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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
The student who had everything to live for. | :00:17. | :00:30. | |
It is a serious risk. The council need to do something. They should | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
have done it years ago. We'll be asking what can be done to | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
improve safety in an area It's out at last ` a fire that's | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
been burning in Swindon for nearly This time it's not a kiss and tell ` | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
we speak to Harry's biographer And in it for the long Haul ` as the | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
BBC celebrates 80 years in Bristol. Detectives searching | :01:01. | :01:14. | |
for a missing teenager in B`th have Although there hasn't been `ny | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
formal identification, police say they think it is 18`year`old Sammuel | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Amin, who hasn't been seen since he left a city centre club in the early | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
hours of Saturday morning. Our Bath reporter Ali Vowles has | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
been watching events unfold today. First thing this morning | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
and police divers were back in the River Avon searching the | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
waters near the footpath whdre it's Then just before midday | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
the news that everyone had been dreading ` a body had been found and | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
although not formally identhfied. Police are sure it is that | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
of the 18`year`old student. An hour before we found the body, I | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
went to see the family to update them on the search. I had to go back | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
and tell them the sad news that we have found their son. They `re | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
destroyed. They are a relighous and close`knit family. There were many | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
families `` family members there. Sam was last seen by his frhends | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
at the OPA club in the earlx hours Today they were grieving | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
for a friend who'd they known all It needs to be sorted out bdcause | :02:26. | :02:40. | |
this can't keep happening. Ht needs to be closed off. The counchl need | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
to have done something. Not now but when the first casualty arose from | :02:47. | :02:47. | |
that. The 18`year`old from Twerton was | :02:48. | :02:48. | |
due to start university next week. The path he took along by | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
the river was a regular route home. This is a well used path. When you | :02:52. | :03:03. | |
come down the slope, this is the only thing that might save xou. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
There has been six deaths in five years and many people say they | :03:08. | :03:08. | |
should never have happened `gain. Last year, following | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
a safety report, an 850 yard fence was installed along a stretch of | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
the river to improve water safety. For the parents of graphic designer | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Casper Flagg, who died when he fell into the Avon after a night out in | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
2009, today?s news is devastating. It keeps happening. Something needs | :03:21. | :03:37. | |
to be done. They should makd it safe for everybody to walk along. They | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
either have to do this or shut this path late at night. Streetlhghts, | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
cameras all along, you can't have people walking along these rivers. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Tonight the waters of the Rhver Avon look calm. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
But there's shock throughout the city that once again another | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Clearly a lot of strong feelings in Bath tonight about safetx | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
We're joined from there now by Dave Laming from the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
This simply can't go on, cabinets? It cannot go on. We have to address | :04:11. | :04:31. | |
it and we are addressing it. The problem has been that for four | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
years, I have been the Lone Ranger but now we getting our act together. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
I have been told today, and this is no comfort the family, becatse they | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
only speak when I am grieving a death on my river, but I have spoken | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
with the Cabinet member, Ben Stevens, who is in charge of this | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
and he assures me, I have bden allocated a further ?400,000 to | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
spend on safety measures whhch are going to be very important. We can't | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
make the river completely s`fe, that is an impossibility, but wh`t we can | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
do is make sure we do the bdst that we cannot the moment. I am `lmost in | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
tears because this is six thmes it has happened. We have to find a way | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
of stopping it. I agree with you as a parent of children of that sort of | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
age. I could weep for that xoung man that you can't attend an 18`year`old | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
to be careful. They don't gdt it, particularly when there is drink | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
involved. Is there a possibhlity to friends that area off, parthcularly | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
when term starts? How can you do that? That is an impossibilhty. Just | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
in that area. The area is the whole of the river. The whole of the river | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
through Bass can be dangerots. It is probably the most dangerous river in | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
the country. `` through Bath. We have to get out and tell thd | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
universities, instruct thesd universities. You have 6000 coming | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
here now. Not one of them rdalises we had a river, let alone the most | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
dangerous river in the country. They have to be taught how to respect | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
it. Thank you for joining us. A fire that's been burning | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
at a recycling plant in Swindon for the past eight weeks has | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
finally been put out. Firefighters have spent | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
the last 57 days tacking thd blaze But whilst the flames may fhnally | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
have been extinguished, questions about how this was allowed | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
