:00:16. > :00:21.This is Points West. The headlines... Caught on camera. The
:00:21. > :00:28.ill treatment of an elderly man in his home. The neglect is revealed
:00:28. > :00:31.after an 85-year-old's daughter set up CCTV. Eight cases of domestic
:00:31. > :00:37.violence Daly in Swindon. We investigate how the police are
:00:37. > :00:44.dealing with them. We are lucky that we have actually got this in
:00:44. > :00:48.place. I did not realise how prevalent anything like this was.
:00:48. > :00:53.Bath-based bobsleigher injures her spine in a crash during training in
:00:53. > :01:03.Germany. 70 years later, we remember the secret BBC studios
:01:03. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:09.built in an underground railway in Good evening. Tonight, two stories
:01:09. > :01:14.of care abuse both caught on camera. In Bristol, a police investigation
:01:14. > :01:19.has started after a daughter's secretly filmed her father's care
:01:19. > :01:24.workers. At the same time, a paramedic has been suspended after
:01:24. > :01:30.a case of abuse in Wiltshire was caught on film. Andrew Plant
:01:30. > :01:33.reports on the 85-year-old who had care workers filmed by his daughter.
:01:33. > :01:41.You might find some of these pictures distressing but the family
:01:41. > :01:47.have asked us to show them. That is it. Filmed by a secret camera at
:01:47. > :01:51.the top of the stairs. Carrol-Anne Norman suspected her father was not
:01:51. > :01:57.being washed and drained a camera in his bathroom. This is one
:01:58. > :02:05.incident which sees said showed neglect. Wandering in the landing
:02:05. > :02:09.with pants around his knees. has gone into the bedroom. They are
:02:09. > :02:13.supposed to be helping him hand- washing him. This is at the top of
:02:13. > :02:22.the stairs, he is wandering around and does not know what to do. They
:02:22. > :02:27.should have given him a towel or pulled out up to cover him. These
:02:27. > :02:32.records are filled in by carers after every visit. This one
:02:32. > :02:36.corresponds to the footage here. For the duration of this visit, at
:02:37. > :02:42.no stage does the carer wash her father. But the record clearly
:02:42. > :02:48.states a full body wash was carried out. The Careys you have seen were
:02:48. > :02:52.provided by Avon Home Care Services. -- care workers. They have been in
:02:52. > :02:56.touch and has spoken again today. The Managing Director said the
:02:56. > :03:01.company always tries to improve its service but that he could not
:03:01. > :03:04.comment further because of the police investigation. Carrol-Anne
:03:05. > :03:09.Norman asked us to show this footage to highlight what happened
:03:09. > :03:14.to her father. She hopes it will improve services for other
:03:14. > :03:21.vulnerable adults. A lot of people do not have family to watch out and
:03:21. > :03:25.they cannot have a camera in their houses. They have to be aware of
:03:25. > :03:32.what is happening. Just because it is written down on a piece of paper,
:03:32. > :03:35.it does not prove it has actually happened. The care is part-funded
:03:35. > :03:41.by Bristol City Council and part paid for by her father's pension.
:03:41. > :03:46.The council must also wait for the police investigation, they said,
:03:46. > :03:55.before they commit. Meanwhile, one of the care workers seen here has
:03:55. > :03:59.been suspended. -- comment. A Jamie Merrett has suffered brain damage
:03:59. > :04:04.after his life-support machine was accidentally turned off. This was
:04:04. > :04:14.caught on camera. The first paramedic to arrive was also a film.
:04:14. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:21.He was suspended after failing to act properly. -- also filmed. 2009,
:04:21. > :04:25.January and a nurse accidentally terms of this life-support machine.
:04:25. > :04:29.He was being nursed at home in Devizes after being left paralysed
:04:29. > :04:34.after a car crash. He was filming himself because he was worried
:04:35. > :04:38.about the level of care he was receiving. The camera captured
:04:38. > :04:43.everything as paramedics fought to resuscitate him will stop the
:04:43. > :04:48.actions of the first paramedic to come to the house has been examined.
