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pollution levels will be that little bit lower. Thank you. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Also in tonight's programme. Robbed of supplies intended for thd most | :00:08. | :00:43. | |
needy. The break in at a food bank near Bath. A horse is killed on a | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
road near Bath, locals say ht's because it's being used as ` ratrun. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
Thousands join their companx pension scheme overnight without having to | :00:59. | :01:10. | |
lift a finger. We meet the skydiver who refuses to | :01:11. | :01:22. | |
get old. Good evening. A survivor of a massive crash on the M5 h`s been | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
telling an inquest about how it was impossible to see anything. Emma | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Burbull lost both parents in the accident in 2011. She descrhbed it | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
as being "like someone had put a plastic bag around you." Our | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
reporter Scott Ellis has bedn at the inquest and joins us now. Scott | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
there've been some harrowing accounts today? | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Yes. The police investigators said that 54 vehicles crashed and piled | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
up on each other in space of 69 seconds on the M5 behind me on the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
night of the 4th of November, 2 11. Police spoke to 400 drivers who all | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
said that up until then conditions on the mortar from very good. People | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
could see the moon and the stars. People come in and around the corner | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
hit what was described as a bank of fog. One investigator said they | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
could not see the headlights on the front of their own car never mind | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
the stop lights on the car hn front of them. One driver remembered | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
driving into the bank of fork and wondering where the mortar we had | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
gone. Bikini from the Chief Constable who led the investigation. | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
`` we can hear from. The descriptions are very | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
consistent. Like having wokdn up in the morning after it had snowed Sit | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
in the car and cannot see anything. Blankets thrown over the car. It | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
seems quite literal that thdy could not see the end of the car `s they | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
were driving along the road. Is there any indication whether it | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
was smoke or fork? We have xesterday from a witness who said that the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
smell of gunpowder which was a reference to a fireworks display. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
There was a dozen people making no reference to the smell todax. It was | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
said that it was for, it was for Gregory had not experienced before. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
It was an area of reduced vhsibility said the police. The coroner wanted | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
to determine whether it was natural fork or not. `` fog. | :03:28. | :04:00. | |
Thousands of people woke up this morning to find they had johned | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
their company pension schemd ` without signing a thing. It's a | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
government programme, called automatic enrolment, aimed `t | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
getting more people to save for retirement. All week on Points West | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
we're investigating the cost of growing older, and today our | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
business correspondent Dave Harvey has been to Cheltenham, to leet some | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
workers who know all it. Mingling with the old people. Hearing about | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
their experiences. Every ond of them is different. Every one of them has | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
got their own character. If anyone knows what it is like to grow old | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
gracefully, Helen Kress does. Every day and many nights Helen c`res for | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
people in their later years at this Cheltenham residential home. Care | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
like this this does not comd cheap but only recently has Helen started | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
thinking about paying for otr own retirement. I have not alwaxs worked | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
full`time. I have worked part`time. You do not think about the pension. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
I was married and I was relxing on my husband's pension. Helen is not | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
alone. In our survey, nearlx one third had not joined the colpany | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
pension scheme. They have always had a pension scheme here. But tntil | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
now, take`up has been prettx patchy. Until now. If you did have ` pension | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
before today stay on this shde. If you did not have a pension scheme go | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
over there. If you still not have got a pension would you stax here. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
If you have signed up, would you come over here? What has made them | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
all sign up? It is pretty mtch the law. The expectation is that once | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
in, people will be happy to stay there and start saving for | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
retirement. Helen has not m`de a decision. The government has signed | :05:46. | :06:01. | |
her up for a pension automatically. The same reasons that never quite | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
got round to save the first place, it is complicated, we do not want to | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
think about, will hopefully means once we put into a pension they will | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
stay there. They can harness that inertia. Put people in the right | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
place then they will start saving for retirement. Your employdr is | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
giving you some of that. So everyone, company boss to | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
maintenance man are joining. This year 38,000 small firms with fewer | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
than 250 staff will do this. For many, the care home has brotght in | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
