17/02/2017 Points West

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

Our main story tonight: Taking the pain out of breast screening.

Existing machines can be uncomfortable.

Now this could be the future - and the first in the world

The new machine uses mine detecting technology,

Brilliant, painless. It says, it's like having a good meal in a

restaurant. I'd go back. Our other headlines

tonight: The wild boar in the Forest of Dean -

residents demand action as they turn The Star Wars battle

between two of our managers. And the lady and her tramp -

they met when he was homeless, Who would have thought it, all these

years on, a wedding. We just belong together. That's all.

LAUGHTER Women in the west are about to take

part in a world first - the trial of a machine that scans

for breast cancer, Remarkably, it's the same technology

they use to find landmines. The radio wave imaging has

taken years to pioneer. And as our health correspondent

Matthew Hill reports, it could make the whole

experience less uncomfortable. Melanie White could never

face having a mammogram. I was very tender in certain parts

of my body for years, It's the way they say, "You may

experience some discomfort." Thanks to this machine,

she's now been able Maria, as it's known,

has got transmitters and receivers arranged under a ceramic cup,

which the breast sits in. When I went up to the breast clinic

in Cheltenham, they were saying, I went, "No," and I said,

"I know about this radar thing." If you want somebody to do

something, you've got to give them a good time and they've got

to want to go back. And believe it or not it's been

built on technology similar to ground penetrating radar,

used to find landmines. The problem is that one

in five cancers are not detected through mammograms,

and they also use radiation, so for young women in particular

who have to come back year-on-year, the doctors have to consider

whether it's worth putting A recent study has shown this

radio wave technology to be just as accurate,

and now doctors are about to start a second clinical trial to find out

if it could even be safer It could save lives eventually,

because one of the difficulties of mammograms when you are younger,

breasts tend to be In a young patient with dense

tissue, this machine picks up as well as it would do the patient

who doesn't have such dense tissue. It's like having a good

meal in a restaurant. Melanie is encouraging

other women to take part in this new clinical trial,

where it is also hoped doctors can find out how well patients

are responding to chemotherapy. And since we've put this story up

on our Facebook page, Anything that makes

detection simpler and more Annie's posted, "Let's hope this

new way is successful, Julie adds, "I was diagnosed

with breast cancer after my very All I can say is thank

goodness for any kind I'm still fighting

the wretched disease." Thank you for your comments. And we

wish you well, Julie. A 36-year-old man has

appeared in court, accused of murdering a woman found dead

in Easton in Bristol. Jaici Rocha is charged

with killing 40-year-old Karina Batista, who was found

with multiple injuries. Mr Rocha has been remanded

in custody until Monday. The family of a young man,

who's been missing for almost two weeks, say they're baffled

by his disappearance. Lewis Ball vanished after leaving

a waterside nightclub Police divers have been searching

the water near there today. But as his brother Alex

told our reporter Andrew Plant CCTV footage from the night Lewis

vanished appears to show him heading Lewis Ball was last seen at 3:20am,

the early hours of Sunday He'd been for a night out at Thekla,

a popular nightclub that sits Divers have been searching the water

over the past ten days. This morning, around 100 yards

away from the nightclub, a police team swimming with almost

zero visibility - no sign This image from CCTV captured Lewis

leaving the nightclub. Now his brother Alex says police

have shown him more footage that appears to show Lewis heading away

from the water. It's becoming increasingly likely

that he didn't enter the water. We're still hoping that

someone is going come That's our one hope at the moment,

that that someone has I think everyone involved

in it is just trying their hardest to try and work out

what has happened. Lewis's flatmate raised

the alarm when he missed work Police are still appealing for taxi

drivers who were out that night to come forward,

particularly if they used dashboard cameras, as they try

to unravel the mystery Thank you for joining us

this Friday evening. Apparently there's a blast

of Caribbean hot air heading our way, so we could be

in for a balmy weekend. I'm sure Ian will have

something to say about that. But before we hear

from him - on thin ice. Why the current British figure

skating champions have appealed to the public to help them get

the World Championships. And I love you so -

the next chapter of a love story, which began outside a book shop

in Gloucester. As expected, opinions were divided

and the strength of feeling was high at the first meeting of a new group

set up to tackle the issue of wild Last night, town and parish councils

