16/08/2011 BBC Points West

Good evening from BC Points West. The headlines: Are dangerous dogs

being trained in our parks? There are fears of a new craze as trees

across the West are damaged and destroyed. Helping our cities to

cover from the violence: The Labour leader tells us his plans for

mending broken Britain. Also tonight: How this schoolgirl

ended up on the transplant list after going to have a tooth out.

From one side of Bristol to the other: I am enjoying the view

people have been missing out on for Welcome to the programmes. First,

clampdown has been ordered on irresponsible dog owners in the

West to incur -- who encourage their animals to attack trees in

parks. There is evidence that pets are forced to hang of branches by

their jaws and strip bark from tree trunks.

In Bath at the problem has caused tens of thousands of pounds of

damage, as Scott Ellis reports. Search dog and tree on YouTube and

this is what you will see. We cannot say what the owners'

intentions are here, but this exercise will strengthen the dog's

jaw and neck. The theory is in some cases that dogs are being prepared

for fighting for. Tell me about the problem --

problems on this tree. The bark has been ripped off. There is damage to

the branch. But his most likely dog damage. This is a tree expert

inspecting a 100 year old cypress tree in Henrietta Park in Bath. His

-- its life has been shortened by damage. It is very sad. The staff

and residents get upset by this. It is mindless vandalism. The problem

is worth -- worse in Queen Square in Bath. Trees have had to be

protected but it looks as if owners are lifting their dogs up higher to

hang them on branches. This woman has seen a dog Paul a branch clean

off. It is a bit scary, especially when there are kids playing here.

You think, if it is being encouraged to do that, what could

happen if a child approached it? Bristol there is also plenty of

evidence of similar dog attacks on trees. One expert says in the main

this is all about status. It is a macho thing, my dog can fan of the

tree longer than your dog. -- hang off a tree. Some councils have

smeared trees with Greece to keep dogs off them. In Bath they are

relying on those who love the parks to report those whose dogs are

causing permanent damage. More tributes have been paid to the

soldier from Gloucestershire's First Battalion the Rifles who was

killed in Afghanistan on Friday. Lieutenant Daniel Clack, who was 24,

died leading a foot patrol in Helmand Province. His death was the

force to be suffered by his battalion on their current tour of

duty. -- the fourth. He was part of the heart and soul of the battalion.

He died commanding his rifle men whilst on operations in the most

demanding of circumstances. He had, day on day, demonstrated the

courage and bravery that was profound and inspiring -- acreage,

but as was his way, exercised with the lightest touch. Lieutenant Dan

Clack will be repatriated to RAF Lyneham on Thursday.

Two 17 year-old girls had been charged in relation to an attack on

a jewellers in Bristol. The shop in Cabot Circus was targeted during

last week's unrest. So far in Bristol 51 people have been

arrested and 22 had been charged. In Gloucester, 23 have been

detained in connection with disturbances there. Today, a 14

year-old from the City was charged with burglary.

It has been a week since the West saw scenes of rioting and unrest,

and today politicians came here to try to find answers. There was

praise up the highest level for a Swindon Project that helps the most

troubled families back into society. Charlotte Callen reports.

No excuses for this damage, instead today the search for answers. The

government think they have found one. The LIFE project in Swindon,

where police, council and health workers help families with what

they call tough love. Going into their homes to cut criminal

activity, truancy and domestic violence. What we have seen in

Swindon is care in a human form, about taking on families, giving

them confidence, giving them order, giving them discipline, giving them

their lives back. The Prime Minister says it should be rolled

out nationally, hopping up to 120,000 families in trouble. --

helping up to 120,000 families. Ed Miliband also visited today,

visiting St Paul's to hear from local people. Young people are left

with nothing. Everyone is bored and want something to do. Rioting is

exciting. People are coming up with excuses because they don't know the

solution or the reason why things happen so they jump to conclusions.

They say it happens because of X, Y and Z. No claims that our

communities are broken, but they had strong words for looters.

