:00:12. > :00:14.Welcome to BBC Points West with Sabet Choudhury and Alex Lovell. Our
:00:15. > :00:17.The end of a long wait for GCSE Students.
:00:18. > :00:19.Thousands of teenagers find out they've got the vital grades
:00:20. > :00:34.I think my parents will be proud. Lots of happy faces.
:00:35. > :00:37.As well as the joy, we'll assess the options for those
:00:38. > :00:53.Longleat Adventure Park's miniature train overturns and injures several
:00:54. > :00:56.people, but new footage reveals it's not the first time it's happened.
:00:57. > :01:02.Wait until you have a heart attack or a stroke and then we'll operate,
:01:03. > :01:07.that's the message from the NHS to a 19`year`old with hole in the heart.
:01:08. > :01:11.The Wiltshire teenager who's become one of the youngest entrepreneurs to
:01:12. > :01:20.Thousands of West Country teenagers are celebrating tonight with
:01:21. > :01:23.their families after receiving their GCSE results this morning.
:01:24. > :01:27.Just over two thirds got the vital five A star to C grades,
:01:28. > :01:33.As usual, there are political rows and changes
:01:34. > :01:36.to the system, but we begin tonight with the young people themselves.
:01:37. > :01:49.Dave Harvey spent the morning at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.
:01:50. > :01:53.Lots of hugging going on today. A few tears and a few hugs, but lots
:01:54. > :01:56.of smiles. But if this piece of paper is your
:01:57. > :02:02.future, it matters more than ever. For Callum, this is his passport
:02:03. > :02:15.to a life, he hopes, in uniform. I did really well, better than I was
:02:16. > :02:18.expecting. Why am going to do it uniform public services and
:02:19. > :02:39.hopefully one day I will end up in the police. I got to eight grades
:02:40. > :02:47.and I am happy. I have not figured out what I want to do yet. Brain
:02:48. > :02:50.surgeon? Maybe, maybe not. We are especially pleased with the English
:02:51. > :02:58.and math grades, because we put a lot of work into paying attention to
:02:59. > :03:03.serious subjects. The parents have been phenomenal. The students have
:03:04. > :03:09.worked very hard. Lucy, you still have not opened this envelope. No!
:03:10. > :03:13.All right, put the camera away, she is going to have a bit a moment.
:03:14. > :03:14.Above these small, intensely personal dramas,
:03:15. > :03:17.there are national politics in today's results, with changes to the
:03:18. > :03:31.The official league tables will all me include results that students get
:03:32. > :03:36.the first time they take an exam, because the former Education
:03:37. > :03:39.Secretary accused schools of rather massaging the official league tables
:03:40. > :03:41.by putting students in four exams again and again and again.
:03:42. > :03:44.The head teacher here rejects that accusation out of hand.
:03:45. > :03:47.24 students passed today on the second time round,
:03:48. > :03:53.and she doesn't care if that doesn't make the league tables.
:03:54. > :03:59.It is only ever about then and what they can go on to, whether they have
:04:00. > :04:03.the passport to their future or a progression pathway, that is all
:04:04. > :04:07.that matters to me. What they look like in the league tables does not
:04:08. > :04:15.matter half as much as the children, each one of them. And Lucy?
:04:16. > :04:25.Well, she'd finally gathered up her nerves and opened the envelope.
:04:26. > :04:27.She worked really hard and deserved these results.
:04:28. > :04:30.For today at least, the politics is drowned in a sea
:04:31. > :04:38.Dave, let's talk about these resits that are causing controversy.
