20/09/2011 BBC Points West

Hello. Headlines and harrowing encounters.

The parents of Joanna Yeates face the man who killed their daughter

for the first time. As police searched for a fund

report missing teenager her mother speaks of her anguish. --

vulnerable. The country's first fuelling

station for hydrogen powered cars opens in Swindon.

The amazing story of a wartime evacuee we welcome back to Somerset

for the first time in 72 years. have never been made so welcome in

For the first time since his arrest, the man accused of murdering Jo

Yeates has come face to face with her parents. Dutch architect,

Vincent Tabak, made a short appearance at Bristol Crown Court

today, as our Home Affairs Correspondent Steve Brodie reports.

David and Teresa Yeates arrived at court to see the man who has

already old pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of their daughter last

December. The body of 25-year-old Joanna, who disappeared on Friday

December 17th, was found on Christmas morning beside the verge

on a road near Long Ashton. She had been strangled. There was a deep

silence as Vincent Tabak, wearing a dark suit and tie, was led into the

dock flanked by four security guards. He spoke only to confirm

his name. Mr and Mrs Yeates sat only feet away. They did not look

in his direction. They listened intently as the lawyers discussed

the details of the forthcoming murder trial. Throughout the 33-

minute hearing 33-year-old Vincent Tabak sat with his head down,

occasionally looking up as judge Martin Picton, talked to the

prosecution and defence teams about how the trial will be managed. No

evidence was given by the defence. He pleads not guilty to murder and

the trial will begin probably on A mother has made an emotional

appeal for help to find her daughter who's been missing

somewhere in the Stroud area for five days. Harini Payagala has an

eating disorder and her family are worried she may be struggling to

survive the cold nights. Scott Ellis reports.

Police from a three force areas searched in and around Stroud for

any sign of Harini Payagala. The 17-year-old ran away from a centre

in Stroud where she was being treated for an eating disorder.

That was midday Friday. Today her mother's face reflects the worry

everyone's feeling. It is difficult. She has got an eating disorder so

she is feeling confused. She might have wandered off and not known her

bearings. Probably just walking towards finding her way back, but

we don't know where she is. This time we are more worried because

she is at such a low weight. If she loses any more we don't know what

could happen. Hypothermia is a concern. Harini's 4 feet 10 inches

tall, but weighs no more than 30 kilograms. She's gone missing on

two other occasions. Both times she hid away for days. She is a shy

girl, will not engage with people. Issues approached she will run away.

She certainly will run away if police officers see her or she sees

police officers, and so we are keen for the public to report any

sightings at all. They also want the public to check sheds and out

buildings. The search continues in the rain but she remains missing.

She is now heading for her 5th night out in the open summer. No

doubt she will be cold, certainly be damp and wet. Her family are

Two men accused of killing Anni Dewani will go on trial in South

Africa next year. The men appeared at a regional court in Cape Town

today to face charges of murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery.

Anni Dewani was shot in an apparent car jacking while on honeymoon in

Cape Town last November. Her husband Shrien Dewani, from

Westbury on Trym, has been accused of plotting his wife's murder,

something he always denied. He is still waiting extradition to South

Africa to face the charges. Britain's first public re-fuelling

station for hydrogen-powered vehicles has just opened in Swindon.

The developers say it's a significant step in the creation of

a "Hydrogen Highway", along the M4 motorway. John Maguire has been in

Swindon to have a look. We already have electric vehicles

and even prototypes of cars powered by methane from human waste.

However, hydrogen could provide the ultimate renewable and clean fuel.

But how realistic is it as a replacement for petrol and diesel?

We caught a hydrogen car. Eventually we will have 30, 40

filling stations by 2015. There are already 30 in Germany and

California. We need the cars, the filling stations and the public on

board to say these are great cars, a great experience with benefits.

Today the UK's first hydrogen bomb for public use was unveiled at the

Honda car factory in Swindon -- hydrogen pump. How readily

available is hydrogen? It is the most abundant and a bent in the

universe and can be made from a number of different sources --

element. We are looking at energy mixes to make the production of

hydrogen as efficient and low-cost as possible. The gas recharges the

batteries so journeys are longer than electric cars. That is not the

biggest benefit. Even with modern engines for her and this car was

Ben you there are still harmful emissions coming out. But the

difference with a hydrogen car is the anything coming out of the

exhaust pipe buried underneath the rear of the car are hydrogen and

oxygen. Water. There is a real buzz here but expectations are realistic.

