:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
:00:07. > :00:08.Our main story tonight: The children in lockdown.
:00:09. > :00:13.They were in Parliament when the lone terrorist attacked.
:00:14. > :00:16.Their relieved parents pay tribute to the teachers who got them to sing
:00:17. > :00:24.My message for the Prime Minister is at this school and those teachers
:00:25. > :00:27.need to be honoured. In the West country,
:00:28. > :00:29.leaders have been meeting Our other headlines
:00:30. > :00:41.tonight: Arrested 50 years after the disappearance of a Bristol girl,
:00:42. > :00:54.who vanished when her family I'm not getting into the specifics
:00:55. > :01:00.of the actual details of the offences, but I can say they are
:01:01. > :01:02.quite horrific and they will be unfolding tomorrow at court.
:01:03. > :01:04.And the rents that take half your salary.
:01:05. > :01:13.The parents of school children who were caught up in yesterday's
:01:14. > :01:16.attack in London have called for their teachers to be
:01:17. > :01:22.More than 50 pupils from Bridgwater spent two hours trapped
:01:23. > :01:24.inside Westminster within earshot of the carnage
:01:25. > :01:29.They kept their spirits up by singing to hundreds of others
:01:30. > :01:32.who were told to stay inside the Central Lobby
:01:33. > :01:39.For some of these ten-year-olds, a very first trip to London.
:01:40. > :01:42.But shorlty after these photos were taken, they were trapped
:01:43. > :01:53.Today, a parent of one of those children was still visibly upset.
:01:54. > :01:59.If the first time I've ever let my son go
:02:00. > :02:00.anywhere so far away without
:02:01. > :02:06.He was very cuddly when he saw the first
:02:07. > :02:22.The 53 children and seven staff were ushered to
:02:23. > :02:26.A safe place, but still within 50 metres of where the police
:02:27. > :02:30.The deputy head kept spirits up by singing hymns.
:02:31. > :02:33.We had a lovely ripple of applause at the end.
:02:34. > :02:34.And beautifully, loss of MPs and people
:02:35. > :02:37.of the layout congratulated our children on how they sang and
:02:38. > :02:47.Meanwhile at the school, texts were sent to worried parents.
:02:48. > :02:51.We said to parents they could come in and we set aside a
:02:52. > :02:54.room and had tea and coffee and the Salvation Army were here and our
:02:55. > :02:57.local vicar all helping parents to process what was unfolding in front
:02:58. > :03:00.Today at the school, we're told everyone's well,
:03:01. > :03:02.the hymns having helping to drown out the gunshots.
:03:03. > :03:06.And back in the Commons, the Prime Minister also impressed
:03:07. > :03:14.It must've been particularly difficult for those
:03:15. > :03:18.children who were here and being caught up in this the work of their
:03:19. > :03:23.We should commend that their teachers in offering them that
:03:24. > :03:26.The deputy head is more modest and thinks it
:03:27. > :03:33.Safety in numbers inside the Central Lobby.
:03:34. > :03:36.There may have been some horrific things
:03:37. > :03:39.happening outside, but we were having a lovely time.
:03:40. > :03:40.We were completely unaffected by it and it
:03:41. > :03:43.certainly will not stop us from doing things we want.
:03:44. > :03:53.But in the very worst of circumstances.
:03:54. > :03:56.Today, people have been paying tributes to those
:03:57. > :04:00.Aysha Frade, a mother who worked at a London college,
:04:01. > :04:08.Courtney Weeden from Gloucestershire is a former colleague.
:04:09. > :04:14.Kind, funny, very respected member of staff, definitely, she had been
:04:15. > :04:17.And just a dedicated colleague, really,
:04:18. > :04:31.she came to work, did her job, went home to her family.
:04:32. > :04:32.Security around the Houses of Parliament has remained
:04:33. > :04:35.tight, but the message from inside the Commons today
:04:36. > :04:39.Staff and MPs were being allowed through to get to their offices.
:04:40. > :04:52.Our reporter Steve Knibbs is in Westminster.
