:00:00. > :00:16.Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
:00:17. > :00:30.The student who had everything to live for.
:00:31. > :00:35.It is a serious risk. The council need to do something. They should
:00:36. > :00:37.have done it years ago. We'll be asking what can be done to
:00:38. > :00:41.improve safety in an area It's out at last ` a fire that's
:00:42. > :00:53.been burning in Swindon for nearly This time it's not a kiss and tell `
:00:54. > :01:00.we speak to Harry's biographer And in it for the long Haul ` as the
:01:01. > :01:14.BBC celebrates 80 years in Bristol. Detectives searching
:01:15. > :01:17.for a missing teenager in B`th have Although there hasn't been `ny
:01:18. > :01:22.formal identification, police say they think it is 18`year`old Sammuel
:01:23. > :01:26.Amin, who hasn't been seen since he left a city centre club in the early
:01:27. > :01:33.hours of Saturday morning. Our Bath reporter Ali Vowles has
:01:34. > :01:37.been watching events unfold today. First thing this morning
:01:38. > :01:39.and police divers were back in the River Avon searching the
:01:40. > :01:42.waters near the footpath whdre it's Then just before midday
:01:43. > :01:48.the news that everyone had been dreading ` a body had been found and
:01:49. > :01:54.although not formally identhfied. Police are sure it is that
:01:55. > :02:05.of the 18`year`old student. An hour before we found the body, I
:02:06. > :02:10.went to see the family to update them on the search. I had to go back
:02:11. > :02:16.and tell them the sad news that we have found their son. They `re
:02:17. > :02:19.destroyed. They are a relighous and close`knit family. There were many
:02:20. > :02:22.families `` family members there. Sam was last seen by his frhends
:02:23. > :02:25.at the OPA club in the earlx hours Today they were grieving
:02:26. > :02:40.for a friend who'd they known all It needs to be sorted out bdcause
:02:41. > :02:46.this can't keep happening. Ht needs to be closed off. The counchl need
:02:47. > :02:47.to have done something. Not now but when the first casualty arose from
:02:48. > :02:48.that. The 18`year`old from Twerton was
:02:49. > :02:51.due to start university next week. The path he took along by
:02:52. > :03:03.the river was a regular route home. This is a well used path. When you
:03:04. > :03:07.come down the slope, this is the only thing that might save xou.
:03:08. > :03:08.There has been six deaths in five years and many people say they
:03:09. > :03:10.should never have happened `gain. Last year, following
:03:11. > :03:12.a safety report, an 850 yard fence was installed along a stretch of
:03:13. > :03:16.the river to improve water safety. For the parents of graphic designer
:03:17. > :03:20.Casper Flagg, who died when he fell into the Avon after a night out in
:03:21. > :03:37.2009, today?s news is devastating. It keeps happening. Something needs
:03:38. > :03:41.to be done. They should makd it safe for everybody to walk along. They
:03:42. > :03:49.either have to do this or shut this path late at night. Streetlhghts,
:03:50. > :03:53.cameras all along, you can't have people walking along these rivers.
:03:54. > :03:56.Tonight the waters of the Rhver Avon look calm.
:03:57. > :03:58.But there's shock throughout the city that once again another
:03:59. > :04:06.Clearly a lot of strong feelings in Bath tonight about safetx
:04:07. > :04:10.We're joined from there now by Dave Laming from the
:04:11. > :04:31.This simply can't go on, cabinets? It cannot go on. We have to address
:04:32. > :04:36.it and we are addressing it. The problem has been that for four
:04:37. > :04:41.years, I have been the Lone Ranger but now we getting our act together.
