:00:10. > :00:10.Welcome to BBC Points West. BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.
:00:11. > :00:15.Our headlines tonight: The rapist caught after six years on the run.
:00:16. > :00:17.Spanish police capture the lan who attacked a woman in Cheltenham
:00:18. > :00:23.The millions of pounds pourdd down the drain as wet wipes clog up
:00:24. > :00:42.Because of all the wet wipes, it has made it even worse. Before we still
:00:43. > :00:45.had rubbish and not like it is now. And the risk of dense fog for some
:00:46. > :00:48.areas tomorrow morning but dry and the risk of dense fog for some areas
:00:49. > :00:50.tomorrow morning but dry unsettled day will follow.
:00:51. > :00:53.Extradition proceedings are under way to bring a rapist
:00:54. > :00:56.from Cheltenham back to the UK to serve his sentence.
:00:57. > :01:01.Mohammed Alam fled to Spain after being convicted six ydars ago
:01:02. > :01:11.Mohammed Alam's time on the run is over.
:01:12. > :01:14.He'd been hiding from justice in Spain for the past six ydars
:01:15. > :01:17.He was supposed to be serving 14 years in prison
:01:18. > :01:23.Mohammed Alam came originally from Bangladesh.
:01:24. > :01:27.He moved to Bradford and thdn to Cheltenham in 2007.
:01:28. > :01:31.And it was there that he abtsed and raped his victim in Hester's Way
:01:32. > :01:40.sometime between October 2007 and December 2008.
:01:41. > :01:42.He was convicted at Gloucester Crown Court in March 2010.
:01:43. > :01:45.But, by that time, he'd already fled to Spain,
:01:46. > :01:49.so he was convicted in his `bsence and sentenced to 14 years.
:01:50. > :01:57.In a restaurant in the resort of Playa de las Americas in Tenerife.
:01:58. > :01:59.He was caught thanks to this police operation known
:02:00. > :02:04.It publicises British criminals wanted on the Costa del
:02:05. > :02:07.Crime in Spain and boasts impressive figures.
:02:08. > :02:12.78 of the 96 wanted fugitivds they've sought have been captured
:02:13. > :02:17.through the publicity gener`ted by posters and vans like thhs.
:02:18. > :02:20.He's not the only person connected to the West on the list.
:02:21. > :02:24.Mark Acklom is wanted to face charges of fraud after clails
:02:25. > :02:26.he started a romantic relathonship with a woman in Bath only
:02:27. > :02:32.Mohamed Alam now faces extr`dition back to the UK.
:02:33. > :02:35.The proceedings against him began in Madrid today.
:02:36. > :02:37.And the aim for Gloucestershire Police and those they're working
:02:38. > :02:40.with is to return him to Brhtain so that he can serve
:02:41. > :02:45.the jail term he was given for crimes he committed herd.
:02:46. > :02:50.Martin Jones, BBC Points West in Gloucestershire.
:02:51. > :02:52.The sentencing hearing has started of two brothers who owned
:02:53. > :02:56.and operated waste sites in Swindon which caught fire in
:02:57. > :03:00.Lee and David Averies admitted breaching the Environmental
:03:01. > :03:03.Protection Act at an earlier hearing.
:03:04. > :03:06.Their Marshgate waste site burned for two months.
:03:07. > :03:11.The judge at Swindon Crown Court will hand down sentence tomorrow.
:03:12. > :03:15.The cost of Bristol's new Mdtrobus transport scheme has risen
:03:16. > :03:21.A report says design changes, difficult working conditions
:03:22. > :03:25.and the cost of removing protestors have led to the overspend.
:03:26. > :03:27.The extra money will need to come from Bristol,
:03:28. > :03:30.South Gloucestershire and North Somerset councils,
:03:31. > :03:37.who say the project will improve the region's public transport.
:03:38. > :03:40.Water companies are complaining that money is being thrown down the drain
:03:41. > :03:43.thanks to customers flushing away items like wet wipes.
:03:44. > :03:47.The manufacturers say they `re safe to put down the loo but Wessex Water
:03:48. > :03:55.Steaming piles of waste at a sewage works outside
:03:56. > :04:02.Every day, 50 tonnes more arrives, pulled from sewage pipes
:04:03. > :04:06.across our region, smoulderhng here for months, mostly madd up
:04:07. > :04:15.You can really see the wipes in that white stuff.
:04:16. > :04:22.They're marketed as flushable wipes and they're not.
:04:23. > :04:27.You can put anything down the toilet but it blocks up and
:04:28. > :04:33.If they get mixed up with f`t as well, that's another bad thing
:04:34. > :04:37.because they'll absorb the fat and it will just block even more.
:04:38. > :04:41.This is a supermarket brand of flushable wet wipe.
:04:42. > :04:53.The paper quickly disintegr`tes but the wipe stays intact,
:04:54. > :04:57.and this is what can happen as wipes collect in the sewers underground,
:04:58. > :05:01.forming blockages that are expensive to fix.
:05:02. > :05:04.This pile has been here for 20 weeks.
:05:05. > :05:07.This is all stuff that's bedn cleaned out of the sewer system
:05:08. > :05:11.I've seen a golf ball down there, there's a plastic dinosaur tp here,
:05:12. > :05:17.but the white things are all so-called flushable wet wipds.
:05:18. > :05:21.They've been here nearly five months and they're still all in ond piece.
:05:22. > :05:26.Wessex Water reckon that thdy're responsible for 13,000 blockages
:05:27. > :05:32.They say the cost of dealing with that is ?5 million.
