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Welcome to BBC Points West with Ali Vowles and Sabet Choudhury Our main | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
story tonight: The hairdresser murdered while she worked. Police | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
launch an investigation as 20`year`old Hollie Gazzard is | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
stabbed. This is an incident where the victim and suspect knew each | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
other and we need to reassure the community that this is a safe place | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
to be. Tonight Hollie's ex`boyfriend is under arrest on suspicion of her | :00:32. | :00:44. | |
murder. Also in tonight's programme... Draining the Somerset | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Levels ` the Prime Minister predicts it could take up to six weeks. | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
Helping themselves: How the village cut off by the floods has been | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
organising its own relief effort. And did the miracle cure work? We | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
get the latest on Corin's battle with cerebral palsy. A man has been | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
arrested on suspicion of murdering his ex`girlfriend at the | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
hairdressers where she worked. Hollie Gazzard, who was 20 years | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
old, was stabbed just before six o'clock yesterday evening. She was | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
rushed to hospital, but doctors were unable to save her life. Andrew | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Plant reports. A busy shopping street in the centre of Gloucester | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
taped off as forensic teams searched the area. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Police called just before 6pm, they say, to reports of a woman being | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
attacked inside the Fringe Benefits hair salon. There was a police cars | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
and then I had this evening that somebody had been stabbed. `` I | :01:47. | :02:05. | |
heard. When police arrived at the salon, they found 20`year`old | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
stylist Hollie Gazzard seriously injured. She was rushed to | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary ` just a few minutes away. But died | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
soon afterwards from the stab wounds she received. Hollie lived locally | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
and also worked at this pub a few miles away. And her family released | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
a statement, saying, "Everybody she came in contact with loved her, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
enjoyed her company, her happy nature and her sense of fun. The | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
world has lost a treasure." The victim and suspect knew each other | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
and where any previous relationship and we need to reassure the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
community that this is a safe place to be. The attack happened at 6pm | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
yesterday when this salon was open for business and there were staff | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
and customers inside and police say they will be referring those people | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
to counselling services because they will be traumatised. Police say they | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
arrested a 22`year`old man. He's being questioned on suspicion of | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
Hollie's murder. David Cameron has described the | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
flooding in Somerset as "difficult and depressing." The Prime Minister | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
came to the Levels again today ` his third visit to the county since the | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
crisis began. He also predicted that it would take | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
at least six weeks to clear the excess water away. Scott Ellis | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
reports. Mr Cameron was visiting this pumping | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
operation today. Like everyone, he is wondering how soon it will be | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
since the `` till the water is gone. I said before that things would get | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
worse before they got better but we know have a pumping strategy in | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
place with more pumps and trying to get the amount of water pumped from | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
3 million tonnes to 5 billion tonnes a day. But even with that, the | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
maximum capacity, we are looking at six weeks to get the Somerset Levels | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
drive. Mr Cameron has pledged to spend as much money as is needed to | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
clean up the floods but what about long`term solutions? These engineers | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
have been in Somerset all week with the Environment Agency. The country, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Holland, spends a lot of money on flood defence and what is the | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
advice? If you will accept these extreme events, you must be prepared | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
for event is a little less extreme. I do not think you should look for a | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
quick solution because that might be a mistake for the future. It is | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
unlikely we will spend anything like what the Dutch spend on flood | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
defence because 60% of the landmass below sea level. We will take on | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
board the recommendations they have made. The Environment Agency says we | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
can learn a great deal from the Dutch. They have learned to live | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
with water rather than fight it So what does this all mean for people | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
whose homes are still, in some cases, waist`deep in floodwater | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Well, tonight many of them are in Bridgwater, at a special surgery set | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
up for flood victims and Scott's there for us this evening. Scott. | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
This is a weekly surgery and these people who are flood victims want to | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
find out information. We will top two Jenny who is a part`time vet and | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
her husband boss might farm is flooded and all the cattle moved | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
off. All three of her children are living in a holiday home nearby | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Difficult and depressing is an understatement. Where is the water | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
