:00:00. > :00:12.changes to grading and assessment. That is all from the BBC
:00:13. > :00:21.Good evening. Our headlines: The copper thieves taking extraordinary
:00:22. > :00:27.risks. They climb high voltage electricity pylons to strip the
:00:28. > :00:35.metal ` inches from 33,000 volts. The flat`hunters being conned out of
:00:36. > :00:36.?1000 on the promise of viewing exclusive properties that don't
:00:37. > :00:49.exist. Firefighters go on strike right now
:00:50. > :00:54.at the start of bonfire weekend And, 50 years ago, the Beatles
:00:55. > :01:06.concert in Cheltenham that officially launched Beatlemania
:01:07. > :01:16.Good evening. A seven`man gang will be going to jail after stealing live
:01:17. > :01:21.cables from electricity pylons in a Gloucestershire field. The men
:01:22. > :01:26.climbed up hundreds of feet near Frampton on Severn to cut down the
:01:27. > :01:31.wires. The body representing the energy companies says the thefts
:01:32. > :01:36.have become so extensive in recent years, it is adding pounds to our
:01:37. > :01:41.electricity bills. Uma Chohan on the left, and, in the
:01:42. > :01:46.middle, his brother Vijay. They d denied being scrap metal dealers or
:01:47. > :01:51.any involvment with the cable theft gang. Today, at Gloucester Crown
:01:52. > :01:59.Court, a jury decided otherwise The court heard that on the night 6 of
:02:00. > :02:07.September 2010 a police Sergeant spotted a van and car in a lay`by.
:02:08. > :02:13.The occupant said they had been out catching rabbits. When the cable
:02:14. > :02:19.threat was uncovered they were arrested. They have been making
:02:20. > :02:23.calls that night to a scrap metal ship in Cardiff. The judge has
:02:24. > :02:29.warned all seven defendants they will be going to prison. There were
:02:30. > :02:33.a series of cable thefts near Frampton on Severn in 2010.
:02:34. > :02:38.Nationally, repairing theft damage costs power companies ?60 million a
:02:39. > :02:44.year, a cost which is added to our electricity bills. In the last two
:02:45. > :02:49.years, 20 people have been killed by electrocution, trying to steal
:02:50. > :03:01.cables. But new laws regulating scrap metal dealers are deterring
:03:02. > :03:12.thieves. The scrap metal industry has begun to do what we said it
:03:13. > :03:18.would do, and that is clean its act up. We have seen as a result a
:03:19. > :03:22.considerable decline in the number of metal thefts across England and
:03:23. > :03:26.Wales. Tonight, Western Power Distribution says it's pleased with
:03:27. > :03:33.the guilty verdicts. The BBC has uncovered a scam where
:03:34. > :03:39.spacious and elegant flats are being advertised for rent in Bristol at
:03:40. > :03:43.knock down prices. The problem is, the deal is just too good to be
:03:44. > :03:48.true. Jack moved to Bristol to work at the
:03:49. > :03:54.BBC and thought he'd found his dream flat ` ?540 a month, bills included.
:03:55. > :03:59.Advertised on Gumtree, the landlady wouldn't give the exact address
:04:00. > :04:07.When she wanted more than ?1,00 up front, Jack got suspicious and
:04:08. > :04:15.pulled out. In a market like Bristol's, people could fall for
:04:16. > :04:22.this quite easily. It was quite clever. This flat is actually in
:04:23. > :04:30.Mayfair, for rent through legitimate agents at more than ?3,000 a month.