:04:48. > :04:53.The hearing was conducted by the council. It concluded that he did
:04:53. > :04:59.not take the actions that he should have when he arrived. He failed in
:04:59. > :05:04.his duty to Jamie Merrett. The hearing resulted in this seven-page
:05:04. > :05:08.judgment in which the council said they thought that he displayed a
:05:08. > :05:14.fundamental failing in basic paramedic skills in a critical
:05:14. > :05:19.situation. He did give evidence during the two days and the panel
:05:19. > :05:25.found his version of events did not match the version based or indeed
:05:25. > :05:30.footage recorded by Vincent Tabak - - Jamie Merrett's camera. He has
:05:30. > :05:34.already been dismissed by the ambulance service. I had spoken to
:05:34. > :05:39.the family of Jamie Merrett and they said they are pleased with the
:05:39. > :05:44.decision. He was left with serious brain damage and is now being
:05:44. > :05:48.looked after at a care home in Somerset. The nurse at switched off
:05:48. > :05:58.his life-support machine is waiting to here if she will face
:05:58. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:03.The jury in the Jo Yeates murder trial has been sent home for the
:06:03. > :06:08.day. The judge has told the six men and six women trying Vincent Tabak
:06:08. > :06:13.to reach a unanimous verdict. They return tomorrow to continue
:06:13. > :06:18.deliberations for the third day. The 33-year-old denies murder but
:06:18. > :06:23.admits manslaughter. The BBC understands 100 jobs could be axed
:06:23. > :06:26.at Swindon Borough Council if proposed savings go ahead. The
:06:26. > :06:32.authority has identified certain positions for efficiency savings
:06:32. > :06:37.and says it is consulting staff involved and trade unions. The jobs
:06:37. > :06:41.being lost are across the board. They tend to be back office and not
:06:42. > :06:46.front line. We are doing a lot of transformation work and trying to
:06:46. > :06:52.deliver services more efficiently. These are in all departments of the
:06:52. > :06:57.council. The BBC understands redundancy notices could be issued
:06:57. > :07:01.before the final budget is approved in February. On average, eight
:07:01. > :07:06.cases of domestic violence are reported every day in Swindon. The
:07:06. > :07:10.town is taking part in a trial, meaning anybody accused of abusing
:07:10. > :07:17.their partner can be banned from their house for a month before any
:07:17. > :07:23.charges are brought against them. They did not give any reason to do
:07:23. > :07:26.these things... Domestic violence accounts for one quarter of violent
:07:26. > :07:32.crime in the United Kingdom. Wiltshire police has radical powers
:07:32. > :07:35.to help abused women and children. Officers can issue a Domestic
:07:35. > :07:41.Violence Protection Notice, banning a suspect from their house for 48
:07:41. > :07:48.hours. It can be backed up with an Domestic Violence Protection Order,
:07:48. > :07:54.banning them for 28 days or stop three months later and 54 orders --.
