:00:16. > :00:22.Good evening, welcome to Points West. The headlines, the jury is
:00:22. > :00:26.out. Vincent Tabak awaits his fate, as the judge warns them not to let
:00:26. > :00:31.emotions way their verdict. An explosion at a house whilst the
:00:31. > :00:37.owners were in the same room as the blast. The latest hands-free phone,
:00:37. > :00:41.a man has a mobile phone built into his false arm. I can use it on
:00:41. > :00:48.loudspeaker, I want to have some fun of it, it comes off, I can use
:00:48. > :00:57.it like that. And BT may bring us some of the most amazing animal
:00:57. > :01:02.pictures ever -- and the team bring us the most amazing pictures ever.
:01:02. > :01:06.The jury at the Jo Yeates murder trial had been told to put a motion
:01:06. > :01:10.and sympathy for a family and boyfriend aside. After listening to
:01:10. > :01:15.almost three weeks of evidence, the judge spoke to an almost two hours
:01:15. > :01:18.this morning, before sending them out to consider their verdicts. The
:01:18. > :01:24.defendant, Vincent Tabak, has admitted killing her, but denies
:01:24. > :01:30.her murder. Jo Yeates family arrived in court
:01:30. > :01:37.to here be charged take the jury through the case. The jury were
:01:37. > :01:41.told how Tabak killed her on that Friday night in December last year.
:01:41. > :01:49.Tabak admitted strangling her blood to 20 seconds become -- before
:01:49. > :01:57.moving on to her bed. When Mrs Herbert two screens at around
:01:57. > :02:03.8:50pm that evening. He later sent a text to his girlfriend saying
:02:03. > :02:09.that he was bored. Tabak moves were slit -- swiftly to cover his tracks.
:02:09. > :02:13.He used calculated deception. The judge added that Tabak added that
:02:13. > :02:18.he could have walked away from her flat, he failed to resuscitate her
:02:18. > :02:23.or call an ambulance. They were told that there was no evidence of
:02:23. > :02:27.any sexual assault on the victim. They also told that they did not
:02:27. > :02:32.know how long it occurred to die. Her family were sitting in the
:02:32. > :02:37.front row of the gallery. The judge told the jury that this was a
:02:37. > :02:41.tragic case, a young woman with a - - with a whole life in front of her.
:02:41. > :02:46.He told them that they must put a motion and sympathy aside, and not
:02:46. > :02:50.allowed to cloud your judgement. The judge said for him to be found
:02:50. > :02:57.guilty of murder, the jury would have to be sure that he intended to
:02:57. > :03:02.kill her, or cures or serious injury. -- calls her a serious
:03:02. > :03:07.injury. The jury will continue discussions tomorrow morning.
:03:07. > :03:11.An explosion has blown off the front of the House -- the fun to a
:03:11. > :03:14.house in Weston-super-Mare. It happened yesterday evening, the
:03:14. > :03:20.owners were taken to Frenchay Hospital. It has left the road
:03:20. > :03:23.closed, and their neighbours have been forced to leave their home.
:03:23. > :03:32.Incredibly the owners were actually in this room when the explosion
:03:32. > :03:37.ripped through their home. It was a large bang. The house reverberated
:03:37. > :03:40.slightly. I thought it might have been a firework going off. When we
:03:40. > :03:46.looked out the window, there were blue lights flashing, we came down
:03:46. > :03:50.to have a look. The couple known locally as Chris and Janice Shenton,
:03:50. > :03:56.were taken to Frenchay Hospital, and treated for burns and shock.
:03:56. > :04:00.Considering the extent of the damage, it was a miraculous escape.
:04:00. > :04:08.They do not have a life-threatening injuries. We are continuing an
:04:08. > :04:13.investigation. It may have been a gas explosion. They were living
:04:13. > :04:16.upstairs while they were doing work on the house. The explosion has
:04:16. > :04:22.caused serious structural damage. know they were doing the house up.
