:00:00. > :00:10.A community under bombardment by flies.
:00:11. > :00:13.Thousands of them infest Avonmouth as containers
:00:14. > :00:25.We cover everything so the customers are happy but it is really really
:00:26. > :00:27.but it is really really bad.
:00:28. > :00:30.Tonight, as a public meeting's, held we find out what's being done
:00:31. > :00:41.No fear of the law ` the criminals who've broken
:00:42. > :00:52.The Bristol car that will ldave the rest behind.
:00:53. > :00:59.Bone day this will be 1000 liles an hour car and we have had thd first
:01:00. > :01:04.look inside the cockpit at the controls. And I have been ott
:01:05. > :01:07.finding out how you have bedn enjoying the glorious weathdr. Could
:01:08. > :01:11.this be the start of a long hot summer?
:01:12. > :01:14.A public meeting's being held in Avonmouth tonight as reshdents
:01:15. > :01:17.try to get rid of a fly infdstation that's plagued them for weeks.
:01:18. > :01:19.It's so bad fly spray's being handed out to locals.
:01:20. > :01:23.The source of the problem h`s been bags of waste sat on the docks at
:01:24. > :01:26.It's become such an issue that the matter will be raised
:01:27. > :01:40.Let?s join Scott Ellis in Avonmouth now.
:01:41. > :01:48.Lovely weather but the flies are enjoying it.
:01:49. > :01:53.That's the problem. Everyond is enjoying the warm summer evdning but
:01:54. > :01:56.the warm weather has helped the flies to breed and homeowners have
:01:57. > :02:02.been telling me they won't open their windows to let the brdeze in
:02:03. > :02:07.because it lets the flies in. Helen and Sally, how bad is the shtuation?
:02:08. > :02:14.Shocking. My house has been fumigated. Terrible, that flies
:02:15. > :02:19.everywhere. The source of the problem is next door over the back
:02:20. > :02:25.of this building is Avonmouth where the fly infestation has started I
:02:26. > :02:28.have been looking around today to find out how bad this probldm is.
:02:29. > :02:30.A regular household chore for Kevin Webb.
:02:31. > :02:41.He's been sharing his home with flies for weeks.
:02:42. > :02:51.There are 20 flies on there in a day. And another 15 in the
:02:52. > :02:53.conservatory. I made a cup of coffee and I turned around and there were
:02:54. > :02:55.were two in the coffee.
:02:56. > :02:57.The local cafe is fighting the flies too.
:02:58. > :03:01.It means staff have to clean more often ` and keep food coverdd.
:03:02. > :03:07.It is really difficult and so frustrating. It is embarrassing for
:03:08. > :03:11.the customers because you are going like that and trying to serve them
:03:12. > :03:13.food without any flies being around. One family's even resorted to
:03:14. > :03:16.dinner ` under a fly net. The problem's been bags of waste `
:03:17. > :03:19.similar to these ` It's bound for Sweden to be used
:03:20. > :03:24.as fuel but shipment was delayed. The bags split open
:03:25. > :03:28.and the flies started feasthng. Today
:03:29. > :03:45.the Environment Agency told us: Not everyone's convinced
:03:46. > :03:55.the problem's over. And next week the area's MP will
:03:56. > :04:06.demand reassurances from ministers. Residents don't have to wait weeks
:04:07. > :04:10.and weeks while they squabble about who was responsible and say they can
:04:11. > :04:12.do nothing. We need a plan so if it happens again residents get action
:04:13. > :04:14.first and they can squabble later. As for Kevin, he has another killer
:04:15. > :04:18.solution to the fly infestation A venus fly trap `
:04:19. > :04:30.surely soon to be the best selling There is a public meeting in
:04:31. > :04:34.Avonmouth to reassure residdnts here. The council says it whll
:04:35. > :04:39.continue to hand out the flhghts break and they are fumigating homes
:04:40. > :04:43.and they will look at food waste bins and other contaminated areas
:04:44. > :04:46.and the Environment Agency hs reassuring residents the businesses
:04:47. > :04:49.operating on Avonmouth docks will be checked to make sure they are
:04:50. > :04:56.working within the operating licence.
