:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to BBC Points West, with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
:00:08. > :00:11.racism on the buses ` a ceremony today to mark 50 years
:00:12. > :00:14.since protests overturned a ban on black staff.
:00:15. > :00:20.Racism today is as bad as it was, if not worse, 51 years ago.
:00:21. > :00:37.It's the greatest challenge we will face in our lifetime.
:00:38. > :00:42.How young people who didn't believe they were winners are being
:00:43. > :00:48.The classes that are helping people to overcome their st`mmers.
:00:49. > :00:50.And welcome home ` a lap of honour tonight for some
:00:51. > :01:01.Good evening ` One of the campaigners who overturned ` ban on
:01:02. > :01:04.black bus drivers in Bristol in the 1960s says racism today is "as bad `
:01:05. > :01:10.if not worse." Paul Stephenson's warning came in a speech at the
:01:11. > :01:13.city's bus station ` as he tnveiled a plaque to commemorate the 196
:01:14. > :01:23.They're smiling now ` and love the new plaque in their honour.
:01:24. > :01:27.But back in the '60s ` life was no smiling matter.
:01:28. > :01:30.If you were black and trying to earn a living in Bristol.
:01:31. > :01:36.We intend to go on engaging white labour, rather than coloured labour.
:01:37. > :01:41.The Bristol Omnibus Company refused to employ black drivers
:01:42. > :01:47.Guy Bailey remembers applying a job ` and turning up for the interview.
:01:48. > :01:50.What this receptionist said to the manager, "Your two o'clock
:01:51. > :01:56.appointment is here... And he's black." And I heard him tell her,
:01:57. > :02:01."Tell him all the vacancies are filled."
:02:02. > :02:03.Yet an hour ago, there were plenty vacancies.
:02:04. > :02:08.I think that has destroyed my mind for at least 25 years.
:02:09. > :02:12.The discrimination led to a boycott of Bristol's buses.
:02:13. > :02:14.Within six months, the Bristol Omnibus Company changed its
:02:15. > :02:21.But today ` campaigners said racism is still a problem.
:02:22. > :02:26.All the time they ignore racism it builds up.
:02:27. > :02:31.As I said in my speech, we have a duty to
:02:32. > :02:38.the next generation to see that they have a fair and equal opportunity.
:02:39. > :02:41.We will fight to reduce the aggression that does exhst
:02:42. > :02:48.Bristol's elected mayor says the city's facing up to its problems.
:02:49. > :02:52.But racism is very nearly a daily problem for this ticket
:02:53. > :02:57.inspector ` who's grandfathdr was a bus boycott campaigner.
:02:58. > :03:01.Because a lot of it has gone underground now.
:03:02. > :03:04.I can walk into a room and the whole room goes quidt.
:03:05. > :03:06.I walk into a pub and the pub goes quiet.
:03:07. > :03:09.And that still happens, unfortunately.
:03:10. > :03:12.Some experts say the recent recession has trhggered
:03:13. > :03:14.intolerance ` an uncomfortable parallel with 1963.
:03:15. > :03:17.When white bus drivers and conductors feared they'd lose
:03:18. > :03:30.overtime or jobs to an infltx of workers from overseas.
:03:31. > :03:33.Joining us now is Alex Raikds from the Bristol Charity SARI,
:03:34. > :03:43.that's Stand Against Racism and Inequality.
:03:44. > :03:52.This is a way that has welcomed many immigrants. A city sanctuarx. Is it
:03:53. > :04:02.fair to say it is as race is not as it was in 1963? Well, I wasn't
:04:03. > :04:07.actually a life then. So those who are alive are the best to compare a
:04:08. > :04:11.difference. But don't forget that time were not the laws we h`ve
:04:12. > :04:17.nowadays. We did not have the race relations act or laws to protect us
:04:18. > :04:22.against hate motivated incidents and attacks. That has made a difference.
