17/01/2017 Points West

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

Our main story tonight - the baby who died shortly

At the inquest, his parents say crucial evidence

was altered, and criticise the care they received.

They ignored our objections and they sent us home. We believe them when

they said it was safe to go home. But it is now very clear that we

should never have been sent home that night.

The police have now been informed - we'll have the latest.

A debt to society - a gang gets prison sentences

after blowing up the cash machine at a post office.

over plans for a new park and ride on the green belt.

the Ice Maidens of the British Army take on our frozen planet.

An actor and his wife have been reliving the moment they were sent

home from hospital before the planned birth of their baby

Jamie King said by the time they were rushed back

into hospital the following day - the pregnancy had gone badly wrong -

and the baby, called Benjamin, died at just five days old.

And tonight there's concern about the records

surrounding the tragedy - with the coroner taking the unusual

step of reporting the NHS Trust to the police

after it admitted evidence was altered.

Once again, he'd travelled thousands of miles.

British actor, Jamie King, who now lives in Canada.

Looking for answers and the truth at the inquest

into the death of his baby son, Benjamin.

But once again, he left court disappointed and disillusioned.

We hoped the hospital would acknowledge the stakes they made

over our son's birth. Rather than hearing the truth,

we've had to listen to misremembered stories, altered

accounts, deflection, and diversion. Benjamin was born

at the Royal united Hospital in Bath with severe brain damage -

after he was deprived of oxygen The inquest heard how his mother,

Canadian actor, Tamara Podemski had been rushed into hospital

following concerns about A caesaerian section

was planned for later that day, but was delayed until the morning -

and Tamara was allowed to go home. Benjamin was later born

in what was described The inquest began two months ago and

would normally have only lasted a couple of days. It was dramatically

halted halfway through when it emerged that evidence had been

removed from a witness statement by a member of the trust's legal team.

At the time, coroner Maria Voisin said that it was a very

serious matter indeed - and adjourned the inquest.

Today it emerged that she has taken the highly unusual step

Something the RUH Trust addressed outside court.

We have co-operated fully with the coroner's directions following the

judgment to the initial inquest. We would like to provide additional

assurance that the trust takes the matter extremely seriously. We are

unable to comment further on this matter.

The inquest heard that lessons had been learned

We've been given exclusive access to this report -

and it highlights some of those lessons.

Amongst them, it states, quite clearly, that the operation

to deliver Benjamin, should not have been postponed -

and crucially, it concludes that had the operation gone ahead as planned,

it is highly likely that Benjamin would have been born alive

Speaking outside court today, Jamie King urged other expectant

parents to stand their ground if they had any concerns

If you are concerned about your health or your baby's health. You

must stand your ground and tell them you need to see a consultant. Get

names, write down every detail. That way, no one can twist your story or

play with the fax at a later date. Today, a coroner said she was

considering reporting the matter This is clearly very unusual. For

the matter to be referred to the police is something I've never come

across before and other journalists I spoke to said they had never come

across it. Lawyers I spoke to today who deal with cases like this say

they have never come across a case where eyewitnesses statement has

been changed by a legal team. This is particularly difficult because we

heard that the baby would have been buying. It's a horrendous case which

ever way you look at it. It involves the death of a baby who otherwise

would have been fine. It has been very upsetting for everybody

involved. Some of the doctors, some of the midwives giving evidence have

been visibly upset. That's nothing compared to how the family feel. It

has been devastating for them on every single level. Jamie King,

Benjamin's dad said the worst thing that could happen to them has

happened and to have to sit through an inquest that has been adjourned

and now continues because statements have been altered exacerbates their

grief. And there is no closure for them because something else needs to

happen. The inquest has concluded but the police are looking at the

matter. They will investigate, if they think it is appropriate they

might refer it to the Crown Prosecution Service. There are two

other investigations going on. The hospital says they will share the

results of those investigations. We will continue to follow this and

bring you the results of what happens.