to happen, are gathering molentum. With the flames now out, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
it's clear to see why has bden such Thousands and thousands of tonnes | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
of rubbish piled on top of each other with no way of | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
stopping the flames from spreading. Today, nearly two months | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
after it started, everything in the area has been left coated | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
in thick dust and the acrid smell It is still not clear what happened | :07:06. | :07:21. | |
here back in July and how this huge fire started. An investigathon is | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
underway and we are expecting to see the results in a few weeks time | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
This fire was one of the most complex and long`lasting thd Fire | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Service has ever had to deal with. The site have been licensed to store | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
5000 tonnes of waste materi`l but according to investigators, far more | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
was being kept there which lade the fire even more difficult to manage. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
The challenges we faced was a restricted site congested whth a | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
large amount of waste here. The waste had been stored for some time, | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
so it was compacted and difficult for us to fight the fire because it | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
was deep`seated within the stack. That is way we needed help from the | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Environment Agency to dig ott the fire so we could extinguish it. No | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
one was willing to discuss this with us today but one local Councillor, | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
himself an environmental policy specialist, said this should never | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
have been allowed to happen. We need to get at the bottom of those | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
questions as to why this site was allowed to get into the state that | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
it was and why the Environmdnt Agency and other agencies dhd not | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
act soon to make sure it was properly regulated to stop ` fire | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
taking place. We have to make sure this doesn't happen again in Swindon | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
and we need to learn lessons to make sure this doesn't happen ag`in. An | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
enquiry will be proposed at a council meeting on Thursday. | :08:47. | :09:02. | |
What Scots living here in the West think | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
And have you spotted us out on the town? | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
We continue our celebration of 0 years of the BBC here in Brhstol | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
An inquest has heard how nobody attempted to resuscitate | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
a grandfather from Calne who lay lifeless on the ground for lore than | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
40 minutes, because they thought he'd been electrocuted. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
In fact Roger Hayward had stffered a heart attack, as he attempted to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
move a fallen tree by a powdr cable during February's winter storms | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Emergency services failed to treat Mr Hayward as they feared | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
the electricity cables were still live, but in fact the power had been | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
A man's still in a life thrdatening condition after an incident in | :09:49. | :09:57. | |
The 41`year`old was allegedly pushed from a van in the mahn | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Students at New College in Swindon are being given antibiotics | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
following a case of bacterial meningitis. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
A teenage pupil is being trdated for the condition at the | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Parents are being warned to look out for the signs of the infecthon, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
which can cause meningitis and septicaemia. | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Undercover Police officers in Bristol have revealed details | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
of how they managed to stop a drugs gang, led by a penshoner. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Bristol Crown Court has heard how 77`year`old George Rogers w`s | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the mastermind behind a plot to manufacture the drug, cryst`l meth. | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
This report by our Home Aff`irs Correspondent, Steve Brodie. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
The jury have been told the plan could have been based | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
on the TV series Breaking B`d in which a dying teacher makes | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
the drug, crystal meth, in order to leave money behind for his family. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
The drug is made by cooking up a cocktail of chemicals, all | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Once formed, it's both dangerous and addhctive. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
Witnesses known only as officers 601 and 741, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
and speaking behind a screen described how they kept George | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Officer 741 told the court how she operated a hidden camer`. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
She addded, "We were literally back to back " | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
The court has already heard how members of the gang would mdet | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
in restaurants and cafes including Vincenzos on Park Street | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
in Bristol and Starbucks ne`r Leyhill in South Gloucestershire. | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
But they had no idea their conversations were being recorded. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
With bugs placed in gang melbers? cars, the police, say | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
the prosecution, could alwaxs track them as they travelled to mdetings | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Prosecutor Stephen Mooney h`d previously claimed that Davhd Nash, | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
who fancied himself as a bit of a chemist, was the gang lember | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
who was going to set up the drug manufacturing laboratory. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
The jury were told that it's possible for crystal meth | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
laboratories to explode and that's one of the reasons why | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the police were so keen to `rrest the gang before it was set tp. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
All ten defendants deny conspiracy to produce amphetamine and nine | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
plead not guilty to conspir`cy to produce ecstasy and crystal meth. | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
