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That is all from the BBC News at 6.00pm. So goodbye | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West, with Will Glennon and Alex Lovell. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Our main story tonight: the West's golden girl of gymnastics is back | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
home and back to work. Not resting on four Commonwealth golds, Claudia | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Fragapane is already training for the World Championships. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
I think it's really going to boost her confidence, apart from anything | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
else. We always knew she was good, but it has reaffirmed it to her that | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
she can cope at that really tough, stressful, high`level competition. | :00:25. | :00:39. | |
Heading in the right direction ` hundreds of cars use a private toll | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
road near Bath but the operator says he's worried it won't break even. | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Lottery money for the lido ` one of Britain's oldest open air swimming | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
pools gets funds for a makeover and riding the great western railway ` | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
our first stop on a tour of the region's engineering wonders. | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
Good evening. Just over a week ago she was one of the stars of the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Commonwealth Games winning four gold medals, but now Claudia Fragapane is | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
already back in training for her next major challenge ` the World | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Championships. The 16`year`old's achievements have brought her | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
international recognition, and in her home city of Bristol there was a | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
big homecoming party last night to celebrate. Alistair Durden reports. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
The star attraction once again. After a week away with mum and dad, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
this was a chance for the rest of the family, friends and fellow | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
gymnasts to say well done. I've had all my friends and family | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
supporting me. But also, the people I need to thank the most are my mum | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
and dad. Just forgetting me through every day, the hard work and | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
everything. All these guys behind me 100 percent. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
COMMENTATOR: Now she just needs to be precise... | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Claudia is England's most sucessful female competitor at a Commonwealth | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Games in 84 years ` but her family say she won't have a problem keeping | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
her feet on the ground. In our eyes, she has always been a | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
superstar. She does deserve it because she has worked for it. With | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Claudia, everything just goes over her head. She takes each day as it | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
comes. Which is good, to be like that. That's the innocence in her. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
And we love it. And we love her for that. You can just see the turnout. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
I mean all these young aspiring gymnasts, just like Claudia now. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
I've heard it so many times now. They say they want to carry on just | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
because of her. It's just really nice to hear. | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
Today it was back to work at the Bristol Hawks gym where Claudia has | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
trained since she was 6. Her coach says there's still plenty she can | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
improve on. Although she's shown she's got | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
something extra special on the floor, we got ideas of what we are | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
going to do for her floor for Rio already. So there's little things in | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
our minds to make her shining stand out even more. Hopefully, those will | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
come together. The World Championships are next in | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
October. That will pit her against the Americans, Chinese and Russians. | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
And if they didn't know it before, those gymnastic super`powers can | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
expect more fireworks from the girl they call the pocket rocket. | :03:21. | :03:36. | |
And say that Claudia and mum, Syriza, I hear in the studio. What | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
was the party like? Absolutely amazing. They were so supportive of | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
me 100%. My coaches were there. Unfortunately, my mail coach could | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
not be here. He was in America. But he came to see me earlier. Hasn't | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
sunk in, your incredible achievement? You seem surprised when | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
you see the footage. I am definitely still surprised. It has not actually | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
sunk in properly yet. I haven't had time to just sit down and chill the | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
cause of all the interviews. This is footage of your friends and family. | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
This was when you want your gold medal. How is she, Teresa? She is a | :04:33. | :04:48. | |
very chilled out young lady. She takes each day as it comes. She | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
says, mum, I will do my best. Everyone has been fabulous with her. | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
I am quite like her, add it all over the place. When you are in the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
situations, breaking records, the first British woman to win for gold | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
medals in, is 84 years? Yes. As part of your reaching, do you have two | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
work constantly? Yes. I trained six days a week. When I came off my | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
holiday I had to be focused straightaway. Because I need to get | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
ready for the World Championships. And all the other girls have to get | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
ready to. After the commonwealth it is a fresh start for everyone. You | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
see a holiday, it was just one week and it was an activity holiday! | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Well, I didn't do anything. I went to the spa. That is good to know. | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
And still only 16 years old. What is next for you? I am hopefully going | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
