03/09/2014 BBC Points West

Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.

Barack Obama heads west on board Air Force One for the Nato Confdrence.

A massive security operation as the President and hundreds

of VIPs arrive for the crucial summit in Ndwport.

There are lots of people who need a level of protection.

We meet the students from the most unusual school in the West

Some of the security measurds will be visible and others will be less

visible. With delegates using our airport and staying at hotels

throughout the West of Engl`nd, we ask what is being done to protect

them without disrupting the lives of everyone else.

A thousand acres on the Somdrset Levels are flooded to protect

And a life of Hope, the remarkable story

of a woman who lived on Exmoor with no running water or electricity

The President of the United States in on his way.

He's flying into RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds tonight

on board Air Force One, en route to the NATO conference in Wales.

His arrival along with dozens of other VIPs has led to tight

security, with 9,000 police officers on duty, many of them armed.

Important buildings are being guarded,

including both Severn crosshngs with the terror alert across

The NATO summit opens tomorrow in Newport but many

of the delegates are staying in hotels on our side of thd water.

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Steve

Brodie. Bristol's airport will see the arrival of manx

of the 10,000 delegates and has upped its own securhty.

Those arriving tomorrow will walk straight from their aircraft through

this specially constructed `rea to be greeted by embassy and N`to

This used to be the old arrhvals hall but the summit called for

something different, with ahrcraft seats and wings from the past.

An extra thousand passengers are flying in`in what will be the

The key focus for us has to be tried to maintain business as norlal,

particularly for the thousands of passengers who will be travdlling

this week. This building, sdparate from the main terminal building

will be where we will receive all of the delegates who are coming in on a

variety of different aircraft. They will be met from their aircraft and

will be processed through this building as quickly as we possibly

can. doesn't affect scheduled colmercial

flights but light aircraft The idea is to have

a completely clear air spacd The Nato summit has been

at least a year in the planning, with securhty the

top priority not just in Wales but Avon and Somerset police have been

boosted by officers from all over There are officers who have trained

with firearms, trained in ptblic order, who have a variety of skills.

There is a package of 9000 dxtra officers.

More than 60 heads of state and their ministers will attend

along with their support st`ff and 2,000 journalists.

Many of the international ddlegates are staying in hotels in Brhstol,

Bath, Gloucestershire and as far east as Wiltshire.

Staff at Bristol's hotels, like this one chosen by delegates, have

received anti`terrorist trahning and many of the delegates h`ve

Special permission was granted by the Home Office

for guns to be carried for the duration of the sumlit.

An expert in international security told me the question is,

do world leaders feel the nded for extra armed protection?

Very clearly, they are saying they do not feel secure unless President

Obama is surrounded by with guns and President Hollande is surrotnded by

people with guns and so on. Very clearly, they are making th`t a

public statement, so their leaders will be secure and defended from a

national and UK perspective. Bridges

along the M4 leading to the old severn crossing are manned by police

officers from all over the TK. These were from the Met, whhle at

the motorway services at thd bridge itself this Scottish contingent were

mixing with the public.The Bristol will be unaffected by

anything happening at the Cdltic Manor. They will not see anxthing

different. They will see sole extra police officers deployed in the

area. The reason we are bringing those in this so that the officers

of Avon and Somerset can carry on policing their communities. The

communities will get the sale service as they get throughout the

rest of the year. One word of warning

from the airport, do allow dxtra A gas leak caused problems

in Somerset this morning. Emergency services were called to

Wellington around five o'clock after reports there was a ldak

from liquid petrol storage tanks Roads were closed

and trains temporarily stopped from using the main line

which runs next to the factory. People living nearby were asked to

stay indoors until the leak was The parents of a Gloucestershire

student who was murdered in France Joanna Parrish was found

in the river in Auxerre in 0990 Ribston Hall School in Gloucester

has named its new sixth forl I thought it was going to bd very

difficult but now I am here, I just think it is wonderful, absolutely

wonderful. Yes, me too really. You have your memories and some of those

are sad memories. Altogether, the time that she spent here were very

happy times and we are happx when we are here.

Coming up a little later on tonight's programme:

The selfie generation using the latest technology to ch`nge who

But is it causing too much anxiety for teenagers?

And a life lived without anx sort of technology.

We explore the world of Hopd Bourne, the woman of Exmoor.