came together to start try to find a solution to the numbers of boar

damaging land in urban areas. Our Gloucestershire reporter,

Steve Knibbs, was there. I'm 74 years of age,

and I've never seen it No one said this was

going to be an easy fix. We need to have the pigs living

in the forest with a small population so that they have less

chance of coming outside. This was always going to provoke

strong views on all sides. They are also a valuable asset to us

in the Forest of Dean. A power cut added even more

atmopsphere to the night. But there was talk of the recent

damage the poor have done and ideas Contraception works,

and it is not a chemical. It's a vaccine, the same

as you give your children. I know people who live in Gloucester

who used to regularly come to the Forest with their dogs

and young children, and they choose not to come any more

because they are frightened High up the agenda, a by-law to stop

people feeding the boar and also getting Defra,

the Forestry Commision and the local This new action group is aiming

high before, they say, It is a challenge, but it is not one

we will shy away from. There are people who want

all the boar completely culled. We have to find a happy medium

somewhere along the way. Hopefully, the three bodies we sit

down with may have the answers. Lots to think about, facts to check,

more opinions to gauge and a lot of persuading

to do, perhaps. This was a very small first,

but vital step on a long road. A river in Gloucestershire

which was badly polluted last year The River Leadon was so badly

polluted that 15,000 fish died. Investigators were called

to the river after fish were seen This week Environment Agency

released almost 5000 fish back into the river in an attempt

to repopulate it. Some unlikely heroes have emerged

in the ongoing battle against homelessness in Bristol

- city financiers. Over the last year, an investment

fund has been buying up flats in Bristol and is renting them out

to people who've been homeless in the past and are now ready

to take on a tenancy. Investors get a return

on their capital, while the charity St Mungo's gets properties

to move people into. The world of high finance

and homelessness. But investment fund managers are now

helping find a solution to one It's being led by a company called

Resonance, which helps investors with a social conscience

put their money into social causes. Over the last year, the national

homelessness property fund has bought 49 properties in and around

the Bristol area. Some are being refurbished,

but others have been let to tenants. It's been a bit of a nightmare

come to be honest. This man and his family have been

through the homelessness system and thanks to the partnership

between Resonance and St Mungo's, We've moved four times over the past

year, until we've finally Now it's just a base to actually

create something and move on and create something

for these guys. Bristol City Council has

already invested ?5 million into the property fund,

hoping to get a good return on its money

as well as helping the homeless. What we're doing is unblocking

a part of the system, because the private rented sector

market has completely dried up. So local authorities

are paying millions of pounds on temporary accommodation,

which they have to fund out We can help move people into a home

from warehouse hotels, or whatever their accommodation is,

much, much more quickly. It's not just institutions

which are investing. Wealthy individuals

are contributing as well. I've lived here for 30 years,

so the ability to put some money to work in the Bristol area is very

important to me. In London, where the scheme started,

98% of people succeeded Breaking the revolving door cycle

of people time and again ending up on the streets,

it's hoped that success The current British figure skating

champions have launched a fundraising appeal to help them

get to this year's Our Wiltshire reporter

Will Glennon is with them As the children's ice hockey

sessions going on at the moment in Swindon, but we're here to the

potentially the next Torvill Dean, Zoe Jones and Christopher. We'll

show you some footage of them in a second. They are really quite

excellent. They've only been skating together as a pair since last year,

less than 12 months, but already they are British champions and

they've been in the European Championships as well. Christopher,

you have lodged an appeal for some crowdfunding. That's because you

want to train more to get to the World Championships and beyond? Yes.

People don't really realise how expensive figure skating is. It

requires a lot of money. We need to pay for our cows, for our ice, for

our trips, for our fitness coach -- we need to pay for our coach. My

friends practice six days a week with their coach, three hours a day,

but we only have our coach two or three days a week. Zoe, it's not

like you don't work hard and train hard as it is. You have children. A

typical day, we get up, I'm on the ice for 6am, coaching. I basically

hop from home to the ice rink to the school, back to the ice rink, to the

school, to the ice rink. Days start at 6am and finish at 8pm sometimes.