pension experts to deal with tricky questions. I have only got ten years | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
left to work. How will this benefit me when I retire? You can p`y into | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
this plan until you get to 75. It is complicated and costly. Not everyone | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
is playing the game. The interesting thing is that 48% of companhes have | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
not got a pension scheme at the moment. A good number of thdm have | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
said that if at all possibld they will avoid it. The answer is that | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
they can't. It is compulsorx and you have to set the scheme up. Hf you do | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
not set the scheme up then there are big fines. I don't have much | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
sympathy with companies. We feel we've got a moral obligation to | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
provide a range of benefits for our staff. It is part of providhng care | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
in the business and keeping all the good people working for us. What is | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
it worth? As residents tuckdd into lunch, Helen gets some penshons | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
advice. How did you feel about being put into this pension schemd? Now it | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
has been explained to us, it seems really good. It seems a good option. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Typical staff here take arotnd ?1,000 per month home. At fhrst | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
they will pay ?10 and will be doubled. In three years it will be | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
?80 per month. ?1,000 per ydar into that pension pot. Roll that amount | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
over two or three decades and you might have a few tens of thousands | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
of pounds in your pension pot but you're still only talking about a | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
retirement income of ?1,000`2,0 0 per year. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
A lot of people could afford to put five percent in. If they match it, | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
your fund will get larger more quickly. Wouldn't it? For Hdlen the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
maths make sense. Pay a little more now and one day she will be able to | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
pay for care as good and shd gives today. Tomorrow we will be looking | :08:34. | :08:53. | |
at the alternatives. Coming up later. It is psychological. If you | :08:54. | :09:05. | |
want to be in. You will enjoy. Do you think age is just? | :09:06. | :09:20. | |
A charity which helps thous`nds of hungry and desperate people in Bath | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
has been targeted by thieves. Volunteers at the food bank, say | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
they're shocked and disappohnted ` after the break`in. Food, toiletries | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
and even the Easter eggs thdy were hoping to give struggling f`milies ` | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
were taken. Another day and of the parcdl, ready | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
for another hungry family. This week is less to go round after thieves | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
targeted these containers used storage by the fast food bank. We're | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
not sure what they did. This has been broken off. We will have to | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
replace these blocks which `re about ?15 each. And find somewherd else to | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
store things? Absolutely. It is run by a trust. It relies on `` Mark | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
nobody can believe what has happened. They have taken a lot of | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
stuff, coffee and CDs. Bizarrely, to all and shampoos. Even if | :10:28. | :11:05. | |
fine `` this friends and fast and People in a village near Bath are | :11:06. | :11:37. | |
calling for the police to intervene after their quiet country l`nes were | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
turned into commuter rat`runs. Upton Cheney is popular with horsd riders | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
` but many say they won't go out after a horse was hit by a car last | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
week. Andrew Plant reports. I saw this car approaching me frol a | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
distance. I could see that ht was going far too fast. I thought I was | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
in trouble. We can only show you a small section of this picture. The | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
car that hit this horse smashed its lower legs. 71`year`old jockey Grant | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Cann was thrown from its back and then crushed underneath. We had to | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
put it down. It had to be shot. It took an hour and a half before it | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
could be shot. It had terrific suffering. A landslip means the main | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
route to Bath is closed for months to come. The quiet village of Upton | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
Cheyney a convenient short cut for hundreds of delayed drivers racing | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
to get to work. Even if thex are not speeding they have to be aw`re that | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
if they are driving at 30 mph, if they need to stop suddenly then they | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
will slide an awful long wax. People ride on the lanes here everx day. | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
Some say are keeping their horses at home. Pretty much every timd you go | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
out you get a near miss with a car. It is not cars we recognise. It is | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
people who are not used to driving through the lanes. The road signs | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
have confused many drivers who see the red and ignore the yellow. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Business is also bad as regtlar customers avoid the known btsy | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
roads. My business has suffdred immensely. We have lost eashly 0% | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
of our trade as a consequence of not having people from Bath feeling | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
comfortable coming along thd main road and travelling the lands. I | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
think the reputation now is that it is slightly dangerous. South | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
Gloucestershire council is reducing the limits down to 20 mph. Locals | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
hope it will rein in the drhvers and make life safer here for thd horses | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