:04:53. > :04:59.It has been an incredible day today to be in London. We've been driving
:05:00. > :05:03.around and looking at a city when nothing much has changed. This city
:05:04. > :05:08.has got back to normal and got back on with business. Within the houses
:05:09. > :05:14.of parliament, that is very important, too. I spoke earlier to
:05:15. > :05:19.one of our local MPs for Taunton Deane and said it was important to
:05:20. > :05:24.get back to normal. It is crucial to show solidarity amongst politicians
:05:25. > :05:28.and prove everyone that we will not be deterred in our free speech and
:05:29. > :05:35.running our democratic society and in running efficiently and
:05:36. > :05:43.effectively and in a calmer manner our oldest parliament in the world.
:05:44. > :05:47.And with me now is the MP for Bath. Rebecca said about back to normal,
:05:48. > :05:53.but what was the mood like within the house? Not nervous, but a great
:05:54. > :05:57.deal of respect for what happened yesterday, but it really was
:05:58. > :06:00.business as usual. As the Prime Minister said, the country deserves
:06:01. > :06:03.for us to go back to work just as everybody else must and carry on
:06:04. > :06:09.with their lives, otherwise the terrorists get their own way. We saw
:06:10. > :06:16.emotional scenes today when remembering the victims. Yet I been
:06:17. > :06:20.working in and around Parliament for ten years and I've seen Keith and
:06:21. > :06:24.his colleagues every day and every day the public walk up to them take
:06:25. > :06:28.photos with them and but through the gates every day. We were incredibly
:06:29. > :06:31.sad to have lost him. As we drove around today, we saw on the
:06:32. > :06:39.billboards the adverts and we are not afraid slogan comes up. They are
:06:40. > :06:42.very defiant. Indeed they are. There are tourists back on the bridge
:06:43. > :06:46.again as if nothing has happened. And that is the best thing about
:06:47. > :06:51.defiance against terrorism. They will never win against us. Howard
:06:52. > :06:57.does this resonate away from the capital? What does it mean for the
:06:58. > :07:03.people in the West Country? The vigilance carries on outside of
:07:04. > :07:06.London doesn't it? There's been no change very security information but
:07:07. > :07:12.please keep vigilant and keep on with your lives also. Residents of
:07:13. > :07:15.Bath need to be aware that they are in an internationally famous city
:07:16. > :07:24.and they need to be careful, but we shouldn't change our behaviour on a
:07:25. > :07:27.day-to-day basis. This is a city and you can see the Houses of Parliament
:07:28. > :07:35.behind and Westminster Bridge and everything is back to normal after
:07:36. > :07:39.an incredible 24 hours. The police at the House of Commons and in
:07:40. > :07:40.Downing Street are amazing. They treat you in a very respectful and
:07:41. > :07:47.friendly manner. You're watching Points West
:07:48. > :07:49.with Alex and David, with you a little later this
:07:50. > :07:52.evening, due to an extended Still to come on this
:07:53. > :07:55.evening's programme... Our Home Affairs correspondent asks
:07:56. > :07:58.what's being done in the West And the cost of a cottage
:07:59. > :08:02.in the Cotswolds. We reveal how much of your salary
:08:03. > :08:10.you'll have to sacrifice. A man's been charged
:08:11. > :08:12.with the murder of a three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer's family emigrated
:08:13. > :08:19.to Australia in 1968. At that time, thousands of Britons
:08:20. > :08:22.were encouraged to start new lives down under by the offer
:08:23. > :08:25.of cheap passage. They were known as
:08:26. > :08:29.the "ten pound poms". New South Wales and in 1970
:08:30. > :08:34.were enjoying a day out at the beach Give us something so
:08:35. > :08:50.we can go and mourn. A heartbreaking appeal to the public
:08:51. > :09:01.from Cheryl Grimmer's brother speaking in
:09:02. > :09:05.December last year. Part of a reconstruction by police
