08/02/2017 Points West


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Good evening from BBC Points West. for the news where you are.

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Our headlines tonight: Fears over a level crossing.

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People in the Cotswolds want it closed after another death.

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The question tonight, of course, is why the victim, who was the only

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person authorised to use a vehicle on this crossing and had used it

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regularly, got stuck on the track and hit by the train.

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Why Bristol could be the first in the country to try out

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And tomorrow brings a much colder day.

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Details towards the end of the programme.

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There are calls for a level crossing where a man was killed to be closed.

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There are more than 6,000 level crossings across Britain's mainline

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railways but only 110 of them are like the one at the scene

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of the crash at Frampton Mansell, where people have to open and close

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Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.

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Well, this is the crossing that's the focus of this investigation

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now and where sadly, yesterday afternoon,

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He was the only member of the public here that had a key

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He was the only person authorised to bring the vehicle

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So, the question is, why did this man die on a journey

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Specialist teams from the British Transport Police looking

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for anything that could explain why the victim and his car

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Clearly, when we arrived on scene at 3pm yesterday,

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we were dealing with the initial incident itself and, clearly,

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So we wanted to make sure that we could recover all available

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evidence to us this morning, when we had the natural

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With the police operation here then over, investigators

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from Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch

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Great Western Railway are also offering support

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But here in Frampton Mansell, thoughts are with the victim -

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a 60-year-old farmer who's yet to be formally identified.

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The key question, of course, is why the victim was still on the track

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when the train approached, but this was a crossing that

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We used to have animals cross there as well.

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You have to phone and stuff and cross and you have to wait.

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And he's done it all his life, and I've been there when he's

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crossed and chatted to him before he's crossed.

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Sort of normal, everyday thing, really.

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In 2014, a motorcyclist was killed on the crossing and there have been

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And now, after yesterday's tragedy, there are calls for the crossing

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I just feel it's a rather dangerous crossing.

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The line is on a bend either side and you can only see the trains

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And by the time their whistle has gone or their horn,

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With the line closed today, replacement buses were laid

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on for passengers between Gloucester and Swindon, so disruption for many

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but necessary for the investigators to find out why someone

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Steve Knibbs, BBC Points West, Frampton Mansell.

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The Army are due to carry out a controlled explosion tonight

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after World War Two incendiaries were found in Trowbridge.

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They were found on a building site near the John of Gaunt School.

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Builders found what looked like glass bottles, and several

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A former Royal Marine from Somerset who shot an injured Afghan insurgent

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must wait to hear if he's won an appeal against his

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Senior Appeal Court judges are considering Sergeant

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His lawyers say he was suffering from a mental illness in 2011

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and that fresh psychiatric evidence would have given him a defence

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Bristol is bidding to become the national testbed

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for a technology that should end patchy phone signals and slow

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Scientists at Bristol University are working on the system known as 5G.

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They hope to receive a share of ?1 billion from the Government.

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Oh, I've got a tiny bit, a tiny bit of coverage.

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She might only live a mile from the centre of Bristol,

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but artist Ruth Jacobs is in what they call a not-spot.

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Making phone calls is only possible at the top of the stairs.

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I try to phone people and then the signal just cuts out because it

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looks like I've got coverage but really I haven't.

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As soon as I try to use it, it just breaks up and disappears

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so then I have to walk all around the house and try and get back

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to people and it's a bit unprofessional, really.

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When it comes to mobile signal, Britain languishes

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We're behind Estonia, Peru and Albania, in 54th place

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So how far have we really moved on from those trendy days

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when phones were almost the size of bricks?

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The Government's desperate not to slip into the digital

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doldrums, so it wants to develop super-fast 5G.

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If you're struggling to know your 4G from your 5G,

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In the beginning, the early-80s, there was the first

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generation of mobile phones - 1G for short.

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Then along came 2G, with added text messaging.