:04:22. > :04:27.They were doing the roof. This is unfortunate. I hope they are all
:04:27. > :04:34.right. The house is so precarious, that Brean Down Avenue has been
:04:34. > :04:42.closed. The council is trying to make the road to cure. Neighbours
:04:42. > :04:46.have been asked to stay away. There has been further grim
:04:46. > :04:50.economic news in Trowbridge. On top of significant losses earlier this
:04:50. > :04:57.year at Vodafone, Virgin and Wiltshire Council, comes the
:04:57. > :05:01.closure of bed manufacturers Norian. We have been finding out why they
:05:01. > :05:06.have to go into administration, and if there any reason to Beachell --
:05:06. > :05:13.any reasons to be cheerful. The door is firmly locked here at
:05:13. > :05:23.Norian. You can see where the many factoring was taking place. --
:05:23. > :05:24.
:05:24. > :05:29.manufacturing. Once they went into administration, it's that -- it
:05:29. > :05:35.adds to job losses in Trowbridge. Vodafone announced that 200 jobs
:05:35. > :05:41.are being cut. In May, Virgin Media announced their own to close their
:05:41. > :05:46.Trowbridge office, costing 450 jobs. 300 jobs have gone at Wiltshire
:05:46. > :05:54.Council. If you add in these losses, Trowbridge has lost 1,000 jobs this
:05:54. > :05:58.year. It is always great news when you hear someone like Virgin is
:05:58. > :06:04.coming. But they can go as good as they come. They can make decisions
:06:04. > :06:12.to move out. You have deliver that. When it is a local company, you
:06:12. > :06:17.like to see that bribing. They were expanding. It is a double blow.
:06:17. > :06:22.Wiltshire's economic director is more upbeat. He has told us that
:06:22. > :06:28.1,000 jobs can be created. He's talking to six firms keen to
:06:28. > :06:33.relocate there. Certain places are a bit sniffy about development. We
:06:33. > :06:39.are eager for development. We want jobs, we want growth. To accompany,
:06:39. > :06:43.that gives more certainty. This food factory is proof that there
:06:43. > :06:48.are reasons to be optimistic. They have been -- they have become the
:06:48. > :06:52.biggest private employer in the town. They are still recruiting.
:06:52. > :06:56.is a tough economic environment, there are still opportunities. If
:06:56. > :07:04.you give her the right products and services, you can succeed.
:07:04. > :07:09.Nevertheless, the former employees of Norian have felt the full blow
:07:09. > :07:19.of the economic downturn. They arrive at work to be told that they
:07:19. > :07:20.
:07:20. > :07:30.have no job. This is Points West.
:07:30. > :07:35.Coming up, that is a polar bear showing their parenting style. Just
:07:35. > :07:40.one of the highlights of a new blockbuster than the BBC. Have a
:07:40. > :07:47.good look at this picture. We will be asking you pictures about it in
:07:47. > :07:51.a few minutes' time. We will test you.
:07:51. > :07:54.Some breaking news, campaigners tried to stop the expansion of
:07:54. > :08:00.Bristol Airport have been refused a High Court challenge. They were
:08:00. > :08:05.trying to argue that North Somerset council's plans were legally flawed.
:08:05. > :08:10.A judge rejected that argument. Our correspondent is here to tell us
:08:11. > :08:16.more. What happened today? It was a case that was only his bows to take
:08:16. > :08:20.a couple of hours, it went on all day. The group went to the High
:08:20. > :08:24.Court, they argued that climate change should have been taken into
:08:24. > :08:34.account by the council when they were looking to approve these plans.
:08:34. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:38.-- climate change. It would mean a bigger terminal, more parking, a
:08:38. > :08:47.100 for �2 million project. He would bring new jobs to the local
:08:47. > :08:55.economy. -- �120 million. The judge today said that the planners that
:08:55. > :08:58.the council had to be bound by government policy set out in 2003
:08:58. > :09:05.In the Air Transport white paper. He said that that did -- but that
:09:05. > :09:10.did not include climate change. What has been the reaction?