:04:57. > :04:58.A three`year`old was rescued from a car in Trowbridge yesterday
:04:59. > :05:03.Police broke a window and the child was taken to the Royal Unitdd
:05:04. > :05:08.The matter's been referred to social services.
:05:09. > :05:11.More than forty officers and staff have now been intdrviewed
:05:12. > :05:13.as part of the investigation into gross misconduct alleg`tions
:05:14. > :05:18.against Avon Somerset's chief constable, Nick Gargan.
:05:19. > :05:23.Mr Gargan was suspended last month following claims he m`de
:05:24. > :05:25.inappropriate advances to junior female members of st`ff.
:05:26. > :05:26.The Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens
:05:27. > :05:33.said Mr Gargan denied the allegations and was dev`stated.
:05:34. > :05:35.A man from Cirencester has been arrested
:05:36. > :05:40.The child was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital
:05:41. > :05:43.on Tuesday afternoon after emergency services were called
:05:44. > :05:52.A Gloucestershire couple who admitted neglecting their children
:05:53. > :05:56.and bringing them up in dirty, squalid conditions were due to be
:05:57. > :06:00.sentenced today. But the cotrt case had to be postponed after the pair `
:06:01. > :06:03.who can't be named for legal reasons ` had to be taken to hospit`l.
:06:04. > :06:07.Here's our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs.
:06:08. > :06:12.This has been a case that h`s shocked all involved. The couple
:06:13. > :06:16.cared for nine children ` all of them the mother's but her htsband
:06:17. > :06:20.had only fathered the three youngest ones. They pleaded guilty to
:06:21. > :06:23.neglecting five of them ` charges relating to the other four will lie
:06:24. > :06:26.on file. The children lived in filthy and unhygienic conditions `
:06:27. > :06:28.matresses were soiled, bedrooms smelt of urine and animal f`eces.
:06:29. > :06:31.The children were reported `s being often dirty and smelly and suffered
:06:32. > :06:33.badly with head lice infest`tions which the mother told policd she'd
:06:34. > :06:35.treated with mayonnaise. Despite health and social agencies
:06:36. > :06:38.attempting to intervene, it was only after the youngest child was
:06:39. > :06:41.admitted to hospital with sdvere nappy rash which had left ulcers on
:06:42. > :06:44.the skin that police arrestdd the couple. We can't identify them as we
:06:45. > :06:58.have a legal duty to protect the children's identity but at `
:06:59. > :07:06.previous hearing I asked thd father why he'd treated his childrdn so
:07:07. > :07:13.We let our children down, wd never stopped loving them but we let them
:07:14. > :07:18.down. Not in a neglectful w`y but development and growing up.
:07:19. > :07:22.Did you believe the children were being treated properly and they were
:07:23. > :07:26.being brought up in a clean and loving home?
:07:27. > :07:34.I did, yes. I suppose that was a blinkered opinion. Looking back I
:07:35. > :07:38.can see no. The couple were expecting to be
:07:39. > :07:42.sentenced and sent to jail but it was delight `` delayed but this
:07:43. > :07:46.morning the couple never arrived and the court was told they had been
:07:47. > :07:51.admitted to hospital after taking an overdose. The judge said I have no
:07:52. > :07:56.idea if this is attention sdeking, sympathy seeking or if this was a
:07:57. > :08:02.genuine attempt `` to take their lives. Psychiatric teams ard working
:08:03. > :08:05.with a couple to ensure no harm comes to them between now and next
:08:06. > :08:09.week when they're expected to be sentenced.
:08:10. > :08:12.It's emerged that a gang of criminals have broken
:08:13. > :08:16.They drove a van through the barriers at Leyhill in South
:08:17. > :08:20.Gloucestershire and stole tobacco worth nearly thirty thousand pounds.
:08:21. > :08:22.But not content with that they struck again seven months l`ter
:08:23. > :08:29.This exclusive report by out Home Affairs Correspondent,
:08:30. > :08:32.This is the entrance at Leyhill ` it's not
:08:33. > :08:34.designed to be escape proof`after all this is an open prison.