:04:31. > :04:35.The advert Jack had seen was a scam. It's not surprising he wanted this
:04:36. > :04:42.place. Despite an increase in the number of flats for rent in Bristol,
:04:43. > :04:54.demand still outstrips supply. It's very much a landlord's market, which
:04:55. > :05:07.brings its own problems. All these cost pressures on tenants are making
:05:08. > :05:17.it difficult for them to go to accredited agencies and some tenants
:05:18. > :05:25.may go on to online websites, where fees are lower, rents are there was
:05:26. > :05:33.the macro lower. The council does target rogue landlords through a
:05:34. > :05:38.licensing scheme, which they want to expand. They know that what Israeli
:05:39. > :05:43.needed in Bristol are new homes We have had a significant crash in the
:05:44. > :05:46.construction industry. Fewer properties are being built or
:05:47. > :05:52.converted. There will always be rogue landlords, sometimes rogue
:05:53. > :05:57.tenants. People need to be aware of these scams. All Jack can do is keep
:05:58. > :06:00.looking, and follow Gumtree's advice to always visit a flat before paying
:06:01. > :06:03.anything. The Government's controversial
:06:04. > :06:09.badger cull ended in Somerset today. The aim has been to kill 70% of the
:06:10. > :06:15.badger populations in the pilot areas as part of efforts to tackle
:06:16. > :06:20.bovine TB. The cull in Gloucestershire is due to continue
:06:21. > :06:26.into December. Firefighters across the West have
:06:27. > :06:35.just walked out on strike. Andrew Plant is in Bridgwater, where
:06:36. > :06:49.there's going to be a fireworks display later. This is a 20 foot
:06:50. > :06:58.effigy of Guy Fawkes. Setting this on fire will mark the start of the
:06:59. > :07:06.Carnival here. There have been recommendations here across the UK
:07:07. > :07:13.that people might have spoken their fireworks celebrations due to the
:07:14. > :07:20.strike going on until 11pm. They say they have been working on this for a
:07:21. > :07:24.year and they will not let it spoil their fun, and they have got their
:07:25. > :07:28.own precautions in place. When this bonfire and fireworks
:07:29. > :07:32.display begins to light up the skies around Downend later this evening,
:07:33. > :07:37.every fire station across the West will be closed and locked up. All
:07:38. > :07:41.our brigades have contingency plans. The appliances will be driven by
:07:42. > :07:50.nonunion and members of management. We will still be able to take 9 9
:07:51. > :08:04.calls and make a response, but that will be on a limited basis. This is
:08:05. > :08:09.not a dispute of our making. The overwhelming number of firefighters
:08:10. > :08:13.are union members and they're angry at the Government's decision to
:08:14. > :08:18.raise their retirement age to 6 , when many of them won't pass new
:08:19. > :08:23.fitness levels and so lose their pensions. The organisers of the
:08:24. > :08:28.Downend event say they have heeded the brigade's warning to take extra
:08:29. > :08:35.care. The strike is set to end at 11pm, and another one is planned for
:08:36. > :08:47.Monday morning. We have brought further precautions with regard to
:08:48. > :08:53.fire extinction is to stop. Rita is here from the Bridgwater
:08:54. > :09:01.Carnival committee. You won't put off today by the strike? No we have
:09:02. > :09:08.got a good rapport with the Fire Service and police. We have got a
:09:09. > :09:15.professional team doing the fireworks. Risk assessments have
:09:16. > :09:26.been done, and everything is under control. It is looking great, but
:09:27. > :09:35.this is just a taste of what is to come tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow we
:09:36. > :09:43.start at 10am. We have got samba bands, majorettes, and the big
:09:44. > :09:50.parade will start at 6:45pm. Tell us about the preparations that go into
:09:51. > :09:59.this Carnival. We meet on a monthly basis. As soon as this is over, we
:10:00. > :10:04.will have a debrief as to where we can improve, and it is just a
:10:05. > :10:10.rollover. So it starts at 10:30am. Yes, and the parade officially
:10:11. > :10:13.starts at 7pm. The fire strike goes on until 11pm.
:10:14. > :10:19.Still to come in the programme: Finder's keepers ` the free art
:10:20. > :10:29.people have been snapping up on the streets.
