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The Gloucestershire man accused of killing his ex`wife and hiding her | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
body in her bedroom today refused to give evidence on his own behalf. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Daniel Spencer is alleged to have murdered Jane Wiggett | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent, Steve Brodie. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
The body of Jane Wiggett wasn't found until | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
weeks after she had been strangled and covered with a duvet at her flat | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
A jury has been told that her former husband, 59`year`old Daniel Spencer, | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
The court had already been told how Jane Wiggett had previously | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
complained to the police that he'd assaulted her | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Today the defence opened its case by telling the jury that | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
the defendant wouldn't be entering the witness box. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
His son, Daniel Spencer Jr, was called but then was targeted | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Prosecuting, Richard Smith QC repeatedly asked Daniel Spencer's | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
son whether or not his father was the best person to tell the court | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
The QC added, "You have a real difficulty in accepting what | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
The prosecution claim that just over a year ago Daniel Spencer came to | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
his former wife's flat, strangled her and disappeared. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Mr Smith asked Daniel Spencer Jr why did his father take a large | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
hunting knife with him and, "Why did he stop phoning your mother on the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
The prosecution say that Daniel Spencer's DNA was found | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
in tiny specks of blood under his ex`wife's fingernails. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
He was later arrested at Birmingham Airport Hotel with | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Steven Brodie, BBC Points West, at Bristol Crown Court. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
A hospital trust in Bristol has defended | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
its decision to pay an agency nurse nearly ?2000 to cover a shift. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
It happened on a bank holiday earlier this year. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Several other trusts in the West also paid high amounts. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
A former director of public health has called it | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
It's an issue that faces all organisations. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Short`staffed on a bank holiday weekend, so agency cover is booked. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Today it's emerged that University Hospitals Bristol NHS | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Trust payed ?1800 for a nurse to cover a 12`hour shift. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
It was a specialised role in a cardiac intensive care ward. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
The trust, which runs several hospitals in Bristol, has stressed | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
that using outside agency staff is always the very last resort. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
The alternative ` a ward without enough staff ` is not an option. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
We would always obviously try to fill our shifts with our own staff, | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Secondly we would try to use our own temporary staff and bureau | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
We would then go to our own staff to see | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
We then go out to agencies which are on a framework which are locally | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
The absolute last resort, and exception, | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
would be to go out to an agency which is not on that framework, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
which does generally charge a premium price for that service. | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
University Hospitals Bristol Trust is not the only trust paying | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
The Taunton and Somerset Trust paid ?1798 for a | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
And again on the same day the North Bristol Trust paid ?1297. | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
Dr Gabriel Scally is a former public health director at the South West | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Strategic Health Authority and says these agency nurses don't | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
It is worrying, not just about money, but also | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
in terms of the quality of care, bringing in someone from outside, | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
who may not be familiar with the ward layout or the equipment, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
and expecting them to operate just like an ordinary member of staff. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
That is really something that I think we should be trying to avoid | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
The trust in Bristol say the nurse was employed to work | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
For them, the quality of the care they deliver to patients | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
is the most important consideration in covering vacant nursing shifts. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Imogen Sellers, BBC Points West, Bristol. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
The mother of Somerset murder victim Catherine Wells`Burr says she's | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
relieved at news that one of her daughter's murderers has dropped an | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
appeal against his conviction and against his 32`year jail sentence. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Tadeusz Dmyrtszyn was one of three people found guilty of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
smothering Catherine Wells`Burr two years ago as part of a plot to claim | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
Catherine's family say they're glad the appeal's been dropped. | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
But it opens another door that he will probably end up joining the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
others trying to go home and do a lower tariff in their own country. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
They killed Catherine here, on this soil. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
They should serve their sentence here. | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
A 25`year`old man's been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
assault after a Muslim woman was spat at in Bristol. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
Hasina Khan said she was left shocked and in tears | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
It happened as she walked to work at Cabot Circus. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
The man is being held in custody for questioning. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
It's been a dream day for local gymnast Claudia Fragapane | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
who claimed her third gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
Today also saw success for Eilidh Child, who trains in Bath, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
She's fast becoming one of the golden girls of the Games. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
Bristol's Claudia Fragapane has won her third Commonwealth title. | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
The 16`year`old was again the outstanding gymnast, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
She got gold in the all`round yesterday and | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
In an atmospheric Hampden Park, more medals for our athletes | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
Eilidh Child, who trains in Bath, was the Scottish poster girl | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Could she cope with the pressure, the nerves of a nation, and take | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Yeah, I mean, I think the first emotion was relief. | :06:38. | :06:56. | |
You know, it's been a nervous couple of days and I've just been wanting | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
to come out and execute the race well and I felt I did that and I | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
felt I left everything on the track that I could give and I'm just so | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
delighted I could come away with a medal and I'm over the moon. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Jazmin Sawyers is usually studying law at the University of Bristol. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Tonight, she made the run and jump of her life. | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Her sixth and final attempt was legal, of course, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
What an occasion, to take a medal at the age of 20. | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
At the start of the year, my goal was to make the Commonwealth | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
team and then I made the team and made the final and I said to | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Not all the way to gold, which obviously anyone would have | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
Let's take a look at the medals table for our West athletes. It | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
stands at 13 golds, 10 silvers and 11 bronze medals. | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
That's it from us tonight. We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow. | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
But for now I'll leave you with Ian who has the latest weather forecast. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Friday will bring something of an east/west split through | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
Roughly speaking, the further west you are, you are more likely to see | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
more showers, including during the course of the morning. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Conversely, further east, a good deal of generally dry weather until | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
we get later into the day where we will see spells of rain or showers | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
We've seen a few showers still with us this evening. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Dying away into the course of tonight. | :08:40. | :08:40. | |
We should set ourselves up for a dry start tomorrow morning | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
Still some brighter spells around but you will notice the signals | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
for showers and rain out towards West Somerset in the morning. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Gradually some of them becoming more widespread into | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Further eastward, you will have the lion's share | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
In the evening, showers and some of those heavy | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
spells of rain will become more widespread and that sets us up | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
overnight with some wet weather as we go through to Saturday morning. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Temperatures tomorrow typically into the high teens. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Saturday will be a day of heavy showers, some thundery in places. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Yes, some dry, brighter intervals but they will be | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
more widespread on Sunday, the better day of the weekend. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Rain for Saturday. Now to John who will take you through the national | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
forecast across the UK. Hello there. You may have to find | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
ways of occupying the children. A lot of rain for some, not so much | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
for others. That was the way in July but overall whelmingly warm. Not as | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
warm as last year but it continues the run of months with higher than | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
average temperatures. The eighth now in a row. On to August, a few | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
showers around. That is across the north and the west. Lots of dry | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
weather between. A mild night at dawn, the temperatures about the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
mid-teens. You may wake up to sunshine but the general trend | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
through the day is for things to deteriorate across the northern and | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
western parts of England and Wales where the showers will begin to | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
merge into longer spells | :10:18. | :10:18. |