:08:35. > :08:36.And these metal barriers are certainly not built
:08:37. > :08:45.In October last year a gang got in and ram raided a building in
:08:46. > :08:55.the prison's grounds where hnmates are employed to pack tobacco for
:08:56. > :09:00.It is stupid to break into ` prison. They usually try to break ott!
:09:01. > :09:04.It?s claimed that at the tile of the raid prison staff were
:09:05. > :09:06.distracted by a large firework display outside the jail.
:09:07. > :09:09.The gang made off with ?29,8000 worth of tobacco in a silver van.
:09:10. > :09:13.But this was not the first time the prison's perimeter had been broken.
:09:14. > :09:16.Seven months before a simil`r raid had taken place and tobacco
:09:17. > :09:32.It seems a bold offence, brdaking in to a prison, strangely but ht was a
:09:33. > :09:34.was a bold offence.
:09:35. > :09:37.No`one from the Ministry of Justice would be interviewed about the
:09:38. > :09:40.incidents but an official admitted a quantity of what were descrhbed as "
:09:41. > :09:44.He claimed that security here has been improved but couldn't
:09:45. > :09:59.We know both offences used stolen vehicles from the Midlands `rea the
:10:00. > :10:02.vehicles were recovered. We have carried out extensive forensic
:10:03. > :10:08.enquiries and where they were stolen from. That hasn't given `` given us
:10:09. > :10:13.any clues. We have conducted extensive CCTV enquiries and with a
:10:14. > :10:15.community to see if there w`s anything. Sadly, at this st`ge we
:10:16. > :10:17.have not arrested anyone. The courier company DHL didn't want
:10:18. > :10:19.to talk about this highly unusual btrglary
:10:20. > :10:22.which also resulted in ?15,000 You're watching Friday's Pohnts West
:10:23. > :10:40.on another beautiful day. We'll have
:10:41. > :10:44.the weekend weather soon and keeping We're counting down to tomorrow s
:10:45. > :10:48.World Cup tie but we'll meet some The final wish of a teenager from
:10:49. > :11:04.North Dorset is coming true. David Langton`Gilks who was 16 had a brain
:11:05. > :11:10.tumour and did all he could to make more people aware of the sylptoms.
:11:11. > :11:14.After his death, his family continued the campaign and now, two
:11:15. > :11:19.years on, they've got support from the Government. In a moment we'll be
:11:20. > :11:22.talking to David's mum Sach`, but first our Health Corresponddnt
:11:23. > :11:38.Matthew Hill reminds us abott this David found the energy to do this
:11:39. > :11:43.interview a couple of months before he died. He was living with brain
:11:44. > :11:49.cancer for five years. Before I was diagnosed I felt really weird, sick
:11:50. > :11:55.and getting bad headaches. H thought it was just I was coming down with
:11:56. > :12:03.something or it was normal. It came on so slowly and it became ` normal
:12:04. > :12:05.thing. It took six weeks to diagnose, something his pardnts felt
:12:06. > :12:12.could have been spotted much earlier. That's why his mother made
:12:13. > :12:16.it her mission to deliver these pocket sized symptom cards to as
:12:17. > :12:20.many schoolchildren as she could. For this to happen across the
:12:21. > :12:23.country she enlisted the support of the government. It has taken months
:12:24. > :12:30.to secure a meeting with thd minister for public health but this
:12:31. > :12:33.letter from the MP confirms NHS England is contacting all dhrectors
:12:34. > :12:39.of public health about the campaign to encourage schools throughout the
:12:40. > :12:45.country to take part. I rel`psed several times which was fun. And now
:12:46. > :12:52.I'm kind of stuffed. But, yds, hey, you can't win them all. Davhd raised
:12:53. > :12:58.the profile of this disease to a much higher level. His final wish
:12:59. > :13:02.has `` is that many families should know about the symptoms and it looks
:13:03. > :13:17.How do you you feel? I am rdally relieved the minister... Yot cannot
:13:18. > :13:21.get a new piece of informathon to the public domain from the bottom
:13:22. > :13:26.up. You need help from government and public health is the best place
:13:27. > :13:31.to get it from. They can get it into health visitors, baby clinics and
:13:32. > :13:36.schoolbags and they can get it into pharmacies. You need as manx people
:13:37. > :13:42.to be aware of the symptoms, like with meningitis.
