:00:11. > :00:15.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:
:00:15. > :00:19.The Bristol care homes scandal. Now there's renewed concern about how
:00:19. > :00:21.bad things are at Rose Villa. Defeat for the protesters as
:00:21. > :00:26.councillors prepare the ground for another nuclear power station in
:00:26. > :00:36.Somerset. You create the jobs, we'll cut the rates, the Prime
:00:36. > :00:39.
:00:39. > :00:44.Minister's promise to Bristol. into the enterprise zone and we
:00:44. > :00:48.will actually help you and your business to grow and succeed.
:00:48. > :00:57.love you all. The actor who gave his theatre award it to the
:00:57. > :01:03.character who inspired him. Good evening. Tonight, a new concerns
:01:03. > :01:08.about another of the West's care homes. Four members of staff had
:01:08. > :01:13.already been suspended from Rose Villa in Bristol, now the Care
:01:13. > :01:19.Quality Commission has found failings there. Today, the Prime
:01:19. > :01:25.Minister told Points West if care home providers are not up to shape
:01:25. > :01:34.their homes should be taken away. Winterbourne View is boarded up and
:01:34. > :01:41.closed down. After Panorama film vulnerable patients you being
:01:41. > :01:50.mistreated, now another of our care homes is being investigated. It is
:01:50. > :01:55.also owned by Castlebeck. Inspections have been prompted by
:01:55. > :02:01.that BBC investigation. Seven of their other 23 homes do not comply
:02:01. > :02:04.with standards and there are serious concerns about four others
:02:04. > :02:10.including rose belie here in Bristol where enforcement action is
:02:10. > :02:16.being taken. The manager has been suspended and they are no new
:02:16. > :02:20.admissions. There are particular concerns around an
:02:20. > :02:25.institutionalised style of care. The use of restraint is something
:02:25. > :02:28.they do not wanly used as a last resort. Where there have been
:02:28. > :02:35.incidents they have not been followed up and recorded properly
:02:35. > :02:41.to make sure the learn the lessons. Today the Prime Minister was in
:02:41. > :02:48.Bristol and he had strong words for those involved. We want tough
:02:48. > :02:56.regulation by the Care Quality Commission. If the homes are not up
:02:56. > :03:01.to shape they should be taken away. Castlebeck once again apologised
:03:01. > :03:06.today and promised to put things right. I agree with most of the
:03:06. > :03:13.recommendations put forward. Over the past six months we have already
:03:13. > :03:17.started looking at a whole series of changes we needed to make.
:03:17. > :03:24.reports and inquiries today all shedding fresh light on what was
:03:24. > :03:28.going on. Tonight there are also more developments about
:03:28. > :03:38.Winterbourne View. Our reporter is with me now. What have we found
:03:38. > :03:39.
:03:39. > :03:43.out? Fresh information today from a Freedom of Information request that
:03:43. > :03:52.between the 2006, when the hospital opened, and this year, there were
:03:52. > :04:02.19 complaints raised to the local council. 17 from managers and 15
:04:02. > :04:04.
:04:04. > :04:08.about the staff. Nothing new has been said today. We have been
:04:08. > :04:14.referred to the serious case review which will be brought together what
:04:14. > :04:20.everybody knows and what people knew. We are starting to see the
:04:20. > :04:27.authorities positioning themselves a little bit in response to that.
:04:27. > :04:32.In the statement that was picked out today in response to the
:04:32. > :04:37.airport it is said everybody has the responsibility for that kind of
:04:37. > :04:45.care. You are really starting to see people make sure everybody puts
:04:45. > :04:50.their hands up when a case like this comes out. Christopher
:04:50. > :04:55.Halliwell, the Swindon taxi driver accused of murdering two women has
:04:55. > :05:00.appeared in court via a video link. He is charged with the murder of
:05:00. > :05:03.Sian O'Callaghan be disappeared from a nightclub in the town and
:05:03. > :05:11.Becky Godden-Edwards whose body was discovered in a field in
:05:11. > :05:15.Gloucestershire. He did not enter a plea. The new nuclear power station
:05:15. > :05:23.at Hinckley Point move to step closer this afternoon. An energy
:05:23. > :05:29.company was granted permission to start excavating the site. Anti-
:05:29. > :05:38.nuclear campaigners say if it goes ahead it will spoil the countryside.
