:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
:00:07. > :00:09.Our main story tonight: A reality after 80 years.
:00:10. > :00:20.of Bristol is opened which should help traffic move again.
:00:21. > :00:27.We were gradually being cut off in the south of Bristol. This will go
:00:28. > :00:30.some way to making them better and it is great news for the area.
:00:31. > :00:33.The new road makes it easier to get to Bristol Airport -
:00:34. > :00:40.Our other headlines tonight:
:00:41. > :00:42.The reducing chances of having a baby -
:00:43. > :00:47.the NHS cuts back on fertility treatment.
:00:48. > :00:52.another defeat for Bristol City piles the pressure on Lee Johnson.
:00:53. > :00:57.the restoration starts tonight on the clock that
:00:58. > :01:09.Business leaders in Bristol have welcomed a major new road
:01:10. > :01:11.which could help to create over 2,000 jobs in the
:01:12. > :01:16.The link road was first suggested in council documents over
:01:17. > :01:20.80 years ago but today the route road connecting Hartcliffe to
:01:21. > :01:25.Here's our Business Reporter Robin Markwell.
:01:26. > :01:28.It might have been gloomy in South Bristol.
:01:29. > :01:32.But a gathering of high vis brightened things up.
:01:33. > :01:40.A major transport scheme in Bristol finally complete.
:01:41. > :01:48.Instead a minister moved a symbolic concrete block.
:01:49. > :01:52.First mooted in the 1930s - 80-something years later
:01:53. > :01:55.the South Bristol Link Road finally open.
:01:56. > :01:58.The three miles of new tarmac now connects the south
:01:59. > :02:16.On some maps online this road still does not exist, it is so new. This
:02:17. > :02:28.road is not cheap. But it is... as well as improving
:02:29. > :02:32.links to the airport. It will help with reliable journeys,
:02:33. > :02:36.faster journeys to the Passengers will be able to get
:02:37. > :02:40.to the airport in more Environmental campaigners
:02:41. > :02:46.complained it would increase pollution as well as cutting
:02:47. > :02:49.through the Green belt. At the Cater business park
:02:50. > :02:51.they took a different view. This printing and plastics
:02:52. > :02:53.firm has long been Having to ship their signs through
:02:54. > :02:57.the centre of town was proving to be One of the concerns
:02:58. > :03:02.was we were gradually being cut off and the south Bristol
:03:03. > :03:04.routes weren't good. This will go some way
:03:05. > :03:07.to making them better and it can only be great
:03:08. > :03:09.news for the area. The South Bristol Link Road
:03:10. > :03:11.is the first piece in a jigsaw puzzle of schemes that
:03:12. > :03:14.arrive this year. It'll join up with the Metrobus
:03:15. > :03:18.network due to open this autumn. Then motorists will be able
:03:19. > :03:21.to judge if it's the answer And Robin joins us from
:03:22. > :03:39.the South Bristol Link Road now. Given it's only opened first thing
:03:40. > :03:43.this morning there has been a steady stream of traffic up and down this
:03:44. > :03:49.road. Proof that there is demand for the road. It is significant because
:03:50. > :03:57.the forecasts for growth are impressive. 2500 jobs. A quarter of
:03:58. > :04:03.?1 billion of investment because of this tarmac. It is also supposed to
:04:04. > :04:08.reduce congestion here and in surrounding villages. But as this
:04:09. > :04:12.road opens another piece of work is set to begin around the corner. The
:04:13. > :04:18.disruption is not over yet. Thank you.
:04:19. > :04:21.A man from Somerset has been sentenced to 25 years in prison,
:04:22. > :04:24.after being convicted of sexually abusing children since
:04:25. > :04:29.It's been described as an unusual and shocking case.
:04:30. > :04:34.Our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers reports.
:04:35. > :04:39.The prosecution called him a disturbed child who had
:04:40. > :04:42.an obsessive interest in sex from the age of eight.
:04:43. > :04:45.And today Andrew Margetts, now 31, was convicted on 23
:04:46. > :04:48.charges including rape, indecent assault and
:04:49. > :04:55.two girls and a boy, were aged between six
:04:56. > :05:03.and 11 when the abuse took place in the '90s.
