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A reminder of the main story, Rolf Harris is beginning a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West with Liz Beacon and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The teacher jailed for grooming teenage girls. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
He used Facebook to make contact with them in defiance | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
The sentence handed down today by the judge reflects the sdrious | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
nature of these crimes and hmpact they have had on the victims. | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
Home and dry ` the families washed out by the floods celebrate | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
A mine of information ` how a disused bunker could be used | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
And get ready to go to a party ` a weekend of celebration ahdad | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
A Wiltshire teacher found gtilty of grooming teenage pupils | :00:50. | :01:01. | |
on Facebook has been jailed for two and a half years. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
Alexander Thomas approached the sixth formers on | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
the social networking site, before asking them to send him photographs | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
This report by our home aff`irs correspondent, Steve Brodie. | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
30`year`old Alexander Thomas arrived at court having been | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
At his trial, the jury had heard how he targeted the girls aged 06 | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
He began by sending one 17`year`old ` message | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
But then the messages quickly became sexually explicit. | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
One girl was persuaded by the PE and Business Studies teacher to send | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
him photographs of herself posing in her underwear. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
A second teenager sent him a topless image. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
With two of his victims sitting only yards away in the public gallery, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the court listening as personal statements were read out. | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
One girl looks at her time `t the school with disgust. Another said | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
that she had panic attacks `nd depression. Another said thd | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
experience left her feeling sick. Today, one teaching union s`id it | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
has strict guidelines for the use We advise extreme caution when using | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
Facebook or any social medi`. We suggest that our members do not | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
friends any pupils or ex`pupils We suggest they are very careftl making | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
comments in any circumstancds. The jury had found Thomas gtilty | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
of five counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
while in a position of trust and he had admitted a charge of possessing | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
an indecent photograph of a child. I would like to personally thank the | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
victims who have showing cotrage by coming to court to give evidence. | :02:59. | :03:07. | |
This case highlights the police s dedication to pursuing thesd cases. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
The sentence given by the jtdge today reflects the serious nature of | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
the crimes and the impact they have had on the victims. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Jailing Thomas for two and ` half years, the judge told him it had | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
You were motivated by your desire for sexual gratification | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
These girls have all been affected in some way. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
Steve Brodie, BBC Points West, Swindon Crown Court. | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
As we have been hearing, thd disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
has today been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for inddcent | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Tonight, Karen Gardner, a journalist on BBC Wiltshire, has spoken out | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
about how she was also assatlted by Harris as a 16`year`old. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Like one of the teenage victims in the court case, it took place | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
in Cambridge during the filling of a TV show called Star Games in 19 7. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
During the trial Harris said he had never | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
been to Cambridge in the 1970s, but Karen knew he had been therd and | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Imogen Sellers has been to leet Karen and got her reaction | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
I was 16 and a half and I h`d just finished my O`Levels. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
They asked, through the school, if anyone was interested in helping | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
I went along and I was allocated to look after one of the celebrities. | :04:14. | :04:25. | |
I would have loved to look `fter one of the BBC1 DJs or one of the | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
But I thought, actually Rolf is great. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
He was lovely for the morning and great fun. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Clearly an attention seeker, but celebrities | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
But after lunch, as I recall, he started to make a bit | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
We had to get in a taxi and he put his hand on my ldg | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
I think it was the first tile I ever swore at an adult and I was very | :04:53. | :05:09. | |
How did you feel when you realised how cruci`l your | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
It was only at the point when he gave evidence that he had | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
not been at the celebrity It's A Knockout thing in Calbridge | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
He had been there and that was where I had met him. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
That is why I contacted Operation Yewtree. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
They responded very quickly and I have to say I cannot fault the way | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
Within hours of having my information, they found the video | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
What were your feelings when he was found guilty? | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
I did not think he was going to be found guilty. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
I don't think you can be pldased because it was such | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
There will be more on the sdntencing of Rolf Harris this afternoon.. | :05:57. | :06:09. | |
I hope it helps the women that he really dalaged. | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
It is difficult to understand how you can ever feel better about it. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Is there a sense of relief now for you? | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
I will need a few days to think about this. | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
I feel like a bit of a fraud because I wasn't that badly damaged, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
but perhaps I was more damaged than I thought. | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
Some of the victims of the winter flooding in Somerset | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
have finally been able to go home today ` more than six months | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
