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to be lower than average. Make sure you pack your jumpers if you are

going away. Developments in the honeymoon murder

case involving Shrien Dewani. After a long legal battle, he's

ruled fit to stand trial for the In court ` the man accused

of running over this 3`year`old boy On trial ` the sheepdogs competing

to be the best in Britain. And under inspection ` just how did

they build Brunel's iconic bridge? The Bristol businessman accused

of arranging the murder of his new wife on honeymoon, has been found

fit to stand trial in South Africa. Shrien Dewani has always denied

having any involvement He was extradited to stand

trial there earlier this year having recovered from post

traumatic stress disorder. Now psychiatrists in South Africa

say he's well enough to face It's been a long time coming

but finally the trial of Shrien Dewani will begin

in just under two months time. He was first arrested a month

after Ani's death in 2010. She'd been shot in the neck

in the taxi they'd hired in But it took another three years for

the 35`year`old to be extradited. He was diagnosed as suffering severe

depression and was hospitalised Today at the Western Cape Court

a panel of three psychiatrists ruled that he is no longer suffering

from a mental illness The experts had been assessing him

for a month at this psychiatric The announcement was made

on the steps of the court building. The court has made a finding that

the accused, Mr Dewani, will stand trial and the issues

around his mental health have been resolved and, therefore, the state

in now in a position to proceed with I have appointed

my legal team to take this further. There will be a pre`trial hearing

on September 9th. A month later the trial itself

will begin, on October 6th. It's due to last until the middle

of December. Anni Dewani's whole family was in

court today to hear the judgement. They welcomed today's ruling as "a

huge step in the right direction". And Sally joins us

in the studio now. Sally, you've got a copy

of the psychiatric report What does it tell us about

Shrien Dewani's mental state? It's very interesting as it details

his mental state from immediately He took to his bed a week after the

funeral saying he was experiencing 'flashbacks' and nightmares

about the alledged offence. Remember he says

the car was hijacked by two men with guns, he was forced

out and they took Ani away. She was found the next day,

shot through the neck. He was looked after by a

psychiatrist, who visited him three You may remember

in February 2011 he took an overdose He was eventually admitted to

Fromeside Hospital under While there he became acutely

sensitive to noise, so he was allowed to spend

his days in a camper van on site. Eventually he was transferred to

Bladesview Hospital, which was closer to his home

and family, and that's when What does the report say

about his mental state today? Since arriving

in South Africa his medication has For a month now,

three psychiatrists have been assessing him at the hospital where

he's staying in Cape Town. They say he engaged well with them,

he was often affable and articulate, though he's still

sometimes startled by noises.. They said he still gets tearful and

has panic attacks, but his symptoms Overall, they concluded he is no

longer mentally ill, A 33`year`old man has died

while helping to set up a music The accident,

which involved a fork`lift truck, happened at Sallygrove Farm

near Horsley yesterday lunchtime. The Surround Festival

has now been cancelled. In a statement, organisers said they

were working closely with the authorities, and that all

ticket holders would be refunded. A man has appeared

in court charged with running over a three`year`old boy who was walking

along a pavement in Bristol. Freddie Hussey was hit by

a trailer in Bedminster in January. Today,

37`year`old Tony Davies from Hallen made his first appearance in court

in front of Bristol magistrates. Freddie Hussey was returning with

his mum from taking his older brother to school one January

morning when tragedy struck. A trailer broke free from a

Land Rover hitting the little boy. Seven months

on there are still reminders of what At the time, Freddie's parents Donna

and Scott revealed how they called their little boy Freddie`boo and

said they would never forget him. They described how he could melt

you with his cheeky smile. Today, Tony Davis appeared

before Bristol Magistrates accused of manslaughter and causing death

by dangerous driving. A third charge was put to him

that he used a vehicle or trailer in a condition likely to cause

danger of injury. At a hearing lasting just under a

minute the district judge said the first two matters were so serious

they could only be dealt with at Crown Court so she adjourned the