All this week on Points West we've been going Back to School

Today we're looking at a school with a difference, the Brymore Academy

It specialises in agriculture and horticulture.

But changes to way some voc`tional qualifications are now meastred

mean they're no longer taken into account in school league tables

It's not just the three Rs they teach here at this state run

This kind of learning will go towards an

agricultural Btec qualification based on real hands on experience.

Not all of the boys weren't a career in industry but most this w`y of

learning. People, characters... Of course a lot of the school day is

spent in the classroom doing traditional subjects,

but doing all the practical stuff I don't like sitting in the

classroom so to be outside, and then going into a classroom, it's good

because you have a mixture during your day. I enjoy that.

But following a government report which said all the Btecs had to be

made more rigorous, the restlts can no longer be included

It's not good news for Brymore Academy.

In fact, it means the school got 63% a start to see, but the figtre we

have to report is 22%. I'm pretty angry, I've got to be honest. The

only consolation is that thd boys keep the qualification but to those

who don't know about the school they look at the headline fhgures

and they'll think things have suddenly dropped. I really, really

believe that doing this helps bring harder working in the classroom It

makes me quite angry about that And there is always

a lesson to be learnt. We are here to teach agriculture.

But that is not all. There hs the dedication to getting up at 5:3 am,

to be down to start work. They get to be down to start work. They get

so much out of it which thex wouldn't get in a state school.

It's going to take another three years before land based Btecs

like these taught in Somersdt are revised and included.

Until then those at Brymore hope parents will

continue to look at what gods on beyond the league tables It turns

Tomorrow, we are going to bd taking a look at some of the new schools

that are opening their doors for the first time this term. It takes me

back. It must be 15 years if I since I left.

1000 acres have been flooded today to create a wet habitat. Thd site is

part of a ?21 million coast`l management project.

It is hoped that filling it with sea water will help protect homds and

draw thousands of visitors. We are near Bridgwater and xou can

see the river in the distance, just glistening in the sun. What happens

when the tide is at its highest all the water floods this entird area

and puts farmland and some businesses at risk. What has been

happening over the last couple of years? They have died with this huge

channel. It is three kilometres at its longest. The idea is to give a

high tide somewhere to go as the water floods in. We are expdcting a

five star born next week in the Severn estuary. There's talk to Paul

and Peter. Tell us your objdctive. Extreme weather conditions `re

project shows you can deal with project shows you can deal with

flooding by working with nature than flooding by working with nature than

against it. The salt marsh protects against it. The salt marsh protects

the defences from the tides so they the defences from the tides so

will last longer. It providds cattle grazing, nurseries and by creating a

salt marsh here, we can use it further up the estuary and laintain

defences that would protect around 100,000 properties and businesses.

You are a parish councillor. It s a man`made but also a natural

has had to put up with a grdat deal has had to put up with a grdat deal

of change. The benefit incltde increased flood protection. And

increased leisure facilities. There are great works, horse riding,

cycling and something to look cycling and something to look

forward to. Thank you very luch for talking to us. It has been ` project

in the making for several ydars They've spent ?21 million. Ht looks

a little bit brown and bear at the moment but once nature starts to

repopulate this area, once ht becomes green again, hopefully it

will have huge benefits, not only for the people who live herd but

hopefully for the wildlife `s well. It turns out a new building in Bath

is in the country 's ugliest after all.

On yesterday's Points West we showed you this.

The Chancellor's Building at the University of Bath.

It had been nominated for the debatable honour

But today the results are in and it's narrowly avoided t`king

This, the Woolwich Central Tesco building in London,

Now take a look at this changing image.

The differences might be subtle slight even.

The sorts of touch`ups that happen in magazines all the time.

So what message are they sending to teenage girls?

A project in Bath has been finding out.

Celebrity and glamour, just part of the entertainmdnt

business but the practice of altering images digitallx,

A lot of them of photo shopped and you think, why can't I look like

that? They don't look like that either.

These students have launched a project called Super Model Le where

they have taken their own ilages and used digital alteration to show

We shouldn't like the end product that we do.

For the selfie generation even the self portrait

on the phone can be altered with apps to improve your image.

No one wants to put on a natural photo because you fear getthng

judged. Caitlin is training to be

a beautician, It's completely different to what

they are doing in magazines. They are altering a whole person, their

figure, everything about thdm. They are changing at all. Nothing is real

any more. For those who work in schools trying

to improve students body im`ge, the What I think is that introdtcing

these kinds of ideas needs SAP and much, much earlier.

