28/10/2016 Points West

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

Our main story tonight: The Battle to stay in Britain.

A seriously ill grandmother pleads with Number ten to let her live

out her life with her family in Bristol.

My grandmother is one in a lillion kind of grandmother and we `re

hereto played to be able to love and care for her in her time of need.

She needs dialysis and her family say she would die,

Have a heart - an appeal for foster carers to look after the refugee

children from Calais as the first arrive.

A river of tears - the launch of the poppy appdal

And the fastest milk machine in the west -

the latest way of getting your dairy fresh from the cow.

Even though a doctor's said she's too ill to fly -

the Home Office says Irene has to go home.

I am still on dialysis, that will not stop me. I don't like it but I

will still do it because I want to be with my family. We would be

broken if she was to be put on a plane and sent back to South Africa.

So please Theresa May and the government show compassion `nd allow

my grandmother to remain in the UK for the last few years of hdr life.

They brought more than a 100,00 signatures to Number Ten.

But - it was delivered on the day the NHS was criticised.

For not meeting a target of recovering ?500 million spent

The cost of her dialysis is more than ?30,000 a year.

Tell us why you think you should be able to stay in the UK?

The family were asked about health costs on the Victoria

I classify myself as British, have been your long enough and some of my

have paid to the government and I have paid to the government and I

have a responsibility to look at -- look after my parents just like

This Bristol-based consultant helped analyse NHS spending

The annaul estimate is one half a billion pounds of a total

It is not a huge number in the context of the whole spending of the

NHS but that money does spend a lot of research and treatment.

NHS costs for dialysis weren't part of the Home Office

Offcials say it was based on immigration rules -

and the decision was upheld at an independent tribunal.

Another frail South African grandmother - Mytle Cothill -

won the right to stay earlier this year.

Irene Nel will meet with Hole Office officials in Bristol on Thursday.

James Davies is an immigrathon adviser from the charity

He joins me now. Thank you for coming on. Do petitions likd this

cut any ice from Downing Street Good evening. Yes, I think they do.

The government is responsivd to public opinion. The case th`t I

dealt with, the Home Office responded to medical evidence that

was prevented before the petition was presented to Downing Street The

Home Office is reluctant to send out a message, to set a precedent? They

do not like presidents and the consequence of that is the content

to be light on compassion when you're to be more compassionate

This lady needs dialysis and I understand the cost is around

?30,000 a year. Can you unddrstand why some taxpayers might thhnk, she

is not entitled? Of course H can appreciate that. Certainly we are

all concerned about public spending and the NHS but the issue hd was

about family. The way the immigration rules are constructed at

the moment is that it is allost impossible for families to care and

provide for their elderly rdlatives if they are not British or Duropean

and that does not seem to bd right. Do you have a legal right in any way

to be near your appearance `nd care for them? I think you have ` legal

obligation, sorry not a leg`l obligation but a moral obligation

rather than a legal right. People will be watching saying that how

come people who have raped `nd murdered can stay but an elderly

lady in his family has been told she lady in his family has been told she

has to go? Yes, certainly. What are your options now if the pethtion

feels? Is at the end of the road to? I am not closely acquainted with the

case so that I do not know hf there are other options, if that hs more

medical information which c`n be provided. I suspect it requhres a

change of heart on behalf of the politicians. Good to talk to you.

Thank you very much indeed. A crash in Stroud yesterday

which killed a 70-year-old cyclist has been referred

to the Independent Police Complaints Commission,

because the car involved had failed to stop for officers

shortly beforehand. Three men arrested on suspicion

of causing death by dangerots Gloucestershire Police say they re

waiting to find out whether the IPCC South Gloucestershire has bden rated

among the worst places An NHS report looking at mortality

rates, the number of mums who smoke, and the choices available s`ys

the area's Clinical Commisshoning Group is among 11 in greatest

need of improvement. The CCG says it's working

to address the issues raised. It's an issue which affects one

in five women and one in ten men. But a West Country campaign to get

more protection for victims of stalking today missed out

on a hearing in Parliament. The call from Gloucestershire MPs

Alex Chalk and Richard Grah`m for the maximum prison sentdnce

to be doubled was prompted A local GP, she was stalked

for seven years by a former patient. It's very very worrying and anxiety

inducing and I don't like to Over 100 incidents of him w`lking

up and down past the surgery, round the surgery,

parking outside the surgery, watching it for hours every

day that I was there. Was he trying to get an ide`

of my timetable so he could I think it is not knowing what's

going on in their mind. The worst thing is you start

to imagine the worst. MPs ran out of time today to debate

those plans for tougher sentences, which were in a bill put forward

by the Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk Are you disappointed they dhd not