:09:06. > :09:08.of her last movements before the three-year-old
:09:09. > :09:12.vanished into thin air. That appeal that led to fresh
:09:13. > :09:15.information and this morning, Do you know anything
:09:16. > :09:25.about Cheryl's disappearance? A man charged with
:09:26. > :09:26.Cheryl's abduction and murder 47 years
:09:27. > :09:28.after she disappeared. The man we have in custody
:09:29. > :09:31.was a person of interest. We centred our
:09:32. > :09:32.investigations around him. As a result, we have gathered
:09:33. > :09:35.information and corroborated certain information and stamens
:09:36. > :09:38.back in the original investigation and it
:09:39. > :09:41.will Cheryl's family emigrated
:09:42. > :09:45.from Bristol in In January 1970, she was
:09:46. > :09:51.an Fairy Meadow Beach in the seaside town of of Wollongong, with her
:09:52. > :09:59.mother and three older brothers. Her father was away
:10:00. > :10:01.working in the Army. The children went
:10:02. > :10:02.to the shower block, boys on one side, Cheryl
:10:03. > :10:04.on Decisions I made
:10:05. > :10:09.on the day were wrong. In this appeal last year, it was
:10:10. > :10:12.clear the pain of losing their sister has never softened
:10:13. > :10:20.in the decades since. Cheryl's parents died never knowing
:10:21. > :10:22.what became of their daughter, like the Madeleine McCann
:10:23. > :10:25.case here in the UK, every Australian parent knows
:10:26. > :10:28.Cheryl Grimmer's cautionary tale. The media interest
:10:29. > :10:37.has never gone away. The 63-year-old suspect
:10:38. > :10:38.would have been He will appear before
:10:39. > :10:41.a judge in Australia Rents are rising sharply, according
:10:42. > :10:50.to new research by Points West. In parts of the region
:10:51. > :10:52.tenants are spending With so many finding it hard
:10:53. > :11:00.to afford a place of their own, we asked our business correspondent
:11:01. > :11:03.Dave Harvey to find out just how And Dave - the numbers
:11:04. > :11:10.are pretty high, aren't they? Through the roof pretty much
:11:11. > :11:12.describes the rental market. I've looked at the official
:11:13. > :11:14.stats on average rents Bath and the Cotswolds,
:11:15. > :11:25.both over a thousand pounds a month. Around Bridgwater and Gloucester,
:11:26. > :11:28.both around ?600 a month. We compared this to the same
:11:29. > :11:32.figures five years ago - It's particularly tough in
:11:33. > :11:47.the Cotswolds, which is constantly being voted the "loveliest
:11:48. > :11:49.place to live in the UK", but as I found out, that only
:11:50. > :11:52.seems to push rents even If you are earning average wages
:11:53. > :12:00.or part-time because you have A busy medical secretary
:12:01. > :12:05.in the morning, Natalie is even busier with little Oliver
:12:06. > :12:09.and his big sister Heidi She and her husband
:12:10. > :12:13.moved five times in the last eight years, battling
:12:14. > :12:16.ever rising rents. I do not know anyone privately
:12:17. > :12:18.renting, because the And what you are getting
:12:19. > :12:23.for your money is not Our last place was quite expensive
:12:24. > :12:27.and the heating did not work properly
:12:28. > :12:29.and it was just not ideal for
:12:30. > :12:31.bringing kids up What really matters is how much
:12:32. > :12:48.of your income goes on rent and that's why we have come
:12:49. > :12:51.here to the Cotswolds, because here, we've discovered that rent takes
:12:52. > :12:53.a bigger chunk out of people's
:12:54. > :12:55.which than anywhere else In fact, announces a Government
:12:56. > :12:58.official figures showed that for every ?100 of wages here
:12:59. > :13:01.in the Cotswolds, ?46 goes on rent. Firstly because it is
:13:02. > :13:09.the Cotswolds, then because there is been
:13:10. > :13:11.a shortage of housing in the recent past,
:13:12. > :13:13.so therefore prices are being forced up
:13:14. > :13:18.on supply and demand. How can young people get
:13:19. > :13:20.on the housing ladder Prices may be high,