:13:43. > :13:47.Are there any papers or evidence to suggest early diagnosis helps?
:13:48. > :13:51.Yes, there is. That is why the campaign was set up by the brain
:13:52. > :13:56.tumour charity to be collecting data as they went along so they could
:13:57. > :14:04.prove it with data and colldcting it as we go along. We have cut by 5%
:14:05. > :14:10.but we need 25% ago. The target is a five`week average diagnosis. It can
:14:11. > :14:15.make all the difference. At five weeks, you can save 80% of the
:14:16. > :14:22.children. This didn't exist when David was there. It was hugd. And
:14:23. > :14:30.weeks seven where the average diagnosis time is now, they are dead
:14:31. > :14:35.from a common cancer tumour. You have put so much energy and passion
:14:36. > :14:41.into this. How has involvemdnt helped you? I think it has been
:14:42. > :14:44.good... It is tempting and ht is hard to talk to other peopld, they
:14:45. > :14:49.are so appalled and don't know what to say and we are not good `t
:14:50. > :14:53.talking about death and death in children and cancer is even worse.
:14:54. > :14:59.It is everybody's worst terror. The idea it could happen to you is awful
:15:00. > :15:06.and you cannot deal with it. It is tempting to go home and go tnder the
:15:07. > :15:11.duvet. I have two other children and David said to me before he died his
:15:12. > :15:16.dementia got very bad, he dhdn't recognise me at the end and that
:15:17. > :15:22.could have been stopped. With earlier diagnosis. He said to me,
:15:23. > :15:28.you have to do this. You must keep going so I can't let him down. He
:15:29. > :15:30.would be so proud of you. It is so inspirational and a super lhttle
:15:31. > :15:34.boy. Thank you very much. After years of debate the idea
:15:35. > :15:37.of building a barrage across the Severn Estuary m`y have
:15:38. > :15:39.been largely ruled out. But another way
:15:40. > :15:42.of using its tidal power to generate The scheme is called a tidal lagoon,
:15:43. > :15:46.and councils are bidding for three million pounds to get it
:15:47. > :15:48.kickstarted. It has one of the biggest thdes
:15:49. > :15:55.in the world. The potential to produce renewable
:15:56. > :15:59.energy for millions of homes. Now, the race is on to capttre
:16:00. > :16:03.the power using a new technology. Turbines are housed
:16:04. > :16:10.in a concrete lock which is set As the tide rushes in, and out,
:16:11. > :16:15.it drives the turbines prodtcing This man leads a group of
:16:16. > :16:23.businessmen with ambitious plans. Not only do they want to produce
:16:24. > :16:26.power for half a million holes but they hope
:16:27. > :16:31.a lagoon would regenerate the area. The power or give us the me`ns to
:16:32. > :16:37.afford to have a ferry dock, we are talking about putting a wavd maker
:16:38. > :16:40.in because the local youth would Local councils from Bristol to
:16:41. > :16:47.West Somerset are also talkhng about how they can encouragd tidal
:16:48. > :16:50.lagoons to make the area We have this great geographhc
:16:51. > :16:59.anomaly which is the second Let's use that to
:17:00. > :17:06.our best advantage. The council is putting in a bid
:17:07. > :17:10.for ?3 million of European loney to It seems likely
:17:11. > :17:16.the worlds first tidal lagoon will be built at Swansea but in Linehead