:05:38. > :05:43.Our reporter was at the meeting. A beautiful evening here in Somerset
:05:43. > :05:48.but the atmosphere is far from harmonious. After a whole day of
:05:48. > :05:56.debate the future of a new nuclear power station at Hinckley looks
:05:56. > :06:02.likely. The energy company want to strip back land that they might
:06:02. > :06:08.build this new nuclear power side- on. They are yet to have permission
:06:08. > :06:12.from the Government for it. Protesters like in this to laying
:06:12. > :06:17.the foundations for a house for which you are yet to get planning
:06:17. > :06:22.permission. Those against it says stepping back of the beautiful
:06:22. > :06:32.countryside in Somerset for work that may take years to start or
:06:32. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:43.even start atoll is ridiculous. Those go against her allowing the
:06:43. > :06:50.power company to prepare the ground before permission foreign nuclear
:06:50. > :06:58.site is given describe themselves as being in the reef. It is
:06:58. > :07:04.premature to say the least, they say. Some say any delay could cost
:07:04. > :07:09.the area it dear, now and in the future. If it does not go ahead the
:07:09. > :07:14.area will die. Half of the young people will have to leave because
:07:14. > :07:20.there is not much other employment around here. It is a lovely part of
:07:20. > :07:26.the country. You can see why people come here on holiday. But I do not
:07:26. > :07:34.want to see it die. I would like my sons and grandsons to live here and
:07:34. > :07:42.get good well-paid jobs. Others say new nuclear plant -- some say this
:07:42. > :07:47.will bring millions of pounds to the local community. Others
:07:47. > :07:50.disagree. It will be impossible to reinstate this ground to where it
:07:51. > :07:55.is before or so we say this will be a complete waste of time
:07:55. > :08:02.devastating a large area of Somerset countryside for no gain at
:08:02. > :08:09.all. This afternoon councillors, watched by the public on screens in
:08:09. > :08:14.a marquee in the car park, had to weigh up both sides of the argument.
:08:14. > :08:21.I am joined now by two men on of opposing sides of the argument. Why
:08:21. > :08:26.did the council gets the decision so wrong? They did not take on our
:08:26. > :08:31.sensible argument that if there is not permission to build the
:08:31. > :08:33.nuclear-power station itself then this Saviour will have been
:08:33. > :08:42.devastated in vain and could never be put back together again which
:08:42. > :08:47.would be a tragedy for the area. And you're from the energy plant,
:08:47. > :08:52.you think the council made the right decision today? That's right.
:08:52. > :08:57.There will be massive inward investment and jobs for the region.
:08:57. > :09:02.For the nation it will provide a lot of low carbon electricity. We
:09:02. > :09:08.will work with many people to make sure we do the right thing but we
:09:08. > :09:14.are determined to do so. A decision has been made here at West Somerset
:09:14. > :09:19.Council today but the debate is far from over. Two men have been
:09:19. > :09:27.convicted of murdering a Bristol student and his new wife in Antigua.
:09:27. > :09:37.Ben Mullany who was studying at UWE in Bristol and his wife Catherine
:09:37. > :09:38.
:09:38. > :09:41.were shot following a raid on their apartment three years ago. Police
:09:41. > :09:47.investigating the death of a Bristol man in Wales say he could
:09:47. > :09:57.have been the victim of a hit and run accident. He was discovered at
:09:57. > :10:02.the side of the road on 7th July. Officers are trying to trace a
:10:02. > :10:06.three-CD is BMW early on the morning that Mr Hamilton died. The
:10:06. > :10:16.Prime Minister was in the West today. The real reason for his
:10:16. > :10:19.
:10:19. > :10:27.visit was to give at personal go- ahead for a new business
:10:27. > :10:33.regeneration scheme. Arriving by train, this is the first thing you
:10:33. > :10:38.see in Bristol full stock but coming to the rescue of the
:10:38. > :10:45.derelict sorting office, the Prime Minister. He plans to make this the
:10:45. > :10:49.an enterprise zone where new businesses get help to get started.
