16/01/2017 Points West

Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on BBC Two. That's

Good evening from BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:

A new link road in Bristol hoping to create jobs and ease congestion.

We are gradually being cut off in the south of Bristol,

This will go some way to making them better

and it can only be great news for the area.

the NHS faces cutbacks on fertility treatment.

And tomorrow brings a dry day, cloudy for most of you, perhaps

brighter to the south. Details at the end of the programme.

Business leaders in Bristol have welcomed a major new road

which could help to create over 2,000 jobs

This is what the new link road looked like

The route connecting Hartcliffe to the A370

Here's our Business Reporter Robin Markwell.

It might have been gloomy in South Bristol this morning,

but a gathering of high vis soon brightened things up.

A major transport scheme in Bristol finally complete.

Instead, a minister moved a symbolic concrete block.

First mooted in the 1930s - 80-something years later,

the South Bristol Link Road was finally open.

The three miles of new tarmac now connects the south of the city

This road is so new that on some maps online,

Take a closer look and you find yourself in the middle of nowhere.

At ?15 million a mile, this new road is not cheap.

To cut Bristol's crippling congestion

as well as improving links to the airport.

It will help with reliable journeys, faster journeys to the airport.

Passengers will be able to get to the airport in more

But it proved controversial in the planning.

Environmental campaigners complained it would increase

pollution as well as cutting through the Green belt.

At the Cater business park, they took a different view.

This printing and plastics firm has long been

Having to ship their signs through the centre of town was proving to be

I think one of the concerns for us was we were gradually being cut off

in the south of Bristol, access routes weren't good.

This will go some way to making them better

and it can only be great news for the area.

in a jigsaw puzzle of schemes that all arrive this year.

It'll join up with the Metrobus network due to open in the autumn.

Then motorists will be able to judge if it's really the answer

A man from Somerset has been sentenced to 25 years in prison,

after being convicted of sexually abusing children

Andrew Margetts was convicted on 23 charges including rape,

indecent assault and false imprisonment.

His victims were aged between six and 11 when the abuse

Government inspectors have raised concerns about claims of racism

and bullying in a school in South Gloucestershire.

Ofsted highlighted weak leadership from the head teacher

at Meadows Primary in Bitton last November.

It also said antisocial incidents had not been dealt with

But those findings surprised some parents today.

there is no way in the world that my children would be going here.

I have got four children, three of which are now in secondary school,

We all feel the same, we think the teachers do a great job.

Our children have flourished here. It doesn't make any sense.

The staff here work so hard. And it is extremely unfair.

The report did also highlight a number of strengths including

A new head and deputy head have now been brought in from another school.

Couples seeking fertility treatment in the west could be facing

a reduced service as health service budgets are stretched.

NHS guidelines say that eligible women should be offered

But now the last authority in the west to offer that level

For those embarking on their first treatment of IVF, like Jade

the forecast is looking increasingly uncertain.

At the moment, we've just started our IVF treatment.

We have been accepted for two courses, two cycles of IVF,

so we are hoping that we will get another go after this, but I

understand that the CCG have changed this, so I don't really know.

Swindon will be reducing our IVF provision from three fresh cycles

to one fresh cycles plus two frozen embryo transfers.

It puts us into alignment with our local partners including Wiltshire

and it helps us to stay within our spending budget.

If, as Jade fears, her local NHS doesn't pay for her future

treatment, she will be left to cover the cost herself.

Like Paula - she had to find ?33,000 for her two lovely children.

I know if I lived in a different part of the country,

I would have had more rounds funded for me.

It wouldn't have mattered if my husband had had children

that I would be entitled to some form of funding

and I wouldn't have had to sell my house.

However unfair it might seem, with growing demand on NHS budgets,

is unlikely to increase any time soon.

You can see the full version of that report on inside out west on the BBC

iPlayer. of the Human Fertilisation

and Embryology Authority. A short while ago I asked him

what he made of the change. Thinking about infertility,

I think this issue has really shown us or might help us to see that

infertility is a condition which is largely not

talked about, it's hidden. It's a little bit like cancer used

to be and maybe we ought to talk I think they're going

to be devastated. A lot of people might argue, look,

the NHS is under pressure so surely this could be considered a bit

of a luxury to have on the NHS? I realise, we all realise,

the NHS is under enormous pressure but this is part of the problem

with infertility - seeing it as a luxury treatment I think

it is to completely misunderstand what it is about and also its human

impact also if there's one thing that can come out of this,

is that the discussion about the pressures on the NHS,

I hope that what is happening and remember that Swindon was one

of the best places to have treatment in the country

until we have heard this news - I hope it's going to help us try

and decide how we ensure that everybody gets the treatment

that is going to be helpful to them That is the problem, isn't it,

regarding this whole issue? It suddenly becomes the right

of people who can afford it. Indeed it is and I don't

think it should be. I think all the issues around

funding of the NHS need some societal and political will to be

able to say what kind of NHS to need societal and political

will to be able to say I fear that the people

who are at the bottom of society who experienced these issues

are going to be, again, excluded I don't think having children

is a human right, it's a gift, but actually it is a gift

that we should help people to receive and more cycles,

the evidence shows, under a certain age, the more cycles

of IVF you can have, Clearly these are complex questions

but we do need the engagement now and maybe it is coming up the agenda

for the Government And our health correspondent

Matthew Hill has a special programme looking at the law surrounding

research on human embryos. That's Revisiting The 14-Day Rule

at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. A Cheltenham landmark has been taken

down and dismantled tonight. For over three decades,

the wishing fish clock has been been blowing bubbles over shoppers

at the Regent Arcade. But time has taken its toll

and it was taken away for repairs. It should be back in

a few months' time - We are back with you in Breakfast

tomorrow but I will leave you with Ian, who has the forecast.

Thanks very much. Good evening, we are in for a week which will see

predominantly a lot of dry and certainly pretty quiet weather but

the cloud amounts are going to be a tricky part of the forecast, that

certainly will be the case tomorrow. Generally speaking, a lot of cloud

about but as you come further towards the south-east of the

region, some sunshine developing through the course of the afternoon.

We have extensive amounts of playground at the moment courtesy of

a weak front moving east to west, giving drizzle and temperatures

keeping above freezing tonight and into tomorrow morning, we can expect

a good deal of the cloud and hill fog will be with us. The drizzle

will have eased away and we are in for a dry day. You will notice cloud

tending to break away and it is difficult to gauge how far

north-west the boundary might extend, it may improve the some of

you but I will lean on the side that it is likely to be a day with a fair

amount of cloud, certainly for a good part of the region. By the

night-time, the skies could have cleared more which means

temperatures tomorrow of five perhaps a little milder. If you like

the mild weather, you'll have to head elsewhere in the country. Find

out more in the national weather forecast. Our weather is going

against normal expectations this week. In Highland Scotland some snow

to be seen on the hills. Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius

today. Over the next few days the coldest air is in the far south-east

of England where there is sunshine to be had. Four or five Celsius in

Kent. Differences remain over the next few days and here is why. I

pressure in control of the weather. Some clear a continental air, but

coming into Scotland from the Atlantic plenty of clouds around.

Outbreaks of rain through Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight,

patchy drizzle into parts of England and Wales, but where you've got

cloud the temperatures are holding up. Clearer skies in parts of

south-east England and East Anglia, could get below freezing as the