:17:17. > :17:19.they could be the second. And we'll be discussing this more
:17:20. > :17:32.on Sunday Politics West. The Bristol project to make the
:17:33. > :17:51.world's first thousand mile an hour Today we've had
:17:52. > :17:57.the first glimpse inside thd cockpit of the vehicle ` which they hope
:17:58. > :18:02.will break the land speed rdcord. Richard Westcott's been to @vonmouth
:18:03. > :18:08.to see the driver's controls. This is the first time anyone has
:18:09. > :18:11.seen the cockpit ` Blood Hotnd will We will be speaking to the
:18:12. > :18:17.man driving it but this is how it We will explain in a minute or so
:18:18. > :18:22.if I am still conscious. To go nearly one and a half times
:18:23. > :18:33.the speed of sound in a car. Finally, you need a 12 mile long
:18:34. > :18:47.dried`out lake bed with voltnteers who have removed 23,000 tonnes
:18:48. > :18:55.of stones by hand so it is smooth. The blood has gone back to ly feet,
:18:56. > :18:58.you will be practising in that An exciting day,
:18:59. > :19:07.the public launch of the cockpit. This is where I will sit,
:19:08. > :19:11.200 kilogram piece of carbon fibre, very much jet fighter style
:19:12. > :19:18.cockpit, a centre screen with performance information, spded, up
:19:19. > :19:22.to 1000 miles an hour and the power The screens and the controls
:19:23. > :19:30.for the power systems and I have two pedals, the jet dngine,
:19:31. > :19:38.and the wheel brakes, so speed 200 miles an hour `nd the
:19:39. > :19:44.steering wheel is moulded thtanium, printed in titanium with buttons
:19:45. > :19:49.for systems and parachutes `nd most This is the throttle,
:19:50. > :20:01.800 horsepower race car enghne and that will drive the rocket
:20:02. > :20:07.which will be the thrust, 135,0 0 horsepower and at the other end of
:20:08. > :20:26.the 12 mile desert in two mhnutes. He is proud of that, isn't he? Has
:20:27. > :20:27.anyone told there is a 20 mhle an hour speed limit Bristol!
:20:28. > :20:31.There are just over 30 hours to go until England's opening gamd
:20:32. > :20:33.in Brazil, some of you have been preparing for
:20:34. > :20:39.England, of course ` take on Italy ` and it'll be a tricky one to watch
:20:40. > :20:42.for some of the Italians who live here in the West.
:20:43. > :20:45.English fans don't like plaxing football against Italy becatse
:20:46. > :20:49.they lose but while football isn't a favourite Italian culture is.
:20:50. > :20:54.Here in the Italian city of Bath they are getting into it.
:20:55. > :21:00.It is like Bill Shankly oncd said, football is not a matter
:21:01. > :21:12.We Italians absolutely agree with the statement.
:21:13. > :21:21.And in the World Cup there are surprises.
:21:22. > :21:28.And the English team has, for the first time, lots of young t`lent.
:21:29. > :21:33.The big clubs in Italy were founded by English
:21:34. > :21:39.It will be a big game but it isn't as big as it used to be.
:21:40. > :21:47.How is this for someone with a foot in both camps?
:21:48. > :22:02.When we played in the year rose it was a funny feeling because you
:22:03. > :22:05.wanted to score but at the dnd of the day it is early stagds.
:22:06. > :22:20.And at least one person will be happy whatever the result.
:22:21. > :22:22.It's been another beautiful day across the West.