in your House? The water was up to the inner House so it is very | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
difficult and depressing. Maybe the House will not be able to be left | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
standing? Yes, we have had two weeks of water and waves and there could | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
be structural issues there. Meanwhile, you are running a charity | :06:34. | :06:46. | |
helping several farms? There will be more farms affected potentially We | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
are doing it on a volunteer basis and that is me and the wife of | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
another farmer who are running it out of our bedrooms. We haven't had | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
any help from any outside agency. In April and May we normally when the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
castle home but there is no grass for them. Is there a bright side? | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Yes, the community coming together and farmers have been fantastic | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
We're getting donations from Scotland and Norfolk and we have two | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
thank the farming army. People are really chatting here. If the Dutch | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
pumping operation is up to speed, they will open the sluice gates | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
Over the last month we've taken you all over the Somerset Levels to meet | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
people who've lost their homes, we've shown your shocking images of | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
submerged villages but until tonight we've never visited the hamlet of | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
Chadmead near North Petherton. There are 30 people living there who | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
believe they have been forgotten about, and have built up their own | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
resilience, backed up by the kindness of strangers. Fiona Lamdin | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
has spent the day with them. After seven weeks, finally help for the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
hamlet of Chadmead. We finish the sketch in three weeks ago but we | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
have not even fitted the door knobs. Up till now it's been a | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
military operation run on the sympathy of strangers. This is the | :08:41. | :09:00. | |
morning handover. Why are you doing it? If I did not do it, who else | :09:01. | :09:12. | |
would? How can you ever reward people for helping? She too can all | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
our washing away and she loves about 30 miles away. `` she lives. Their | :09:19. | :09:32. | |
boiler now broken,this wood is the only way to keep warm. More help at | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
hand` not meals on wheels but breakfast in a basket. Sarah in the | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
village has organised pasties for people because there was a need for | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
a good hot meal. She's delivered 34 so far this morning ` the last one's | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
for Roy at the end of the street. Everyone has done so much work on | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
the properties the and people will stay put until the water level rises | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
and you have got to get out. And just a wade across the water is his | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
cousin Ian's House. They've been paddling in puddles for weeks now. | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
The daughter and granddaughter have moved out because the so`called but | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
there is another six inches to go before the electric beater has to be | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
cut off. Ian insists he will go nowhere except to the shops and how | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
else would you go there when your wheels are underwater? | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
What has struck me is the sheer resilience of the people here who, | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
despite these homes being flooded, the residents are going nowhere | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
because they are relying on the help of others who are coming in and | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
helping them and they are also adapting to life surrounded by | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
water. If there is one bright spot to come | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
out of this, it is the community spirit. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
I think all of us who have covered this have felt that. Still to | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
come... The birds taking shelter after a battering from the storms ` | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
even the puffins ran out of puff! And right on top ` Bristol's Dino | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
Zamperelli is on track with his ambition to get to Formula One. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
A man arrested in connection with the murder of Melanie Hall has been | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
bailed again until the end of April while police continue their | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
investigation. Melanie, who was 25, was last seen alive leaving a Bath | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
nightclub in 1996. Her remains were found four`and` a`half years ago | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
next to a slip road off the M5. The man, who's 44, was detained at his | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
home in Bath in November. Somerset County Council has | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
announced that its Chief Executive, Sheila Wheeler, has left the Council | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
by mutual agreement. The news follows speculation over Mrs | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
Wheeler's whereabouts, as she hasn't been at work for a couple of months. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
The council says that she's brought major changes to the way that the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
council is run, and that they wish her well for the future. And ?1 | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
million`worth of cuts and a Council Tax freeze have today been agreed by | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Somerset County Council. This evening the budget will also be set | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
in South Gloucestershire. Big savings need to be made by all of | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
our councils due to Government spending cuts. There were protests | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
yesterday as the budgets were set for Bristol, North Somerset and Bath | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
and North East Somerset. You may remember that here on Points | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
West, we've been following the story of young Corin Potts who has | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