I didn't think I would see this in my lifetime, sitting in a hydrogen

car, and I wonder if in my lifetime I will be pulling of that Act

service stations filling my carrots with it? In California makers least

hundreds of hydrogen powered cars and there are many filling stations.

There are more in the pipeline. So are we all going to have a hydrogen

car one day? Our Business correspondent Dave Harvey is here.

How long before there's a hydrogen station down my street?

They have built one, just 11,022 to go before their match the number of

petrol and diesel stations. The first is always the hardest and it

is no longer just a Tomorrow's World story. The plan is as motor

companies start rolling out these cars across the world and it is

quite popular in California and on the Continent, that will stimulate

demand for the fuel. And then the industry will start building these

things. They will stop popping up all over the place. Perhaps by 2020

they will almost be commonplace and people will say, I saw the first

one on Points West! Nothing but age to wear at the back is appealing.

How green are they? All most science fantasy, just water

dribbling out. One little word of caution. If you

go back up the pipe, how do you make your hydrogen? We heard they

are splitting it out of natural gas. There needs a lot of electricity.

Where does that come from? Coal, gas I suppose, perhaps wind

and solar power. At the moment more than two-thirds

of the UK's electricity is coming from coal, gas. As you see they're

beautiful green card driving down the road dribbling water you have

to have in your mind's eye the cloud of smoke from the coal-fired

power station it came from in the first place. Some rather familiar

arguments about where we get our You're watching BBC Points West.

Still to come: I am trying to keep up with the wives of one rifles as

they exercise their waste to Afghanistan and back.

A wartime evacuee returns to Somerset to a warm welcome after 72

The Liberal Democrats have shrugged off claims there've been too many

attacks on the Conservatives. At their conference in Birmingham,

Tory-bashing has gone down well with delegates, especially from

many parts of the West Country where the two parties are sworn

enemies. Our political editor Paul Barltrop is at the conference.

There have been some rude comments, some jokes, the party president

said divorce was inevitable. Politics is a tribal business. The

activists spend time fighting the other parties. When they get

together they liked to let off steam. Especially in the West come

but -- country it is important because for most of the region it

is city was race, the main foes are the Conservatives. Cheltenham gives

off an ambience. It is stately, serene even. In the backstreet

their politically it is a dog fight. Lib Dems against the Conservatives.

The parties that share power nationally are sworn enemies here.

We joined Lib Dems for their monthly curry night and asked what

price the coalition? The coalition has been a huge challenge. We were

right to go into it and we would be right to stay in it. When I am

canvassing on the doorstep it is like we did at the coalition, and

when you ask the question why, it is generally,. Mr Clegg, is he the

leader? He needs to put his foot down on certain issues and make the

Lib Dems seem to be more involved with the government. He is holding

his own. With a Liberal Democrat MP and a Lib Dem controlled council it

runs deep here but what of the future? We need to separate

ourselves a bit more from the Conservatives and get our message

across to the public we are not the Conservatives. Before that they

face council elections here next May. A stiff challenge from the

Tories, and a taste of public opinion on coalition government.

