:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to BBC Points West with at Six. On BBC One, we now join the
:00:00. > :00:09.Welcome to BBC Points West with David Garmston and Alex Lovdll. Our
:00:10. > :00:20.main story tonight: A young life taken away. Nicholas Robinson was
:00:21. > :00:25.stabbed to death outside his flat. He's a 19`year`old boy, start of his
:00:26. > :00:30.life, studying to make a better life for himself and that has bedn taken
:00:31. > :00:33.away. Police say someone, somewhere, has
:00:34. > :00:40.the information that could bring the killer to justice.
:00:41. > :00:44.Our other headlines tonight: The heart`warming response to the
:00:45. > :00:48.floods. Hundreds from across the UK sign up to help.
:00:49. > :00:51.It's not just the humans who've suffered. Many barn owls have been
:00:52. > :00:55.wiped out by the rain. And chasing away the winter blues.
:00:56. > :00:56.We're at the International Jazz Festival in Bristol ahead of 40
:00:57. > :01:16.concerts this weekend. Volunteers from around the country
:01:17. > :01:19.are arriving in the Somerset village of Moorland to help with thd
:01:20. > :01:22.clear`up operation. More th`n 5 0 people have signed up onlind to
:01:23. > :01:25.help, shifting sandbags, moving wood and getting rid of everything that's
:01:26. > :01:28.been ruined. Scott Ellis has spent the day in Moorland.
:01:29. > :01:33.Soggy sandbags weighing up to 3 kilogrammes each. In Moorland alone,
:01:34. > :01:40.there are 50,000 of them to get rid of. Fortunately, there's no shortage
:01:41. > :01:48.of volunteers to haul sandb`gs out of back gardens and onto thd main
:01:49. > :01:54.road. There are many local people here and volunteers coming from
:01:55. > :02:09.Leeds, London and Manchester. You have got to go all the sandbags onto
:02:10. > :02:13.the road? That's right. Across Somerset, there are a 100,000 of
:02:14. > :02:22.them to clear away. Each village will be cleared in turn. We need to
:02:23. > :02:25.prioritise more land. Moorl`nd's flood victims appreciate thd help
:02:26. > :02:29.they're getting as they makd day trips back to clear out what they
:02:30. > :02:37.couldn't save from the flood water. We waded into this house three weeks
:02:38. > :02:43.ago to find a disgruntled homeowner. How is it? Not great. Today she was
:02:44. > :02:46.back, the ground floor of hdr pre`flooding world stacked tp on the
:02:47. > :02:55.lawn, ready for disposal, grateful for some spring sun. It's a
:02:56. > :03:02.beautiful day. It reminds md of before the floods. The last few
:03:03. > :03:09.weeks has been like a ghost town here. How are things now? Gdtting
:03:10. > :03:18.better. And neighbours agreds. Life's on the mend. You just want to
:03:19. > :03:22.see the back of it now and, touch wood, it never happens again. Some
:03:23. > :03:25.neighbours joke they should hang on to their sandbags just in c`se. But
:03:26. > :03:37.perhaps it's best to have a good clear`out in a village that's
:03:38. > :03:49.suffered so much in the last month. Nice to see signs of hope there
:03:50. > :03:51.While the human misery has been uppermost in people's minds, it s
:03:52. > :03:54.becoming clear that the floods are causing serious problems for
:03:55. > :03:57.wildlife, too. Conservationhsts say the barn owl population, whhch
:03:58. > :04:00.dropped by 75% during the l`st flooding, has been badly hit again.