:04:42. > :04:47.I have been told today, and this is no comfort the family, becatse they
:04:48. > :04:51.only speak when I am grieving a death on my river, but I have spoken
:04:52. > :04:58.with the Cabinet member, Ben Stevens, who is in charge of this
:04:59. > :05:02.and he assures me, I have bden allocated a further ?400,000 to
:05:03. > :05:07.spend on safety measures whhch are going to be very important. We can't
:05:08. > :05:11.make the river completely s`fe, that is an impossibility, but wh`t we can
:05:12. > :05:20.do is make sure we do the bdst that we cannot the moment. I am `lmost in
:05:21. > :05:28.tears because this is six thmes it has happened. We have to find a way
:05:29. > :05:32.of stopping it. I agree with you as a parent of children of that sort of
:05:33. > :05:36.age. I could weep for that xoung man that you can't attend an 18`year`old
:05:37. > :05:41.to be careful. They don't gdt it, particularly when there is drink
:05:42. > :05:47.involved. Is there a possibhlity to friends that area off, parthcularly
:05:48. > :05:55.when term starts? How can you do that? That is an impossibilhty. Just
:05:56. > :06:02.in that area. The area is the whole of the river. The whole of the river
:06:03. > :06:08.through Bass can be dangerots. It is probably the most dangerous river in
:06:09. > :06:12.the country. `` through Bath. We have to get out and tell thd
:06:13. > :06:17.universities, instruct thesd universities. You have 6000 coming
:06:18. > :06:23.here now. Not one of them rdalises we had a river, let alone the most
:06:24. > :06:25.dangerous river in the country. They have to be taught how to respect
:06:26. > :06:28.it. Thank you for joining us. A fire that's been burning
:06:29. > :06:31.at a recycling plant in Swindon for the past eight weeks has
:06:32. > :06:33.finally been put out. Firefighters have spent
:06:34. > :06:36.the last 57 days tacking thd blaze But whilst the flames may fhnally
:06:37. > :06:41.have been extinguished, questions about how this was allowed
:06:42. > :06:44.to happen, are gathering molentum. With the flames now out,
:06:45. > :06:52.it's clear to see why has bden such Thousands and thousands of tonnes
:06:53. > :06:58.of rubbish piled on top of each other with no way of
:06:59. > :07:02.stopping the flames from spreading. Today, nearly two months
:07:03. > :07:05.after it started, everything in the area has been left coated
:07:06. > :07:21.in thick dust and the acrid smell It is still not clear what happened
:07:22. > :07:25.here back in July and how this huge fire started. An investigathon is
:07:26. > :07:30.underway and we are expecting to see the results in a few weeks time
:07:31. > :07:35.This fire was one of the most complex and long`lasting thd Fire
:07:36. > :07:41.Service has ever had to deal with. The site have been licensed to store
:07:42. > :07:44.5000 tonnes of waste materi`l but according to investigators, far more
:07:45. > :07:50.was being kept there which lade the fire even more difficult to manage.
:07:51. > :07:52.The challenges we faced was a restricted site congested whth a
:07:53. > :07:56.large amount of waste here. The waste had been stored for some time,
:07:57. > :08:02.so it was compacted and difficult for us to fight the fire because it
:08:03. > :08:08.was deep`seated within the stack. That is way we needed help from the
:08:09. > :08:13.Environment Agency to dig ott the fire so we could extinguish it. No
:08:14. > :08:17.one was willing to discuss this with us today but one local Councillor,
:08:18. > :08:22.himself an environmental policy specialist, said this should never
:08:23. > :08:26.have been allowed to happen. We need to get at the bottom of those
:08:27. > :08:30.questions as to why this site was allowed to get into the state that
:08:31. > :08:33.it was and why the Environmdnt Agency and other agencies dhd not
:08:34. > :08:38.act soon to make sure it was properly regulated to stop ` fire
:08:39. > :08:42.taking place. We have to make sure this doesn't happen again in Swindon
:08:43. > :08:46.and we need to learn lessons to make sure this doesn't happen ag`in. An
:08:47. > :09:02.enquiry will be proposed at a council meeting on Thursday.
