:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. The headlines
:00:13. > :00:19.tonight... Patience runs out. The church gives its marching orders to
:00:19. > :00:22.the protesters outside the cathedral. A police hunt after a 79
:00:22. > :00:27.year-old woman is sexually assaulted on New Year's Day.
:00:27. > :00:35.Farewell to a hero. Senior officers and even the French attend the
:00:35. > :00:40.funeral of a World War Two para. remember him of being very stead
:00:40. > :00:47.fast, very robust. Very nice sense of humour which helped us all
:00:47. > :00:57.because we had difficult times. Setting the world record long jump.
:00:57. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:06.And 50 years on, a campaign to give Court proceedings have started to
:01:06. > :01:10.evict protesters from Bristol's College Green. The Dean of Bristol
:01:10. > :01:15.Cathedral met with members of Occupy Bristol today. He issued
:01:15. > :01:20.what he described as his final play for them to clear the site. They
:01:20. > :01:24.have been there since October last year. Here is our correspondent.
:01:24. > :01:30.The weather has been murky in the past week or so and conditions
:01:30. > :01:34.cannot be good. We did not have much greener left on College Green
:01:34. > :01:39.after this protest, which has lasted two months. The cathedral
:01:39. > :01:44.and council had decided action must be taken to clear the site of this
:01:45. > :01:49.campaign. What protesters thought would be a routine meeting with the
:01:49. > :01:54.Dean and earlier this morning resulted in them being told that
:01:54. > :02:00.proceedings had begun to get them evicted. It started two months ago
:02:00. > :02:02.and soon became a sizable protest camp. Tonight, the Dean of the
:02:02. > :02:08.cathedral warned campaigners court proceedings have been issued to
:02:08. > :02:13.move them. In his final plea to the protesters, he said while he
:02:13. > :02:18.respected their right to protest peacefully, it was time for College
:02:18. > :02:23.Green to be restored for the people of the city. We have been saying
:02:23. > :02:27.for weeks that the Big Issue is about the use of College Green. It
:02:27. > :02:32.is a space people love to use and we have events booked for the
:02:32. > :02:38.spring. To be sure it is ready for these things, we have to start this
:02:38. > :02:42.process now. He thinks public sympathy is running out as the
:02:42. > :02:45.muddy site became more of an eyesore. The council had joined
:02:45. > :02:51.with the cathedral to start the legal process and have estimated
:02:51. > :02:57.the cost of the damage could reach �100,000. This is a figure disputed
:02:57. > :03:03.by protesters. Occupy is here to make changes. We will not go
:03:03. > :03:10.anywhere until these changes are made. Even if we get evicted, we
:03:10. > :03:15.are not going away. We are moving into offices shortly as well in
:03:15. > :03:20.order to make the movement in Bristol much more concise and
:03:20. > :03:24.assertive. Talks between the cathedral had campaigners are said
:03:24. > :03:32.to have gone well. But how long it is until the site is returns to
:03:32. > :03:36.normal is not clear. The Church do still sympathise with many of the
:03:36. > :03:42.issues, social and economic, occupying the minds of the
:03:42. > :03:46.protesters. But they think it is time for this stage of the protest
:03:47. > :03:53.to come to an end. Do the protesters angry? We will see to
:03:53. > :03:57.that in the coming weeks. Police in Bristol are searching for a man
:03:57. > :04:02.that sexually assaulted an elderly pensioner in broad daylight on New
:04:02. > :04:11.Year's Day. The attack on the 79- year-old happened in the centre of
:04:11. > :04:15.bed Minster. This report from Steve Brodie. She was walking at East
:04:15. > :04:20.Street in bed minster at 10am on the year's day. She had passed Asda
:04:20. > :04:24.when she realised a man was behind her. He sexually assaulted her and
:04:24. > :04:29.ran off and turned down Philip Street, leaving her shaken and
:04:29. > :04:36.distressed. Police say although the attack on the woman is a shocking
:04:36. > :04:42.event, let alone in broad daylight, such attacks are rare. I am very
:04:42. > :04:46.surprised and very shocked and concerned. As I said, it is a very
:04:46. > :04:51.rare incident indeed. We are doing everything we can to identify the
:04:51. > :04:56.suspect. We will deal with him appropriately. I did not really
:04:56. > :05:01.come down here very often. Usually just once a month to come to the
:05:01. > :05:05.bank. I did not feel that save coming this way. She was not able
:05:05. > :05:11.to protect herself and nobody helped her. It can happen during
:05:11. > :05:15.the day and that is shocking. scary. I must be aware of people
:05:15. > :05:22.around me. Detectives say they are sure the local community will help
:05:22. > :05:27.them track down the attackers -- attacker. He is described as a
:05:27. > :05:35.white male. Approximately 60 years old with a round, clean shaven face
:05:35. > :05:40.and wearing a bow Age ring cake. -- beige raincoat. I would urge people
:05:40. > :05:50.to contact us with information or it anonymously, Crimestoppers.