to coach and work with children. I have always wanted to do that. I | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
want to juggle the two things at hopefully get a qualification. And | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
the Olympics? Hopefully. Showed the medals, please. Look at that! That | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
is impressive. Where do they live? They will probably go with, well my | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
coach, her husband is creative with lovely boxes. He has made me one. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Well, congratulations. Thanks for coming in. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
A businessman from Bath, who decided to build a by`pass to avoid traffic | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
delays near his home, says more motorists still need to use it, if | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
he's to break even. Mike Watts has spent around a hundred and fifty | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
thousand pounds on the road, which opened 10 days ago. So how busy is | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
it this evening? Our reporter Laura Jones is there for us now ? Laura. | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
It is looking quiet. But, this evening, there has been a steady | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
stream of cars. This is what all the fuss is about. It is Britain's | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
newest toll road. Although it may not be big, just 355 metres long, it | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
simply is pretty clever, whisking motorists from the A41, which is | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
closed beyond that junction, appear and over the hill. It saves people | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
an awful lot of time. There is another car! | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Afternoon! That's ?2, please, sir. A price worth paying, seems to be | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
the overriding opinion, for avoiding a long detour and up to one hour's | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
extra journey time. When it opened at the beginning of the month, the | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
toll road attracted attention from far and wide. And now, it is | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
attracting drivers from all over too. 700 people a day are using it. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
But that needs to increase, says the man behind it. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
The road has cost ?150,000 to build. And it costs us ?1000 a day to run | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
and operate. So, I am looking at a potential bill for building and | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
running of ?300,000 by the end of the year. Fortunately, there are 150 | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
days to go. So, at ?2 a car, I've got to get 150,000 cars on this road | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
to make sure that my wife and I are not out of pocket. | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
7000 people a day would normally use this part of the A431, which has | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
been closed since a landslip inventory. The only official way | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
around is a 14 mile detour, which has been causing headache for | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
motorists or months. The local council have always said that they | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
would not have been able to do this themselves. Instead, they are | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
concentrating on repairing the main road. But they do recognise the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
benefits to drivers. It is saving a lot of people a lot | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
of time. In the end, we have to say the Mike Watts that he has taken a | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
bold risk and only time will tell if that is a success or not for him, | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
financially. But it is certainly one which has created a lot of interest. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
The council could not have built this road, because if we had done, | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
it would need to be to highway standards and this is nowhere near | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
highway standards. But that doesn't seem to concern | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
motorists, who are happy just to have a way around ` | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
until the main route reopens at Christmas. | :09:50. | :09:58. | |
As you heard, about 700 cars are using this road every day. But Mike | :09:59. | :10:11. | |
Watts is hoping it will increase soon. That is partly because this | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
road is now appearing on Google maps. This diversion could be coming | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
to a sat navs near you soon. With the let you know how that gets on. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
That's interesting. Thank you for that, Laura. | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
You're watching Points West with Will and Alex. Thanks for joining us | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
this evening, still to come on tonight's programme. Splashing out ` | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
New money means plans to reopen a Georgian swimming pool in Bath take | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
a step closer to becoming a reality. | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
And this county has long been the subject of artists, but the King of | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
pop writing a song about Gloucestershire? Surely not. | :10:54. | :11:12. | |
The country's chief vet was in the West today to promote the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Government's strategy for dealing with bovine TB. Better measures for | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
keeping infected badgers off farms and away from livestock are among | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
the actions to be introduced. Stricter testing of cattle, tighter | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
controls, and a second pilot cull of badgers will also be carried out. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The aim is eventually to eradicate the disease, which has led to the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
slaughter of 11,000 cattle in the first four months of this year. | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
We're starting to see the epidemic level off. It has been increasing, | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
doubling, increasing nine Fulton since the late 1990s. And we're | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
seeing that steady. We have by no means got on top of that but it is | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
starting to happen effect. There are fears the Wiltshire | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
tourism industry could be damaged this year because of a lack of crop | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
circles. So far this summer only fourteen circles have been | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
identified ` that's half of last year's figure. It's thought farmers | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
could be cutting them out to stop tourists trampling over their land. | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