:09:10. > :09:15.campaigners have been saying they are disappointed. They say they
:09:15. > :09:19.will fight on. They feel they have had a small success in delaying the
:09:19. > :09:24.expansion. They have been fighting since 2005 against it. They think
:09:24. > :09:29.being rid -- they think the recession has reduced numbers. The
:09:29. > :09:39.airport says that they welcome the decision. They say these plans were
:09:39. > :09:48.cheap grey affair process. -- these plans were achieved break their
:09:48. > :09:52.process. They are looking at bringing in any policy in 2013.
:09:52. > :09:56.Thank you very much. A High Court judge is to decide
:09:56. > :10:00.whether campaigners can challenge the NHS over the way many of its
:10:00. > :10:05.services are run. The health service was to outsource jobs as
:10:05. > :10:12.several community hospitals as part a base social enterprise.
:10:12. > :10:18.Campaigners say the plans are legally flawed.
:10:18. > :10:24.NHS Gloucestershire says that they will soon be celebrating the
:10:25. > :10:33.opening of a new hospital in Dursley. They want to get outsource
:10:33. > :10:36.companies to run the services. It is supposed to be a more locally
:10:36. > :10:41.controlled organisation. A very much part of the government's bid
:10:41. > :10:51.society idea. That plan has been put on hold because campaigners
:10:51. > :10:55.have got their day in court. NHS! A 75-year-old campaigner from
:10:55. > :11:02.Stroud is taking a chess Leicestershire to court --
:11:02. > :11:07.Gloucestershire to court. The pensioner believes that the NHS
:11:07. > :11:13.broke the law in the plans for outsourcing their services.
:11:13. > :11:18.Supporters say it is a process that needs more scrutiny. We do not
:11:18. > :11:28.think the staff had been properly consulted the public cannot behind
:11:28. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:34.it. NHS but the she would not provide a statement today. -- NHS
:11:34. > :11:41.Gloucestershire said that this process was happening across the
:11:41. > :11:45.country. We want to see better delivery of care for patients. It
:11:45. > :11:49.is very important that the staff are involved in this process. We
:11:49. > :11:56.wanted to be a success. We have patients at one end, and staff at
:11:56. > :12:01.the other. We want a more to be involved. There is a huge strain
:12:01. > :12:07.been feeling on both sides. Campaigners say a High Court
:12:07. > :12:10.challenge will keep services within the NHS.
:12:10. > :12:16.Hundreds of teachers from the West went to London today to lobby MPs
:12:16. > :12:21.about pension changes. This group left from Bristol as part of a
:12:21. > :12:25.national day of action. They say the pension changes will have a
:12:25. > :12:30.dramatic effect on thousands of people.
:12:30. > :12:35.A couple of years ago you saw a traffic sign grey bus lane. If that
:12:35. > :12:43.were a real sign of a real bus lane you could end up in court if you do
:12:43. > :12:48.not read it properly. 1,400 of them were issued in Bristol. The council
:12:48. > :12:53.is writing those traffic fines of saying he did not do enough to let
:12:53. > :12:58.people know about them. There is a bus lane, do you
:12:58. > :13:02.remember that sign we showed you a couple of minutes ago. It told you
:13:02. > :13:08.what time the bus lanes were operating. Did you get it right? If
:13:08. > :13:15.you got it right, very well done. I did ask you to pay very -- I did
:13:15. > :13:20.not ask you to pay good attention. If you pass this sign every day if
:13:20. > :13:23.those times were to change? That for happened here, the Evening
:13:23. > :13:29.Times for the bus lane were extended, the signs were altered,
:13:29. > :13:39.but not everyone noticed. Almost the 1,400 fines were issued. That
:13:39. > :13:41.
:13:41. > :13:49.Although we complied with the law, we thought there was an issue with
:13:49. > :13:55.the spirit of the law. We are going to re send all of the tickets
:13:55. > :14:01.issued which is about 1400 in total. It is not just Bristol signs that
:14:01. > :14:06.cause problems, it in Bath these sounds are just not good enough.
