:00:12. > :00:16.The headlines this evening: A would-be suicide bomber from
:00:16. > :00:19.Gloucester is freed from prison. Saajid Badat planned to blow up an
:00:19. > :00:22.aeroplane, now it's emerged he's done a deal to have his sentence
:00:22. > :00:26.cut. The man who saw through the biggest
:00:26. > :00:30.cuts in decades steps down as leader of Somerset Council.
:00:30. > :00:40.Also tonight: Face to face - the Wiltshire man who wants a doctor to
:00:40. > :00:41.
:00:41. > :00:46.end his life and the law lord who won't let him. There has to be a
:00:46. > :00:50.line somewhere, and we believe that the line should be between you
:00:50. > :00:55.taking your own life and that somebody killing you. We do not
:00:55. > :00:57.think, that should be .(TRM), And from the very highs to the
:00:57. > :01:05.lowest lows, how our trainers respond to the Grand National
:01:05. > :01:09.Good Evening. A man from Gloucester, who was jailed for plotting to blow
:01:09. > :01:13.up an aeroplane, has been a free man for the last two years. Saajid
:01:13. > :01:16.Badat was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2005, but today it was
:01:16. > :01:26.revealed that he did a deal with the authorities that saw his
:01:26. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:38.sentence cut and his early release It is November 27th, at 2003. The
:01:38. > :01:44.heart of Gloucester's Muslim community. It has been raided by
:01:44. > :01:48.the anti-terrorism squad. People cannot believe that Saajid Badat,
:01:48. > :01:53.educated in a respected grammar school, could be mixed up with Al-
:01:53. > :01:58.Qaeda. But he had a dark secret life. He had dropped out of
:01:58. > :02:03.university. He had started in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he
:02:04. > :02:09.came under influence of terrorists. In 2001, he was in training camps
:02:10. > :02:14.in Afghanistan. We know he was given explosives, and that his task
:02:14. > :02:19.was to bring down an aircraft between Europe and the United
:02:19. > :02:25.States. After the terror attacks in 2001, he returned to Britain after
:02:25. > :02:29.lying to get the passport. Inside his she was a bomb. He had tickets
:02:29. > :02:34.booked to fly from Manchester to Amsterdam. His planned to detonate
:02:34. > :02:39.the bomb on a flight on the US, killing himself and all those on
:02:39. > :02:43.board. But on December 17th, he pulled out of the plot. His co-
:02:43. > :02:48.conspirator it was overpowered by terrified passengers as he
:02:48. > :02:53.attempted to blow himself up using an identical device. But Saajid
:02:53. > :02:58.Badat was tracked down and arrested in Gloucester. He pleaded guilty to
:02:58. > :03:03.conspiracy to block an airliner, and jailed for 13 years. He was
:03:03. > :03:12.given credit for his guilty plea and the turning his back on
:03:12. > :03:16.terrorism. Steve is with us now. What has happened here? The bottom
:03:16. > :03:21.line is that Saajid Badat had become the first convicted
:03:21. > :03:26.terrorist to do a deal with the British. He has traded in his
:03:26. > :03:29.knowledge of a terrorist network in return for a reduction in his
:03:29. > :03:33.sentence. The Crown Prosecution Service said he spoke freely, but
:03:33. > :03:39.they are saying the decision was not taken lightly. This said it was
:03:39. > :03:44.taken in the interests of international justice. What has he
:03:44. > :03:50.told the security services? He has been speaking to Scotland Yard and
:03:50. > :03:55.the FBI, while imprisoned in the UK. The information has been described
:03:55. > :04:01.as overwhelmingly important. He is in the United States this week,
:04:01. > :04:06.where he is appearing as a prosecution witness in the trial of
:04:06. > :04:13.an Al-Qaeda opera to have accused of blowing up the New York subway.