I have heard and what I think the commission will here is that there

are excuses in society about responsibility, but there are also

issues about how we give every young person a stake in our society,

a sense of opportunity, and those issues need to be addressed. While

rioters and looters are challenged in the West, the search to fix the

underlying causes of these scenes on our streets has only just begun.

You are watching BBC Points West this Tuesday evening. We still have

plenty more between now and 7pm. Plots to come, including a dream

come true for this Big Issue seller as he secures his perfect job.

And a trip down memory lane, as we delve into Swindon's past.

First, a routine trip for dental treatment may well have saved the

life of a 12 year old Somerset girl. Keeleigh Redfern-John from Burnham-

on-Sea was diagnosed with a rare condition when she was a toddler,

but it was only when her parents took her to have a tooth removed

recently that she was bound to be in the vast -- found to be in

advance stages of kidney and liver failure. She is now higher priority

for a transplant. Keeleigh may look and behave just

like any other 12 year old, but now she knows she is very poorly.

Basically, my kidneys are slowly deteriorating. My liver is not far

off following its. -- following it. It was when she was taken for

routine dental surgery to Musgrove Park Hospital, doctors ran tests

and what they found surprised them and shocked Keeleigh's parents.

They discovered that although she looked fit, she was in chronic

renal failure. Her parents were told she needed a transplant. Fast.

She has had to have more drugs since that stage. Anything could

have happened, her blood could have gone down drastically, and it

doesn't bear thinking about, what stage she could have been had by

now. It is a little bit scary. Been on the transplant list is scary,

but apart from that, I feel fine because I have grown up with it.

have always been honest with her. We have always got the doctors to

be honest with her and we have never hidden anything. Children at

her rage, other children would not have coped. -- her age. Keeleigh

already receives letters of support from across the country. They will

help sustain her as she waits now for a double transplant. The family

have been told it could happen in the next 12 weeks.

A Bristol landmark has reopened to the public after undergoing four

years of restoration work. Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill was built to

commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's visit to America.

Bristol visitors can now climb the tower again and enjoy the best use

in the city. James Hassam is there now. How is it looking? You are

right, they are the best use the city has to offer. It is beautiful

up here. -- best views. Dry, a little windswept, but take a look,

Bristol laid out like a patchwork quilt. It has taken a lot of work

to get the tower that way and it is important that they got the work

right. This building is regarded as one of Bristol's most important old

landmarks. It has been a well loved landmark since television was black

and white. A good spot for sunbathing back in the 1950s. More

recently, the tower has been in need of TLC. Four years ago,

engineers realised the metal supports holding it up were rusting,

causing cracks like these in the stone. They spent four years and

more than �400,000 restoring it to its former glory. It is an iconic

building in Bristol history, built to celebrate the four centenary of

John Cabot's trip to America. It is still standing and we have

wonderful views and it is important as a building. We cannot let it

crumbled to the ground. From down here at the newly reopened entrance,

the top looks a long way away. Even more so as you take on the stairs,

or 107 of them. Passing one or two lucky souls on their way down until

you reach the top, and this is the reason the tower was so badly

missed while it was closed. The views. From the Clifton Suspension

Bridge to the SS Great Britain and the cathedral and council chambers.

It is brilliant. I have been here once before 10 years ago.

fantastic view, very good. I came back the first day of term and it

was closed, so this is my first day back up. Hopefully, the first day

of many. The work done on the tower should allow people to continue to

enjoy the view from the top for another hundred years. One of the

group's delight to to see the tower open its doors again for business,

our friends of Brandon Hill. -- delighted. They look after the

land around the tower and the gardens, which are looking handsome

this evening. From that group we have a representative, David, who

has been taking in the view himself. You must be delighted to see the

tower open again. Very excited and delighted, of course. We see

Brandon Hill as that you're in the crown of the -- jaw in the crown of

historic Bristol. We don't own it, the council owns it, but we welcome

historians who want to come along. You can see our work, because we do

work like clearing the ground and apply for grants to help maintain

the bowling green. We see our role as to Protect and maintain the area.