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In 2003, the arrival of 3G integrated the

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Now the talk is of 5G - ultra-fast, ultra-reliable

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and ultra-capable of linking lots of different networks together.

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They're already working on developing 5G in this Bristol lab.

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Now they're in talks with Government about becoming the national testbed.

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It would mean a share of a billion pounds.

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A lot of us in Bristol we have wonderful connectivity.

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In your home you have all your teenagers on YouTube

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and yourself actually streaming real-time iPlayer and then you get

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out, you go into your car and you can't get the 4G

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or equivalent 3G service, so 5G is going to stop all this.

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As well as eliminating not-spots, 5G would make a whole

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The virtual will soon become reality, and Bristol wants to lead

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A little earlier, I spoke to our technology correspondent,

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Rory Cellan-Jones, and asked him if 5G was worth

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Well, there's been an enormous amount of hype, not just in Britain

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but around the world, about the prospect of 5G.

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The promise is of not just faster networks,

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although that's part of it, but networks with far more capacity

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And crucially, people are looking forward to an era when everything

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is connected to the Internet, the so-called Internet of things,

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from your car to the lamp post to the bus stop,

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everything being connected and communicating via the Internet.

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And the theory is that we will need 5G to cope with all the flood

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We keep hearing that the UK is far behind in the network speeds.

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Well, I think the's a slight exaggeration here.

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There's anxiety across Europe, I think it's fair to say,

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that with the roll-out of 3G and then 4G, Europe got

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a bit left behind China, Korea and the United States

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So there's a great urgency across Europe to do it better this

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time, to put lots of money, as we're seeing, into research

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and to keep up with our rivals around the world.

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But one word of caution - I'm hearing voices lately saying

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that 5G is somewhat overhyped, questions about whether we really

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need a lot more speed and a lot more capacity and that we would be better

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off concentrating on 4G, which is already being rolled out,

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and making sure that that is a comprehensive

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network with no gaps, that you can get connected wherever

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Well, you've been around the technology block.

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Well, I'm always looking forward to better connectivity.

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We all are getting used to being connected all the time.

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I'm walking down the street, listening to a radio programme

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on my phone and it cuts out because the network isn't good

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enough, but that is about filling in the 4G network.

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Yes, we will go to 5G eventually, but I do sometimes get a bit

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suspicious when there's so much hype around a technology.

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There's lot of money be made by people researching into it,

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about whether it's completely necessary.

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I do think that there's a lot of demand from consumers,

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I certainly hear it, that never mind your 5G,

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some of us could do with a bit of 3G, let alone 4G!

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Rory Cellan-Jones, thank you very much.

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A nursery has started bringing children to spend part of their day

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with elderly people in a nearby care home in Bristol.

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The children spend a few hours chatting and playing

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with the residents at the home in Bedminster.

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It's an arrangement which the nursery believes

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They hope it'll be tried out in other care homes

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We will see out the rest of the week on a noticeably colder note and

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tomorrow will bring a markedly colder feel compared to the first

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part of the week. We will find a lot of cloud around for many of you

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during the course of tomorrow. But it would be a dry day. As it will be

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the night. Ambient temperatures by first light tomorrow. Below

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freezing. If we add on what will not be a particularly strong breeze by

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7am, that is how it will feel. Markedly cold day. That will

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continue to be the case with an increasing cloud across eastern

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areas, the best of any sunshine further westwards. The mixed zone in

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between those two extremes. The chance of one or two light snow

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flurries coming across from the east at times but they will not amount to

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much. Temperatures tomorrow is not likely to get much about three or

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four Celsius for most of you and as I mentioned, add on the breeze and

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it will feel bitterly cold. That will remain the case through into

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Friday. A very similar day on Friday. We will increase the chance

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of snow flurries and snow showers overnight meant

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cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture.

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Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we

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have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and

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not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud,

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there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance.

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That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you can see from

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the picture, there was a lot of cloud feeding in and that pegged

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temperatures down into single figures, because there is

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increasingly cold air heading in this direction on

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