern Cross. That has all
:04:32. > :04:36.gone, Southern Cross are in deep financial trouble and they are
:04:36. > :04:42.getting out and handing the homes back to the landlords. So the
:04:42. > :04:44.landlords are left in the lurch, what are their options? Some of the
:04:44. > :04:49.landlords are care organisations and they will be trying to run
:04:49. > :04:54.these homes themselves and do a better job of it. They will be
:04:54. > :04:58.smaller, but others will try to sell them on. What is worrying is
:04:58. > :05:02.this is Britain's biggest care provider and they run 750 homes
:05:02. > :05:07.across the country. People are thinking, if they cannot make money,
:05:07. > :05:10.how can people make an honest living and still look after people?
:05:10. > :05:15.What should relatives be doing or thinking at the moment? All they
:05:15. > :05:19.can do is contact the home and ask them what is happening. People are
:05:19. > :05:25.desperately worried, but is the Government going to step in? MPs
:05:25. > :05:35.are saying banks are too big to fail, but care homes are much more
:05:35. > :05:37.
:05:37. > :05:41.important. Ministers have said We will be watching to see if they
:05:41. > :05:44.will keep their word. This is Monday's Points West with
:05:44. > :05:48.Alex and David. Thank you for joining us.
:05:48. > :05:54.Coming up in tonight's programme: The new fuel at the Pump Rooms -
:05:54. > :06:04.could there really be power hidden in slime? And fluke or future star?
:06:04. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:09.We meet the schoolboy cricketer already breaking records at 12.
:06:09. > :06:12.A documentary being shown tonight will be making new claims about
:06:12. > :06:15.Anni Dewani's state of mind before she was shot dead on her honeymoon
:06:15. > :06:17.in South Africa. The Channel Four Dispatches programme "Murder on
:06:17. > :06:21.Honeymoon" investigates her death, shortly after her marriage to
:06:21. > :06:23.Bristol Businessman, Shrien Dewani. He denies being involved in her
:06:23. > :06:28.murder, although the South African authorities want him extradited to
:06:28. > :06:30.stand trial. The programme tonight has exclusive access to Anni
:06:30. > :06:39.Dewani's family, and earlier I spoke to the producer, Dimitri
:06:39. > :06:43.Collingridge, about tonight's programme.
:06:43. > :06:49.We are looking at the two sides of what the South Africans are
:06:49. > :06:56.alleging happened and what Shrien Dewani says happened. We have also
:06:56. > :07:02.spent a lot of time with Anni Dewani's family. They have told us
:07:02. > :07:07.a lot about the relationship they had from their point of view.
:07:07. > :07:16.do, you mention her family, I know you have spoken to her father.
:07:16. > :07:20.Let's look at a clip of that. According to the family, before the
:07:20. > :07:27.wedding Shrien Dewani told Anni Dewani he did not believe in sex
:07:27. > :07:34.before marriage. This undid him to her father. I said that you should
:07:34. > :07:43.be very proud of that, what a nice boy. It is part of the Hindu
:07:43. > :07:52.culture and they commented on that to my daughter. She would find that
:07:52. > :07:55.funny, but according to Hindu culture it gives respect to the
:07:55. > :07:58.voice. There is new evidence to talk about
:07:58. > :08:03.in the programme of her communications with her family
:08:03. > :08:08.about her marriage, can you tell us any more? We understand she
:08:08. > :08:15.discussed the possibility of divorce with friends and family.
:08:15. > :08:20.She had on one occasion described Shrien Dewani as a monster. She
:08:20. > :08:27.said of though he was a really nice guy, she wasn't happy with him at
:08:27. > :08:33.all. That is what we understand. was she saying this to? Befriend.
:08:33. > :08:37.You also spoke to the lawyer of the taxi-driver accused of the murder.
:08:37. > :08:44.We have another club if we can look at that.
:08:44. > :08:53.The taxi driver was never assaulted or tortured and there was never any
:08:53. > :08:58.price placed on him. Independently of each other, they tell the same
:08:58. > :09:06.story about a plot that was hatched to kill the female occupant of the
:09:06. > :09:16.taxi. That, I believe some answers. Obviously he is defending his
:09:16. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:21.client. Briefly, what's have Shrien Dewani's family had to say to you?
:09:21. > :09:25.He is family and the husband himself have declined to comment.
:09:25. > :09:30.Then there are lots of conflicting stories and they are all
:09:30. > :09:34.allegations and they remained at unless there is eventually a trial.
:09:34. > :09:37.It is on tonight, and thanks very much for joining us.
:09:37. > :09:41.We contacted the publicist, Max Clifford - he's the spokesperson
:09:41. > :09:44.for the Dewani family and is featured in tonight's programme. He
:09:44. > :09:47.told us that the family say, "the South African police have declined
:09:47. > :09:55.to interview Shrien. The matter is before the courts where all issues
:09:55. > :09:58.will be raised and his name cleared".
:09:58. > :10:01.Engineers from British Telecom says they are working around the clock
:10:01. > :10:03.to restore services to hundreds of homes and businesses in Gloucester.
:10:03. > :10:08.Phone and internet connections were lost when drilling by Severn Trent
:10:08. > :10:12.Water cut through underground cables.
:10:12. > :10:15.Claire Higgs isn't alone - far from it. At least 1,400 other homes and
:10:15. > :10:25.businesses in Gloucester have been without their phone and internet
:10:25. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:30.access for four days now. Are we going to get compensation
:10:30. > :10:35.for it? Who knows. Dear thing you should get compensation? Yes,
:10:35. > :10:41.people like me on BT vision, we don't have an internet, we don't
:10:41. > :10:43.have television challenge. My kids are missing out. For Claire it's a
:10:43. > :10:46.costly inconvenience but for others, this doctor's surgery for example,
:10:46. > :10:48.it's causing real problems contacting patients and hospitals.
:10:48. > :10:51.It happened on Thursday when drilling for Severn Trent Water,
:10:51. > :11:01.which is working to improve Gloucester's flood prevention, cut
:11:01. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:06.through eight BT cables. On this map on the side of the construction
:11:06. > :11:11.site fence, details of what lies beneath from cable TV, two gas
:11:11. > :11:15.pipes, electricity, water. That should tell engineers exactly what
:11:15. > :11:17.is Underground. In Longlevens and near the city centre it seems there
:11:18. > :11:26.are BT engineers everywhere working to restore the services. But some
:11:26. > :11:32.can't afford to wait. It has caused havoc. I lost two deals because of
:11:32. > :11:37.it at the weekend. Not being able to get in touch with customers to
:11:37. > :11:43.make appointments so they have gone elsewhere to buy cars. Explain to
:11:43. > :11:47.us what that dongle does. It gives me mobile broadband, so I have to
:11:47. > :11:50.spend �20 to get mobile broadband so I can get in touch with my
:11:51. > :12:00.customers. This is the culprit - the underground drill known as the
:12:00. > :12:03.Aussie mole. Neither Sever Trent nor BT were available for interview
:12:03. > :12:08.by us today but both are apologising and hope normal service
:12:08. > :12:11.will be resumed as soon as possible - maybe by the end of the week.
:12:11. > :12:14.A campaign to make Frome the first town in Somerset to have a 20mph
:12:14. > :12:17.speed limit on every residential street has been launched. Those
:12:17. > :12:21.behind the "20 is Plenty" campaign say it would make the roads safer
:12:21. > :12:23.and encourage people to walk and cycle. But critics claim it would
:12:23. > :12:33.make little difference, after police said it's not practicable to
:12:33. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :12:53.To be hunt continues for for alternative at fuel. This
:12:53. > :12:59.alternative is green, slimy and lives in baking hot temperatures.
:12:59. > :13:04.For nearly 2,000 years, these Waters have been believed to cure.
:13:04. > :13:11.Lurking beneath the murky depths, researchers from the University of
:13:11. > :13:18.Baath believe they have a remedy for carbon-based of pollution. This
:13:18. > :13:23.algae contains oil which can be used. We have managed to isolate a
:13:23. > :13:27.clean-up seven species. We are looking at to see what sort of
:13:27. > :13:32.temperatures they prefer, and what sort of products they make. If they
:13:32. > :13:37.make oil, that is what we would make diesel from.
:13:37. > :13:41.Does it have a practical future? The team say that although the
:13:41. > :13:51.converting process is expensive, farming algae uses a less land than
:13:51. > :13:52.
:13:52. > :13:56.crop based bio Fuels. Because our they are more sufficient, you need
:13:56. > :14:06.a fraction of the amount of land to produce the same amount of fuel.
:14:06. > :14:07.
:14:07. > :14:10.Are they can accumulate in the region of 50% of their dry weight.
:14:10. > :14:14.It is potentially an efficient way of producing an alternative to
:14:14. > :14:17.fossil fuels. The team have much work to do to
:14:17. > :14:25.identify the other species beneath the Waters, which could help power
:14:25. > :14:30.the future. Who knows? One day, these ancient Waters could have
:14:30. > :14:34.another claim to fame. A younger power lifter from the
:14:34. > :14:39.Forest of Dean has been crowned a world champion at the Special
:14:39. > :14:49.Olympics in Athens. Myth and Fisher won a gold, silver and two bronze
:14:49. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:53.medals. -- Nathan and Fisher. Today, he came back to his gym.
:14:54. > :14:58.As a world champion and gold medallist, he is getting used to
:14:58. > :15:03.the trappings of fame. On Saturday, he was guest of honour at a large
:15:03. > :15:09.dinner. Today, he received a hero's welcome at the gym where he trains.
:15:09. > :15:19.He is obviously happy to lap up the limelight. We have known him a long
:15:19. > :15:24.time, he is a tremendous young man. It is good for the club as well,
:15:24. > :15:28.Betty has achieved what he has. came through and conquered the
:15:28. > :15:32.situation. It was not only physical, but mental power. That is what we
:15:32. > :15:36.all need. Nathan's achievements have been
:15:36. > :15:39.outstanding. What makes the more remarkable is that he was born with
:15:39. > :15:45.a condition which meant he could not walk until the age of three.
:15:45. > :15:55.Not only that, before the condition there -- competition, he came down
:15:55. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :16:04.with food poisoning and was on a drip. I am so happy. I have focused
:16:04. > :16:11.my mind. I do my best. What he achieved his of the planet. Being
:16:11. > :16:15.ill, on a drip, like food for 24 hours, goes out and performs lifts
:16:16. > :16:21.of that calibre? Amazing. There is no stopping making. After
:16:21. > :16:25.showing of his medals, he was soon back to training. This week, we
:16:25. > :16:28.have 10 or 11 sessions. A lot of people want to speak to him, see
:16:28. > :16:32.his medals and have a chat to him, congratulate him. It will be a busy
:16:32. > :16:37.week. Nathan is now preparing for the
:16:37. > :16:45.British championships in the autumn. He will defend his title at the
:16:45. > :16:54.Special Olympics in 2015. You have to be really focused to
:16:54. > :16:57.get that fit. Now to another young man destined
:16:57. > :17:00.for sporting excellence. In Somerset, they are busy doing their
:17:00. > :17:03.research to see if 12-year-old Owen Price has set a new cricketing
:17:03. > :17:06.world record. Coming in to bowl for Westlands Under 12s in Yeovil he
:17:06. > :17:10.took a hat trick - that's three wickets in three successive balls.
:17:10. > :17:13.Quite special for any bowler at any level, of course. But then in his
:17:13. > :17:21.next over - he did it again! It's thought he could be the youngest
:17:21. > :17:25.person ever to take a double hat trick.
:17:25. > :17:30.First wicket I bowled round his legs, second one straight through
:17:30. > :17:35.the gate and it hit middle stump, the third one I bowled off stump
:17:35. > :17:38.and it clipped the stump. By any standards Owen's figures make
:17:38. > :17:48.impressive reading. Two hat tricks in two overs and he ended the game
:17:48. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:53.with figures of six for six. wickets in a row. Not bad?
:17:53. > :17:56.No-one was more surprised than former Somerset batting hero Jimmy
:17:56. > :18:04.Cook, who now coaches the youngster at county level. Owen is Somerset's
:18:04. > :18:08.under 12 wicket keeper. It just shows, he got six wickets in six
:18:08. > :18:11.balls. He is a talented young boy, he can turn to bowling and he is
:18:11. > :18:18.probably a good tennis and football player. We were surprised that he
:18:18. > :18:23.bowls very well. Were you throw away the wicketkeeper gloves?
:18:23. > :18:28.will stay as keeper. Are you telling me six in six was a fluke?
:18:28. > :18:31.Probably! Only last week Somerset's Arul
:18:31. > :18:33.Suppiah set a new world record by taking six wickets for five runs in
:18:33. > :18:36.a 20-20 game. Now everyone is frantically
:18:36. > :18:44.searching the record books to see if Owen at 12 is the youngest
:18:44. > :18:49.player ever to take a double hat trick. It could well be the case.
:18:49. > :18:54.We have not looked in detail added that it is possible. I think a 13-
:18:54. > :19:04.year-old has done it fairly recently but he is only 12.
:19:04. > :19:12.
:19:12. > :19:16.Maybe he needs tougher opponents. Your foot was over the edge!
:19:16. > :19:20.Now, we are off to the zoo. There are not many institutions that can
:19:20. > :19:25.claim to have entertained six generations of families, but
:19:25. > :19:34.Bristol Zoo is one of them. Today it celebrates its 175th anniversary
:19:34. > :19:39.with a big party. We took a sofa to the zoo to meet Terry Nutkins, who
:19:39. > :19:45.was presenting a special programme directly after Points West, about
:19:45. > :19:55.the zoo. He has been reminiscing about Animal Magic, filmed in is
:19:55. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:01.very studio. First of all, we are sitting on our.
:20:01. > :20:07.West sofa. We are privileged. Welcome back to Bristol Zoo. How
:20:07. > :20:10.does it feel to be back? It is a great pleasure. It is great to see
:20:10. > :20:18.all of the new enclosures and Hallett has changed over the last
:20:18. > :20:21.30 years. It has. Reminders about them. It was 30 years ago that I
:20:21. > :20:31.first came here with Johnny Maurice. He was the presenter of Animal
:20:31. > :20:31.
:20:32. > :20:40.Magic. He spent a lot of time here. I came along on a couple of
:20:40. > :20:45.occasions, it brings back nice memories. Also, it is good to see
:20:45. > :20:50.the way that the zoo has moved on in those last 30 years. Back in the
:20:50. > :20:57.day, the elephants would literally wander around outside the
:20:57. > :21:00.enclosures. Yes. That was rather lovely, in its way. They used to be
:21:01. > :21:05.rides on the llamas and elephants. The animals just walked around with
:21:05. > :21:10.their keepers, chimpanzees. Then, environmental health and safety
:21:10. > :21:19.came on board, and put an end to all of that. The thing that Bristol
:21:19. > :21:24.Zoo have done is successfully breed animals in captivity and then --
:21:24. > :21:31.across multiple generations. Many zoos are now involved in releasing
:21:31. > :21:35.animals back into the wild. Back in the day when you were here, it is
:21:35. > :21:40.often quoted in television never to work with animals. There is footage
:21:41. > :21:45.of Johnny Maurice with a gorilla which has just given birth, and
:21:45. > :21:50.hands the baby to Johnny. That was the most wonderful piece of animal
:21:50. > :21:55.footage in the world. Every time I see it, it makes me feel so soft
:21:55. > :22:03.inside. Do not you think you had better support your baby's head,
:22:03. > :22:07.Delilah? If you are so blinking clever, you look after him! OK, but
:22:07. > :22:11.only for a moment! I say, he is quite heavy.