Extra security has been installed at some cash machines after attacks

where cash machines were blown up. This the twisted, charred wreck left

after one night of crime. through the building

after the explosion. A mum and her two children

were asleep upstairs - - it is hard to believe

no-one was injured. And it is just one of a number

of attacks on cash machines It literally knocked four years

of growth off the business. 50% of the time

we've been here we've lost. We're stubborn and we

won't let them beat us. 'I came up for an afternoon

and helped them shovel the remains of the post office into bags.

Terrible, terrible. It cost nearly ?200,000

to rebuild the post office and the thieves got away with nearly

?60,000 from the cashpoint - to make sure it

couldn't happen again. We've got gas suppression

systems on it, There's multi-CCTV cameras,

there's alarms, seismic sensors - pretty much every security device

they could put on it is on it. they claim the three thieves had

been boasting on social media The men responsible were soon

caught by the police. 41-year-old Patrick Duggan,

25 year old Nicholas Mann and 22-year-old Shane Dennis

sentenced today and yesterday I think the sentences send out

a very clear message that the court won't tolerate this kind

of violent offending. I think we've got to remember

that the violence of this explosion completely

destroyed the post office. It disrupted that business

for over six months. And it endangered

the lives of people living above the post office

and in the immediate vicinity. Some of the other cash point

thefts are due in court over the coming weeks but owners

David and Andrew hope the new forms of security will make this kind

of crime impossible in the future. Charlotte Callen for BBC

Points West in Long Ashton You're watching BBC Points West

with Alex and David - thanks for joining us

on this Tuesday evening. the Bristol City fans

heading for Fleetwood the ice maidens

hoping to conquer the South Pole. A former Bristol Rugby player has

been suspended by his current club, after being accused

of leaking confidential information to his former employers

before their Premiership match Tom Arscott, who now plays for Sale,

is being investigated Today Bristol insisted

they've done nothing wrong. Here's our Sports Editor

Alistair Durden. This is the player understood

to be at the centre Sale's Tom Arscott - whose

brother Luke plays for Bristol. The two clubs met in a crucial

Premiership match on New Year's Day, But Sale claim Tom Arscott leaked

confidential team information They've suspended him, and reported

the allegation to the RFU. We got a complaint from senior

players at the club that one player had passed information over before a

game. I had to deal with it in a formal way by setting up a

disciplinary and we had to inform the governing body of our decision.

Bristol say the Arscott brothers did meet up at the team hotel

on the night before the game - but it was for a family catch up.

Bristol insist that neither the club, nor Luke Arscott,

Nothing was passed to the coaches of any sporting value nor did it change

the strategy with which we approach the game in any way at all. We are

entirely confident that we have not acted in a way that is against the

spirit and values of rugby. We are disappointed in how this episode has

been handled so publicly, especially considering that have been no

contact from the sale sharks to date.

Neither brother has commented on the allegation.

Bristol say they still aren't sure what the complaint is -

and that they've yet to hear from the RFU.

It is an unwelcome distraction, with all parties looking

to the sport's governing body to make their conclusions quickly.

Dyson says it's looking for 110 new employees,

with the majority of them set to work in the region.

Most will be based in Malmesbury and Bristol.

The firm says it's part of plans to hire 3,000 extra

Avebury Stone Circle is to feature in a set of 8 special stamps showing

some of the country's most famous ancient sites.

Royal Mail says the Wiltshire landmark is part of a series

celebrating the UK's rich prehistoric heritage.

A special Avebury postmark is also being issued.

