28/10/2016 Points West

A terminally ill grandmother threatened with deportation

took her campaign to Number Ten today.

Irene Nel is from South Afrhca and fell ill during

She was diagnosed with kidndy failure and needs dialysis

She's living with her familx in Bristol but the Home Offhce says

Today she handed in a petithon to Downing Street.

I'm on dialysis. It will never stop. I don't like it, but I go for it,

because I want to be with mx family. She will be forced to leave us and

be put on a plane to her definite death in South Africa. We whll be

broken. So please, Home Offhce, show compassion in allowing my

grandmother to stay in the TK for the last years of her life.

They brought more than a 100 thousand

But - it was delivered on the day the NHS was criticised.

For not meeting a target of recovering 500 million pounds

The cost of her dialysis is more than 30 thousand pounds a ydar.

Tell us what you think you should be able to stay in the UK?

The family were asked about health costs on the Victoria

I classify myself as British. I have been here long enough, so h`ve my

brothers. We are taxpayers. We pay into the government. And it is our

responsibility to look after our parents.

This Bristol-based consultant helped analyse NHS

The annaul estimate is one half a billion pounds of a total

It is not a huge number in the context of the whole spending but it

does pay for a lot of research and treatment. That is worth having

NHS costs for dialysis weren't part of the Home Office

Officials say it was based on immigration rules -

and the decision was upheld at an independent tribunal.

Another frail South African grandmother - Myrtle Cothill -

won the right to stay earlier

After a 150 thousand strong petition.

The charity which supported her applaication wants

It is almost impossible for families to care and provide for thehr

elderly relatives if they are not British or European. That jtst does

not seem to be right. Irene Nel will meet

with Home Office officials The Independent Police Complaints

Commission is investigating how a man died in Wiltshire after

Officers were called to a house in Warminster just before

midnight on Wednesday after reports that a man had harmed himself

Wiltshire Police say a taser was discharged and the 44-ydar-old

South Gloucestershire has bden rated among the worst places

NHS England looked at mortality rates,

the number of mums who smokd, and the choices available

It says South Gloucestershire's Clinical Commissioning Group

is among 11 areas in greatest need of improvement.

Children from the Calais refugee camps in France have started

being transferred to the West Country.

The UK has agreed to taking some of the most vulnerable and `lso

Around 150 Bristol families have already signed up with one charity

to foster refugee children , but as Dickon Hooper reports -

are on their way to help in the Calais camp

conditions that have been rdported to me are grim and depressing. And

the refugees are really down now, wondering what will happen to them.

Thousands of people were bussed out this week

concern about the thousand or so unaccompanied children

who've been living here VO charities say more needs to be done.

We have seen some good things for the government would be gre`t to

hold them to account. They said they would promise to welcome chhldren,

let's keep doing that. The second thing is for people to becole foster

carers and say we're willing to assistant for children. We have seen

such a great response. This list and we have. How soon

could somebody moving? Todax. She's one of 150 Bristolians signed

up with a charity to foster It is a very big undertaking but

with love and care and friendship anything can be accomplished.

The council told me they were committed to taking

Bristol's fair share of unaccompanied children.

And there are now more than 50 being looked after here.

But some think this is the wrong focus.

I think we should focus our efforts on the camps just outside Sxria

Ukip gave their view. If yot enter the camp into the UK then shortly

within a few weeks it will fill up again.

Goodwill in Bristol though has spilled onto the streets.

Because the Calais camp may have gone, but the refugees

In Rugby tonight Gloucester put up a fine battle at Northampton but it

wasn't enough to take the g`me with the home side winning 23-2

It ended Gloucester's unbeaten away record in the Premiership

Staff at GCHQ have created a very special display

Nine thousand handmade poppies have been crafted

into a cascading waterfall in the building's entrance hall

They've all been made to launch this years poppy

Next month part of it will go on display at Gloucester Cathedral.

That is all we have time for tonight. I wish you a lovelx

weekend. Here is the weather. The weekend is going to bring a

quiet spell of weather, and a a lot of cloud. There will be somd

brighter spells, more predolinantly on the course of Sunday, but just a

spot or to drizzle. A light wind and fog in places. Most of the fog will

be at the lower plants. Temperatures between 9-12. Crowds will greet us

and there's still some hill fog around. The odd bright spell along

coastal parts of Somerset for example. Light winds of the way

just a spot or two of drizzle, otherwise dry, temperatures milder

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

so again heading into Sundax. Next to come into the beginning of next

week as well. Now the national picture.

Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the

autumn colours, especially if you have seen autumn sunshine. What

sunshine, if you have been in Manchester or the Wirral, damp in

places. Ty Gifford had it better, and Deal in Kent, with sunshine

It's high pressure and settled weather but the flow of air may be

mild but winning in moisture, not necessarily in the form of