Extra funding would help you train more. Christopher, if you got that

funding how far could you go? Everyone has a dream in life, like

if a CEO listens at the moment, they dream and build their company. Our

dream is to go to the Olympics and get a medal. Thanks both, we wish

you well. Their fundraising page is on the go fund me .com website, you

can find it there. If they do go on and win a future gold at an event,

and you help them, maybe you can be happy to have been a part of it.

Can we have a go on the gold medal? Share it!

Gloucester are in action tonight, looking to bounce back

from what their Director of Rugby David Humphreys

has called their worst performance of the season.

But the Cherry and Whites will have their work cut out

as they're up against the reigning Premiership and European

Our sports reporter Damian Derrick is at Kingsholm for us now.

A defeat by 34-9 last week at Leicester has brought

Gloucester's failings firmly into focus.

They find themselves down in ninth place in the Premiership table,

Alongside me is former Gloucester lock Simon Devereux.

You see them on a regular basis. Where is it going wrong? Not taking

their chances, a bad start of the season, losing their first three at

home and they are not finish things off. The opposition are capitalising

on that. Good sides sense that chances. There's good work ethic

that but they have to show up at Kingsholm, there's a weakness at the

moment. They could finish in the final bottom third, is that

Gloucester's level, or should we expect more? They are better than

that, they are not finishing things off and the confidence comes from

that. They are losing streak and it's easy to get in a winning habit

and likewise with losing habit. The fans expect more and deserve more

and the way they've been playing, it deserves because it's a tight

league. They've lost four games at home this season and the same in the

previous two seasons. Two years ago James Hook kicked that penalty to

win the match in the final seconds. Can Gloucester fans expect to go

home just as happy tonight? We will cling to anything at the moment. I

remember that from the halfway line. It was a tight game, could have gone

either way. Gloucester were coming off a losing streak then. It's not a

confident ground, the sides know that. If they are in the game with

20 minutes to go, it goes quiet quickly, but the fans are

optimistic. We are keeping the faith and if they can't get a result

tonight we are in trouble. Thank you very much.

Both our other Premiership sides are in action tomorrow.

Bath at home to Harlequins and Bristol away to Leicester.

There's another important match happening just up

the road from here tomorrow, as Cheltenham Town host Yeovil.

It brings together former Glovers boss Gary Johnson and Darren Way,

who played and coached under Gary during the club's most

They may be galaxies apart when it comes to experience, but they

couldn't be closer when sharing in Yeovil's successes. We won the

play-off final against Bradford to take little old Yeovil into the

Championship and Darren as well as Terry had a big part in that, so the

three of us holding up the Cup, which I nearly dropped, by the way.

It was heavier than I thought! That was a great moment because we knew

how much effort that we'd put into that. Back in 2001, Gary's impact on

Darren and the rest of the players was immediate. The following year

they won their first piece of silverware, the FA Trophy. He

enabled us to create that environment, the environment we

wanted to work in. He built a group of players that would become winners

and that's what it takes to be in football management. 15 years' on

Darren's transition to manager has come as no surprise. He's got it as

well, a passion for the game, handle the problems and the highs and lows

of professional football. He seems to be doing it very well. Well

enough in fact to get one over on his old boss earlier in the season,

as Yeovil beat Cheltenham 4-2. But will they be able to put their

professional differences aside after the match? We'll have a chat. He

came in our office last time and it was quite brief, but after a defeat

there's one thing we have got, we've got mutual respect we're both in

each other's' souls all the time. I think it's only professionally that

we don't make contact as often as we would like -- we are in each other's

thoughts all the time. But how will this latest episode end? That match

and the Football League fixtures click off at 3pm.