:05:33. > :05:35.The flushable wipes industrx say their products pass rigorous
:05:36. > :05:46.The wipes industry has made a huge amount of investment into m`king
:05:47. > :05:48.flushable wipes products as weak as possible for when they enter
:05:49. > :05:52.The biggest problem is people putting things down the toilet
:05:53. > :05:58.that should never be there in the first place.
:05:59. > :06:07.They block the sewer and yot have a choice of either backing sewer into
:06:08. > :06:11.people's home or releasing sewage directly into our rivers, sdas and
:06:12. > :06:15.whatever they are carrying with them, in this case wet wipes, is
:06:16. > :06:17.carried with that and that hs how they end up on our coast.
:06:18. > :06:20.But scientists say none of the wipes tested disintegrated,
:06:21. > :06:23.Wessex are working with other water companies
:06:24. > :06:28.They say almost anything can be flushed away but that doesn't
:06:29. > :06:39.Avon and Somerset Police officers have bid a fond farewell to one
:06:40. > :06:43.of their longest-serving police horses, who retired today.
:06:44. > :06:47.Redland has been with the force since 2003, serving at football
:06:48. > :06:49.matches, demonstrations, including the Bristol riots,
:06:50. > :06:52.and the Glastonbury Festival as well as the 2012 London Olympics.
:06:53. > :06:56.He'll spend his retirement with the charity Horseworld.
:06:57. > :06:58.In Speedway tonight, Somerset Rebels have gained
:06:59. > :07:01.a two-point lead after beathng Sheffield Tigers 46-44
:07:02. > :07:05.in the first leg of the Premier League Grand Final.
:07:06. > :07:07.Both teams meet again tomorrow night in Highbridge.
:07:08. > :07:11.Somerset only need a draw to regain the title they won for
:07:12. > :07:19.A 12-year-old is aiming for Olympic success in table tennis.
:07:20. > :07:22.Louis Price from Filton onlx started playing it with his dad
:07:23. > :07:26.when the snow stopped him going to football.
:07:27. > :07:29.Now he's among the best for his age in England.
:07:30. > :07:37.Andy Howard went to see him in practice.
:07:38. > :07:39.Sometimes you cover a story which ends up
:07:40. > :07:45.That's exactly what this ond is becoming for me today.
:07:46. > :07:48.I can't keep up with Louis Price but can he keep up
:07:49. > :07:58.I just keep it blank, do not think about it.
:07:59. > :08:00.How do you have to work at it like this?
:08:01. > :08:08.You have to put in a lot of hours to keep your game,
:08:09. > :08:12.to keep the style, keep the focus and all of that.
:08:13. > :08:15.You just need to keep doing the same things.
:08:16. > :08:18.If you are consistent, it makes you play better.
:08:19. > :08:32.I think he's proud of me because of how far I have come
:08:33. > :08:39.It takes me around the country a lot so I am grateful for that.
:08:40. > :08:46.It is, but as you do it, you get used to it.
:08:47. > :08:58.What do you do when you win a big point?
:08:59. > :09:27.I remember a year ago, you used to have a five head start.
:09:28. > :09:31.And I will certainly need a few more than that.
:09:32. > :09:33.His speed and skill mean gales against Louis Price
:09:34. > :09:44.When it hits my back, it goes over the air
:09:45. > :09:55.I will say goodnight and le`ve you with Ian, who is
:09:56. > :10:09.We are once again into an overnight period that will see patches of fog
:10:10. > :10:14.forming, some quite dense. Once we are clear of that, it will be
:10:15. > :10:19.another settled day. We are expecting a dry one as well from
:10:20. > :10:23.start to finish. The Met Office has a warning out. There will bd some
:10:24. > :10:35.areas more particularly prone to dance errors of fog. -- dense areas.
:10:36. > :10:38.A mixture of hill and low-ldvel fog. Temperatures 6-9dC. Tomorrow
:10:39. > :10:44.morning, you will have to t`ke a easy way you have those are`s of
:10:45. > :10:48.fog. Once that clears away, it would be a day of varying amounts of
:10:49. > :10:52.cloud, sometimes extensive `mounts but other times, brighter or sunnier
:10:53. > :10:57.spells. We expected to be dry right the way through the course of the
:10:58. > :10:59.day. Temperatures tomorrow tp above average, towards the mid-tedns.
:11:00. > :11:01.Still a looking very promising indeed. Nick
:11:02. > :11:14.Miller has the National forecast. If you like your forecast to include
:11:15. > :11:19.cold weather, this is not for you. Temperatures have been heading up,
:11:20. > :11:23.helped by sunshine showing off the autumn colours. 19 Celsius in
:11:24. > :11:27.Cheshire. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales got to 16 or above. The
:11:28. > :11:31.mild hour feeding around high pressure from the Atlantic will
:11:32. > :11:35.continue for the rest of the week into the weekend, even the start of
:11:36. > :11:39.next week. Not a huge amount of sunshine with it. Colder areas
:11:40. > :11:45.lurking to the north, it will try to come away later next week, bringing
:11:46. > :11:50.temperatures back close to average. We will keep you updated. A bit
:11:51. > :11:53.chilly overnight in rural spots sheltered Scottish glens, for
:11:54. > :11:57.example. For developing weather winds are right across southern
:11:58. > :12:01.England, that will be dense into the morning. Stronger winds in northern
:12:02. > :12:03.Scotland, another weather French bringing outbreaks of rain by the
:12:04. > :12:07.end of the night. The fog in the morning, the Met
:12:08. > :12:08.Office has a weather warning in