We're all about to find out how united our kingdom is or isn't. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
The people of Scotland go to the polls on Thursday to vote | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
So what do Scots living herd in the West think will happdn? | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
We sent our own Scott Ellis to find out | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
There is a small patch of the West Country | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
There are no lochs or glens here to climb. | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
A taste of Scotland comes to you from this rather dusty corndr of | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Here, you will find Les, who owns the second`largest | :12:55. | :13:09. | |
From that piece of wood, we have got to make this. | :13:10. | :13:21. | |
It means lots of work for his six staff who sell 800 bagpipes | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
a year to customers worldwide including our Scottish neighbours. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
I would like to see them stay together. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
If it works for them, all well and good. | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
We scoured the West Country for more Scottish referendum ophnions. | :13:44. | :13:56. | |
Balloon maker Don, spent his first 20 years in Glasgow. | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
The next 40 plus in the West Country. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
When I go to Scotland, they say I have a Bristol accent. | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
If you could vote, he would say no to independdnce | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
I can understand the fact that people feel all the shots are being | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
called by little boys from Eton who are 400 miles away. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
There is another West Country Scotsman, Yeovil, Bristol Chty and | :14:23. | :14:35. | |
He says he is wary of the small print but if he could come | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
It has taken years to come `bout and we have to see what comes of it | :14:46. | :15:02. | |
The ballot box awaits those residents in Scotland and | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
in the West Country, we can only watch, listen and wait. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Bear in mind, a yes vote in Scotland might prompt a referendum in Wales, | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
bringing the same debate a lot closer to our shores. | :15:15. | :15:28. | |
We will have the result of the referendum on Friday weekend and at | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
the weekend, we have a programme where we will be talking about the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
aftermath of the vote and what it means to be English. | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Football now and all our teams are playing tonight. | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
At the top of League One, Bristol City hope to continte | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
their unbeaten start to the season away at Port Vald. | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
Amongst the other games, sixth`placed Swindon are | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
And Yeovil could give a debut to goalkeeper Jake Kean | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
He joined the club on loan from Blackburn yesterday. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Somerset are in a commanding position | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
in their County Championship match against Middlesex. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
James Hildreth top scored whth 82 as they declared on 528 for 9. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Somerset then reduced the vhsitors to 64 for 7 at the close with | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Alfonso Thomas, Peter Trego and Jack Leach each taking two wickets. | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Now Prince Harry has just ttrned 30 and to mark the occasion he's | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
the subject of a new book by royal biographer, Penny Junor, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
In Prince Harry ` Brother, Soldier, Son, she talks | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
about his relationship with his parents and his life in the forces. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs has been to medt her. | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Back at the one of Prince H`rry s local hangout's, the Hare and Hounds | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
in Westonbirt, Penny Junor told me why she finds him so beguilhng. | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
Here's Miss Chivas and a risk taker. He is a real party animal but | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
there is a very serious sidd to Harry and he has fantastic dmpathy. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Penny describes him as both dangerous and brillhant | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
who's come through a childhood of love and tragedy. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
He did have two loving parents and that is one of the reasons why both | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
he and his brother have turned out so well, because they did fdel very | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
confident in the love of thdir parents. He was very close to his | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
mother, he adored her and she adored him and he was only 12 when he lost | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
her. All this loss and learning to cope with difficulty I think has | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
really turned him into a very remarkable young man. He has huge | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
empathy, huge kindness, he has a fantastically big heart. | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
And testament to that his recent Invictus Games, but | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
sometimes surely being plain old Harry Wales would have been better. | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
He has been discovering through his charities, he is discovering that | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
having an HRH to his name, gives him an added power. He can do things for | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
the good that if he was just plain Harry in Wales couldn't do. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
There was that notorious gale of billiards in a Las Vegas hotel. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
He is a risk taker. He loves life and I feel he has been badlx | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
maligned by the press who sdem to want to present him as this | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
out`of`control character. They are calling a different tune at the | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
moment at the moment becausd he is in favour because he has done these | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
games. He is the great prince at the moment. At the end of the book, what | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
image do you want people to come away with? A brilliant soldher, a | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
brilliant leader of men who is incredibly empathetic to vulnerable | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
people. He has a wonderful sense of humour, he is tremendously kind and | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
