26/07/2011 BBC Points West

Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:

A murder case re-opened. New appeals to find out what happened

to the personal trainer who simply vanished. It baffles me that

someone can be here one minute, then disappear without trace. It is

a concern volley that there is no evidence of where he has gone on

what has happened to them. Fasten your seatbelts - We meet the first

captain of tourist flights into space. Insects in the city - the

study to find why bees prefer town to country. And here comes the

bride - Zara Phillips back in the saddle after that wedding.

Detectives have relaunched a murder hunt in Wiltshire - in the hope of

catching the killer of Donovan Van Lill. He disappeared from his home

in Chippenham, and earlier this year his friend, Martin Sugden was

cleared of murder. Today police have released dozens of CCTV images

- but despite the renewed appeal - many are asking if his killer will

ever be caught. Scott Ellis reports. A popular fitness instructor, whose

body has never been found. Donovan Van Lill went missing on Master

Glass year. The search became a murder hunt. In August 2010, his

mother flew in from South Africa to help police. In April this year,

murder suspect Martin Sugden walked out of Bristol Crown Court an

innocent man. Today, police relaunched their murder

investigation, releasing dozens of CCTV images, captured on camera as

Amir the Worm of Donovan Van Lill for the day he went missing. Shots

of eating pedestrians and put the six cars, one of which might hold a

break through clues. One of those vehicles might have contained

Donovan Van Lill. He might have been leaving voluntarily or he

might have been under duress or threat to leave. Someone could have

seen something and we are happy to hear from anyone with any

information, no matter how small. There has been the floating on a

pure sham estate where Donovan Van Lill lives. Forensic evidence will

be re-examined. There is a cash reward for information. There are

16 new officers on the case, poll time. Locals hope that the killer

will one day be caught. It baffles me that somebody can be here one

minute and then disappear without trace. There is someone out there,

someone dangerous, and if he was heart, and the worst happen, then

he is still out there, and still working. As time passes the case

becomes harder to solve. Tomorrow, it will be 17 months since Donovan

land -- Donovan Van Lill went missing. Memories fade, and the

police have not yet found his body. Detectives are determined to solve

this long-running mystery, so that there is justice for the friends

and family of Donovan Van Lill. A man from Bristol's been named as

one of the Uk's ten most-wanted fraudsters. Nasser Ahmed is wanted

in connection with a �156 million VAT fraud. He went missing during

his trial and was sentenced to six years in his absence. The charity

Crimestoppers has begun a campaign to find the 38 year old - along

with nine others. A former foster parent from Gloucester has been

found guilty of eighteen charges of abusing young children. William

Barber indecently assaulted eight children over a 13 year period. Our

Home Affairs Correspondent Steve Brodie was in court. He was a

foster parent. My mum would go round for a cup of tea with his

wife. I was four or five years old when it started. I knew not to say

anything. It was an spoken thing between us which I felt I should

not mention. You feel ashamed, as if it was your fault. I did not

have a proper boyfriend until I was in my early 20s. I have taught you

the nature of the allegations and from what you have said to me, you

deny them. William Barber Used his position as a foster parent and a

councillor to persuade parents that he would look after their children.

