:00:15. > :00:25.Welcome to BBC Points West. Killed as he led his man to a
:00:25. > :00:27.
:00:27. > :00:32.village meeting - Mike Catt led his Joining the daily crush, how more
:00:32. > :00:37.commuters want to get on board are overcrowded trains.
:00:37. > :00:42.They fought the Japanese army more than 60 years ago. Today the men of
:00:42. > :00:48.Bristol Burma Star Association hang up their flags. It is a very sad
:00:48. > :00:56.day. It was nice to be able to go along and sit opposite someone who
:00:56. > :01:05.was there when you were there. flying across the sand. How the
:01:05. > :01:08.Bluebird's land speed record Good evening.
:01:08. > :01:15.The soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan on Friday has been
:01:15. > :01:20.named. Lieutenant Dan Clack was 24 and served with 1st Battalion the
:01:20. > :01:24.Rifles, he guided yards from safety. Five of his colleagues caught in
:01:24. > :01:28.the same blast are recovering from their injuries. His death is the
:01:28. > :01:35.fourth to be suffered by his battalion. Our reporter is outside
:01:35. > :01:40.their barracks for us now. The tributes are starting to arrive
:01:40. > :01:46.tonight. A photo of Lieutenant Dan Clack and a tribute from his
:01:46. > :01:50.commanding officer. There is an inscription on the case which says
:01:50. > :01:54.this serves as a reminder that the commitment of the rifleman of this
:01:54. > :01:58.the regiment are currently making overseas, it will be extinguished
:01:58. > :02:04.when the last soldier of the regiment returned to this base. We
:02:04. > :02:11.know that Dan Clack returned with his colleagues in April. He was
:02:11. > :02:14.going into middle-age, leading a patrol on Friday, when they were
:02:14. > :02:20.caught by the bomb. He was killed and five of his colleagues were
:02:20. > :02:24.injured. He leaves behind a fiancee and his family. They issued a
:02:24. > :02:29.statement today it saying he was a brave riflemen, he died doing the
:02:29. > :02:34.only profession he had ever considered. One of many tributes
:02:34. > :02:41.today, and I would directly to the MoD website where over a dozen of
:02:41. > :02:45.Dan Clack's colleagues have left moving tributes. One said, the men
:02:45. > :02:51.quite evidently adored him. They showed him loyalty and respect
:02:51. > :02:55.which is reserved for only the very few and at the very best. He is the
:02:55. > :03:01.fourth rifleman to die on this tour. They have all been killed by these
:03:01. > :03:07.improvised explosive devices. Earlier I spoke to an expert on
:03:07. > :03:11.these devices. He advises the military on how to defeat them. He
:03:11. > :03:16.said they are the biggest, single threat to troops in Afghanistan.
:03:16. > :03:23.But the trips are having some successes against them coast of the
:03:23. > :03:26.rifles themselves found a very large case of these devices early
:03:26. > :03:31.on in their tour. That is one of the most important things we have
:03:31. > :03:36.to do. We all tend to soakers on the tragedy when a soldier is
:03:36. > :03:41.killed, but if we can stop these devices being killed in the first
:03:41. > :03:48.place, if we can attack the network, that is the most important thing we
:03:48. > :03:52.can do to protect the troops. community here will now gather
:03:52. > :03:58.around the friends and family of Dan Clack. All of the focus will be
:03:58. > :04:01.on Thursday for the repatriation. His body will be flown into RAF
:04:01. > :04:06.Lyneham and the familiar scenes of his funeral cortege will go along a
:04:06. > :04:10.high street. If you travel by train up to London,
:04:10. > :04:16.you will not be surprised to hear that in the West we have some of
:04:16. > :04:19.the most overcrowded routes in the country. Remember these scenes when
:04:19. > :04:25.passengers protested about conditions between Bristol and
:04:25. > :04:35.Bath? The government has named the top 10 worst, all of them are run
:04:35. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:44.As we reported, that has not stopped people along the road
:04:44. > :04:50.clamouring to join them. The line still runs through Salford,
:04:50. > :04:56.but the trains no longer stop. Now the group that produced this banner
:04:56. > :05:00.once that to change. Salford has a population of about 5,000 people.