:04:13. > :04:20.What about his future? We were not be seeing him in Gloucester. There
:04:20. > :04:27.has been a news blackout since 2009 on this. The security services will
:04:27. > :04:29.give him a new identity, and keep an important intelligent asset
:04:29. > :04:31.alive. The celebrations continued all
:04:31. > :04:34.weekend in the Somerset village of Ditcheat. Neptune Collenges,
:04:34. > :04:38.trained by Paul Nicholls, had won the Grand National, the only major
:04:38. > :04:41.prize in the sport to have eluded him. But North of Cheltenham, the
:04:41. > :04:43.stables of rival trainer Jonjo O'Neill have been in mourning after
:04:43. > :04:48.Gold Cup winner Synchronised was put down after falling in
:04:48. > :04:51.Saturday's race. His death and that of another horse has prompted
:04:51. > :04:56.another review of safety and calls from some for the race to be
:04:56. > :05:06.radically altered. Well, David Passmore is at the stable of
:05:06. > :05:09.
:05:09. > :05:16.triumphant trainer Paul Nicholls and joins us now. So many great
:05:16. > :05:21.horses have been trained here. But now, the name of Neptune Collenges
:05:21. > :05:27.can be added to that list. He has given Paul Nicholls the one Trophy
:05:27. > :05:37.missing from his cabinet. Many congratulations. What does it mean?
:05:37. > :05:39.
:05:39. > :05:44.It is fantastic. It is the people's race. It is the world's greatest
:05:44. > :05:53.steeplechase. This horse is brilliant. Did you think he had it
:05:53. > :06:00.in him? He had a lot of class. He showed his class, came through on
:06:00. > :06:10.the day. He ran very well in the trial. With our record, we did not
:06:10. > :06:14.
:06:14. > :06:18.believe it, but he ran a big race. Sadness and disappointment as well.
:06:18. > :06:25.Synchronised, one of two horses, had to be put down after Saturday's
:06:25. > :06:31.race. This was Synchronised a month ago.
:06:31. > :06:36.But today, the stables and trainer were still too upset to speak about
:06:36. > :06:41.the loss of a horse in Saturday's's Grand National. Synchronised was
:06:41. > :06:48.amongst the favourites, but had looked jittery before the race. He
:06:48. > :06:54.unseated his jockey. And then, he jumped at the sixth fence, and
:06:54. > :06:59.stumbled and fell. And Synchronised is down. This year's race was the
:06:59. > :07:04.first to be run since a safety review, leading to changes to
:07:04. > :07:11.fences. But the RSPCA is still urging for further action. Live has
:07:11. > :07:16.risk, but human beings take whether -- choose whether to take that risk.
:07:16. > :07:21.Animals do not have a risk. Let us cut the number of horses in the
:07:21. > :07:25.Grand National, and letters but horse safety first and foremost.
:07:25. > :07:31.The death of two horses overshadowed one of the greatest
:07:31. > :07:36.pinnaces the National has ever seen. When Neptune Collenges was finally
:07:36. > :07:44.confirmed as the winner, there was no hiding Paul Nicholls's delight
:07:44. > :07:48.in securing his first Grand National title. In the 2012 Grand
:07:48. > :07:58.National... But as the walls's name was being added to the winner's
:07:58. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:05.board, questions being asked about the fatalities.
:08:05. > :08:15.You have been vocal about the criticism of the race. What are
:08:15. > :08:15.
:08:15. > :08:20.your views this evening? I was not intending to be vocal. In a lot of
:08:20. > :08:24.ways, I feel it is sad he won a wonderful race, and we come back
:08:24. > :08:30.here looking forward to good headlines, and yet they are on
:08:30. > :08:39.headlines. You sometimes pop -- wonder if it was all worth it.
:08:39. > :08:43.Awfully sad they lost Synchronised. In any race, there is a risk.
:08:43. > :08:49.Everybody watches, but sit and follows it, and knows there is a
:08:49. > :08:54.risk. No matter how hard we try to make things safer, it is the fact
:08:54. > :09:01.of life. Has there been an over- reaction? It always is, every year.