:04:23. > :04:26.I think the population generally understand in the UK that r`cism is
:04:27. > :04:31.wrong. However, the prevalence of racist incidents is filled dxtremely
:04:32. > :04:36.high or we would not be as busy as we are. Every solution that was
:04:37. > :04:47.brought in after the Bristol bus protest. It caused that. But the big
:04:48. > :04:51.benefit. `` the race relations act. People today are still concdrned
:04:52. > :04:58.about an influx of immigrants and the effects on their jobs. Do they
:04:59. > :05:03.have any right to be worried? Do not forget that it's just one vdrsion of
:05:04. > :05:08.the story from drivers at that time. There were other drivers who said it
:05:09. > :05:12.was due to the influx of imligrants as some sort of excuse as to why.
:05:13. > :05:16.There are always people who will make excuses for racism. But there
:05:17. > :05:20.are other interviews with other people that say that was not the
:05:21. > :05:28.case. They say the racism w`s rife. They said there are black strikers
:05:29. > :05:33.in London and other cities but Bristol was holding off for some
:05:34. > :05:38.reason. Today, we know that without our minority ethnic individtals
:05:39. > :05:43.without migrants, we would not be able to function. We have always
:05:44. > :05:45.required migrants to support our labour force and we still do. Thank
:05:46. > :05:48.you for joining us. A 22`year`old woman from Gl`stonbury
:05:49. > :05:51.has been killed after being struck by a train in Merseyside Thd woman,
:05:52. > :05:54.who hasn't been named, was killed at a level crossing near Southport
:05:55. > :05:56.north of Liverpool, yesterd`y afternoon. Officers, who ard still
:05:57. > :05:59.trying to establish the circumstances surrounding the death,
:06:00. > :06:01.said the incident is not behng Nearly a fifth of young people who
:06:02. > :06:09.are not in work or education think they'll never find a job. The
:06:10. > :06:12.startling statistic emerged in a new report by a charity founded by the
:06:13. > :06:15.athlete, Dame Kelly Holmes. Ten years after she won double gold at
:06:16. > :06:18.the Athens Olympics, she now runs a trust helping young people to build
:06:19. > :06:39.the confidence they need. Hdre's our It is amazing to meet someone who is
:06:40. > :06:46.elite in their sport. And to try different sports with them hs
:06:47. > :06:50.amazing. Today, they walk lhke old friends in the park. A few lonths
:06:51. > :06:57.ago, this man was out of work and the other was a professional water
:06:58. > :07:01.polo player with Team GB. A lot of the skills people have in tdrms of
:07:02. > :07:05.Brazilians, I think everybody has inside them. If we can bring that
:07:06. > :07:14.out in young people, they c`n achieve what they want. Kelly
:07:15. > :07:19.Holmes! The unique idea of latching elite athletes with out youngsters
:07:20. > :07:24.came from Dame Kelly Holmes, famous for her success on the track. She
:07:25. > :07:29.puts it down to an inspirathonal teacher. Mentoring can change lives,
:07:30. > :07:34.she says. You see a completd change in the young person from thd moment
:07:35. > :07:42.they come on our programmes until the end. It is like night and day.
:07:43. > :07:49.They will always sit there `nd say their mentor has been an massive
:07:50. > :07:56.influence on their live. Do you have a job? Yes. I work as a store
:07:57. > :08:02.assistant. It is not my dre`m job. But I am working towards it. That is
:08:03. > :08:06.to join the Army. Is this m`n alone in finding a way out? It sedms not.
:08:07. > :08:11.The official figures paint ` bright picture. There were just ovdr 1 00
:08:12. > :08:15.young people out of work here in Bristol last month and clailing
:08:16. > :08:19.benefit. One year ago, more than two and a half thousand were in the same
:08:20. > :08:24.situation. For those struggling to find work, it is very difficult
:08:25. > :08:30.Research for Dame Kelly Holles's charity asks people if they think
:08:31. > :08:41.they will ever get a job. Ndarly 80% said they thought they would not.
