03/01/2017

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:00:10. > :00:14.Our headlines tonight: The deadly game.

:00:15. > :00:17.This is drift triking and the residents of Cheddar Gorge

:00:18. > :00:25.Bristol tries to cut down on sugar as doctors warn the risks

:00:26. > :00:37.We have got to now really wake up and smiled the copy because if we

:00:38. > :00:42.don't, I honestly think the NHS as we know it today will be bankrupt.

:00:43. > :00:44.And the risk of frost will be much more patchy in nature tonight. The

:00:45. > :00:47.details at the end of the programme. People in Cheddar have raised

:00:48. > :00:51.their concerns about a new craze This is what it looks like -

:00:52. > :00:55.riders on three-wheeled cycles roll down the steep roads of the famous

:00:56. > :00:59.gorge into the village, More than a million people have

:01:00. > :01:03.seen this video online Our Somerset correspondent,

:01:04. > :01:10.Clinton Rogers, reports. When they put up this

:01:11. > :01:14.sign up, they probably A new craze born in New Zealand,

:01:15. > :01:23.sweeping the UK and now arriving at a gorge near you,

:01:24. > :01:29.much to the annoyance of locals. The parish council absolutely

:01:30. > :01:32.deplores it and we really can't understand why these people should

:01:33. > :01:37.take such terrible risks with their own lives and also

:01:38. > :01:42.endanger the lives of ordinary law-abiding motorists

:01:43. > :01:46.coming up the other way. This video was filmed

:01:47. > :01:48.in the Gorge and posted Already, a million

:01:49. > :01:55.people have seen it. Cheddar Gorge has always been

:01:56. > :01:58.a Mecca for extreme sports - So-called boy racers bring

:01:59. > :02:10.their cars here on a regular basis. And whether it's sport

:02:11. > :02:15.or antisocial behaviour plainly I spoke to someone from the trike

:02:16. > :02:21.drifting community who helped He didn't want to be interviewed

:02:22. > :02:26.on television but he did tell me that they had warning signs out

:02:27. > :02:30.on the day and they had spotters at either end of the Gorge,

:02:31. > :02:33.looking out for traffic. All sports, he went on,

:02:34. > :02:37.have inherent dangers. It is shocking because there,

:02:38. > :02:40.you've got an incident where one of the trikes have swerved in front

:02:41. > :02:44.of a car and that car has had But the police, who've

:02:45. > :02:48.now seen the footage, say potentially this

:02:49. > :02:51.is breaking the law. Certainly, based on what I'm viewing

:02:52. > :02:55.here, we will act on this information and we will start

:02:56. > :02:58.an investigation in relation to what's actually happened

:02:59. > :03:01.and been recorded. As for stopping it, ideas range

:03:02. > :03:06.from speed humps to cattle grids So far, nothing has been agreed.

:03:07. > :03:12.Clinton Rogers, BBC Unions claim rail travellers

:03:13. > :03:17.in the West aren't getting They're say the latest New Year fare

:03:18. > :03:23.increase set by the government Ministers argue the money

:03:24. > :03:29.will help pay for the biggest round of improvements to rail

:03:30. > :03:33.services in a century. This latest price hike affects 40%

:03:34. > :03:40.of all rail ticket sales - those controlled by the Government

:03:41. > :03:43.rather than the train operators, Most passengers we spoke to regard

:03:44. > :03:50.trains as overpriced. I don't use it too often,

:03:51. > :03:55.just for that reason. I think I'm lucky in

:03:56. > :03:57.that the particular line I'm on hasn't been as badly hit

:03:58. > :04:00.as some others. The option is take the bus

:04:01. > :04:18.and my commute is an extra hour. The rise means the walk-on

:04:19. > :04:20.cost of a return ticket That 150-mile round trip in a car

:04:21. > :04:31.would be just ?60 - 40p a mile. The train operators would say buying

:04:32. > :04:35.in advantage is cheaper. One passenger watchdog group says it

:04:36. > :04:38.highlights just what a bad deal The trains are 40 years old,

:04:39. > :04:45.the service is unreliable, one in four trains into

:04:46. > :04:48.the Great Western central area is running late at the moment,

:04:49. > :04:53.and it's the most overcrowded route in the country into Paddington,

:04:54. > :04:57.so people haven't had a fair deal, they've been asked to pay

:04:58. > :04:59.for the future without Electrification here in the West has

:05:00. > :05:03.been heavily delayed but Network Rail says signalling's

:05:04. > :05:07.been improved, new hybrid trains will be pulling into West Country

:05:08. > :05:10.stations this summer and there'll be two new services to London non-stop

