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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
A sportsman is snookered. James Points West. Our headlines tonight: | :00:17. | :00:34. | |
—— Stephen Lee. A I am making a public statement later on. I am | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
The technician killed while working in a boiler room — an inquest finds | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
Firefighters strike over pensions — are they getting a good or bad | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
deal? And a sweet moment for the developers as plans for a housing | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. He pulled faces and groaned when he missed shots, but | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
today the Wiltshire snooker player Stephen Lee was banned for 12 years | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
after being found of guilty of fixing matches. It's been described | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
as the worst case of corruption fixing matches. It's been described | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
But the former world number five from Trowbridge has told Points | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
"totally innocent". The ban means West he will appeal, saying he's | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
"totally innocent". The ban means birthday. Scott Ellis reports. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Stephen he's reaction today at home to the longest ban the game has | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
ever seen. Devastated. I'm totally innocent and I will make a public | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
lunchtime. The 38—year—old father of four then went indoors to plot | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
his appeal and sell his story —— story to a new paper. This is one | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
of seven matches he has been found guilty of fixing. The 2009 World | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
Championships. Certainly enough COMMENTATOR: That will be very | :02:02. | :02:18. | |
The sports governing body said he lost frames or matches deliberately, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
enabling three groups of gamblers to net £100,000. The QC at the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
This afternoon, he re—emerged to again protest his innocence and | :02:27. | :02:47. | |
This afternoon, he re—emerged to say he will fight the 12 year ban | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
and last week's guilty verdict. If I had a law yet in their it would | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
completely. How this has happened, I don't believe it. I have for | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
young children. It is a rate —— outrageous. The sports governing | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
body called for a life long banned. important deterrent. This is where | :03:11. | :03:23. | |
Trowbridge snooker club run partly Without a successful appeal, Steven | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
Ley agrees his appeal is over. My dad could beat me at 50. He would | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
have a better chance than I would. As well as a 12 year banned, he | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
have a better chance than I would. fined £40,000. He says he will | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
A man from Bristol, who admitted driving a gang to blow up a cash | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
machine in Hampshire, has been sentenced to three—and—a—half years | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
in prison. A huge explosion was caused after gases were piped into | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
the cash machine. Winchester Crown Court heard three men seen on CCTV | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
scooping up £20 notes have not been identified. Damien Limb, who is | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
scooping up £20 notes have not been and from Bristol, pleaded guilty to | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
Masked men, who may have been armed, are on the run after carrying out a | :04:18. | :04:30. | |
robbery in Cheltenham. The two men, wearing balaclavas, walked in to a | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
They stole money before escaping. A police helicopter has been used | :04:32. | :04:59. | |
A family from Somerset have spoken of their pain and loss following | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
the death of a maintenance worker 67—year—old Peter James was part of | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
a team working in a boiler room 67—year—old Peter James was part of | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
the Cantelo Nurseries near Taunton Today, a jury at the inquest into | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
his death found there'd been poor preparation and a lack of training | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
and supervision of the workers. The family of Peter James left the | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
answers. Mr James, a maintenance racked with grief but now with some | :05:33. | :05:33. | |
answers. Mr James, a maintenance engineer, suffered serious head | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
injuries in an explosion in May Nurseries, near Taunton, where they | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
grow peppers for supermarkets. He was part of a team inspecting water | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
tanks in the boiler room. A metal inspection plate blew off one of | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
the pressurised tanks and four workers were knocked to the floor. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Peter James was critically injured contribute to the death of Peter | :05:54. | :06:05. | |
James. They said there was a lack of training for the task, poor | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
supervision and poor preparation — no written risk assessment had been | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
It emerged during the inquest that Cantelo were in the process of | :06:17. | :06:32. | |
changing the water system from one pressurised by air to one with | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
advisers were in the room when the explosion happened and those there | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
had little or no knowledge of how it worked. The family of Peter | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
James were too upset to speak after the inquest but they did give us a | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
statement where they said, the last few days have been difficult and | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
grandad and we all miss him. They few days have been difficult and | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
grandad and we all miss him. They said they felt the welfare of the | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
lessons have been learnt and that Cantelo Produce was put above the | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
lessons have been learnt and that "no other families will have to | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Cantelo Nurseries haven't commented but the Health and Safety Executive | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
Still to come: A Night to Remember for Swindon fans. We reflect on | :07:23. | :07:46. | |
Still to come: A Night to Remember survives what has been described as | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
strike today in a dispute with the Government over pensions. They're | :07:50. | :08:09. | |
government's plans to increase their retirement age from 55 to | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
government's plans to increase It lasted for four hours, during | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
which time there were no major In a moment, we'll be seeing how | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
management was poised to react in case of an emergency. First, our | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Somerset correspondent, Clinton Rogers, spent the day with one | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Breakfast in the Leslie household and the obvious talking point is | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
the strike. James Leslie is 43. He's been a fireman for 11 years | :08:37. | :08:49. | |
won't be able to draw his pension until he's 60. It is not what any | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
of a signed up for and I don't think it is safe. We believe they | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
completely support my husband. And the reasons for what he is doing | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
Twelve noon and firefighters in Bridgwater, in common with others | :09:10. | :09:21. | |
across the West, walk out. James, who was off duty this morning, | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