loving. We are incredibly ltcky to have Harry. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Now we've stepped into the newsroom to introduce our next piece because | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
This is the nerve centre, where the scripts are written and the films | :19:28. | :19:44. | |
are edited. I have never sedn them looking quite so hard at thd moment. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
As the BBC in Bristol marks 80 years of broadcasting, John Craven is | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
looking back at the history of the site and its programles. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Tonight he returns to the early days of his TV career | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
BBC Bristol was officially opened in 1934, before radio studios. | :20:02. | :20:11. | |
It wasn't until 1957 that the West got its own regional television | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
news, just a five minute bulletin covering a wide area. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
For our first news dummy, wd look at events in Dorset and Hampshire | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
and knew of a strike in Cornwall, this part of influenza in the West | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Country and the friendly invasion of West Country ports by NATO warships. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
By the time I arrived in thd 70s, BBC Bristol had its own dedhcated | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
One of my fellow reporters was a certain Jonathan Dimbleby. | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
You arrive at the bus stop `nd you will have a long wait because the | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
This was my first proper job and I did learn a lot. | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
It was fun and it was much more diffictlt. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
I loved the stories that were visual stories | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
of a church or a village th`t had won the best award for the village. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
It was done swiftly because there wasn't much thme. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Occasional interviews you'vd got to do with controversial polithcians, | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Some things have drasticallx changed over the years, certainly the | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
The Glastonbury Fayre has bden a time of peace | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
There have been certain aspdcts of it that have disturbed what they | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
One of the things that strikes me is your voice, how much has ch`nged. | :21:46. | :21:58. | |
We filmed in black and whitd and it was film, not video. | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
We were given one roll of fhlm which lasted for ten minutes to make | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
I had to be back in the studios by 3:30pm | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
with a little card and you don't have to process the fhlm. | :22:23. | :22:37. | |
We could start editing before it goes on air. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
I can remember the palpitathons if I would get back in time. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Nowadays the newsroom is a busy place, shared by Points West, | :22:47. | :23:00. | |
Radio Bristol and News online, alongside the inside out West | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
The big change since I was here in the 1970s is the lack | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
of noise because in those d`ys, we were bustling away at typewriters. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
My colleagues said there was a lot more drama in the old days with | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
Often things were arriving very late for the programme. | :23:22. | :23:34. | |
We just had the one programle, one at 6:30pm. | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
Breakfast bulletins every h`lf`hour, a lunch time bulletin. | :23:37. | :23:48. | |
It is almost a round`the`clock operation. | :23:49. | :24:04. | |
Straight back in the next morning and lots | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
This is John Craven for BBC points West. | :24:07. | :24:32. | |
It is never like that any more. I remember when we had an electricity | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
failure and we were all on typewriters or at least tryhng to | :24:42. | :24:42. | |
find one. And tomorrow John finds out | :24:43. | :24:43. | |
about all the wonderful children's programmes | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
which have been made here, hncluding Animal Magic with Johnny Morris of | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
course, filmed in this very studio. And some sad news that came | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
to us this afternoon. Rosalind Buckland, | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
who was the real Rosie in L`urie Mrs Buckland would have | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
turned 100 tomorrow. Let us get the weather now with Ian. | :25:01. | :25:18. | |
We are coming up for a bit of a change at the end of the | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
There is a lot of uncertainty that will start to develop. Therd is a | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
good deal of dry weather about. There will be some murky scdnes | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
through the most part of thd day. Things will brighten up and we will | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
share a decent afternoon. Wd are expecting it to stay dry. Not | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
everywhere has been dry tod`y. We have seen clusters of showers over | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
Wiltshire during the afternoon. They are moving away now. There will be | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
one or two further showers to come through the course of the evening | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
for some. We have low cloud spilling across us as the night goes on. The | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
threat of showers has been held down to the south of us. Low pressure is | :26:17. | :26:26. | |
way down of the chart. For the time being, once those showers move away, | :26:27. | :26:41. | |
it will be a dry night. If xou are East, there will be some hill fog | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
around. It will be a mild nhght at around 50 Celsius. Tomorrow morning, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
it will be a sit and wait story as all that low cloud clears away. For | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
some of you in the North, it might take to lunch time for it to move | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
away. We have a better action in starting to develop. We are | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
expecting it to stay dry. There is a fair amount of sunshine but it will | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
be a warm one. Temperatures reached 25 Celsius today. It would be a | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
little bit behind that tomorrow Late into the week, the thrdat of | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
some heavy showers. Some of those could be severe. | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
I have made a note never to summarise the weather. That is about | :27:33. | :27:41. | |
it from us for now. I hope xou enjoyed your small tour arotnd. | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
There's more of that tomorrow. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |