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Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and Sabet Choudhury. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The rough sleepers at risk as the cold spell bites 100 | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
100 emergency beds are set up to help | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
homeless people get through the weekend. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
I'm sick of living like this. It's a Catch-22. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
The West's getting more money to help, | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
A warning from the police after Asian families are targeted | :00:38. | :00:49. | |
How the Severn bridge tolls are to be halved. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
We meet the woman caring for 20 injured bats in her own home. | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
More than 100 extra beds are being set up tonight | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
to get rough sleepers off the streets and into the warm. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Councils are worried that prolonged cold weather has left | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
many of the homeless in poor health and even at risk of death. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
And tonight our region will be gripped by freezing | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Scott Ellis is a hostel in Bristol for us now. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
This shelter in Saint Pauls opens at 9:30pm tonight. I can hear people | :01:29. | :01:43. | |
queueing up outside. There will be beds, meals and even spare clothing. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
It's normally open five nights a week, but because of the cold | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
weather they are going up to seven nights per week, in addition to the | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
extra beds being laid on in the city. But the homeless charities say | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
it's not just their job to help rough sleepers, you may be able to | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
help too. It's a tent pitched at the back | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
of a city centre car park. He says he tried to get | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
into a hostel last night. There were 32 people last night, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
waiting for 16 beds? Tonight, he should have somewhere | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
else to go with 100 extra beds being set up in Bristol and another | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
30 in Bath. Charities hope it'll | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
tempt in entrenched rough sleepers like Dan, | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
who normally avoids hostels. They are full of drunken idiots and | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
they kicked you out at 6am in the morning. I don't like being woken up | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
by people kicking off. It's been shown in the past that when we have | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
had these cold snaps, we can engage with people who usually avoid us. | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Another night in a car park's getting to John. | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Yesterday I had enough. I'm getting sick of this. Sick of living like | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
this. But he has Bill to cheer him up, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
a passer-by who's become a friend. Hungry and cold the last couple of | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
months, so we've got eight up of tea for John with his usual five or six | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
sugars. Homeless charities want more | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
volunteers especially to help In the last five years, the number | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
of rough sleepers in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
has remained low. In the Bath area, | :03:30. | :03:30. | |
a recent rise has eased. But look at Bristol where | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
rough sleeping's gone up The Government's given the city more | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
than ?2 million this year to tackle homelessness, | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
a problem made worse And rising rents in the private | :03:44. | :03:57. | |
sector leading to more evictions. It's a staggering rise. We have our | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
guest, Richard runs this shelter. When I started volunteering here, we | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
just used an open the door at 9:30pm and let people sort themselves out. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
But we haven't been able to do that. We had to take a list of people in | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the queue because numbers have gone up so much. We haven't been empty | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
for any night I've been working here. Nevertheless, you don't think | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
shelters and emergency beds are the long-term answer? No. They are not. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
It's helping people in the immediate cold, arts the long-term answer is | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
to firstly help them off the streets, but more importantly, stop | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
more people coming onto the streets or becoming homeless who might end | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
up rough sleeping. What else can the public do as well as volunteer? Be | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
aware of the risks of homelessness. More than the people you see rough | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
sleeping and drug and alcohol problems which is what people | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
immediately think. People can be homeless because they don't have an | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
income to support them rent, they have relationship issues. The | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
counter people in your family and think, how long can you survive if | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
something goes wrong? Thank you for your time. Scott, thank you. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Police say a car's been clocked doing 131 miles an hour | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
The car was spotted in the early hours of the morning | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
A 31-year-old man's due to appear in court. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
It's been revealed that the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
has had a pay rise of ?45,000 according to a Freedom | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Professor Glynis Breakwell now earns ?451,000. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Critics from the local Labour party say this is 30 times | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
higher than some employees at the organisation. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
The university says the pay rise was decided by an independent | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
committee, and is in line with other top universities. | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
Police say there's been a big increase in the number of Asian | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
families being targeted by burglars because of the amount | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
In some cases more than ?100,000 worth of gold has been | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