One of the points you made to me is while it is -- it is fantastic to

see where, tower, you want to see the surroundings are looked after

as well. This is a fantastic day, and we think the question is, what

next? The base of the tower is more historic and the tower itself, and

that is crumbling, the walls are falling down. A lot of money needs

spending. There has already been a We do not want to get to the stage

where this falls down a again. We want to look after it. Very simple

lessons, we want to keep a bit of money.

Thank you very much. They want to see this become a destination in

its own right, something people will come to Bristol to see on its

own merits. On an evening like this it is hard to see them being proved

wrong. The funeral of a Wiltshire boy who

was killed by a polar bear is to take place at Salisbury Cathedral.

He was on an organised Arctic exhibition to Norway, and was

attacked when the animal got inside his tent. It takes place on the

26th August. This will be a private ceremony.

First Great Western is amongst the companies that will be raising

fares by eight % next year. They are one of the top 10 of her most

crowded trains. The government has insisted that the fare rise will

improve the train network. James Dyson's company has reported

its most profitable year ever. The Wiltshire entrepreneur who invented

a vacuum cleaner now employs 2700 people across the world. His

headquarters is still in Malmesbury West 700 engineers to work on new

designs. They are sold in 52 countries, and they made �206

million profit. A Big Issue seller in Bath landed

his dream job after a chance encounter. He was selling outside a

bookshop and sped to a passer-by about his ambitions to be an

illustrator. He has since designed the bookshop's window does break --

window display, and has since illustrated three children books.

John Brown to cut selling the Big Issue after struggling to sell work

-- struggling to find work. His talent for drawing has now brought

in a dream career. I have always drawn up since I was really young.

My mother used to paint pictures. If a woman came up to take pick

Stuart -- to take pictures of books in the window. I said I have always

wanted to paint pictures. I did some sketches for her. She never

got back in touch with me, but I showed him to some of the staff in

Waterstone's, and they said they would use them. After showing his

drawings, he was handed �20 for materials. Deborah was the person

that he impressed. I thought they were amazing. We put them in the

window, there was an amazing response.

Thanks to the display his talent was spotted by a publisher. Then

next book just happened to a feature dragons. John West plans

three books with John, promising him a slice of the profits, and a

step on the ladder. It is great to be designing things for people. It

is very difficult to get into the industry. I thought it was a very

good enterprise, the young chap from the Big Issue wanted to be an

illustrator. My dream would to be have a -- my dream were to be

having a job in art. I would like to illustrate comics. A dream

realised thanks to a dragon and named are lucky.

-- a dragon named are lucky. Four about sides are in action

tonight you able play aimed a Dons. -- you able play MK dons. In a

league to Bristol Rovers play Northampton. They are managed by

former boss Gary Johnstone. Cheltenham are playing well come,

Dagenham and Redbridge are away to Swindon.

Somerset played Nottinghamshire in Taunton tomorrow they are in

contention to win all three competitions. Last night they

narrowly lost out in the CB40 Competition, but they are ready

fruit -- are already through to the semi-finals. They also competing in

the T20, and have a crucial match against Durham in the county

championship. Three of their remaining four games at home.

The UK biggest ever street art festival is taking place at Nelson

Street in the city centre. Dozens of graffiti artists are taking part.

The idea is to celebrate what is coming -- what is becoming part of

the city's culture. It is also to attract people who specifically

travelled to see the art. This is Nelson Street, you can

hardly move for these things, aerosol cans. These guys are a crew

who have come over from New York. They have been showing off three --

they have been showing off at three handwork, a very American style. 20

years ago none of this would have been allowed.

They have always been some who see a blank wall as a blank canvas.

