26/10/2016 Points West

Welcome to BBC Points West. BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

Our headlines tonight: The rapist caught after six years on the run.

Spanish police capture the lan who attacked a woman in Cheltenham

The millions of pounds pourdd down the drain as wet wipes clog up

Because of all the wet wipes, it has made it even worse. Before we still

had rubbish and not like it is now. And the risk of dense fog for some

areas tomorrow morning but dry and the risk of dense fog for some areas

tomorrow morning but dry unsettled day will follow.

Extradition proceedings are under way to bring a rapist

from Cheltenham back to the UK to serve his sentence.

Mohammed Alam fled to Spain after being convicted six ydars ago

Mohammed Alam's time on the run is over.

He'd been hiding from justice in Spain for the past six ydars

He was supposed to be serving 14 years in prison

Mohammed Alam came originally from Bangladesh.

He moved to Bradford and thdn to Cheltenham in 2007.

And it was there that he abtsed and raped his victim in Hester's Way

sometime between October 2007 and December 2008.

He was convicted at Gloucester Crown Court in March 2010.

But, by that time, he'd already fled to Spain,

so he was convicted in his `bsence and sentenced to 14 years.

In a restaurant in the resort of Playa de las Americas in Tenerife.

He was caught thanks to this police operation known

It publicises British criminals wanted on the Costa del

Crime in Spain and boasts impressive figures.

78 of the 96 wanted fugitivds they've sought have been captured

through the publicity gener`ted by posters and vans like thhs.

He's not the only person connected to the West on the list.

Mark Acklom is wanted to face charges of fraud after clails

he started a romantic relathonship with a woman in Bath only

Mohamed Alam now faces extr`dition back to the UK.

The proceedings against him began in Madrid today.

And the aim for Gloucestershire Police and those they're working

with is to return him to Brhtain so that he can serve

the jail term he was given for crimes he committed herd.

Martin Jones, BBC Points West in Gloucestershire.

The sentencing hearing has started of two brothers who owned

and operated waste sites in Swindon which caught fire in

Lee and David Averies admitted breaching the Environmental

Protection Act at an earlier hearing.

Their Marshgate waste site burned for two months.

The judge at Swindon Crown Court will hand down sentence tomorrow.

The cost of Bristol's new Mdtrobus transport scheme has risen

A report says design changes, difficult working conditions

and the cost of removing protestors have led to the overspend.

The extra money will need to come from Bristol,

South Gloucestershire and North Somerset councils,

who say the project will improve the region's public transport.

Water companies are complaining that money is being thrown down the drain

thanks to customers flushing away items like wet wipes.

The manufacturers say they `re safe to put down the loo but Wessex Water

Steaming piles of waste at a sewage works outside

Every day, 50 tonnes more arrives, pulled from sewage pipes

across our region, smoulderhng here for months, mostly madd up

You can really see the wipes in that white stuff.

They're marketed as flushable wipes and they're not.

You can put anything down the toilet but it blocks up and

If they get mixed up with f`t as well, that's another bad thing

because they'll absorb the fat and it will just block even more.

This is a supermarket brand of flushable wet wipe.

The paper quickly disintegr`tes but the wipe stays intact,

and this is what can happen as wipes collect in the sewers underground,

forming blockages that are expensive to fix.

This pile has been here for 20 weeks.

This is all stuff that's bedn cleaned out of the sewer system

I've seen a golf ball down there, there's a plastic dinosaur tp here,

but the white things are all so-called flushable wet wipds.

They've been here nearly five months and they're still all in ond piece.

Wessex Water reckon that thdy're responsible for 13,000 blockages

They say the cost of dealing with that is ?5 million.

The flushable wipes industrx say their products pass rigorous

The wipes industry has made a huge amount of investment into m`king

flushable wipes products as weak as possible for when they enter

The biggest problem is people putting things down the toilet

that should never be there in the first place.

They block the sewer and yot have a choice of either backing sewer into

people's home or releasing sewage directly into our rivers, sdas and

whatever they are carrying with them, in this case wet wipes, is

carried with that and that hs how they end up on our coast.

But scientists say none of the wipes tested disintegrated,

Wessex are working with other water companies

They say almost anything can be flushed away but that doesn't

Avon and Somerset Police officers have bid a fond farewell to one

of their longest-serving police horses, who retired today.

Redland has been with the force since 2003, serving at football

matches, demonstrations, including the Bristol riots,

and the Glastonbury Festival as well as the 2012 London Olympics.

He'll spend his retirement with the charity Horseworld.

In Speedway tonight, Somerset Rebels have gained

a two-point lead after beathng Sheffield Tigers 46-44

in the first leg of the Premier League Grand Final.

Both teams meet again tomorrow night in Highbridge.

Somerset only need a draw to regain the title they won for

A 12-year-old is aiming for Olympic success in table tennis.

Louis Price from Filton onlx started playing it with his dad

when the snow stopped him going to football.

Now he's among the best for his age in England.

Andy Howard went to see him in practice.

Sometimes you cover a story which ends up

That's exactly what this ond is becoming for me today.

I can't keep up with Louis Price but can he keep up

I just keep it blank, do not think about it.

How do you have to work at it like this?

You have to put in a lot of hours to keep your game,

to keep the style, keep the focus and all of that.

You just need to keep doing the same things.

If you are consistent, it makes you play better.

I think he's proud of me because of how far I have come

It takes me around the country a lot so I am grateful for that.

It is, but as you do it, you get used to it.

What do you do when you win a big point?

I remember a year ago, you used to have a five head start.

And I will certainly need a few more than that.

His speed and skill mean gales against Louis Price

When it hits my back, it goes over the air

I will say goodnight and le`ve you with Ian, who is

We are once again into an overnight period that will see patches of fog

forming, some quite dense. Once we are clear of that, it will be

another settled day. We are expecting a dry one as well from

start to finish. The Met Office has a warning out. There will bd some

areas more particularly prone to dance errors of fog. -- dense areas.

A mixture of hill and low-ldvel fog. Temperatures 6-9dC. Tomorrow

morning, you will have to t`ke a easy way you have those are`s of

fog. Once that clears away, it would be a day of varying amounts of

cloud, sometimes extensive `mounts but other times, brighter or sunnier

spells. We expected to be dry right the way through the course of the

day. Temperatures tomorrow tp above average, towards the mid-tedns.

Still a looking very promising indeed. Nick

Miller has the National forecast. If you like your forecast to include

cold weather, this is not for you. Temperatures have been heading up,

helped by sunshine showing off the autumn colours. 19 Celsius in

Cheshire. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales got to 16 or above. The

mild hour feeding around high pressure from the Atlantic will

continue for the rest of the week into the weekend, even the start of

next week. Not a huge amount of sunshine with it. Colder areas

lurking to the north, it will try to come away later next week, bringing

temperatures back close to average. We will keep you updated. A bit

chilly overnight in rural spots sheltered Scottish glens, for

example. For developing weather winds are right across southern

England, that will be dense into the morning. Stronger winds in northern

Scotland, another weather French bringing outbreaks of rain by the

end of the night. The fog in the morning, the Met

Office has a weather warning in