that's more than in a typical bank robbery. | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
In the last 6 months in Avon Somerset there were 137 | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Wiltshire had 21, Dorset 20 and in Gloucestershire there were 5. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Lee Madan's been to meet one family who've been affected. | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
So they opened all the wardrobes up and everything was on the floor. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
A trying start to the new year for the Godbole family | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
So my children are five and eight and they are terrified. | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
It was very scary knowing that someone might be watching. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Detectives say there's been a big rise in of burglars | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
It's because they often have high quality, 24 carat gold jewellery. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Even when it's well hidden, the burglars don't give | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
So they didn't find what they were looking for in here. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
So they came up here, in the storage area where the jewellery was hidden | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
For burglars, this type of crime has become one of the most lucrative. | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
There's often in one high value gold burglary, | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
more in value stolen than in a typical | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
In the past, jewellery was stored inside safety deposit boxes | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
But, of course, in recent years, many local branches like this one | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
have been closing down, leading to an increase in the amount | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
of gold being kept at home, something which police | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Don't turn your house into a gold mine. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Instead, store your high-value gold jewellery at professional safety | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
In the last three months, Avon and Somerset police have set up | :08:18. | :08:30. | |
a task force specifically to deal with this type of crime. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Since then, there have been 33 arrests and 10 people charged. | :08:33. | :08:44. | |
A message to the burglars from detectives is clear. | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
We are hunting you down and we will catch you, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
and we will bring you to justice for these offences. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Despite this reassurance, the Godboles say there | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
is still widespread fear among their friends | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
about who is watching and who might be targeted next. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
You are watching BBC Points West. It's Friday the 13th. Stay with us. | :09:03. | :09:20. | |
There's lots more to come. Including: A decade since they last | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
met here, Bath and Bristol face off in the European challenge cup. Did | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
you have to dig at yorker from the snow this morning? We will have the | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
best pictures of the West getting a dusting. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
The cost of crossing the Severn bridges is to be cut | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
It's expected the new tolls will come into force next year | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
and the amount drivers pay will be halved. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
For 50 years, the seven Bridge has been the fastest way into Wales. But | :09:56. | :10:13. | |
the bridges will soon pass back into public ownership, so how much, if | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
anything should drivers be paying? A magnificent bridge over be River | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
A magnificent bridge over the River Severn. | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
The Queen and Prince Philip were spared the toll charge. | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
A trip across would cost you 2 shillings and sixpence. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
30 years later, a new bridge was opened. | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
The second severn crossing, coming with a cost of ?330 million | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
By then a crossing by car costing ?3.80 charged just in one direction | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to stop traffic backing up onto the bridge itself. | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
Debate's raged ever since about what should happen when these | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
privately financed projects passed back into public hands, | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
The Government says it wants to see the charges | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
I've got some people arguing that they should be no tolls at all, even | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
though there is a debt still. But there are others saying it should be | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
paying to keep traffic down. ?13.40 for a minibus ?20 | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
for anything larger New plans New plans are for charging | :11:23. | :11:32. | |
in both directions. ?1.50 each way for a car or minibus | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
and a fiver each way 50 years since Her Majesty | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
oversaw it's opening, 50 years since Her Majesty | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
oversaw its opening, the Severn Bridge and its younger | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
brother have almost been paid off and will pass back | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
into public hands next year. They generate around | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
?80 million a year. Many now feel that they've been | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
thoroughly paid for, The Government says those new | :11:52. | :12:06. | |
charges won't be to make a rough it but for the future upkeep and | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
maintenance of the bridge. They were saying they would try to reduce the | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
charges in future. But they face opposition. Road user Association | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
says people already pay for the upkeep of roads through their road | :12:23. | :12:23. | |
tax. A toddler from Wiltshire who has | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
cystic fibrosis is to be one of the first in England to get | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
a life extending drug. William Foord is | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
nearly two years old. Previously the treatment called | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
Kalydeco was only available Our Wiltshire reporter, | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
Will Glennon, went to meet him. William Foord's not quite two yet, | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
but already he's survived three life saving operations | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
and several scares. It's a genetic problem that means | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
mucus builds-up in his body. His lungs will easily get damaged, | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