:09:03. > :09:06.What Scots living here in the West think
:09:07. > :09:11.And have you spotted us out on the town?
:09:12. > :09:15.We continue our celebration of 0 years of the BBC here in Brhstol
:09:16. > :09:26.An inquest has heard how nobody attempted to resuscitate
:09:27. > :09:29.a grandfather from Calne who lay lifeless on the ground for lore than
:09:30. > :09:33.40 minutes, because they thought he'd been electrocuted.
:09:34. > :09:38.In fact Roger Hayward had stffered a heart attack, as he attempted to
:09:39. > :09:41.move a fallen tree by a powdr cable during February's winter storms
:09:42. > :09:44.Emergency services failed to treat Mr Hayward as they feared
:09:45. > :09:48.the electricity cables were still live, but in fact the power had been
:09:49. > :09:57.A man's still in a life thrdatening condition after an incident in
:09:58. > :10:02.The 41`year`old was allegedly pushed from a van in the mahn
:10:03. > :10:08.Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
:10:09. > :10:11.Students at New College in Swindon are being given antibiotics
:10:12. > :10:14.following a case of bacterial meningitis.
:10:15. > :10:17.A teenage pupil is being trdated for the condition at the
:10:18. > :10:22.Parents are being warned to look out for the signs of the infecthon,
:10:23. > :10:27.which can cause meningitis and septicaemia.
:10:28. > :10:29.Undercover Police officers in Bristol have revealed details
:10:30. > :10:33.of how they managed to stop a drugs gang, led by a penshoner.
:10:34. > :10:36.Bristol Crown Court has heard how 77`year`old George Rogers w`s
:10:37. > :10:42.the mastermind behind a plot to manufacture the drug, cryst`l meth.
:10:43. > :10:47.This report by our Home Aff`irs Correspondent, Steve Brodie.
:10:48. > :10:49.The jury have been told the plan could have been based
:10:50. > :10:52.on the TV series Breaking B`d in which a dying teacher makes
:10:53. > :10:56.the drug, crystal meth, in order to leave money behind for his family.
:10:57. > :10:59.The drug is made by cooking up a cocktail of chemicals, all
:11:00. > :11:05.Once formed, it's both dangerous and addhctive.
:11:06. > :11:08.Witnesses known only as officers 601 and 741,
:11:09. > :11:12.and speaking behind a screen described how they kept George
:11:13. > :11:19.Officer 741 told the court how she operated a hidden camer`.
:11:20. > :11:22.She addded, "We were literally back to back "
:11:23. > :11:25.The court has already heard how members of the gang would mdet
:11:26. > :11:31.in restaurants and cafes including Vincenzos on Park Street
:11:32. > :11:33.in Bristol and Starbucks ne`r Leyhill in South Gloucestershire.
:11:34. > :11:36.But they had no idea their conversations were being recorded.
:11:37. > :11:39.With bugs placed in gang melbers? cars, the police, say
:11:40. > :11:42.the prosecution, could alwaxs track them as they travelled to mdetings
:11:43. > :11:47.Prosecutor Stephen Mooney h`d previously claimed that Davhd Nash,
:11:48. > :11:52.who fancied himself as a bit of a chemist, was the gang lember
:11:53. > :11:56.who was going to set up the drug manufacturing laboratory.
:11:57. > :11:58.The jury were told that it's possible for crystal meth
:11:59. > :12:02.laboratories to explode and that's one of the reasons why
:12:03. > :12:05.the police were so keen to `rrest the gang before it was set tp.
:12:06. > :12:09.All ten defendants deny conspiracy to produce amphetamine and nine
:12:10. > :12:19.plead not guilty to conspir`cy to produce ecstasy and crystal meth.
:12:20. > :12:23.We're all about to find out how united our kingdom is or isn't.
:12:24. > :12:26.The people of Scotland go to the polls on Thursday to vote
:12:27. > :12:31.So what do Scots living herd in the West think will happdn?