:10:49. > :10:56.There is rates relief which is vital. Come to the enterprise zone
:10:56. > :11:03.and you will pay less rates, get super-fast broadband, and you will
:11:03. > :11:09.get help for your business to grow and succeed. More entrepreneur's
:11:09. > :11:14.please was the message from today was my visit, encouraging more of
:11:15. > :11:22.the media companies that Bristol is already famous for. There are
:11:22. > :11:28.potentially 20,000 more jobs. talking about a much bigger side of
:11:28. > :11:35.180 acres in total. Over time we can create a lot of jobs here.
:11:35. > :11:40.what if you are just outside the special zone? Inevitably there will
:11:40. > :11:46.be a line drawn down the street. Some will be on the right side and
:11:46. > :11:56.some will be on the wrong side. There are some the areas that are
:11:56. > :11:56.
:11:56. > :12:02.in need of investment. There are those here who seek that a mixture
:12:02. > :12:08.of business and enterprise is just what is needed. In terms of the
:12:08. > :12:12.Environment be want to see food production, entertainment,
:12:12. > :12:17.craftspeople, a part of Bristol that has lain dormant for years we
:12:17. > :12:22.want to see invigorated. Enterprise Zone idea has been
:12:22. > :12:26.widely welcomed. These initiatives often are. Whether it will succeed
:12:26. > :12:35.will become clear once the politicians have left and
:12:35. > :12:39.development work begins later this Bentley for joining us. Stay with
:12:39. > :12:44.us, lots more to come. We will have a full weather
:12:44. > :12:54.forecast shortly, and swashbuckling in the City, why are pirates taking
:12:54. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :12:59.over Bristol? Because they are! Stay with us, that is to come, but
:12:59. > :13:02.first, more news. A Somerset man who took part in
:13:02. > :13:05.nuclear tests in the 50s has been given permission to appeal for
:13:05. > :13:08.damages. 71-year-old Jeff Liddiatt from Portishead is one of a group
:13:08. > :13:11.of veterans who blame the tests for health problems like cancer. They
:13:11. > :13:20.had been told they waited too long to ask for compensation, but today
:13:20. > :13:27.the Supreme Court granted them permission to appeal that decision.
:13:27. > :13:33.It seems to go on and on and on. Every time we come to a position,
:13:33. > :13:38.something else pops up that we have to do to get any further. And even
:13:39. > :13:43.if, next year or later this year, the decision, the appeal is upheld,
:13:43. > :13:47.then the full case is prepared to go to the High Court, and that will
:13:47. > :13:51.take three or four years before it comes to a full hearing. Today's
:13:51. > :13:54.hearing was the third time veterans had been to court in their fight
:13:54. > :13:58.for the right to claim damages. A dementia sufferer from Somerset
:13:58. > :14:04.has been told he will not have his nursing care paid for by the NHS,
:14:04. > :14:06.even though the organisation's own experts said he should. The nurses
:14:06. > :14:09.who assessed 88-year-old Leslie Tushingham said his needs were
:14:09. > :14:15."high", but that was later changed and his application for funding was
:14:16. > :14:21.refused. Age UK says there is an inconsistency about who is eligible
:14:21. > :14:24.for free nursing care. Leslie Tushingham is almost blind
:14:24. > :14:31.and cannot communicate or understand what is going on around
:14:31. > :14:40.him. Since October, he has been paying �3000 a month to stay in
:14:40. > :14:47.this nursing home in Somerset. Very distressing, because you are
:14:47. > :14:52.trying to deal with a person who is very, very sick, and yet you cannot
:14:52. > :15:01.really see what the end of the Financial destruction is going to
:15:01. > :15:04.be forced. His family applied for the NHS to pay because of the
:15:04. > :15:06.severity of his illness, but have just been turned down. Mr
:15:06. > :15:16.Tushingham was recently assessed by specialist nurses who said his
:15:16. > :15:20.behaviour needs were high. But that was downgraded by the funding panel.