and it shortens his life. I was devastated. It was, to me, I | :12:58. | :13:17. | |
saw William's life flash before my eyes. I saw him not living to old | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
age, not been able to have children. I felt that his life was over before | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
it had even started. A new drug called Kalydeco isn't | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
a cure, but it is being called It balances salt and | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
water in the cells, keeping the lungs clear of mucus | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
The first one is before Kalydeco, So it can reverse the | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
effects of the disease. It was only licensed | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
for children over 6, but will now be available | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
for younger ones. Myself and my husband felt that we | :13:49. | :14:00. | |
had a weight lifted off our shoulders. We really thought that it | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
wouldn't happen through William. We thought we would have to wait until | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
he was six. So to find out that news, it was splendid. | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
At the moment, William's functioning well. | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
The hope is the drug will keep it that way. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
The drug has been approved on the NHS for children over the age of tea | :14:21. | :14:32. | |
which means William should get this in the next few weeks. His | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
quality-of-life will be better bringing hope that this family and | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
many others. Darren O'Keefe from | :14:39. | :14:39. | |
the Cystic Fibrosis Trust It's been described | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
as a wonder drug. I wouldn't call it an overstatement. | :14:43. | :14:59. | |
What we have here is the first treatment for cystic fibrosis that | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
tackles the defect causing the problem and not just the symptoms. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
It's made an incredible difference Judy Spires. What other stories are | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
you hearing? People on this drug are talking about a huge boost in their | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
lung health. And the key to it is it works over time. There's been a | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
dramatic reduction in hospital admissions, so we are talking about | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
the possibility of people living a life unlimited by cystic fibrosis. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Doing the things that we would normally do and take for granted. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
I'm guessing it would help many people? What is particularly | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
encouraging is that at the age of two, the drug's got far more of a | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
chance to make a difference at that early stage because it halts decline | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
in lung function, so the earlier patients can get on the drug the | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
better. So it really is fantastic news. Will it help everyone? Its | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
treatment targeted at a particular mutation, so at around 4% of people | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
have this in this country. We have a pipe lines of treatments targeted at | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
other mutations. There's a treatment that is licensed at the moment but | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
not available, that is targeting a mutation of which 40% of people | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
have. We dare dream of a situation in the future where the majority of | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
people with cystic fibrosis could be on a similar drug. Darren. Thanks | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
for speaking to us. That's really good news. | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
Before we get the sport, we just wanted to tell | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
you about another boy from our region who's | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
You may remember we met eight year old Bailey who was facing | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Christmas in hospital as he was being treated for cancer. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
His family and friends had put out an appeal for cards | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
He just needs one more block of chemotherapy and the best bit - | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
You can hear from him on our Facebook page. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Rugby and it's Bristol against Bath tonight. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
The third time the sides have met already this season. | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
This is a European Challenge Cup game, and it's taking | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
Our sports editor, Alistair Durden, is there. | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Someone's told me its three degrees here. It feels it, but the pitch was | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
covered overnight so it's absolutely fine stop the game will go ahead for | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
just the fourth time in this fixture's illustrious history. Just | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
over a decade since the last happen. A decade since the last - | :18:00. | :18:11. | |
when the game attracted a crowd of over 20 thousand and Bristol ran | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
out winners to go top But they haven't managed | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
to beat Bath since. Tonight it's about Europe - | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
either of these sides can still make the quarter finals | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
of the Challenge Cup and have named strong teams - | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Bath have five England But it's Bristol coming | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
into the game in better form. Bristol have obviously had to rest a | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
few players, they've not had many consistent games. I think the mood | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
with the squad seems to be upbeat. I'm hoping we will win to keep up | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
the momentum we've had. Put one over on Bath. If we win this we should | :18:45. | :18:58. | |
then go through. I think we will get it right tonight. But it will be | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
very, very close. Let's grab a word with Martin Haig, who played for | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
Bath for many years and is coached too. Who do you think will win? I | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
think app Bath. Some great results however for Bristol. There is all to | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
play for. Are you surprised that Bath have gone so strong on this? | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
No, they are coming back from a few losses, so they need is a momentum. | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
They could also qualify. Cardiff are level points with them so it's a big | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
game for them. You can hear more from Martin on BBC Gloucester | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