:07:54. > :07:59.Three months later, 54 orders have been issued and people are pleased
:07:59. > :08:03.officers have intervened, suggesting success. Aid of a people
:08:03. > :08:10.said that if they had this facility in their police force, they could
:08:10. > :08:15.use that as well. Back at it will become legislation. 30 orders were
:08:15. > :08:20.issued in Swindon and a report highlights the problems. Swindon
:08:20. > :08:25.has had almost 3000 incidents of domestic violence reported in one a
:08:25. > :08:32.year. Eight cases every day on average. The problem of domestic
:08:32. > :08:38.abuse is a big problem and very important. I would go along to keep
:08:38. > :08:41.the peace. She suffered abuse for 13 years. After seeking help, she
:08:41. > :08:46.has been shocked at the extent of the problem and thinks the police
:08:46. > :08:51.powers will help people suffering behind closed doors. They would
:08:51. > :08:58.have given me breathing space. The chance to evaluate what was
:08:59. > :09:06.happening. Without having him around to actually influence may
:09:07. > :09:12.and it would have given me a chance to access some services, maybe
:09:12. > :09:17.without fear of something coming out. She says it is often difficult
:09:17. > :09:22.for victims to admit they have a problem. In one recent case, police
:09:22. > :09:32.had to persuade an abused woman to let them help. She said afterwards
:09:32. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:39.she was delighted with the Alex and Chris coming up with the
:09:39. > :09:43.sport and the weather forecast. The miracle of sight. Meet a Bristol
:09:43. > :09:48.man brought back from the brink of politeness with cutting-edge
:09:48. > :09:54.science. Eric Pickles in a pickle. The government minister says he
:09:54. > :09:59.will disappoint deploring Minister about bin collections. -- be Prime
:09:59. > :10:03.Minister. Campaigners against the expansion of Bristol Airport are
:10:03. > :10:08.considering their next move after being refused permission to bring a
:10:08. > :10:12.legal challenge. The judge said they did not have a legally
:10:12. > :10:16.arguable case. He decided councillors in North Somerset had
:10:16. > :10:20.reached a proper decision in granting planning permission. The
:10:20. > :10:26.airport says expansion work could start in weeks but the protesters
:10:26. > :10:32.are not giving up. We will monitor the 70 planning conditions on the
:10:32. > :10:37.agreement. We will raise awareness about the damage that aviation
:10:37. > :10:46.dowser to be out the spare and the environment. Campaigners have got
:10:46. > :10:51.one -- atmosphere. Surgeons in Oxford have carried out a historic
:10:51. > :10:55.operation to prevent a man from going blind. Jonathan Wyatt started
:10:55. > :11:00.having sight problems at the age at 19 and was told by doctors he would
:11:00. > :11:05.eventually become blind. But after becoming the first person to have
:11:05. > :11:12.an experimental technique in Oxford, he hopes that deterioration has
:11:12. > :11:22.been reversed. Jonathan Wyatt joins us tonight. Site deteriorating from
:11:22. > :11:23.
:11:23. > :11:28.19. What has that been like? -- I site. I was expecting five years
:11:28. > :11:35.but it did not happen. I acted like the ostrich and stuck my head in
:11:35. > :11:41.the sand and thought things could keep going. I was truly rumbled in
:11:41. > :11:46.2001. I had been a qualified lawyer for a great number of years. I was
:11:46. > :11:50.an advocate on the Western Circuit. I'd made the mistake of reading a
:11:50. > :11:58.statement and I realised my eyesight was not as good as it was.
:11:58. > :12:05.The jury said, can't you read?! I realised I had to adopt a different
:12:05. > :12:11.course. You had this operation, which is perhaps making the
:12:11. > :12:17.difference. It is early to tell because it was only on Monday but
:12:17. > :12:22.what is the hope that it will reverse the deterioration?
:12:22. > :12:29.professor said the deterioration should stop. But whether it will be
:12:29. > :12:32.reversed, that is a matter of waiting and finding out. Because
:12:32. > :12:37.during the trial, the eyesight of the mouse improved because of
:12:37. > :12:47.genetic material but it that will happen in a seaman, we have not
:12:47. > :12:54.learned yet. It might go my way. -- human being. Are doctors saying it
:12:54. > :12:59.might be possible for some sort of corrective surgery to help somebody
:12:59. > :13:03.that has only just started deteriorating? The professor and
:13:03. > :13:09.his team intend to start with young people as soon as they had
:13:09. > :13:17.identified the problem. But it is not just my problem. It should be
:13:17. > :13:21.possible to sort out other problems. They think that the degenerative
:13:21. > :13:26.conditions could be helped. But they have got to have a much
:13:26. > :13:31.greater body of genetic material to be transferred than just with what
:13:31. > :13:39.I have had which is a small section. K thank you very much for talking
:13:39. > :13:49.to us and good luck. Keep in touch. I well and I will wave to you when
:13:49. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:09.Today, the local government Secretary disagreed as he came face
:14:09. > :14:16.to face with the West Country councillor. Here is our
:14:16. > :14:21.correspondent. Rubbish collection. The most basic service. One proving
:14:21. > :14:25.very controversial. Many of ask get our rubbish collected every
:14:25. > :14:29.fortnight with food waste taken each week. Bringing back weekly
:14:29. > :14:34.rubbish collections is the plan put forward by the secretaries of state
:14:34. > :14:42.at the party conference. But West Country Council's disagreed. When I
:14:42. > :14:47.talk to the Prime Minister, he We do Alternate weekly collections
:14:47. > :14:51.but they collect the smelly rubbish every week. That is what Eric
:14:51. > :14:56.Pickles is bringing back, weekly collections of the snowy waste. You
:14:56. > :14:59.can do that and massively increase recycling rates. That is what West
:14:59. > :15:04.Oxfordshire has proved and I am sure other councils might want to
:15:04. > :15:08.take advantage of Eric Pickles' offer of funding, in order to use
:15:09. > :15:13.that. Bristol uses that model and today, the councillor in charge had
:15:13. > :15:17.to find out if the Minister would offer the city funding. Slightly
:15:17. > :15:21.disappointed with some of the analysis, which I believe has
:15:21. > :15:26.missed out data. By both were speakers at a conference in London.