:15:20. > :15:25.They changed the scoring from high to moderate and said that he is
:15:25. > :15:30.predictable, not challenging, which is in real contrast to what the
:15:30. > :15:36.experts recommended. The average family would not know how to get
:15:37. > :15:40.through this process, they wouldn't know where to start. As a nurse who
:15:40. > :15:44.works for a law firm, his daughter says she feels able to challenge
:15:44. > :15:46.this decision. NHS Somerset has refused to be interviewed. But in a
:15:46. > :15:48.statement they point out such applications are reviewed against
:15:48. > :15:51.national guidelines and where there is insufficient evidence presented
:15:51. > :15:55.to demonstrate the recommended level of need, the panel will
:15:55. > :16:01.identify this. They are also trying to contact Mr Tushingham's family
:16:01. > :16:02.to explain the appeal process them. But the charity Age UK say this
:16:02. > :16:12.case highlights long-standing inconsistencies with the assessment
:16:12. > :16:13.
:16:13. > :16:17.process. Already, some people can have waited up to 42 days for the
:16:17. > :16:22.decision itself, so then to expect them to go back and a pale and
:16:22. > :16:26.potentially go into quite a lengthy period to either get back all start
:16:26. > :16:30.getting funding, we are talking often substantial amounts of money
:16:30. > :16:35.which people may not need to be paying. His family will now appeal
:16:35. > :16:42.the decision. They believe they will win, but others without the
:16:42. > :16:46.same expertise may not be so confident.
:16:46. > :16:49.Our health correspondent is with us now. Why is there so much
:16:49. > :16:55.inconsistency between who does get this and who doesn't?
:16:55. > :16:59.It is a lottery depending on where you live. The Registered Nursing
:16:59. > :17:04.Home Association did a survey this week and said in some places you
:17:04. > :17:09.are likely to get -- eight times more likely to get this funding. If
:17:09. > :17:16.you look at the national criteria, they say you would qualify if you
:17:16. > :17:20.had eight high needs and several intermediate needs.
:17:20. > :17:27.This care is expensive, can they be expected to fund every case?
:17:27. > :17:31.It is a huge amount of money. Somerset's overall budget for
:17:31. > :17:38.everything is �850 million. 27 million of that last year was for
:17:38. > :17:43.this funding for about 55 patients, about �50,000 per patient. It is a
:17:43. > :17:46.lot of money and will attract a lot of controversy because of that, and
:17:47. > :17:55.also we will have more people requiring it with dementia going up,
:17:55. > :17:58.for instance. A man from north Somerset is
:17:58. > :18:01.walking from Lands End to Inverness and back in full military gear to
:18:01. > :18:04.raise money for his sick son. Two- year-old Ethan Moss, from Winscombe,
:18:04. > :18:08.has a rare condition which causes tumours to attack his body. He is
:18:08. > :18:12.one of just 500 children in the world to suffer from it. No
:18:12. > :18:18.treatment is available here. His parents want to raise �70,000 as
:18:18. > :18:23.they hope doctors in America may be able to help.
:18:23. > :18:28.It will slow the process down by a little bit, which could give him
:18:28. > :18:32.that extra little bit of time for the research centre or consultants
:18:32. > :18:42.to come up with another solution to give him and other children with
:18:42. > :18:44.
:18:44. > :18:49.this condition that extra year off years with their families. -- extra
:18:49. > :18:53.here or extra few years. Nick is hoping to complete the walk
:18:53. > :18:56.by September. It is the eve of the Bristol
:18:56. > :18:58.Harbour Festival. It is 40 years since the event was first held, and
:18:58. > :19:04.today there have been rehearsals and last-minute preparations to
:19:04. > :19:08.make sure it is a birthday to remember.
:19:08. > :19:15.Jules Hyam is there for us now. You are on the boat!
:19:15. > :19:19.It is like your own private harbour side top. This is the Matthew, the
:19:19. > :19:23.replica of John Cabot's 15th century ship, the original of which
:19:23. > :19:28.went all the way to new found land. This replica will be Derek around
:19:28. > :19:31.the harbour this weekend. It is one of many replica ships which will be
:19:31. > :19:41.here this weekend and one of many events which people have been
:19:41. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:50.working hard to pull together today. It is a big gig to prepare for -
:19:50. > :19:53.183 gigs. 22 of them here on the main stage. But, for many, this
:19:53. > :19:56.isn't the main attraction. Over the past 40 years, the Harbour Festival
:19:56. > :19:59.has outgrown the harbour. It now stretches all the way to Castle
:19:59. > :20:04.Park, where these guys are trying to take over.