and the riders too. You Probation officers across the | :13:40. | :13:53. | |
West went on strike today over plans to privatise part of the service. | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Unions say the Government proposals could put the public at risk and | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
Avon and Somerset's Crime Commissioner supports some of the | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
Union's claims. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Stevd Brodie. | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
Angry probation officers cl`im that the government's plan to hand the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
care of medium to low risk offenders to private companies is a mhstake | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
which will leave the public worse off. The proposals will leave high | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
risk offenders under the control of the National Probation Servhce. As a | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
public sector probation service we do everything neutrally. However, a | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
private company may look at the contracts as a way to make ` profit. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Do the public realise what jeopardy that places them if the company | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
wants to make a profit? It hs not necessarily interested in the | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
practice of rehabilitating offenders and protecting the public. Two | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
thirds of offenders fall into the medium to low risk category. Any | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
individual can suddenly fall into the high bracket and pose a danger | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
to the public whilst in the community. The warnings frol the | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
union about what could happdn when offenders are released from prisons | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
like here at Horfield have won the support of Avon Somerset's crime | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
commissioner, Sue Mountstevdns. The area that I do have concern is how | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
is an offender when they cole out of offending, being managed by, they | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
may be low risk in the mornhng, they may have drink or drug problems | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
they may have a row with thdir partner, by the afternoon they could | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
be high risk. How is that going to be managed and I think that is a | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
real concern going forward? The Ministry of Justice refused to be | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
interviewed but issued this statement: | :15:35. | :16:00. | |
Cheltenham has become only the second place in the country to | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
impose a charge on pubs and clubs that serve drinks after midnight. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
They'll have to pay a 'late night levy' ranging from ?300 to ?1,5 0 | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
pounds per year. Fall The money will go to the police and the cotncil. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
The idea came from the government, and today a Home Office minhster | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
visited as the change came hnto effect. In You have to recognise | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
that the cost to society of alcohol abuse is ?21 billion per ye`r. 11 | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
billion on anti`social behaviour, 3.5 to the health service and lost | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
productivity. Some of that hs borne by Cheltenham taxpayers so the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
council wants to recoup somd of that to try to make sure that those who | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
don't drink, don't suffer. @ll I think they are absolutely rhght to | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
do so. Some opposition from small businesses who often after lidnight. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
A new British Army command tnit based in Wiltshire which will handle | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
40,000 personnel has been unveiled. It's called Force Troops Colmand and | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
is part of the Army 2020 revamp as the nation's defence adapts to the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
modern world. New technologx will play a big part but there h`ve also | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
been lessons learnt in the heat of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. I | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
went to Upavon to find out lore He looks in pain but the injurhes to | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
this soldier aren't real. This is just a demonstration. But it is the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
type of situation the army's medical brigades have to deal with on a | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
regular basis. Happy with that? Do you want to give him more p`in | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
relief. Field hospitals likd this one staffed by the second mddical | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
brigade will be just a small part of the new Force Troops Command ` | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
40,000 personnel brought together in a reorganisation that's deshgned to | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
save money, but also make the army better at what it does. It hs not to | :17:53. | :18:07. | |
do with cuts. It is about doing business more efficiently so the | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
lessons we learn from Afghanistan and Iraq have meant that we have | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
analysed and looked at the best way to do the business. Also under the | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
new umbrella command, will be several units from Gloucestdrshire | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
and Wiltshire including those involved in combat technology. The | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
newly formed first intelligdnce surveillance and reconnaiss`nce | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
brigade will help track down the enemy. We have deployed this kit in | :18:27. | :18:42. | |
Afghanistan to good effect. We have got good intelligence on kex targets | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
and locations. We have been able to inform command about what h`s been | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
going on the ground. There will be some physical movement of troops to | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
new bases but mostly this restructuring of the Army for the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
year 2020 is about different units working together better. Essential | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
say commanders, in our unprddictable world. Now as part of our sdries on | :19:03. | :19:18. | |
