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Welcome to BBC Points West with Amanda Parr and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hundreds of people see their holiday plans ruined. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
A long`established travel company in Wiltshire, Hatts, goes bust. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The company was not part of the Travel Trade Association. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Tonight, we ask what those who have lost their holidays can do and how | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Five years after the death of the last survivor of the trenches, how | :00:24. | :00:44. | |
Scooping up the medals, seven so far, | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
And what a glorious feeling, we're happy again ` join us | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
As many as a thousand people have had their | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
travel plans thrown into chaos after a Wiltshire coach firm collapsed. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Hatts Travel, who are based in Chippenham, have been trading | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
But the family business ran out of money and today | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
It has left nearly 90 people without their jobs and many | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Our Wiltshire reporter, Will Glennon, is in Chippenham now. | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
It has been a devastating day for all the employees here at Hatts | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
Travel. The signage here says it was established in 1928. That is also | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
written on the company's cultures. But today business at this family | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
run firm has ended. 1000 people who have already paid for holidays will | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
not now get to go on those trips. They do not know if they will get | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
their money back. The Hatts Travel's buses came back today, | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
possibly for the last time. They have cold in the administrators | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
because they have ran out of money. The problem is that the business has | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
ran out of money. We have been working hard to find a solution, but | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
unfortunately there was not. It is too late and we have no option other | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
than to close the business. All 89 employees of Hatts Travel were told | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
today that they will lose their jobs. You just have to get on with | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
it, don't you? Hatts Travel runs bus services, park and ride, and school | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
services. It also ran a great trip and holiday service. 1000 customers | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
will now be left at home. This man has just required and he was looking | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
forward to a holiday with his wife. It cost him ?350. He does not know | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
what will happen to his money. I am disgusted and the rest I cannot say | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
on camera. It is depressing and stressful. My wife is very upset. We | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
needed this holiday. It is her birthday on Monday. It has been | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
ruined. He is not the only person. We have always gone with Hatts | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
Travel. We have always use them. It will affect us. They go to places | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
that other coaches do not call. We really like the day trips. The | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
holiday business has now stopped trading. The company is not | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
associated with the travel Association, so customers are being | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
told to contact their bank or credit card company. For Hatts Travel, it | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
is the end of the road. Some parts of the business may continue. Some | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
parts have been picked up by the council. But the employees here had | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
been told they had been made redundant. The next party is to help | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
holiday`makers who have been left out of pocket. The administrator | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
told me that it could take as long as a year. | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to Sean Tipton from the Association of | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
British Travel Agents and asked how likely it is those | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Actually, when a coach tour operator like this | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
goes out of business, it will mean that holidays are cancelled. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
That is not good news for people who are intending to go | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
off this weekend, the start of the great school summer getaway. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Also, unfortunately many of them will lose | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
their money as well, even though it is actually a legal requirement for | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
companies selling package holidays to offer financial protection. | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
For example, many will do that through membership of ABTA. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
What about if their clients are already overseas? | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
The issue is that people are on holiday at the moment. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
The point of offering financial protection through organisations | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
like my own, ABTA, is that if people are on holiday they will use the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
insurance, through the money they provide to us, to pay for people's | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
hotels and to pay for them to come back to the UK. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
The problem here is that if they had absolutely no financial | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
protection in place, as they seem not to, these people | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
will be left by themselves and will have to make their own way home ` | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
The only slight good thing about this is that the people who paid by | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
credit card or Visa debit card will be able to contact their bank or the | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
If they paid by any other method, cheque, cash, any other debit card | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
apart from a Visa, they will be unsecured creditors to | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
the company and they are very unlikely to get their money back. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