:15:26. > :15:30.Afterwards, I pressed the Minister on David Cameron's words. I am glad
:15:30. > :15:34.you spoke to the Prime Minister about this. The scheme is going to
:15:34. > :15:39.be coming out very soon. We will be binding organic collections but I
:15:39. > :15:44.am afraid the Prime Minister may be disappointed. The West Oxfordshire
:15:44. > :15:47.scheme is being adopted. Then into the fray stepped a Bristol
:15:47. > :15:52.councillor. Be few are prepared to work with me, rather than reject
:15:53. > :15:56.the scheme before you know what it is, I will work with you. I have
:15:56. > :16:03.invited you to Bristol and sought clarification of what the details
:16:03. > :16:07.of. I have not got any answer. and large, before you shoot me down,
:16:07. > :16:11.we will be announcing the scheme soon. Have a look at the scheme and
:16:11. > :16:15.see if yours is capable of applying for many people stop if it is,
:16:15. > :16:19.let's work together. We will be applying for money because we are
:16:19. > :16:23.giving the people of Bristol exactly what they want. They want
:16:23. > :16:28.higher recycling rates. That is what we have got in Bristol. In it
:16:28. > :16:32.ended with a handshake, but no agreement. He will soon give
:16:32. > :16:39.details of what schemes he will fund. Bristol and other local
:16:39. > :16:42.councils will be watching closely. The Dean of Bristol Cathedral says
:16:42. > :16:46.the Occupy Bristol campaigners camped on College Green are
:16:46. > :16:50.trespassing, as the land is private. The protesters set up a makeshift
:16:50. > :16:55.camp on land outside the cathedral and have been there for nearly two
:16:55. > :17:00.weeks. They say they plan to stay indefinitely. His is not common
:17:00. > :17:04.land. It is our property. We are responsible, or with the council,
:17:04. > :17:09.for its maintenance. We are responsible for making it available
:17:09. > :17:13.to other people. In legal terms, I think these people are trespassing.