:04:39. > :04:40.They've changed the rules, but students can still try again if
:04:41. > :04:55.It is between individual choice and national policy. All day, we have
:04:56. > :04:59.had to Mr is repeating the former Education Secretary that, in the old
:05:00. > :05:03.ages, students were putting students through again and again to try and
:05:04. > :05:07.improve their grades, and now there is no point, because the league
:05:08. > :05:13.tables only reflect that first result, and there are fewer people
:05:14. > :05:16.taking exams today or having results today from year ten, a year earlier,
:05:17. > :05:21.and they have done better than their older peers, and that suggests, as
:05:22. > :05:25.the head teacher was saying, the schools know what they are doing,
:05:26. > :05:32.because 300,000 youngsters who took them a year early outperformed their
:05:33. > :05:36.older classmates. You can take the test as many times as you want at
:05:37. > :05:41.the school will not get the credit. For the first time, not getting
:05:42. > :05:46.English and math is not an option. That is right. We have heard this
:05:47. > :05:52.figure all day of 68%, that has this rubber that is how many students ``
:05:53. > :05:57.we have heard this figure all day as 60%, it is a solid average, it means
:05:58. > :06:05.that a third have not reached those vital grades. Reading, writing
:06:06. > :06:09.arithmetic, absolutely vital, if you do something vital and practical,
:06:10. > :06:13.you still have to study for the next two years to get those vital
:06:14. > :06:21.skills. Has there always been this much politics in the GCA .org or
:06:22. > :06:27.GCSE politics `` has there always been this much politics when it
:06:28. > :06:31.comes to the GCSE exams? It is always a bit of a firestorm. And
:06:32. > :06:39.everybody congratulate as much as they see fit on our Facebook page.
:06:40. > :06:42.It's emerged that a miniature train which derailed at Longleat Adventure
:06:43. > :06:44.Park yesterday had previously come off its tracks three years ago.
:06:45. > :06:47.One woman has a broken leg and four others were injured
:06:48. > :06:49.when the rear carriage of the Jungle Express tipped over.
:06:50. > :06:52.But as Andrew Plant reports, it's not the first time
:06:53. > :06:56.Photos of the scene at the safari park yesterday.
:06:57. > :06:59.Members of the public pitching forward to lift a fallen
:07:00. > :07:05.It had been carrying 155 people at the time.
:07:06. > :07:08.The maximum is just 14 more, meaning this popular ride was almost
:07:09. > :07:18.Yesterday wasn't the first time the Jungle Express has gone
:07:19. > :07:31.Peter Hook took his family to Longleat in September 2011,
:07:32. > :07:54.We were leaving the station. The last three carriages were thrown off
:07:55. > :07:59.the tracks to the right`hand side. My son was in the seat opposite on
:08:00. > :08:04.his own and he was" around. The side of the carriage came out and bruised
:08:05. > :08:09.the side of my legs. It was absolute chaos until it came to a rest.
:08:10. > :08:11.In a statement today, a spokesperson for Longleat said that after
:08:12. > :08:27.the 2001 "derailment", a thorough investigation was carried out.
:08:28. > :08:29.They added that the new system was working
:08:30. > :08:31.yesterday, implying this latest derailment may have had a different
:08:32. > :08:34.cause, and they said a thorough investigation was now underway.
:08:35. > :08:37.The Jungle Express will be closed until that cause is identified.
:08:38. > :08:40.The rest of the park though is open as normal.
:08:41. > :08:41.Campaigners challenging the next badger cull in
:08:42. > :08:44.Gloucestershire and Somerset have taken their case to the High Court.
:08:45. > :08:47.The Badger Trust says the Government's failure to appoint
:08:48. > :08:51.an independent panel to oversee the culling is unlawful.
:08:52. > :08:55.They also say last year's pilot was ineffective, and inhumane.
:08:56. > :09:03.Scott Ellis has been up to the high court today.
:09:04. > :09:08.A High Court case aimed at delaying a second year of badger culling
:09:09. > :09:12.Protestors critical of the government for dispensing
:09:13. > :09:17.A group of six scientists who assessed last year's cull decided
:09:18. > :09:28.Lawyers for the Badger Trust telling the High Court today the
:09:29. > :09:43.Idolatrous them. When you see figures that came out from last year
:09:44. > :09:46.and `` I do not trust them. When you see the figure is from a student
:09:47. > :09:48.came out and saying this was not working, I am afraid trust seems to
:09:49. > :09:56.go right out of the flipping window. The expert panels been disbanded but
:09:57. > :09:59.several of its members back the high court challenge, saying its vital
:10:00. > :10:19.independent monitoring continues. The apparatus as they have listened
:10:20. > :10:26.to the recommendations from last year and have made changes. ``
:10:27. > :10:35.DEFRA. They also say they will have their own scientists monitoring this
:10:36. > :10:38.year's culls. It leaves the cull once
:10:39. > :10:40.again mired in controversy. At this country show in Dorset,
:10:41. > :10:46.a dairy farmer whose herd is infected told us of the impact
:10:47. > :10:59.the disease is having. The worst day was when all of the
:11:00. > :11:03.animals went on. All my replacements, they were all gone. My
:11:04. > :11:07.wife and son were in tears and I was close to it as well. Just horrible.