A plane from Bristol to Barcelona, which had already been forced to | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
make an emergency landing, was also struck by lightning earlier today. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
The easyJet aircraft had over 150 passengers on board. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
It had been diverted to another Spanish airport after being | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
It was then hit by the lightning as it came in to land. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
The company says a full inspection of the aircraft is taking place. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
A minute's silence will be held before several cricket matches this | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
weekend in memory of Ben Pocock from Keynsham. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
The 20`year`old died in last week's plane crash in Eastern Ukraine. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
He had just completed the second year of an | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
International Business degree and played regularly for St Mary | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
The club have called him a talented all`round sportsman and student. | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
Hundreds of tonnes of waste have now been removed from the Averies | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Recycling site in Swindon, following a huge fire on Monday evening. | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
A thousand tonnes went up in flames and firefighters are still | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
The whole operation is expected to take several days to complete. | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
The prolonged flooding in Somerset earlier this year is still causing | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
problems ` this time for the county's precious tourism industry. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Holiday companies say bookings were down by up to a third in some places | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
and that some potential visitors are still asking if roads are flooded. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
It is worth all that the effort to get a view of Somerset | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
And this is the kind of image that tempts holiday makers | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
Unfortunately, some still have this picture ` | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
the worst floods for centuries ` even though the water is long gone. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Visitors to the West Somerset Railway between January | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
The problem was that people saw Somerset and decided to go somewhere | :08:14. | :08:34. | |
else. If Somerset was on the title, forget it. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
It means a loss so far this year of ?40,000 for the steam attraction. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Not crippling, but a worry nonetheless. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
It should be the busiest weekend of the year for this campsite | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
near Muchelney, another area which suffered months of flooding. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Somebody from Ponton phone this week to ask weather we were still | :08:55. | :09:15. | |
flooded. `` Taunton. We have got our social area going and we have done | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
more advertising. I won't be able to afford to go on holiday this year. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
It may be numbers pick up during the summer and all that has | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
happened is people didn't make their usual bookings early in the year | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Some larger attractions, such as Wookey Hole, have told us they | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Still, Somerset's tourist officials say they need all | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
I think I need to put an invitation to the Prime Minister to invite him. | :09:40. | :09:51. | |
I think that would be a great idea. Just to put the spotlight on the | :09:52. | :09:52. | |
county. Tourism employs 30,000 people in | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Somerset, so any loss is a worry. Some estimate flooding to just 2% | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
of the county may mean a loss to If you're here on holiday you are | :09:58. | :10:22. | |
very welcome and the weather is always like this here. | :10:23. | :10:23. | |
The sentences given to three men who mistreated a resident | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
at a care home in North Somerset will not be increased. | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
The abuse was captured on a hidden camera installed | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
by the family of Gladys Wright at the Granary Care Home in Wraxall. | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Another was given a suspended sentence | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
The charity Action on Elder Abuse had written to the attorney | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
general's office calling on him to review their sentences. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Athletes from the West have already won a clutch of medals at | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
They have managed four silvers and three bronzes so far. | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
Most of them came in the pool last night, | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
as swimmers based at the University of Bath showed their quality. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
Not just one, but two silver medals for Siobhan`Marie O'Connor ` | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
the first at a major competition for the 18`year`old from Bitton. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
She got off to a flying start in the 200 metre freestyle | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
and fought her Australian rival all the way before being edged out. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
Just 90 minutes later, and with another race in between, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
she led off the 4x100 relay team to more success. | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
It was very important to me. I knew it was going to be a busy day and I | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
am glad I got off to a good start. There were very contrasting | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
emotions to coming second from He was clear favourite to win | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
in his home pool, but was convincingly beaten by his younger | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
less experienced Scottish team mate ` with his training partner, | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Andrew Willis, taking the bronze. Yes he has been great form all | :11:52. | :12:09. | |
season. He deserved to wind. It was a great crowd. I am on the podium | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
and that is a step in the right direction. | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
There was also a bronze medal and a British record for Millfield's James | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Away from the pool it was a mixed night for our rhythmic gymnasts. | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