:04:01. > :04:03.And they say wildlife gener`lly is struggling, with 23,000 acrds of
:04:04. > :04:04.land still underwater. Here's our Somerset correspondent, Clinton
:04:05. > :04:11.Rogers. Bo is becoming rarer by the day In
:04:12. > :04:14.2012, we had a drought. Conservation groups say the last floods `cross
:04:15. > :04:19.Britain reduced the barn owl population by 75%. In the Somerset
:04:20. > :04:31.Levels, they think there were only 200 birds left before the l`test
:04:32. > :04:36.floods. Last year, we had an 85 failure rate. The problem is the
:04:37. > :04:40.small mammals the barn owls feed off have been wiped out here. Whthout
:04:41. > :04:46.food, the owls are starving to death. The barn owl will survive but
:04:47. > :04:49.projects like this in Somerset to put up hundreds of nesting boxes to
:04:50. > :04:58.boost the population have bdcome that much more more critical. The
:04:59. > :05:01.wider impact on wildlife across the Levels is yet to be fully assessed
:05:02. > :05:10.but here at the Secret World Rescue Centre in Somerset, they have a feel
:05:11. > :05:13.for how bad it is. These two badgers are among the latest casualties
:05:14. > :05:19.rescued from a thin strip of dry land in the middle of what had
:05:20. > :05:27.become a vast lake. They were so week they had to be handfed when
:05:28. > :05:33.they first arrived at the cdntre. If the water had gone much higher, they
:05:34. > :05:39.would have drowned. Normallx, there are a few bits of elevated land
:05:40. > :05:43.where small mammals and insdcts will have survived and they can spread
:05:44. > :05:48.out and repopulate the area quite quickly. We had to move milds across
:05:49. > :05:51.the site and it will take a long time before that land supports
:05:52. > :05:55.wildlife again. Here, even swans have been rescued, disorientated and
:05:56. > :06:12.too young to find dry land on their own.
:06:13. > :06:15.Councils in the West need more foster carers to come forward.
:06:16. > :06:20.Figures show there's been a 6% rise in the number of children who need
:06:21. > :06:22.to be looked after in the p`st three years. Tracey Miller has bedn
:06:23. > :06:29.hearing about the differencd fostering made to one woman's life.
:06:30. > :06:33.Sharing her teenage photos, she is back in the place she called home
:06:34. > :06:40.for over four years. Halina went into foster care at the age of 4
:06:41. > :06:45.and placed with Andy. She is now a mum herself and brings her own
:06:46. > :06:53.children to visit. As a kid, I called this place home. I don't know
:06:54. > :07:01.where I would be now. She w`s a figure I needed at that timd in my
:07:02. > :07:05.life. She was a friend and lum, she was everything. Andy has fostered
:07:06. > :07:13.over 100 children over the last 29 years. At the time, I might not have
:07:14. > :07:22.thought I got anywhere becatse she was like any other teenager. Lots of
:07:23. > :07:25.the other ones I have looked after ring me up after they have left care
:07:26. > :07:33.and say, that was the best time of my life! But when they are not
:07:34. > :07:37.enough foster places for chhldren, it can mean they go into chhldren's
:07:38. > :07:41.homes or are moved to foster homes in other parts of the country.
:07:42. > :07:47.Social services needed a pl`ce for a ten`year`old boy. Neither the social
:07:48. > :07:52.services department nor our agency had anything to offer that boy last
:07:53. > :07:58.night. He won't have stayed in Bristol, where he needed to be. I
:07:59. > :08:04.would like to think we can offer more to our children than wd could
:08:05. > :08:08.last night. That means findhng more foster carers.
:08:09. > :08:10.Well, Brenda Massey is the `ssistant mayor for Children and Young
:08:11. > :08:17.People's Services and she's here now. There was a boy mentioned in
:08:18. > :08:24.the film there. Did you man`ge to find a place for him? He was placed
:08:25. > :08:29.straightaway and it wasn't last night, it was the night before. We
:08:30. > :08:34.have priority the children `nd no child is left without a place to go.
:08:35. > :08:40.Why are we seeing a rise in the number of children who need to be
:08:41. > :08:43.fostered or adopted? There hs more awareness now since high profile
:08:44. > :08:50.cases and people are on the lookout for anything that worries them, so
:08:51. > :08:59.there is an issue, we stick in `` step in and take action. Wh`t are
:09:00. > :09:06.the main stumbling blocks? Ht can be rewarding, but we have to bd careful
:09:07. > :09:09.that everyone comes forward. So people are worried about behng put
:09:10. > :09:18.through the mill before thex are approved? It's not. A friend of mine
:09:19. > :09:21.was a foster carer and found it incredibly rewarding. There are
:09:22. > :09:27.certain checks we have to m`ke but even this week, we had an extra
:09:28. > :09:33.three people go through our panel. At the moment, we have over 700
:09:34. > :09:37.children in care and 268 foster carers. We want to increase the
:09:38. > :09:45.diversity of carers because we want to reflect the city as a whole. And
:09:46. > :09:52.you had an event to reflect that? We run events to talk to peopld who may
:09:53. > :09:57.be interested. Last night, ht was for LG BT individuals. As a result,
:09:58. > :10:09.we have three follow`ups. Do you get paid? You do. They get paid on a
:10:10. > :10:15.sliding scale, depending on the complexity of the case. What if you
:10:16. > :10:22.develop a strong relationshhp with the child you are looking after We
:10:23. > :10:27.have a lot of you go on to `dopt. It's very useful to do that. We only
:10:28. > :10:34.have 40 children waiting for adoption, which is really good. Go
:10:35. > :10:53.to our website. There is a link on the City Council website.
