:00:09. > :00:12.Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West.
:00:12. > :00:17.Our headlines tonight: The brilliant school girl who took her
:00:17. > :00:20.own life. A coroner describes the treatment she received as woeful.
:00:20. > :00:24.Concern about modern school design after a pupil falls from the fourth
:00:24. > :00:26.storey. Read all about it - Christopher
:00:26. > :00:30.Jefferies suggests the police leaked information about him to the
:00:30. > :00:40.press. And sniffing out cancer - the
:00:40. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:58.machine that smells danger from a A gifted schoolgirl killed herself
:00:58. > :01:01.after being let down by the NHS. Melissa hanged herself in a park in
:01:01. > :01:05.Cheltenham. The coroner said there were won't
:01:05. > :01:10.fork failures in the care that should have been made available on
:01:10. > :01:14.eight NHS. Her parents called for help.
:01:14. > :01:18.Melissa Martin-Hughes was 18 when she hanged herself in a park in
:01:18. > :01:23.Cheltenham. She was struggling with mental health problems. At an
:01:23. > :01:27.inquest, her parents said they have made repeated requests to get
:01:27. > :01:34.professional help for their teenage daughter but her case slipped
:01:34. > :01:42.through the system. She was a complex, beautiful daughter who
:01:42. > :01:46.brought great joy to us all. We miss her constantly. We agree with
:01:46. > :01:52.the findings of the coroner. We feel let down by the system.
:01:52. > :01:56.Melissa had made a cry for help the year before. Discovered next to a
:01:56. > :02:03.clip at Beachy Head in that state of distress. It was then that she
:02:03. > :02:08.was seen by a crisis team, run by the NHS Foundation Trust. An
:02:08. > :02:11.administration error meant she was never seen or helped again. By the
:02:11. > :02:16.time she died, she has had no contact with mental health services
:02:16. > :02:22.for more than seven months. During that time, she had become more
:02:22. > :02:27.withdrawn. It was, said the coroner, an opportunity to help her that was
:02:27. > :02:30.missed. The way records and information they shared in the
:02:30. > :02:35.trust has been changed to make sure no one else in need of help gets
:02:35. > :02:39.lost in the system. Melissa did not receive the package of care that
:02:39. > :02:44.was intended and did not have the opportunity to engage with our
:02:44. > :02:48.service. Following her death, we undertook a full investigation and
:02:48. > :02:53.identified shortcomings in the service we provide to have. Melissa
:02:53. > :02:57.had recently passed her exams with the highest grades and secured a
:02:57. > :03:05.place at a top university. Her headmaster said she was a brilliant
:03:05. > :03:09.and exceptional people who would never be forgotten.
:03:09. > :03:15.An underground cannabis factory has been discovered by police on
:03:15. > :03:18.farmland in Somerset. �130,000 worth of cannabis were found
:03:18. > :03:24.underground near the village of Shipham. Police were alerted to the
:03:24. > :03:28.site after using a thermal imaging camera from the helicopter. Those
:03:28. > :03:33.responsible had installed a running water supply and taps into the main
:03:33. > :03:39.power supply of or a nearby building. A 45 year old woman has
:03:39. > :03:47.been arrested. If you don't go round feel as finding this many
:03:47. > :03:53.cannabis plants. -- round fields. It is an important find and we will
:03:53. > :03:57.continue to dismantle, disrupt and destroy a search items like this.
:03:57. > :04:01.It it has emerged that questions have been raised about the design
:04:01. > :04:05.of a Bristol school where a 12 year-old boy fell from a fourth-
:04:05. > :04:08.floor stairwell. The National Union of Teachers had concerns about the
:04:08. > :04:13.plans for Fairfield School by were assured by the local authority that
:04:13. > :04:18.their worries were unfounded. The boy remains in a stable condition
:04:18. > :04:23.in hospital following the accident last Friday.
