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The scientists looking into new methods of tackling | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
meningitis, which is still claiming the lives of hundreds of people | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The councillors mounting a High Court bid to stop two local | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Bamboo Club was the place. And the rain will gradually ease | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
through the course of tonight through the course of tonight | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
leading us into a cloudy dax tomorrow, details at the end of the | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
programme. Senior doctors in the West have | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
started looking at new ways to try and tackle the potentially fatal | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
disease still killing Every year here in the UK | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
there are around 3,200 cases. And a further 960 suffer | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
life changing complications. Last year, the UK became thd first | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
country in the world to immtnise But some are now questioning | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
if this is the right a more effective way | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
to protect everyone. Our health correspondent, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Matthew Hill, has the It is hoped that 150016-18-xear olds | :01:05. | :01:28. | |
will be having the vaccine nairks they will have one of these, a | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
throat swab and spit test to see what effect the job has on the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
carriage of meningitis It is an issue of money, if it is spdnt on | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
that vaccine it is not being spent on something else. If we can show by | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
immunising the teenagers we don t just stop them getting sick, but we | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
stop everyone else getting sick too, that changes the sums. Two xears ago | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Professor Finn led another study in Bristol that found one in tdn | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
teenagers carry the bug, sole are far more infectious than others It | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
is hoped the spit samples whll shed light on just how effective the new | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
vaccine is, at reducing the threat of transmission. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
30 years ago, an outbreak of meningitis hit Gloucestershire. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
In just five years there were 65 cases. | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
The village of Stonehouse w`s one of the areas particularly affected. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
In the town of Stroud in Gloucestershire another baby has | :02:21. | :02:33. | |
The Stroud area of Gloucestdrshire has been in the grip of a mdningitis | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
They have been called the meningitis years, | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
more than 120 cases through the 80s, nearly all of them | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
For people with children living all around the Stroud distrhct, | :02:43. | :02:53. | |
They didn't feel they had enough information, they didn't know | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
whether to believe the wild speculation about how | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
all this may have started, and how it was spreading. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
There was intense fear of an illness which could take hold so quhckly, | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Stonehouse had a high concentration of cases. | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
When the junior Health Minister came to visit, concerns were | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
All we hear is every stone is being turned to find out. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
It is obviously not, we don't have a damn answer. | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
The estate agents were complaining people didn't want to buy houses | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
once they knew it was in thd Stroud area, our swimming gala werd told | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
they could not swim with anx other people because no-one knew how | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
it was spread and everyone just shut down. | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
For the Wells family, things could have been so dhfferent. | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Daniel, now proud father to Daisy, was one of those struck. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
His mum Jane remembers the dash to the hospital. | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
You know, really, really poorly and we were so frightened. | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
I remember getting there and they didn't know who we were. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
I was screaming at them "Please take this baby, | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
It was horrendous, I can't tell you how horrendous. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Even now, 30 years on it brhngs tears to my eyes. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Jane says he felt the effects for years. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Tim Fear was another young boy who fell victim. | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
He shows his gratitude by r`ising money to help with | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
It's the seriousness that hhts home really, when I read the newspaper | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
article of my mum living a nightmare, and in hospital | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
while they were pumping penicillin into him. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
That's the scary thing, this isn't something | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
Thankfully awareness is much greater now, 30-odd years on, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
With so little understood about the outbreak, the authorities | :04:38. | :04:49. | |
decided to carry out a huge research study in Stonehouse. | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
They checked throat bacteri`, did blood tests and asked qtestions | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
You can have, you know, a hdalthy child who is perfectly well, | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
and dead within 12 hours, so, you know, it's not surprising | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Even if we can't do anything with a vaccine, then we can help | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
with communicating what we do know and helping people know the signs | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
and symptoms, so that to me was one of the major lessons. | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
And you know, this was the start of a major drive towards | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The meningitis support group have been meticulous not | :05:19. | :05:37. | |
to give medical advice, because it can be misleading. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
From the meningitis years, there also grew a powerful | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
charitable force, as parents fund-raised for research, btilt | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Today, Meningitis Now is a large and successful national charity | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
and Jane has been heavily involved from the start. | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
You know, we were saying this is an outbreak here | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
and it is unfortunate, but let's do something good with it. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
Let's get researchers in, let's learn from it so others | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
And Daisy, a much cherished granddaughter, has also become | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
a symbol of everything they fought for. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
She is living proof that if you fight long and hard dnough, | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