joins the picket line, youngest government insists the pension on | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
offer to firefighters is still the best in the public sector. The | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
I don't believe they have public wants 60—year—old firefighters | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
rescuing them. They understand our concerns. Sounds of support from | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
I don't like it because if anything was to happen, I feel they wouldn't | :09:53. | :10:06. | |
be there for us. The union says this is a shot across the bows of | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
government, but unless this is settled. Further strikes are at | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
colleagues will probably be talking The last time there was a national | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
Government's responsibility to provide emergency cover but today | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
it was down to individual fire authorities. We see how it Avon | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
walked out, this station here at Temple Back in Bristol, along with | :10:38. | :10:54. | |
all the other fire stations in the brigade area closed and were locked | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
up as part of a management plan brigade area closed and were locked | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
prevent picketing. As part of the six fire engines were positioned at | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
The appliances were driven by non— union and retained fire fighters. | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
It's halfway through the four—hour strike and so far the control room | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
here at Lansdown has had nothing ringing up to say that an alarm | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
here at Lansdown has had nothing gone off. But it was only burnt | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
The Avon fire authority had already freely admitted that it wouldn't | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
meet the eight—minute call—out time during the strike. The big fear | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
meet the eight—minute call—out time how would they cope if there was a | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
motorways. We can call in resources something put in place for National | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
resilience and should there be an emergency, we can recall members. | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
The brigade says that on an average week day between 12 and four, it | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
receives between five and 30 calls. brigade says the public responded | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
well to its appeal to take extra care. But what of the future? If | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
further strikes are called, we will adjust our contingency plans and | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
hopefully we will still guarantee the public that should they call | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
999, we will continue to respond. warning more strikes could follow. | :12:25. | :12:37. | |
As we've been hearing, the main reason for the strike is a row over | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
firefighters can retire on a full government changes would push that | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
On the new deal, a firefighter earning £29,000 a year would get a | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
pension of £19,000 at 60 with an additional state pension of more | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Thank you bow for joining us to discuss this. You have organised a | :12:58. | :13:16. | |
lot of pensions for people. Is there firefighters deal a good one | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
compare public sector pensions to the private sector, they are good | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
happening across the western world, governments can't afford to pay | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
pensions for such a long period governments can't afford to pay | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
time so people have to retire later. A pension is any good if you can | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
access it. This is —— this has intolerable point. The Government's | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
own research shows that two—thirds of staff will not be able to reach | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
firefighters will be left with no job and no pension because they | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
won't be able to meet the physical demands of the job. The government | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
needs to understand the physical demands of our job and we need a | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
pension to match that. Is that aim reasonable point to make? Most | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
people will have to go on to 60 reasonable point to make? Most | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
65. I can't argue whether firemen or fit or not. Across the whole | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
65. I can't argue whether firemen the country we are stuck in this | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
system. What the members have to do if they want to retire earlier is | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
save more to retire earlier. You can still retire at 55. If you save | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
money in the meantime, you could actually retire earlier. I think | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
the public understands. Members actually retire earlier. I think | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
the public told us today that they do understand and they do not want | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
running through fires and tried do understand and they do not want | :14:57. | :15:08. | |
That isn't just a ludicrous idea fighters and the public. That is | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
why we need a pension scheme that matches are occupation. A lot of | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
people would give their right arm for pensions your mentions are — my | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
your members are being offered. A pension is only a pension if you | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
can access it and that is what our firefighters working up to 60. But | :15:32. | :15:44. | |
they want to? They can retire at 55 now and that is because they can | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
reach the fitness standard up to fighting work is prevention. Surely | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
something could be worked out way you perhaps do more behind the | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
scenes? Back in 2006, a pension scheme was introduced that his | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
firefighters who couldn't pass a fitness test but these jobs have | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
now gone — backroom jobs. You would have to have a lump sum of over | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
£500,000 in the private sector to get anywhere near that pint —— | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
pension. Thank you both very much. Moving on to other news and the | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
nearby river will remain a mystery. George fought was last seen in | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Froome just before Christmas last year. Today it was said he had been | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
acting strangely and using cannabis and buying anti—depressant drugs | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
over the internet just before he died. A cause of death was not | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
A plan has been approved today which will see hundreds of homes | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
built on a former Cadbury site in Keynsham. Taylor Wimpey will now be | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
able to go ahead with the first It will include over 200 homes and | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
a redevelopment of the fries —— Say Keynsham and is likely to be | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
the first —— the chocolates at —— factory that it is known for. The | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
factory closed in 2007 to move production to Poland. Despite a | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
long battle, 500 workers lost their bought by Taylor Wimpey. Now the | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
site has got the thumbs—up. This toddler's group in the town seized | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