:08:42. > :08:45.Learning how to cook curry. Learning so much more than just how to chop
:08:46. > :08:51.vegetables. I was finding it difficult with my health issues from
:08:52. > :08:55.the past. I had apprenticeships in the past and had to give thdm up.
:08:56. > :09:01.This has changed my life, coming into the Princes trust. While the
:09:02. > :09:06.headline numbers are improvhng, the need is as big as ever. There are
:09:07. > :09:09.lots of opportunities for pdople with qualifications who are
:09:10. > :09:18.confident, but there are others who need support and help for them is
:09:19. > :09:21.not as commonplace. For somd people, this will be the recipe for
:09:22. > :09:28.recovery. For others, inspirational sport may be the right track.
:09:29. > :09:31.You're watching BBC Points West we're glad you can join for this
:09:32. > :09:34.Thursday edition. There's plenty still to comd on the
:09:35. > :09:38.programme, including: cheerhng the champions ` sporting stars of
:09:39. > :09:42.Bristol get a bus tour throtgh the city. And the last cigar smoked by
:09:43. > :09:57.Brunel ` set to be part of ` major exhibition of Isambard artefacts.
:09:58. > :09:59.Archaeologists have just uncovered an historic site near Bridgwater.
:10:00. > :10:03.It's a roman villa, completd with hot and cold bathtubs. It's been
:10:04. > :10:07.found on land which is being used for a new road to the nucle`r power
:10:08. > :10:20.station at Hinkley Point. Nhck Quraishi reports.
:10:21. > :10:27.Digging deep in the hope of finding further hidden treasure in what was
:10:28. > :10:35.once home to the landed gentry. Ms Taylor was built in 180 by Romano
:10:36. > :10:43.Britons. `` this villa. A ddlightful discovery. I am not a bit strprised
:10:44. > :10:52.because my father was always finding Roman coins here. We never ploughed
:10:53. > :10:57.the field. I suppose they worked up. After the war, they took photographs
:10:58. > :11:03.and you would see the outlines, as if it was houses or something there.
:11:04. > :11:17.This is what remains of a Roman bathhouse. Evidence of an underfloor
:11:18. > :11:21.heating system. This bathhotse was a stand`alone structure. By and
:11:22. > :11:29.picking it carefully, we cotld see it had been remodelled overtime and
:11:30. > :11:42.made grander. It had many dhfferent Baathists. These Romano Britons had
:11:43. > :11:55.quirks. They had wine receptacles with walls built on top. Whhle the
:11:56. > :11:58.discovery of the bathhouse `nd the Villa are important, they are not
:11:59. > :12:04.classed as nationally significant. That means the construction of the
:12:05. > :12:10.bypass cannot be stopped. It is a road that will run seven metres
:12:11. > :12:15.underwear I am standing. Before that, archaeologists are kedn that
:12:16. > :12:20.the earth moves for them, r`ther than the bulldozers.
:12:21. > :12:23.A stammer can be a very hard problem to live with. But fortunately there
:12:24. > :12:26.are techniques that help and can effectively banish a stammer. A new
:12:27. > :12:28.programme on Channel 4 tonight called Stammer School highlhghts a
:12:29. > :12:33.course aiming to help severd stammerers in just 4 days.
:12:34. > :12:41.Thomas S...Stephen B...b...b...ba...ba...
:12:42. > :12:50.Do you have any brothers and sisters?
:12:51. > :12:55.G...g...g... B...b...b... ..got a brother and a sister.
:12:56. > :13:13.Thanks very much. APPLAUSE
:13:14. > :13:26.Joining us now from the programme are one of the tutors and the
:13:27. > :13:34.regional director of the programme. A very emotional and intenshve
:13:35. > :13:41.programme. Incredibly self. It is a life changing thing. It can change
:13:42. > :13:45.lives. It can enable things to be done people thought not possible. I
:13:46. > :13:52.did it come about in the first place? Well, I received a tdxt
:13:53. > :14:01.message asking about Educathng Yorkshire. I watched it. I thought
:14:02. > :14:09.that our programme could help one of the children. We had a lot of
:14:10. > :14:16.meetings. They came to Somerset for a meeting. And this is the result.
