26/10/2011 BBC Points West

Good evening, welcome to Points West. The headlines, the jury is

out. Vincent Tabak awaits his fate, as the judge warns them not to let

emotions way their verdict. An explosion at a house whilst the

owners were in the same room as the blast. The latest hands-free phone,

a man has a mobile phone built into his false arm. I can use it on

loudspeaker, I want to have some fun of it, it comes off, I can use

it like that. And BT may bring us some of the most amazing animal

pictures ever -- and the team bring us the most amazing pictures ever.

The jury at the Jo Yeates murder trial had been told to put a motion

and sympathy for a family and boyfriend aside. After listening to

almost three weeks of evidence, the judge spoke to an almost two hours

this morning, before sending them out to consider their verdicts. The

defendant, Vincent Tabak, has admitted killing her, but denies

her murder. Jo Yeates family arrived in court

to here be charged take the jury through the case. The jury were

told how Tabak killed her on that Friday night in December last year.

Tabak admitted strangling her blood to 20 seconds become -- before

moving on to her bed. When Mrs Herbert two screens at around

8:50pm that evening. He later sent a text to his girlfriend saying

that he was bored. Tabak moves were slit -- swiftly to cover his tracks.

He used calculated deception. The judge added that Tabak added that

he could have walked away from her flat, he failed to resuscitate her

or call an ambulance. They were told that there was no evidence of

any sexual assault on the victim. They also told that they did not

know how long it occurred to die. Her family were sitting in the

front row of the gallery. The judge told the jury that this was a

tragic case, a young woman with a - - with a whole life in front of her.

He told them that they must put a motion and sympathy aside, and not

allowed to cloud your judgement. The judge said for him to be found

guilty of murder, the jury would have to be sure that he intended to

kill her, or cures or serious injury. -- calls her a serious

injury. The jury will continue discussions tomorrow morning.

An explosion has blown off the front of the House -- the fun to a

house in Weston-super-Mare. It happened yesterday evening, the

owners were taken to Frenchay Hospital. It has left the road

closed, and their neighbours have been forced to leave their home.

Incredibly the owners were actually in this room when the explosion

ripped through their home. It was a large bang. The house reverberated

slightly. I thought it might have been a firework going off. When we

looked out the window, there were blue lights flashing, we came down

to have a look. The couple known locally as Chris and Janice Shenton,

were taken to Frenchay Hospital, and treated for burns and shock.

Considering the extent of the damage, it was a miraculous escape.

They do not have a life-threatening injuries. We are continuing an

investigation. It may have been a gas explosion. They were living

upstairs while they were doing work on the house. The explosion has

caused serious structural damage. know they were doing the house up.

They were doing the roof. This is unfortunate. I hope they are all

right. The house is so precarious, that Brean Down Avenue has been

closed. The council is trying to make the road to cure. Neighbours

have been asked to stay away. There has been further grim

economic news in Trowbridge. On top of significant losses earlier this

year at Vodafone, Virgin and Wiltshire Council, comes the

closure of bed manufacturers Norian. We have been finding out why they

have to go into administration, and if there any reason to Beachell --

any reasons to be cheerful. The door is firmly locked here at

Norian. You can see where the many factoring was taking place. --

manufacturing. Once they went into administration, it's that -- it

adds to job losses in Trowbridge. Vodafone announced that 200 jobs

are being cut. In May, Virgin Media announced their own to close their

Trowbridge office, costing 450 jobs. 300 jobs have gone at Wiltshire

Council. If you add in these losses, Trowbridge has lost 1,000 jobs this

year. It is always great news when you hear someone like Virgin is

coming. But they can go as good as they come. They can make decisions

to move out. You have deliver that. When it is a local company, you

like to see that bribing. They were expanding. It is a double blow.