There will always be those who do not. Bristol is known Forestry tart,

and its street artist. Painting on public walls has never been

officially sanctioned before. The council's's -- policy is that it

will be removed. At any other time that a guy with the spray can would

have been arrested, he in the past have many have. In the 1980s it was

regarded as something to stamp out as quickly as possible, many of the

street artists who are currently working in Bristol professionally,

and are painting for money, have all of their paintings or thrown

away, and their houses raided and their computers taken away from

them. The people who do it call it aerosol art, the people we

prosecute them caller graffiti. It is being prosecuted in Bristol.

1990 there was no question, graffiti must go! The idea of a

past they -- the idea that the artistic integrity, aesthetic value

never came up. The perception of graffiti began to change. People

who were labelled as vandals are now called graffiti artists, spray-

paint his street art. What started as an underground illegal movement

has become mainstream. There is one artist in particular who has

started to become a brand. My apologies for these efforts, the

brand is of course at Banksy. It is almost impossible to suggest his

work is not art, he is an international superstar, albeit at

a number -- and an almost one. captured the Zeitgeist, he does it

very well. He's great at what he does, a fantastic artist. He was at

the right time at the right place. The power of that brand has rubbed

off. Attitudes seem to be changing, people travelled just to see the

staff. They take photographs of it. They talk about it on line. Bristol

City Council is now paying for a whole street of art. Some of it in

the City could be protected. fact that a piece of graffiti will

not be paid -- will not be painted over is a real triumph. You would

not do it to a painting, why would you do it to graffiti?

The power of the Banksy brand. This is not actually a Banksy, it was me

messing about. Will he come back here? We do not know. We will be

back on Friday to find out how these guys got on.

Thanks very much, you have a new career in waiting. He did it all in

one go! He was a Swindon character, an

amateur photographer who captured tens of thousands of images of

locals. Now a group of students are using those pictures, and portraits

of their rope, to bring a new dimension to the work of one Albert

Albert Beaney, born 1914. The man with the cancer. Children were

chasing to have their picture taken, before he died he caught up

thousands of people on his endless roll. He took up the job of

capturing social life in Swindon, 80 did very seriously. He left over

40,000 and negatives. This is just the tip of a very big iceberg. This

lot have been capturing the faces of Swindonians today, and they have

found some former been the subject., been the subject. He must have come

along and seen us, he took our for a photo -- he took out a photo. It

is really nostalgic. A there are not a lot of pictures to show

people from Swindon's past. Shops that are not there, there is not a

lot of actual people. It shows a very different angle. Albert

Beaney's son found out about the project, it opened up a new world

to him. It is emotional, I'm going through some of my family

photographs. I knew they existed, but I never saw them before. They

would not let us touch them. This is just the beginning, the

exhibition at the Artsite Gallery ones until the 19th. In the new

year there will be a final big show. Bass is passed, faces present,

leaving them in print for the faces of the future.

Great to look back at those pictures, amazing how quickly

everything changes. everything changes.

Let's look at the weather. And good evening, the weather is

not behaving very well. We might get some sunshine tomorrow, but

more cloud coming from the south. We have a lot of fine weather

tomorrow, it could start off a little misty. A lot of the cloud we

saw earlier today has pushed away eastwards. It will be a dry night

tonight. This is the weather front that will cause us problems

tomorrow, quite a long way away, but coming up to the south coast.

It will be heading northwards. This evening, a lot of clear sky, it

will turn a little misty. Some fog patches appearing. Lighter winds,

almost calm. Temperatures a little lower, down to a low as -- down to

as low as 10 degrees. Some mist in the morning, some hazy sunshine. It

will gradually cloud over. Some light showers at the end of the day.

Temperatures around 18-19 degrees. Warmer in the east. A gentle north-

easterly breeze. Thursday is quite a wet, low-pressure moving out of

the way. Friday will be the best day of the week. Fine and dry. The

weather will get a little closer coming up to Saturday. Bright and

dry, wet, Thursday. Fine on Friday, the weekend starts bright, but