Errors from Bath's Lynn Hutchinson proved costly for Team England, | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
as she and Swindon's Steph Sherlock just missed out on a medal. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
But Steph's club team mate, Laura Halford, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
picked up a team silver with Wales and is one of the favourites | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
Well, there are three more medal chances in the pool this evening | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
First up, James Guy, from Millfield School, who goes | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Then there is the Bath swimmer, Chris Walker`Hebborn. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
He is competing in the 100 metre backstroke. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
And finally, there is Siobhan`Marie O'Connor, who could add to her two | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
And away from the pool, we also have two Bath`based judokers | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
Megan Fletcher was in the wars in her semi`final earlier and goes | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
We will let you know all those results in the 10PM news. | :13:36. | :13:55. | |
Stay with us now, though, as there is lots more to come before 7PM | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
The debate about the Cheltenham Banksy goes on and now even the | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
The World War I soldier who became an ambassador for a lost generation | :14:08. | :14:26. | |
was remembered in Wells today, five years after his death. | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Harry Patch lived to the remarkable age of 111 | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
and became the last survivor of the First World War trenches. | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
He was something of an international hero, reminding | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
us all of the terrible losses on both sides of the conflict. | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
The last post rang out once more in Wells today for Harry Patch | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
There is a memorial for him here, carved from the same stone | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
as the Cathedral, intended as an eternal reminder not only of | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Harry Patch was a private in the Great War. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
He fought in the trenches and was wounded. | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
But he didn't speak of his experiences | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
until he was 100 years old and most of his comrades were dead. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
I came across a Cornish man. He was ripped from his shoulder to his | :15:25. | :15:39. | |
waist. As we got to him, he said shoot me. Before we could shoot | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
him, he died. Movingly he went back to Belgium, | :15:42. | :15:53. | |
to the Menin Gate, where the names Let us remember our brethren who | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
fell on both sides. At first tourists weren't sure who | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
he was, but as word spread there was spontaneous applause | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
and people reached out ` by touching him they were somehow | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
closer to those names on the wall. Now, a fund set up in Harry's name | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
pays for children to come here. And youngsters, like these girls at | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
today's ceremony, belong to a club called Bookworms which encourages | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
learning about Harry's war. A memorial is now standing for him. | :16:23. | :16:34. | |
We should remember those days in the trenches. | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
It will be ready in a few weeks when the country marks 100 years | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Harry Patch, the last face from the Great War, would, I think, approve. | :16:49. | :17:10. | |
A woman who lives in Bristol has spoken out about her | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
shocking childhood and her experience of being a child bride. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Gabriella Gillespie's father killed her mother, | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
then took her and her sisters to Yemen where they were married. | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Years later, she returned to the UK and has now written her memoirs. | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Earlier I spoke to her and asked how she has found the strength to talk | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
I think my family are the ones that keep me strong. | :17:35. | :17:47. | |
I think the strength has come now because I hear more and more about | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
what is happening to young girls around the world and in the UK. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
I think people need to be aware of what is happening. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Yours is a long and complicated story, but basically | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
you were taken to Yemen at the age of 13 and there you felt obliged to | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
When I watched what happened to my sisters, | :18:08. | :18:19. | |
I knew there was a possibility I would be given to an older man. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
My sister was married to a 60`year`old man, she was 17. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
She committed suicide on her wedding night. | :18:26. | :18:26. | |
I knew that was a possibility for me, so I tried to choose | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Your father was the dark force behind all of this? | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
And the second marriage, it was not a happy one? | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Bringing five children into the world, as well? | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Yes, very quickly bringing five children into the world. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
And having to assimilate to a very different way of life from | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
The shock of leaving here, having been brought up as a Welsh | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
Not knowing anything about Yemeni culture, not even the language, | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
Then arriving to the cultural change was a huge shock for all of us. | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
Then what happened to us was a terrifying experience. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
One that you had to get out of eventually. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
I didn't know that we could have gone to | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
I didn't even know what a British Embassy was until the time that my | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
sister said to me that she had met a girl from England and apparently she | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
was married to a Yemeni man, she chose a husband, but she said there | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