:05:50. > :05:51.
:05:51. > :05:55.victim is recovering with a family You are watching Points West. If
:05:55. > :06:02.you have got the decorations up, time to take them down. Stay with
:06:02. > :06:06.us. Coming up, we are on the trail of the stolen lectern taken from a
:06:06. > :06:11.church in Gloucestershire and spotted in Romania. A bird's-eye
:06:11. > :06:21.view. We find out some of the secrets behind the filming of a new
:06:21. > :06:26.That is coming up. Mourners from France joined serving soldiers at
:06:26. > :06:30.the funeral of a decorated second world war veteran from Bristol.
:06:30. > :06:35.Peter Matthews joined the army had just 16 and saw action in Africa
:06:35. > :06:44.and Italy before helping to liberate southern France in 1944.
:06:44. > :06:49.He was later given a top French A fitting goodbye for a brave and
:06:50. > :06:55.gallant soldier. Peter Matthews is served with a parachute regiment.
:06:55. > :07:00.Current members of his battalion where his pallbearers. In August,
:07:00. > :07:04.1944, he had been dropped behind enemy lines in southern France as
:07:04. > :07:08.part of Operation Dragoon. He helped to liberate fringe villages,
:07:08. > :07:16.ahead of the seaborne invasion by American forces. If -- fringe
:07:16. > :07:19.villages. We had a bridge which was critical to capture. If the Germans
:07:19. > :07:25.had destroyed the bridge it would have been very difficult for the
:07:25. > :07:28.people coming up from the beaches. He was a very Stead fast chap. Very
:07:28. > :07:34.robust and a very nice sense of humour which help us because we had
:07:34. > :07:39.difficult times. Former comrades and top rating officers attended
:07:39. > :07:43.the service. Also the founders of a liberation Museum, charting the
:07:43. > :07:50.progress of Operation Dragoon in France. They recorded his reaction
:07:50. > :07:53.on his first visit. He said, wow. He was impressed and he was
:07:53. > :08:01.impressed by the new generation which was very interested about
:08:01. > :08:07.what he did. His affinity with the area he liberated lasted long after
:08:07. > :08:11.his military career ended. He visited every August. Despite the
:08:11. > :08:16.war, he held happy memories of his time in France, once bribing a
:08:16. > :08:21.French boy with chocolate, to stop him alerting German troops to his
:08:21. > :08:25.presence. He eventually met him again decades later. He was
:08:25. > :08:31.remembered not just as a brave and gallant soldier but as a remarkable
:08:31. > :08:41.father. The regiment told his family they owed them a debt of
:08:41. > :08:46.gratitude and that his bravery The family of a severely disabled
:08:46. > :08:48.man from Wiltshire have been giving their reaction to a report which
:08:48. > :08:54.recommends some terminally ill people be allowed to end their
:08:54. > :08:59.lives with medical help. Tony Nicklinson has got "locked in"
:08:59. > :09:03.syndrome and can only move his head and eyes. He is asking the court
:09:03. > :09:07.for a doctor to help him die without fear of prosecution. His
:09:07. > :09:13.wife says she is disappointed at today's recommendations will not
:09:13. > :09:16.help people like her husband, who have just a year to lead. We want
:09:16. > :09:21.it to become a lawful for him to have a lethal injection when he
:09:21. > :09:26.decides his life is not bearable. He does not want to die tomorrow.