:14:06. > :14:12.Too small, too unclear. We are not generally very good at noticing
:14:12. > :14:18.small details or noting -- noticing change. I have got four difference
:14:18. > :14:23.signs here. Here is another, and another, and one that looks pretty
:14:23. > :14:27.similar but with different times. If we show these two people, can
:14:27. > :14:36.they spot the difference. That is the first sign, is that the same or
:14:36. > :14:43.different? Different. Different. The same. Really? As the same one?
:14:43. > :14:47.Yes. Let's show them side by side. A lot of people just have not
:14:47. > :14:51.noticed that one blue sign had been changed for another. We have now
:14:51. > :14:57.put up additional sign age to warn drivers that there are different
:14:57. > :15:01.operating times. And here are those signs, difficult not to notice.
:15:01. > :15:05.Sounds like this will be springing up across the city over the next 12
:15:05. > :15:10.months. Is this the same or different, it
:15:10. > :15:15.is like an eye test. Some people feel lost if they do
:15:15. > :15:19.not have the mobile phone attached to them. One man has taken it to
:15:19. > :15:25.new lengths. Trevor Prideaux manages a tea shop at Chew Valley
:15:25. > :15:30.Lake. He also has a prosthetic arm and he has had the mobile phone
:15:30. > :15:36.docking station built into it. Let's face it, these days most of
:15:36. > :15:41.us rely on one of these to get on with our everyday lives. But to use
:15:41. > :15:51.one, and to even do the simplest of operation, you do need both your
:15:51. > :15:54.
:15:54. > :15:59.hands. But what happens if you do not have that luxury? Hello, I am
:15:59. > :16:04.good. Trevor Prideaux was born without his left forearm. He has
:16:04. > :16:08.never let that stop him doing anything. Even if it meant
:16:08. > :16:13.inventing something like the us. was an idea I came up with a few
:16:13. > :16:18.years ago. When using a phone, I would rest on my forearm, and I
:16:18. > :16:24.thought there must be some way to build a phone to use my forearm as
:16:24. > :16:29.a holding cradle. This could be useful to some people. I can easily
:16:29. > :16:35.text right-hander, but it makes it a lot easier if I hold it in his
:16:35. > :16:40.arm and I can text on the screen on the top of my forearm. His idea was
:16:40. > :16:45.turned into a reality by the prosthetics of -- Department of the
:16:45. > :16:50.Exeter mobility Centre. He is already thinking of new ways of
:16:50. > :16:55.developing the concept. For now, this is one of a kind and it means
:16:55. > :17:01.that Trevor Prideaux is literally attached to his phone, leaving him
:17:01. > :17:06.no reason not to pick up a phone. can use it on loudspeaker, and if I
:17:06. > :17:10.want to have fun with it, it comes off and I can use it like that.
:17:10. > :17:13.Brilliant! Football, and Cheltenham Town plan to offer manager Mark
:17:13. > :17:17.Yates a new contract after the club's impressive start to the
:17:17. > :17:21.season. Last night though their five-match winning run came to an
:17:21. > :17:31.end with defeat to Crewe. But as Alistair Durden reports, there's
:17:31. > :17:32.
:17:32. > :17:37.still a real belief that they can challenge for promotion this season.
:17:37. > :17:41.Arriving for duty full of confidence. And why not? On the
:17:41. > :17:43.back of the club's best run of form for five years. The club increased
:17:43. > :17:51.the playing budget this year, and key additions have made the
:17:51. > :17:56.difference. As has deciding to stick with manager Mark Yates.
:17:56. > :18:01.People were calling for Mark's head last year. But a change of managers
:18:01. > :18:08.does not guarantee anything. He has done a fantastic job, and we will
:18:08. > :18:12.hopefully reward him with an extended contract in due course.