:05:00. > :05:07.The station shut in the early 1970s and. Since then the village has
:05:07. > :05:11.grown by about 40%. They may be demand locally, but does the region
:05:11. > :05:17.need another station? There are currently about 70 trains every
:05:17. > :05:23.weekday between Bath and Bristol Temple Meads. There are a two
:05:23. > :05:33.stations in between. Is there even room for another? The Saltford
:05:33. > :05:38.Action Group said yes. The A4 is busy from about 7am. I have taken a
:05:38. > :05:43.bus sometimes, it is not competitive in price at all. Often
:05:43. > :05:53.the buses run half empty because of the expense. Reopening at the
:05:53. > :05:58.station is a popular idea. I have students who come in a part-time.
:05:58. > :06:03.Asked him to come in in the morning, and he said no. He said the bus
:06:03. > :06:07.fare was �11 to come to work. council told the BBC they support
:06:07. > :06:12.any plan that will help people travel without using their cars.
:06:12. > :06:22.They said reopening of this station is key to the transport strategy.
:06:22. > :06:25.
:06:25. > :06:29.Good news for members of Saltford's How likely is this to happen? It is
:06:29. > :06:34.a question I put earlier tour business correspondent.
:06:34. > :06:39.Not very, to be honest. Everybody thinks it is a good idea it so long
:06:39. > :06:45.as somebody else pays for it. First Great Western really do not want
:06:45. > :06:51.any more stations on this line. It is overcrowded enough as it is.
:06:51. > :06:54.Sold for it is not alone wanting to get the station opened. Corsham is
:06:54. > :07:00.reasonably far down the track on this sort of idea, they have
:07:00. > :07:04.managed to get the local MP on the board the furthest down the track
:07:04. > :07:08.is in Portishead, that is where they're trying to get Brunel's
:07:08. > :07:15.famous old line extended and reopened. The council had put a
:07:15. > :07:20.formal bid together. �43 million they are asking for from Whitehall.
:07:20. > :07:26.Our trains might be more quick than Victorian ones, but the decision-
:07:26. > :07:29.making process is not any quicker. I remember that Portishead won a
:07:29. > :07:33.rumbling on for many years. We keep hearing about a letter
:07:33. > :07:38.vocation, will that help? You will be standing for slightly
:07:38. > :07:42.shorter. Bristol to London time cut by 20 minutes.
:07:42. > :07:48.The point of the electrification is to bring more people to the West
:07:48. > :07:51.Country. It is to get more business here. That is only going to add to
:07:51. > :07:55.the number of people getting on those trains and making them more
:07:55. > :07:58.crowded. For anyone with a season ticket
:07:58. > :08:04.tomorrow is a nail-biting days. In the morning we get the official
:08:04. > :08:09.inflation figures for July. When they put the Fairs Cup in January,
:08:09. > :08:18.it is July's inflation figures that matter. -- when they put the fares
:08:18. > :08:26.up. They could put up those fares by 8%. On a Bath annual season
:08:26. > :08:29.ticket, it could go up as much as �630.
:08:30. > :08:34.In other news detectives investigating last week's riots in
:08:34. > :08:39.Gloucester have released a new footage. These images show the
:08:39. > :08:43.moment a bookmaker's was attacked early last Wednesday morning. About
:08:43. > :08:48.one hour later this footage was captured later outside a
:08:48. > :08:53.convenience store. Police have also released these images from inside
:08:53. > :08:56.the store. Workers at Honda have returned to a
:08:57. > :09:01.two-day week after the annual summer shutdown. The plant in
:09:01. > :09:05.Swindon cut its output in April due to supply problems caused by the
:09:05. > :09:10.Japanese earthquake. A return to normal production had been planned
:09:10. > :09:20.for August but it has been delayed until September at the earliest.