:12:32. > :12:41.We sent our own Scott Ellis to find out
:12:42. > :12:43.There is a small patch of the West Country
:12:44. > :12:50.There are no lochs or glens here to climb.
:12:51. > :12:54.A taste of Scotland comes to you from this rather dusty corndr of
:12:55. > :13:09.Here, you will find Les, who owns the second`largest
:13:10. > :13:21.From that piece of wood, we have got to make this.
:13:22. > :13:25.It means lots of work for his six staff who sell 800 bagpipes
:13:26. > :13:31.a year to customers worldwide including our Scottish neighbours.
:13:32. > :13:35.I would like to see them stay together.
:13:36. > :13:43.If it works for them, all well and good.
:13:44. > :13:56.We scoured the West Country for more Scottish referendum ophnions.
:13:57. > :13:59.Balloon maker Don, spent his first 20 years in Glasgow.
:14:00. > :14:05.The next 40 plus in the West Country.
:14:06. > :14:07.When I go to Scotland, they say I have a Bristol accent.
:14:08. > :14:10.If you could vote, he would say no to independdnce
:14:11. > :14:16.I can understand the fact that people feel all the shots are being
:14:17. > :14:22.called by little boys from Eton who are 400 miles away.
:14:23. > :14:35.There is another West Country Scotsman, Yeovil, Bristol Chty and
:14:36. > :14:45.He says he is wary of the small print but if he could come
:14:46. > :15:02.It has taken years to come `bout and we have to see what comes of it
:15:03. > :15:05.The ballot box awaits those residents in Scotland and
:15:06. > :15:10.in the West Country, we can only watch, listen and wait.
:15:11. > :15:14.Bear in mind, a yes vote in Scotland might prompt a referendum in Wales,
:15:15. > :15:28.bringing the same debate a lot closer to our shores.
:15:29. > :15:34.We will have the result of the referendum on Friday weekend and at
:15:35. > :15:38.the weekend, we have a programme where we will be talking about the
:15:39. > :15:40.aftermath of the vote and what it means to be English.
:15:41. > :15:42.Football now and all our teams are playing tonight.
:15:43. > :15:45.At the top of League One, Bristol City hope to continte
:15:46. > :15:47.their unbeaten start to the season away at Port Vald.
:15:48. > :15:49.Amongst the other games, sixth`placed Swindon are
:15:50. > :15:53.And Yeovil could give a debut to goalkeeper Jake Kean
:15:54. > :15:59.He joined the club on loan from Blackburn yesterday.
:16:00. > :16:01.Somerset are in a commanding position
:16:02. > :16:04.in their County Championship match against Middlesex.
:16:05. > :16:10.James Hildreth top scored whth 82 as they declared on 528 for 9.
:16:11. > :16:14.Somerset then reduced the vhsitors to 64 for 7 at the close with
:16:15. > :16:21.Alfonso Thomas, Peter Trego and Jack Leach each taking two wickets.
:16:22. > :16:25.Now Prince Harry has just ttrned 30 and to mark the occasion he's
:16:26. > :16:29.the subject of a new book by royal biographer, Penny Junor,
:16:30. > :16:34.In Prince Harry ` Brother, Soldier, Son, she talks
:16:35. > :16:38.about his relationship with his parents and his life in the forces.
:16:39. > :16:45.Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs has been to medt her.
:16:46. > :16:48.Back at the one of Prince H`rry s local hangout's, the Hare and Hounds
:16:49. > :16:59.in Westonbirt, Penny Junor told me why she finds him so beguilhng.
:17:00. > :17:05.Here's Miss Chivas and a risk taker. He is a real party animal but
:17:06. > :17:09.there is a very serious sidd to Harry and he has fantastic dmpathy.
:17:10. > :17:12.Penny describes him as both dangerous and brillhant
:17:13. > :17:18.who's come through a childhood of love and tragedy.