:14:17. > :14:23.You both suffered from spamlers Yes. And we are both using
:14:24. > :14:31.techniques to control it. `` stammers. I couldn't ask whdre I
:14:32. > :14:35.wanted to go. I have given presentations and now I am `
:14:36. > :14:41.lecturer at college. It is ` turnaround. He grew up in the
:14:42. > :14:49.Cotswolds. Tell us about thd techniques that you use. It is like
:14:50. > :14:54.driving a car. It is very mdthodical and mechanical at first but as you
:14:55. > :14:57.become more comfortable driving it becomes second nature. And that is
:14:58. > :15:02.certainly where you get to `fter a number of years using the tdchnique.
:15:03. > :15:09.It is based around breathing. We use our chests as opposed to our
:15:10. > :15:14.stomachs, like an opera singer. There are other physiologic`l
:15:15. > :15:20.reasons, such as eye contact, lowering the tone of your voice And
:15:21. > :15:23.psychological approaches such as non`avoidance and self`acceptance.
:15:24. > :15:30.This is live television. Fahrly stressful. How much are you having
:15:31. > :15:35.to concentrate at the moment? I am more focused than I would normally
:15:36. > :15:40.be. Because this is obviously alive. It puts the pressure on a lhttle
:15:41. > :15:47.bit. But we are open about speech. This is not a cure. It is a way of
:15:48. > :15:51.controlling techniques. This programme does not help everyone
:15:52. > :15:57.unless they really want it to. The courses are intense and you really
:15:58. > :16:03.need to want to take control of your speech. Something has to happen in
:16:04. > :16:09.your life to make you think, OK I have to do the McGuire programme. It
:16:10. > :16:15.is long hours. It is intenshve, but the results are there. Does the fact
:16:16. > :16:25.it is four days long ad to the pressure? It is incredible to be
:16:26. > :16:32.part of and see people develop. They come in and are nervous and
:16:33. > :16:37.sceptical. Some are strugglhng. But after a lot of good coaching, they
:16:38. > :16:41.are able to speak to their parents, loved ones, and people on the course
:16:42. > :16:49.and feel like different people. It is a privilege to be part of that.
:16:50. > :16:54.Of course. Thank you both vdry much. Goodluck Jonathan the
:16:55. > :17:04.programme and the course. `` good luck with the programme and course.
:17:05. > :17:07.As we all know, the world f`mous engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
:17:08. > :17:10.built some of his greatest work here in the west. One of those
:17:11. > :17:13.achievements, The ss Great Britain in Bristol is home to a large
:17:14. > :17:16.collection of his work. But now the Museum's trust has just recdived a
:17:17. > :17:19.donation of over a thousand his most personal possessions. They now plan
:17:20. > :17:25.to put as many items as thex can on show, but with so many it'll take
:17:26. > :17:36.two years just to build the display. Tracey Miller had a preview of just
:17:37. > :18:46.The 19th century engineering giant certainly made his mark on Bristol,
:18:47. > :18:48.designing the comic suspenshon Bridge. What was the workaholic
:18:49. > :18:49.genius who smoked 40 eight day really like? The SS Great Britain
:18:50. > :18:51.trust has just received a collection trust has just received a collection
:18:52. > :18:52.of over 1000 items to give ts a glimpse. Here we have his chgar
:18:53. > :19:04.case. There is a cigar. It hs fragile. It is one of the most
:19:05. > :19:18.exciting and rare objects wd have seen. We hope this was smokdd by
:19:19. > :19:27.Brunel himself. It is hard to verify. Of course. We could do a DNA
:19:28. > :19:32.test but we will not do that. But the provenance by Richard c`me to us
:19:33. > :19:38.does suggest it was smoked by Brunel. This is the biggest item in
:19:39. > :19:41.the collection. It sits next to the very buildings that Brunel designed.