People come from all over the world Clevedon Pier in North Somerset is | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
getting a new visitor centre. It's after a further 750,000 pound grant | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
was awarded to the project. The pier's Trust says it now has 90 per | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
cent of the money needed for the centre, which it hopes will create | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
jobs and increase visitor numbers. And there's good news for another of | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
the west's historic landmarks. The country's oldest open air swimming | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
pool is set to reopen. The Cleveland Pools, just minutes away from the | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
centre of Bath, have fallen into disrepair since they shut thirty | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
years ago. But now the promise of funding means they're set to be | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
restored to their Georgian glory. A shadow of its former self, built | :12:48. | :13:01. | |
200 years ago, this is the only Georgian Lido left in the UK. But | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
nobody has died into the waters in three decades. I swam here as a | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
child. So many people did and are coming forward to tell their | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
stories. It would be up to 1000 people on weekends sometimes. On a | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
sunny day in summer. After a 10`year campaign, the news they have been | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
waiting for. A grant of ?300,000 of lottery money with the promise of 4 | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
million to follow. It means a lot! Sorry. It would just be wonderful to | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
see it back in action, full of people having a great time. Were | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
they haven't had to pay a fortune and where they could swim in safety. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
Until the 1970s, there were around hundred and 50 of these outdoor | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
swimming pools across the country. When the council is opened up heated | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
indoor leisure centres, they started to close. There has recently been a | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
resurgence. The fresh air, it feels like you are on holiday. A nice | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
idea, not sure we have the weather for it! They are fantastic. We live | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
in Cornwall and we have two open`air swimming pools there. We would love | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
one in Bath as well. People of all ages can enjoy outdoor swimming. I | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
think being able to swim somewhere special, like these Georgian pools, | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
has been popular for hundreds of years. There are special places. In | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
a city built around it maps, the prospect of an open nearly done here | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
are no a step closer to reality. This year the Clifton Suspension | :14:48. | :15:09. | |
Bridge celebrates the 150th anniversary of its opening. It may | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
be famous around the world but we have many more engineering marvels | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
here in the west. We asked science journalist Jheni Osman to choose her | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
five favourites. She travels from Stonehenge to the Roman Baths, and | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
from the Suspension Bridge to Wells Cathedral. But she begins tonight at | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Paddington station for a trip along The main concern of passengers at | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
Paddington is whether their train is on time. Few consider the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
engineering achievement of Brunel's railway. Let's go on a swift | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
journey... This is the driver view of the line today. They started | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
building in 1836, just five years later, the line to Bristol was | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
complete. The longest in the country it was known as Brunel's billiard | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
table because it was so flat. The genius of this was that Brunel | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
designed a wider track, known as broad gauge. It was twice the width | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
of other railways. Let's stop at Swindon steam Museum. A wider track | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
meant a lower centre of gravity. Allowing greater speed and | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
stability. Broad gauge was good because if it had come to fruition | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
across the network, you could have gone faster, carried more | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
passengers, there is more stability. It was the way to go. You must | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
remember that Brunel, surveyed the land from London to Bristol on | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
horseback. Today it would be done by helicopter. No helicopters and now | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
heavy machinery. This was a world of pickaxes, shovels, horses and many | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
thousands of labourers. The next wonder want to show you is Boxcar | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
tunnel, outside Bath. It is the longest tunnel of its kind. Some | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
said it would be impossible to build. Brunel sank six vertical | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
shafts to allow work to continue on 14 different faces. They used a | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
tonne of gunpowder every week. This author says the fact that any tunnel | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
was created at all is incredible. To prove how difficult that is, I have | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
brought Kate to `` some cake to replicate. Let's see if we can get | :17:32. | :17:45. | |
both to meet. Oh dear! We will not very successful. No matter nowhere | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
near. We would've been sacked as contractors. From the outset, the | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
railway was engineered to be as flat and level and above all, as fast as | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
possible. It was a Victorian TGV line. This was the journey's end. | :18:04. | :18:15. | |
The Bristol terminal. The GWR eventually had to adopt the standard | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
gauge track. But few would argue that in engineering terms, Brunel's | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
railway was the greatest of them all. I am pleased to say, Jheni | :18:25. | :18:37. | |
joins us now. What particularly intrigued you about the Great | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
Western Railway? I think just how straight and flat it was. It rose by | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