tonight. There is also football here at Ashton Gate tomorrow. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Bristol Rovers could give a debut to defender | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
Joe Partingdon who they've signed today from Eastleigh. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
As for the rest, Swindon, who signed three Chelsea | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
youngsters earlier this week, are at Bolton. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
All of those could feature in the game. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Goalkeeper Scott Brown has rejoined Cheltenham and should play tomorrow. | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
That's all the football. I think I going to find another layer. It | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
could be a cold one. BBC radio 's Bristol and Somerset belief all | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
game. A new group's been set up | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
in Somerset to help rescue bats The county is a specialist | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
conservation area as it's home to all 16 | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
British species. Frome Bat Care takes in ones that | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
have been grounded or injured and Pam Caulfield went to meet | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
one of the volunteers. The thought of having bats | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
in your home might scare you. She's been taking them | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
in for the past year, converting her attic | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
into a bat cave! We've got some whiskered bats. Some | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
hip strolls. She's rescued around | :21:12. | :21:24. | |
60 bats and currently She's trained to handle them | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
so we're allowed a quick look, but if you find bats in your home, | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
you shouldn't disturb them. They are protected by law. Sometimes | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
they wake up and it's warm so they think they will be insects around. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
And Liz has to sift a lot of meal worms. | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
The most common pippestrelle species can eat up to 3,000 insects a night. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
With the babies need round the clock care, | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
she even took one to a wedding, hidden in her outfit! | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
I had a little baby, it was about as big as my arm. It was on milk, so I | :21:52. | :22:04. | |
spoke to my trainer. She said to him in a little bag in the front of your | :22:05. | :22:14. | |
close, then keep it warm. In the wild, they are tucked under their | :22:15. | :22:15. | |
mum's wing. In the Spring, her spare room | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
becomes a flight training centre. They might seem scary to us but bats | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
themselves are under threat. It's about putting them back in the | :22:22. | :22:35. | |
wild. We've become more developed in Britain, more intensive with our | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
farming and we've used pesticides as well, which has impacted on bats and | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
they declined by 70% after the war. It is hoped with a bit of care and | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
compassion that that decline will be reversed. I think they are lovely, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
but I think some people probably think they aren't. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
On our Facebook page there's a little film showing | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
you what you should do if you find a bat that needs help. | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
We did have a sprinkling of snow, although it didn't hit us like it | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
did in the Scottish Highlands. chance of that for a lot | :23:20. | :23:34. | |
of us this morning. But parts of Wiltshire were white, | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
there was a thin blanket over Bristol, and Gloucester | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
was glistening a bit. Some had to dig the car | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
out with a spoon. Others just had a colder | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
breakfast than usual. But, some like Harry | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
on Exmoor, managed it here, MUSIC: Do you want | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
to build a snowman? Any more snow? I'm not overly | :24:10. | :24:45. | |
concerned about the threat of snow, in fact, the wintry element of the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
forecast will diminish by detailing that Saturday. Let me take you | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
through the weather for the course of the week and our viewer pictures. | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
A dusting of snow out near Bath. For a while, certainly over the uplands, | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
still running into cold air, certainly through the night and | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
indeed, tomorrow. A bit less cold than today. Heading through for | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Sunday, milder. Temperatures will push upwards and equally give us | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
more in the way of some patchy rain. Here is a wider look at how things | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
will shape up. Still caught in this north westerly flow, cold | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
conditions, occasional streams of showers running down from the | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
north-west and then as we get through tomorrow, and beyond that | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
into Sunday, we can see that warm front running through, introducing | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
warm air. It's certainly not mild that the moment, as I can attest. | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
The high ground of Wales doing an effective job of soaking up some of | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
that cold air but some of it will get through. For all of us, it will | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
be cold. Some spots up above 1 degrees, but most, freezing or | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
below. There could be some areas prone to seeing some of those | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
showers, that the character of Saturday, prolonged dry spells, | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
still a fairly keen wind. Note that towards the evening, the cloud is | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
increasing. We will turn our attention to the patchy rain so the | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
winter is -- will have gone by them. It will be fairly cold but not so on | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
Sunday. It will be a marked change. There will be cold rate to the South | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
East and moulded to the north-west. Have a lovely weekend. It was lovely | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
to see these snow today. I was staying in Gloucester where my | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
parents are and there was a blanket of snow. Not just a sprinkling? No, | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
it blanket. Have a lovely weekend, whatever you do. Goodbye. | :27:18. | :27:22. |