:17:13. > :17:19.Per Occupy Bristol say they are campaigning for economic and
:17:19. > :17:23.political change across the world. A British bobsleigh competitor who
:17:23. > :17:28.trains at the University of Bath has injured his spine after a crash
:17:28. > :17:31.in practice. Serita Shone underwent surgery in Germany, where the
:17:31. > :17:36.accident happened. Her team-mate Fiona Harrison is said to have
:17:36. > :17:41.suffered a head injury and remains under observation. Our sports
:17:41. > :17:46.editor is here. Serita Shone was in her first full
:17:46. > :17:52.season as a bobsleigh competitor. She used to compete as a
:17:52. > :17:56.heptathlete. She dabbled in skeleton, which is the sport Amy
:17:56. > :18:01.Williams won a gold medal in. She switched to bobsleigh recently and
:18:01. > :18:04.it was joining the British team last month. The accident happened
:18:04. > :18:10.in Kopeisk, eight Traquair the British championships are being
:18:10. > :18:14.held. We don't have a crack in this country. It happened yesterday
:18:14. > :18:18.evening at the bottom of the track when the bobsleigh left the track
:18:18. > :18:26.at high speed. Should the TEC is the person who rides at the back of
:18:26. > :18:30.the bobsleigh. -- show Rita. She has spoken to her family but it is
:18:30. > :18:35.too early to know how serious the injury will turn out to beat. She
:18:35. > :18:39.trains at the University of Bath, which has a track used by both the
:18:39. > :18:44.bobsleigh and the skeleton squads. She is 22 and was an undergraduate
:18:44. > :18:52.at Bath. She recently completed a Masters at Leeds and plans to set
:18:52. > :19:00.up home in Bath. What about her team-mate, the owner? To she is 29
:19:00. > :19:04.and is also a former heptathlete. - Fiona Harrison. She was the more
:19:04. > :19:09.experienced one. She suffered a head injury and is under
:19:09. > :19:12.observation for stop what do you think the implications will be? Her
:19:12. > :19:18.spokesman Ben Clatworthy said bobsleigh is described as Formula
:19:18. > :19:23.One on ice. Like Formula One, it can never be 100% safe, so
:19:23. > :19:30.accidents will happen. Clearly, there will have to be some sort of
:19:30. > :19:37.inquiry by the authorities do question the wisdom of letting
:19:37. > :19:42.athletes compete so soon after switching to bobsleigh.
:19:42. > :19:47.It was considered the safest place to be during the war. Inside a
:19:47. > :19:52.tunnel, cut into a Cliffe face more than 100 miles from London. 70
:19:52. > :19:57.years ago, as the Blitz began in the capital, the BBC set up an
:19:57. > :20:00.emergency studio deep inside the Clifton Rocks Railway. Had
:20:00. > :20:05.broadcasting has been hit, the Bristol studio would have been the
:20:05. > :20:10.only way to keep the Home Service on air. Jules Hyam is underground
:20:10. > :20:14.there for us now. I am underground in a pretty safe
:20:14. > :20:19.place. This is a bomb shelter. These are the kinds of things you
:20:19. > :20:26.would have seen in 1941 - posters which say things like, "careless
:20:26. > :20:34.talk may cost his life". The walls have ears and also microphones here.
:20:34. > :20:39.We are underneath the cliffs on the Avon gorge. Down at the bottom,
:20:39. > :20:47.where we are, four little rooms that were the key to keeping the
:20:47. > :20:54.BBC on air 70 years ago. Did you have a chaperone? Yes, sir,
:20:54. > :20:58.and a nice, polite chap he was, too. Always said pardon! It was one of
:20:58. > :21:04.the best-loved shows of his day and he was one of broadcasting's
:21:04. > :21:09.biggest stars. That man, Tommy Handley, creator, writer and comedy
:21:09. > :21:12.performer at the centre of ITMA, It's That Man Again. Millions tuned
:21:12. > :21:17.in during the war to listen to his broadcasts on the BBC Home Service.
:21:17. > :21:22.Alongside him at the top of the bill, the funny man Arthur Askey. A
:21:22. > :21:28.unique talent with a gift for a memorable catchphrase. Am I
:21:28. > :21:33.standing in a hall or are you on horseback? Stars like Tommy Handley
:21:33. > :21:37.and Arthur Askey were really important part of the BBC's Home
:21:37. > :21:42.Service schedule. It was about entertainment as well as providing
:21:42. > :21:46.news from the front. As the bombing intensified in the capital, many of
:21:46. > :21:56.the BBC's biggest shows moved out of Broadcasting House in London and
:21:56. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:03.Bristol became known as the Fun Factory, the place where the
:22:03. > :22:07.lighter side of life was celebrated. But it also had a more serious role.