:09:20. > :09:21.
:09:21. > :09:28.Tap -- staff are working on a Test there will be unveiled next month.
:09:28. > :09:33.Still to come: Preparing for the Big Performance.
:09:33. > :09:36.We need to two West Country teenagers getting a helping hand.
:09:36. > :09:46.Remembering the floods that devastated Exmoor on this night
:09:46. > :09:53.First, local policing will behave by planned government cuts in
:09:53. > :09:57.spending. That is the warning from Dr Tim Brain. He has carried out
:09:57. > :10:00.research into the cuts on behalf of Cardiff University and his
:10:00. > :10:05.questioning ministers' claims that savings can be made in back offices
:10:05. > :10:10.rather than hitting frontline staff. I spoke to him earlier and asked
:10:10. > :10:16.him in the context of last week's riots how would we should be.
:10:16. > :10:20.should be very concerned. One is the effect it has on local
:10:20. > :10:24.neighbourhood policing. That means the ability to prevent riots
:10:24. > :10:28.occurring in the first place. Secondly, the ability for forces to
:10:28. > :10:33.tick officers out of the front line and train them on a regular basis
:10:33. > :10:37.for riots. If there are fewer officers, it reduces the force's
:10:37. > :10:42.ability to do that. Are you saying frontline policing should not be
:10:42. > :10:47.cut? It is difficult for the Government at the current time.
:10:47. > :10:51.There are between a rock and a hard place. They have made choices about
:10:51. > :10:55.spending in other areas and we know there will be less cuts in defence,
:10:55. > :11:00.health and overseas aid. The Government has an opportunity to
:11:00. > :11:04.reflect on where its cut strategy is. You research comes using the
:11:04. > :11:08.same figures that are available to the government but to have come to
:11:08. > :11:14.a different conclusion. I have been more specific in my conclusion. We
:11:14. > :11:18.have seen a growth of about 16,000 police officers in 10 years. Most
:11:18. > :11:23.of that growth has been targeted local community policing.
:11:23. > :11:26.Subsequently, if we lose at 16,000 officers, it seems most likely the
:11:26. > :11:30.majority of those posts will be lost in local neighbourhood
:11:30. > :11:34.policing. The Home Office has reacted to this and said there cuts
:11:34. > :11:38.are manageable. They have not denied the figures or the basis of
:11:38. > :11:42.the research or even denied that cuts will not fall at local level.
:11:42. > :11:47.They have said they are manageable and I am sure that is absolutely
:11:47. > :11:52.right. Police forces will be working very hard to minimise the
:11:52. > :11:57.impact at local levels, and maximise efficiencies. The Home
:11:57. > :12:01.Office does not say cuts at a local level are not going to occur if.
:12:01. > :12:07.computer system which is supposed to make administration more
:12:07. > :12:11.efficient has paid out an extra �4.6 million of taxpayers' money.
:12:11. > :12:16.South West One was set up to it say that millions for Somerset County
:12:16. > :12:21.Council. It brought in computer payment system two years ago, but
:12:21. > :12:27.in that time it has made hundreds of duplicate payments to suppliers.
:12:27. > :12:32.95% of the errors have been repaid but almost �200,000 is still owed.
:12:32. > :12:37.After 60 years, the Bristol branch of Bristol Burma Star Association
:12:37. > :12:42.is to close. Many of the veterans of the Burma campaign which led to
:12:42. > :12:46.the defeat of the Japanese army have died. Now, only a handful are
:12:46. > :12:52.able to attend meetings or other activities.
:12:52. > :13:02.Today on the 66th anniversary of VJ Day there Branch Standard has been
:13:02. > :13:13.
:13:14. > :13:23.I was 22. Just put one foot Mac in front of the up. From the jungle,
:13:24. > :13:36.
:13:36. > :13:45.The heat and the humility and the density of the jungle. -- humidity.