Wiltshire's economic director is more upbeat. He has told us that

1,000 jobs can be created. He's talking to six firms keen to

relocate there. Certain places are a bit sniffy about development. We

are eager for development. We want jobs, we want growth. To accompany,

that gives more certainty. This food factory is proof that there

are reasons to be optimistic. They have been -- they have become the

biggest private employer in the town. They are still recruiting.

is a tough economic environment, there are still opportunities. If

you give her the right products and services, you can succeed.

Nevertheless, the former employees of Norian have felt the full blow

of the economic downturn. They arrive at work to be told that they

have no job. This is Points West.

Coming up, that is a polar bear showing their parenting style. Just

one of the highlights of a new blockbuster than the BBC. Have a

good look at this picture. We will be asking you pictures about it in

a few minutes' time. We will test you.

Some breaking news, campaigners tried to stop the expansion of

Bristol Airport have been refused a High Court challenge. They were

trying to argue that North Somerset council's plans were legally flawed.

A judge rejected that argument. Our correspondent is here to tell us

more. What happened today? It was a case that was only his bows to take

a couple of hours, it went on all day. The group went to the High

Court, they argued that climate change should have been taken into

account by the council when they were looking to approve these plans.

-- climate change. It would mean a bigger terminal, more parking, a

100 for �2 million project. He would bring new jobs to the local

economy. -- �120 million. The judge today said that the planners that

the council had to be bound by government policy set out in 2003

In the Air Transport white paper. He said that that did -- but that

did not include climate change. What has been the reaction?

campaigners have been saying they are disappointed. They say they

will fight on. They feel they have had a small success in delaying the

expansion. They have been fighting since 2005 against it. They think

being rid -- they think the recession has reduced numbers. The

airport says that they welcome the decision. They say these plans were

cheap grey affair process. -- these plans were achieved break their

process. They are looking at bringing in any policy in 2013.

Thank you very much. A High Court judge is to decide

whether campaigners can challenge the NHS over the way many of its

services are run. The health service was to outsource jobs as

several community hospitals as part a base social enterprise.

Campaigners say the plans are legally flawed.

NHS Gloucestershire says that they will soon be celebrating the

opening of a new hospital in Dursley. They want to get outsource

companies to run the services. It is supposed to be a more locally

controlled organisation. A very much part of the government's bid

society idea. That plan has been put on hold because campaigners

have got their day in court. NHS! A 75-year-old campaigner from

Stroud is taking a chess Leicestershire to court --

Gloucestershire to court. The pensioner believes that the NHS

broke the law in the plans for outsourcing their services.

Supporters say it is a process that needs more scrutiny. We do not

think the staff had been properly consulted the public cannot behind

it. NHS but the she would not provide a statement today. -- NHS

Gloucestershire said that this process was happening across the

country. We want to see better delivery of care for patients. It

is very important that the staff are involved in this process. We

wanted to be a success. We have patients at one end, and staff at

the other. We want a more to be involved. There is a huge strain

been feeling on both sides. Campaigners say a High Court

challenge will keep services within the NHS.

Hundreds of teachers from the West went to London today to lobby MPs

about pension changes. This group left from Bristol as part of a

national day of action. They say the pension changes will have a

dramatic effect on thousands of people.

A couple of years ago you saw a traffic sign grey bus lane. If that

were a real sign of a real bus lane you could end up in court if you do

not read it properly. 1,400 of them were issued in Bristol. The council

is writing those traffic fines of saying he did not do enough to let

people know about them. There is a bus lane, do you

remember that sign we showed you a couple of minutes ago. It told you

what time the bus lanes were operating. Did you get it right? If

you got it right, very well done. I did ask you to pay very -- I did

not ask you to pay good attention. If you pass this sign every day if

those times were to change? That for happened here, the Evening

Times for the bus lane were extended, the signs were altered,

but not everyone noticed. Almost the 1,400 fines were issued. That

Although we complied with the law, we thought there was an issue with

the spirit of the law. We are going to re send all of the tickets

issued which is about 1400 in total. It is not just Bristol signs that

cause problems, it in Bath these sounds are just not good enough.