:10:54. > :11:04.Spring has finally sprung and the sun has been shining.
:11:05. > :11:10.A teenager who was stabbed to death in Bristol this week has bedn named
:11:11. > :11:13.as Nicholas Robinson, a 19`xear`old student who lived in the city.
:11:14. > :11:16.Police are appealing for witnesses and say at this stage, they don t
:11:17. > :11:37.know what the motive could have been. We are focusing on ond person
:11:38. > :11:42.who was seen running away from the house. Anyone who has any
:11:43. > :11:49.information on who that person may be needed to come forward.
:11:50. > :11:52.Police have released CCTV ilages of a man they're looking for after a
:11:53. > :11:55.76`year`old woman was beaten about the head in her own home. Jdan
:11:56. > :11:59.Taylor was left bloodied and severely bruised after answdring the
:12:00. > :12:02.door to her attacker who thdn forced his way inside her Totterdown home
:12:03. > :12:07.on 28 January. Police would like to talk to the man seen in this image
:12:08. > :12:08.who was in the area at the time of the attack.
:12:09. > :12:10.Striking solicitors have bedn demonstrating outside Bristol
:12:11. > :12:14.Magistrates Court this lunchtime in protest at cuts to the legal aid
:12:15. > :12:17.budget. Court officials askdd the lawyers to halt their demonstration
:12:18. > :12:21.and requested that the BBC stop filming. The strikers stayed put in
:12:22. > :12:27.what's their second protest against the Government's cuts. The Linistry
:12:28. > :12:30.of Justice says the cuts will make the system more sustainable but
:12:31. > :12:33.legal professionals say it'll cause long`term chaos in our courts.
:12:34. > :12:37.We'll have the weather shortly and Jemma will be bringing us some good
:12:38. > :12:41.news at last! Last summer, their chances were
:12:42. > :12:44.written off, but with a quarter of the season to go, Yeovil Town could
:12:45. > :13:00.still keep their place in the Championship. Ali Durden is here
:13:01. > :13:03.with tonight's sport. Given their resources, they should be bottom and
:13:04. > :13:07.well adrift. Their budget is tiny compared to some clubs, spending
:13:08. > :13:11.30`40 times as much. Certainly, all the pre`season headlines were about
:13:12. > :13:14.a season of struggle and relegation, but they're just two points from
:13:15. > :13:15.safety and their recent forl suggests the story might have a
:13:16. > :13:46.different ending. At the local paper, the Glovers are
:13:47. > :13:49.dominating the back pages. Ht's been a remarkable story to write this
:13:50. > :13:59.season and the ending could still see them defy the odds and `void
:14:00. > :14:03.relegation. It is nothing short of a miracle. Most critics would have
:14:04. > :14:12.suggested Yeovil would be ddad and buried by now. Budget wise, Yeovil
:14:13. > :14:16.town's would be average. It's incredible. They have the
:14:17. > :14:19.Championship's smallest budget, around ?1.5 million. They'vd paid a
:14:20. > :14:23.fee for just one player this season, bringing in ten free transfdrs and
:14:24. > :14:33.bolstering the squad with 16 loan signings. But it's worked. We have
:14:34. > :14:40.got a group of lads we can totally trust. We would be happy to go down
:14:41. > :14:46.to April seven men. We don't want to, but if we do, we know there will
:14:47. > :14:52.be there for us. It is that commitment to the course th`t we
:14:53. > :14:56.will need now to keep us in the Championship. Next week, Yeovil have
:14:57. > :14:59.to hand back the play`off trophy they won ten months ago. Thd club
:15:00. > :15:07.lost over ?450,000 chasing promotion and have increased the budgdt to try
:15:08. > :15:14.and stay up. We work within our means. We will not break thd club
:15:15. > :15:18.financially. The budget has been stretched in every league btt we
:15:19. > :15:23.have done it and can do it `gain. We are prepared to stay up. It remains
:15:24. > :15:26.to be seen whether we can do the finishing job of the rest of the
:15:27. > :15:30.season. Tomorrow, they could climb out of the relegation zone for the
:15:31. > :15:35.first time since September. And if they do stay up, it would bd their
:15:36. > :15:38.finest achievement yet. And it's Sheffield Wednesdax at home
:15:39. > :15:41.tomorrow for Yeovil. Here are the rest of the games: Play`off chasing
:15:42. > :15:46.Swindon will be trying to whn at home for the first time in six weeks
:15:47. > :15:49.and BBC Late Kick Off's camdras will be at Bristol Rovers against
:15:50. > :15:52.Plymouth, so look out for that on Monday night's show.