But he betrayed that trust. portrayed himself as a pillar of

the community. He was a foster carer. He was in charge of the

Tennis Association. He was on the parish council. Anyone with a fell

10 in high regard. -- would have held him in high regard. And people

would not have believed that about him, at the time. Gloucestershire

County Council pointed out that none of the victims were is foster

children and that checks on potential carers are now much

stricter, and are reviewed annually by an independent panel. The judge

told the victims of William Barber, "I increasingly understand the

courage that it takes to give evidence in cases like this. He

went on," it is a terrible ordeal for the victims, and I was very

impressed indeed with the dignity shown by all of you. William Barber,

senior, been taken away at the beginning of his file, will be

sentenced later. He can expect to spend a long time behind bars. --

of his trial. Two people have been arrested in connection with the

death of a Bristol man in Wales. Ian Hamilton was found by the side

of the road in Caerphilly two weeks ago. A 22-year-old man and an 18-

year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by

dangerous driving. A man from Wiltshire is set to become the

first captain to fly tourists into space. David Mackay has been named

as the chief pilot for Virgin Galactic. The company hopes to

begin commercial space flights within two years, as John Maguire

reports. If you have 125,000 kicking around then one day you may

be fortunate enough to hear these words. Ladies and gentlemen, this

is your Campden gave my caddie, speaking, will come to space. --

your captain, Dave McIvor stop. David Mackay has flown and tested

more than a hundred different types of aircraft - from Rolls Royce

engines to jet engines and next rocket engines. He's packing up his

home in Wiltshire and is heading to the california desert as Chief

pilot for Virgin Galactic. prickly when I go flying, I am am a

little bit keyed up, but then you start flying the vehicle, and your

now Stent to disappear. -- nerves tend to. As a child of the space

race David always dreamt of proving he had the right stuff - and this

is his chance. Like a lot of young boys and girls I'd dreamed of being

an astronaut and I never lost hold of that dreamed. I -- it took me

longer than I thought it might but I am getting there now. So far he's

only flown the spacecraft a few feet off the ground in a simulator

- but within a couple of years he could be taking six passengers into

space 360,000 feet up for the flight of a lifetime. I might have

to wait until the budget version comes out! It looks fantastic. It

is so exciting. You're watching BBC Points West with David and Alex.

Thanks for joining us this August evening. We've plenty more still to

come between now and 7pm. Including an exclusive report from David

Passmore. This is the home of Bath rugby club owner, Bruce Craig. But

why is a man who loves his life here in the south of France

investing in a club based hundreds of miles away? First though, a

Gloucestershire family in serious need of a change of fortune has

been given the DIY SOS treatment in a programme being aired tonight.

The Beasleys have suffered financial distress, bereavement and

health problems but the Big Build team and a substantial army of

local volunteers have been doing all they can to bring them back

from the brink. Amanda Parr reports. This is the big build,

Gloucestershire style. The DIY SOS team went into their latest big

build, a complete remodelling of an ex-council house in Cirencester.

Their biggest product -- project to date, for the Beazley family who

have suffered years of bad luck. Liz Beesley found himself out of

work during the economic downturn from his job at the wonder factory

in Swindon. He and his wife and their children have been living in

a dusty building site and their health is suffering. I don't like

being year, half the time. three-and-a-half years my wife has

been on medication for depression. The situation has affected Victoria

as well. She has been having panic attacks. She could not sleep well

stop constantly crying and moaning to herself. Tonight, a turnaround

for the deserving family, and an extraordinary tarmac of local

volunteers. -- turnout. People say that times are tight and you don't

have time to do this sort of thing. But it could be me next week, next

month, so if you can help a little bit, hopefully, one day, someone

will help me out. Nine days to make a shell of a house into a home, so

that the family can concentrate on rebuilding their lives around it.

Mark Miller was a project manager for the big build. He joins us in

the studio now. It seems like a deserving family and a special

project. An incredible family. They had been hit by a bus full of bad

news, and knocked sideways. And I thought to myself, they needed big

help on this job. The house was full of damp. The family had

nothing to look forward to. The house was just in a mess. We look

at the job and we thought, we have got to take this on. I thought it

would be an easy job to take on. It turned out to be a monster.

Everything was wrong with the project. And you got so much help.

You would not be able to do that without the community stepping up.

The Community are the heroes of this show. The Gloucestershire

builders came out. Some of them was that there for two days. And there

is no glory in it for them. That's right. They just tell us that they

are just there, to help. There is no monetary value in it. It is very

kind, people have got big hearts. But we do not want to show off the

finished product and spoil the programme tonight. What was it

like? It was rubbish, we just wreck the place! No, really, it is good

at all, watch it tonight at 9 o'clock. It is very moving.

human spirit just wins every time. Gloucestershire builders and

tradesmen, I take my hat off to them. It was an incredible ever. 9

o'clock on BBC One, watch it, please. Researchers from Bristol

have begun a nationwide study to find out where bees and butterflies

are choosing to live. And surprisingly, they think the

pollinating insects are thriving in our cities. But why? Zoe Gough has

been finding out more and joins us from Westbury-on-Trym now.