:13:45. > :13:50.For those who fought in Burma, the scars run deep. Thousands lost
:13:50. > :13:54.their lives. They were known as the forgotten Army as much of the news
:13:54. > :13:59.coverage concentrated on the conflict in Europe. Today those
:13:59. > :14:04.left in the Bristol branch came to remember and honour and say goodbye.
:14:04. > :14:10.But after 60 years, the Bristol Burma Star Association will now
:14:10. > :14:15.close. It is a very sad day because it was nice to be able to go a long
:14:15. > :14:22.and sit opposite someone who was there when you were at bare. I am
:14:22. > :14:28.only a junior, the youngest of the whole lot, but many of them were
:14:28. > :14:35.there at the height of the fighting. I was cleared. I was really scared
:14:35. > :14:40.because I did not know what would happen next. No one knew. The enemy
:14:40. > :14:46.was around you all the time. Doug Whitehead was just 22 when he
:14:46. > :14:56.fought in Burma and saying goodbye to the Bristol branch was very hard.
:14:56. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:03.Row would like to stay on until the last man. Hang on as long as you
:15:03. > :15:07.can. Keep alive in some way. remaining members like Doug
:15:07. > :15:17.Whitehead will now be looked after by the National Burma Star
:15:17. > :15:18.
:15:18. > :15:21.Association, making sure their sacrifices will never be forgotten.
:15:22. > :15:27.Swindon Town have condemned those who damaged the pitch of their
:15:27. > :15:32.rivals Oxford United. After two defeats should the alarm bells be
:15:32. > :15:36.ringing at Bristol City? The rivalry between Swindon Town
:15:36. > :15:41.and Oxford United is one of the most sharply felt in the country,
:15:41. > :15:47.but today the clubs were united in criticising vandals who damaged
:15:47. > :15:52.Oxford's pitch. Early on Saturday, two or three people were spotted on
:15:52. > :15:57.CCTV inside the grounds and before Saturday afternoon's game, the ill
:15:57. > :16:02.formed letters of STFC were seen on the grass. Swindon said they
:16:02. > :16:06.deplored the action. The Oxford chairman Kelvin Thomas said he was
:16:06. > :16:10.disappointed. Incident came eight days before the sides play each
:16:10. > :16:17.other for the first time in nine years next Sunday. The Oxford
:16:17. > :16:21.supporters' trust are edging their fans not to retaliate. We were at a
:16:21. > :16:28.huge game on Sunday. The best thing we can do here is get behind the
:16:28. > :16:34.side. Do not do any retaliation. Just two on the boys to a victory
:16:34. > :16:38.of a game that means so much. very early days, just two matches
:16:38. > :16:42.into the season but Bristol City fans are worried. They are bottom
:16:42. > :16:47.of the championship table, they conceded six goals in two games and
:16:47. > :16:50.the manager admits he needs new players. Yesterday, Cardiff went
:16:50. > :16:56.into a three-goal lead before half- time, confirming pre-season
:16:56. > :17:00.concerns about City's defensive frailties. Nicky Maynard did score
:17:00. > :17:06.for City but it did nothing to settle nerves and left the manager
:17:06. > :17:12.concerned about confidence levels. We need to be scoring that first
:17:12. > :17:16.gold -- goal. You can see then that the crowd get behind Cardiff and
:17:16. > :17:23.that lack of confidence we have got, the shoulders drop, people do not
:17:23. > :17:27.show for the ball as you would want them to and it is tough. But you
:17:27. > :17:35.cannot afford to give soft goals away. It was poor decisions on the
:17:35. > :17:39.ball. A lack of confidence, experience. But to go in 3-0 at
:17:39. > :17:43.half-time is not what you're looking for. It is worth pointing
:17:43. > :17:47.out that last season City were still bottom of the table in mid-
:17:47. > :17:50.October with just one win from 11 games before they turn things
:17:51. > :17:57.around. Their first two games this season have been between Ipswich
:17:57. > :18:02.and Cardiff, both favourites for promotion. The only problem, next
:18:02. > :18:09.stop Mr sister -- city on Wednesday. You can see all the cold on the
:18:09. > :18:14.week and on the relevant pages of the BBC sport website. This the
:18:14. > :18:18.header that gave turned them victory over Swindon. The start of
:18:18. > :18:21.some set match against Nottinghamshire in the ECB 40
:18:21. > :18:26.competition has been delayed by rain. The two sides are joint
:18:26. > :18:30.leaders of groups the along with Essex but crucially Somerset have
:18:30. > :18:35.games in hand. There hoping to start at 7 o'clock but if tonight's
:18:35. > :18:39.match is rained off, both sides get a point and that would lead
:18:39. > :18:48.Somerset at favourites to progress to the semi finals. If there is a
:18:48. > :18:52.result, we will bring you that in out late bulletin.