after they were forced out of their homes as the waters rose. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Meanwhile, the dredging of local rivers to help | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
prevent more flooding hit a setback today ` after thieves emptidd their | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Back inside their home for the first time since the winter floods force | :07:01. | :07:23. | |
them to flee. `` forced. Jane and her daughter had been in telporary | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
accommodation for more than six months. They are now finallx able to | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
move back home. It is amazing. It is like a new home. This was their home | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
in February this year, under a three foot of flood water. Most of their | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
furniture and many of their possessions were destroyed. Jane was | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
an insured. She had to clail in 2012 when her home was flooded and had | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
been unable to find anyone to provide cover since. Facing repairs | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
of ?25,000, each amenities pectin and fixed her home for thred. `` the | :08:04. | :08:16. | |
community stepped in and fixed her home for no charge. This is part of | :08:17. | :08:30. | |
the project to prevent more flooding. They are dredging parts of | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
the river. But for the second time this morning, they have had to stop | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
because people have stolen fuel from the machines. The environmental | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
agency is now talking about putting CCTV on these machines and hiring | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
security. This is one of thd oldest houses in the area. Now, th`nk you | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
to strangers, they can live there again. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Personal information about xou and me could be stored | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
in a giant cold war bunker deep beneath the Wiltshire countryside. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
The data would be kept on computers maintained by the Government. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
The scheme is being named after the wartime code breaking | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
We are about 110 feet below the ground. Jeff owns this mine in | :09:27. | :09:47. | |
Wiltshire. Every store and was removed by hand and then it was | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
taken over by the Ministry of Defence. This is the emergency exit | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
or the back door. Now it cotld be put to a modern use. This space is | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
good for creating Europe's largest data storage. Data can be stored | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
here and then looked at. We are currently generating more d`ta than | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
ever before in human existence. We can analyse things to get a benefit | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
for everyone. The government has committed millions of pounds to this | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
project. It will be named after Alan Turing. This is a continuathon of | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
what Alan Turing was doing. The work that he did during and after the | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
war. Bristol is hoping to train the codebreakers of tomorrow at events | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
like this. The future of thd United Kingdom will depend on having a | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
skilled workforce. People who are comfortable with the technology | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Whatever subject area you are in, you are going to need to usd data. | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
And you can see more about the gathering of big data | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
on our Sunday Politics West programme, on BBC One at 11PM. | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
The family of a young woman who died last weekend, | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
when the car she was travelling in left the road, say that no words can | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Ellie Clare, who was 19, and George Stott, who was also travellhng in | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the car, both died at the scene of the accident in Farrington Gurney. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Her family say they've been overwhelmed with messages | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
An aircraft which was due to make its international debut at | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
RAF Fairford's air tattoo ndxt Friday, has been grounded | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
The US Department of Defence said it would make | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
a final decision next week `bout whether the F`35, which is ` stealth | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
They say the cause of the fire is under investhgation. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Yesterday, we told you about a recruitlent | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Many GPs say they are so overworked that they are being | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
But now doctors in Somerset say they may have come up with a solttion to | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
They have voted to break aw`y from an NHS directive | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
on how to treat patients in a bid to reduce workloads. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
But some are concerned that patient care may suffer in this one`year | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
For the last 10 years, GPs in Somerset, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
like Michael Gorman, have followed national guidelines on which tests | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
to offer patients and how often check`ups should be carried out | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
So, for example, if it is recommended that a patient's blood | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
pressure is checked every month the GP has to do so ` even if there is | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
But doctors in Somerset say that this involves | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
too much paperwork and often they are giving care that is not needed. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Patients often have more th`n one condition, like Mr Baker ` | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
who may have diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and asthma | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
We want to concentrate on the patient, rather than | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
the disease, and make sure that their care is actually planned | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
for their specific need rather than just hitting targets that apply to | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
And local NHS managers are keen to stress that this change will | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
This surgery, like others in Somerset, has been | :13:41. | :14:11. | |
It is hoped that cutting bureaucracy may make doctors, once again, | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
feel that surgeries are an attractive place to work. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
But, the British Medical Association wants to make sure patient care is | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
The concern I have about that is that this card is | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
a nationally agreed standard all across the UK, not just in Dngland. | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
We must ensure that Somerset patients get exactly the sale high | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
quality care from their GPs as they would do, for example, | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
After a year, this pilot will be reviewed to | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