:13:21. > :13:26.but there's a queue Landlords tell me they are finding
:13:27. > :13:33.tenants faster than ever. When the property became empty
:13:34. > :13:36.in November, I thought, this is a great time, with Christmas,
:13:37. > :13:38.nobody will want to move. But actually, we were
:13:39. > :13:40.incredibly lucky, and within three weeks,
:13:41. > :13:45.we had some new tenants moved in. A few miles outside Tetbury,
:13:46. > :13:48.we look around a typical ?1200 a month -
:13:49. > :13:58.and you'd better be quick. We would be hopeful
:13:59. > :14:00.of getting somebody in in And that is the sort of turnaround
:14:01. > :14:07.we've seen recently, properties go What about those who live
:14:08. > :14:10.in a town and do not However, properties are still
:14:11. > :14:18.renting very quickly. with so many positive
:14:19. > :14:21.factors, it really helps property fly off the shelves
:14:22. > :14:25.on they go quickly, in a We can't really argue
:14:26. > :14:31.with that, as estate agents. Tetbury's answer is to
:14:32. > :14:33.build like never before. Literally - 900 new homes
:14:34. > :14:36.are going up, and if you live there, you don't need me to tell
:14:37. > :14:39.you how controversial that's been. Some - around 250 -
:14:40. > :14:45.are what they call affordable homes, in fact Natalie and her family have
:14:46. > :14:52.just moved into one of those. Plenty of you getting involved
:14:53. > :14:56.on our Facebook page on this. Cathy says she left Cirencester
:14:57. > :15:03.solely because the rents were so extortionate -
:15:04. > :15:06."I now live in Torquay in a lovely We'll take a look at some other
:15:07. > :15:13.solutions tomorrow night, How about knocking down old church
:15:14. > :15:53.halls and vicarages to make way Police investigating a fire survey
:15:54. > :15:57.found a body in the property. Earlier today one was rescued from
:15:58. > :16:00.the house and taken to hospital with serious injuries. Emergency services
:16:01. > :16:03.were called to this street just before 8am and police said they are
:16:04. > :16:07.treating the death and because of the ballets unexplained.
:16:08. > :16:09.Ram-raiders have struck at a shop in Bristol.
:16:10. > :16:12.They drove a blue van into the front of the premises in Alma Vale Road
:16:13. > :16:16.Police said they escaped with a large haul of cigarettes
:16:17. > :16:22.The chairman of Network Rail has said the line through Bath may
:16:23. > :16:24.Last autumn, the Government deferred electrification
:16:25. > :16:26.work between Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads
:16:27. > :16:33.New trains will have to be converted to run on diesel
:16:34. > :16:36.Today Sir Peter Hendy, who lives in Bath, said he wouldn't
:16:37. > :16:55.worry if the missing section was never completed.
:16:56. > :17:06.Won anti-terrorist experts say the keys to report anybody at risk of
:17:07. > :17:09.being radicalised. A bomb plot was foiled after a member of a mosque
:17:10. > :17:11.report suspicious behaviour to the police.
:17:12. > :17:15.A sign of respect and support from Bristol to London.
:17:16. > :17:18.Here in the West, like in in Westminster,
:17:19. > :17:21.there's a sense of calm reflection and a determination not
:17:22. > :17:30.Kalsoom Bashir advised the Government on preventing
:17:31. > :17:32.extremism and has worked with counter-terrorism
:17:33. > :17:40.We can't let terrorism divide us and undermine the stability
:17:41. > :17:46.In Bristol today, life goes on as usual, that
:17:47. > :17:49.we all have to be aware that there are those who are looking to
:17:50. > :17:54.radicalisers anybody that they can reach.
:17:55. > :17:58.we are kept safe by a constant web of surveillance,
:17:59. > :18:01.be that from CCTV cameras, the police
:18:02. > :18:06.Here at Bristol's newest shopping centre, they've even been
:18:07. > :18:11.But the most important information comes from within
:18:12. > :18:26.from blowing up the Galleries Shopping Centre in
:18:27. > :18:33.and caught here on CCTV planning his attack.