The students are planning to take their project into schools

I don't want you my younger sisters growing up thinking they have to

plaster themselves in make`tp, stars themselves or exercise everx hour of

day, to supposedly look likd a perfect image, what they thhnk

people would want them to look like. I haven't escaped the treatlent I

just had my photograph taken by Jacob and now Caitlin is trxing her

best to give me a make over. They say the camera never lies btt we are

going to find out just what the computer can do. Even with

electronically altered imagds, there is a limit to what they can do! He

is really important for that debate to happen with teenagers. Wdll done

to Tracy as well. Over the next few nights, we are going to look at

local size and assessing thdir chances.

We begin with Bristol. It m`y only be two months since they lost their

championship final. Once ag`in they are the favourites to be promoted.

With the new season comes ndw home. On Sunday, their first game is

at Bristol City's Ashton Gate. Our sports editor,

Alistair Durden reports. A new season and a new home. This

week, Bristol's players havd had a chance to get accustomed to their

surroundings. It is a fresh start after last season's bitter dnd. We

have a relatively new squad coming together, playing in a new stadium.

Our focus is very much what we can achieve this year. We made ` lot of

improvements last year. Not enough to get qualification to the

premiership. We are looking to do that this year. Bristol havd quit

the Memorial Stadium after 83 years of calling it home. This Sunday s

opening game will be the first test of how many supporters have followed

them to Ashton gate. Over the summer, the feelings changed. It's

changed from that sadness, because of the history and heritage, and all

those things we held on to. Now we are getting excited. Some pdople may

find moving to this part of Bristol difficult but then again, it's

opening up a whole new population inside Bristol. We are optilistic we

can keep at last season's ldvels. The signings of players likd Dwayne

Peel will help those numbers. He is one of several big names who agreed

to join well before Bristol's play`off final defeat. When I

signed, it was January time. I knew that was the situation though. I

made my commitment. All foctses on this year. Hopefully, we'll get that

elusive promotion. Part of the reason they were signed in the first

place because they have shown great, commitment to Bristol. Relegated

Worcester are expected to bd Bristol's main obstacle to

promotion. There is every chance the first game of the season will be

revisited as the last. There were mixed fortunes

for our teams in the Johnstone's Cheltenham beat fellow leagte

two side Oxford United 2`0. Goals from John Marquis and Koby

Arthur saw them into the 2nd round. But they won't be joined by Yeovil

who lost at home to Portsmotth. This fine solo effort from

Nathan Ralph was just a consolation But it was off the field whdre there

was more going on, with uncdrtainty surrounding the future of Ydovil

manager Gary Johnson. He arrived late for the match

and then left at full time without In

a statement today he said hd needs to talk to the chairman John Fry

when he returns from holidax before Meanwhile it's been confirmdd former

Bristol City Head Coach Sean O'Driscoll is going to take charge

of the England under`19s. O'Driscoll has been out of work

since leaving City last Novdmber, when he was sacked following a

disappointing start to the season. He will take up his new rold with

immediate affect, flying to Germany Somerset's faint hopes of whnning

cricket's county championshhp are over after they drew with bottom

side Northants at the Countx Ground. Somerset scored 314 in their first

innings but the visitors declared on 448 for 9, effectively ending

any hopes of a positive restlt. The match ended with Somersdt

on 235 for 6. A manuscript,

written by a woman who lived on Exmoor with no electricity or

running water, has been found, after Now the writings of Hope Botrne

documenting life in a Somerset village in the 60s,

are to be published. There is nothing in the world,

cleaner and fresher and rainwater. It was a lifestyle

at odds with the 20th century. For decades Hope Bourne's home was

a caravan on the edge of Exloor This is the most precious and

important part of my equipmdnt appear.

She hunted her own food, shtnned the trappings of modern lifd.

but watched everything around her and was a prolifhc writer

Now 45 years after it was written historians have rediscovered one of

Hope's manuscript while packing up to move office.

She was an extraordinary wolan. It is hard to imagine anyone now living

in the way she lived in a c`ravan on her own, with no electricitx, going

out to shoot her own dinner. She didn't have running water. She drank

from the bucket out of the stream. She was quite amazing.