:10:30. > :10:36.And, a windy weekend on the way Those wins will be quite significant
:10:37. > :10:42.on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered in
:10:43. > :10:47.Bristol today to pay tribute to the visionary co`founder of one of the
:10:48. > :10:54.West's best`known cancer charities. Pat Pilkington helped set up the
:10:55. > :11:00.Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1 80, which later changed its name to the
:11:01. > :11:04.Penny Brohn Centre. Pat died at her home in Chew Magna in August after
:11:05. > :11:07.being diagnosed with the disease herself. Today, those she touched
:11:08. > :11:12.offered their thanks. Thanks from friends like actress
:11:13. > :11:19.Maureen Lipman who performed a sketch in tribute to Pat. Pat
:11:20. > :11:23.co`founded the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 1980 and faced criticism
:11:24. > :11:36.of their revolutionary holistic approach. When I met her, she took
:11:37. > :11:47.one of my hands in both of hers look to be deep in the eyes, and
:11:48. > :11:55.just said, " I am so pleased to have met you" . She just made me feel
:11:56. > :12:00.that I was the only person. It was very moving, even now. She made me
:12:01. > :12:07.feel immensely special. But her persistence earned even Royal
:12:08. > :12:15.approval, and eventually an MBE She was absolutely in the heart of it
:12:16. > :12:23.all, and felt so passionately about helping people. That was everything
:12:24. > :12:28.that she offered. The work that she The service heard that Pat was
:12:29. > :12:33.giving motivational talks right up until her own death from cancer Did
:12:34. > :12:39.was absolutely her passion. She gave everything to that. Her prayer for
:12:40. > :12:45.others read; "May you be happy, may you be free from suffering, may you
:12:46. > :12:50.be healed, may you be at peace. A pioneering woman's legacy in words.
:12:51. > :13:00.Earlier, I popped down to St. She was very beautiful. Just to look at
:13:01. > :13:08.her was a treat. And her husband. I went to him originally for some
:13:09. > :13:17.healing, and I thought, my goodness, look at the bone structure on these
:13:18. > :13:24.two people. You don't see this outside of alabaster busts. She was
:13:25. > :13:33.good fun, you could have a laugh with her. What sort of legacy did
:13:34. > :13:40.you think she has left? She has left the legacy of someone who was ahead
:13:41. > :13:44.of her time. She was an early believer in alternative medicine,
:13:45. > :13:51.when it was matched scoffed at to believe that the mind had any
:13:52. > :13:58.bearing on the body. She was a very spiritual person. She believed in
:13:59. > :14:02.something holistic. That is what we often talked about. You could talk
:14:03. > :14:09.about God, the afterlife, coincidence with Pat. The kind of
:14:10. > :14:16.hands`on healing, talking about what faces you when you die, the book
:14:17. > :14:25.that is coming out. She prosaically said Christopher is writing a book
:14:26. > :14:37.through me, which is all about how you die. How you handle it. We never
:14:38. > :14:45.stopped talking. You are not quite, are you? No, I have my moments. It
:14:46. > :14:53.was strange to come to the Theatre Royal in Bath for my 13th visit and
:14:54. > :14:58.not to have dinner with her. Was that your regular meeting? Yes. She
:14:59. > :15:04.was an actress, she trained at the Central School. There was a lot of
:15:05. > :15:10.theatre in the church, and a lot of therapy in theatre. Thank you.
:15:11. > :15:15.It's been a year of upheaval on and off the pitch, involving sackings,
:15:16. > :15:20.cuts and near bankruptcy. Yet, against the odds, Swindon Town has
:15:21. > :15:24.made another good start in League One.
:15:25. > :15:30.What a year it's been ` they took over in February. They've seen two
:15:31. > :15:35.managers, including Paolo Di Canio leave, and to get the finances in
:15:36. > :15:39.line, many of the players that got them to the playoffs. But, whisper
:15:40. > :15:44.it quietly, things are going well and there's even talk of promotion.