Anyone who posts a letter in Avebury High Street postbox

over the next five days will have it stamped

Is that a hint that you want a stamp? One day. We'll work hard to

sort something out. Campaigners opposed to a new park

and ride in Bath say their fight will continue, after the council

published plans for two possible sites to the east of the city,

using greenbelt land. A final decision's

due next week, Andy Howard There have been official plans

for an extra park and ride In the last couple of years,

the council has looked at 21 different sites,

and announced today that it's Now it goes to

a vote next Wednesday. The sites are next to each

other, on greenbelt land. Campaigners have long said

that a park and ride on Bathampton Meadows

would cause more harm than good. "It'd be awful from an environmental

point of view", and that the money It isn't going to cause the traffic

benefits that they have described. People drive to the park and ride

and use cheaper buses to go into town. What is the benefit that

mitigates against the harm? Well, let's ask the Leader of Bath

and North East Somerset Council. The big it is you is 7000 new houses

in Bath over the next 25 years, 11,000 new jobs. We have to get

people from a to B somehow. So here is the paperwork which holds

all the information for councillors Both sites are about the same size,

one is 800 spaces, the other One is on council-owned

land, one not. If there is a majority

vote next Wednesday this is still far from over,

the planning application then goes in, and both plans

have hurdles to overcome. But if B Council gets its way,

there will be shovels in the ground in 2018,

and this could be the view across The family of a Gloucestershire man

shot dead over 25 years ago have welcomed

more help for relatives in cases where no-one

is convicted of murder. Tony Alliss died in Penn Wood,

near Stroud, in 1990. Today the Crown Prosecution Service

and police said they'll work more closely with families

to explore what options there are. Our Gloucestershire reporter

Steve Knibbs has more details. Tony Alliss was shot dead

after a long running feud with his neighbours

over a boundary fence. His neighbours were acquitted

after the trial collapsed. Since then Tony's family have long

fought for more support for familes like themselves who often feel

abandoned, after such cases. Today, after a campaign by the group

Justice After Acquittal the Crown Prosecution Service

and police announced their new It includes joint meetings

once cases of acquittal have been reviewed, helping families

to understand why there and crucially for many

what can be done next. There has been supposedly enough

evidence to bring a murder charge and then it all falls through. Our

ultimate at the moment is to get onto that stage and go back and

discuss it with the Crown Prosecution Service and the police.

Gloucestershire Police, though, say they haven't seen anything

new to reopen the case something the Alliss' disagree with.

But today the county's police and crime commissioner was also

at the launch of the new standards to see what more could be done.

I've done everything I can do. I've written to the Lord Chancellor and

the courts. Sometimes you have to access that it is beyond what you

can do. For 25 years, the family have dedicated their lives into

discovering what happened here. The opening up of the relationship

between the CPS and the families is a small but significant step. They

know there is a long way to go to achieve their ultimate aim of a new

police investigation and a conviction.

Should scientists be able experiment on human embryos?

At the moment there's a limit of 14 days.

But with scientific advances being made all the time,

an IVF pioneer says there could be huge gains for health

and infertility treatment if that were to be extended.

Simon Fishel was one of the team overseeing the birth of

the world's first test-tube baby - Louise Brown from Bristol.

Our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill reports.

The birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the world's first IVF baby changed

At the time scientists were accused of playing God

But eventually a law was brought in to allow controlled IVF

and research on human embryos up to 14 days.

Scientists at Cambridge University have recently cultured embryos for

13 days. They believe they can make discoveries about genetic disease if

the law changes. People condemned mum and dad for having the treatment

and for having me. So, anything that can help create a family, I think,

is brilliant. The BBC has commissioned the first survey of its

kind this question. The scientist who worked on Louise

Brown's IVF team has called on the government to open an enquiry into

extending the rules. Specifically during that period of time we cannot

get access to at the moment many things happen and go wrong. We can

learn an awful lot from what goes wrong. For example, miscarriage. It

will start to be caused around that period of time. There are relations

to certain cancers that begin their problems at that stage. However,

religious, moral, and ethical objections have been raised. An

embryo has the rights of a person. It wouldn't become a human if it

weren't a human already. Even though great benefits come, we consider

that embryo has writes that cannot be turned over. D has had several

miscarriages. If one in four people experienced miscarriage, if it can

help them, it is important. For the medical team, insights into why

miscarriage happens is the most important thing.

And Matthew Hill has a series on BBC Radio 4 looking at the law

surrounding research on human embryos.

part one is available right now on the iPlayer,

and you can hear part two next Monday morning at 11am.