:20:04. > :20:08.It is mainly fighting, fighting and drinking. That is mainly it, really.
:20:08. > :20:13.What else is a pirate's life? Pirates are just part of more than
:20:13. > :20:17.over 13 hours of circus and street theatre happening here. It is
:20:17. > :20:22.really important, we are the premier showcase for this kind of
:20:22. > :20:26.work in the south-west. There is the Glastonbury Festival, but apart
:20:26. > :20:29.from that it is the premier showcase for outdoor circus and
:20:29. > :20:33.street theatre. Over at Queens Square, it all looked pretty
:20:33. > :20:41.tranquil a couple of hours ago. But come Saturday afternoon, it will be
:20:41. > :20:45.one of the busiest places in the whole of the west.
:20:45. > :20:53.While you are watching that, we were watching fit comp -- watching
:20:53. > :20:56.this, which has literally just arrived in the harbour. It has been
:20:57. > :21:01.a hive of activity all day and will be more so tomorrow before the
:21:01. > :21:06.festival starts tomorrow evening. Will the weather be nice? Fingers
:21:06. > :21:10.crossed, let's see what it does. We are optimistic but we will find
:21:10. > :21:17.out soon enough. Thank you. Now what do you when your
:21:17. > :21:23.mantelpiece is full of trophies? I wouldn't know, but it is a
:21:23. > :21:27.problem Alex faces all the time! But when a Broadway actor recently
:21:27. > :21:29.won a Tony, he decided that, rather than keep his prize, he would give
:21:29. > :21:32.it to the Wiltshire man who inspired his character.
:21:32. > :21:35.Mark Rylance has been playing the lead role, a drug-dealing rogue, in
:21:35. > :21:38.the hit show Jerusalem. And his performance was based partly on
:21:38. > :21:41.Mickey Lay from Pewsey. Lizzie Way went to find out more.
:21:41. > :21:47.Treading the boards in Broadway is a character from right here in
:21:47. > :21:51.Pewsey. Mickey Lay, the local man who inspired Jez Butterworth to
:21:51. > :21:54.write a play about him. When the actor Mark Rylance was cast in the
:21:54. > :21:58.role, he came to visit Mickey for some inspiration. And he has now
:21:58. > :22:03.given him a little thank you. is the original Tony Ward,
:22:03. > :22:07.specially engraved for the pair of you. This is from Mark, from
:22:07. > :22:14.America, saying thanks for everything you have done. This
:22:14. > :22:19.award is just for you two. Well done. The locals might be impressed
:22:19. > :22:28.here, but the man in question was not overly enamoured. It is all
:22:28. > :22:32.right, I suppose. It was given to mark, wasn't it? It is second-hand,
:22:32. > :22:37.really. The play is a huge success in New York. The landlord here went
:22:37. > :22:42.out to watch it and even had a role to play. They jokingly said to me,
:22:42. > :22:47.you will be on stage tomorrow night in the play and I said, yeah, right.
:22:47. > :22:51.But I did take part in the fight scene, so I have been on Broadway!
:22:51. > :22:57.But after the play, Mark asked me if I could take something back for
:22:57. > :23:01.him. I wasn't too sure what it was, but when the cast said what he had
:23:01. > :23:05.done, I thought it was strange. The Tony Award is like a World Cup
:23:05. > :23:08.medal. After he received the award, Mark Rylance said Mickey had been
:23:08. > :23:11.very generous with his time and provided him with inspiration, so
:23:11. > :23:16.deserved the award. It is not the usual way for a Tony
:23:16. > :23:21.award to be presented, and it is not so usual for the winner to be
:23:21. > :23:31.so unforced, but like it or not, Nikkei is now an award-winning
:23:31. > :23:32.