:09:01. > :09:09.The media build that up. When something goes wrong, or they want
:09:09. > :09:13.to do is laggard of. It is over- reacting. The RSPCA are concerned,
:09:13. > :09:20.and quite right as well. But you have got to take a balanced view on
:09:20. > :09:29.everything. Congratulations. Another trophy to the Paul Nicholls
:09:29. > :09:31.trophy cabinet. It's official - we're in drought.
:09:31. > :09:34.Last month, parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire had
:09:34. > :09:37.water restrictions imposed, but now the rest of the West is affected
:09:37. > :09:40.too. Unless you're a Thames Water customer, though, you won't have a
:09:40. > :09:44.hosepipe ban. Instead, what's been declared is an environmental
:09:44. > :09:53.drought. Sarah-Jane Bungay reports on the effect that's having on the
:09:53. > :09:58.West's landscape and wildlife. These wetlands are not as soggy as
:09:58. > :10:02.the birds hoping to feed and breed here would like. It isn't
:10:02. > :10:09.internationally important habitat for wading birds, and there is
:10:09. > :10:13.water on the reserve but not enough. This is how the area should look.
:10:13. > :10:19.Probably a third of the reserve, we will not keep as wet as we would
:10:19. > :10:22.like. We have got areas where we can actually pump water to
:10:22. > :10:27.artificially maintain the levels there. This is a second year we
:10:27. > :10:35.have had to embark on those measures,. It is a prime breeding
:10:35. > :10:41.time for lapwings and redshanks. the moment, it is just one solitary
:10:41. > :10:45.male. This river is getting a helping hand. Wessex Water are
:10:45. > :10:50.topping up the levels and easing conditions for fish and wildlife.
:10:50. > :10:54.Pumping water and bringing it to the surface and putting it into the
:10:54. > :11:01.river, and make sure we are supporting it the wildlife in the
:11:01. > :11:07.river, and supporting agriculture. To me, the water levels looks like
:11:07. > :11:13.it is associated with high supper - - high-summer, for example July or
:11:13. > :11:16.August. But here we are, in the middle of April. Somerset wildlife
:11:16. > :11:20.enthusiast and TV presenter, Michael, is doing his bit to
:11:20. > :11:26.conserve water. He is painting a more positive picture of how what
:11:26. > :11:33.level cope. Wildlife has been coping with their excessive rain,
:11:33. > :11:39.droughts, it for centuries, millennia. It will always bounce
:11:39. > :11:44.back. Long-term, it does not have any effect whatsoever. It is a fine
:11:44. > :11:48.balance, meeting the water needs of people, agriculture, the
:11:48. > :11:55.environment and businesses. And especially challenging when the
:11:55. > :11:58.valuable commodity everyone needs is the one in short supply.
:11:58. > :12:01.We will find out if there is rain on the way it
:12:01. > :12:03.This is Monday's Points West with Alex and Will. It's good to have
:12:03. > :12:07.you with us. Coming up in tonight's programme:
:12:07. > :12:09.From battlefield to hospital ward - we meet the nurse who splits her
:12:09. > :12:12.time between Afghanistan and Swindon.
:12:12. > :12:21.And the young man who took this double decker bus on a joyride
:12:21. > :12:27.A man's been charged in connection with four knifepoint robberies in
:12:27. > :12:32.Wiltshire. Two garages, one in Swindon and one in Royal Wootton
:12:32. > :12:35.Bassett, were targeted two weeks ago. Then, over the Easter weekend,
:12:35. > :12:38.staff at two shops in Swindon were threatened. 18-year-old Joseph
:12:38. > :12:43.Kingsley appeared in court today charged in connection with the
:12:43. > :12:46.incidents. As part of their enquiries, the police have also
:12:46. > :12:56.released an image of three men they'd like the public's help to
:12:56. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:00.identify. The leader of Somerset County
:13:00. > :13:03.Council has announced within the last hour that he's to leave the
:13:03. > :13:06.job. Conservative Ken Maddock is stepping down so he can stand for
:13:06. > :13:10.election as one of the country's new Police Commissioners. Well, to
:13:10. > :13:13.tell us more, we can go live to County Hall in Taunton and talk to
:13:13. > :13:15.our Somerset correspondent, Clinton Rogers. This has come as a bit of a
:13:16. > :13:20.surprise, hasn't it? Shock, more like. A Conservative meeting is
:13:20. > :13:25.just finishing here, at which he has delivered the news to his
:13:25. > :13:31.colleagues. He has been leading here since the Conservatives took
:13:31. > :13:37.control back in 2009, but today will be his last day. He has put
:13:37. > :13:41.his hat into the ring. He wants to be the Conservative Party candidate
:13:41. > :13:45.of the Police Commissioner. Earlier today, I asked him whether part of
:13:45. > :13:55.the reason for giving up this job is that he was finding the going a
:13:55. > :13:55.