Bristol City travel to Fleetwood tonight in the FA Cup looking

The two sides drew 0-0 in the original 3rd

City fans leaving Ashton Gate this lunchtime had mixed views

on head coach Lee Johnson after the team's poor run of form.

Time for a change. Any other club would have got rid of him by now.

Stick with him. Better the devil you know. He has a long contract. Can we

afford to get rid of him? Don't see the point of chopping and changing.

It never works. We changed too often. It's difficult. He said he

needed three to four transfer windows to get the players ride.

Hopefully he can turn it around but it's really difficult.

Cheltenham are also in cup action tonight -

against Bradford in the Checkatrade Trophy.

The winners will play Oxford United in the quarter finals.

They're the Ice Maidens - a squad of elite soldiers aiming

to become the first all-women team to cross Antarctica.

They're all members of the British Army,

and they've had to go through a physically demanding

selection process in Norway to get the chance to go.

Our reporter Lee Madan was invited to the Larkhill base

Testing themselves against the elements in Norway.

Pulling heavy loads, jumping into ice holes,

digging out and sleeping in the snow.

All preparation for an 1100 mile expedition across the South Pole.

The challenge will test me to a limit

I guess there's that almost sadistic kind of me that just wants to see

what I can do and, equally, what I can't do.

The journey's expected to take there months.

With just two refuelling points along the way,

they'll have to drag food and supplies

as they ski cross country through hazardous conditions.

I'd be silly if I said I wasn't scared of gaps

in the glacier and they can be a metre long,

they can be 10 metres long, they can be miles long.

250 soldiers applied to become Ice Maidens -

after facing a series of challenges the team is now down

So the Ice Maidens have already proven they've got

they're now back in Wiltshire finding the best ways to work

First up, a game of Personality Poker.

Overseen by psychologists they've been telling each

The idea - by identifying their strengths and weaknesses -

the team will face fewer surprises

when they're in an extreme environment,

and know what support each other needs.

You need to be more open, you don't need to be good

all the time and you can have down days.

Sandy, you need to be less productive and that means sharing

out tasks a bit more and getting other people to chip in.

After the poker - more honest conversations.

I think as a team we need to work on our conflict resolution,

we like to get on with each other, we need to make sure we have a plan

in place for when it does go wrong and we do end up having

After all these physical and psychological tests have ended,

five of the remaining seven Ice Maidens will be selected.

They'll set off in October to conquer the South Pole.

Personality poker. I'm not sure I like those honest conversations. I

don't want to play. But, how hard could that be anyway? There's only

one way to find out. I'm sure they will do well and they take our good

wishes with them. Now talk about getting

into a tight spot. I think this horse has

had better evenings. It managed to get stuck upside down

between a wall and a building Having been checked over by a vet,

the horse, called Becky, was reunited with her owner

and is recovering well. At least, in a stable condition. We

are about to play personality poker now. Yes. Cut the jokes! That's the

main thing. It's going to be a day and you'll

wake up if today -- wondering if today has finished. A replica for

the majority. There could be some patchy drizzle around. The

forecasting headache is going to be the balance between the amount of

cloud cover, which will tend to be dominant, against those who will see

it brightening up to a degree, more down towards the south and

south-east of the region. High pressure now dominates the pattern.

The blue is being restricted to the east. That signifies the risk of

Frost. A very weak front through the centre of the area of high pressure.

That brings the complications, mild by a mile, as to which areas have

cloud cover. For the rest of this evening, we have seen some clearer

skies towards the far south-east of the likes of Wiltshire. It's for

these areas and the likes of the East of Gloucestershire that we

might get temperatures to falling to zero or below. Elsewhere, a bit

above freezing. Out towards the south-east of Wiltshire, the risk of

some Frost by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, we pick up that theme in

terms of the amount of cloud. There is uncertainty on that dividing

line. Winds will be light, temperature is similar to today. As

we go into Thursday, we do it all again.

Something to look forward to. The same weather. He's not very excited

by this weather. He would do well in the Antarctic. As an ice maiden. If

you see what I mean. His own version. We'd better go. There will

be an update for you later. Until then. Goodbye.

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