getting older, we've been exploring attitudes to ageing. A few weeks | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
ago, veteran comedian Barry Humphries popped into the studio and | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
we asked him for his thoughts. I tell people I am approaching 70 from | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
the wrong direction. I let them think about that. I had my birthday | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
and a very wicked friend of mine gave me as a guest and our class. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Can you imagine what is likd to have that on bedside table? Many | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
pensioners, particularly those who are lucky enough to have thdir | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
health, see ageing as a really positive thing. Ali Vowles has been | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
to meet some of the people who refuse to believe that age can stop | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
you doing anything you want to do. Here we go. Good general. M`x Boyes | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
from Street could have crumpled under the pressure when his wife | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Doreen became ill with Alzhdimer's. He's with her for much of every day | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
at her care home in Glastonbury ` but in his spare time | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
since her illness, this dark horse has taken on any challenge thrown at | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
him for charity. From skydiving to fast cars, he has even beatdn and | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
are fully `` an Olympic athlete from Rome in 1960. Life is far from over. | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
I am just starting. If you want to be all and then you will be old Can | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
you believe you are 80? I do not think I am 80. Until people see it | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
then I do not think it. It hs nice to come out with friends and chat. I | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
could not sit around all dax doing nothing. The pace is differdnt but | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
these weekly walkers in Portishead are no less committed to behng fit | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
and active. It is due to thd organisation of this 80`year`old. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Fit as a fiddle, being leaddr of the pack is just one activity she fits | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
into our busy week. I love working with people if they are getting | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
enjoyment out of it. They do seem to like coming on these rocks. I do not | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
think about it. Age is just a number. Can I ask how old you are? I | :21:50. | :22:03. | |
am 70. I am 72. I shall be 73 on Thursday. I shall be 78 next week. | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
At 68, make rate has no deshre to stop working as a trapeze artist. `` | :22:15. | :22:29. | |
Mike Wright. Despite such a physically demanding job he decided | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
he would not stop. Life does not have to change my shoe decided to be | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
old. Because I am surrounded by young people and be interact and | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
talk, I get a surprise when a look at myself in the mirror and think | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
that I am 68 but I still fedl like a 20`year`old. These daredevils, | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
lovers of life and unbeliev`ble pensioners are truly testing our | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
perceptions of what it means to get older. | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
If you have been inspired and would like to share details you c`n post | :23:17. | :23:29. | |
them on our Facebook page. Drop us an email at the usual address | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
[email protected] or even send us a postcard! Maybe it's insphred you | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
to set up your own walking group or join the circus! And you can see all | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
of Barry Humphries musings on old age on our Facebook page. It becomes | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
quite poignant. It is superb. It has been a very beautiful | :23:43. | :24:01. | |
afternoon. It has been at 16 Celsius for some of you. It will be | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
different tomorrow. The farther west you are then you will see the bulk | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
of the brain. `` bulk of thd brain. They will also be dry spells. It is | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
a complex story that we are running through the next 24 hours, the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
result one front moving in. It is bringing some shells into l`ter | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
tonight. There will always be this threat of shovels. It is worth | :24:39. | :24:50. | |
emphasising that the new qu`lity is low and it continues tomorrow. It is | :24:51. | :25:02. | |
not helped by sand that has been thrown into the mix as some of you | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
have seen on your cards. As we move into the early hours, some of the | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
rain will start to appear. They list the increasing threat of he`vy | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
downpours. The temperature will be mild. No more than a degree Celsius. | :25:22. | :25:38. | |
`` no less than nine Celsius. Fund cannot be ruled out. There will be a | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
fair amount of cloud. Temperatures should be comfortably warm to stop | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
that is a safe description. 14 Celsius or 15 Celsius. The | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
continuation of the week ahdad will see fresh conditions. It will come | :25:57. | :25:57. | |
windy and wet by Sunday. If you want to help, you can find | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
out more information on the fast food bank web page. `` Bath. | :26:09. | :26:39. | |
All across the country, millions of families are waking up to a Britain | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
in which they find it harder to get on. Whilst the Government keeps | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
telling people everything is fixed, many are finding that hard work no | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
longer stops the pound in their pocket getting smaller, or the bills | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
getting harder to afford. Under David Cameron, gas and electricity | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
bills have increased by more than ?300 for an average family, whilst | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
the energy companies are making huge profits. Meanwhile, childcare, not a | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
luxury but an essential for millions of working families, gets harder to | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
find and | :27:15. | :27:15. |