case for a preliminary hearing at Tony Davis was granted

unconditional bail. You're watching Friday

night's Points West. We've got the full weather

forecast with Ian coming up. But before then,

the rugby players hoping not to be the bridesmaids ` again `

at the Rugby World Cup final. And I am on the suspension bridge in

Bristol. Join me later in the programme to find out about the

brilliance of Brunel 's design. A Wiltshire man says he hopes to see

doctors start using the illegal drug LSD to treat severe

depression again. David De Saxe

from Marlborough was given mind`altering drugs in the 1960s,

which he says changed his life. He's welcomed a new research project

into the use of the substances. Here's our

Health Correspondent Matthew Hill. David De Saxxe may have looked happy

in these photos but deep He'd had this series of failed

relationships which stemmed from his childhood when his father left home,

but he says he only came to realise My subconscious was saying to me,

you can't marry her because you're I thought I had to stand

in my father's shoes in the sense that I was totally responsible

for her emotionally, certainly I was Mr De Saxxe went to see a

psychiatrist called Dr Peter Dally. In those days Dr Dally was

a leading figure in his field Psychiatrists

like him had far more clinical freedom to use hallucinatory drugs

like LSD in an experimental way. When I had the more powerful dose,

and it was a dose that the therapist told me was stronger than any he had

given to anybody else, I think I needed to be strapped down and he

called a nurse in to assist him. I wasn't getting

violent or anything. David thinks

the treatment changed his life. A few years later the use

of mild altering drugs There were some publicised reports

of people using it recreationally and governments in the US

particularly and also in the UK were concerned that this counter culture

population were developing Dr Williams is now involved

in a new research project using A small group

of volunteers have taken psilocybin, a drug derived from the active

ingredient of magic mushrooms. They've already demonstrated that

the drug switches off a part of the brain which is normally overactive

in patients with these conditions. Now happily married, David De Saxxe

hopes the new trial will be The fire's been smouldering away

for nearly a month, but today the owners of a recycling

plant in Swindon were told they had until tomorrow lunchtime to start

moving the rubbish out. Thousands of tonnes

of waste needs to be moved to give firefighters space to get to

the root of the fire. The enforcement notice was served

on Averies last night, much to the relief of people living nearby,

who've had their summer blighted by The deadline's been set

by the Environment Agency. Today is the first time

they've given an interview. Our Wiltshire reporter Will Glennon

asked Julia Simpson why it had taken them so long to take action

against Averies. It is only now that we have really

come to the conclusion that we see they don't appear to have any

intention to move the waste. We believe action has to be taken. Out

of the operator 's hands. But that is being told by the public purse

and probably costing well in excess of ?0.5 million. That is a lot of

money who will pick up the bill? We will seek to recover that cost from

the operator. In the meantime it will be the Cass `` the taxpayer. We

are the regulators of the site and we expect the operator to abide by

the permit they were given. We visited the site back in January

with the fire Brigade and told the operator there was too much waste on

site and there was a risk. We visited again last month before the

fire started and reminded them family of the risk. You saw it had

the potential to start? Could you have not jumped in then? It is not

possible to do that. The operator has a duty to do it. We have to give

the operator a reasonable amount of time and opportunity to do what they

need to do. When will waste start being removed? The operator has

until tomorrow lunch time to remove the waste. If they don't do that

then an alternative registered operator will come in and will plan

that removal of the waste with the Fire Brigade. Once the fire is out,

will you close the site down and removed the permit? We already have

a notice served on the side that means they are not able to trade on

this site any more. Can you tell people who live nearby that this

could be the end of this recycling waste site? I can't say that at this

stage. I will say we have to see whether or not an operator is bit to

carry out their responsibilities. Clearly, these are not.

The west will have a big say in this weekend's

There are six local players in the England squad that will go for glory

England have finished as runners`up in the last three tournaments

So let's introduce the hopeful half`dozen from the West.