:19:42. > :19:47.This area will be transformdd so you can come and see for the first time,
:19:48. > :19:50.some of the most personal items belonging
:19:51. > :19:53.They quite like the bamboo, which is no great surprise because these are
:19:54. > :19:56.really specialist feeders on papaya in the world. It is one of the
:19:57. > :19:59.reasons for their decline ` their diet is so specialised. As their
:20:00. > :20:02.habitat gets destroyed, there losing not only their habitat but their
:20:03. > :20:23.I hope I pronounced in the name correctly.
:20:24. > :20:26.In the last hour Bristol's stars of the Commonwealth Games have paraded
:20:27. > :20:29.through the city on an open top bus to mark their achievements. They
:20:30. > :20:32.were joined by the locally`based England rugby players who won the
:20:33. > :20:34.women's world cup earlier this month. The tour finished a short
:20:35. > :20:40.time ago at City Hall, and that s where Alistair Durden is now.
:20:41. > :20:51.Yes. The double`decker bus behind me turned up about five minutes ago. A
:20:52. > :20:58.small crowd gathered around. I counted ten gold medals on board.
:20:59. > :21:05.Not least, one of the big stars of the summer, Claudia Fragapane. She
:21:06. > :21:09.won four medals in Glasgow. That is why the bus tour started at her gym.
:21:10. > :21:17.It made its way through the city centre and she was joined bx a
:21:18. > :21:21.shooting medallist and others, including Gary Hall, Jasmind
:21:22. > :21:30.Sawyers, and Paul Brown, thd para older. And various rugby te`m
:21:31. > :21:38.players who were involved in winning the World Cup. A thrill for all
:21:39. > :21:48.Let's remind sells of the achievements we are celebrating
:21:49. > :21:48.tonight. If she can land thhs final tumble, that score is within her
:21:49. > :22:02.grasp... She can! Six metres and 56... That is big!
:22:03. > :22:28.Jasmine Sawyers! The final whistle is going to blow.
:22:29. > :23:02.England have won the women's Rugby World Cup!
:23:03. > :23:50.Fantastic stuff. They barelx had time to catch their breath. What was
:23:51. > :24:30.it like to parade in your home city? Amazing. It was so nice to see all
:24:31. > :24:38.the people waving. Did you show up your medals came at definitdly. Last
:24:39. > :25:03.time we saw you, you They all have big smiles on their
:25:04. > :25:18.faces. I am sure there will be lots of celebrations. What a lind`up No
:25:19. > :25:24.let's get the weather forec`st. I promised yesterday we would take a
:25:25. > :25:34.quick snapshot of how things are starting for September. We had an
:25:35. > :25:49.extra retain earlier this month This is another one. It will be more
:25:50. > :26:24.settled and bring warmer we`ther. Past that, effectively a pl`in
:26:25. > :26:38.sailing story. As the high pressure starts to drift, the wins whll start
:26:39. > :26:39.to come in from the south`e`st. That will be a warm and increasingly
:26:40. > :26:41.sunny direction. Temperaturds up to 24 Celsius. Tomorrow will sde some
:26:42. > :26:52.cloud. It will be a blusterx day. A fair amount of prolonged drx spells.
:26:53. > :27:04.By daybreak, perhaps one or two showers. Temperatures around 13
:27:05. > :27:16.Celsius. Some showers pattern across our region. In the evening, you can
:27:17. > :27:26.see the erratic look to how the rainfall is distributed. Most rain
:27:27. > :27:39.is fairly light. Temperaturds around 19 Celsius. That is worth bding
:27:40. > :27:44.excited about. Our colleaguds, DIY SOS are back tonight. We're back at
:27:45. > :27:48.10pm. Goodbye.