:17:19. > :17:24.He did have two loving parents and that is one of the reasons why both
:17:25. > :17:28.he and his brother have turned out so well, because they did fdel very
:17:29. > :17:33.confident in the love of thdir parents. He was very close to his
:17:34. > :17:38.mother, he adored her and she adored him and he was only 12 when he lost
:17:39. > :17:43.her. All this loss and learning to cope with difficulty I think has
:17:44. > :17:52.really turned him into a very remarkable young man. He has huge
:17:53. > :17:54.empathy, huge kindness, he has a fantastically big heart.
:17:55. > :17:57.And testament to that his recent Invictus Games, but
:17:58. > :18:05.sometimes surely being plain old Harry Wales would have been better.
:18:06. > :18:14.He has been discovering through his charities, he is discovering that
:18:15. > :18:23.having an HRH to his name, gives him an added power. He can do things for
:18:24. > :18:29.the good that if he was just plain Harry in Wales couldn't do.
:18:30. > :18:34.There was that notorious gale of billiards in a Las Vegas hotel.
:18:35. > :18:41.He is a risk taker. He loves life and I feel he has been badlx
:18:42. > :18:51.maligned by the press who sdem to want to present him as this
:18:52. > :18:54.out`of`control character. They are calling a different tune at the
:18:55. > :19:01.moment at the moment becausd he is in favour because he has done these
:19:02. > :19:05.games. He is the great prince at the moment. At the end of the book, what
:19:06. > :19:11.image do you want people to come away with? A brilliant soldher, a
:19:12. > :19:17.brilliant leader of men who is incredibly empathetic to vulnerable
:19:18. > :19:20.people. He has a wonderful sense of humour, he is tremendously kind and
:19:21. > :19:24.loving. We are incredibly ltcky to have Harry.
:19:25. > :19:27.Now we've stepped into the newsroom to introduce our next piece because
:19:28. > :19:44.This is the nerve centre, where the scripts are written and the films
:19:45. > :19:49.are edited. I have never sedn them looking quite so hard at thd moment.
:19:50. > :19:52.As the BBC in Bristol marks 80 years of broadcasting, John Craven is
:19:53. > :19:57.looking back at the history of the site and its programles.
:19:58. > :20:01.Tonight he returns to the early days of his TV career
:20:02. > :20:11.BBC Bristol was officially opened in 1934, before radio studios.
:20:12. > :20:17.It wasn't until 1957 that the West got its own regional television
:20:18. > :20:23.news, just a five minute bulletin covering a wide area.
:20:24. > :20:29.For our first news dummy, wd look at events in Dorset and Hampshire
:20:30. > :20:36.and knew of a strike in Cornwall, this part of influenza in the West
:20:37. > :20:40.Country and the friendly invasion of West Country ports by NATO warships.
:20:41. > :20:43.By the time I arrived in thd 70s, BBC Bristol had its own dedhcated
:20:44. > :20:53.One of my fellow reporters was a certain Jonathan Dimbleby.
:20:54. > :20:56.You arrive at the bus stop `nd you will have a long wait because the
:20:57. > :21:06.This was my first proper job and I did learn a lot.
:21:07. > :21:09.It was fun and it was much more diffictlt.
:21:10. > :21:12.I loved the stories that were visual stories
:21:13. > :21:17.of a church or a village th`t had won the best award for the village.
:21:18. > :21:21.It was done swiftly because there wasn't much thme.
:21:22. > :21:24.Occasional interviews you'vd got to do with controversial polithcians,
:21:25. > :21:32.Some things have drasticallx changed over the years, certainly the
:21:33. > :21:40.The Glastonbury Fayre has bden a time of peace
:21:41. > :21:45.There have been certain aspdcts of it that have disturbed what they
:21:46. > :21:58.One of the things that strikes me is your voice, how much has ch`nged.
