28/10/2016

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:00:00. > :00:14.A terminally ill grandmother threatened with deportation

:00:15. > :00:17.took her campaign to Number Ten today.

:00:18. > :00:19.Irene Nel is from South Afrhca and fell ill during

:00:20. > :00:24.She was diagnosed with kidndy failure and needs dialysis

:00:25. > :00:29.She's living with her familx in Bristol but the Home Offhce says

:00:30. > :00:35.Today she handed in a petithon to Downing Street.

:00:36. > :00:58.I'm on dialysis. It will never stop. I don't like it, but I go for it,

:00:59. > :01:01.because I want to be with mx family. She will be forced to leave us and

:01:02. > :01:07.be put on a plane to her definite death in South Africa. We whll be

:01:08. > :01:10.broken. So please, Home Offhce, show compassion in allowing my

:01:11. > :01:11.grandmother to stay in the TK for the last years of her life.

:01:12. > :01:13.They brought more than a 100 thousand

:01:14. > :01:17.But - it was delivered on the day the NHS was criticised.

:01:18. > :01:20.For not meeting a target of recovering 500 million pounds

:01:21. > :01:34.The cost of her dialysis is more than 30 thousand pounds a ydar.

:01:35. > :01:38.Tell us what you think you should be able to stay in the UK?

:01:39. > :01:40.The family were asked about health costs on the Victoria

:01:41. > :01:54.I classify myself as British. I have been here long enough, so h`ve my

:01:55. > :01:57.brothers. We are taxpayers. We pay into the government. And it is our

:01:58. > :01:57.responsibility to look after our parents.

:01:58. > :01:59.This Bristol-based consultant helped analyse NHS

:02:00. > :02:03.The annaul estimate is one half a billion pounds of a total

:02:04. > :02:17.It is not a huge number in the context of the whole spending but it

:02:18. > :02:18.does pay for a lot of research and treatment. That is worth having

:02:19. > :02:20.NHS costs for dialysis weren't part of the Home Office

:02:21. > :02:23.Officials say it was based on immigration rules -

:02:24. > :02:26.and the decision was upheld at an independent tribunal.

:02:27. > :02:29.Another frail South African grandmother - Myrtle Cothill -

:02:30. > :02:31.won the right to stay earlier

:02:32. > :02:35.After a 150 thousand strong petition.

:02:36. > :02:37.The charity which supported her applaication wants

:02:38. > :02:53.It is almost impossible for families to care and provide for thehr

:02:54. > :02:54.elderly relatives if they are not British or European. That jtst does

:02:55. > :02:55.not seem to be right. Irene Nel will meet

:02:56. > :03:11.with Home Office officials The Independent Police Complaints

:03:12. > :03:14.Commission is investigating how a man died in Wiltshire after

:03:15. > :03:24.Officers were called to a house in Warminster just before

:03:25. > :03:27.midnight on Wednesday after reports that a man had harmed himself

:03:28. > :03:31.Wiltshire Police say a taser was discharged and the 44-ydar-old

:03:32. > :03:34.South Gloucestershire has bden rated among the worst places

:03:35. > :03:37.NHS England looked at mortality rates,

:03:38. > :03:40.the number of mums who smokd, and the choices available

:03:41. > :03:42.It says South Gloucestershire's Clinical Commissioning Group

:03:43. > :03:45.is among 11 areas in greatest need of improvement.

:03:46. > :03:47.Children from the Calais refugee camps in France have started

:03:48. > :03:48.being transferred to the West Country.

:03:49. > :03:52.The UK has agreed to taking some of the most vulnerable and `lso

:03:53. > :03:55.Around 150 Bristol families have already signed up with one charity

:03:56. > :03:58.to foster refugee children , but as Dickon Hooper reports -

:03:59. > :04:07.are on their way to help in the Calais camp

:04:08. > :04:22.conditions that have been rdported to me are grim and depressing. And

:04:23. > :04:27.the refugees are really down now, wondering what will happen to them.

:04:28. > :04:29.Thousands of people were bussed out this week

:04:30. > :04:33.concern about the thousand or so unaccompanied children

:04:34. > :04:35.who've been living here VO charities say more needs to be done.

:04:36. > :04:48.We have seen some good things for the government would be gre`t to

:04:49. > :04:51.hold them to account. They said they would promise to welcome chhldren,

:04:52. > :04:55.let's keep doing that. The second thing is for people to becole foster

:04:56. > :04:56.carers and say we're willing to assistant for children. We have seen

:04:57. > :04:57.such a great response. This list and we have. How soon

:04:58. > :05:09.could somebody moving? Todax. She's one of 150 Bristolians signed

:05:10. > :05:23.up with a charity to foster It is a very big undertaking but

:05:24. > :05:24.with love and care and friendship anything can be accomplished.

:05:25. > :05:26.The council told me they were committed to taking

:05:27. > :05:28.Bristol's fair share of unaccompanied children.

:05:29. > :05:31.And there are now more than 50 being looked after here.

:05:32. > :05:41.But some think this is the wrong focus.

:05:42. > :05:51.I think we should focus our efforts on the camps just outside Sxria

:05:52. > :05:55.Ukip gave their view. If yot enter the camp into the UK then shortly

:05:56. > :05:55.within a few weeks it will fill up again.

:05:56. > :05:57.Goodwill in Bristol though has spilled onto the streets.

:05:58. > :06:00.Because the Calais camp may have gone, but the refugees

:06:01. > :06:05.In Rugby tonight Gloucester put up a fine battle at Northampton but it

:06:06. > :06:08.wasn't enough to take the g`me with the home side winning 23-2

:06:09. > :06:12.It ended Gloucester's unbeaten away record in the Premiership

:06:13. > :06:17.Staff at GCHQ have created a very special display

:06:18. > :06:20.Nine thousand handmade poppies have been crafted

:06:21. > :06:23.into a cascading waterfall in the building's entrance hall

:06:24. > :06:25.They've all been made to launch this years poppy

:06:26. > :06:30.Next month part of it will go on display at Gloucester Cathedral.

:06:31. > :06:35.That is all we have time for tonight. I wish you a lovelx

:06:36. > :06:44.weekend. Here is the weather. The weekend is going to bring a

:06:45. > :06:52.quiet spell of weather, and a a lot of cloud. There will be somd

:06:53. > :06:57.brighter spells, more predolinantly on the course of Sunday, but just a

:06:58. > :07:06.spot or to drizzle. A light wind and fog in places. Most of the fog will

:07:07. > :07:13.be at the lower plants. Temperatures between 9-12. Crowds will greet us

:07:14. > :07:16.and there's still some hill fog around. The odd bright spell along

:07:17. > :07:26.coastal parts of Somerset for example. Light winds of the way

:07:27. > :07:30.just a spot or two of drizzle, otherwise dry, temperatures milder

:07:31. > :07:31.than average for the time of year, reaching the mid-teens. Thex will do

:07:32. > :07:36.so again heading into Sundax. Next to come into the beginning of next

:07:37. > :07:41.week as well. Now the national picture.

:07:42. > :07:47.Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the

:07:48. > :07:53.autumn colours, especially if you have seen autumn sunshine. What

:07:54. > :07:58.sunshine, if you have been in Manchester or the Wirral, damp in

:07:59. > :08:02.places. Ty Gifford had it better, and Deal in Kent, with sunshine

:08:03. > :08:08.It's high pressure and settled weather but the flow of air may be

:08:09. > :08:09.mild but winning in moisture, not necessarily in the form of