assess if GP workloads have improved and patient care maintained. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Taunton's wheelchair tennis player Lucy Shuker's hopes | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
of reaching a fourth Wimbledon were dashed this afternoon. | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Lucy, and her German partner Sabine Ellerbrook, were beaten in the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
semi`final of the doubles bx the reigning champions from Holland | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
They lost in straight sets, 6`1 6`0. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Yeah, Aniek and Jiske are a very strong doubles pairing. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
You can sometimes get some cheap points from them on their sdrves, | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
The wind conditions ` althotgh, obviously they are the same | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
So it is really disappointing and frustrating | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
because that is not the kind of tennis that Sabine and I play. | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
The memoir of a Somerset hotsewife who became a wartime spitfire pilot | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
is being re`published, more than 50 years after it was first wrhtten. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Jackie Moggridge, who lived in Taunton, took her first | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
She received a King's Commendation for her services during the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Second World War and later, in the commercial world, shd became | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
I have got suitcases full of it because actually she was | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Candy Moggridge did not havd to think twice when she got | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
the call from publishers kedn to get her mother's story back in print. | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
50 years on, the tales of Jackie Moggridge still | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Jackie was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary. | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
Their job was to ferry aircraft from factory to frontline. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Dangerous though that was, for the few women involved battling | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
These are her planes from all over the world. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
Jackie flew more hours, in more planes, than anyone else. | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
She ticked them off in a book, often with pithy comments. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
A nice aircraft ` except from bits that fell off occasion`lly | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
Points West spoke to her in 199 and her love | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
She met her husband in the war and found that flying was a gre`t way to | :16:47. | :16:59. | |
keep romance alive ` dropping love notes, wrapped in chocolate bars. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
whoever finds this, eat the chocolate, but please ddliver | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
By the end of the war, Jackie received the | :17:09. | :17:21. | |
Afterwards, she continued flying for colmercial | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
She was told not to speak over her intercom. | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Her first officer had to spdak for her, because passengers might | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Fittingly, her ashes were scattered across an airfield from a Spitfire | :17:34. | :17:45. | |
People in St Pauls in Bristol are getting ready for a big party. | :17:46. | :17:59. | |
It is the carnival this weekend and almost everybody is involved | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
The carnival has been going now for nearly 50 years ` | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
making it the longest running festival of its kind in the country | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
We have been taking a look behind the scenes at how evdryone's | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
We have to be something that lives underwater and a mermaid is a person | :18:17. | :18:29. | |
My mum is going to do some face painting | :18:30. | :18:41. | |
After you have fried it, you put it into a container, and you | :18:42. | :18:57. | |
get the onion, green pepper, and red pepper, and make it look prdtty | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
It means a lot because sometimes you meet people who you havd not | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Children that have grown up and gone away, then they cole back | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
We are asking people who cole, who visit and enjoy 12 hours | :19:22. | :19:35. | |
of free music and entertainlent please pledge one drink | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
If the majority of people dhd this, or even 10% of people, then we | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
would be on our way to securing the event, and becoming self`sufficient, | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
I think we are a multicultural city that is tolerant of each other. | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
We celebrate all the things that bring us together. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
I think Bristol is a very unique place for that. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
It shows because of the varhety and the consistency of music th`t has | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
come out of the city over the last 25 years ` and is still comhng out! | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Something is definitely working here. | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
I moved into St Paul's and I really enjoy it. | :20:26. | :20:53. | |
If they give me ?1 million H would not move away from here. | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
It is such a friendly community and we all help each other. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
And while we are talking about the carnival, there is a poem about it | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
We commissioned the poet Miles Chambers to write it | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
a few years ago, and it conjures up some wonderful images. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
From when it all began, through the riots, to today. | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
I have cancelled a camping trip this weekend. I think that might have | :21:26. | :21:41. | |
been a wise decision. There will be some rain around. Most of that will | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
take place on Saturday. It will fade away and improved throughout the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
afternoon. Places will then stay dry. On Sunday, it will be ` dry | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
start and then showers in the afternoon. This rain has bedn | :22:04. | :22:17. | |
intermittent. But as they go into the night, we are expecting more | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
widespread rain. That will be during the early hours on Saturday. I would | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
not be surprised if by tomorrow evening it was dry everywhere. For | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
just now, there is quite a lot of rain. You will see some heavy rain | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
overnight in some areas. By daybreak it will be better. Tomorrow, it | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
depends on the front how quhckly the weather well improved. Therd may be | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
a few showers. But they will tend to die away throughout the day. It will | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
stay dry for most people who the evening and overnight. Tempdratures, | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
19`20 Celsius. On Sunday, it will be dry and bright in the morning. The | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
chance of rain will increasd through the afternoon. It has not bden a bad | :23:38. | :23:50. | |
week weather`wise. That is `ll from us. We will be back at 10pm. Have a | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
good weekend. Goodbye. | :23:57. | :24:03. |