:00:22. > :00:26.Tonight: The man accused of murdering the vicar of Thornbury
:00:26. > :00:30.appears in court. Union officials being urged not to
:00:30. > :00:35.work an office time. Nick Clegg and Vince Cable head
:00:35. > :00:38.west to make factory work fashionable again. One in 10 adults
:00:38. > :00:41.currently working manufacturing, but when you ask 11 and 12 year-
:00:42. > :00:46.olds what they want to do, none of them say they want to work in
:00:46. > :00:56.manufacturing. The latest stage in recommissioning
:00:56. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:00.Britain's first nuclear power are The man accused of murdering the
:01:00. > :01:05.Reverend John Suddards, the vicar of Thornbury, has appeared in court
:01:05. > :01:08.for the first time. 47-year-old Stephen Farrow was also accused of
:01:08. > :01:11.a second murder, and retired teacher from Worcestershire.
:01:11. > :01:16.Today it was revealed that the police also suspect him of carrying
:01:16. > :01:22.out a burglary of a house in Thornbury six weeks before Reverend
:01:22. > :01:26.Suddards lost have to buy. -- lost his life.
:01:26. > :01:30.Arriving for his first quarter parents, in a prison van flanked by
:01:30. > :01:35.photographers, Stephen Farrow was brought to Northavon Magistrates
:01:35. > :01:38.Court to face two charges of murder. Wearing a belief -- grey fleece and
:01:38. > :01:44.grey trousers, he spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth,
:01:44. > :01:48.and that he has no fixed address. Nine days ago reverend John
:01:48. > :01:55.Suddards was discovered inside his vicarage, stabbed to death in the
:01:55. > :01:58.nearby town of Thornbury. Police were quick to appeal for help in
:01:58. > :02:06.finding Stephen Farrell, and he was finally arrested in a house in
:02:06. > :02:11.Folkestone last Sunday morning. After the arrest came some shocking
:02:11. > :02:15.news, police confirmed he was also suspected of a second murder.
:02:15. > :02:21.Retired teacher Betty Yates was found stabbed to death in her
:02:21. > :02:25.cottage in Beauly in Worcestershire on 4th January.
:02:26. > :02:29.Police believe Mr Farrow may have been in the area before the death
:02:29. > :02:35.of John Suddards. Today in court, it was confirmed that he also faces
:02:35. > :02:39.a third charge, or for burglary, also won Thornbury, in December
:02:39. > :02:49.last year. He is due to appear at a bail
:02:49. > :02:56.
:02:56. > :03:01.A protest is under way in Swindon right now, over plans by the
:03:01. > :03:07.council to stop paying for a union reps. Taxpayers pick up the tab for
:03:07. > :03:12.two officials to do union work in office time, but with budgets tight,
:03:12. > :03:18.Conservative councillors say they want to pull the plug. Let us talk
:03:18. > :03:23.to is an correspondent. -- our correspondent.
:03:23. > :03:26.The demonstration is loud and well- attended. They have got
:03:26. > :03:30.representatives from across the South West, from Cornwall, Devon
:03:30. > :03:34.and Gloucester. They have come to make their voices known. Swindon
:03:34. > :03:40.Borough Council are meeting to set the budget, there are going to
:03:40. > :03:46.freeze the council tax and get rid of 120 jobs. But it is two jobs
:03:46. > :03:50.that is causing the angst. They are union representatives, on the
:03:50. > :03:53.council payroll, but they spend the time doing union duties, which
:03:53. > :04:01.happens everywhere. Unions worry that by getting rid of them it
:04:01. > :04:05.could set a national precedent. He has been on the council payroll for
:04:05. > :04:11.35 years, but Bob Cretchley's days you could be numbered. He is a
:04:11. > :04:17.union representative, the job she has with Karla Bradford. -- he
:04:17. > :04:21.shares his job with Karla Bradford. We are up against it all the time.
:04:21. > :04:30.Like most trade union reps, we take work home and do it in their own
:04:30. > :04:34.time. It is a legal right in the workplace for representatives to
:04:34. > :04:40.spend time on union duties. But the Conservative-run council think this
:04:40. > :04:50.arrangement is costing too much. Redundancy is looming. The more we
:04:50. > :04:54.looked into it, we can find no logical explanation. It is a
:04:54. > :05:03.politically motivated attack on the union. According to the TaxPayers'
:05:03. > :05:13.Alliance, there are three full-time equivalent jobs in Somerset, for a
:05:13. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:19.in Wiltshire, and 500 go. -- four in Wiltshire, and five in Swindon.
:05:19. > :05:22.We already have union reps working in the council that we believe can
:05:22. > :05:27.undertake this work, and we have other unions represented in the
:05:27. > :05:31.same way, and do not receive any financial support. It is a cost-
:05:31. > :05:37.saving measure, nothing more. admits it is a small saving, but
:05:37. > :05:41.these are tough times. The council meeting gets under way
:05:41. > :05:45.at 7pm. Some of these people are going inside to make their feelings
:05:45. > :05:49.known to councillors who will be making the decision. Let us talk to
:05:49. > :05:53.someone from the union. This is the regional secretary of Unison South
:05:53. > :05:57.West. Most people in the public would be surprised there are union
:05:57. > :06:05.people on the payroll, who only do union duties. I do not think that
:06:05. > :06:08.is the case. Every employer does that, except they have more time.
:06:08. > :06:15.Most employers find it is a beneficial way of making sure their
:06:15. > :06:20.legal obligations Ahmed, and they meet their consultation
:06:20. > :06:25.requirements and make the changes the need to make. There are fewer
:06:25. > :06:29.staff working here who are union members, and a number of people
:06:29. > :06:33.represented by unions has gone down. Should they not be reducing the
:06:33. > :06:38.amount they spend on the service? There have been a lot of changes
:06:38. > :06:46.already, but there are 1,400 direct employees here. There is one full-
:06:47. > :06:51.time post, which has a small amount. Actually, the work is not going
:06:51. > :06:59.away. The consultation on redundancies, change of terms and
:06:59. > :07:04.conditions, that work still needs to be done. But compared to the
:07:04. > :07:07.private sector where this practice exists, and is protected by law,
:07:07. > :07:11.did as a lower level of union representatives and the private
:07:11. > :07:15.sector than the public sector. compared to the membership. If you
:07:15. > :07:23.look at the large private sector employers, they have the same
:07:23. > :07:28.arrangements. Thank you very much. This has some support from
:07:28. > :07:34.government, the idea of clamping down on unions. On Sunday Politics,
:07:34. > :07:40.we will be hearing from Liam Fox, who has joined a campaign to reduce
:07:40. > :07:45.union presence and organisations such as this.
:07:45. > :07:49.Young people should dream of a job in a factory, said the Deputy Prime
:07:49. > :07:53.Minister today in a visit to Bristol. Nick Clegg came west, with
:07:53. > :07:57.the business sector tri Vince Cable and have a brother -- half-a-dozen
:07:58. > :08:05.other ministers, to hold a manufacturing summit. The message,
:08:05. > :08:08.making things is vital and we should make it fashionable again.
:08:08. > :08:13.As a country we have over valued services and undervalued
:08:13. > :08:18.manufacturing. It is becoming a familiar theme of the government,
:08:18. > :08:24.but Nick Clegg drew gasps from the audience with a survey of dream
:08:24. > :08:34.jobs. Guess how many 11 and 12 year-olds said they wanted a job
:08:34. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:39.and manufacturing? Not one. These people make aeroplanes, and parts
:08:39. > :08:45.for Formula One cars. The Deputy PM says it is time that making things
:08:45. > :08:52.is cool. There is the idea that manufacturing was a declining
:08:53. > :08:58.industry, and we need to work hard mistake with this generation of
:08:58. > :09:07.youngsters, showing them that manufacture is excited. -- exciting.
:09:07. > :09:14.This is the robot snake, used in nuclear reactors. And this is the
:09:14. > :09:17.state-of-the-art wing factory in even life. It is world-class
:09:17. > :09:23.technology. British Aerospace is one of the leading companies in the
:09:23. > :09:29.world. They saw it all today, but they know West Country
:09:29. > :09:36.manufacturers have a problem. a long-standing problem. It is a
:09:36. > :09:44.shortage of craftsmen and graduated in juniors. We have a mixed bunch
:09:44. > :09:52.of apprenticeships, and we're trying to target them. Are their
:09:52. > :09:55.apprenticeships in this kind of thing? We are concentrating some of
:09:55. > :10:00.the resources on advanced manufacturing.
:10:00. > :10:07.It does not come much more advanced than this. Against that measures to
:10:07. > :10:17.the millionth of a millimetre. The company makes money worldwide, but
:10:17. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:21.they still can't get enough engineers. The most difficult to
:10:22. > :10:26.agree to get his engineering, because there are a lot of lectures
:10:26. > :10:31.to attend, and it is not so much social time if you take an
:10:31. > :10:39.engineering degree, but there is a career at the end of it.
:10:39. > :10:46.challenge is to build the world's fastest car, and along the way fire
:10:46. > :10:53.fired enthusiasm for the engineers. Manufacturing is a slow business,
:10:53. > :10:57.and making it cool again might take a whole generation.
:10:57. > :11:01.We're in the Points West factory making television! You are watching
:11:01. > :11:07.Points West. We have plenty more still to make
:11:07. > :11:11.you, including the latest from Lake Placid, as the West's two queens of
:11:11. > :11:15.the eyes go head-to-head in the skeleton World Championships.
:11:15. > :11:21.And Mr muscle. We meet the Gloucestershire man in training to
:11:21. > :11:25.become the world's strongest and pick up a few tips.
:11:25. > :11:30.First, jobs at a call centre in north Somerset could be under
:11:30. > :11:35.threat with the news that Comet wants to streamline its operations.
:11:35. > :11:39.The electrical retailer employers support staff at two call centres,
:11:39. > :11:45.in Clevedon and an Hull. But today the company announced plans to move
:11:45. > :11:48.the jobs on to one site. It is not yet known which one. A three-month
:11:48. > :11:52.consultation into the proposals as under way.
:11:52. > :11:55.There has been a call to ride for the body that regulates health and
:11:55. > :12:01.social care, the Care Quality Commission, to be completely
:12:01. > :12:06.overhauled. It comes on the day the head of the CQC, so intimate --
:12:06. > :12:13.Cynthia Blower resigned. We have been speaking to Sarah Barnett, the
:12:13. > :12:18.whistleblower who raised concerns about Parkfields Care Home. The CQC
:12:18. > :12:25.has also been criticised about failing to act on warnings about
:12:25. > :12:29.alleged abuse here. It is about raising concerns on
:12:29. > :12:34.safeguarding the remit of the CQC, and where they fit into
:12:34. > :12:39.safeguarding procedures needs clarifying. And their methodology
:12:39. > :12:43.around that needs Updating dramatic cliff. There are still many
:12:43. > :12:49.problems with the CQC that need to be addressed, and we need to
:12:49. > :12:54.natures and then a Bloor has gone - - make sure that Cynthia Blower has
:12:54. > :12:58.gone. The head of the Care Quality Commission said it was time to move
:12:58. > :13:03.on after a government report into his work was published.
:13:03. > :13:07.The Duchess of Cornwall was in the West today, looking at a new state-
:13:07. > :13:10.of-the-art facility at a veterinary school in north Somerset, before
:13:10. > :13:14.visiting the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
:13:15. > :13:24.120 students a year are trained at Bristol University's vet School and
:13:25. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:32.Langford. They have been giving The Duchess has a real interest in
:13:32. > :13:35.horses but Tom may have surprised her just a little. He's had his eye
:13:35. > :13:38.removed, an operation made simpler for the student vets training here
:13:38. > :13:46.thanks to the new facilities. Two equine operating theatres were top
:13:46. > :13:51.of the shopping list. Their training was significantly improved.
:13:51. > :13:55.Not only is it designed for them to be able to see the procedures,
:13:55. > :14:02.there is more room for them, more animals can come through the
:14:02. > :14:08.hospital every day. We need an operating table be enough for a
:14:08. > :14:12.horse. This is the course equivalent of a recovery room, it
:14:12. > :14:22.has soft walls and soft floors so that when a horse comes around it
:14:22. > :14:27.
:14:27. > :14:31.will not endear itself. -- India itself. -- injure. An ultra sound
:14:31. > :14:34.of a horse's eye was next - followed by a tour of the new small
:14:34. > :14:37.animal unit where this CT scanner can cater for animals large - and
:14:37. > :14:41.small. A cuddle with baby Nathan at the Royal United Hospital. Sir
:14:41. > :14:48.James Dyson gave half a million pounds to the funding of this unit
:14:48. > :14:53.- it'll care for 500 sick and premature babies every year. If you
:14:53. > :15:00.came here before you read C P Evans crashed in the corner and it was a
:15:00. > :15:05.very stressful time. -- you would see parents crashed. This is much
:15:06. > :15:08.more relaxed at finer environment. And as a final farewell - flowers
:15:08. > :15:18.and pictures from three enthusiastic triplets. Cared for at
:15:18. > :15:22.
:15:22. > :15:25.the Unit when they were tiny, but now full of beans. It's two years
:15:25. > :15:29.since they sealed up the nuclear reactor at Berkeley Nuclear power
:15:29. > :15:32.station. They let me switch off the lights for the last time before the
:15:32. > :15:36.building was locked up for 64 years to allow any last nuclear traces to
:15:36. > :15:43.waste away. But that was just the beginning of the process - and a
:15:43. > :15:48.new stage was reached today - as Luke Hanrahan reports. These
:15:48. > :15:53.boilers are enormous. They created power for a city the size of
:15:53. > :16:00.Bristol every single day. Now that they are out of commission they
:16:00. > :16:06.have been lying on their sides slowly rusting. Thousands of people
:16:06. > :16:13.work here and for almost 30 years its electricity flowed into the
:16:13. > :16:19.national grid. It was switched off in 1989 but it takes years to
:16:19. > :16:26.decommission a station and hundreds of people still work on the site.
:16:26. > :16:31.This man worked year when it first opened in 1962. It was very sad
:16:31. > :16:36.when the station shut down. Since then I have been on be
:16:36. > :16:43.commissioning and I just want to see the police put to bed now.
:16:43. > :16:49.of these boilers weighs 310 tonnes, the equivalent of 37 fully-grown
:16:49. > :16:54.elephants. It is the task of the engineers here to decide what to do
:16:54. > :17:01.with such massive objects. They are massive imposing structures on the
:17:01. > :17:07.site. We walk past them every day. They have been here for a long time.
:17:07. > :17:13.Getting to grips with it now I am happy to be involved. In the next
:17:13. > :17:18.few weeks five of them will be shipped to Sweden to be melted down
:17:19. > :17:24.and recycled. The remnants of nuclear power will be here for a
:17:24. > :17:32.long time to come. The process is not expected to be finished for
:17:32. > :17:37.another 62 years. This technological marvel of its day is
:17:37. > :17:47.now being sent to the scrapyard and with the future of this region in
:17:47. > :17:52.
:17:52. > :17:59.the balance, how kind will be future be now? I am afraid that
:17:59. > :18:02.final be commissioning is one story I will not be working on! Now to
:18:02. > :18:05.sport and in a story with more intrigue than an episode of
:18:05. > :18:08.Sherlock Holmes, Bristol City's plans for a new stadium are back on
:18:08. > :18:10.hold! Our sports editor David Passmore is back again with the
:18:10. > :18:14.latest on this planning saga. What's happened today, Dave? It
:18:15. > :18:18.defies belief. It's like watching a tennis match at Wimbledon. On
:18:18. > :18:22.Monday the council announced with a fanfare the �90 million project in
:18:22. > :18:26.south Bristol could go ahead. A resident who halted the stadium
:18:26. > :18:30.with a legal challenge pulled out. He also made it clear in this
:18:30. > :18:32.letter to the Council he did not want any new legal challenge. So
:18:32. > :18:35.15-love to the council. But this morning solicitors for those
:18:35. > :18:40.opposed to the new 30,000 seater stadium announced that a judge had,
:18:40. > :18:44.after all, allowed a new legal challenge. A new applicant has
:18:44. > :18:54.applied to make the whole matter the subject of a judicial review.