cerebral palsy. He's had an operation to help him walk, which | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
his family hope will be a miracle cure. Simon Lewis has been to find | :13:10. | :13:34. | |
out how he's getting on. For five=and`a`half`year`old Corin every | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
single step is a real stepping stone. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
at 18 months, he struggles to walk. He likes to join unlike any other | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
child. I am trying. Do they help you? I have been using a frame. Your | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
friends help you run the classroom and a really good to you, aren't | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
they? Just over a year ago, he underwent pioneering spinal surgery | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
at Frenchay Hospital. The new technique wasn't available on the | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
NHS so his family had to raise ?35,000 to meet the cost. Although | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
not the miracle cure that was hoped for, it has greatly improved his | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
mobility. We had hoped he would take independent steps which is our main | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
goal but before the operation he was in his wheelchair most of the time | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
and now he is in his frame most of the time. His future would have gone | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
downhill as he got older and now there is every chance it will keep | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
getting better. What he has achieved in that year has already changed his | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
life. With no more operations planned, the road to walking is now | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
down to painstaking physio and Corin's very clear determination and | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
spirit. Bristol Old Vic will find out this | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
evening whether it can press ahead with the latest phase of its | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
multi`million`pound refurbishment. These are the plans for the building | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
on King Street. It would cost around ?12 million, and councillors will | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
decide on whether permission will be given tonight. The inside of the | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
theatre has already undergone major work. We should have the decision | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
for you in our programme at 10. 5pm. The Women's Bobsleigh competition | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
has just finished at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. So did Paula | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Walker from Trowbridge and Bex Wilson from Bath manage to get | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
anywhere near medal contention? Alistair Durden is here to tell us. | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
Not quite but they give it their best shot. At the halfway stage they | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
were 12th, so Paula and her brakeman Bex Wilson had a lot to do. They had | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
two more runs today to improve on that position. Paula, who's a | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
corporal in the British Army, had plenty of support back here in the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
West. They were watching intently here. Paula's full`time army career | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
has been put on hold as she pursues her dream. They had a lot to do | :16:14. | :16:28. | |
today could the partnership of Paula and Bex Wilson sparkle again? That | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
run was good enough to secure a 12th place finish after a season hit by | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
injuries. This is a fantastic example of what a soldier can | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
achieve in her military career and as an elite sports woman. She is a | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
great example for our young soldiers. No Paula will watch John | :16:56. | :17:07. | |
Jackson, her partner, complete in following competitions. Yeovil | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
missed the chance to move off the bottom of the Championship, drawing | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
nil`nil with Watford last night They did have the ball in the net | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
early on, but Ishmael Miller was offside so this didn't count. In the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
second half James Hayter had one of Yeovil's best chances. But the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
goalless draw leaves them six points from safety. Bristol racing driver | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Dino Zamparelli is hoping a move to the top team in GP3 will help his | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
ambition of making it into Formula One. GP3 is two tiers below F1, and | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
he's joining the reigning champions ART Grand Prix for the 2014 season. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
And Dino is here with us tonight. How big a deal is this for your | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
career? It is massive. It is an amazing opportunity and they are the | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
reigning champions who have won every year and are clearly doing | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
something right. They have had Lewis Hamilton and so many famous names | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
going through the ranks so for me to be joining a team like this is | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
great. How much pressure comes worthless? I always put myself under | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
huge pressure but I'd like to thrive under pressure and I feel I do a | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
good job and it is something that comes worthless port so I am really | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
looking forward to the challenge and I cannot wait to get started. You | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
are 20 ten. Lewis Hamilton was 2 when he started in F one. Do you | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
have to hit it hard this year to grab your chance? This is my one | :18:49. | :19:00. | |
opportunity and I'm very grateful to some of the Bristol sports clubs for | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
helping me and without them I would not be here on this so far. It is a | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
huge opportunity for me and my goal is clear. It is to win this year and | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
I will work extremely hard now and for the rest of the year and | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
throughout the weeks before the start of the season to do that. How | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
quick is this compared to Formula one? We are very similar and we not | :19:24. | :19:37. | |