:13:55. > :14:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds
:14:35. > :14:39.He did not need to resign as leader of the County Council to put his
:14:39. > :14:44.name forward, but told me he felt he needed to do that to give it his
:14:44. > :14:51.best shot. The first thing he needs to do is convince the Conservative
:14:51. > :14:56.Party he is their chosen candidate. He would be a pretty good favourite
:14:56. > :15:03.for that job. Is he the right Manfred? That is a question I put
:15:03. > :15:07.to one Somerset MP. An interesting choice. I had no idea. I do not
:15:07. > :15:13.know and love will come out on behalf of the Conservatives. I am
:15:13. > :15:19.sure there will be one or two independence. We will see what
:15:19. > :15:29.happens. Interesting choice. He has been leader of the council, and
:15:29. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:06.He soon moved on to a bigger chamber. He took charge of the
:16:06. > :16:13.Conservatives and of the council, and set about making the biggest
:16:13. > :16:20.cuts in decades. We are going to stop these cuts! He faced protest
:16:20. > :16:28.as he arrived for the meeting which would avoid hundreds of
:16:28. > :16:37.redundancies. This is completely unprecedented. Perhaps his hardest
:16:37. > :16:41.battle was over libraries. He was never of Brega facing his opponents.
:16:41. > :16:47.If you could find more efficiencies for us, that would be brilliant.
:16:47. > :16:57.But the courts killed off his cuts, and the revolution will be left to
:16:57. > :17:02.
:17:02. > :17:07.There are few people will not be sad to see him go. What is your
:17:07. > :17:12.view of his years? Well, privatisation, it cost millions,
:17:12. > :17:21.job losses which cost members and their families' income. Staff
:17:21. > :17:27.morale is at rock bottom. But he had to do it? Sorry, we have a
:17:27. > :17:35.problem with the link. I am sure we can rejoin him. We lost due for a
:17:35. > :17:43.moment. Sorry for a technical glitches. Sorry, we had a few
:17:43. > :17:47.problems. A difficult job he had to do. It is about his policies. We
:17:47. > :17:51.would like to see a change in direction well we can work with the
:17:51. > :17:55.council to improve services rather than selling them off to private
:17:55. > :18:00.companies for cheaper. The new man or woman will takeover, what are
:18:00. > :18:06.you hoping for? Constructive dialogue and better services for
:18:06. > :18:09.our members and the residents of Somerset. OK, thank you. The
:18:09. > :18:12.timescale, the Conservatives would choose the new candidate now. They
:18:12. > :18:16.should be in place by the middle of May.
:18:16. > :18:21.A Wiltshire man who is fighting for the right to be legally killed by a
:18:21. > :18:23.doctor says the Commission on assisted dying has let him down.
:18:23. > :18:29.Tony Nicklinson has locked in syndrome which means he is unable
:18:29. > :18:32.to move, and can only talk with the help of a special computer. Today
:18:32. > :18:42.he challenged the man who led the commission as the two came face to
:18:42. > :18:43.
:18:43. > :18:50.face in Tony's home in Melksham. Hello, I have locked-in syndrome.