:05:04. > :05:06.Throughout this week-long trial the court has heard that
:05:07. > :05:08.Margetts subjected his young victims to sustained abuse
:05:09. > :05:11.Sometimes he would gag or tie up his victims.
:05:12. > :05:14.He threatened one with a knife saying, If you tell
:05:15. > :05:18.prosecutor Sean Brunton said it was an unusual
:05:19. > :05:23.The jury told they were entering a twilight world
:05:24. > :05:30.The NSPCC told the BBC in fact a third of sexual abuse crimes
:05:31. > :05:35.against children are committed by people under the age of 18.
:05:36. > :05:40.But not unheard of and at the NSPCC we have
:05:41. > :05:46.rare cases of seven and eight-year-olds also perpetrating
:05:47. > :05:55.The judge said that the lives of the young victims in
:05:56. > :06:02.you were doing was wrong, seriously wrong.
:06:03. > :06:17.years in prison he told him, you are a wicked, depraved man.
:06:18. > :06:25.It is the start of another week in January.
:06:26. > :06:36.Stay with us tonight. We have much more.
:06:37. > :06:41.I am reporting live from Yeovil hospital as we find out how
:06:42. > :06:46.pressures in hospitals are affecting patients.
:06:47. > :06:52.And weather forecast at the end of this programme.
:06:53. > :06:55.Swindon has unveiled plans to reduce the number of IVF cycles funded
:06:56. > :07:01.Until now the town's been the most generous place in the West
:07:02. > :07:07.Tonight Inside Out West is back on our screens
:07:08. > :07:09.and the new series starts with a look at rationing
:07:10. > :07:12.As its presenter Seb Choudhury has been finding out,
:07:13. > :07:23.the most controversial cuts have been to IVF.
:07:24. > :07:28.For those embarking on their first treatment of IVF the forecast is
:07:29. > :07:36.looking increasingly uncertain. At the moment, we've just
:07:37. > :07:38.started our IVF treatment. We have been accepted
:07:39. > :07:41.for two cycles of IVF so we're hoping that we will get
:07:42. > :07:44.another go after this. But I understand that
:07:45. > :07:57.CCG have changed The NHS guidelines recommend a three
:07:58. > :08:05.cycles but in the West most areas fund one cycle. At the moment only
:08:06. > :08:06.Swindon offers the complete recommended service but that is
:08:07. > :08:19.about to change. Swindon will be reducing our IVF
:08:20. > :08:22.provision from three fresh cycles to one fresh cycles and two
:08:23. > :08:24.frozen embryo transfers. It puts us in line with our local
:08:25. > :08:28.partners including Wiltshire and it helps us to stay
:08:29. > :08:32.within our spending budget. If, as Jade fears, her
:08:33. > :08:34.local NHS doesn't pay she'll be left to cover
:08:35. > :08:37.the costs herself. Like Paula - she had to find ?33,000
:08:38. > :08:40.for her two lovely children. I know if I lived in
:08:41. > :08:42.a different part of the country, I would have had more
:08:43. > :08:45.rounds funded for me. It wouldn't have mattered
:08:46. > :08:47.if my husband had had children from a previous marriage,
:08:48. > :08:49.that I would be entitled to some form of funding
:08:50. > :08:51.and I wouldn't have had
:08:52. > :08:55.to sell my house. However unfair it might seem,
:08:56. > :08:59.with growing demand on NHS budgets - future funding for services like IVF
:09:00. > :09:02.is unlikely to increase As we've been hearing, the NHS
:09:03. > :09:12.continues to be under pressure. This winter, emergency
:09:13. > :09:18.departments have had to cope with an unprecedented rise
:09:19. > :09:19.in patients, coupled Now we've discovered this is having
:09:20. > :09:24.a real impact on the patients who're critically ill,
:09:25. > :09:26.with some hospitals left without any Our Health Correspondent
:09:27. > :09:45.Mathew Hill is at Yeovil Staff here are pulling out all the
:09:46. > :09:52.stops to make sure patient demand is met. That includes opening day case
:09:53. > :09:56.alias, pitting beds in those areas. The Royal College of Surgeons says
:09:57. > :10:01.that no more than 85% of beds in hospitals should be occupied at any