have time for it today? Yes, I am disappointed. A lot of the time was

spent on a good cause, the homelessness reduction bill. A bit

disappointing but it has gone off until the 14th of November `nd we

just have to keep trying. It is so important, I will not let it rest.

What kind of will do you fedl is behind it, in terms of the public

and also Parliament? One affects the other. I have had a huge amount of

support from across the country for this campaign through

Facebook. The extraordinary thing is Facebook. The extraordinary thing is

the breadth of society affected by this issue, not just famous people.

Parliament tends to reflect that so it is a case of using that `nd

explaining to ministers this is important and you must act on that.

There is a huge amount of stpport across Parliament for this `s well,

we need to translate that into action. How quickly do you think it

will translate into action? It takes longer and longer to get thhngs

going? Absolutely, changing the law is not an easy thing, it dods not

fall into your lap. Ron was not built in a day. I have to kdep

plugging away at best, keep having conversations with ministers and

lobbying the Secretary of State I think we will get the but wd just

have to keep up the fight and it is such an important issue we have to

change the law. I know you're focusing on cases like Doctor

ineffectiveness of restrainhng ineffectiveness of restrainhng

orders, could more be done `t that level as well? I think it is

important that this happens. The problem with restraining orders is

they do not tend to work. Whth reluctance, I am seeing you have to

take people out of circulathon because restraining orders `re not

that effective for people who are fixated in that we which is why we

are focusing on giving propdr sentencing powers to the cotrt

because of some and keeps the teaching restraining orders, the

judge has to say, to protect the victims you must go inside. Please

stay in touch with us and ldt us know how things progress.

You're watching Points West with Alex and David -

thanks for your company on this Friday evening.

A whole new meaning to pulling a pint.

Find out what's so unusual about these bottles of milk.

And the weekend weather looks quiet, milder than average and effdctively

drive. Details at the end of the programme.

Children from the Calais refugee camps in France have begun

being transferred to the West Country.

The UK has agreed to take some of the most vulnerable and those

Around 150 Bristol families have already signed up with one charity

to foster refugee children , but as Dickon Hooper

Early morning in Bristol and a group of volunteers

are on their way to help in the Calais camp known

Conditions reported to me are really dreadful and

really down at heel now, wondering

Well, this: thousands of people were bussed out this week

the thousand or so unaccomp`nied children who've been living here.

We have seen great things from the government

It would be great to hold them to

account for that and say we have

promised to welcome some of these

The second thing is to say we are

willing to make this capacity in the

She's one of 150 Bristolians signed up with a charity

More than 1000 people have signed up across the West Country.

It's a very big undertaking but with love and care, anything can be

The council told me they were committed

to taking Bristol's fair sh`re of unaccompanied children.

And there are now more than 50 being looked after here.

But some think this is the wrong focus.

I personally think we should be focusing our

efforts on the camps in

If you emptied the whole calp at Calais, very shortly in ` few

Goodwill in Bristol though has spilled onto the streets.

Because the Calais camp may have gone, but the refugees and

You may remember these picttres from a couple of years ago ,

hundreds of staff at GCHQ in Cheltenham creating

an incredible image to launch Gloucestershire's poppy appdal.

Well, it was such a success that now they're trying to top it.

This year they've made a waterfall of poppies inside the buildhng.

Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, was invited

In the entrance to the iconhc GCHQ building another iconic

image of remembrance - the poppy cascade is a symbol

to the intelligence agency's long links with the military.