1.2 metres every mile. That is incredibly level. Brunel surveyed on | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
horseback. There was no GPS or anything. Is amazing. Where else | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
have you been? Stonehenge, we're I was fascinated by how neolithic man | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
had managed to transport these heavy storms from West Wales, 250, just. I | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
want to tell you that we have. That will come later this week. I then | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
went on to visit the Roman Baths and was intrigued as I did not know that | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
a lot of the drainage and plumbing is actually still in use today. I | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
think it is important to look at these things because they are in our | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
own backyard and they forget to look at them and remember why we love | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
them so much. Exactly. We often put these things. What do we have to | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
look forward to tomorrow? Wells Cathedral. I look at how the tower | :19:46. | :19:57. | |
was saved from collapse. The engineers had to use flying | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
buttresses and other innovations. It was a scrabble to get it to stand | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
up. They look fantastic. Which was your favourite? My favourite for | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
filming was Clifton Suspension Bridge because I got to climb up it. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
That was an adventure! If you have the head for it. Exactly. It was | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
really interesting for the bridge master to tell me how it was built. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
It was the biggest in the world at the time. It will be a good week. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Thank you, Jheni. "Thriller", "Billie Jean", "Days in | :20:37. | :20:52. | |
Gloucestershire"....Which feels like the odd one out? Well, it might not | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
be any of them, because it seems they are all Michael Jackson songs. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
You've probably heard the first two but "Days in Gloucestershire" is | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
claimed to be a previously unreleased Michael Jackson track | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
which has now leaked on to the The King of pop wrote many songs | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
about many things. From people he met, to saving the planet, to... | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
Zombies. But now a previously undiscovered Michael Jackson song | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
has come to light on the internet. It was written ten years ago. It is | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
about... Gloucestershire. The story goes that whilst touring the UK with | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
the Jackson five, Michael visited the county and apparently he liked | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
the fish and chips. But here's the problem. I cannot play you the song. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
It has been removed from the internet by record companies. So, | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
how best to get across what it sounds like? I wish to see you in | :21:53. | :22:05. | |
Gloucester shire. I wish to see you in Gloucester shire. Again. Right, | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
well, not a bad effort. It did not take long for it to catch on. We | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
wish to see you in Gloucester shire! I will be honest that was | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
nothing like the original. That is more gentle and in June! In fact, | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Michael Jackson actually pronounced the place as Gloucestershire. Has he | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
ever been to Gloucester? The story as he visited when the Jackson five | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
were on tour. We believe he is in our chippy. That sounds like rubbish | :22:46. | :23:00. | |
to me. I'm not being funny, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
but I think I could do a better job than that. Could you do the dance? | :23:04. | :23:20. | |
Well, it is hardly a Thriller. It really does mispronounce Gloucester | :23:21. | :23:20. | |
shire. How is the weather? It is looking | :23:21. | :23:45. | |
decidedly showery. It will be a breezy and blustery day for many of | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
you. We can see some heavy showers on the satellite image. You will | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
note that they are starting to die off as we head into this evening. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
However, the wind will continue. You may want to check the Floodline or | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Environment Agency website if you live near the coast. We have some | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
alerts and warnings in recognition of high tides tonight. Some fairly | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
strong winds, courtesy of the remnants of Hurricane Bertha. Behind | :24:19. | :24:27. | |
that, trails this blustery, showery story. That will continue tomorrow. | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
The showers will increase in intensity. As they get into the | :24:35. | :24:50. | |
night, they will die away inland. Temperatures tonight will be cool. | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
11 degrees. Tomorrow, it picks up the theme of today. It will start on | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
the dry and bright note. But a number of will increase as the day | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
continues. We may see some thunder in places. The winds are strictly | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
speaking not quite on the same level as today but we may see gusts of 25 | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
mph in exposed areas. Temperatures getting into the high teens. This | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
week, temperatures will be at or below average for this time of year. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Some further heavy showers on Thursday. Saturday looks a bit | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
better. Don't forget to look out for the media showers! By the way, we | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
have sped up the Great Western Railway journey for you. It is on | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
our Facebook page. I'm back with the News At Ten PM. Let's leave you with | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
a look at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. | :26:01. | :26:48. | |
'Let's bring you...' '..The latest headlines...' | :26:49. | :28:07. | |
CHEERING '..With some outbreaks of rain.' | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
Every year comes in weekly instalments. | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
So, why not pay your TV licence in weekly instalments, too? | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
Who really fought for Britain and her allies in World War I? | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
BBC Two reveals the forgotten faces of the First World War. | :28:31. | :28:44. | |
You know the bank robbery in Headingley. | :28:45. | :29:02. |