:10:02. > :10:05.one time. We have looked at figures for intensive care and we have found
:10:06. > :10:12.that for instance Southmead Hospital, in December, the figure
:10:13. > :10:17.was 92.5% of beds occupied on average. Here in Yeovil the figure
:10:18. > :10:23.is 82%, so that means that four days in the month of December, there were
:10:24. > :10:28.no intensive care beds available. Great Western Hospital in Swindon,
:10:29. > :10:34.78% occupancy for December. Western General Hospital, 17 days in
:10:35. > :10:37.December there were no intensive gear beds available. In
:10:38. > :10:43.Gloucestershire the picture is better, they are around 50% of the
:10:44. > :10:46.time beds were empty. Joining me now is the medical director of the
:10:47. > :10:51.hospital. How do you cope with demand when all your intensive care
:10:52. > :11:00.beds are a fool? We have plans in place internally to manage most of
:11:01. > :11:07.those instances. -- beds are full? There have been signs that there is
:11:08. > :11:12.no intensive care beds you have got to be redeployed elsewhere, that
:11:13. > :11:15.will have an effect on patients? Its Kurds but we have the ability to be
:11:16. > :11:20.flexible and in the last six months we have not had to transfer patients
:11:21. > :11:25.were nonclinical reasons to other hospitals. How is demand this
:11:26. > :11:29.evening? Demand is high, the hospital is under a lot of pressure.
:11:30. > :11:33.The entire system, not just the hospital. We are managing well.
:11:34. > :11:39.Staff are working hard and we want to thank them all, the community
:11:40. > :11:44.staff, as well as our primary care colleagues. Thank you very much. But
:11:45. > :11:54.as the situation here tonight. Back to you in the studio.
:11:55. > :11:57.Well let's discuss the Winter crisis in our hospitals a bit further.
:11:58. > :12:00.who's in charge of Urgent Care across Bristol,
:12:01. > :12:02.Helen Ryan who's the Director of Nursing at Yeovil,
:12:03. > :12:04.and Morgan Daly, the Director of Healthwatch for
:12:05. > :12:17.What is life like on the front line as a nurse? It is incredibly busy.
:12:18. > :12:22.Nobody will be surprised to hear that. There is a lot of pressure on
:12:23. > :12:26.the nursing staff, they are doing an incredible job. But it is very busy
:12:27. > :12:28.and it is relentless. Is there anything that could have been
:12:29. > :12:33.preplanned to dry and ease this period? We know what happens every
:12:34. > :12:37.year. Yes, and we do a lot of planning, all the way through the
:12:38. > :12:42.summer we talk about I went to plan, but what is happening now is that
:12:43. > :12:47.winter is starting in summer. These pressures are continuing --
:12:48. > :12:52.continuous. The plans we have put in, they are working well, but a lot
:12:53. > :12:55.of goodwill and effort from the start it those plans work. Is it
:12:56. > :13:01.more money that is required or reform? More money is always helpful
:13:02. > :13:05.but we are in a system where that money is the money. My job is to try
:13:06. > :13:11.and get the best out of the money, the resources, the people that we
:13:12. > :13:17.have. I think we need to change how our system is balanced so that we
:13:18. > :13:24.looked to be able to support more people in the community, we look to
:13:25. > :13:28.use the hospitals for complex parts, acute assessments. We have heard
:13:29. > :13:31.that over the years, ever since I started in journalism, hospital
:13:32. > :13:33.bosses have been telling me we need fewer dead because people are
:13:34. > :13:47.treated in the community, but there's any beds -- we need fewer
:13:48. > :13:50.beds. Many patients who because of our system end up in hospital
:13:51. > :13:57.because it is the only place where they can be kept safe. That is often
:13:58. > :14:03.about care rather than about health. We need to make sure that the social
:14:04. > :14:07.care services, the primary care service, the community care service
:14:08. > :14:11.is able to manage and support patients. This care being rationed?
