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