:18:52. > :18:57.Imagine you are shy, you had never sung in public before but someone
:18:57. > :19:02.wants you to perform in front of a TV audience of more than 11 million.
:19:02. > :19:06.Now imagine you are 13. Two school children are among a group taking
:19:06. > :19:10.part in a TV series trying to prepare them for the greatest
:19:10. > :19:20.musical adventure of their lives. Today, the production came to
:19:20. > :19:21.
:19:21. > :19:26.Ashton Court Mansion and choirmaster Gareth Malone is
:19:26. > :19:32.preparing for his latest musical challenge. In the corridor outside,
:19:32. > :19:37.his pupils are limbering up their vocal calls, quite unsure what the
:19:37. > :19:45.day will bring. James still cannot believe he is here. I was on the
:19:45. > :19:51.edge of my seat. I was like, why would they pick me? I kept going to
:19:51. > :19:58.the next edition until they came to the final turn. And they said I am
:19:58. > :20:01.three. It felt like the top of the world. Rehearsals are under way.
:20:01. > :20:06.What all these youngsters have in common is they have all been
:20:06. > :20:09.bullied at school, they all lack self-confidence. They have all been
:20:09. > :20:16.chosen for its children in the project, a project that will and
:20:16. > :20:20.with them singing to an audience of 11 million. The 13-year-old image
:20:20. > :20:30.and, it is a terrifying day. She has been chosen to take the lead
:20:30. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:42.Getting to grips with the solo is not easy. I feel a bit scared
:20:42. > :20:48.because the song, I do not merit and it is out of my league. Listen,
:20:48. > :20:53.you were fine. Just a bit louder. You will be great. She will get
:20:53. > :20:58.there and the important thing is, but musical boss is not worried.
:20:58. > :21:02.Imogen looks nervous. You can see beads of sweat appearing but they
:21:02. > :21:08.have all had that experience. They have been all over the country and
:21:08. > :21:12.it will be their turn at some point. You could see people hid getting a
:21:12. > :21:17.bit sweaty, but they have to go through it. They will really feel
:21:17. > :21:21.the benefit once they had done it. It will be top or Imogen but at the
:21:21. > :21:25.end of the day, she will feel taller. Then the group is given the
:21:25. > :21:29.news that they just have to have the song ready by tomorrow because
:21:29. > :21:39.they are performing at a huge Somerset wedding. My impression
:21:39. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:45.Good luck to all those who are involved. The TV series will be on
:21:45. > :21:52.our screens sometime in the autumn, culminating in that performance on
:21:52. > :21:59.the night of children in need which is 18th November. 13 weeks. Stop
:21:59. > :22:05.planning. A car built and designed in the West has failed in its bid
:22:05. > :22:10.to breed a land speed record. Engineers were part of a team that
:22:10. > :22:15.created a Bluebird Electric, which was supposed to break the 137 mile
:22:15. > :22:19.an hour record. It and was aborted after the great grandson of the
:22:19. > :22:25.past land speed record holder did of course.
:22:25. > :22:27.He is the 4th generation of a family synonymous with land speed
:22:27. > :22:32.records. Nineteen-year-old Joe Wales is the great-grandson of Sir
:22:32. > :22:38.Malcolm Campbell. His aim was to beat the record for an electric
:22:38. > :22:42.vehicle over 500 metres. History does not to be repeated. The car
:22:42. > :22:46.veered off course and stopped after hitting several potholes in the
:22:46. > :22:52.sand. Really annoyed and disappointed and sorry to all the
:22:52. > :22:57.team that worked so hard and the crowd that came along for nothing.