:15:45. > :15:49.For Chairman Jed McCrory, every day of the last nine months has
:15:50. > :15:52.presented challenges. His consortium arrived in February, inheriting a
:15:53. > :15:58.club threatened by administration again, and spending beyond its
:15:59. > :16:02.means. They've managed to bring those costs down, but losing a large
:16:03. > :16:12.proportion of last year's successful squad wasn't popular. They with the
:16:13. > :16:20.hardest people to deal with. They were quite hard on me at times. But
:16:21. > :16:28.this club needed someone to roll their sleeves up, take some of the
:16:29. > :16:35.hatred that had been created over the years of the administration
:16:36. > :16:42.process that the club has been through. I think it just needed a
:16:43. > :16:47.genuine come on, we are in it together. The consortium has just
:16:48. > :16:54.finished its first audit, and there's light at the end of the
:16:55. > :16:58.tunnel. If you took away all the takeover costs, or the ridiculous
:16:59. > :17:03.deals, with the greatest of respect to our predecessors, we are motoring
:17:04. > :17:09.on in the black at a self`sustaining level. With a wage bill half the
:17:10. > :17:14.size of last season's, Mark Cooper's young side have surprised the
:17:15. > :17:25.critics. Their average age last weekend just 22. The older boys have
:17:26. > :17:32.had to look after the young ones. Now they are doing fine. A couple of
:17:33. > :17:44.bad results of late, but to the eighth in the league at this stage
:17:45. > :17:53.of the season is a long way in front of where we thought we would be
:17:54. > :18:03.This season's highlights already include a cup game with Chelsea and
:18:04. > :18:16.they're eighth in the league. Despite being more prudent, the goal
:18:17. > :18:22.remains the same. We want to get permitted. Why can't it happen? I
:18:23. > :18:29.don't see why everyone has a moan. The
:18:30. > :18:34.Gloucester's Billy Twelvetrees starts England's autumn
:18:35. > :18:41.international against Australia He wins his sixth cap in a new`look
:18:42. > :18:48.England midfield. And brothers Mako and Billy Vunipola, who grew up and
:18:49. > :18:52.went to school in Thornbury in South Gloucestershire, start a Twickenham
:18:53. > :18:55.international together for the first time.
:18:56. > :18:59.The club rugby starts tonight with Bath at Worcester. Tomorrow,
:19:00. > :19:02.Gloucester and Bristol are both in Premiership and Championship action
:19:03. > :19:08.respectively. Speedway, and the Somerset Rebels have been
:19:09. > :19:13.celebrating their Premier League title with an open top bus tour
:19:14. > :19:21.The mayor of Highbridge accompanied the team as they travelled through
:19:22. > :19:32.Highbridge and Burnham`on`Sea. I was thinking they should have gone
:19:33. > :19:39.on their bikes really, but they didn't If you were lucky, and quick,
:19:40. > :19:44.then you may have picked up one of 200 free pieces of art that were
:19:45. > :19:46.left out in Bristol today. Have any
:19:47. > :19:57.Called Free Art Friday the movement was started by an urban artist
:19:58. > :20:03.called My Dog Sighs. Once a schoolteacher, now the artist known
:20:04. > :20:11.as My Dog Sighs has shows around the world, opening today in Bristol New
:20:12. > :20:20.York and Chicago. I am loving every minute of it. I am making a living
:20:21. > :20:29.now, painting, which is a dream come true. Fame arrived after he kicked
:20:30. > :20:40.and old can, and decided to turn it into art, which he then gave away. I
:20:41. > :20:51.discovered street art, but I thought I was a bit old for wanting to go
:20:52. > :20:58.out and damage property. By painting things that I found and putting them
:20:59. > :21:03.back out on the street for people to find, I still have that link with
:21:04. > :21:09.the urban environment, but I wasn't doing any damage. His counts now
:21:10. > :21:19.sell for around ?500. Fans were queuing in Bedminster to buy them
:21:20. > :21:27.from 4am. ?2000 for the big ones. You are very lucky if you found a
:21:28. > :21:32.freebie. My Dog Sighs has left 100 stickered
:21:33. > :21:39.cans out today, one lucky finder will wind a real hand painted one.