So, yeah, Daisy was the first to get the meningitis B vaccine. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
She is sitting here, larger than life, and we won't have | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
A young life protected in the ongoing fight against this | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
And for more on this topic you can watch our special | :06:32. | :06:45. | |
edition of Points West, broadcast at 6.30pm, on the BBC | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
The High Court is being asked to stop the merger | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
Taunton Deane and West Somerset want to become a single authority, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
But some councillors opposed to it have started a legal challenge. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Here's our political, editor Paul Barltrop. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
It is the jewel in the Crown for Taunton Deane Borough Council, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
but the new Blackbrook pool could also be its last hurr`h. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
It opened this summer after many years work, | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
but soon it will become the property of a new authority. | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Taunton Deane and West Somerset began sharing | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
This summer, they voted to go further, with a full merger | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
led by one instead of two sets of councillors. | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
But some of them are bitterly opposed. | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
But what is the actual cost saving here? | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
It is purely about getting rid of a few councillors. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Today in Taunton they prepared their papers for | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
They are serious, dipping into their own pockets | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Yes, of course we are looking at how it will be funded, and yes, | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
This is the only option left to us, to get the public to understand | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
what is happening to their loney and their services. | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
There hasn't been any consultation whatsoever. | :08:04. | :08:04. | |
This is where the ground for the actual judicial revhew is. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
There is a clear common law of requirement and duty that | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
consultation needs to occur on important matters such as this. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
The merger would mean just one chamber of councillors. | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
Bigger savings would come from other change. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
The leader insists it is a good deal for residents. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
All people worry about is, are the bins going to be collected? | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Are we going to continue with our sports facilities? | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
They want it to continue, they are not interested in how | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
As long as it is done, efficiently, cheaply and quickly. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Local people can soon have their say. | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
A public consultation will begin even as the legal | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
The papers have today been lodged with the High Court. | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
Judges in the next few weeks will decide whether it merits a full | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
That could take place in the New Year. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The merger itself is unlikely to be stopped, but it | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
Large crowds gathered this dvening to celebrate the 50th | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
anniversary of Bristol's first West Indian night spot. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
The Bamboo Club was opened in St Pauls as a response | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
to the fact black people were being treated with | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
It went on to become one of the best music venues in the country. | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
Portland Square, sometimes on a Saturday night, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
there's coaches parked all the way round, from Birmingham, | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
At the time there was nowhere for especially youngsters | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
Yes, there was Top Rank, and probably Mayfair, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
but to get our real music, or a real cultural feel, | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
And more on that in Inside Out west. That is it from us tonight. Back | :09:43. | :09:54. | |
with you tomorrow but for now I will leave you with Ian who has the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
forecast. Thank you. A soggx story in the West Country at the loment | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
but that rain will graduallx fade as the night wears on, such th`t by | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
tomorrow morning first light a lot of low cloud, still patchy drizzly | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
rain but the day will turn drier, perhaps brighter as well. L`ter into | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the afternoon. At the moment we have the rain band stalled across parts | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
of Gloucestershire, heavy showers at the far south and temperatures will | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
be somewhere between about 7-10 Celsius. A lot of low cloud. Hill | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
fog and that is the story bx first light tomorrow. Still some patchy | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
light rain about, more parthcularly in the north. As that fades away we | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
will slowly start to break some cloud up as well. I think it will be | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
a slow process, some brightdr spells possible. Light winds all of the way | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
through the course of the d`y as well. And temperatures ultilately | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
into a range of about 12-14 Celsius. Looking beyond that, a lot of dry | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
weather dominating through the course of the week. Temperatures | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
above average but cool or chilly at night. Here is is a look at your | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
around 60 degrees. Towards the weekend, more of the same, mainly | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
days, the result being it will turn milder by day and also by night A | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
breeze picking up, a westerly, something we have not seen much of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
this month. But there will not be a great deal of rain around. We did | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
have rain today across the south-west, leaden skies in Bristol, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
not much of a sunset here, but the different North of the border. Fiery | :11:33. | :11:45. | |
skies here and it is turning chilly, a frost in the Highlands. Underneath | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
the clear skies. Across Southern parts of England into the Midlands | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
and parts of Wales, more cloud. Patchy rain towards the South East. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
Heavy at at times along the South coast but temperatures do not fall | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
much. Northern Wales and Northern England, a different story. Frost | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
not just in Scotland, also in Northern Ireland. And we will find | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
fog forming as well. Most of Scotland starts off dry and cold, | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
summer | :12:06. | :12:07. |