:00:15. > :00:16.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:17. > :00:19.More than a hundred extra beds have been set up tonight for rough
:00:20. > :00:22.Councils are worried that prolonged cold weather has left
:00:23. > :00:25.many of the homeless in poor health and is putting lives at risk.
:00:26. > :00:32.It's a tent pitched at the back of a city centre car park.
:00:33. > :00:40.He says he tried to get into a hostel last night.
:00:41. > :00:46.There were 32 people last night, waiting for 16 beds?
:00:47. > :00:49.There were 32 people last night, waiting for 16 beds.
:00:50. > :00:52.Tonight, he should have somewhere else to go with 100 extra beds
:00:53. > :00:54.being set up in Bristol and another 30 in Bath.
:00:55. > :00:56.Charities hope it'll tempt in entrenched
:00:57. > :01:04.rough sleepers like Dan, who normally avoids hostels.
:01:05. > :01:09.They are full of drunken idiots and they kick you out
:01:10. > :01:14.I don't like being woken up by people kicking off.
:01:15. > :01:22.We say, let's get you in to the warm. We try to build up trust.
:01:23. > :01:25.It's been shown in the past that when we have had these cold snaps,
:01:26. > :01:27.we can engage with people who usually avoid us.
:01:28. > :01:30.Another night in a car park's getting to John.
:01:31. > :01:36.But he has Bill to cheer him up, a passer-by who's become a friend.
:01:37. > :01:39.Hungry and cold the last couple of months, so we've got a cup
:01:40. > :01:43.of tea for John, with his usual five or six sugars.
:01:44. > :01:45.Homeless charities want more volunteers especially to help
:01:46. > :01:52.In the last five years, the number of rough sleepers in North Somerset
:01:53. > :01:54.and South Gloucestershire has remained low.
:01:55. > :01:56.In the Bath area, a recent rise has eased.
:01:57. > :01:59.But look at Bristol where rough sleeping's gone up
:02:00. > :02:15.The demand for the beds has been way in excess of what we can provide. We
:02:16. > :02:19.are not tried to provide a service, we will give them a bed, a mail and
:02:20. > :02:24.make sure they are comfortable for the night, but to get out of that
:02:25. > :02:38.situation, they need to go to other services.
:02:39. > :02:41.The Government's given the city more than ?2 million this year
:02:42. > :02:43.to tackle homelessness, a problem made worse
:02:44. > :02:46.And rising rents in the private sector leading to more evictions.
:02:47. > :02:49.There's been a big increase in the number of Asian
:02:50. > :02:51.families in the West, being targeted for their gold jewellery.
:02:52. > :02:54.In the last 6 months Avon Somerset Police say 137
:02:55. > :02:57.Wiltshire had 21, Dorset 20 and in Gloucestershire there were 5.
:02:58. > :03:00.In some cases more than 100 thousand pounds worth
:03:01. > :03:11.The cost of crossing the Severn bridges is to be cut
:03:12. > :03:15.It's expected the new tolls will come into force next year -
:03:16. > :03:17.It's expected the new tolls will come into force next year
:03:18. > :03:20.and the amount drivers pay will be more than halved.
:03:21. > :03:35.The day is fast approaching when both bridges will pass back into
:03:36. > :03:47.public ownership, soap what if anything should drivers be paying?
:03:48. > :03:51.Opened with a price tag of ?8 million back in 1966. It was a
:03:52. > :03:57.national occasion. The Queen and Prince Philip were the first
:03:58. > :04:02.officially to drive across. They were spared the toll charge which
:04:03. > :04:13.back in the day stood at two shillings and sixpence.
:04:14. > :04:15.30 years later, a new bridge was opened.
:04:16. > :04:17.The second severn crossing, coming with a cost of ?330 million
:04:18. > :04:22.By then a crossing by car costing ?3.80 charged just in one direction
:04:23. > :04:26.to stop traffic backing up onto the bridge itself.
:04:27. > :04:31.The Government say they want to see the cost reduced by half.
:04:32. > :04:33.I've got some people arguing that they should
:04:34. > :04:34.be no tolls at all, even
:04:35. > :04:38.But there are others saying it should be
:04:39. > :04:44.I think we've struck the right balance.
:04:45. > :04:48.?13.40 for a minibus ?20 for anything larger.
:04:49. > :04:50.New plans are for charging in both directions.
:04:51. > :04:53.?1.50 each way for a car or minibus and a fiver each way
:04:54. > :04:59.50 years since Her Majesty oversaw its opening,
:05:00. > :05:02.the Severn Bridge and its younger brother have almost been paid
:05:03. > :05:07.off and will pass back into public hands next year.
:05:08. > :05:10.They generate around ?80 million a year.
:05:11. > :05:12.Many now feel that they've been thoroughly paid for,
:05:13. > :05:32.Plant, BBC Point West, the Severn Bridge.
:05:33. > :05:35.A toddler from Wiltshire who has cystic fibrosis is to be one
:05:36. > :05:37.of the first in England to get a life extending drug.
:05:38. > :05:39.William Foord is nearly two years old.
:05:40. > :05:42.The treatment called Kalydeco was only available to children over
:05:43. > :05:44.6 years old but that's now been reduced to two.
:05:45. > :05:46.William's mum says it will change his life.
:05:47. > :05:48.To find out that news, it was splendid.
:05:49. > :05:52.I am under no illusion that it's a cure, that it's going to get rid
:05:53. > :05:55.of his cystic fibrosis, but I know it will help him
:05:56. > :05:59.lead a normal, healthy life, and hopefully,
:06:00. > :06:20.Onto rugby and it was Bath's night as they beat Bristol. They all but
:06:21. > :06:25.guaranteed their place in the competition. A crowd of only -- of
:06:26. > :06:28.over 13,000 watched. And that's where I must
:06:29. > :06:30.wish you a goodnight. Hope you have a lovely
:06:31. > :06:31.weekend planned. We're back again tomorrow teatime,
:06:32. > :06:46.but I'll leave you with Ian We are expecting a weekend which
:06:47. > :06:52.will be mostly dry but cold. Some wintry showers, but towards the tail
:06:53. > :06:59.end of the day it will start to get milder and anything else will be
:07:00. > :07:05.rain. Actually rain, and a good deal mild by then. Tonight, getting down
:07:06. > :07:17.to freezing, minus two Max, minus three. Phases of dry, bright weather
:07:18. > :07:25.throughout the course of Saturday. By this stage, later on Saturday,
:07:26. > :07:29.we've lost the cold and it will just be rain. As we head in to Sunday,
:07:30. > :07:31.temperatures reaching 5-6 C. 5-6 is the best we will have. It
:07:32. > :07:38.stays cold into the beginning of next week as well
:07:39. > :07:45.stop Good evening, a cold, icy night, but some others have other
:07:46. > :07:50.concerns. This was the scene earlier today, huge waves crashing on to the
:07:51. > :07:54.shoreline at Whitley Bay. We still have the peak of the high tide to
:07:55. > :08:00.come in other parts. This is the flood line number. It's if you have
:08:01. > :08:07.any concerns. The worst of the wind slowly comes -- subsiding. Wintry
:08:08. > :08:10.showers across the North of Scotland and some filtering well inland
:08:11. > :08:15.across the Midlands, giving a light dusting in some places. An icy
:08:16. > :08:18.night, temperatures widely close to or below freezing, particularly
:08:19. > :08:25.where you have snow cover. Tomorrow starts cold. A large chunk of the UK
:08:26. > :08:27.will have a fine, crisp,