:18:54. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:09.So that's back to 15-15. So what has the council said in reply?
:19:09. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:14.are very angry. They believed they had an open and shut case. And they
:19:14. > :19:17.have said they will do everything in their power to oppose it. To
:19:17. > :19:19.quote from their statement. "Clearly this astonishing turn of
:19:19. > :19:22.events is deeply frustrating. Our legal representatives were not
:19:22. > :19:25.invited to be present, or even made aware, that the courts were due to
:19:25. > :19:28.make this decision on a new judicial review by another
:19:28. > :19:31.anonymous person. We shall be seeking to reverse this decision in
:19:31. > :19:34.the strongest terms next week when it is reviewed by the courts." So
:19:34. > :19:37.15-all Council to serve. It could go to five sets. And staying with
:19:37. > :19:40.stadiums, Sainsbury's plans for a new store on the site of Bristol
:19:40. > :19:43.Rovers Memorial Stadium are about to go on display. The supermarket
:19:43. > :19:45.chain is putting up the plans for public inspection tomorrow and
:19:45. > :19:48.Saturday at the stadium. The project still has yet to receive
:19:48. > :19:51.planning permission and will only go ahead if the football club
:19:51. > :19:55.builds a new stadium next to the University of the West of England's
:19:56. > :19:59.Frenchay Campus. Well, now to Skeleton and Shelley Rudman who
:19:59. > :20:03.comes from Pewsey in Wiltshire is in third place at the half way
:20:03. > :20:06.stage of the world championships in North America. Amy Williams from
:20:06. > :20:12.Bath who won Gold at the Olympics two years ago is currently in 6th
:20:12. > :20:16.place. It's the first time these rivals have faced each other in a
:20:16. > :20:19.major championships since the Olympics. Shelley Rudman went into
:20:19. > :20:24.the world championships today having already won the world cup
:20:24. > :20:34.series two weeks ago for the first time in her career. She lead the
:20:34. > :20:34.
:20:34. > :20:37.competition ater the first of her four runs. -- led. But slipped to
:20:37. > :20:40.third after her second run. Amy Williams however improved on her
:20:40. > :20:43.first run moving up from 9th place to sixth. The final two rounds take
:20:43. > :20:46.place tomorrow afternoon our time. Ben Morgan who grew up playing his
:20:46. > :20:50.rugby in Gloucestershire has been included in the England side to
:20:50. > :20:57.face Wales this Saturday. Morgan plays for the Welsh side Llanelli
:20:57. > :21:00.Scarlets. But played his junior rugby at Dursley and went to school
:21:00. > :21:03.in Wotton-under-Edge. The number 8 forward will be lining up against
:21:03. > :21:06.four team mates from Scarlets who are in the Welsh side. In football,
:21:06. > :21:09.Nigel Spink the former Aston Villa goalkeeper has joined the coaching
:21:09. > :21:12.staff at Bristol City until the end of the season. He'll look after the
:21:12. > :21:15.goalkeepers after the departure of Stuart Naylor who joined the club
:21:15. > :21:19.back in 2005 and worked with all the club's goalkeepers including
:21:19. > :21:23.David James. And Yeovil have signed the former Chelsea and Leeds
:21:23. > :21:26.midfielder Michael Woods. The 21- year-old is the third new signing
:21:26. > :21:36.this week after the arrival of Jonathan Grounds and Jonathan
:21:36. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:46.Franks from Middlesbrough. By probably will not be back with more
:21:46. > :21:49.stadium used tomorrow, but you never know! He's 6 foot 2 inches
:21:49. > :21:52.tall, weighs 23 and a half stone and he's currently the fourth
:21:52. > :21:55.strongest man in the entire world. Laurance Shahlaei from
:21:55. > :22:01.Gloucestershire had his best ever season last year and is now in
:22:01. > :22:06.training for a major competition in America next week. Will Glennon
:22:06. > :22:10.went to see him. Laurance Shahlaei's 29-years-old and he can
:22:10. > :22:13.pick up things that you would not believe. Last year he broke the
:22:13. > :22:23.world deadlift record, lifting 430 kilos, that's 3 times his
:22:23. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:34.bodyweight. And this in a sport he joined because it looked fun on TV.
:22:34. > :22:39.As a kid I was always interested in lifting heavy stuff up. I played
:22:39. > :22:44.sports all my life, I was always competitive. It is not just about
:22:44. > :22:50.being strong, you need to be an athlete, you need to be able to
:22:50. > :22:52.move and you need that competitive edge as well. Laurance came 4th in
:22:52. > :23:02.the World's Strongest man competition last autumn, his best
:23:02. > :23:08.ever placing. I want to step up two or three places this year, I want
:23:08. > :23:17.to be world's strongest man. eats six meals a day, and trains
:23:17. > :23:21.from 3 to 5 days a week So what's the key to lifting massive weights?
:23:21. > :23:26.You pull your shoulders back and down. There is a lot of preparation
:23:26. > :23:30.before that. I had to decide which version of me would be best placed
:23:30. > :23:34.to have a go. The middle one. 60 kilos was a good start, then I
:23:34. > :23:44.lifted my own body weight, 80 kilos. And that's as far as I managed.
:23:44. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:53.Laurance meanwhile moved on to greater challenges. And do you know
:23:53. > :23:55.what, there is not a lot Lawrence cannot left. Laurance heads to
:23:55. > :23:58.America next week for the Arnold Classic, then it's Europe's
:23:58. > :24:08.Strongest man in June. With what he can pick up, you wouldn't bet
:24:08. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:16.against him lifting the trophy. Now the final preparations for the
:24:16. > :24:20.toughest dogsled race in the UK have been taking place this evening.
:24:20. > :24:26.Competitors are coming from as far as northern Scotland and southern
:24:26. > :24:35.Ireland. Teams of up to eight dogs have to compete in four races in
:24:35. > :24:41.the daytime and at night. We have got a really be read programme
:24:41. > :24:48.tonight! We have got it all! Just before the weather we are grateful
:24:48. > :24:54.for this picture, it says 16.9 on his thermometer. An unbelievable
:24:54. > :25:01.temperature for this time of year. That is not his central heating
:25:01. > :25:07.dial! We will now catch up with the forecast. Good evening. We have had
:25:07. > :25:13.quite a contrast across the region today. We have temperatures peaking
:25:13. > :25:19.at around 15 degrees. The Bristol Channel is stuck around 10 with the
:25:19. > :25:23.mist and fog. Tonight and tomorrow it will remain relatively mild but
:25:23. > :25:28.we will continue to sea mist and low cloud along the Bristol Channel
:25:28. > :25:33.coast. In the east there may be brighter skies but later in the day
:25:33. > :25:39.tomorrow some drizzle will arrive from the north. A weather front
:25:39. > :25:44.across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland will sink slowly
:25:44. > :25:52.southwards overnight and lie across the Midlands by the end of the day
:25:52. > :25:58.tomorrow. On Saturday it will reach the South West. The cloud today has
:25:58. > :26:03.been breaking across many central parts. Tonight the cloud will
:26:03. > :26:10.quickly return and it will be low cloud so expect poor visibility
:26:11. > :26:15.over high ground. Tomorrow we have got mist and fog in the morning, it
:26:16. > :26:20.may brighten up for a time with some sunshine, particularly in
:26:20. > :26:26.parts of south Somerset and South Wiltshire. Do end the day it clouds
:26:26. > :26:32.over as the weather front drifts in from the north. The visibility
:26:32. > :26:42.through the Bristol Channel is very poor with mist and low cloud.
:26:42. > :26:45.
:26:45. > :26:51.Temperatures not quite so warm as The outlook into the weekend is for
:26:51. > :26:56.a lot of fine weather on Saturday, the unsettled conditions will
:26:56. > :27:06.trickle back on Sunday and it will become cloudy and the killer by
:27:06. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:15.Monday. -- cooler. Good evening. That is just about it from us. We
:27:15. > :27:25.are back with the late bulletin at Ten. We will have the latest from
:27:25. > :27:25.