:15:53. > :15:56.A place in the Anglo`Welsh Cup final is the prize for Bath as thdy take
:15:57. > :16:00.on local rivals Exeter this weekend at the Rec. The two sides h`ve
:16:01. > :16:05.already met three times this season with Bath coming out on top on each
:16:06. > :16:08.occasion. However, Exeter h`ve the added incentive of the final being
:16:09. > :16:15.played at their home ground, Sandy Park, a week on Sunday.
:16:16. > :16:23.Bristol are also in action on Sunday. Good luck to them. We are
:16:24. > :16:30.talking about how nice it would be to play a final in Exeter. Ht will
:16:31. > :16:37.be a huge game. It all comes down to the day. I am sure, if they look
:16:38. > :16:43.ahead to the final, good luck to them, but we are looking to see how
:16:44. > :16:46.we can put things in place. Sitting top of the Championship, thdy play
:16:47. > :16:50.Cornish Pirates at the Mem, looking for their eighth league win in a
:16:51. > :16:54.row. Both those matches kick off at pm
:16:55. > :16:57.ahead of England's Six Nations match against Wales at Twickenham.
:16:58. > :17:01.Gloucester number eight Ben Morgan gets his first start of the campaign
:17:02. > :17:06.and will line up with club team`mates Billy Twelvetrees and
:17:07. > :17:10.Jonny May. Bath's Davey Wilson retains his place in the front row
:17:11. > :17:23.while Dave Attwood is on thd bench alongside George Ford.
:17:24. > :17:35.My heart says England. My hdad is veering towards Wales. I probably
:17:36. > :17:39.shouldn't say that! An entire personal collection of
:17:40. > :17:43.unique tin toys has gone under the hammer in Gloucestershire today The
:17:44. > :17:47.treasure trove of vintage toys began when the owner was a teenagdr and
:17:48. > :17:51.developed into a career as ` toymaker. Ill health meant the
:17:52. > :17:54.collection had to be sold btt the owner told our Gloucestershhre
:17:55. > :18:13.reporter, Steve Knibbs, that he s glad that his passion will now
:18:14. > :18:18.inspire others. Really nice reproductions by the Spanish company
:18:19. > :18:30.who did reproductions of early German tin plate toys. This
:18:31. > :18:35.collection evokes memories of generations of childhoods. Some of
:18:36. > :18:37.you may have had one of these. There are also these robots. Great
:18:38. > :18:55.memories from the 50s. A big wholesale company closed
:18:56. > :18:59.down, stopped selling. The lan who ran it offered me his whole
:19:00. > :19:08.warehouse full of broken once, the ones they have never sold.
:19:09. > :19:15.Foolishly, I bought it! We had a few sound issues with that report. We
:19:16. > :19:18.will try and get back to it. Some of the finest exponenets of
:19:19. > :19:21.jazz have arrived in Brsitol for the C=city's second jazz festiv`l. The
:19:22. > :19:23.three`day extravaganza officially gets underway in about 15 mhnutes
:19:24. > :19:38.but already there's quite an atmosphere at Colston Hall, where
:19:39. > :19:46.Jules Hyam is soaking up thd vibe. I have got you in one air that then
:19:47. > :19:54.in the other ill, this trio. I know you are thinking. There are four of
:19:55. > :20:01.them! That because when `` they are a trio with a special guest. It
:20:02. > :20:06.hasn't even got underway yet and already look how many peopld there
:20:07. > :20:12.are here. Nice round of applause for a good bit of old jazz piano. There
:20:13. > :20:17.are events out here pretty luch every day. I am told they are free
:20:18. > :20:24.and there are late`night jal sessions it as well. If you walk
:20:25. > :20:29.through here, forward is OK, there is an exhibition of photogr`phy
:20:30. > :20:34.This is work by a gentleman called David. Some of the best`known
:20:35. > :20:46.musicians in the world. This chap here, all the way over here, BB
:20:47. > :20:51.King. Really special photographs. It was that? Miles Davis! He mhght not
:20:52. > :20:59.be playing today, but what we do have, a very special headline act
:21:00. > :21:01.who was James Brown's man. We brought him down here to tell us a
:21:02. > :21:25.bit about some of these gre`ts. Good picture of miles there. Louis
:21:26. > :21:36.Armstrong. What can you say about him? OK. Good night.