Claire, who's identity we have to protect,

was one of the staff who helped create it.

relationship and to mark Remembrance Sunday as well,

I think is really special for an awful lot of people

Obviously this is not a norlal job for GCHQ but being a building full

of mathematicians, they madd it from scratch. They have used somd of the

latest technology and they `re -D printed. There are some black

poppies to commemorate the work of minorities in the Armed Forces and

we also have rainbow poppies to commemorate the service of lembers

of the LB GT community. It's hoped this new poppy

creation will be a focus to help the Royal British Ldgion in

Gloucestershire raise over ?650 000 to continue supporting veterans and

their families. There are more and more people

from current conflicts who are suffering from

physical or themselves back into

a proper life in society today and

it is through the goodwill of the public

and their donations that we

are able to do this. Launched with the Innsworth military

wives choir, thousands of extra GCHQ and next month part of the poppy

cascade will go on public dhsplay A Somerset farmer has found

a high-tech solution to getting his produce to the public

- selling milk using People can fill up by the lhtre

at Josh Hares' farm gate. He joins us now from his

dairy farm near Wells. It's been very popular so f`r, we've

only been trading since last Saturday and there has been

tremendous local support and people have been coming some distance to

buy milk. What is the benefht of your milk rather than the mhlk at

the supermarkets? Reproduce it and pasteurise it on site. We do not

standardise it so it is as fresh as it can be. It has a great flavour

because we pasteurise it slowly How long has it been out of the code

before you get it? We start milking in the morning and we pastetrise it

in the morning and it is on sale by four o'clock so normally a latter of

hours. I presume you still have the same kind of quality check hf we

were buying milk the superm`rket? Yes, very much so. We have done

extensive testing with the help of the Food Standards Agency and the

council. We run all local tdst. Do you offer any other drinks from your

machine? At the moment, we have only been going 60s so it is just our

fresh milk. It is a great product and local support has been great.

This is a good business ide` for you, we hear to help. Thank you very

much. Thank you for the pint of milk you give us earlier today. That is

E. In these Brexit days who knows what it is. That is a litre. By the

way it is delicious. The West could be celebrating

a double promotion this weekend with both Yeovil Town ladies

and Bristol City women hoping to go Alistair Durden is here

to explain the maths! Two teams will be promoted,

and three are in contention - Yeovil who are top,

plus Bristol City and Everton If both our clubs win they'll

both go up. Bristol City have been in the top

division before but this wotld be new territory for

Yeovil Town Ladies. A small club that's making big

sacrifices to get to the top. Yeovil's players meet twice a week

for training, travelling Midfielder Danielle Carlton has done

a four hour commute to be there I love football and where

we are in the league, Come Sunday we could be

promoted so all the hours in I have a full-time job

as well so I have to lose money to be here but I

would not have it any other way Yeovil's squad is made

up of 20 players - 11 of them on part-time contracts

earning between 150 and 650 pounds Another nine get just

their expenses paid. A housing officer,

and also an army engineer. How long have I have

been playing football? Captain Ellie Curson is trahning

to be a teacher. She can see a day when the women's

game goes fully professional. You would never see a women's

football game on the TV when I was growing up whdreas now

you're guaranteed a match that Women's football is

steadily growing. There are about 50 girls pl`ying

I can't see why it shouldn't be at the same level as the men's game.

Promotion would mean a placd alongside heavyweights like Chelsea

They have full time professhonal players, and huge budgets clip.

If you take the current chalpions, currently were operating on a tenth

That will be hard to compete with if we do get

promoted but we hope local businesses will get behind ts.

The vision was always to make this club

I've seen it come from one lan and his dog, families and friends

to what we have at Yeovil, 850 people coming through

the door to watch us play football is a hell

They're aiming to attract a crowd of over a thousand for the last

game of the season - which they hope will be a

Good luck to Yeovil and Bristol city.

Bristol City women are away to Everton tomorrow -

That bottom one is first ag`inst second in the National Leagte.

Finally congratulations to the Somerset Rebels who last

night regained speedway's Premier League title.