:22:11. > :22:16.I spoke with Johnny many times about it. Because he knew about
:22:16. > :22:20.animals, he was quite nervous about that situation. Animals can change
:22:20. > :22:26.rapidly. All of a sudden, the mother could have thought, what are
:22:26. > :22:32.you doing with my baby? But none of that happened. It was just a
:22:32. > :22:39.magical television moment. In the programme of looking back you have
:22:39. > :22:44.been working on merit -- there are a lot of lovely moments, memories
:22:44. > :22:53.of this place. Yes. A lot of older people, at my age, who were here in
:22:53. > :22:57.those days, they remember Johnny with the elephants. The hosepipe,
:22:57. > :23:04.the kids leaping and the water everywhere. It was all good,
:23:04. > :23:10.natural form. The journey that Bristol Zoo has gone through, we
:23:10. > :23:18.tried to get into a half-hour programme but we needed more.
:23:18. > :23:23.tricky! There is so much more. love the zero, the animals and the
:23:23. > :23:29.World of animals. They want animals to be happy in the wild and in
:23:29. > :23:32.these two. The animals are content. The zoo has a passion. It is
:23:32. > :23:37.wonderful to reminisce with you about it, so thank you for taking
:23:37. > :23:44.the time. It is a pleasure. Good to meet you, I hope you enjoy these
:23:44. > :23:47.two. Definitely. That was such a treat! We go to
:23:47. > :23:51.these do now. What is happening there?
:23:51. > :23:57.There is a great party atmosphere at this special picnic for the
:23:57. > :24:01.175th birthday of these two. It is for staff, former staff, family and
:24:01. > :24:04.friends. Everybody is having a great time. There is so much
:24:04. > :24:09.history in this place. If the animals could talk, they could tell
:24:10. > :24:16.us a few stories. We will have to make do with the people. Over here
:24:16. > :24:20.is the man who was the zoo director from 1974 till 2001. You remember
:24:20. > :24:27.the 125th birthday, 50 years ago! What are your best memories of
:24:27. > :24:37.these two? The most memorable is being here when an elephant fell
:24:37. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:44.over. That was chaotic. I always remember that day. It was an
:24:44. > :24:54.amazing attraction back then, hundreds of thousands came every
:24:54. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:10.week. In 1967, 35,000 people came. They do not get that in one month,
:25:10. > :25:14.now. -- 35,000 people came every week.
:25:14. > :25:20.This man, John Partridge, what are your favourite memories over the
:25:20. > :25:25.years? Everything is brilliant. The staff are fantastic. My first
:25:25. > :25:30.memory of working here is starting with Samson, the silver back
:25:30. > :25:35.guerrilla her. He was the father of the first baby gorilla born in the
:25:35. > :25:41.UK in 1971. I love that sort of thing. I have worked with elephants
:25:41. > :25:46.and giraffes. We all remember Wendy the elephant. I worked with her for
:25:46. > :25:51.20 years, off and on. I would walk around and introduce it to young
:25:51. > :25:55.people. There have been a lot of memorable experiences. There are
:25:55. > :26:04.plenty of events taking place throughout the summer, checkout
:26:04. > :26:12.these two's website. What a nice look back. -- the zoo's
:26:12. > :26:22.website. Tomorrow, dry for many with some
:26:22. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:31.showers around. Tomorrow will essentially be a day of numerous
:26:31. > :26:37.showers developing through the afternoon, particularly this area
:26:37. > :26:43.of pressure over France. South Wiltshire and Dorset will see rain.
:26:43. > :26:47.A fine evening to come, Variable cloud around and balmy conditions,
:26:47. > :26:53.light winds. The cloud will increase across southern districts
:26:53. > :26:59.as the night wears on, but remaining drive. Tomorrow, a mild
:26:59. > :27:05.affair. Starting with a good deal of cloud, but essentially dry,
:27:06. > :27:10.sunny spells will develop. Into the afternoon, showers form over the of
:27:10. > :27:20.plans of West Somerset. Probably over The Cotswolds as well. Some of
:27:20. > :27:21.