:21:37. > :22:05.Influence? I love big bands. Duke was the major influence on ly
:22:06. > :22:15.writing. I learned a lot from him. Very generous in giving young people
:22:16. > :22:27.tips. He taught me some stuff. Miles Davis, of course, influenced
:22:28. > :22:34.everybody. I wrote a song for a band which was inspired by Miles Davis.
:22:35. > :22:53.What was about him that was so interesting for you? What hd didn't
:22:54. > :23:00.play. The simplicity. I worry sometimes that I should havd done
:23:01. > :23:09.this this way or that way, but if you repair in enough, whatever you
:23:10. > :23:20.do, you will be satisfied whth because is the best we can do. Any
:23:21. > :23:24.questions before I go? It w`s absolutely fascinating talkhng to
:23:25. > :23:32.him. He has been in the jazz business for more than 50 ydars He
:23:33. > :23:42.is based in freedom now. He was in James Brown's band. They ard playing
:23:43. > :23:48.on Saturday night. It's not just about the big names. It hasn't even
:23:49. > :23:55.started yet and look at manx people have turned up! There is thd
:23:56. > :24:05.photography exhibition as wdll. Night`time masterclasses and jam
:24:06. > :24:14.sessions. Well done! He probably can't hear me anyway. And a bit of
:24:15. > :24:20.company behind him as well. The Sunday politics is on this weekend
:24:21. > :24:24.at 11am and next week, I am off to Strasbourg to find out if Somerset
:24:25. > :24:33.will get any help from the DU to pay for flooding damage. You will keep
:24:34. > :24:40.my chair warm for me? I will bring you back something nice!
:24:41. > :24:57.I recognise some of those j`zz musicians. My mate was on the stage!
:24:58. > :25:05.Certainly, the weekend bodes well. Twilight has just descended. The
:25:06. > :25:09.weather has really settled, given the wet and windy chaos of the
:25:10. > :25:13.winter. If we take a look at the satellite picture, although we
:25:14. > :25:19.started with a bit of cloud, that broke nicely. A lot of the region
:25:20. > :25:24.was really bathed in very nhce sunshine. Cloud beginning to
:25:25. > :25:29.thicken. That didn't affect the temperatures. They were well above
:25:30. > :25:40.the seasonal norm for this time of year. Very welcome after thd wet
:25:41. > :25:45.weather. A bit of a breeze, which helps with the evaporation process.
:25:46. > :25:52.The weekend, a subtle story. We are looking at dry weather for ` week,
:25:53. > :25:56.really. Where we get the sunshine, it will feel mild. Where we get
:25:57. > :26:01.holes in the cloud, we could be looking at chilly, frosty and foggy
:26:02. > :26:05.starts. This is all due to ` nice big ridge of high pressure to the
:26:06. > :26:14.east of us, but it is keeping an area of low pressure in the west
:26:15. > :26:19.away from us. But it does mdan settled conditions for the next few
:26:20. > :26:25.days. At the moment, not much cloud around at all. Not particul`rly
:26:26. > :26:33.chilly. As that low from thd West clips us a little net `` it, it will
:26:34. > :26:39.bring rather dank conditions. Temperatures holding up well.
:26:40. > :26:46.Tomorrow morning, we hold onto that edge of low pressure. It will be
:26:47. > :26:53.great, Misty and foggy and overcast, but the sun really gets to work
:26:54. > :26:58.Glorious sunshine by tomorrow afternoon. 14`15 Celsius and with a
:26:59. > :27:01.brisk but southerly breeze, that milder combines with the sunshine,
:27:02. > :27:09.making it feel very springlhke indeed. Finally, things beghnning to
:27:10. > :27:16.dry out properly. Tomorrow night, cloud thickens and builds. Because
:27:17. > :27:23.of the cloud, we will have insulation. Sunday is more cloudy.
:27:24. > :27:28.It will start cloudy and st`y like that. Right the way through next
:27:29. > :27:31.week, a dry story, and wherd we get the sunshine, very pleasant indeed.
:27:32. > :27:42.Who needs to go to Strasbourg?