:14:12. > :14:17.Are you having to cancel, postpone cancer operations to make way for
:14:18. > :14:22.people turning up at a and E? Looking at our system, because of
:14:23. > :14:26.the plan, patients with cancer are not being cancelled. There are a
:14:27. > :14:30.small number of routine patients who are being cancelled at the moment,
:14:31. > :14:33.and a number of outpatients are being cancelled, to cope with some
:14:34. > :14:37.of the peaks and troughs, but the patients who desperately need the
:14:38. > :14:41.surgery are having the surgery. What is your take on this? Is there
:14:42. > :14:46.anything as patients we could do? Are we savvy enough to know when to
:14:47. > :14:49.go to hospital, the GP, the pharmacist must remark you talked
:14:50. > :14:55.about messages for patients earlier, winter planning, and we know that is
:14:56. > :15:00.vital. We have been working to help the public understand these messages
:15:01. > :15:07.this winter. The point where making if we tell patients to go to the
:15:08. > :15:09.pharmacy, or in use 111 before Accident and Emergency that is great
:15:10. > :15:13.but there needs to be sufficient investment in those services to make
:15:14. > :15:21.sure that the work well for patients so they do not default to going to
:15:22. > :15:26.the default -- going to their GP or Accident and Emergency. What about
:15:27. > :15:29.beds in your hospital tonight? If you had ten people through the
:15:30. > :15:34.hospital could you cope? Yes, if we only have ten we can Corp. We are
:15:35. > :15:39.quite full this evening but we have got enough beds to get us through
:15:40. > :15:43.the night. It is our by our at the moment. Is it getting to you? Do you
:15:44. > :15:50.think, and other day, another crisis? I would be lying if I said
:15:51. > :15:54.it does not get to you, of course it does. What we have to do is pick
:15:55. > :16:00.ourselves up and get on with it. You are a GP? I am. There has been
:16:01. > :16:05.criticism about GPs not been open long enough hours to see people. Do
:16:06. > :16:12.you accept that? In Bristol and across this local area GPs do work
:16:13. > :16:17.long hours, many practices are open 8-8, Monday- Thursday, sometimes
:16:18. > :16:22.weekends, together with slightly shorter on a Friday, what we do have
:16:23. > :16:29.however, general practice 24 hours per day, seven days per week, but an
:16:30. > :16:33.out of hours that is delivered by an out of hours provider, and that is
:16:34. > :16:38.staffed by GPs with support by nurses, paramedics and others. We
:16:39. > :16:44.have a very safe system. I believe we have primary care 24-7. What do
:16:45. > :16:47.you think? Vast majority of patients in the public do not want to see
:16:48. > :16:54.items with health professionals, they value the service they get, and
:16:55. > :16:57.actually we need to really value the provision, and if you look at the
:16:58. > :17:00.feedback that we get from patients in the public, they received
:17:01. > :17:05.excellent service. I do not think it is an issue. Good. Thank you. Thank
:17:06. > :17:16.you all for coming in. Thank you for all you do at the sharp end.
:17:17. > :17:20.Health funding and IVF will be the main topics for discussion tonight.
:17:21. > :17:27.And Seb will also be trying to make us laugh on what's dubbed the most
:17:28. > :17:39.A school in South Gloucestershire's been plunged into controversy over
:17:40. > :17:41.racism and bullying - with the head teacher
:17:42. > :17:44.Ofsted inspectors say the incidents haven't been dealt with properly -
:17:45. > :17:47.although parents we've spoken to say they've not heard of any problems.
:17:48. > :17:55.The verdict of Ofsted inspectors who visited Meadows Primary
:17:56. > :17:59.Their main concerns were weak leadership
:18:00. > :18:06.And a failure to improve on problems highlighted at the previous
:18:07. > :18:10.there have been anti-social incidents in school,
:18:11. > :18:33.We spoke to parents about those claims this afternoon.
:18:34. > :18:39.If I thought that was going on there is no way my children would be going
:18:40. > :18:42.there. I have got four children, three of which I know at secondary
:18:43. > :18:48.school, and I have never had an issue. I am surprised. We feel the
:18:49. > :18:50.same. The teachers do a great job. Our children have flourished here.
:18:51. > :18:53.It does not been any sense. The staff here work so hard. It is not
:18:54. > :18:56.fair. The local council says
:18:57. > :18:59.its disappointed at the report. Saying it's ranked 34th out 152 -
:19:00. > :19:13.based on Ofsted school inspections There is a new headteacher and a
:19:14. > :19:17.deputy head from another local school to address some of the issues
:19:18. > :19:21.in the report, to try and get this time around as quickly as possible.