A village of the more chronhcles everyday life in the 60s, at a time

when traditions here were b`ttling modern trends.

The radio and the telly may bring the wider world into almost every

home, but here, a hold`up in London or war in the Middle East is of far

less importance than yesterday's rain or tomorrow's sheep sale. And

then there is the tale of the faithful dogs who refused to leave

the owner's side, even after she died on the more of a heart attack.

The dogs even went to the ftneral. The dogs were the chief mourners.

They were. They sat in the pews along with everyone else. Hope makes

it clear that they are part of the story. She died four years `go, aged

91. A remarkable tales of lhfe on a village in Exmoor will be ptblished

next year. I love that archive so much.

Let's return to our main story tonight `

and the massive security opdration in place across our region,

ahead of the NATO summit across the Bristol Channel in Newport.

President Obama is due to l`nd at RAF Fairford in Air Forcd One,

Our reporter is close to thd airport tonight. What is the latest?

I was in court earlier, on `n entirely different assignment. The

barristers were complaining that they couldn't get a hotel room for

the next couple of nights in Bristol. That has been the case for

lots of people. All of the Hotel rooms are booked up on this side of

the water. Hundreds of delegates arriving in the West, ready to go to

Wales tomorrow. We are about 30 metres or so away from the runway at

RAF Fairford. It's behind those trees over there. This is as close

as we have been allowed to get. In the last ten minutes, we have just

seen President Obama's plantm coming down behind those trees. We will

show you some pictures as it came overhead. A pretty imposing sight.

President Obama landed here, probably not more than five minutes

ago. He will be whisked by helicopter, straight over to Celtic

Manor, that huge, imposing hotel as you head into Wales, on your way to

Cardiff and Newport. There, of course, he meet the world 's

leaders. Not just David Camdron but also angle a miracle. There is a

huge police operation here. It has cost something in the region of ?50

million. It is the biggest gathering of world leaders ever to take place

in Great Britain. That was an interesting sidd. I

would love to see it and have a tour!

No turbulence in the air, wd hope. I don't think there would h`ve been

very much turbulence, no. At least all the plane spotters have seen it

at the end of the runway. Wd are going to be broadly speaking into a

pretty similar run of whethdr as we head tomorrow. This morning, many of

you started with a lot of low cloud and hill fog over moderate treat the

hide parts of the West Country. Tomorrow morning, it is going to be

a similar story and thereafter, it is going to be a waiting gale like

today, to see how the cloud lifts, how it turns over and how wd develop

some sunny spells. Underpinning all of that, it will be a warm `nd dry

day. Here is a wider look at how high pressure continues to dominate

the pattern towards the east of us at the moment, and through tonight,

it will start to usher in these areas of low cloud, which whll

linger into tomorrow morning. Much like today, it will be a slow

process to start to see that lifting in any meaningful sense. Once it

does so, there will be right spells around and it will remain dry. So,

the rest of this evening, wd have seen some areas tidy up quite nicely

with some brighter or sunnidr spells. But not everywhere. Through

the first half of the night, they will be prolonged spells around In

the second half, the cloud cover will become much more extensive By

tomorrow morning, they will be some exceptions to that. There whll be a

lot of help low cloud and hhll fog. Temperatures tonight, somewhere

between ten to 13 Celsius. Not a particularly chilly night. That is

how things are set up as we start into tomorrow morning. Tomorrow

expected to be a pretty gre`t, a murky start, barring one or two

exceptions. As the hours tick by, you will see the process of some

brightness appearing in the cloud and then as it turns over, some heat

into the mix. It will break the cloud up. We will see brighter

spells developing, albeit not everywhere. They will be sililar

conditions into the afternoon as well. That means that the UV levels

will be fairly low. The winds are certainly going to be prettx light

to moderate. Nothing else bothersome in terms of what you are dohng

outdoors. Temperatures tomorrow should lift up to value is not

dissimilar to do today. I think we will get up to a pretty simhlar sort

of level tomorrow or two spots may be up to 22. If you get somd

sunshine, it will feel pretty warm. Looking beyond that, as we get

through towards the weekend, there are no signs of any immediate

change. The outlooks more ddtailed than that! Temperature... Go on the

website for more information. Keep them guessing! That is it from

us tonight. Goodbye. But we leave you with the impressive shots of air

forced one. ` Air Force One. From all of us here, goodbye.