youngsters happy and interested toddler's group in the town seized | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
the mums and relatives had other ideas. We have enough houses. We | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
could do with a factory. It will be really good because there will be | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
more homes available. It worries me. infrastructure to cope with that | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
many new homes. This is the first bit to be built on and the first | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
thing the developers have to do bit to be built on and the first | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
work on the new Social Club. What to do with the old building? That | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
will be whether new primary—school will be and eventually a new care | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
home. Then there homes will be here on this fast green area. The place | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
is changing beyond all recognition with 2000 homes due to be built | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
is changing beyond all recognition the next 10 years. South of the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
centre and this new development brings another 700 home development. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Is this the right decision? It is a once in 100 th chance of improving | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Keynsham in a dynamic way, provided traffic issues are sorted at —— | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
The second — mapped the second permission and will see more homes. | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
An extensive flood defence scheme has been proposed and some old | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
factory buildings will be used for buildings. New homes may not bother | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
There was no "giant—killing" last night in the League Cup as Swindon | :19:22. | :19:43. | |
just came up short against Chelsea. Bristol City lost to Premier League | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
oppostion as well, beaten 2—0 at Southampton. Swindon's game was | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
watched by 15,000 fans, and Ali Chelsea at the County Ground. A | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
sell—out crowd grabbing the chance to see players they normally on | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
watch on the television. And they weren't disappointed. Chelsea sent | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
out a starting 11 that cost over £180 million. Fernando Torres cost | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
50 million of that — no chance he was going to miss a simple chance | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
finishing. Chelsea 2—0 up with a Swindon weren't overawed. Far from | :20:13. | :20:25. | |
it. Yasir Kasim raised hopes. And Dany N'Guessan raised the roof, | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
before spotting the offside flag. The Special One was starting to | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Swindon kept trying, but Chelsea stood firm. An encouraging night | :20:32. | :20:48. | |
all the same for the home fans. The Swindon did us proud. Any other | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
team would have conceded more. We showed more spirit and we showed | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
Some of the football was really good. But to have at Chelsea with | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
the players they have got, you have to be extra special on the night. | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
You play away against a team like that and they show what football is | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
about. I'm really happy because Bristol City were in the third | :21:24. | :21:40. | |
Southampton put them out. Gaston Ramirez showing a Premier League | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
touch. City have saved their best results for the cups this season. | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
Bobby Reid almost levelled it up. Southampton's second goal was hard | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
on City who must turn the positives from this into a first league win | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Cricket, and Somerset are well on their way to securing their place | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
After the second day of their match at Nottinghamshire, they've reached | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
cost five hundred million pounds, and in its short life has met a | :22:11. | :22:26. | |
hundred million people. I'm talking about the shopping centre — Cabot | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
It opened on this day in 2008 — right at the start of the recession. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Our business correspondent Dave Harvey has been looking back on | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Our business correspondent Dave Remember this. When they opened | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
Westcountry shopaholics couldn't wait. I will spend my life in here. | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
We have spent ridiculous amounts already. But what a time to open. | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
Those five years have been the worst five years in retail history. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Household names went to all as Britain tightened its belt. The | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
number of retailers who have gone bust over the last few years is | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
quite considerable. The fact that remarkable. Of course, they haven't | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
escaped completely unscathed as there are still some empty shops. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
This whole area was meant to be there are still some empty shops. | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
designer sofas and a Habitat shop. In the end a crash put Pat —— put | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
paid to the end —— that and any In the end a crash put Pat —— put | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
national chain opened up and they went to the wall earlier this year. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
What is interesting is what has worked. Golf. Analysts call it | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
Next door, get your eyebrows down and your nails sorted. You can't do | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
that on the internet, can you? Food, coffee is, a cinema all adds to | :24:06. | :24:18. | |
that on the internet, can you? Food, Celebrations were low—key. At least | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
partly because it has survived at other's expense. Independent shops | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
have suffered around the city, mostly in the peripheral areas. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
have suffered around the city, have seen the Independent clothing | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
shops and jewellers disappear. Happy birthday Cabot Circus and | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
I was off yesterday watching with horror how abysmally wrong the | :24:42. | :25:16. | |
expect the e—mails will be about rain because... The broad seam of | :25:16. | :25:31. | |
things is well set and that will be spells of showery rain and a fair | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
amount of dry weather. Temperatures will remain on the warm side. The | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
radar has been picking up on this rain drifting eastwards and south | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
of the M4 motorway. Some of the showers will follow one behind and | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
More of this scene rain... You saw how the rainfall was picking up | :25:53. | :26:26. | |
9 o'clock this evening, that will inspire some fog to form and some | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
of it could be dense by tomorrow. By early tomorrow morning, more | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
showers pitching in from the south— west but it will have been a mild | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
night. Tomorrow, at areas to the north are likely to start dry and | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
bright but there will always be north are likely to start dry and | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
fair bit of clout around. Rain lunchtime and early afternoon. Not | :26:54. | :27:09. | |
Warm tomorrow. Beyond that, there is a low pressure heading towards | :27:09. | :27:40. | |
Thank you. That's just about it from us tonight. I am back with | :27:40. | :27:46. |