:04:23. > :04:28.When the new Fairfield School opened in 2006, is modern design
:04:28. > :04:33.got attention but it seems not all of it was positive. It has emerged
:04:33. > :04:37.that concerns were raised by the NUT about the plans. These calls
:04:37. > :04:41.atrium is five storeys high and it was from a fourth-floor stair well
:04:41. > :04:46.in this area that the boy is understood to have fallen. It is
:04:46. > :04:52.not known what happened but a former school of the CEP says there
:04:52. > :04:58.were questions about his design. remember it was lauded as being a
:04:58. > :05:08.Dutch design and that it was going to satisfy a all the health and
:05:08. > :05:16.safety requirements. What to be many unions were concerned about,
:05:16. > :05:21.it was the safety implications. is one of a series to be rebuilt by
:05:21. > :05:25.the City Council who approved the design. In a statement, they said a
:05:25. > :05:29.full risk assessment was carried out as part of the design and
:05:29. > :05:35.school-safety is reviewed on an ongoing basis. Since the school was
:05:35. > :05:38.opened, no other incidents have been reported and it remains in use.
:05:38. > :05:43.An investigation is underway to find out what happened here on
:05:43. > :05:46.Friday afternoon. In the meantime, the school says they have no plans
:05:46. > :05:56.to block of four ALF -- or to the stairwell where the accident
:05:56. > :05:57.
:05:57. > :06:04.happened. The boy remains in a stable condition in hospital.
:06:04. > :06:07.You are watching Points West at this Tuesday evening.
:06:07. > :06:11.Bill Oddie joins as live to tell us why she spent the day in
:06:11. > :06:16.Westminster fighting a planned badger cull.
:06:16. > :06:23.And BDP a that is giving father and son a chance to celebrate their
:06:23. > :06:27.11th birthdays together. That is coming your way the first,
:06:27. > :06:31.the last of the West's big councils have been set in their budgets
:06:31. > :06:36.today and the council tax bills will soon be in the post. Bristol
:06:36. > :06:40.and Wiltshire confirmed they won't put up their charges but that means
:06:40. > :06:48.big cuts must be made to balance the books. Hundreds of jobs are to
:06:48. > :06:52.go and that has sparked protests. Another budget setting meeting,
:06:52. > :06:58.another protest. This was the scene outside Bristol's council house
:06:58. > :07:05.this evening. They are angry because the council is making cuts.
:07:05. > :07:09.350 jobs are going. There is little choice. New laws mean any rise over
:07:09. > :07:14.4% would require a risky it referendum and the Government be
:07:14. > :07:20.sharing cash on councils which go for the freeze and Wiltshire, it is
:07:20. > :07:24.worth �5 million. Councillors say they can't say no. The Government
:07:24. > :07:27.should leave local authorities with as much power as they can,
:07:28. > :07:32.particularly over things like council tax. The local Government
:07:32. > :07:37.knows what is important in its local area. It would be absurd not
:07:37. > :07:41.to take the money from the Government when they offer it to us.
:07:41. > :07:45.One local-authority and the West has to set -- has defied the
:07:46. > :07:50.Government and their incentive. Avon Fire and rescue are putting up
:07:50. > :07:53.their council tax by 4%. Firefighters will see little
:07:54. > :07:58.financial gain this year but it may help in the future when the
:07:58. > :08:03.Government freeze funding is gone. It is not for this year there we
:08:03. > :08:08.are doing it but the authority believe it was important for future
:08:08. > :08:13.years that we have that the money available. The unfairness of the
:08:13. > :08:16.freeze at the moment is that all the authorities will have a
:08:16. > :08:22.deficiency in their base budgets for the following years which they
:08:22. > :08:28.will have to grapple with. The problem is, we have no extra fat on
:08:28. > :08:31.the bone that now left. The view that there is not much fat to cut
:08:31. > :08:36.away is widely held. Bristol's meeting heard heating -- heated
:08:36. > :08:39.arguments but the budget went through. What comes bit is be bills
:08:39. > :08:45.will be rolling off the presses and landing on our doormats within
:08:45. > :08:49.weeks. We will be paying little or no more than before and in 12
:08:49. > :08:54.months' time, it could be a different story.
:08:54. > :08:57.In other news, the man wrongly accused of the murder of Joe -- Jo
:08:57. > :09:02.Yeates has been 10 the Leveson inquiry why he thinks information
:09:02. > :09:05.about him was leaked to the press by the police. Christopher
:09:05. > :09:11.Jefferies said they had been feverish interest in him from
:09:11. > :09:16.journalists even before he was arrested.
:09:16. > :09:25.A large number of reporters and photographers appeared at the
:09:25. > :09:31.address where I lived. They had got to hear about the content of that
:09:31. > :09:35.second witness statement. They had got hold of a corbels addition of
:09:35. > :09:39.it. Christopher Jefferies describing the moment he found
:09:39. > :09:44.himself thrust into the media spotlight. Soon he would become the
:09:44. > :09:48.target of a frenzied smear campaign amongst some elements of the press.
:09:48. > :09:52.It resulted 10 I'm winning substantial damages. Today was his
:09:52. > :09:59.opportunity to tell Lord leathers and how we thought leaks from Avon
:09:59. > :10:08.and Somerset police had contributed to that coverage. -- Leveson
:10:08. > :10:14.Inquiry. The source of the information, somebody who was not
:10:14. > :10:20.an offer to whom I had given a statement, who had seen the
:10:20. > :10:23.statement in any detail but had nevertheless heard about it.
:10:23. > :10:26.inquiry has heard how Avon and Somerset police had given an off-
:10:26. > :10:30.the-record briefing about Mr Jefferies. That is something they
:10:30. > :10:34.stringently deny although they admit his name was inadvertently
:10:34. > :10:43.given to one journalist. Mr Jefferies ways the issue of why it
:10:43. > :10:51.took so long for him to be cleared as a suspect -- suspect. One could
:10:51. > :10:57.conceivably suggest that the police wanted to give the impression that
:10:57. > :11:02.I had been arrested on the basis of possibly a firm evidence than
:11:02. > :11:06.turned out to be the case. Avon and Somerset Police didn't want to
:11:06. > :11:12.comment on his evidence today. A civil action for wrongful arrest
:11:12. > :11:17.against them is a continuing. There has been more criticism today
:11:17. > :11:20.of the proposed plans for a badger cull in the West. Last month the
:11:20. > :11:23.Government announced that two areas in the region will be used for the
:11:23. > :11:30.controversial trial. Today, some of the campaigners took
:11:30. > :11:35.their fight to Westminster. The opponents to the proposed cull
:11:35. > :11:38.came to Westminster today. The Humane Society International say
:11:38. > :11:44.the plans would break international laws and they won the Government to
:11:44. > :11:48.drop the idea. Killing badgers is not the answer. We know that, this
:11:48. > :11:52.science says that. TB and cattle can be controlled through cattle
:11:52. > :11:56.measures alone without any badgers happen to be killed. This latest
:11:56. > :12:01.development comes at a time when a legal talent has been launched at
:12:01. > :12:06.the High Court by the bed to Trust. Over the last decade, the spread of
:12:06. > :12:10.boat but -- bovine TB in the West has worsened. TB doesn't kill but
:12:11. > :12:14.walls mean cattle who test positive must be slaughtered and farms
:12:15. > :12:19.quarantined. Badgers have long been blamed for spreading the virus.
:12:19. > :12:24.Last month came the announcement of a trial cull in West
:12:24. > :12:29.Gloucestershire and West Somerset. The Government has announced two
:12:29. > :12:33.areas where the farmers within them will be invited now to apply for a
:12:33. > :12:38.licence. The Labour Party were quick to show opposition, saying
:12:38. > :12:41.public opinion was on their side. There is widespread opposition in
:12:41. > :12:47.south-west to badger culls taking place within local communities, not
:12:47. > :12:55.least because the scientific evidence shows it is ineffective in
:12:55. > :13:00.curving bovine TB. -- T B. A many welcome the car. Bovine TB has
:13:00. > :13:04.forced the slaughter of 25,000 cattle in 2010. Critics of the cot
:13:04. > :13:08.say killing badgers is unjustified and will have little effect on the
:13:08. > :13:13.spread of the disease. The coal in the trial areas is planned to start
:13:13. > :13:23.in the autumn although this development may delay or even halt
:13:23. > :13:24.
:13:24. > :13:27.We are joined now from Westminster by Bill Adi he was at the
:13:28. > :13:32.demonstration and Ian Johnson in the studio from the National
:13:32. > :13:37.Farmers' Union. Bill Adi, we know you love animals,
:13:37. > :13:42.but are you being sentimental? Absolutely and utterly not because
:13:42. > :13:48.I also love farmers and farms and it is essential that they are both
:13:48. > :13:52.in a good healthy condition to. One big argument here, and it is quite
:13:52. > :13:57.interesting over the last 10 minutes, nobody has used the word
:13:57. > :14:02.kill. They use the word cold, but more to the point they do not use
:14:02. > :14:08.the word shoot. That is the argument. The culling would be
:14:08. > :14:14.carried out by shooting badgers. that want to object to? Certainly,
:14:14. > :14:21.yes. Would you be happy about other forms of curling? Of course I would
:14:21. > :14:26.not. Know. It is possible to have an inoculation scheme and that is
:14:26. > :14:31.going to have as much effect as killing. We don't know whether
:14:31. > :14:38.Evette will be successful because the science is not proven. Let's go
:14:38. > :14:45.to Ian Johnson. You say you'd kill 70% of badgers in the area and get
:14:45. > :14:50.a reduction of cattle -- reduction of TB cattle of 20%. Is it worth
:14:50. > :14:58.it? Of course it is. The number of cattle slaughtered because of
:14:58. > :15:05.bovine TB has gone up. We have tried every movement in the book.
:15:05. > :15:10.What about vaccination? Farms that don't even bring cattle in have TB.
:15:10. > :15:17.It is a ludicrous situation. What about vaccination? Address that
:15:17. > :15:22.point, if you wouldn't mind. does not cure. In West defection,
:15:22. > :15:30.half the badger population already has TB. It is impractical and huge
:15:30. > :15:34.lead expensive. Are you going to pay for the guns? Are you going to
:15:34. > :15:39.shoot the guns? The practicality of shooting badgers is extremely
:15:39. > :15:45.dubious knowing what a communal animal they are and incredibly
:15:45. > :15:50.timid animal they are. One gunshot and you won't see a badger around
:15:50. > :15:54.for five miles. They will have to get a licence? Of course they will.
:15:54. > :15:57.To put this in context you are talking about far less badgers
:15:57. > :16:04.being controlled to stop this disease than you are seeing run
:16:04. > :16:08.over on the roads every year. About a third of the number. If Bill
:16:08. > :16:13.Oddie was truly interested in the animals, he would want to stop this.
:16:13. > :16:19.It is hardly a choice to say, they are being run over, what can I do
:16:19. > :16:23.about that. That is not a good argument for killing more. We will
:16:23. > :16:27.have to leave it there. Scientists in the West have
:16:27. > :16:32.developed a test for prostate and bladder cancer which could save
:16:32. > :16:36.lives. Doctors believe they are a step closer to a simple test which
:16:37. > :16:41.can sniff out the disease. Our Health Correspondent reports that
:16:41. > :16:50.the news comes on the same day as a campaign to encourage more patients
:16:50. > :16:54.with symptoms to see their doctor. Blood in your urine? Not an easy
:16:54. > :16:58.symptom to talk about. That is why they have employed Morph to raise
:16:58. > :17:03.awareness of bladder cancer. It seems a campaign is already paying
:17:03. > :17:08.dividends with the number of referrals up by 50% in Bristol
:17:08. > :17:12.since the billboards went up. important because 94% of patients
:17:12. > :17:17.will survive its symptoms are caught early and they come in for
:17:17. > :17:22.treatment. If they are caught late, only 25 or 30%. Blood in urine is
:17:22. > :17:28.also a symptom of prostate cancer. Getting a quick call accurate
:17:28. > :17:32.diagnosis is easier said than done. At the moment, doctors rely on the
:17:32. > :17:37.PSA blood test. If that proves positive, patients have to have a
:17:37. > :17:42.painful biopsy to confirm if they have the disease. Three out of four
:17:42. > :17:47.patients with abnormal PSA tests do not actually have prostate cancer.
:17:47. > :17:52.Scientists from Bristol's two universities have collaborated to
:17:52. > :17:57.produce his own day read-out that has proved far more reliable.
:17:57. > :18:02.If you have a high PSA result and then a biopsy, only 30% of those
:18:02. > :18:07.cases will the patient have prostate cancer. They have then
:18:07. > :18:14.gone through this painful procedure unnecessarily. So it is a very poor
:18:14. > :18:22.test. Our results so far have been somewhere between 75 and 80%
:18:22. > :18:26.correct. We are now applying for funding to support to -- to launch
:18:26. > :18:32.this nationally and prove its utility so that we can move to
:18:32. > :18:36.routine practice used. It was because of an early diagnosis for
:18:36. > :18:43.aggressive cancer that Bob Salter from Wiltshire is alive today.
:18:43. > :18:48.went on a course of drug treatment which preserved my bladder. Luckily,
:18:48. > :18:53.because of the early diagnosis. results of the trial are
:18:53. > :19:00.preliminary, but more funds need to be raised to carry out full
:19:00. > :19:04.clinical tests. If you have any of those symptoms,
:19:04. > :19:08.why not pop and see the doctor. Teenage pregnancy rates in Bristol
:19:08. > :19:13.have fallen for a second consecutive year according to the
:19:13. > :19:20.NHS. There has a 16% reduction which is double the fall across the
:19:20. > :19:25.UK. Early intervention work is being heralded as a success.
:19:25. > :19:29.These are exciting times for Swindon Town fans, aren't they?
:19:29. > :19:32.Tickets for their Wembley appearance went on sale today.
:19:32. > :19:38.Tonight they have a chance to go four points clear at the top of
:19:38. > :19:42.League Two. They played Burton at the County Ground. David is there.
:19:42. > :19:48.This really is one of the most fantastic runs in the club's
:19:48. > :19:54.history. Their night consecutive victory came on Saturday. That was
:19:54. > :19:59.a club record. You have to go back to 1913 season to get 10 victories
:19:59. > :20:07.in a row when they used to play. That is for the statisticians, what
:20:07. > :20:11.their fans think who are coming here tonight buoyed by the success,
:20:11. > :20:16.it is well Swindon remain in the top three automatic promotion
:20:16. > :20:20.places for the rest of the season. Ever since I have been coming they
:20:20. > :20:25.have been winning so I will keep coming. I think it is an excellent
:20:25. > :20:34.season. We are playing really well, really entertaining. Football is
:20:34. > :20:39.really good. Great improvement. Paolo Di Canio has changed the team
:20:39. > :20:45.completely. Unbelievable. The style is brilliant. I do think Swindon
:20:45. > :20:50.will be promoted this season. Well, when tonight would take
:20:50. > :20:54.Swindon four points clear. As you say, clear of their nearest rivals
:20:54. > :21:00.Cheltenham Town who are also having a successful season. It would also
:21:00. > :21:05.open up a gap of eight points between Swindon and 4th spot where
:21:05. > :21:08.they would miss out on promotion and have to go into the play-off.
:21:08. > :21:12.Swindon's 9th win came on Saturday with a victory over Accrington
:21:12. > :21:18.Stanley, but the manager was not impressed with the second half
:21:18. > :21:22.performance. I hope they can understand it was
:21:22. > :21:27.absolutely wrong and prepare the game for Tuesday in the best way
:21:27. > :21:33.because Tuesday, Forshaw, can be a very crucial day because we play
:21:33. > :21:38.many other clubs that don't play. If we win we can extend their gap
:21:38. > :21:44.between us on the 4th place. Joining me now is a lifelong
:21:44. > :21:49.Swindon fan. Dave, how good is it a have such a successful run? It is
:21:49. > :21:57.brilliant. Especially after relegation last year. I feel that
:21:57. > :22:03.our manager has gone a long, long way into getting as here. We we
:22:03. > :22:08.have done well. I think he has done brilliant. Were you one of the
:22:09. > :22:14.doubters when he came in? I never doubted him, but I was a little bit
:22:14. > :22:20.dubious as to whether he had enough knowledge about the Second Division.
:22:20. > :22:25.He has proved to us all that he does a thorough job, 100%.
:22:25. > :22:29.Absolutely brilliant. Well enjoy tonight and the rest of the season,
:22:29. > :22:34.Dave. One brief item from the, three Forest Green Rovers players
:22:34. > :22:42.have a night ahead of them, the chance to represent their country
:22:42. > :22:47.playing for England C squad in Lancashire. Jamie Turley and Edward
:22:47. > :22:51.Oshodi are in the squad along with Kieron Forbes. The Games is the
:22:52. > :22:56.best of England semi-professionals take on their Italian counterparts.