When election time comes around normal hostilities will of course

resume. But a high profile national conference like this, should they

be so rude about their coalition partners? One Somerset and the ice

BECTU doesn't been said. She thinks they have gone too far. -- 1

Somerset MP I spoke to. I am the leader of a political party, not a

sect. I cannot sanction or stop what words people use. But actually

what you have seen in this conference in Birmingham is a

surprising degree of resilience, unity and determination from the

Liberal Democrats, accepting it has been a puff -- tough year for us

and a very difficult time for the country as a whole and it is

justified for us to work together for once, set aside our differences,

for the long-term benefit of the country. He is preparing for his

closing speech tomorrow had been to boost morale, sent activists back

home ready for the electoral battles to come. Next May in

Cheltenham and elsewhere they will be hoping to focus on local issues

but of course it will be overshadowed by the national

picture. There has been some glee and the -- gloomy talk at

conference today of the economy with one warning from a senior

Liberal Democrat if things don't improve the party could get

slaughtered at the next general election. That is a long way off

the. -- though. When you take some exercise how far

do you think you go, a mile or two, maybe even five or ten, well spare

a thought for a group of Gloucestershire women who are

trying to exercise their way to Afghanistan and back. That's more

than 10,000 miles! They're all wives of members of 1Rifles who are

serving there at the moment, and they've taken on the challenge to

raise money for the families of fallen and injured soldiers. Will

Glennon went to see them in action. There's a long way to go, and time

is running out but for these army wives, it's a challenge they're

more than ready for. They have spent months in the gym and on the

road exercising the 10,270 miles to Afghanistan and back. The 42

members between them have travelled over 8,200 miles cycling, walking,

running, running, swimming, but they have still got 2000 to go.

They started off hoping to cover the distance out but did so well be

decided to come back as well. He challenge yourself a lot more. And

so if you manage five miles one week you will try and do six miles

another week and so on. So you just try and get yourself each week.

There is a little bit of competition as well. This date the

challenge has brought them closer together. It is a welcome

distraction with their husbands away. It makes you feel like you

are helping. You think of what they are doing and you think of the pain

of an extra mile, it is not eat -- doing you any harm. Seeing everyone

get together and seeing a more smiling and laughing and not

thinking, my husband is away, it takes their minds off the fact they

are away and passes the time and keeps everybody fit. It has been

brilliant. There is a serious side as well. Five members of the

regiment have died on the current tour of duty. The object of this

exercise is to raise money for the families left behind and for those

who are badly injured as well. The wives in to complete the challenge

by the time they return in late If you are inspired and want to

donate to the challenge, you can. Their website is swift and bolt. A

study carried out by the University of Bristol suggests 15-year-olds

who watch films where the characters smoke are more likely to

smoke themselves. Researchers are now suggesting films should be re-

classified according to how much smoking is portrayed. Here's Jules

Hyam. You round my house. Tinker Tailor

Soldier Spy is being widely touted as the must see movie of the year.

The thriller is set in the 1970s. The dress and the decor all reflect

the period it portrays, so do the characters and their behaviour,

which means that some of the actors smoke. But does their behaviour

then influence ours? We do have a habit of copying behaviours.

There's a well documented effect called postural congruence, that's

just a posh way of describing the way that we copy the posture of

people we like. And there are behaviours that do make you want to

do the same thing you're watching. Sort of scratch the same itch. But

is the same true with smoking? This study asked more than 5,000 15-

year-olds what films they'd seen and whether they'd ever smoked and

it found a significant correlation between teenagers watching films

with smoking in and smoking themselves. There is no evidence of

any causal link, but nonetheless, its authors are calling for films

with smoking in to be reclassified as 18 certificate. What the authors

of the report warned us to do is build smoking in alongside alcohol

misuse, drug me sees as a classification issue and something

which we can take into account when deciding what level to classify it

is a film at -- drugs misuse. I did in the public wants us to put all

PG films like Mamma Mia, to take an example, straight up to 18, just

because there is a small bit of smoking. Gold band. Gone are the

days when tobacco companies could use glamour to sell their brands

but the author's of today's report say that smoking is still getting

Joining us now is the lead author of the study. A strong correlation

but no causal link. Do you want to take this big step for

reclassification? Absolutely. What we need to do is

take a precautionary measure. You write we haven't done the work that

proves there is a causal effect between watching firms and people

smoking, but what we have done a show and there is a really strong

association even when you're going through all the things, so whether

parents smoke, friends smoke, drink, all of those are already in hour

analysis and even when you account for those there is still an

association between the film's young people see and whether or not

they smoke. Do you think it could be a practical application? You can

understand it in some films where it may not be needed. We heard the

example of Mamma Mia. Would that be a sensible thing to do?

difficulty is, we have already made a decision we will not advertise

tobacco in the media, in magazines, on the telly, in Formula One. There

is a reason behind that and one of the things we now is the way young

people than is by copying what they see. If they see a betrayal of

smoking in the movies and people look glamourous or the look

powerful or whatever his betrayed, they're more likely to think I

might have a go at that, it might make me look like that. It is

interesting. The film-maker wants to have authenticity, for example

of a particular character who was known to smoke, you are suggesting

there might be an authenticity to during the effect in a character as

well. Or suggesting it could be something they're no good. What

they will the cat is they will look and seat and say that looks really

sexy or clever, and divided that maybe I will look like that at two.

