03/01/2017 Points West

Our headlines tonight: The deadly game.

This is drift triking and the residents of Cheddar Gorge

Bristol tries to cut down on sugar as doctors warn the risks

We have got to now really wake up and smiled the copy because if we

don't, I honestly think the NHS as we know it today will be bankrupt.

And the risk of frost will be much more patchy in nature tonight. The

details at the end of the programme. People in Cheddar have raised

their concerns about a new craze This is what it looks like -

riders on three-wheeled cycles roll down the steep roads of the famous

gorge into the village, More than a million people have

seen this video online Our Somerset correspondent,

Clinton Rogers, reports. When they put up this

sign up, they probably A new craze born in New Zealand,

sweeping the UK and now arriving at a gorge near you,

much to the annoyance of locals. The parish council absolutely

deplores it and we really can't understand why these people should

take such terrible risks with their own lives and also

endanger the lives of ordinary law-abiding motorists

coming up the other way. This video was filmed

in the Gorge and posted Already, a million

people have seen it. Cheddar Gorge has always been

a Mecca for extreme sports - So-called boy racers bring

their cars here on a regular basis. And whether it's sport

or antisocial behaviour plainly I spoke to someone from the trike

drifting community who helped He didn't want to be interviewed

on television but he did tell me that they had warning signs out

on the day and they had spotters at either end of the Gorge,

looking out for traffic. All sports, he went on,

have inherent dangers. It is shocking because there,

you've got an incident where one of the trikes have swerved in front

of a car and that car has had But the police, who've

now seen the footage, say potentially this

is breaking the law. Certainly, based on what I'm viewing

here, we will act on this information and we will start

an investigation in relation to what's actually happened

and been recorded. As for stopping it, ideas range

from speed humps to cattle grids So far, nothing has been agreed.

Clinton Rogers, BBC Unions claim rail travellers

in the West aren't getting They're say the latest New Year fare

increase set by the government Ministers argue the money

will help pay for the biggest round of improvements to rail

services in a century. This latest price hike affects 40%

of all rail ticket sales - those controlled by the Government

rather than the train operators, Most passengers we spoke to regard

trains as overpriced. I don't use it too often,

just for that reason. I think I'm lucky in

that the particular line I'm on hasn't been as badly hit

as some others. The option is take the bus

and my commute is an extra hour. The rise means the walk-on

cost of a return ticket That 150-mile round trip in a car

would be just ?60 - 40p a mile. The train operators would say buying

in advantage is cheaper. One passenger watchdog group says it

highlights just what a bad deal The trains are 40 years old,

the service is unreliable, one in four trains into

the Great Western central area is running late at the moment,

and it's the most overcrowded route in the country into Paddington,

so people haven't had a fair deal, they've been asked to pay

for the future without Electrification here in the West has

been heavily delayed but Network Rail says signalling's

been improved, new hybrid trains will be pulling into West Country

stations this summer and there'll be two new services to London non-stop

from Bristol Parkway. Now, with the New Year comes

a new health kick for many after overindulging over Christmas,

and it's the amount of sugar we're eating that's

troubling health officials. They've teamed up with Jamie Oliver

to encourage people in Bristol to reduce sugar in their diet

because too much of it can lead to type 2 diabetes,

as Dave Harvey reports. When he actually said the words,

"You now have diabetes, "you've gone over that line,

you've got type 2 diabetes," I thought, right, this is it,

I've got to do something I decided to give up

sugar completely. It turned out to be a lot

harder than she thought. Sugar is in all kinds

of surprising places. I really like my coleslaw

but that's got sugar in it. The big culprit for me initially

was the fizzy drinks. This one is a lot healthier

because it's a lot more natural, but it's still got just as much

sugar in as Coke, so that And quitting sugar was

just the half of it. After three months of all this,

Becky went back to her GP. So you were in the range

where your blood sugar would have been in the diabetic range and now

it's gone back completely to normal. Approximately 10% of people

within our city are at risk of diabetes, those are the ones

that we really want Becky faced a clear choice -

cut sugar or live with diabetes. But most of us don't and sweet

treats are a daily temptation. So how will sugar

smart change all that? They're starting with students,

investigating surprise sugars. Becky's New Year challenge-

to run a marathon. Well, a little earlier,

I spoke to TV doctor Dawn Harper This is something that has crept up

on us. That is probably why it is such a big problem. If something

happens overnight, we are very aware of it but when it creeps up

gradually, we are not so aware of it. We are a crisis point. Do you

think something like a sugar Smart campaign will work or are you

fighting against a strong tidier? We are fighting against a crazily

strong tide but it is a tide we had to fight against. Sugar Smart is one

element that will really help to engage the younger generation, and

that is our future. If we can change lifestyles and our younger

generation, the future is looking brighter. What is the worst case

scenario? I have absolutely no doubt that if we don't do anything about

what is an obesity crisis, an epidemic, than actually the NHS as

we know it today will be bankrupt within my lifetime, not generations

to come. This is something that could happen very soon. There is

also a responsibility with the food also a responsibility with the food

industry because a lot of parents find it hard to find healthy food. I

think we all have responsibility and the food industry need to come on

board. The government, education board. The government, education

Department 's parents, we all have a role to play and we need to get the

food industry on board. The sugar Smart campaign looks at sugar

content in pre-packaged foods because a lot of people do not

realise how much sugar they are consuming. It is not just about the

sugar you at home. What advice you giving your patients? I spend a lot

of my life talking about healthy lifestyles and diets. I really

welcome the sugar Smart app and the food Smart app. They have both been

developed by public up England and make it easy for people to

understand just how much sugar, fat and salt they are consuming. Often,

they are horrified when they look at it.

As we head into tomorrow, it would be a day that will be less cold

compared to the current one. There will be with thicker cloud moving

southwards. That will introduce a sprinkling of light showery rain.

Behind that, the skies were clear as the cold and marches in for

Wednesday night. The night, the risk of frost will be much reduced.

Temperatures broadly speaking above freezing. There could be one or two

spots where we get Apache frost developing but they will tend to be

be exceptions. Tomorrow morning, still bright start but quickly,

cloud thickens up as weak cold front comes upwards. A few light outbreaks

of showery rain drift down the West Somerset and beyond and behind that

of the North, skies were clear. We will see the blues returning on the

map, which signal another widespread frost developing. Tomorrow,

temperatures getting as high as seven Celsius but by Thursday

morning, and the widespread milder later in the week. That is it

from me but coming up next is