:19:22. > :19:23.The report did highlight the school's strengths.
:19:24. > :19:25.Including above average results in reading and writing.
:19:26. > :19:32.And a recent parent survey found 80% thought the school was well led.
:19:33. > :19:41.Governors at the school CD are also surprised and disappointed by the
:19:42. > :19:44.ruling, nonetheless the school is no in special measures, it will have to
:19:45. > :19:47.take steps to become an academy which will mean it will no longer be
:19:48. > :19:50.under the control of South Gloucestershire council.
:19:51. > :19:52.He may be under pressure, but Bristol City head coach
:19:53. > :19:54.Lee Johnson says he still has the 100% backing
:19:55. > :20:01.City lost their seventh game in a row at the weekend,
:20:02. > :20:03.with some fans now calling for a change.
:20:04. > :20:05.But Johnson says he's certain he will turn things around.
:20:06. > :20:20.Facing the media this morning to talk about tomorrow's FA Cup replay,
:20:21. > :20:25.but with as many questions about his own future. On Saturday City back
:20:26. > :20:30.another lead slip on their way to equalling a club record of seven
:20:31. > :20:35.league defeats in a row. It is soul destroying. Of course it is. The
:20:36. > :20:43.recent run of results. Do I think our performances warrant our bad run
:20:44. > :20:47.of form? Absolutely not. Can become out of this? Absolutely. The support
:20:48. > :20:51.has been top-class and it always has been at this club. They know I am
:20:52. > :20:57.passionate about the club. They see the work rate we're putting in but
:20:58. > :21:01.we have two hold our nerve and continue the progression. Since they
:21:02. > :21:05.beat Blackburn last October City have won just once in 12 league
:21:06. > :21:10.games, that has seen them drop from six, pint in 19th place. The problem
:21:11. > :21:17.during this time has been weak schools. Nine of them conceded in
:21:18. > :21:29.the last ten minutes of matches. -- the problem has been leaked goals.
:21:30. > :21:36.The players sometimes come out of it. We have got to take
:21:37. > :21:40.responsibility. There is good things beer at the same time. We do not
:21:41. > :21:44.want to be negative. That is the last thing we need right now. We
:21:45. > :21:51.need positivity around us. That is what we are trying to do. Tomorrow
:21:52. > :21:54.they play Fleetwood who are unbeaten in 13 games. Defeat against the
:21:55. > :22:02.League 1 side would only add to the pressure.
:22:03. > :22:05.A bubble blowing clock that has been entertaining shoppers
:22:06. > :22:13.in Cheltenham since 1985 has been stopped for a face-lift.
:22:14. > :22:16.The huge Wishing Fish Clock in the Regent Arcade
:22:17. > :22:19.is being dismantled tonight as parts of it don't work any more.
:22:20. > :22:21.It was designed by Kit Williams, who was famous
:22:22. > :22:24.in the '70s for Masquerade and the search for the golden hare.
:22:25. > :22:25.Steve Knibbs, our Gloucestershire reporter,
:22:26. > :22:42.Here editors, behind me, the iconic wishing fish clock. For the last 30
:22:43. > :22:47.years on the half-hour and on the hour it has been playing music and
:22:48. > :22:51.blowing bubbles. Apparently the original plan was for a cliched view
:22:52. > :22:53.of Cheltenham, thankfully the orders of the arcade at the time chose
:22:54. > :22:57.something more exciting and iconic. For over 30 years the mice have been
:22:58. > :23:00.sneaky, the snake has tried in vain to catch them,
:23:01. > :23:12.and the fish has blown bubbles to be I remember coming to Cheltenham on
:23:13. > :23:16.special shopping trips with my mum and just being amazed that all these
:23:17. > :23:21.bubbles were coming out. It is just lovely. It is nice having his
:23:22. > :23:25.experience of something that I have been through as well. It is a great
:23:26. > :23:28.attraction for the kids. Whenever you come here and there is always
:23:29. > :23:30.children running around and enjoying it.
:23:31. > :23:38.a timepiece that was magical, theatrical and fun.