:22:56. > :23:06.Commentary on this game tonight on BBC Swindon and we will have the
:23:06. > :23:12.goals in our late bulletin at 10:25pm.
:23:12. > :23:18.Talking about the 1913, 1914 season, I just remember it, I think.
:23:18. > :23:24.It is 29th February tomorrow and for people born on this day,
:23:24. > :23:30.birthdays only come round once every four years. Spare a thought
:23:30. > :23:34.for this bad from Breaston he woke to find that his son has had more
:23:34. > :23:38.birthdays than he had. Football in the park, a fine way
:23:38. > :23:44.for father and son to spend time together. For the Clark family,
:23:44. > :23:49.this week is a special time. Having a better game is Seamus,
:23:49. > :23:57.born on 20th February 2001. He celebrates his 11th birthday today
:23:57. > :24:04.while his dad James was born on 29th February 1968, so his 11th
:24:04. > :24:08.actual birthday is tomorrow. Because he was born on a leap year
:24:08. > :24:17.and he only gets a birthday every four years and I was born on the 28,
:24:17. > :24:21.so somehow I managed to catch up. I was 10 when he was 10, but then we
:24:21. > :24:27.figured out that I'm going to be a day older than him which is pretty
:24:27. > :24:33.cool. I can cost him around. What have you got in store for a dad
:24:33. > :24:41.then? Tidying up my room. I can't believe he expects me to clear this
:24:41. > :24:49.up. Make my food and drinks. Right, where are the frying pans? Dad,
:24:49. > :24:54.they are in their! Technically now I have to take it on the chin. What
:24:54. > :25:00.ever he says goes, unfortunately. I haven't got a leg to stand on
:25:00. > :25:05.because legally are will be younger. Perhaps not legally, but as he saw
:25:05. > :25:11.his 11th birthday first, for one day, the word of Seamus is very
:25:11. > :25:16.much the law. They both look young at heart,
:25:16. > :25:20.which is nice. If it is your birthday tomorrow, happy birthday.
:25:20. > :25:24.I hope you get for cakes. And now I hope you get for cakes. And now
:25:24. > :25:31.the weather. The weather is stuck in a theme at
:25:31. > :25:37.the moment. Abetted chance tomorrow at sing brighter weather appear
:25:37. > :25:43.more widely. It will be another dry and mild date, more mild than today.
:25:43. > :25:48.You may wonder where winter has retreated to, it has certainly
:25:48. > :25:55.moved towards Turkey today. Western Europe remaining dry and
:25:55. > :26:00.comparatively fine. The reason for that being this high pressure which
:26:00. > :26:05.will migrate over northern France during the next 24 hours. That will
:26:05. > :26:09.have a profound effect on things here because as the wins back more
:26:09. > :26:13.to us so than the direction, we will import try Air heir to the
:26:13. > :26:18.near Continent. That will whittle away some of the cloud cover and as
:26:18. > :26:22.a consequence, a brighter day we are expecting across parts of the
:26:22. > :26:26.West Country. It has been anything but that today. There have been
:26:27. > :26:32.some brighter spells up into Bristol, but for the most part it
:26:32. > :26:39.is a case of low cloud around and hill fog. Some fog at lower levels
:26:39. > :26:44.as well. Dorset in particular and parts of Wiltshire. Temperatures
:26:44. > :26:50.certainly not going to need the central heating on tonight. 7-9
:26:50. > :26:58.Celsius. Not dissimilar to today. Tomorrow is murky and gloomy at the
:26:58. > :27:04.start, fog persistent at the start. As a day wears on, the cloud lifts
:27:04. > :27:08.and there should be a fair number of our district so brightening up
:27:08. > :27:13.into the afternoon. Wind it back down to a more southerly quarter.
:27:13. > :27:20.All in all, a pleasant afternoon for a good deal of us. Temperatures
:27:20. > :27:26.will reflect that. A little bit less stuck under the cloud. A
:27:26. > :27:28.similar competition of cloud verses Sun on Thursday. Friday more cloud