too far away at all. A driver I was with last year is now in Formula one | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
and that shows you the level of competition I am currently art which | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
issued. We are very close to the top and it is just a little more work | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
and I will be pushing very hard Who is your idol in the sport? I have | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
always admired Michael Schumacher and I hope he will get better. Ever | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
since I saw him race when I was six years old, I too lots of passion and | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
hunger with me and I hope he makes a good recovery. Would you lie to | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
drive up and down Bristol if you go that far? I have been up some of | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
those roads and they are quite bumpy but Bristol as part of my heart and | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
I have lived here long time and was born here and without Bristol Sport | :20:44. | :20:55. | |
I would not be here. Good luck with that. And the new GP3 season starts | :20:56. | :21:07. | |
on the 10th of May in Spain. That is incredible driving. | :21:08. | :21:21. | |
An RSPCA centre in Somerset says it's taken in more than 100 sea | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
birds since the beginning of February, partly because of the | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
stormy weather. As Michelle Ruminski has been finding out, it's left | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
guillemots and seals vying for space. Oiled and beaten by the | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
weather, one of the latest storm victims ` a guillemot from Cornwall. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
More than 130 sea birds have been taken to this RSPCA wildlife centre | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
in West Hatch since the start of February. We would not necessarily | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
see any birds at this time of year. The stormy weather has brought them | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
into us and they have been ruled on the sea and a washed up on the | :21:52. | :22:05. | |
beaches `` rolled on the sea. In the battle to survive the elements even | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
these birds ran out of puff. Normally birds like puffins, | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
guillemots and razorbills live out at sea. Since the bad weather, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
they've been found across the West Country, hungry, tired and some | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
plastered in oil. With space so tight at the centre, this tank was | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
put up as a temporary puffin home while these seals are living in one | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
of the bird homes. They came in as orphans, injured in the storms last | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
year. They are taking up an awful lot of space and we have 25 still | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
unclear and some of those are still being treated so it is a pressure of | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
space on us at the moment. Some of the birds here, and these seals are | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
ready to be released into the wild. But they're having to wait for a run | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
of good weather so they can get off to a flying start. Michelle | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Ruminski, BBC Points West, West Hatch. That was a run of good | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
weather. Will it improve? We do not have much left of the | :23:02. | :23:17. | |
meteorological winter which finishes at the end of February. Much snow | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
does not seem to be on the horizon which has made this winter | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
exceptional, especially compared to last year. We will however see rain | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
at times and maybe stronger winds. The storm on Valentine's Day was a | :23:39. | :23:52. | |
particularly strong storm. Once rain clears, we can say that Thursday | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
will be a brighter day. There will be low pressure towards the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
north`west with a warm front running through the course of the night | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
bringing patchy rain. I will be a cold front tomorrow and it will be | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
windy but after that it will just be a few showers and then some brighter | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
spells. The rain will edge in through West Somerset and it is | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
patchy with some fairly heavy bursts this evening and then back to | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
drizzle with a lot of hill fog around. The cold front will then | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
marching into the rush tomorrow morning but temperatures will be | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
fairly mild tonight around six Celsius to eight Celsius and | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
tomorrow morning for the rush`hour it will be quite windy with gusts of | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
40 mph or 45 mph dash perhaps even more than that. There will be some | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
heavy showers at times but not necessarily everywhere and rainfall | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
tomorrow will be five millimetres to ten millimetres with a lot of | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
variation and maybe two or three or four millimetres of rain across the | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
Somerset Levels. Temperatures tomorrow should be nine Celsius to | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
10 Celsius and like today it should feel decent enough. We are then | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
looking at wet and windy weather, particularly towards Sunday. Next | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
week, the Jetstream will come for the South after the slight hiatus we | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
had through the course of this week. The outlook will reflect that | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
and Saturday will be the better day of the weekend with Sunday being wet | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
and windy and next week Tuesday looks like a repeat of those | :26:01. | :26:01. | |
conditions. It would be lovely to have a good | :26:02. | :26:17. | |
forecast. And good luck to Gloucestershire singer Hattie Briggs | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
who will find out this evening if she's won the BBC Radio two Young | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Folk Singer Award. Tonight's ceremony takes place at the Royal | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Albert Hall in London, where Hattie will also be performing. We would | :26:29. | :26:43. | |
also like to say good luck to Alex Lovell in her awards ceremony | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
tonight. Good night. | :26:47. | :26:56. |