:11:08. > :11:11.DEFRA predicts TB could cost the UK ?1 billion in the next ten years,
:11:12. > :11:13.and says culling is a vital part of controlling the disease,
:11:14. > :11:24.alongside others measures including vaccination of healthy badgers.
:11:25. > :11:31.We are glad you could join us this evening. There is still much more to
:11:32. > :11:36.come, including: It has been called one of the most dangerous stretches
:11:37. > :11:41.of water in the West, the river between Bristol and Bath. One man
:11:42. > :11:44.knows that only too well. He has got a new hero. We will be meeting him
:11:45. > :11:51.in about ten minutes. A teenager
:11:52. > :11:54.from Gloucester claims her age is stopping the NHS from operating to
:11:55. > :11:56.seal a hole in her heart. Carla MacLean, who's 19, says she's
:11:57. > :11:59.been told she'll only get surgery on the health service if she first
:12:00. > :12:05.has a heart attack or a stroke. Her only chance of getting the
:12:06. > :12:09.operation now is by going private. Trying to research her condition,
:12:10. > :12:16.Carla and her mum are desperate There are few though
:12:17. > :12:24.for this teenager. Tiredness, headaches, heart
:12:25. > :12:32.palpitations, strong palpitations. Ironically, Carla works in the NHS
:12:33. > :12:43.as an apprentice, but was forced to I have been off work partially
:12:44. > :12:47.because I cannot breathe properly because of the heat, but I cannot
:12:48. > :12:51.sit at a headache this rubber computer for very long because I get
:12:52. > :12:52.a bad headache. `` I cannot sit at the computer for very long because I
:12:53. > :12:55.a bad headache. Now the family has to resort to
:12:56. > :13:06.finding ?16,000 needed to pay It is a lot of stress. When we found
:13:07. > :13:10.that she needed the operation, that was enough, but now we find she does
:13:11. > :13:27.not have funding for the operation unless she gets very poorly. I am in
:13:28. > :13:31.disbelief. She has been admitted to hospital three times in three
:13:32. > :13:34.months, one time in and overnight stay, but she is getting confusing
:13:35. > :13:38.messages about her condition. One consultant says her heart
:13:39. > :13:42.publications are definitely linked to the hole in the heart, but
:13:43. > :13:44.another is not convinced. `` palpitations.
:13:45. > :13:46.The health service routinely operates on older patients with
:13:47. > :13:49.holes in the heart but says that Carla's condition
:13:50. > :13:52."is not routinely commissioned by the NHS and would only be considered
:13:53. > :13:54.if the case is deemed exceptional by the individual's condition.
:13:55. > :13:58.NHS England have not received an application regarding this case".
:13:59. > :14:01.A review of the funding criteria is underway but until a decision is
:14:02. > :14:04.made one way or another on NHS treatment, Carla can only hope that
:14:05. > :14:16.A consignment of West Country cheese, worth more than ?25,000,
:14:17. > :14:20.has been lost in transit after being turned away from Russia.
:14:21. > :14:24.Wyke Farm Cheeses says the delivery, which had already left
:14:25. > :14:27.for the continent when the ban on EU imports was imposed,
:14:28. > :14:30.They're now worried about the long term impact
:14:31. > :14:32.of the Kremlin's restrictions on the West's agricultural industry.