:22:57. > :23:02.On the return run, some visibility problems. The car is a product of
:23:03. > :23:06.the West. Having been tested at Gloucestershire airport. Engineers
:23:06. > :23:11.from Bristol University designed and built the Bluebird Electric's
:23:11. > :23:16.Taylor was systems, which are things had gone to plan, they are
:23:16. > :23:22.convinced would have enabled the car to break the record. It was
:23:22. > :23:29.quite interesting that the quarrel with losing exhilaration. We were
:23:30. > :23:33.doing 110 miles an hour. Backing 2000, Joe's dead set the 137 MAR an
:23:33. > :23:39.hour record for an electric car. His grandfather, Sir Malcolm
:23:39. > :23:45.Campbell, broke three land speed records on this very beach in the
:23:45. > :23:48.1920s. Donald was also hoping to reach 120 mph in the Bluebird. Now
:23:48. > :23:56.the father and son must wait and see if there supercar can be
:23:56. > :24:00.rebuilt, so they can continue their family legacy.
:24:00. > :24:06.Now to the weather and tonight mark the anniversary of one of the
:24:06. > :24:10.West's worst weather events. The Exmoor floods of 1952.
:24:10. > :24:16.We have a number of viewers who live in that area and will remember
:24:16. > :24:20.that night. It was about now that the rain started to rack up sum
:24:20. > :24:27.totals. We have some British here. This was taken the morning after
:24:27. > :24:34.the event. Yesterday, limit was a peaceful holiday resort. Today it
:24:34. > :24:40.is a run. Those are rainfall totals are rarely seen across parts of the
:24:41. > :24:45.British Isles. There were a number of areas affected by those floods.
:24:45. > :24:53.He is the reason why. This warm flow that was taking this mild,
:24:53. > :24:58.murky -- moist air. A cold front come in from the other side.
:24:58. > :25:01.Thunderstorms developing. Nine Thunderstorms developing. Nine
:25:02. > :25:08.inches of rain in 20 bought ours. 34 people losing their lives. We
:25:08. > :25:15.will not fear a repeat of that and the sort of scene will be more
:25:15. > :25:22.familiar to us for the course of tomorrow. That is courtesy of a
:25:22. > :25:25.warm front, which is moving in from the West. It needs a warm sector of
:25:25. > :25:31.low cloud and drizzle. We continue that tomorrow morning but
:25:31. > :25:41.thereafter, we will see an improvement. The rain for raider
:25:41. > :25:45.
:25:45. > :25:54.shows how the warm front is coming Overnight, a lot of Ponterwyd -- lo
:25:54. > :25:59.cloud round. But for many it is a largely dry night. It will be
:25:59. > :26:05.noticeably mild for all. Temperatures in the low teens, 12
:26:05. > :26:12.or 14 Celsius. Tomorrow morning we will start with the legacy of that.
:26:12. > :26:17.No cloud. Some further OF rain. But midday, an improvement starts to
:26:17. > :26:25.take place. By late afternoon, the best of the sunshine across the
:26:25. > :26:28.rest of Somerset. We would see more in the way of sunshine elsewhere.
:26:28. > :26:38.Good for seeing the space station later on. Temperatures tomorrow,
:26:38. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:43.still warm. 18-20 Celsius. Beyond that, Wednesday and Thursday are a
:26:43. > :26:47.tricky one. A bit of a health warning with this one because on
:26:47. > :26:51.face value it will be a case of walking a front to the south,
:26:51. > :26:58.bringing in patches of rain. By Friday, with better confidence it
:26:58. > :27:06.looks like a dry and fine and to the working week. That is it for
:27:06. > :27:10.tonight. I will be back with the 10 o'clock News. We won the you with