:23:39. > :23:48.Everybody is excited by bubbles. And the painting, which goes round and
:23:49. > :23:51.round. There were lots of different aspects to it. Even the music. You
:23:52. > :23:56.hear that music. of capturing the imagination -
:23:57. > :24:00.in the '70s he wrote Masquerade, that, through a series of clues,
:24:01. > :24:02.led readers to a jewelled But as for the clock,
:24:03. > :24:07.time has taken its toll, and things need fixing,
:24:08. > :24:25.like the infinite stream As they pass into the clock itself,
:24:26. > :24:29.then the ball disappears and goes around the rest of the clock and the
:24:30. > :24:36.empty cup comes back up again, where as it goes over the top, it is
:24:37. > :24:39.falling down again. That is a simple check.
:24:40. > :24:44.The new, improved clock will soon be back to grant wishes to everyone
:24:45. > :24:59.The clock is going to be dismantled tonight. The goose, the fish, the
:25:00. > :25:03.snake, and the mice are going to be restored, and in some cases improved
:25:04. > :25:09.because originally they ran out of budget and could not meet the
:25:10. > :25:19.original design. But the bubbles and the balls will all be back.
:25:20. > :25:25.Time to catch up with the weather forecast. Let us go up to the roof
:25:26. > :25:30.where Ian has the forecast. Good evening. Let me take you through the
:25:31. > :25:33.forecast as we enter into a week which will be predominantly a
:25:34. > :25:38.driver. There will be phases with some drizzly rain but certainly no
:25:39. > :25:42.great amounts in any one spot. There could be great amounts of clouds to
:25:43. > :25:46.chase around. That's more than anything is the forecast difficulty.
:25:47. > :25:52.The knock-on result that all have in terms of temperatures by day and
:25:53. > :25:57.night. Tomorrow there will be for the most part cloud, particularly
:25:58. > :26:01.West and north-west. Conversely through the afternoon we will see
:26:02. > :26:05.some sunny skies starting to emerge towards the south-east. For all of
:26:06. > :26:09.us it will be a mostly dry day once we are to the early part of the
:26:10. > :26:12.morning. We have high pressure building, but this beach-front is
:26:13. > :26:18.moving from East to West, hence the drizzle, the low cloud, that
:26:19. > :26:23.staggers towards the West, the rain dies away but the cloud remains. But
:26:24. > :26:27.the skies are clearing and from the East, south-east, as dry area comes
:26:28. > :26:30.from the new continent. For the rest of this evening they tonight we have
:26:31. > :26:38.got this slow-moving band of drizzly rain. That will tend to die away but
:26:39. > :26:41.that will leave a legacy of low cloud until fork which has been a
:26:42. > :26:50.feature for much of the day. We will not see much frost tonight. Expect
:26:51. > :26:56.tomorrow to be a start at least with low cloud, hill fog towards the
:26:57. > :27:01.West. From the East, south-east, the skies are starting to clear. There
:27:02. > :27:06.will be a tight delineation between the cloudy zone and the sunny zone.
:27:07. > :27:15.Better chance of sunshine towards the south-east. Grealish skies just
:27:16. > :27:21.north-west word. Tomorrow temperatures are in the range of
:27:22. > :27:27.4-6 C, by tomorrow night I wager risk of seeing frost, some areas as
:27:28. > :27:29.low as minus four. That does make me feel a bit blue
:27:30. > :27:37.this Monday. And Julia wrote to us and said it is
:27:38. > :27:44.blue Monday, Akanji have a mention? I sit, no. -- can she have a
:27:45. > :27:50.mention. Goodbye. Let me see them hands up.
:27:51. > :27:55.Let's do this. Glastonbury!
:27:56. > :28:00.Make some noise! How you doing, Big Weekend?
:28:01. > :28:02.Get ready. Go solo, Hyde Park.
:28:03. > :28:13.Don't believe you. Secure your place at
:28:14. > :28:25.the 500 Words Final, BBC Radio 2's writing competition
:28:26. > :28:31.for kids with our honorary judge her Royal Highness the
:28:32. > :28:48.Duchess of Cornwall. # Knees and toes and eyes and ears
:28:49. > :28:53.and mouth and nose... #