:23:32. > :23:38.character. -- Nick. It is second-hand, that is what he
:23:38. > :23:42.said! Not the longest award winner speech
:23:42. > :23:52.in history! We were talking about the weather
:23:52. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:55.for the harbourside Festival and Let's get the Harbour Festival
:23:55. > :24:04.about the way, it is looking pretty good. I doubt he will need an
:24:04. > :24:10.umbrella, we are looking at a dry spell of weather for the weekend. A
:24:10. > :24:13.fair amount of cloud on Saturday, but pleasant in like winds.
:24:13. > :24:17.Tomorrow will bring some changes as we introduce the threat of showers
:24:17. > :24:21.through the course of the afternoon, but for the most part the key
:24:21. > :24:26.change to today will be a largely County affair with some areas
:24:26. > :24:30.favoured to see more sunshine, but warm nonetheless. It is this
:24:30. > :24:33.weather affront which is causing the subtle changes. I described it
:24:33. > :24:38.at lunchtime as the most boring front in the history of weather
:24:38. > :24:41.fronts, which has not changed in the last few hours, but by tomorrow
:24:42. > :24:46.it straddles the district and will bring cloud and the threat of some
:24:46. > :24:51.showers. The showers tomorrow will not be random, we will have Deasy
:24:51. > :24:56.breeze from the south coast, a prevailing north-easterly tomorrow,
:24:56. > :25:00.and whether two meet the air can only go up, and it will form some
:25:00. > :25:04.showers, particularly in parts of South and Central Somerset, Dorset,
:25:04. > :25:09.South Wiltshire and parts of Wiltshire through the course of the
:25:09. > :25:16.day. Through today, the showers have been a rarity, no spots of
:25:16. > :25:20.rain virtually across the West Country. This rain front is just
:25:20. > :25:24.starting to ease into the east, so the chance of a few spots as we run
:25:24. > :25:29.through the rest of this evening, but broadly speaking a good amount
:25:29. > :25:34.of sunshine still for many, and as the night wears on, the cloud will
:25:34. > :25:41.lower, so we could get some Hill fog in next more. Elsewhere, maybe
:25:41. > :25:46.a spot or two of light rain, but most districts dry, and mild.
:25:46. > :25:49.Tomorrow will start once again with variable cloud, and the chance
:25:49. > :25:54.still of some further light showers north of Gloucestershire, but
:25:54. > :25:58.broadly speaking the morning is dry. Into the afternoon, some sunny
:25:58. > :26:03.spells appearing, but those showers I mentioned earlier, you can see
:26:03. > :26:10.them in the more southern districts. The best of any sunshine will be in
:26:10. > :26:14.the west coast of Somerset. Through the rest of the evening, the
:26:14. > :26:18.showers fading away. In the sunshine tomorrow, I think
:26:19. > :26:24.temperatures will be up to about 22 Celsius, and even under the cloud
:26:24. > :26:27.we should see 20, 21, so another warm day, almost on a par with
:26:27. > :26:33.today, all the parts of Gloucestershire this afternoon got
:26:33. > :26:36.to 25, 26. Looking beyond that, as we lead up towards the weekend,
:26:36. > :26:42.this next weather front is making inroads towards us on Sunday, but
:26:42. > :26:46.for Saturday it is high pressure in charge. By the end of Sunday, the
:26:46. > :26:51.cloud is starting to increase, so it is likely to be a decent start
:26:51. > :26:57.on Sunday, then starting to turn cloudy as the day wears on, but it
:26:57. > :27:00.should stay dry. Greyhounds are in a lot of trouble when they are done
:27:00. > :27:06.with racing, they are often in a world are problems, so if you want
:27:06. > :27:12.to help them out to Ken-do along to this event on Sunday in Bristol. --
:27:12. > :27:18.you can go along. Before we go, there are big
:27:18. > :27:21.problems on the A46 tonight between Bath and Bristol. There has been a
:27:21. > :27:26.crash on the dual carriageway. It involved a car and a lorry and the
:27:26. > :27:30.road has been closed, with long delays in the area and diversions
:27:30. > :27:33.in place. Stay tuned to BBC Radio Bristol, they will let you know the