:18:34. > :18:36.Had he succeeded, I think Bristol would still be suffering
:18:37. > :18:40.That was a call from a representative of a mosque saying,
:18:41. > :18:42.we don't like what we are seeing, we don't
:18:43. > :18:44.like what we are hearing, we
:18:45. > :18:52.the police and fire and ambulance regularly train to deal
:18:53. > :18:59.they are monitoring events in London and remain committed
:19:00. > :19:18.And among those on Westminster Bridge who witnessed the attack was
:19:19. > :19:22.the Somerset author, Steve Vogue. You may have seen among the national
:19:23. > :19:25.news yesterday. As the chaos of older Commies Eddie try to stop
:19:26. > :19:34.people going on the bridge. He joins us now from his home. How all the
:19:35. > :19:45.events of yesterday resonating with you now? Is still seems surreal. I
:19:46. > :19:48.just keep remembering what a beautiful afternoon it was and I
:19:49. > :19:52.walked past Parliament Hill saw the police laughing and joking with a
:19:53. > :19:56.group of teenage pupils walking past and it seemed like a very happy
:19:57. > :20:02.scene and I walked onto the bridge and within a few seconds, everything
:20:03. > :20:11.changed. Reminders about your part, what you did. -- remind us. I had
:20:12. > :20:14.everybody screaming and above that stopped next to me and people are
:20:15. > :20:19.getting off and there was screaming and crying and I thought some TDL is
:20:20. > :20:22.further away was also screaming, so I thought that somebody had been
:20:23. > :20:27.knocked over, so I ran to see what had happened and if I could help at
:20:28. > :20:31.all and I saw a shoe in the red underbody in the road also and I saw
:20:32. > :20:35.another body a bit further up when I looked over the side of the bridge,
:20:36. > :20:41.I saw a body lying in the water and I realised something really bad must
:20:42. > :20:45.have happened all be happening and I could see people are still coming
:20:46. > :20:52.onto the bridge and I realised that it wasn't a safe place to be, so I
:20:53. > :20:55.just try to stop people and pushed them back until the emergency
:20:56. > :21:00.services arrived. Very brave, because she didn't know what else
:21:01. > :21:03.was going on. It must be harrowing to talk about, but in these
:21:04. > :21:07.situations, nothing will ever be the same. The message coming out of
:21:08. > :21:16.Westminster today is business as usual. What have you thought some of
:21:17. > :21:20.the rhetoric? Well, one of the things that was so strong about the
:21:21. > :21:28.whole thing was the children and the way that they carried on. They were
:21:29. > :21:31.inside and stuck and one of the things I would say to young
:21:32. > :21:37.children, because it is difficult to try and explain these things to
:21:38. > :21:41.them, my thought would be to try and say these things are thankfully rare
:21:42. > :21:47.and bad things do happen, but just look at all the good things. It was
:21:48. > :21:52.an awful afternoon, but I saw so many good people and brave people
:21:53. > :21:57.trying to help. That is the thing we have to hold onto. While a gradual
:21:58. > :22:03.children's author. That is good advice. Thank you for joining us. --
:22:04. > :22:12.and you are a children's author. Now for the weather.
:22:13. > :22:18.Bit of rain in the south to start things off. A lot of cloud, too.
:22:19. > :22:23.Brighter spells through because of the day and less windy. If the sun
:22:24. > :22:28.breaks through, it will feel comparatively mild. Here is a wider
:22:29. > :22:35.look and out of the south, low-pressure running up these bits
:22:36. > :22:40.of rain it southern districts. Through tomorrow, high pressure
:22:41. > :22:46.builds from the north and that bodes well for the weekend. For this
:22:47. > :22:50.evening, again, the chance of some of these patchy outbreaks of rain
:22:51. > :22:54.toward the south may creep a bit further north and you have seen
:22:55. > :22:59.their run up a bit of uncertainty. The further north you are, a better
:23:00. > :23:04.chance of staying dry. Remaining windy tonight and temperatures 5-6
:23:05. > :23:11.else's. Into tomorrow, a cloudy start. Through the afternoon, that
:23:12. > :23:17.becomes more fragile and lifts outbreaks with uncertain scope, but
:23:18. > :23:23.by the evening, the skies will clear. Temperatures tomorrow getting
:23:24. > :23:27.up to about 12 Celsius. Maybe even a 15 given the sunshine. It looks good
:23:28. > :23:32.for the weekend. Bullock on Saturday, looks like a beautiful
:23:33. > :23:33.day. Still a bit breezy, but pleasantly warm in the sunshine. A
:23:34. > :23:42.similar story Sunday, too. And that is where we have to leave
:23:43. > :23:48.things tonight. We are back tomorrow. Goodbye.