:14:33. > :14:55.In a county known across the world for its cheese, a setback. It has
:14:56. > :14:58.been turned around by Russian customs to have rejected it like
:14:59. > :15:03.they are with all of the European Union food products as part of the
:15:04. > :15:08.ban, so we are hoping that we will get it back. Moscow restricted
:15:09. > :15:11.imports from the European Union and America earlier in the month in
:15:12. > :15:16.response to Western sanctions over support for Ukrainian rebels. The
:15:17. > :15:20.measures, the toughest imposed on Russia since the Cold War, and
:15:21. > :15:23.include an arms embargo and curbs on Russian banks trading and European
:15:24. > :15:30.markets, but what effect will the band have on trade? Last year, we
:15:31. > :15:36.exported ?70 million on frozen fish, ?5.7 million of cheese, and almost
:15:37. > :15:44.the same value of coffee to Russia. Fire and the producers here are
:15:45. > :16:27.worried about the long`term impact. The listings and supermarkets do not
:16:28. > :16:30.happen overnight. It has taken us five years to get those listings,
:16:31. > :16:44.and now the cheese is going to be there. There is a danger they will
:16:45. > :16:46.and it will take us another five and it will take us another five
:16:47. > :16:46.years to get back in, so it might only be
:16:47. > :16:47.much longer. And it is a concern knock
:16:48. > :16:47.shared in Europe. It is having a big shared in Europe. It is having a
:16:48. > :16:47.impact already. I know in the UK prized
:16:48. > :16:47.already down and they are expected already down and
:16:48. > :16:49.Latvia, prices are down, dairy Latvia, prices are down, dairy
:16:50. > :16:52.prices are down 30%, and also, the Finland dairy processor expects to
:16:53. > :16:54.year. This possesses confident that year. This possesses confident that
:16:55. > :16:55.the missing consignment will be `` reappear, but what is less certain
:16:56. > :17:05.is whether... Our next guest was just 18 years old
:17:06. > :17:08.when he entered the Dragon's Den. Jordan Daykin from Wiltshire
:17:09. > :17:11.invented a home improvement device He came up with the idea with his
:17:12. > :17:16.grandad, and they both join us now. Jordan, your dad is a diamond miner,
:17:17. > :17:26.why did you decide to approach The business is a self`funded, but
:17:27. > :17:30.it was more for the contacts, the expertise. Because of my age it was
:17:31. > :17:42.difficult getting through the doors. With Deborah, it is easier to get
:17:43. > :17:45.doors opened. They were surprised when you mention your age, weren't
:17:46. > :17:46.they? You have got patents and you they? You have got patents and
:17:47. > :17:47.look so together. I didn't want to look so together.
:17:48. > :18:03.mention it at the start. I didn't want people changing what they
:18:04. > :18:13.thought, I wanted to leave it until they ask. Let's take a look at how
:18:14. > :18:33.this thing actually works. We have a clip of it. Shall we have a look?
:18:34. > :18:46.Let's have a quick look at that radiator. Sure. I want to know how
:18:47. > :18:58.secure it is. Did your heart sink? I knew something was going to go
:18:59. > :19:03.wrong! It was mainly because the plaster wall was damp. You were
:19:04. > :19:14.quick to see it, weren't you? I thought I would tell him before. It
:19:15. > :19:16.is a very clever idea, and you came up with it with your grandfather.