Too small, too unclear. We are not generally very good at noticing

small details or noting -- noticing change. I have got four difference

signs here. Here is another, and another, and one that looks pretty

similar but with different times. If we show these two people, can

they spot the difference. That is the first sign, is that the same or

different? Different. Different. The same. Really? As the same one?

Yes. Let's show them side by side. A lot of people just have not

noticed that one blue sign had been changed for another. We have now

put up additional sign age to warn drivers that there are different

operating times. And here are those signs, difficult not to notice.

Sounds like this will be springing up across the city over the next 12

months. Is this the same or different, it

is like an eye test. Some people feel lost if they do

not have the mobile phone attached to them. One man has taken it to

new lengths. Trevor Prideaux manages a tea shop at Chew Valley

Lake. He also has a prosthetic arm and he has had the mobile phone

docking station built into it. Let's face it, these days most of

us rely on one of these to get on with our everyday lives. But to use

one, and to even do the simplest of operation, you do need both your

hands. But what happens if you do not have that luxury? Hello, I am

good. Trevor Prideaux was born without his left forearm. He has

never let that stop him doing anything. Even if it meant

inventing something like the us. was an idea I came up with a few

years ago. When using a phone, I would rest on my forearm, and I

thought there must be some way to build a phone to use my forearm as

a holding cradle. This could be useful to some people. I can easily

text right-hander, but it makes it a lot easier if I hold it in his

arm and I can text on the screen on the top of my forearm. His idea was

turned into a reality by the prosthetics of -- Department of the

Exeter mobility Centre. He is already thinking of new ways of

developing the concept. For now, this is one of a kind and it means

that Trevor Prideaux is literally attached to his phone, leaving him

no reason not to pick up a phone. can use it on loudspeaker, and if I

want to have fun with it, it comes off and I can use it like that.

Brilliant! Football, and Cheltenham Town plan to offer manager Mark

Yates a new contract after the club's impressive start to the

season. Last night though their five-match winning run came to an

end with defeat to Crewe. But as Alistair Durden reports, there's

still a real belief that they can challenge for promotion this season.

Arriving for duty full of confidence. And why not? On the

back of the club's best run of form for five years. The club increased

the playing budget this year, and key additions have made the

difference. As has deciding to stick with manager Mark Yates.

People were calling for Mark's head last year. But a change of managers

does not guarantee anything. He has done a fantastic job, and we will

hopefully reward him with an extended contract in due course.

Quite a few years ago, when John Walker was the manager, it is right

back to the good old days. But Crewe hadn't read the script.

Cheltenham didn't take one of their many first half chances. And they

were punished by a second half penalty. They can do so well away,

but they cannot do it for us at home. They should have had goals in

the first half and they didn't. That is the way it goes. I do not

want to see us go down the table now. We have got to look at what we

have done so far, if this is just a minor blip, that is the way we

should look at it. Swindon are hot on their heels now,

manager Paolo Di Canio scored some sensational goals in his time, but

even he admitted this Matt Ritchie strike was beyond anything he

managed in his career. I had, at the time, legs like mozzarella

cheese. It was not possible for me, but when he can hit the ball in

this way you can destroy the opponents. And Jonothan Smith's

effort to wrap things up wasnt bad either.

Bristol Rovers were booed off after their 3-0 home defeat to Port Vale.