Bristol Ladies Sophie Hemming, top left, has 70 caps,

club team`mates Kay Wilson and Danielle Waterman on that top row.

Amber Reed, also Bristol Ladies on the bottom left,

with Yeovil`born Marlie Packer and Ceri Large from the Forest of Dean,

All are hoping to play in the final and bring

It's been a little quiet in the Bristol Ladies club house

14 members of the first team squad have been playing in the World Cup

Now a quartet remain, hoping to bring the trophy back to England.

It is an amazing achievement for those individuals.

They are fantastic girls and when they come to training within

our club environment they 100% all the time.

I'm just really excited for them, all four of them,

and I really hope they do perform well on Sunday and get that win.

Players like Bristol's Sophie Hemming know

For the last decade she's combined rugby

Her colleagues back in Staple Hill are keeping everything crossed

Everybody came in this morning and said, Oh she's in the final,

We were all talking about what we were doing on Sunday

I think it won't be until she comes back next week

and we'll all be thinking, Hang on, we've got a star here.

Others, like 22`year old student Kay Wilson, are experiencing this

A little bit surreal but it's one of those ` the whistle went and it

It was a great performance and I'm just really happy

and looking forward to the next part of the journey.

The final in Paris is a 20,000 sell`out, evidence of growing

Back in Bristol they say an England victory would be good news

Being able to go to sponsors, being able to go to the media and say,

actually we have four of the winning World Cup women's team at Bristol,

in a shirt, playing on our pitch our there will get people, one, coming

down to watch us and hopefully investing in the club and helping

They are the favourites, as they try to end

One of the west country's most successful swimmers is back from

the IPC European Championships in Holland, where she won seven medals.

Stephanie Millward from Box in Wiltshire collected five golds,

a silver and a bronze in Eindhoven to cap an incredible week.

And the London Paralympian is with us now.

It's great to see you. You have your medals on and we have some others

here too. Was the week beyond your expectations. Yes definitely. It

started off with one of my hard races and I won it. It just went

from good to good. It was amazing. You've won medals in London,

European medals, what is keeping you getting in the pool every day? There

is only one medal I really want. That is the gold Paralympic medal.

Have our art that do you think you are? It's with it on the day. It's

an expensive trip to make I would imagine. Yes, but I have some people

who are helping with sponsorship. For example, there are seven people

who are doing a 100 mile I cried which is incredible. `` bike ride.

Do you think the Paralympics has changed people 's opinions?

Definitely, as a disobeyed `` a disabled person I just feel the same

way. As well as swimming, I gather you have been busy writing a book.

Yes, it is an autobiography about my life and struggles. It should be

released in November this year. Did you find it easy to write? It took

me 15 years but yes it was quite easy. I hope you still have time to

do plenty of swimming. We want to see you back here in a couple of

years time with that gold medal from Rio.

Football, and going into the second weekend of games, only

This week the club confirmed they've turned down an offer for striker

The 22`year`old has scored four goals already in two matches.

Remember, details of all this weekend's

fixtures and radio commentaries are on the BBC Sport website.

And believe it or not, the FA Cup begins this weekend.

The trophy will be at Fairford Town tomorrow

Good luck to them in their extra preliminary round tie

All this week we've been looking at the engineering marvels

And we've saved arguably the best until last.

The inspiration behind the series, Brunel's iconic suspension bridge,

is 150 years old this year, but it nearly didn't get built at all.

It was the longest and highest suspension bridge of its age.

But the fact it still stands 150 years later and carries more weight

than he would ever have envisaged is a testament to the brilliance

Bridge Master David Anderson is responsible for maintaining

He took me to the platform halfway up the East Tower and described

Stage two was to get the suspension chains across the river.

The way they went about it was, first of all,

to pull some strong wire cables across the gorge and that was decked

out to form a walkway so that the workmen could walk out and assembl

Stage three was then to install these hangers.