answer lies all around me, beautiful blooms, well-kept gardens,

and just a hint of neighbourly competition. As a result, this

competition hopes that lots of these will want to make places like

this old. -- lots of honey bees. Scouring these Bristol Gardens for

tiny, vital creatures. Researchers from the University of Bristol want

to prove that cities are helping honey bees. They a comparing

samples from here in Westbury on Trym with those in more rural

habitats. It is thought that the city was now more popular. It is a

reliable source of food with greater diversity and abundance in

cities than in nature reserves and the countryside, and gardeners like

things that flower early and flower late. Investigating 100 front

gardens in Bristol will start the three-year project. It hopes to

show that rather than pushing wildlife out, the City could save

the struggling honey bee population. If urban areas are found to be a

haven for insects, councils like Bristol will be encouraged to

attract even more of them. That might be the future, but what has

caught scientists excited about the city? Rib is a beekeeper, lovely

honey bees, lots of them hard at work. -- breadth. Were you

surprised to find out that the city was supposed to be a hotspot?

really, because there are many gardeners here. They draw a

wonderful variety of different plants and vegetables and fruit.

And the honey bees love it. You are a member of the Bristol beekeeping

Association. Do you find that honey bees in the City are more

successful than those in the countryside? We have heard rumours

on the grapevine that some of the people keeping bees in the

countryside have to feed their honey bees more than we do here in

the city. We have more variety at the beginning and the end of the

season, and that is very helpful for the honey bees. Keep up the

good work. As part of my research, I found a group in bluster, who

want to become the World's first honey D Guardian City. It is not

just here in Bristol but several urban the areas around the West

that have been kind to ladies. -- to honey bees. Now to sport and

we've the first major television interview with Bath Rugby Owner

Bruce Craig. And we begin our countdown to the start of the new

football season. Here's David Passmore. Yes for the rest of the

week we look at the prospects for our league sides. From Bristol

City's attempts to reach the premier league to Paolo di Canio's

managerial debut at Swindon. But tonight we take a look at

Cheltenham Town. Last season they started strongly but ended 17th in

League Two. They did score some spectacular goals along the way,

but the manager has been busy signing new players to ensure they

do better this time. And there's one area which is proving to be a

particular problem, as Alistair Durden reports. They say in

football, a good goalscorer is the hardest player to find. And the

most expensive to buy. But for Cheltenham Town it's not been

discovering them, but keeping them that's been the problem. Starting

with Kayode Odejayi back in 2007, the Robins have lost their top

scorer at the end of the season for the last five years. All the way

through to Wes Thomas this summer. Men who have scored goals, and then

moved on - and not too many for a fee either. It is a typical job

will start but we have had a little bit of luck. Wesley Thomas came in

and scored 19 goals, so it was a bit of a gamble because he had not

scored much before that, and you hope that with the right work and

encouragement they will boost their credentials and hopefully score you

some goals. Former Bristol Rovers striker Darryl Duffy might provide

the answer this year or perhaps Kaid Mohammed. The 26 year old

started at Swindon before dropping out of the league. This is his

second chance to make it in the pro-game. He's the sort of gamble

the directors have to take. Attendances at Whaddon Road were

down 6 per cent last season - and staying competitive with a small

budget remains the main challenge. We are competing against Oxford

United, playing in front of 8,000 or 9,000 people. We have got to

counter that would work off the peel. It is very stressful and it

is constant effort, to try and do that. This will be Cheltenham's

13th season in the football league. The bookies think it'll be an

unlucky one - predicting a battle against relegation. I think the

match will pull their socks up and do well. They will battle, but I do

not think they will stay up. Fingers crossed. I don't want them

to go down. I have been down there and I know how grim it is. This is

much more fun. Six years ago Cheltenham were also tipped to be

relegated - they went on to win the playoff final. Don't write them off

just yet. Tomorrow it is the turn of your old town. When he bought

BAFTA of the last year a few people had ever had a brisk trade. He has

kept a very low profile since and we have heard little about the man

or his vision for the club. He has spoken exclusively to the programme

and told us about his life and his passion for the game, and I visited