After so much optomism in pre- season, the reality is falling some

way short. And in League One, Yeovil missed

the chance to climb off the bottom. They led 2-1 with goals from Keiron

Agard, and then this from Bongz N'Gala. Paul Wotton then

uncharecteristally missed a penalty and Orient grabbed the lifeline to

Another spectacular documentary series made by the BBC's natural

history unit here in Bristol comes to our screens tonight. Frozen

Planet, which is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, shows what life

is like at the North and South Poles, where there's no sunlight

for six months of the year. Vanessa Berlowitz and Alastair Fothergill

The scale of this programme is epic. It is a very big project. It is a

very demanding place to work. It is remote, cold, the ice floats away

and we really wanted to film a new species, and new behaviours. There

are some amazing pictures. We are going to look at one clap now.

partners stay close together and travel silently. This time they

unleash a far more powerful wave These big waves are not intended to

break the ice, but to knock the prey into the water. And they

rarely fail. That is just remarkable. This is the first time

you have captured shots like this, isn't it? We first heard about it

in 1993 and we thought it was on filmable. You do not know where it

is going to happen. This co- ordinated behaviour is

extraordinary. We were very pleased to film it. How did you know where

it would happen, was it just luck? We were very lucky to have a

wonderful collaboration with two scientists. These do satellite to

keep up with them night and day. You mentioned Life In The Freezer,

how is this different? We are bringing it both poles into one

series. By bringing them both together in one series you can

compare the challenges that animals face north and south in solving the

same problem, which is intense cold and shifting and moving ice.

have another clip which we would We're going to see a bit of surfing.

We have got quite used to seeing penguins on land, but this is

actually their natural home. They are brilliant swimmers and surfers.

These penguins are one of the fastest swimming birds in the world.

A reminder that they are good at anything, because they do have that

comic field, but here we see them in their element. They do not like

landing. They have funny little feet. There is a big sea lion about

to grab one. The slow motion and the music of that sequence is

absolutely beautiful. Does the frozen world still exist? One third

of our planet is still frozen. There is still unbelievable

wilderness. That is why we wanted to make the series and take people

to a place they may never go to. But climate change is changing the

face of the Earth. It is the last chance to see this pristine

wilderness before the Earth changes. We saw the changes a lot on the

series and it is very striking. are convinced that it is

disappearing? Absolutely. We notice that the penguins were changing.

The penguins of the Deep South have been replaced by the payments you

saw in the clip. Payments more used to warmer climate. What is it like

to work with a legend like Sir David Attenborough? It is an honour

and a privilege. We took him for the first time to the North Pole.

That was quite hair-raising, trying to make sure he was kept safe and

warm. I think everybody will be looking forward to it. What time is

it on? 9pm on BBC One this evening and it is repeated on Sunday at

4:10pm. A real quality series. Let's look to some rather milder

It feels a bit milder than they were contending with. That is my

viewing for tonight sorted out. We have dry conditions, at least for

the time being, across the West Country. It is going to be a

different story into tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain developing

through tonight into the south coast. One way or another it will

be a wet day for all of us. The showery regime of whether slipping

away. This next area of low pressure will dominate the weather

into tomorrow, bringing a good deal of rain with that. If we take a

look at the rainfall radar, and we sink down southwards off the coast

of France we can see how the rain has been developing. You are not

seeing all of the rain there, just what we can pick up from the

British radar network. So, let's go zoom into the West Country and see

how things will develop for the rest of this evening. The cloud is

already starting to expand and rain will follow into South Somerset

later on this evening. By the end of the night, it will be a fairly

wet affair. Tomorrow morning's rush-hour is going to be wet. There

will be low cloud, a hill fog over the appliance. Some of those

outbreaks of rain will turn heavy at times. Most of that focused

further south words. The trend will be to have that rain that less of a

feature of by the late afternoon, early evening. It will eventually

sink away towards the south-east. As the skies clear, that will lead

to some further problems, this time with fog. Temperatures tomorrow,

typically 12 Celsius. The fog will be an issue in the morning, it

could be quite widespread. It is the first significant fog we have

had this season. We continue with a drier regime of whether as we

continue to work Saturday and Sunday as well. -- regime of

weather. You can see the temperatures hovering up towards

the late teens. We are looking into next week with a more unsettled

A quick reminder that if you want to see a little bit more about the