They were taken out on the walkway I mentioned and bolted into place.

Obviously the last stage was to build

Yes, and met in the middle just like the Channel Tunnel.

For the pupils at Christchurch School less than a mile

I joined them for a class when they experimented with various

This is the bit that holds the pillars up.

I think we're going to have to stop there.

We have a bridge that did not collapse.

Back in the 1820s, for the talented young engineer designing

If Brunel had had his way the bridge would have been mucy

longer, removing the need for that platform that the tower stands on.

This would have made it cheaper and easier to build,

but he had to compromise because his ideas were too radical

Author Eugene Byrne told me about the famous competition to

choose the best design and how Brunel ensured he came out on top.

They had this design competition and his was just one of the proposals.

We know Brunel was lobbying people behind`the`scenes trying to

In time, though,'s the money ran out and construction was abandoned.

The bridge was only finished in 1864 as a monument to his achievements.

It ironic that despite its engineering excellence

at one point it seemed like the old bridge would never be completed.

Brunel never got to see the finished project.

150 years on we can still appreciate his vision.

And if you missed seeing our other films about the West's

wonders, you'll find them on our Points West Facebook page.

The English National Sheepdog Trials have returned to the west

The first day has just come to an end at Broadfield Farm

in Northleach and Jules Hyam went along to soak up the atmosphere.

This is the English National Championships/ 150

competitors fighting for 15 spots on the England team.

It is just so lovely. It is a lot of work. I have family here, friends

watching. There are also some rather special

skills on show as the trial tasks The dogs have to find the sheep

and bring them to the shepherd who has to communicate with the dogs to

manoeuvre the sheep and even All within

a time limit using just four simple This holds board is about

controlling stress. The dog has to to control the sheep without stress.

Once the sheep are stressed they don't behave themselves.

And you really don't want the sheep to misbehave.

Most of the competitors here do this every day. But some people do it

just for the competition. He's based near Almondsbury,

where he keeps just five sheep At 36 when I got too old for

soccer, one man and his dog was on television. I thought I would have a

go at it. I've made a fool of myself to begin with. I did eventually win

the English nationals. I thought I had to do it again to prove it was

not a fluke. Richard's competing with Meg

tomorrow and the trials run I love watching them work their

magic. Is the weather going to hold? A fair amount of dry weather

around. There will be some rain around at times. Let's have a look?

Those showers look more threatening than they are delivering to the

ground. Tomorrow will be a dry day. It will turn a bit breezy through

the afternoon it'll turn cloudy as well. Once that clears away. The

vast majority of us will have a dry day. This will lead us to cooler

conditions as we get into next week. We do have a feud showers around at

the moment but they will clear away. A weak ridge of high pressure will

flatten out from north to south. Before it does it will suppress the

risk of showers. On Sunday we will see that cold front coming in. As we

get through Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, things will turn cooler.

The rest of this evening, just to say we have a few showers that will

die away. Temperatures will be ten to 13 Celsius. There will be a bit

of cloud around towards the morning. That will increase in the afternoon.

Fairly thin. There will be bright spells in between. They could be

some rain in one or two areas but effectively a dry day. It will be

breezy in the afternoon. Temperatures will be up to 19

Celsius. We will have similar temperatures on Sunday. There will

be some rain around in the morning. The cold front will bring some light

to moderate rainfall. Temperatures will drop away next week. It will be

into single figures at night. Remind yourself, it is still summer. This

is where we have to leave you. I will be back with the bulletins

across the weekend. And I will be back with the ten o'clock news.

the good, the bad and the soggy-bottomed.

I'm Jo Brand and I'm serving up an Extra Slice of Bake Off action

I'll shine a spotlight on all the goings-on in the tent -

the good, the bad and the soggy-bottomed.

And every week, I'll be joined by the latest baker to leave the tent.