Their win over Sheffield Tigers means they've done the leagte

The achievement was marked with fireworks, and a fair bit

of champagne, before they took the trophy over to their supporters

We missed out last year by two points and we had to make it up

today. We had a bit of an inexperienced team this year but it

has worked well. That is so much work that goes on behind thd scenes.

It just sends goose bumps through your system, definitely.

It just sends goose bumps through your system, definitely

Not all the celebrations went quite to plan - watch this.

There we go, it is a dangerous sports. He was all right. What about

the champagne? They could h`ve had milk.

50 years ago today, a nightclub opened which would bring sole

of the biggest names in music to Bristol.

Not only did the Bamboo Club in St Paul's help unite

people in the city - it went down in music folklore.

Lee Madan has been looking at what the venue meant

In 1960s Bristol black people complained about the way

they were treated in pubs and clubs in the city.

You walk in there no one would talk to you - they look

at you strange so you didn't bother to go.

service, their change was almost chucked on the counter just put it

down and walk away like you're not there and basically you'd go home

stressed out why are people being so nasty to us.

So Tony Bullimore - who later became famous

as a yachtsman - and his wife Lalal -

As a mixed race couple in the 1 60s they experienced abuse first hand.

They wanted a venue where anyone would feel welcome.

The club is actually a West Indian club but it's not solely

for West Indians, the club htself is for anyone who wants to tse it

- we've got people from all over the world signing on as members

But after being open for just 1 years the club caught fire hn 1 77 -

a week before the Sex Pistols were due to play .

I just watched it burns, it was terrible.

But for some the legacy it left behind can still be felt today.

I think the club played a m`jor part in helping to even out

racism and make Bristol a mtch better place for everyone to live

I think it helped break the barrier down between bl`ck

This week hundreds turned ott to remember the club

Back in the day there were lots of musicians in Bristol. It is a place

we want to showcase ourselvds. It is part of the fabric of Bristol

history because the bamboo club was the place and I don't think it will

with a huge history still remembered today.

And you can hear a document`ry about the Bamboo Club

on BBC Radio Bristol tonight at seven o'clock -

Time now for the weather, the dark nights are coming. That is the big

light on the roofs in the form of our weather presenter. Hdllo

everyone. This is going to be a weekend which

is quite a quiet affair. It is generally quite dull outlook. The

cloud cover will be quite extensive. Some areas will cede brightness

around, a better chance on Sunday. Barring some drizzle, it will be a

dry weekend for the vast majority. Light winds and temperatures above

average for the time of year. There could be some fog and a lot of that

will be across cross buns r`ther than a global level. The clocks go

back on Sunday. Just a little remainder. Let's take a widdr look

over the next couple of days. Hydration dominates the pattern as

it has done over the latter stages of the week. -- high pressure. This

keeps temperatures up. The cloud cover will be a dominant part of the

forecast but later into Sunday, signs of that getting whittled away

south-east. For the rest of this south-east. For the rest of this

evening and tonight, a lot of cloud around. There could be one or two

breaks and this could mean cloud at low -- fog and low level. Upland fog

courtesy of the low cloud. Ht will be a case of temperatures are

unlikely to drop below double figures. Many areas will relain

around ten or 12 Celsius. Tomorrow, some areas might get brightdr,

perhaps in coastal parts of West Somerset but generally therd will be

a lot of cloud. Some drizzld might appear, over high ground

predominately. Most areas whll be dry. The winners will be light and

temperatures should reach the mid-teens, 14 Celsius will be

typical. An identical story into Sunday. Perhaps a better ch`nce of

same. Nothing will spoil our same. Nothing will spoil our

sporting or Halloween events. Still the same for next week. Things will

cool down for the first few days of November. Have a great weekdnd.

Please do have a lovely weekend That's it from us. We have `n

amazing image of a Donald Trump lookalike on Sunday politics this

weekend. Do join me It took us once to get through

the novel Anna Karenina. It was used to help my friend

with depression, and finishing as we went

to sleep at night. tapping each letter through the wall

that divided our cells as we served life sentences

in solitary confinement. We promise to encourage

others to dream big Why do you want to go to

Great Britain?