:18:50. > :18:54.Recently I contributed to a report about assisted dying. It was
:18:54. > :19:00.decided terminally ill people should die with dignity but it
:19:00. > :19:06.cannot condone a doctor killing me. I will ask him why. Because
:19:06. > :19:13.allowing in any circumstances one person to kill another would be a
:19:13. > :19:19.massive change in the moral and practical view that the law takes
:19:19. > :19:23.about taking other people's lives. You can take your own life, the
:19:23. > :19:26.commission says you can be assisted but you should never be in a
:19:26. > :19:34.position where there is a lawful means of being killed by someone
:19:34. > :19:38.else. Do you think the law should leave me to suffer? It is not
:19:38. > :19:43.because of any feelings the Law Commission has towards you or
:19:43. > :19:47.people in your position, it is because of the ramifications. I
:19:47. > :19:53.understand why you take a different view but it would be too dangerous
:19:53. > :20:00.to allow. What you think should happen to people in my position?
:20:00. > :20:06.you win your legal case, and I understand you are saying to the
:20:06. > :20:11.courts, tell me whether or not it would be lawful in some
:20:11. > :20:16.circumstances for somebody to take your life. As opposed to you being
:20:16. > :20:23.assisted to commit suicide. It is for the courts to decide what view
:20:23. > :20:27.they take but my own view is if they said it would be possible for
:20:27. > :20:33.someone to take your life, as opposed to you committing suicide,
:20:33. > :20:37.there would be a step too far. satisfied Lord Falconer has
:20:37. > :20:42.answered my questions and we must agree to differ on the questions of
:20:42. > :20:47.someone killing another. He sees dangers were I do not. There are
:20:47. > :20:53.many grey areas which need clarification. Powerful and
:20:53. > :20:56.articulate as he is, I still think the line has to be drawn were you
:20:56. > :21:00.take your own life rather than somebody killing you. Because
:21:00. > :21:05.someone killing you would be allowing that to be in accordance
:21:05. > :21:09.with the law, it's too dangerous. This is a story we will follow on
:21:09. > :21:12.Points West. A young man from Wiltshire explains why he took a
:21:12. > :21:15.double decker bus on a joyride in a new BBC documentary tonight. Called
:21:15. > :21:19."Our Crime", Sam Hobson from Amesbury is among four young
:21:19. > :21:23.drivers to tell his tale. The 21 year old was drunk when he stole
:21:23. > :21:31.the bus and it ended with serious consequences. As Ali Vowles has
:21:31. > :21:37.been finding out, it started as just a lark on a cold night.
:21:37. > :21:41.We went out and there was no one about. It was dead that night. And
:21:41. > :21:48.we were wandering around and it was quite cold outside. We thought we
:21:48. > :21:52.would sit on the bus and decide what to do. I saw the key and
:21:52. > :21:55.started driving. And that was the start of the 25 minute hair-raising
:21:55. > :22:03.ride around Amesbury in the early hours of the morning in June two
:22:03. > :22:06.years ago. Take this round about the wrong way round. Along with two
:22:06. > :22:14.teenage girls, who also took to the wheel, Sam was videoing the whole
:22:14. > :22:23.thing on his mobile phone. Keep going straight ahead and we were
:22:23. > :22:28.dumb hit. No, outside your mum's house! I said I heard a buses come
:22:28. > :22:34.up where we live and I hope it wasn't any of you. It was three
:22:34. > :22:38.people. I asked if he was our last night and he said he was in bed.
:22:38. > :22:42.think she knew, the way I was talking on the phone. A thing she
:22:42. > :22:45.knew deep down. And in fact the whole world knew when the video
:22:45. > :22:48.ended up on YouTube. The frightening ride ended in misery.
:22:48. > :22:51.Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to the bus and two cars.