:18:12. > :18:18.Quite a few years ago, when John Walker was the manager, it is right
:18:19. > :18:22.back to the good old days. But Crewe hadn't read the script.
:18:22. > :18:32.Cheltenham didn't take one of their many first half chances. And they
:18:32. > :18:32.
:18:33. > :18:37.were punished by a second half penalty. They can do so well away,
:18:37. > :18:41.but they cannot do it for us at home. They should have had goals in
:18:41. > :18:46.the first half and they didn't. That is the way it goes. I do not
:18:46. > :18:51.want to see us go down the table now. We have got to look at what we
:18:51. > :18:57.have done so far, if this is just a minor blip, that is the way we
:18:57. > :19:00.should look at it. Swindon are hot on their heels now,
:19:00. > :19:02.manager Paolo Di Canio scored some sensational goals in his time, but
:19:03. > :19:11.even he admitted this Matt Ritchie strike was beyond anything he
:19:11. > :19:18.managed in his career. I had, at the time, legs like mozzarella
:19:18. > :19:22.cheese. It was not possible for me, but when he can hit the ball in
:19:22. > :19:24.this way you can destroy the opponents. And Jonothan Smith's
:19:24. > :19:27.effort to wrap things up wasnt bad either.
:19:27. > :19:30.Bristol Rovers were booed off after their 3-0 home defeat to Port Vale.
:19:30. > :19:32.After so much optomism in pre- season, the reality is falling some
:19:32. > :19:37.way short. And in League One, Yeovil missed
:19:37. > :19:40.the chance to climb off the bottom. They led 2-1 with goals from Keiron
:19:41. > :19:43.Agard, and then this from Bongz N'Gala. Paul Wotton then
:19:43. > :19:53.uncharecteristally missed a penalty and Orient grabbed the lifeline to
:19:53. > :19:53.
:19:53. > :19:59.Another spectacular documentary series made by the BBC's natural
:19:59. > :20:01.history unit here in Bristol comes to our screens tonight. Frozen
:20:02. > :20:04.Planet, which is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, shows what life
:20:05. > :20:09.is like at the North and South Poles, where there's no sunlight
:20:09. > :20:19.for six months of the year. Vanessa Berlowitz and Alastair Fothergill
:20:19. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:34.The scale of this programme is epic. It is a very big project. It is a
:20:34. > :20:39.very demanding place to work. It is remote, cold, the ice floats away
:20:39. > :20:49.and we really wanted to film a new species, and new behaviours. There
:20:49. > :20:54.are some amazing pictures. We are going to look at one clap now.
:20:54. > :21:04.partners stay close together and travel silently. This time they
:21:04. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:11.unleash a far more powerful wave These big waves are not intended to
:21:11. > :21:17.break the ice, but to knock the prey into the water. And they
:21:17. > :21:23.rarely fail. That is just remarkable. This is the first time
:21:23. > :21:27.you have captured shots like this, isn't it? We first heard about it
:21:27. > :21:31.in 1993 and we thought it was on filmable. You do not know where it
:21:31. > :21:36.is going to happen. This co- ordinated behaviour is
:21:36. > :21:42.extraordinary. We were very pleased to film it. How did you know where
:21:42. > :21:46.it would happen, was it just luck? We were very lucky to have a
:21:46. > :21:52.wonderful collaboration with two scientists. These do satellite to
:21:52. > :21:58.keep up with them night and day. You mentioned Life In The Freezer,
:21:58. > :22:04.how is this different? We are bringing it both poles into one
:22:04. > :22:09.series. By bringing them both together in one series you can
:22:09. > :22:14.compare the challenges that animals face north and south in solving the
:22:14. > :22:24.same problem, which is intense cold and shifting and moving ice.
:22:24. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:33.have another clip which we would We're going to see a bit of surfing.
:22:33. > :22:38.We have got quite used to seeing penguins on land, but this is
:22:38. > :22:43.actually their natural home. They are brilliant swimmers and surfers.
:22:43. > :22:47.These penguins are one of the fastest swimming birds in the world.