:09:26. > :09:31.But when it becomes too much he wants a get-out clause. She has yet
:09:31. > :09:36.to be given a date for the case to be heard in the High Court. A
:09:36. > :09:39.Wiltshire charity which has helped hundreds of people kick addictions
:09:39. > :09:44.has been given the support of one of the most famous people in the
:09:44. > :09:50.world. The Duchess of Cambridge has chosen to become the patron of
:09:50. > :09:53.Action On Addiction. We have been to one of the therapy centres,
:09:53. > :10:00.Clouds House, to meet a former addict whose life has been
:10:00. > :10:05.transformed. I came here in 2006. My life was not going anywhere at
:10:05. > :10:10.all and I was drinking. He is tried to start his career again after a
:10:10. > :10:14.long break caused by alcoholism. He said he owes his life to the six
:10:14. > :10:20.weeks he spent at Clouds House, after an addiction and
:10:20. > :10:27.Rehabilitation programme will stop I found by --. I found myself
:10:27. > :10:34.drinking around the clock. I was unemployable. I could not work. I
:10:34. > :10:39.found myself in the enormous debt. I was pretty depressed. Major
:10:39. > :10:43.League depressed. What would have happened if you had not come here?
:10:43. > :10:49.I would have carried on. I would probably have been evicted from
:10:50. > :10:56.where I was living or wilfully left. I would probably be on a park bench
:10:56. > :11:00.or not here. This charity has been given the price to support of a
:11:00. > :11:04.sort after member of the royalty. Ever since the Duchess of Cambridge
:11:04. > :11:10.married Prince William, she has been deliberating about which
:11:10. > :11:14.charities to cheese. That support can be vital. -- select. She is
:11:15. > :11:20.holding the hand of a man dying from Aids. That changed attitudes
:11:20. > :11:24.and raised the profile of HIV charities to stratospheric levels.
:11:24. > :11:28.Action On Addiction is one of five organisations announced by St
:11:28. > :11:34.James's Palace to be given her support. The price cannot be put on
:11:34. > :11:39.her patronage, experts say. To have the patronage on the level that she
:11:39. > :11:44.will bring, it will raise the profile of that organisation. The
:11:44. > :11:50.issues around addiction they are tackling, which are in some ways a
:11:50. > :11:55.difficult subject, which will be household issues. I think that is
:11:55. > :12:01.why it is at report that she has chosen to support us. Addiction
:12:01. > :12:07.still carries a long stick there. What is it -- difficult it. What is
:12:07. > :12:12.it about the attraction to the charity? She might have looked at
:12:12. > :12:22.independent research indicating that out of 120 people treated here
:12:22. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:26.after two and a half years, 60 % The valuable brass lectern stolen
:12:26. > :12:31.from a church in Wiltshire has been spotted at an antique fair in
:12:31. > :12:38.Romania. It was taken from Holy Cross Church in Ashton Keynes last
:12:38. > :12:43.year. Interpol are trying to bring it back to the West. The lectern
:12:43. > :12:48.stood next to the altar in the church for several years. It took
:12:48. > :12:51.on audacious gang to steal it. They must have tried it out some time
:12:51. > :12:56.during the day. Parishioners thought it would have been sold for
:12:56. > :13:01.scrap but the plot thickened when he Romanian man contacted police to
:13:01. > :13:06.say he had seen it at an antiques fair in his country. I thought it
:13:06. > :13:09.was a spoof e-mail. I have been in the police for years and nothing
:13:09. > :13:16.like that had happened before but there was a telephone number and I
:13:16. > :13:21.called. I spoke to this Romanian man. Wiltshire police contacted
:13:21. > :13:24.Interpol, who are investigating and they have given the parish hope.
:13:24. > :13:30.But there is some way to go to track it down. What would it mean
:13:30. > :13:36.to get it back? It is part of the history. It has been there the
:13:36. > :13:41.whole time. Suddenly, when you have an empty space by the altar, you
:13:41. > :13:47.think, why would anyone walk into a church and take an artefact like
:13:47. > :13:53.that? Ecclesiastical Insurance in Shaw's 95 % of Anglican churches.