:22:51. > :22:56.Luckily no one was injured. Sam was eventually sentenced to six months
:22:56. > :23:04.in jail. And you can see more of the stories behind the crimes
:23:04. > :23:07.tonight on BBC3 at 9 o clock. Lord Beaverbrook, the patron of RAF
:23:07. > :23:13.reservists, has told Points West the air force can't now function at
:23:14. > :23:16.full strength without the help of part-timers. His comments came as
:23:16. > :23:21.four hundred RAF reservists spent this weekend training on Salisbury
:23:21. > :23:27.Plain in preparation for active service on the front line. Scott
:23:27. > :23:33.Ellis was with them. Saving lives on the front line in
:23:33. > :23:43.Afghanistan. A role doctors and nurses from the NHS play a critical
:23:43. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:53.part. And it's here on Salisbury Plain where the training's done.
:23:53. > :23:56.Let's get you on to the bed. This is a mock-up. A chance for Cheryl
:23:56. > :24:01.Kesler to hone her battlefield medical skills. The day job is
:24:01. > :24:07.intensive care at Swindon's Great Western hospital. I wanted to take
:24:07. > :24:12.nursing to a different environment, my last tour in the summer, I was
:24:12. > :24:18.moving patients within theatre and strategic. It was a very
:24:18. > :24:21.challenging time. But I still loved every minute. Cheryl was among 400
:24:22. > :24:24.RAF reservists training in Wiltshire this weekend. The biggest
:24:25. > :24:32.such deployment there has ever been. A clear sign that front line
:24:32. > :24:36.operations now rely heavily on civilian back up. We can't afford
:24:36. > :24:41.the defence of this nation that we would like so we have to find ways
:24:41. > :24:46.of maintaining out that and reducing costs. With the reservists
:24:46. > :24:50.it is a key way of achieving that at that -- that aim.
:24:50. > :24:55.The figures bear that out. Full time RAF staff are being cut by six
:24:55. > :24:58.thousand. At a time when the number of reservists is due to double. No
:24:58. > :25:07.day off to recover for Cheryl today. She's back in Intensive care in
:25:07. > :25:12.Swindon. You have the challenging role of being out in the field on
:25:12. > :25:18.Salisbury Plain, freezing cold and he we are today. It is two
:25:18. > :25:23.different worlds, it is challenging in both environments, working for
:25:23. > :25:29.the NHS and working with the air force. The reserves is a rare
:25:29. > :25:34.growth area for the military. One that Cheryl's proud to be a part of.
:25:34. > :25:40.We will turn our attentions to the weather now. We were talking about
:25:40. > :25:47.drought but there is rain on the way. Yes, a fair bit although it
:25:47. > :25:53.will not alleviate longer term problems with the drought. Some
:25:53. > :25:58.useful rain. Tomorrow, sets the scene for the rest of the week.
:25:58. > :26:02.Only rain replaced by sunny spells. If we run through the week, low-
:26:02. > :26:10.pressure developing being driven on eight-strong the jet stream.
:26:10. > :26:15.Spilling down on Wednesday sitting over us and the wind will be slack.
:26:16. > :26:22.Heavy slow-moving downpours and on Thursday the low migrates. Heavy
:26:23. > :26:28.showers becoming a more flabby feature by the tail end of the week.
:26:28. > :26:34.Further showers and so through the rest of this evening the rain is
:26:34. > :26:39.some way off. Late evening and the outbreaks will arrive in the West
:26:39. > :26:43.Somerset and spreading further in. Somerset and spreading further in.
:26:43. > :26:47.A cold front comes in in the morning and we get heavy rainfall
:26:47. > :26:55.spreading further east and clearing out of Wiltshire around the start
:26:55. > :27:00.of the morning rush-hour. Gusts of 45 miles an hour. Temperatures
:27:00. > :27:10.around fibre six else's. Tomorrow morning, the raid well clear, dry
:27:10. > :27:11.
:27:11. > :27:17.and bright weather. The showers pack in from the West, fairly quick
:27:17. > :27:24.moving on the brisk flow. Some sunny spells, some showers heavy.
:27:24. > :27:30.In the bright spells, temperatures up to as high as 13 Celsius. There
:27:30. > :27:35.will be heavy showers around by Wednesday. Thank you very much.