his luxury home in the south of France. A dream house in a dream

location Tostock Bruce Craig opted for this sport in the hills of

Provence, to transform a modest house into a luxury home. For the

last 18 months I have been designing and resent -- redesigning

and renovating completely, this property. The building was here,

but all the frontage and the stonework has been we done, these

formal gardens have been re created, the terracing was done, which was a

huge amount of work. He meal of finance, but he grew up in Chew

Magna. He was scrum-half and captain at St Brendan's School, he

attended Loughborough University before moving to France, where the

plea for what is now at the racing at the old club. He sold his

specialist company which transports medicines and blood products around

the world. The price tag was a staggering �975 million. He will

not say how large his personal share was. Why did he choose Bath

rugby? My colleagues followed Bath for many years, and the opportunity

to buy Bath rugby, in terms of just its prestige, the City, the aura,

and be able to bring Bath rugby back to his Claudia's was a massive

challenge. -- back to its glory years. He has concentrated on his

house and leave in France and his new rugby club since selling his

business. He wants to redevelop the ground and strengthen the squad.

Above all, he wants to put in a structure that will create

sustainable success. All the different business pieces of a

professional rugby club, that will all be put into place, so that the

future of Bath Rugby is sustained. Walk on his new home continues, and

is almost completed, but work on making Bath rugby the top team in

Europe or take a little longer. Tomorrow, we will hear about how

Bruce will fulfil his vision for the club, on and off the field.

More tomorrow. Thank you very much. For most Bride's, the days after

the wedding and a chance to head off on honeymoon, to relax and

enjoy married life. But the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips was

back in the saddle, after her wedding to rugby star Mike Tindall

on Saturday. The fairy-tale wedding with a guest list mixing royalty

and sporting stars. These clusters are newly weds make the most of

their marriage weekend. And a more familiar wardrobe of jeans and T-

shirt, and she made the most of the media spotlight by launching a

children's range. Just like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, this

couple are already back at work. Although the big they were still at

the forefront of her mind. It was a great day for both of us. To have

friends and family together. Unbelievable. Her husband, Mike

Tindall, the Gloucestershire and England rugby player was training

ahead of the World Cup next month. And satellites is looking ahead to

the British Open at Gatcombe, this weekend, in preparation for the

2012 Olympics. With all that success it is not hard to see why

she will be keeping her maiden name. I am very much Mrs Mike Tindall,

and I will be privately, and I'm sure, publicly, as well. For a

couple used to spending time apart while competing internationally,

went they get time to have a honeymoon, they might fancy staying

at home in Chilton, to coincide with next year's Gold Cup. -- in

Cheltenham. Time now for the weather forecast. It has been very

hot today. Yes, getting up to 26 Celsius in parts of Wiltshire. It

has been very warm and remaining drive for most of us. Lots of

sunshine around as well. We have an unsettled pattern in the upper

atmosphere at the moment. More recently bringing showers to parts

of Wiltshire, but elsewhere it has been dry. Similar pattern tomorrow

with Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire possibly facing some showers

tomorrow. The temperature drone to this convergence line across

Wiltshire, with heavy showers starting to break out in the last

couple of years. Those have picked up on the rain far weirder. -- the

rainfall radar. Those might continue for some pain into the

evening. The Met Office model has them further out into the east, but

the broad theme is just about right. Overnight, variable amounts of

cloud that light winds. Mostly a mild night, a comparatively sleepy,

temperatures up as high as 16 Celsius. If you are -- if you are

up early enough, the International Space Station is passing over head

during the early hours of the morning. There should be enough

clear spells to see that. Tomorrow, starting with some sunny spells and

variable amounts of cloud. Dry, at this stage. Elsewhere, it should

stay dry, but through the evening, increasing cloud starting to appear

from the South West. That will bring some showers as we get

through towards 8 o'clock in the evening. Tomorrow, temperatures up

into the mid-twenties. Let me when the sequence into Thursday morning.

This is where the action starts to take place. This next Beacham

brings ahead a band up through Thursday morning. Looking decidedly

wet, with heavy rain and a lot of us -- a lot of spray and standing