04/01/2017 Points West

Our headlines tonight: Hospitals struggling to cope.

People are warned to stay away from A as six of our hospitals

A special report from the Bristol actor Joe Sims as Concorde prepares

Tomorrow, though, looks a crisp and sunny day.

Pressure is mounting at hospitals across the region with most now

The NHS is even warning that patients could be put at risk

because of the demands on healthcare, with people

being advised to only go to emergency departments

Here's our health correspondent, Matthew Hill.

Six hospitals in the West are tonight struggling to cope

The Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Children's Hospital,

Southmead and Weston hospitals along with Yeovil in Somerset and the RHU

in Bath are now on the highest possible alert and are asking people

not to come to A unless it's life-threatening.

A sign of the times is that, at Yeovil Hospital a year ago,

Now, the doctor in charge of finances in the Bristol area says

this system-wide problem is partly caused by patients coming

in with increasingly complex medical conditions.

We've had a lot of patients with respiratory illnesses,

particularly in the children's hospital, and people who are getting

older and frailer are often needing longer lengths of stay,

and that's particularly been more marked in the last week or two.

Well, for patients where it's not an emergency but who are worried,

they can call NHS 111 and, with temperatures expected

to plummet to as low as minus five degrees tonight and to continue

for much of the month, it seems likely this demand

A second man's been charged with murder in connection

The body of Mohammed Abdurezek was discovered in Siston

42-year-old Karl Cullen and Abdiwahab Abdulahi,

who's 22, are due before Bristol Magistrates tomorrow.

Four birds have died of avian flu at the Wildfowl Wetlands Trust

A strain of the virus has been spreading across Europe.

This afternoon, Defra also announced restrictions on all poultry

will remain in place until the end of February.

Our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs, sent this

In many ways, I suppose, the news of the outbreak

There are thousands of birds on the reserve at this time

of the year and staff have been tracking the movement of this avian

flu outbreak right across Europe, and there have been outbreaks

across the border in Wales and also in Somerset.

What happened here was, around Christmas time,

a number of birds were found to have died on the reserve.

They were sent to government laboratories for analysis

and four of them came back, ducks and geese, with confirmation

So a very relatively small outbreak here but still something that staff

are taking very seriously because there is still a lot

of migration to happen over the winter time.

What's happening here at Slimbridge is more bio-security measures

are being brought in, there are disinfectant mats

for vehicles that come on and off the reserve and visitors here,

because the reserve is still open for business, visitors will also

have to walk through those disinfectant mats and use extra hand

And also today, Defra announced an extension

to their own restrictions to poultry farmers and also owners

of poultry and other captive birds to keep them housed

and to increase their own bio-security until

So everybody's keeping a close eye on what's

Difficult, of course, to control wild birds as they fly

in and out but at the forefront of everyone's minds is making sure

that the disease doesn't spread to those captive birds in the area.

A father of baby twins, who suffered a severe

electric shock in Swindon, has now had both hands and a leg

Jamie Mines, who's 33, was working as a scaffolder when it

Now the community in his home town of Frome have set up a fundraising

campaign to support him and his young family.

It's already raised more than ?33,000.

A young father, a talented sportsman, a great character.

But life changed for Jamie Mines in an instant and forever.

He was working on this industrial estate in Swindon as a scaffolder

just days before Christmas when, in a freak accident,

He remains in a critical but stable condition in Southmead having now

The initial target was ?10,000, which I think was achieved

within about 24 hours, which is extraordinary.

Friends have set up an internet fundraising page

He and his partner have twins aged just five months.

The timing of such an incident before Christmas is awful and it's

about how it makes people realise that things can change just

Jamie is very strong, fit, healthy young man.

His life is going to change so we all need to be there for him.

Jamie is a strong character and he is a strong guy.

If he comes through it, which he will, hoping that he does,

his two little girls will keep him strong and to pull through it.

Jamie was a talented footballer who played

for a number of local clubs, including Frome Town.

Now they have joined the fundraising campaign.

We are going to do a little collection on Saturday,

which is our first home game since it happened.

But also, we are looking to arrange a day for Jamie

19th of March, we are going to have a little football tournament.

And obviously, we are just trying to support everything

The circumstances of the accident here are unclear but the Health and

Whatever the cause, the outcome is plainly devastating for a young

man with much to live for. Clinton Rogers, BBC Points West.

A 34-year-old man has been charged with arson and criminal damage

in connection with a fire at a primary school in Wiltshire.

The blaze began at the Avenue in Warminster shortly after 3am

The children's centre and nursery will open tomorrow as usual.

Now, as final preparations are under way to move Concorde at Filton

to her new aviation museum later this year, we look back

To help us, we invited Bristol actor Joe Simms.

216 was one of ten Concordes built at Filton in the 1960s and '70s.

It was built by an army of local engineers and designers.

After her first UK flight from Filton to RAF Fairford

Once in operation, the aircraft cruised at more than twice the speed

of sound, flying at an altitude of 60,000 feet.

Passengers lapped up the fine dining and paid thousands

The fleet was eventually grounded over financial and safety concerns.

But although 216's champagne days are over, she's about to be

Later in the year, Concorde's going to be moving here,

where she's going to be the star attraction of Aerospace Bristol,

a ?19 million museum dedicated to the aviation history

When it opens in the summer, this attraction will take visitors

on a journey from 1910, where Sir George White turned tram

sheds into an aircraft factory in Filton, stories

about the earliest flight in box kites over the Downs,

the Concorde years and, of course, the latest aerospace

technology will all be captured under one brilliant Bristolian roof.

The museum's taking shape but now an enormous technical

Actually getting Concorde in here is going to be one heck

of a piece of logistics, which means dismantling some

of the building and tarring all the way across the airfield.

She's got to come right into position because all

the airstairs coming off here will be there

So she's got to get there within about a centimetre or so.

That's the margin for error, a centimetre?

A centimetre here and a metre or so coming in through the building.

You're feeling confident, everything's ready and it's

It's going to be such a big year for Concorde.

And Joe is just one of several well-known faces who'll be our guest

reporters in the coming weeks to help us mark 60

The skies are continuing to clear tonight. That will lead us into a

noticeably cold night but it means that, for tomorrow, the legacy will

be sunshine and beautiful crisp dry day but cold. Talking of cold, the

night, we will see temperatures between -2 and minus five. One or

two spots getting as low as minus six. That risk is diminished as you

head out further towards the south-west. The odd patch of

freezing fog around but that should not last long. Tomorrow, a lot of

sunshine around, the winds will be light. As we head out towards the

extreme west, bigger cloud around, but that will be the exception.

Elsewhere, very little cloud until later on in the evening period. Even

then, you can see blues returning on the map. A comparatively cold night.

Tomorrow, temperatures and the range of 2-5 C. The winds will be light

however. You will see the milder theme developing through the course

of the weekend. Rain later Temperatures creeping up a notch or

two and turning milder into the weekend.

A guarantee on your journey to work tomorrow, if you are nipping out to

the shop for a paper, somebody will talk about how cold it is. Looking

at today, the weather front pushing Southwest, mild air stay in

south-west, but behind it is colder air from the Arctic. Behind it,

windy conditions. Bleak across northern Scotland, a cold day with

temperatures struggling to get above two. If you think that's cold, look

at what's happening outside as we speak. Temperatures falling below

freezing quite widely across the country and towards dawn they could

be as low as -8 in rural parts of Oxfordshire. I guarantee you will be

scraping the ice of the car windscreens first thing in the

morning. Some cloud running down the North Sea coast and some cloud

across Lincolnshire and