:21:40. > :21:44.It took only minutes from a clue on social media to this fan grabbing
:21:45. > :21:50.her chance. It is really unique And, at the same time across
:21:51. > :21:56.Bristol, 200 other works of all shapes and sizes have been left out
:21:57. > :22:02.for people to hunt down. Free Art Friday has spread the world over but
:22:03. > :22:06.today Bristol may have something with your name on it, even if not
:22:07. > :22:14.your face. A gig in Cheltenham 50 years ago
:22:15. > :22:19.tonight has taken a famous place in musical history. After the Beatles
:22:20. > :22:23.concert in Cheltenham on the first November 1963, the term Beatlemania
:22:24. > :22:29.was first coined. Tonight, a tribute band is recreating the evening, but
:22:30. > :22:33.if they get anywhere near as many screaming fans... Well, it'll be
:22:34. > :22:40.quite a night. Half a century ago, the Beatles live
:22:41. > :22:45.in Cheltenham. The opening night of their first British opening tour.
:22:46. > :22:56.The stage was terribly badly let. Mike was one of a handful of press
:22:57. > :23:05.photographers at the gate. Not that he heard much of it. Every time you
:23:06. > :23:10.turned around to take another picture, the fans started screaming
:23:11. > :23:20.again. Such was the stampede of screaming fans at the end, he had to
:23:21. > :23:28.run into the wings to escape. I felt somebody grabbed my arm. I was
:23:29. > :23:34.pulled out of the back door, into a van that was blacked out, and then
:23:35. > :23:42.the van drove off. Five minute later, we got out at the Savoy
:23:43. > :23:48.hotel, and the Beatles were in the van with us. We didn't realise. The
:23:49. > :23:56.lights went up, and Paul launched into it. You didn't hear a word
:23:57. > :24:05.after the intro. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was just
:24:06. > :24:14.bliss. We asked to see the Beatles, and down they came. Paul gave me a
:24:15. > :24:20.cigarette, I didn't smoke but I took it anyway. It must have been
:24:21. > :24:31.amazing. It was incredible, they were so nice. It wasn't just the
:24:32. > :24:42.Beatles who played back in the 0s, but other big names. Today, the
:24:43. > :24:55.Odeon is a shadow of its former self. It closed as a cinema in
:24:56. > :25:00.2006, and 50 years on from that famous day, it is due to be
:25:01. > :25:05.demolished. The venue may be gone, but the music isn't. Tonight, this
:25:06. > :25:14.tribute act will be recreating the gig. It is magical to think about
:25:15. > :25:23.the history and the fact that the Beatles were here in Cheltenham all
:25:24. > :25:38.those years ago. We would like people who were at the original gig
:25:39. > :25:39.to come along tonight so we can meet them.
:25:40. > :25:47.gig. It Albeit a windy weekend right the way
:25:48. > :25:51.through, it will be markedly that weight through Saturday, so we have
:25:52. > :25:56.to be cautious of that at firework displays. Sunday will be somewhat
:25:57. > :26:05.less windy. There is the potential into the evening that there will be
:26:06. > :26:11.widespread rainfall from the south`west. Things will continue
:26:12. > :26:18.through this evening, but tomorrow, as these isobars tighten up, this
:26:19. > :26:24.denotes the much windier spell developing. It will not be on the
:26:25. > :26:29.scale of the winds we saw on Monday, but nonetheless, some quite
:26:30. > :26:34.meaningful gusts, particularly around the Bristol Channel. Some
:26:35. > :26:41.light Shari Raine about in central areas through the night. `` showery
:26:42. > :26:46.rain. Temperatures around seven or eight Celsius through the night
:26:47. > :26:54.Tomorrow morning, some brightness developing for a while as much of a
:26:55. > :27:00.cloud starts to break up towards the North. Some rain around lunchtime,
:27:01. > :27:08.some brighter spells through the afternoon. Quite heavy, blustery
:27:09. > :27:22.showers into the evening. 30 or 40 mph wind speed through the evening.
:27:23. > :27:30.Gusts of 50 or 60 mph around the Bristol Channel, so it won't be
:27:31. > :27:36.great for launching fireworks. The Bristol Channel could have some big
:27:37. > :27:41.waves, so do be cautious on the coastal fringes.
:27:42. > :27:45.A weekend for staying in and watching the telly. Sunday Politics
:27:46. > :27:49.is on at 11am. We will