:22:07. > :22:10.Deep inside a Cliffe face on the Avon Gorge, inside a disused
:22:11. > :22:15.railway tunnel, the corporation set up his secret emergency Steve
:22:15. > :22:18.Sheard, equipped with everything they needed to sustain the service
:22:19. > :22:23.it Broadcasting House in London were ever hit. It could not have
:22:23. > :22:27.been further from the glamour of the capital but was staffed day and
:22:27. > :22:31.night by 18th always prepared for the worst. Bank Bali, the studios
:22:31. > :22:35.whenever called into action but just the fact that they were there
:22:35. > :22:40.when some of the biggest programmes were here, helping to keep the
:22:40. > :22:44.nation entertained, helped the nation at one of its most difficult
:22:44. > :22:51.times. 70 years on, the efforts of that
:22:51. > :22:57.emergency team are still remembered. 70 years on, this was the main
:22:57. > :23:01.studio. I know, it does not have any flaws any more and there is no
:23:01. > :23:09.equipment there any more but it is being looked after and preserved as
:23:09. > :23:16.best as it can be. What did it look like in 1941? There it is. That
:23:16. > :23:24.chap was the main studio Engineer, it responsible for BBC Bristol.
:23:24. > :23:28.They had alarmed to keep things warm. Next door down, this is the
:23:28. > :23:34.big translucent -- transmission room, which was important to
:23:34. > :23:43.keeping the whole service on air. The clock was very important. That
:23:43. > :23:49.young lady was one of the engineers and that is their engineering book,
:23:50. > :23:55.telling her how that complicated equipment worked. It is quite
:23:55. > :24:01.complicated. Here is the BBC canteen. That is where I am heading
:24:01. > :24:07.now! Thank goodness it was never needed.
:24:07. > :24:13.Fascinating! Isn't the archive footage
:24:13. > :24:23.wonderful? It has been a pretty soggy day
:24:23. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:30.across the West, so here is the Here is our forecast shed, which
:24:30. > :24:33.you can't see, but it looks very good as a piece of do-it-yourself.
:24:33. > :24:43.The trustee pine cone is showing me the levels of humanity, which are
:24:43. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:53.high. We have very little wind. A recipe for a good deal of bog and
:24:53. > :25:02.grow to develop into the course of the morning. -- fog. Bertie wind is
:25:02. > :25:06.decidedly slack. We have still got a fair bit of rain to get rid of.
:25:06. > :25:12.This shows how much we have had a across the South West peninsula. It
:25:12. > :25:17.is on its way out. Towards the east, it is light and patchy. It will
:25:17. > :25:23.move out to the east of the district. This evening, we lose the
:25:23. > :25:31.last of the intermittent light rain and drizzle. Up from the West, we
:25:31. > :25:39.replace it with clearing skies, and that process takes place slowly.
:25:39. > :25:43.They run areas of white starting to show and that is fog. It will be a
:25:43. > :25:52.dry start but the fog, particularly up into the Vale of seven, could be
:25:53. > :25:59.quite dense. A similar story down the M4. There will be some other
:25:59. > :26:08.spots, too. Temperatures quite chilly, too, particularly into the
:26:08. > :26:13.Forest of Dean. Perhaps a touch of ground frost there. Tomorrow, the
:26:13. > :26:17.fog is the focus of our attention. It will be slowed to clear in some
:26:18. > :26:21.areas and it might take into the early areas for some parts of
:26:21. > :26:31.Gloucestershire to lose it. But where it goes, a good deal of
:26:31. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:38.sunshine foremost. It will remain dry. The cloud spells back into the
:26:38. > :26:42.east by the end of the evening. Temperatures around 12 or 14
:26:42. > :26:52.Celsius but it may be low of whether bog lingers. Into the
:26:52. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:58.weekend, it will get milder and breezier. -- where the fog lingers.
:26:58. > :27:06.A good deal of cloud around for the weekend but some brighter spells,
:27:06. > :27:12.too. But temperatures up towards the mid- teens. The risk of frost
:27:12. > :27:17.and fog has gone, probably. A disturbed Patten next week. We
:27:17. > :27:27.could be looking at a pretty wet and windy spell of weather. I will
:27:27. > :27:32.