:22:23. > :22:25.The pools have been packed, the suncream's been out and after
:22:26. > :22:29.a wet, wet, winter, plenty of you have been making the most of it
:22:30. > :22:31.Sarah`Jane Bungay is down at the Harbourside in Bristol now, enjoying
:22:32. > :22:47.It has clouded over slightlx but still green mild, plenty of people
:22:48. > :22:52.out and about enjoying a drhnk, if you glasses of wine after work and I
:22:53. > :22:55.have had an enviable job, I have been out and about finding out
:22:56. > :23:05.however one has been enjoying themselves. Diving into sumler. This
:23:06. > :23:12.is more like it. We live in Tenerife so we have come back. I told him I
:23:13. > :23:19.would bring the weather and I did. It is a nice view, a nice bht of
:23:20. > :23:22.sun. The fact you are outside makes a change, we swim regularly in
:23:23. > :23:29.indoor pools so it is nice to be out in the weather. Who said Frhday the
:23:30. > :23:36.13th was unlucky, not for this butcher. It is barbecue season. When
:23:37. > :23:43.the weather predicts sun and off it goes and we are making stuff
:23:44. > :23:54.nonstop. Taunton looked tritmphant in the sun. Rewind a year, ht barely
:23:55. > :24:08.reached 16 Celsius hair. `` here. And Gloucestershire glistendd under
:24:09. > :24:12.blue skies. The temperature reached 24 points six. I predict thhs
:24:13. > :24:17.weekend will cool down a little but then lovely 14 days of warm sunny
:24:18. > :24:27.weather. And you are never too young, or too small, to enjoy a few
:24:28. > :24:32.rays. Yes, it was lovely today, lots of people enjoying themselvds. I
:24:33. > :24:38.hope you get out and about `nd enjoy the sunshine. Down here at the
:24:39. > :24:41.harbour`side, the BBC Festival of nature, plenty going on espdcially
:24:42. > :24:47.if you have little people and it keeps them entertained. Lots for the
:24:48. > :24:52.adults as well. Whether it has been the hottest day so far, a couple of
:24:53. > :24:58.minutes and you will find ott, 4.9 Celsius was recorded on the 19th of
:24:59. > :25:07.May, David and Amanda, are xou going to bet a fiver? I know the `nswer.
:25:08. > :25:12.We will leave Sarah Jane to sit down with those people enjoying the last
:25:13. > :25:20.rays and we go up to the roof where Ian can tell a bit about wh`t is to
:25:21. > :25:24.come. A decent enough weekends, pleasantly warm, temperaturds down
:25:25. > :25:32.compared to today but we should reach the low 20s. We have had a
:25:33. > :25:38.nice story in terms of tempdratures of 23 and 24 Celsius. We will find
:25:39. > :25:43.later on this evening and increasing chance of showers, they will be an
:25:44. > :25:47.aspect of the weather furthdr towards the east of the reghon.
:25:48. > :25:52.Through Saturday, still a fdw showers around but nothing scary, no
:25:53. > :25:57.desperately heavy showers, lany areas of avoiding them. Brightness
:25:58. > :26:03.and Sunday should be dry through the course of the day. The rainfall
:26:04. > :26:07.radar has picked up showers over Northern Ireland, they are critical
:26:08. > :26:14.because with time they will migrate down to the West Midlands, crossing
:26:15. > :26:19.Gloucestershire through Wiltshire and Bristol at midnight onw`rds A
:26:20. > :26:23.sprinkling of heavy showers not expecting any thundery ones in
:26:24. > :26:28.amongst that and through thd cause of the evening and overnight they
:26:29. > :26:31.will drift away. This is looking through the wider scene of the
:26:32. > :26:35.course of the weekend and as I mentioned, the chance of a few
:26:36. > :26:41.showers popping up through the course of tomorrow afternoon and
:26:42. > :26:46.further afield towards Sund`y, a day of variable cloud and some shine
:26:47. > :26:52.with light wind for both daxs. The rest of this evening, one to showers
:26:53. > :26:56.on the radar all ready across areas but later tonight we will sde
:26:57. > :27:01.heavier ones marching slowlx southwards and by daybreak tomorrow
:27:02. > :27:07.they should be out of the w`y in the south and a mild night of 14 or 15
:27:08. > :27:15.Celsius. Tomorrow, a dry and fairly bright start, a competition between
:27:16. > :27:19.`` between cloud cover and sunshine. A few showers around through the
:27:20. > :27:24.course of the afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow up to around
:27:25. > :27:30.21 or 22, the North Somerset coast to be warm.
:27:31. > :27:35.Has it been the hottest day? No, we wish I of it, 24.9 wd had to
:27:36. > :27:42.beat. Not bad at all. The cricketdrs are
:27:43. > :27:57.guests at Long Ashton. It is also Father's Day. Good night.
:27:58. > :28:00.Make the most of your weekend, wherever you are.