:05:11. > :05:15.from Bristol Parkway. Now, with the New Year comes

:05:16. > :05:21.a new health kick for many after overindulging over Christmas,

:05:22. > :05:24.and it's the amount of sugar we're eating that's

:05:25. > :05:26.troubling health officials. They've teamed up with Jamie Oliver

:05:27. > :05:29.to encourage people in Bristol to reduce sugar in their diet

:05:30. > :05:32.because too much of it can lead to type 2 diabetes,

:05:33. > :05:38.as Dave Harvey reports. When he actually said the words,

:05:39. > :05:41."You now have diabetes, "you've gone over that line,

:05:42. > :05:48.you've got type 2 diabetes," I thought, right, this is it,

:05:49. > :05:50.I've got to do something I decided to give up

:05:51. > :06:04.sugar completely. It turned out to be a lot

:06:05. > :06:07.harder than she thought. Sugar is in all kinds

:06:08. > :06:10.of surprising places. I really like my coleslaw

:06:11. > :06:14.but that's got sugar in it. The big culprit for me initially

:06:15. > :06:18.was the fizzy drinks. This one is a lot healthier

:06:19. > :06:22.because it's a lot more natural, but it's still got just as much

:06:23. > :06:25.sugar in as Coke, so that And quitting sugar was

:06:26. > :06:30.just the half of it. After three months of all this,

:06:31. > :06:38.Becky went back to her GP. So you were in the range

:06:39. > :06:42.where your blood sugar would have been in the diabetic range and now

:06:43. > :06:45.it's gone back completely to normal. Approximately 10% of people

:06:46. > :06:47.within our city are at risk of diabetes, those are the ones

:06:48. > :06:50.that we really want Becky faced a clear choice -

:06:51. > :06:56.cut sugar or live with diabetes. But most of us don't and sweet

:06:57. > :07:01.treats are a daily temptation. So how will sugar

:07:02. > :07:06.smart change all that? They're starting with students,

:07:07. > :07:09.investigating surprise sugars. Becky's New Year challenge-

:07:10. > :07:19.to run a marathon. Well, a little earlier,

:07:20. > :07:36.I spoke to TV doctor Dawn Harper This is something that has crept up

:07:37. > :07:40.on us. That is probably why it is such a big problem. If something

:07:41. > :07:45.happens overnight, we are very aware of it but when it creeps up

:07:46. > :07:50.gradually, we are not so aware of it. We are a crisis point. Do you

:07:51. > :07:55.think something like a sugar Smart campaign will work or are you

:07:56. > :08:00.fighting against a strong tidier? We are fighting against a crazily

:08:01. > :08:05.strong tide but it is a tide we had to fight against. Sugar Smart is one

:08:06. > :08:10.element that will really help to engage the younger generation, and

:08:11. > :08:13.that is our future. If we can change lifestyles and our younger

:08:14. > :08:20.generation, the future is looking brighter. What is the worst case

:08:21. > :08:25.scenario? I have absolutely no doubt that if we don't do anything about

:08:26. > :08:31.what is an obesity crisis, an epidemic, than actually the NHS as

:08:32. > :08:35.we know it today will be bankrupt within my lifetime, not generations

:08:36. > :08:39.to come. This is something that could happen very soon. There is

:08:40. > :08:43.also a responsibility with the food also a responsibility with the food

:08:44. > :08:50.industry because a lot of parents find it hard to find healthy food. I

:08:51. > :08:51.think we all have responsibility and the food industry need to come on

:08:52. > :08:58.board. The government, education board. The government, education

:08:59. > :09:04.Department 's parents, we all have a role to play and we need to get the

:09:05. > :09:06.food industry on board. The sugar Smart campaign looks at sugar

:09:07. > :09:10.content in pre-packaged foods because a lot of people do not

:09:11. > :09:15.realise how much sugar they are consuming. It is not just about the

:09:16. > :09:22.sugar you at home. What advice you giving your patients? I spend a lot

:09:23. > :09:28.of my life talking about healthy lifestyles and diets. I really

:09:29. > :09:32.welcome the sugar Smart app and the food Smart app. They have both been

:09:33. > :09:40.developed by public up England and make it easy for people to

:09:41. > :09:44.understand just how much sugar, fat and salt they are consuming. Often,

:09:45. > :09:58.they are horrified when they look at it.

:09:59. > :10:04.As we head into tomorrow, it would be a day that will be less cold

:10:05. > :10:11.compared to the current one. There will be with thicker cloud moving

:10:12. > :10:15.southwards. That will introduce a sprinkling of light showery rain.

:10:16. > :10:19.Behind that, the skies were clear as the cold and marches in for

:10:20. > :10:25.Wednesday night. The night, the risk of frost will be much reduced.

:10:26. > :10:30.Temperatures broadly speaking above freezing. There could be one or two

:10:31. > :10:34.spots where we get Apache frost developing but they will tend to be

:10:35. > :10:41.be exceptions. Tomorrow morning, still bright start but quickly,

:10:42. > :10:45.cloud thickens up as weak cold front comes upwards. A few light outbreaks

:10:46. > :10:51.of showery rain drift down the West Somerset and beyond and behind that

:10:52. > :10:56.of the North, skies were clear. We will see the blues returning on the

:10:57. > :11:00.map, which signal another widespread frost developing. Tomorrow,

:11:01. > :11:02.temperatures getting as high as seven Celsius but by Thursday

:11:03. > :11:05.morning, and the widespread milder later in the week. That is it

:11:06. > :11:06.from me but coming up next is