09/01/2017 Points West

Our headlines tonight: for the news where you are.

The future of Yeovil's helicopter industry -

a multi-million pound Government contract promises money

Having a maintenance contract is fine but it's not what Yeovil has

done for 100 years. It has been an aircraft manufacturer.

An independent report finds Bristol's year

European Green Capital was a success.

We'll hear what the former city mayor has to say.

And the next couple of days will be mild but a lot colder by Thursday.

The Government has announced a contract for Leonardo Helicopters

in Yeovil, which it says is worth more than ?250,000.

The deal will see the company, previously known as Agusta Westland,

providing service and training support for the UK military's

But tonight there are calls for the Government to do more

to safeguard the future of the Yeovil site.

The minister in charge of buying things for the Armed Forces came

to Yeovil keen to trumpet today's announcement as great news

for the local economy, in particular the workforce here.

It's a deal that will secure the cutting-edge aircraft

for the Royal Navy and the army, and I know it will support hundreds

of skilled jobs right across the South West.

It's all about these helicopters - the Wildcat, 62 of which were made

in Yeovil, for service in the British Navy and Army.

Now, the contract is valued at ?271 million, and it's

essentially for the maintenance of the helicopters for

But, actually, what was announced today was just the latest stage

of a 30-year contract that was signed back in 2012,

so critics argue that it's really recycling old news,

and that, in any case, what this place really needs

And yet, last year the Ministry of Defence decided not to let

Leonardo build the new Apache attack helicopter, preferring

All the aircraft in this production shed are here

The company says it is talking to countries around the world.

Not firm orders yet, but like any business such as ours,

we know where the customer is, and we know what their

And we're working very hard to land those orders this year.

There remains a question mark over the equipment used to make

the airframes for the Wildcat, amid suggestions that could be moved

to a factory in Poland, even though the equipment

is actually owned by the British Government.

Paddy Ashdown, the former MP for Yeovil, says the Government has

promised it will do everything it can to keep jobs in Britain

in this post-Brexit era, and therefore should ensure jobs

What Yeovil has done for 100 years has been

an aircraft manufacturer and, by the way, some of the most

world-beating aircraft for the service of our Armed Forces,

and not just assembly and maintenance, but the design,

the technology, the engineering, all of those high-class design

teams, which Yeovil is now a centre of the year of the aerospace

industry, will be damaged if Yeovil is allowed to dribble away

and become just a maintenance and assembly area.

The minister told no decision on the equipment used to make

the Wildcat air frames had yet been made.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a crash

34-year-old Lukasz Jarosz, from Wilton, near Salisbury,

was arrested after the crash on Friday.

A 13-year-old front seat passenger suffered a leg injury and remains

It is understood that he found his wife dead at the family home

More disruption is expected tomorrow, after a large

boulder fell onto a railway line in Gloucestershire.

Engineers have spent the day breaking the rock up,

after it fell 40 feet onto the line near Chalford.

Trains have been disrupted all day between Gloucester and Swindon.

We have had some minor falls from time to time,

which is why the netting is there, to help the cutting

Well, it's not designed to cope with anything the size

of what we saw falling onto the track today.

Movement sensors could soon be used to raise the alarm when there

landslide in the area. An independent report has

declared Bristol's year as European Green Capital

"an undoubted success". Hundreds of events took place

in 2015, which saw a rise in the number of visitors

to the city. But, following criticism,

a review was ordered. Although it found some

lessons could be learnt, the report concluded the year left

a positive legacy. A little earlier the former

Mayor George Ferguson Well, the report is what I expected

and hoped for, but you never know, and I think it is absolute

vindication. The conclusion is that it

would be impossible to come to any other conclusion

than Bristol Green Capital There was a lot of political

fallout over this, flak Do you feel better

about how it's gone now? Yeah, I just wish this

had come earlier. It aggravates me that it's taken 18

months of this nastiness, which has It has been nothing to do

with making Bristol a better place, If you go out there, there's

still congestion and nastiness. What it's done is created loads

of initiatives for making Bristol I'll take three, the

education initiative. That is the sustainable Shaun

programme for sustainable education that has gone into our primary

schools across the city and affected over 30,000

children in the city and is still carrying on in 2017,

it's going national, Sustainable Shaun, the game that

goes with that education programme, That is brilliant, that

means we are growing a new generation of young people

who are going to make sure It's a lot of money,

though, for this. If you compare this

with the expenditure for education, public health, all those things

that we do, it's peanuts, it's a tiny amount of money,

the majority of which we got from Central Government,

because they recognise us as the only European green capital

in this country - the way things are going,

the only one we will ever have If you take the energy programme,

we have developed a massive amount I managed to come back

from the Paris climate summit, the UN climate summit,

with a pledge across all the four political parties on the city

council that we will go carbon Oh, my goodness, yes,

this was the best thing that ever It is renowned throughout the world

as being one of the most environmentally friendly

cities in Europe. I just come back from China

and India, where they are celebrating what we've done

and learning from what we've done, so this isn't just for Bristol,

it's for the world. A nine-year-old boy from Swindon has

sent his state of the art wheelchair to a little girl in Bosnia,

after discovering she had Oscar Moulding has

muscular dystrophy. When he outgrew his old wheelchair

he decided to give it to a little girl his family met

through an internet support group. Yeah, she can reach things

by herself and maybe healthy people think that they take things

for granted, but trust me, she opened the door

for the first time in her life Oscar's family have raised enough

money to pay for maintenance for the chair so she can use it for years to

come. Football now and Bristol City

will face Premier League opposition in the FA Cup if they make it

through to the fourth round. The draw was made earlier this

evening and City were paired However, first they need

to win their third round replay away at Fleetwood next week -

the sides drew 0-0 at I'll leave you now with Ian

who has the forecast. Good evening. We are in for a

comparatively mild spell over the next couple of days. That said,

there will be a lot of cloud around through the course of tomorrow, some

brighter spells, particularly in the morning, and through the afternoon

there will be some patchy rain about, no great amounts in any one

particular spot. Through the course tonight, varying amounts clear skies

and cloud, a a few showers to the south and southwest of the region,

most areas will be dry, temperatures around three to five Celsius

tomorrow morning, the majority will have a dry morning. Brightness

towards the west and light and patchy rain. That frontal move

eastwards through the course of midday into the afternoon -- that

front will move, and introduce more in the way of cloud and it will

remain a breezy day, temperatures very mild at around eight Celsius or

nine Celsius. As we head into Wednesday, on face value it is

comparatively mild with cloud around. The tail on the Wednesday to

Thursday, a much colder north westerly flow -- tail end. There are

more precipitation we get will be of a

wintry nation and Thursday is one we have to watch out for. The weekend

outlook, it stays chilly with a northerly wind and possibly frosty

nights. The national weather forecast now.

Wet and windy weather across the western side of Scotland.

Blood-pressure is in charge of the weather, lots of isobars and it

remains windy overnight across northern and western parts of

Scotland. It will blow a gale here. That is the north-west quadrant of

the UK, that is where we expect most of the overnight rain. Within

north-westerly breeze it is chilly and by the end of the night it is

three or 4 degrees in major towns and cities, rural spots lower than

that, and a risk of icy patches in some places. Across the eastern side

of Scotland not much rain, more on the west, still breezy but not as

windy as it is