-- If I do that. Interesting to see how the film board and youngsters

Sport and Somerset captain Marcus Trescothick has won cricket's "most

valuable player" award for this season. He scored over 2,500 runs

across all competitions. He's one of the players missing from

Somerset's squad for their Champions League T20 campaign in

India. But without him, they've won their first qualifying match, as

Alistair Durden reports. Having lost a Cup final three days

ago they needed to regroup quickly. After failing in England this time

a world prize at stake. They have been in India less than a day but

there is no sign of any jet-lag as the bowlers got stuck in. Somerset

had qualified for this tournament by reaching the English 2020 final

a month ago, but had travelled to India without their captain and

three other first-choice players because of international

commitments. He didn't seem to matter, as Auckland found life hard.

And at times the visibly frustrating. 126 was Somerset's

target. The South African was a big hit with the county earlier in the

season and has returned to the Champions League. His dismissal

started a collapse of wickets. They needed a bit of luck, and got it.

It would still come down to the very last ball. Stand-in skipper

Alfonso Thomas getting a run they needed. After all their heartache a

heart thumping win and they have to A four-year-old boy has been sent

away from home to a family of strangers in Somerset. Once there's

he's been put to work, not only going to school, but up at dawn

delivering the post and at night labouring on the farms. It is a

true story. But it happened 72 years ago when a young boy called

John was evacuated to a village near Shepton Mallet. Today he went

back for the first time. David Garmston went too.

They met again in Evercreech today, John Godsmark back in the village

where he was evacuated 72 years ago. They embraced him then, they did it

again today, making him guest of honour at a village lunch. About 18

months I was here. I remember one Christmas in this hall with an

American Christmas party. Tens of thousands of children, many very

tiny, were evacuated to escape the Blitz. Children from London,

Bristol and many other cities were separated from their parents, some

for years. For John, a Londoner, steaming into remote East Somerset

must have felt like arriving on another planet. Even the time is

funny in Evercreech, the village clock has two 12 o'clocks. He must

have been confused and scared but he was looked after by the village

postman who gave a lonely little boy much kindness. I took him to

his old school where he did more than just reading and writing

because John was a little worker. In the morning she delivered the

post. Whitlock did it on the railway station will stop for 30, 5

o'clock. Then you went to school here then held that on the farm.

Yes. Easy sort of life, really. was just done every day, everybody

did it, nobody raised a question. Part of life. But you were a kid?

So what. John was one of the lucky ones, thousands of other children

had a terrible war, torn from their families, plonked into cold,

austere and loveless homes, with no-one to give them hug or tell

them a story. In many cases the psychological scars have stayed

with them for life. But for 18 months Evercreech was a refuge for

John and today he had the chance to say thanks for the memories.

I just don't know what to say. I have never been made so welcome in

Isn't that lovely, what memories. The cold front to bring some rain

has eventually arrived, extremely slow compared to the forecast

expectations. Many people were complaining the rain has been late

rather than early. Tomorrow a vastly improved story. The rainfall

radar shows how this call from was struggling up in two parts of Wales

for good part of the first half of the day. Now it is running his way

gradually eastwards and these are brighter echoes, heavy rain. As the

evening and night wears on there will be some persistence and quite

heavy rain to come. Gradually easing south-eastwards, starting to

clear-up first in the west as you would expect post midnight, and it

will take until just before dawn before it closed out to the south-

east. There may well be mistaken for forming. Temperatures might get

down to nine degrees. Tomorrow, the last remnants of that front will be

just out of the way of part of Dorset and Wiltshire. Still a good

overhang of cloud behind that. Some brighter spells starting to appear

to the West. Through the afternoon they will become more prevalent. A

decent enough afternoon. Some coastal showers. Broadly speaking a

good deal of dry weather. The sea conditions tomorrow will be breezy.

Gusts of about 35 knots. The sea temperature is still about 16 if

you're brave enough to be sacked -- kite surfing or the like. I

generally dry and breezy theme. Later on Saturday, a bit more in

the wake of rain. -- in the way.