is a British Embassy and if you go to them they can help you | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
They brought me back to England, yes. | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
And in Bristol where you are living now, you have been writing | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
I wrote about them a long time ago, but I was never going to publish | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
my book because my father was still alive. | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
Now that he is dead, I want to speak about my experiences. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
I want to speak to encourage other young girls to speak out. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
I think people need to speak out for this to end. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
For a child marriage to end, young girls need to speak out. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
So, I am hoping it will encourage other young girls to speak out. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
It is doing very well already, so we wish you the best of luck with it. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Gabriella's book is called A Father's Betrayal. | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
The Prime Minister has waded into the debate about the ownership | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Yesterday, we reported on claims that the Spy Booth mural may belong | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
to the Government, due to questions over who owns the wall it is on. | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
But a Government spokesman said today the land next to it is, in | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Today, the Prime Minister told BBC Radio Gloucestershire that he is | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
I am the Minister for the intelligence services and I take | :21:14. | :21:26. | |
intelligence services very seriously. That said, I do love this | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Banksy. It is clever and sunny. A couple from near Bath will be | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the first to get married right in Duncan Pidgeon and his fiancee Sarah | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Withers, from Peasedown St John, So when they heard they could | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
legally wed in the bandstand of the Royal Victoria Park they | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
jumped at the chance. Sarah and Duncan are more than happy | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
for their ceremony to be watched In all this summer heat, the Bristol | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Hippodrome is staging a show with a refreshing twist ` especially if you | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
are sitting in the front few rows! Singing in the Rain, | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
the stage version, has just begun It uses the very latest stage | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
technology to recreate that famous Gene Kelly lamp post scene ` | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
as I have been finding out! Singing in the Rain, | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
one of the greatest musicals of all It has got charm, romance, comedy, | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
Tinseltown glamour, singing, # I'm singing in the rain, | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
just singing in the rain. 12,000 litres of rain | :22:34. | :22:48. | |
for every performance, thoughtfully warmed up a bit before it is | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
squirted from above and flooded Everyone in the audience thinks that | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
is it ` that is the end of the rain. The iconic scene in the rain, the | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
lamp post song, is all done with. However, at the end of | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
the show we like to do a reprieve. But rather than having James | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
by himself, we added in ensemble as well, so there are 27 people on | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
stage all kicking water out front. We do like to have a bit | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
of a game with the audience. You know the story of Hollywood's | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
first musical. The advent of the talkies | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
and the end of silent movies. Some of its old stars, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
including the lovely Lina Lamont. She was incredibly successful | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
at silent movies, but then she had a voice like this ` so when the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
talkies came along everyone went, oh You've got the best line of all ` | :23:32. | :23:44. | |
I am playing a hotshot from Hollywood, actually a studio boss | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
But it is the perfect combination to be at the Hippodrome, | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
in the West Country, with a really fun part in a crackerjack show. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
You experience career highs and lows in this job and this is | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
The cast seemed to love being in it, the critics, by and large, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
have enjoyed watching it, and it has been nothing but delight | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Let's just hope there is not a hosepipe ban | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
There is some rain, I am afraid. Tomorrow, there may be some dry | :24:25. | :25:03. | |
conditions on Saturday and across the weekend. But having said that, | :25:04. | :25:16. | |
there may be a few showers around. Temperatures will drop down to the | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
low 20s on Sunday. Showers and thunderstorms are moving across and | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
they have tended to ease away as they have moved down. This evening | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
they will move across the south`west. This should result in a | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
dry night. Tomorrow, it will be dry mostly. Showers and rain in the | :25:47. | :25:58. | |
North West. I don't think that any rain will be heavy. Once the showers | :25:59. | :26:08. | |
are out of the way, the evening will clear and it will be another dry | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
night. Temperatures tonight, 14`17 Celsius. The sunshine will be a | :26:17. | :26:29. | |
little hazy at times tomorrow. A chance of showers in Somerset. But a | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
good deal of dry weather across the board, also into the evening. | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
Tomorrow, temperatures 25`26?C. Then the temperatures will drop across | :26:50. | :27:02. | |
Sunday. Many areas will remain dry, although there may be some showers. | :27:03. | :27:04. | |
Similar temperatures into next week. As I celebrate 50 years | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
on the airwaves, join me I will be looking back | :27:10. | :27:32. | |
at the music and some of my favourite memories from | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
my first 50 years of broadcasting. The Tony Blackburn show, | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
this evening at 7PM | :27:45. | :27:47. |