:22:47. > :22:52.A reminder that they are good at anything, because they do have that
:22:52. > :22:58.comic field, but here we see them in their element. They do not like
:22:58. > :23:03.landing. They have funny little feet. There is a big sea lion about
:23:03. > :23:13.to grab one. The slow motion and the music of that sequence is
:23:13. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:17.absolutely beautiful. Does the frozen world still exist? One third
:23:17. > :23:22.of our planet is still frozen. There is still unbelievable
:23:22. > :23:26.wilderness. That is why we wanted to make the series and take people
:23:26. > :23:30.to a place they may never go to. But climate change is changing the
:23:30. > :23:36.face of the Earth. It is the last chance to see this pristine
:23:36. > :23:40.wilderness before the Earth changes. We saw the changes a lot on the
:23:40. > :23:46.series and it is very striking. are convinced that it is
:23:46. > :23:50.disappearing? Absolutely. We notice that the penguins were changing.
:23:50. > :23:58.The penguins of the Deep South have been replaced by the payments you
:23:58. > :24:03.saw in the clip. Payments more used to warmer climate. What is it like
:24:03. > :24:07.to work with a legend like Sir David Attenborough? It is an honour
:24:07. > :24:11.and a privilege. We took him for the first time to the North Pole.
:24:11. > :24:17.That was quite hair-raising, trying to make sure he was kept safe and
:24:17. > :24:26.warm. I think everybody will be looking forward to it. What time is
:24:26. > :24:36.it on? 9pm on BBC One this evening and it is repeated on Sunday at
:24:36. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:49.4:10pm. A real quality series. Let's look to some rather milder
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:54.It feels a bit milder than they were contending with. That is my
:24:54. > :25:00.viewing for tonight sorted out. We have dry conditions, at least for
:25:00. > :25:05.the time being, across the West Country. It is going to be a
:25:05. > :25:09.different story into tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain developing
:25:09. > :25:14.through tonight into the south coast. One way or another it will
:25:14. > :25:23.be a wet day for all of us. The showery regime of whether slipping
:25:23. > :25:30.away. This next area of low pressure will dominate the weather
:25:30. > :25:34.into tomorrow, bringing a good deal of rain with that. If we take a
:25:34. > :25:39.look at the rainfall radar, and we sink down southwards off the coast
:25:39. > :25:42.of France we can see how the rain has been developing. You are not
:25:42. > :25:52.seeing all of the rain there, just what we can pick up from the
:25:52. > :25:58.British radar network. So, let's go zoom into the West Country and see
:25:58. > :26:03.how things will develop for the rest of this evening. The cloud is
:26:03. > :26:11.already starting to expand and rain will follow into South Somerset
:26:11. > :26:17.later on this evening. By the end of the night, it will be a fairly
:26:17. > :26:23.wet affair. Tomorrow morning's rush-hour is going to be wet. There
:26:23. > :26:27.will be low cloud, a hill fog over the appliance. Some of those
:26:27. > :26:34.outbreaks of rain will turn heavy at times. Most of that focused
:26:34. > :26:39.further south words. The trend will be to have that rain that less of a
:26:39. > :26:45.feature of by the late afternoon, early evening. It will eventually
:26:45. > :26:51.sink away towards the south-east. As the skies clear, that will lead
:26:51. > :26:57.to some further problems, this time with fog. Temperatures tomorrow,
:26:57. > :27:02.typically 12 Celsius. The fog will be an issue in the morning, it
:27:02. > :27:08.could be quite widespread. It is the first significant fog we have
:27:08. > :27:13.had this season. We continue with a drier regime of whether as we
:27:13. > :27:18.continue to work Saturday and Sunday as well. -- regime of
:27:18. > :27:22.weather. You can see the temperatures hovering up towards
:27:22. > :27:32.the late teens. We are looking into next week with a more unsettled
:27:32. > :27:36.A quick reminder that if you want to see a little bit more about the