:19:17. > :19:17.That is right. Tell us how you came up with it. Well, Jordan wanted
:19:18. > :19:18.curtains and eight Venetian blind in his bedroom, and we managed to
:19:19. > :19:19.satisfy the problems with the satisfy the problems with the
:19:20. > :19:20.curtain rails, but with the Venetian blind, of course, it fits close to
:19:21. > :19:23.the lentil, and this day in age, we have steel lentils, with slots in
:19:24. > :19:26.them, and the Cape `` kept breaking the drills. Did you go with him into
:19:27. > :19:28.the den? Oh, no, I don't have that much courage. I hope Deborah isn't
:19:29. > :19:31.listening. She will be, she tweeted that she was. He was the dragon you
:19:32. > :19:36.really wanted? I am white to Deborah! `` who was the Dragon. I am
:19:37. > :19:40.going to say Deborah. She is keen on marketing and has the background and
:19:41. > :19:43.contacts that die was looking for. Kelly was in home improvement and
:19:44. > :19:46.home design and that sort of thing, so I was thinking she would
:19:47. > :19:52.understand the product. It was mainly just to see who could offer
:19:53. > :19:55.the most, and mainly the contacts. For anybody who didn't see it on
:19:56. > :20:01.Sunday night, they will be wondering what this is. We have some footage
:20:02. > :20:08.we can play. The patents, is it on the little bits out of the back of
:20:09. > :20:13.the wall? Yes, it is the way in the mechanism fits and opens, and also
:20:14. > :20:18.it stops it from turning over. There they are coming out. That is your
:20:19. > :20:23.idea. Did you help with the grilling? Did you have lots of
:20:24. > :20:29.practice in advance? No, I did not. So he is just a natural? Absolutely.
:20:30. > :20:31.He must have got it from somewhere. Thank you both for coming in, and
:20:32. > :20:40.very best of luck in the future. Bristol City have signed striker
:20:41. > :20:42.Keiran Agard from Championship club Rotherham
:20:43. > :20:44.for an undisclosed six`figure fee. The 24`year`old,
:20:45. > :20:46.seen here playing for Yeovil earlier in his career, scored 26 goals
:20:47. > :20:49.for Rotherham last season. He's helped
:20:50. > :20:53.the Yorkshire club win back`to`back promotions, and has now agreed a
:20:54. > :21:03.three`year deal with Bristol City. I don't think you can have another
:21:04. > :21:08.goal`scoring centre forwards in your club, so I am pleased that we have
:21:09. > :21:13.got him, and for the price we got him for, and even more widely, he
:21:14. > :21:17.turned down a bigger contract last week, financially, to come and sign
:21:18. > :21:22.for Bristol city, said that is exactly what I wanted him to do.
:21:23. > :21:24.After completing that signing, manager Steve Cotterill took part
:21:25. > :21:27.Celebrities across the world are getting drenched for charity.
:21:28. > :21:30.The aim is to raise money and awareness of motor neurone disease.
:21:31. > :21:39.He's now nominated England manager Roy Hodgson to have a go!
:21:40. > :21:42.Gloucestershire are hoping to earn themselves a home quarter`final
:21:43. > :21:46.It's the final group game tonight, with opponents Derbyshire making
:21:47. > :21:54.Gloucestershire have already qualified for the knock out stages
:21:55. > :21:57.and if they can win and Essex lose they can look forward to a tie
:21:58. > :22:05.When an off`duty police officer was enjoying a boat ride along the
:22:06. > :22:09.River Avon through Saltford, the last thing he expected was to
:22:10. > :22:12.have to jump in. But PC Ryan Day became
:22:13. > :22:16.a hero to one family, and he's being reunited with them tonight.
:22:17. > :22:16.We can go to the lock at Saltford now,
:22:17. > :22:29.and to our reporter Andy Howard. How is it looking over there? Very
:22:30. > :22:32.nice indeed. Imagine the scene, you are enjoying a family meal here on
:22:33. > :22:41.the Riverside between pistol and bath, it is all going well, and you
:22:42. > :22:44.are going to leave, and there is a commotion, you look over, and you
:22:45. > :22:48.see your own son's had bobbing around in the corner, that is
:22:49. > :22:55.exactly what happened to Gary. What is through your mind? Panic. You
:22:56. > :22:59.hear that someone has gone in the water, so a as parent, you always
:23:00. > :23:06.think, it has got to be mine, come running out, get to the edge, I see
:23:07. > :23:13.his head bobbing in the water, a rubber ring went flying through the
:23:14. > :23:18.air, and some went in with him. But luckily for Gary and Leo, an
:23:19. > :23:22.off`duty police officer was enjoying a bit of a boating with his friends.
:23:23. > :23:27.He was just about to come through this lock, and it looks like Ryan
:23:28. > :23:33.has made a bit of a hero out of himself. What did you find in here?
:23:34. > :23:37.A surprise. I wasn't set up on table number 18 with my friends, and we
:23:38. > :23:45.and my colleague had just the sugar and my colleague had just the sugar
:23:46. > :23:49.boating for the evening, and `` voting for the evening, and my
:23:50. > :23:52.colleague alerted me that somebody was in the water, and a looks
:23:53. > :24:01.across, and there he was, and automatically, I tried to jump the
:24:02. > :24:09.myself off, and did my audits and myself off, and did my audits and
:24:10. > :24:10.jumped in. Give us an idea of the currents. They were quite
:24:11. > :24:17.substantial. Boats were pushed against it. It was really quite
:24:18. > :24:25.strong. Which is why I am delighted that you got Leo out. And on dry
:24:26. > :24:32.land. What happened? Talk us through it. I was running across the bridge
:24:33. > :24:39.and I tried to jump onto the edge and then I tripped my footing on the
:24:40. > :24:48.wall and splashed in. What do you make of this man? A God. You cannot
:24:49. > :24:51.say it any fairer than that! Only two years ago, a local lad lost his
:24:52. > :25:03.life just of the weightier when he got into trouble. The police have
:25:04. > :25:06.acknowledged what Ryan has done and said that they are set to honour him
:25:07. > :25:07.for bravery. Thank you very much, for bravery. Thank you very much,
:25:08. > :25:14.that was so sweet wet Leo said. What that was so sweet wet Leo said. What
:25:15. > :25:19.a hero. Let's take a look at the weather. Is it raining Mr Mark not
:25:20. > :25:39.at the moment. I am not expecting it to stay that way, however. `` is it
:25:40. > :25:48.raining? A process is being set up for this evening and through the
:25:49. > :25:49.night for a continuation of the theme, but having said all of that,
:25:50. > :25:51.tomorrow, we should see dairy you in the way of showers, and generally, a
:25:52. > :25:52.bit of dry and sunny weather. The rest of the evening is going to be
:25:53. > :25:56.showers starting to fall through the showers starting to fall through the
:25:57. > :26:01.Bristol Channel and into the North Somerset area, and they will remain
:26:02. > :26:08.a feature throughout the night, and will sink southwards, and by
:26:09. > :26:17.tomorrow, we shall have lost them. As he looked toward Saturday, a
:26:18. > :26:28.ridge of high pressure running across us, which means that Saturday
:26:29. > :26:30.and Sunday are set to be effectively fair. Already a scattering of
:26:31. > :26:32.showers around at the moment. You will notice, as he gets to the
:26:33. > :26:37.middle of the night, showers, but we are not putting and warning out for
:26:38. > :26:47.them, because there will not be as many people out on the roads, but
:26:48. > :26:54.there could be some difficult driving conditions. All of that
:26:55. > :27:03.slipping away southwards. Temperatures tonight, 11`12dC.
:27:04. > :27:12.Tomorrow, a few showers lingering, but they will quickly fade away, and
:27:13. > :27:15.then the probability of a shower or the day, and fairly sunny weather
:27:16. > :27:15.about. A moderately breezy day and about. A moderately breezy day
:27:16. > :27:17.low pollen count. Temperatures tomorrow equally will be up on the
:27:18. > :27:19.day, so we should see 18`19dC, certainly pleasant enough in the
:27:20. > :27:24.sunshine. A dry day with just a low chance of a shower in the North,
:27:25. > :27:29.certainly dry, fairly sunny, and a noticeably chilly night into Sunday
:27:30. > :27:35.morning. It continues that way, and I can almost get you to guess what
:27:36. > :27:45.it will be like on Bank Holiday Monday. Dry, wet `` it will be wet
:27:46. > :27:50.and windy. I am going to open a village fete and I am wondering,
:27:51. > :28:11.what are the Weatherby? Have your at the ready! We will be
:28:12. > :28:14.We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks
:28:15. > :28:19.Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!
:28:20. > :28:34.Make the most of your bank holiday, wherever you are.
:28:35. > :28:38.Use the BBC Weather app to stay one step ahead of the weather.