:13:53. > :13:57.They say theft is a growing problem. -- insurers. Stealing heart attacks
:13:57. > :14:02.is a cause for concern. They are often exported and they leave the
:14:02. > :14:08.country very quickly. Particularly if they are metal objects, they can
:14:08. > :14:12.have significant value. We have got demand for them outside of Britain.
:14:12. > :14:17.They have visited the man in Romania who saw the item and a half
:14:17. > :14:27.on the trail. Would it not be incredible if it was found and
:14:27. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:30.The it would be incredible. This weekend is an important one for
:14:30. > :14:35.football, it is the third round of the FA Cup.
:14:35. > :14:39.This is when the big guns get involved. Three of our clubs have
:14:39. > :14:45.been drawn against Premier League opposition. Let's get the low-down
:14:45. > :14:49.now. Big gains, a big competition and
:14:49. > :14:53.maybe the chance to topple one of those big clubs. League Two
:14:53. > :14:56.Cheltenham have the glamour tie of the round, a way at Tottenham.
:14:56. > :15:03.Swindon have a chance against Premier League strugglers Wycombe,
:15:03. > :15:08.Bristol City had a chance to be killed in their tie against Crawley.
:15:08. > :15:12.They may be two divisions below them, but they are top of the table.
:15:12. > :15:16.Bristol Rovers host Aston Villa. They sacked their manager on
:15:16. > :15:21.Tuesday, had hoped to have a new man in charge next week. That means
:15:21. > :15:28.Shaun North could be in charge for just one match, one of the club's
:15:28. > :15:33.most important for a decade. I went to see him this afternoon.
:15:33. > :15:37.Manager for a day. The Shaun North joint Bristol Rovers with Paul
:15:37. > :15:41.Buckle, and his letter to hold the fort after his departure.
:15:41. > :15:44.You have been number two, and they are often in the background.
:15:44. > :15:50.Suddenly you are centre stage possibly for one match only against
:15:50. > :15:53.a side from the Premier League. It has been very strange. Like you
:15:53. > :15:58.say, normally in the background you are just carrying on doing what you
:15:58. > :16:04.have to do, but today has been different. I have had interviews
:16:04. > :16:11.and the like. It is different. The things were different when the
:16:11. > :16:15.sides last met. As the short were shorter. The
:16:15. > :16:20.Bristol Rovers almost produced an upset when Marcus Browning
:16:20. > :16:27.equalised in the 1993 third round. The pundits looked very different
:16:27. > :16:32.as well. You would have scored that one!
:16:32. > :16:36.De replay produced a packed house and a defeat for Rovers, but they
:16:36. > :16:43.exited the Cup with their dignity intact. Saturday will be quite an
:16:43. > :16:46.occasion. -- occasion. For a man who spent 16 years at Portsmouth
:16:46. > :16:54.alongside the likes of Alan Ball, Tony Pulis and Henry that that, he
:16:54. > :16:58.is confident of taking it in his stride. -- Harry Redknapp.
:16:58. > :17:02.Make sure you work hard. Make sure you are organised and to do the
:17:02. > :17:05.right things. Give a good account of yourself.
:17:05. > :17:10.For Rovers and Shaun North, it will be a special day away from the
:17:10. > :17:14.worries about a new managers and league form, and a chance of
:17:14. > :17:19.causing a Cup upset. Tomorrow we will be taking a closer
:17:19. > :17:22.look at Cheltenham as they prepare for their trip to Spurs. We have
:17:22. > :17:28.gone behind the scenes and will reveal the routine that has become
:17:28. > :17:33.the secret of their recent success. It is a very exciting time.
:17:33. > :17:38.In the Sixties she was the golden girl of British athletics. When
:17:38. > :17:42.Mary Rand won an Olympic gold and broke the long jump world record in
:17:42. > :17:47.Tokyo in 1964, she became the first British woman to win a medal in a
:17:47. > :17:51.track and field events. Almost half a century later, a
:17:51. > :17:59.campaign has been launched to get her the freedom of her home city of
:17:59. > :18:04.Wells in Somerset. When you see it like this, you
:18:04. > :18:09.realise what an astonishing distanced this is. This physical
:18:09. > :18:12.representation of Mary Rand's world record herein the market place was
:18:12. > :18:17.actually put here by a local television company, but according
:18:17. > :18:21.to some, that is just not attribute enough.
:18:21. > :18:26.Mary Rand, setting the world record for long jump.
:18:26. > :18:31.She returned from Tokyo in 1964 with not just a gold medal, but a
:18:31. > :18:36.silver and bronze as well. She was Britain's golden girl.
:18:36. > :18:41.Tony Williams was a junior athlete at the time, and now he is at the
:18:41. > :18:47.centre of the campaign to get Mary Rand made a Freeman of Wells in the
:18:47. > :18:51.year of the guns and -- London Olympics.
:18:51. > :18:55.The council let her down in 1964. She should have been given the
:18:55. > :19:00.freedom of the city then. You will never get another Mary Rand in this
:19:00. > :19:07.area. The last person to get the freedom
:19:07. > :19:10.of Wells was World War One veteran Harry patch. -- Harry Patch. But
:19:10. > :19:16.there is support for Mary to be given the same honour.
:19:16. > :19:18.I think it will be very positive for the city. Now is the time to
:19:18. > :19:25.recognise that achievement to the new generation of people in the
:19:25. > :19:30.city. The some of whom have no idea who Mary Rand his.
:19:30. > :19:35.No, no idea. Does the name of Mary Rand mean
:19:35. > :19:40.anything to you? Know, I lived in California for 37
:19:40. > :19:44.years. The soda she now! Whispered to her earlier over the
:19:44. > :19:52.internet. It would mean everything to me,
:19:52. > :19:57.having been born in Wells. 48 years ago, she was the toast of
:19:57. > :20:00.Wells. Thousands turned out to welcome her home. Maybe one day, a
:20:00. > :20:04.repeat performance? It is the city council who will
:20:05. > :20:08.decide whether or not Mary Rand is granted the freedom of Wells. This
:20:08. > :20:16.afternoon, I spoke to the mayor, and he told me they had received
:20:16. > :20:22.the application as they were considering it. Watch this space.
:20:22. > :20:26.It has been described as simply breathtaking. Earthflight, the
:20:26. > :20:31.latest BBC wildlife series, made in Bristol, captures some of the
:20:31. > :20:35.world's most extraordinary natural wonders through the eyes of birds.
:20:35. > :20:41.The they use cameras attached to their backs.
:20:42. > :20:51.It is narrated by David Tennant. In a moment we will be talking to the
:20:51. > :21:01.series producer, but first, here is New York is a busy crossroads for
:21:01. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:08.During has now is John Downer, series producer. Has this been done
:21:08. > :21:13.before? It has. I first to did something
:21:13. > :21:19.like this many years ago, over 20 years ago. But what we have done
:21:19. > :21:23.here is taken a much broader canvas, the whole world. We have a lot of
:21:23. > :21:26.new techniques and technology at our disposal, so it is completely
:21:26. > :21:31.up-to-date, and an incredible journey.
:21:31. > :21:35.It must have been something that never really left you.
:21:35. > :21:42.The frustration in those days was the fact that the camera was not
:21:42. > :21:46.very good. The images were grainy. It was amazing, but would not stand
:21:46. > :21:52.up today. It is fantastic to be able to go back and use all this
:21:52. > :21:56.new technology and get such shopper, crystal clear images.
:21:56. > :22:02.How do you get a camera on the back of a bird?
:22:02. > :22:06.You use a very small camera! It has to be comfortable. The birds are
:22:06. > :22:12.always trained, and there is a process of getting used to a
:22:12. > :22:16.lightweight harness, and you can clip the camera on. But the time
:22:16. > :22:21.they come to do filming, they are used to carrying it. This is one of
:22:21. > :22:30.the techniques we are using. It all depends on the birds. And they have
:22:30. > :22:35.to get to know you? Yes. They, to the egg and then they think you are
:22:35. > :22:39.the parent. It is something like a ghost, as you saw, in the flight
:22:39. > :22:44.across New York. Those were a year- old Andy have been with the
:22:44. > :22:51.cameraman, in that instance, for over a year.