Bristol City are not playing, as their opponents Fulham

But you can listen to all the matches on your BBC

local radio station, as can you tonight's match

We'll have the highlights in our late bulletin

Brilliant, thank you, I love that report. It looks great. I was going

to say about a love story, but we'll have to wait for a moment! It's a

good piece, contain yourself! It's been a big day for two

of the west's athletes, who've been honoured at Buckingham

Palace. Paralympian Stephanie Millward

from Wiltshire took home two gold medals for swimming at Rio last

year, and Olympian Helen Richardson-Walsh, who grew up

in Weston-Super-Mare, Prince Charles awarded

them both with MBEs. It's a love story which began

in the most unusual of ways - Back in 1975, Joan Neininger

was drawn to a homeless man she saw rifling for food outside the book

shop she used to run. Now the couple, who are

in their late 80s, will finally There was a little lawn there,

and a seat, for people to sit on. The bride and groom,

Joan and Ken on the street Their story reads

reads like a novel. Appropriate then that it began

here, in a book shop. That was my lounge

and my bedroom up there. Joan ran the shop in the centre

of Gloucester with her husband and one day, in 1975,

she saw Ken through the window. That's where the bin was, where

I used to go and look for food. Anything that you could eat,

because I was hungry. So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea

that day and sketched He was a shy man who had

suffered a head injury He develop schizophrenia

and ended up sleeping rough. He always looked as if he didn't

belong in the streets. He looked gentlemanly

and he spoke very nicely. Joan invited Ken to move into her

family home and she helped him Over the years he became

part of the household, Although Joan's relationship

with Ken was purely platonic, her But as the decades passed, the three

of them became good friends. Then, in 1983, Joan's

husband Norman died. # How lonely life can be

as shadows follow me #. Ken and Joan are about to marry, 42

years after that first cup of tea. How much of a difference has

Joan made to your life? I was on the street,

it was terrible. At times, Ken's mental health

problems have been severe, but Joan has helped him,

and together they've tried to raise The voices in my head would have

driven me to kill myself. It was Joan who proposed to Ken,

with the full support What does the future hold

in store for you now? Well, there won't be

babies, and there won't be They are fun, aren't they! How

beautifully honest. That was lovely. How romantic. We wish them all the

very best for tomorrow, and for their life ahead. And they are going

to have this barbecue springtime weather, apparently! They have to

make it happen now. start spring in the meteorite alert

-- on the meteorological sense, but we might not be done with some cold

phases of whether coming our way. Both for the end of this month and

equally as we get towards the middle part of March. That could well be as

a result of the warming we are expecting to take place, high up in

the stratosphere towards the tail end of February. But that takes two

weeks to affect the atmosphere at lower levels. The forecast for the

weekend. It will be mild, most certainly. It will be one which for

the most part will be dry. There will be at times a bit of light rain

around. For example, as we get towards the tail end of Saturday, a

little bit more overnight, perhaps lingering into the first couple of

hours of Sunday. Towards the back end of Sunday, we could see a bit

more light rain. Aside from that looking effectively dry and the

question is the balance between cloud cover and whatever brightness

we happen to get. Here's a wider look at how things are shaping up at

the moment. As we had through the course of demise, there will be an

injection of quite a bit of low cloud into the mix. Some foggy

conditions perhaps, particularly parts of Dorset. It will take a

while for that to break up through tomorrow. It looks better through

the afternoon in terms of brightness. As we have a weak cold

front coming through the tail end of

Saturday, into Sunday, that will bring a sprinkling of some light

rain. But very little in terms of overall amounts. This evening, into

tonight, looking dry. We could get areas of light rain getting into

western areas. That aside it is looking dry. There will be quite a

bit of low cloud developing. It will be most pronounced towards the

south. It could turn the murky through Dorset and neighbouring

areas. Temperatures for all others in a range of Hall -- range of 4-6 C

by daybreak. Most of us will wake up to extensive cloud, then the

question is how that tends to lift and break-up and fragment as we had

through lunchtime, into the afternoon. It's a usable day. It's

looking dry, a day of quite like winds, and towards the evening you

will see the signal for a little bit of light rain and drizzle, trying to

creep back in from the West. That should be as we are getting through

towards the hours of darkness onwards. Temperatures tomorrow, once

again considering the run of getting into doubles low figures, as they

will do so on Sunday. Sunday, you might have a chance of a brighter

day was the early drizzle gets out of the way. Some much milder air

coming our way into Monday. I'm not expecting is to get into 16-17,

eastern parts of the UK might. Despite our hopes, but you are the

most polite person to say no! You say it in the nicest way! Well,

Alex, the weather, blah blah blah... We will allow you to enjoy the

weather even though meteorologically speaking it's not spring, but it is

spring like! We have to go. Please don't write in! See you soon,

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