:21:59. > :22:06.We filmed in black and whitd and it was film, not video.
:22:07. > :22:09.We were given one roll of fhlm which lasted for ten minutes to make
:22:10. > :22:22.I had to be back in the studios by 3:30pm
:22:23. > :22:37.with a little card and you don't have to process the fhlm.
:22:38. > :22:43.We could start editing before it goes on air.
:22:44. > :22:46.I can remember the palpitathons if I would get back in time.
:22:47. > :23:00.Nowadays the newsroom is a busy place, shared by Points West,
:23:01. > :23:03.Radio Bristol and News online, alongside the inside out West
:23:04. > :23:09.The big change since I was here in the 1970s is the lack
:23:10. > :23:13.of noise because in those d`ys, we were bustling away at typewriters.
:23:14. > :23:21.My colleagues said there was a lot more drama in the old days with
:23:22. > :23:34.Often things were arriving very late for the programme.
:23:35. > :23:36.We just had the one programle, one at 6:30pm.
:23:37. > :23:48.Breakfast bulletins every h`lf`hour, a lunch time bulletin.
:23:49. > :24:04.It is almost a round`the`clock operation.
:24:05. > :24:06.Straight back in the next morning and lots
:24:07. > :24:32.This is John Craven for BBC points West.
:24:33. > :24:41.It is never like that any more. I remember when we had an electricity
:24:42. > :24:42.failure and we were all on typewriters or at least tryhng to
:24:43. > :24:43.find one. And tomorrow John finds out
:24:44. > :24:45.about all the wonderful children's programmes
:24:46. > :24:47.which have been made here, hncluding Animal Magic with Johnny Morris of
:24:48. > :24:54.course, filmed in this very studio. And some sad news that came
:24:55. > :24:56.to us this afternoon. Rosalind Buckland,
:24:57. > :25:00.who was the real Rosie in L`urie Mrs Buckland would have
:25:01. > :25:18.turned 100 tomorrow. Let us get the weather now with Ian.
:25:19. > :25:27.We are coming up for a bit of a change at the end of the
:25:28. > :25:38.There is a lot of uncertainty that will start to develop. Therd is a
:25:39. > :25:43.good deal of dry weather about. There will be some murky scdnes
:25:44. > :25:48.through the most part of thd day. Things will brighten up and we will
:25:49. > :25:52.share a decent afternoon. Wd are expecting it to stay dry. Not
:25:53. > :26:01.everywhere has been dry tod`y. We have seen clusters of showers over
:26:02. > :26:06.Wiltshire during the afternoon. They are moving away now. There will be
:26:07. > :26:11.one or two further showers to come through the course of the evening
:26:12. > :26:16.for some. We have low cloud spilling across us as the night goes on. The
:26:17. > :26:26.threat of showers has been held down to the south of us. Low pressure is
:26:27. > :26:41.way down of the chart. For the time being, once those showers move away,
:26:42. > :26:49.it will be a dry night. If xou are East, there will be some hill fog
:26:50. > :26:53.around. It will be a mild nhght at around 50 Celsius. Tomorrow morning,
:26:54. > :26:59.it will be a sit and wait story as all that low cloud clears away. For
:27:00. > :27:05.some of you in the North, it might take to lunch time for it to move
:27:06. > :27:09.away. We have a better action in starting to develop. We are
:27:10. > :27:13.expecting it to stay dry. There is a fair amount of sunshine but it will
:27:14. > :27:20.be a warm one. Temperatures reached 25 Celsius today. It would be a
:27:21. > :27:25.little bit behind that tomorrow Late into the week, the thrdat of
:27:26. > :27:32.some heavy showers. Some of those could be severe.
:27:33. > :27:41.I have made a note never to summarise the weather. That is about
:27:42. > :27:44.it from us for now. I hope xou enjoyed your small tour arotnd.
:27:45. > :27:46.There's more of that tomorrow. Goodbye.