:22:51. > :22:56.So they wanted to fly with him? That is right. We took them down
:22:56. > :23:01.the Hudson River. I have seen a bit of the film, it
:23:01. > :23:06.is absolutely wonderful. It you not only see the birds, but to see the
:23:06. > :23:11.world's best locations. It is a grand tour of the world.
:23:11. > :23:16.But it is seeing it as the birds do. It is not any spectacles like New
:23:16. > :23:20.York or Venice, but it is also these incredible natural events
:23:20. > :23:25.that birds have to come to move. They become part of it. It is
:23:25. > :23:28.another way of viewing nature. Also, they became the producers,
:23:29. > :23:33.because you had to adapt to what they were doing.
:23:33. > :23:37.That is what is extraordinary. It is the birds that were telling us
:23:37. > :23:41.the story. They were taking us to some of the events. Some of the
:23:41. > :23:45.things we were filming have never been filmed before. The secret was
:23:45. > :23:49.to follow the birds, as they took us to these things. For me, I have
:23:49. > :23:53.been making films for many years, it was a whole new approach we were
:23:53. > :23:59.letting the subject to tell the story.
:23:59. > :24:02.Some of it is in flight photography from aeroplanes. The yes, every
:24:03. > :24:06.technique under the sun. Now, with all the technology coming
:24:06. > :24:12.up to date, we are able to fly the birds in ways that have never been
:24:12. > :24:18.done before. Look at the picture behind your!
:24:18. > :24:23.What has been exciting for me is when the pictures come back, you
:24:24. > :24:29.are seeing stuff you have never seen before. Every good natural
:24:29. > :24:34.history film shows things like this, but we are able to fly into the
:24:34. > :24:38.flock. We used a glider which did not scare the birds. They just
:24:38. > :24:43.ignored it. Let's have a look at some of the
:24:43. > :24:53.pictures from tonight's programme. Tell us about these.
:24:53. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :24:59.This is a fine of a pelican, and these are flamingoes. This is a
:24:59. > :25:02.drone camera, which gives us this excellent viewpoint. We are also
:25:02. > :25:07.flying on the backs of the birds, but we are filming with
:25:07. > :25:10.conventional cameras as well. There are a whole load of techniques that
:25:10. > :25:16.I used to show what it is like to be a hunting bird hunting these
:25:16. > :25:21.flamingos. It was extraordinary to go there and be able to use all
:25:21. > :25:25.these different techniques. We have really are brought it alive to be
:25:25. > :25:30.what it is like to be both predator and prey.
:25:30. > :25:36.We have got a wonderful experience coming up on BBC One. Thank you for
:25:36. > :25:40.coming in. We are going to move on to the weather very shortly.
:25:40. > :25:46.It has been a very windy night a for birds and anything else, I
:25:46. > :25:56.suppose! Ian was going to be on the roof, but he has taken refuge in
:25:56. > :25:59.
:25:59. > :26:03.here. I am slightly out of breath!
:26:03. > :26:09.I will ask the colleagues to switch stomping round on the camera and we
:26:09. > :26:15.will start to do get started. Thank you very much for this
:26:15. > :26:25.photograph from my head earlier this morning. Virtually a sandstorm
:26:25. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:38.He missed the wind strength. -- here is the wind strength. Tomorrow
:26:38. > :26:45.will be a different story. It will look more like this. There is a
:26:45. > :26:52.warm front coming through. For the time being, you will notice that
:26:52. > :26:57.the isobars are spreading back out again. Here comes the warm front
:26:57. > :27:05.into the latter stages of tomorrow. It will bring more cloud in as the
:27:05. > :27:08.day progresses. Tonight, the wind will be getting a bit lighter.
:27:08. > :27:16.There will be some showers in the northern part of Gloucestershire
:27:16. > :27:23.and Wiltshire. There could be some ice on the roads. Tomorrow will
:27:23. > :27:27.start under a decent amount of sunshine. It will not be as windy
:27:27. > :27:31.as today. The cloud will move in throughout the day, and the