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Good evening from BBC Points West. for the news where you are. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
Our headlines tonight: Fears over a level crossing. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
People in the Cotswolds want it closed after another death. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
The question tonight, of course, is why the victim, who was the only | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
person authorised to use a vehicle on this crossing and had used it | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
regularly, got stuck on the track and hit by the train. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Why Bristol could be the first in the country to try out | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
And tomorrow brings a much colder day. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Details towards the end of the programme. | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
There are calls for a level crossing where a man was killed to be closed. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
There are more than 6,000 level crossings across Britain's mainline | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
railways but only 110 of them are like the one at the scene | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
of the crash at Frampton Mansell, where people have to open and close | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Well, this is the crossing that's the focus of this investigation | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
now and where sadly, yesterday afternoon, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
He was the only member of the public here that had a key | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
He was the only person authorised to bring the vehicle | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
So, the question is, why did this man die on a journey | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Specialist teams from the British Transport Police looking | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
for anything that could explain why the victim and his car | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Clearly, when we arrived on scene at 3pm yesterday, | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
we were dealing with the initial incident itself and, clearly, | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
So we wanted to make sure that we could recover all available | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
evidence to us this morning, when we had the natural | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
With the police operation here then over, investigators | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
from Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
Great Western Railway are also offering support | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
But here in Frampton Mansell, thoughts are with the victim - | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
a 60-year-old farmer who's yet to be formally identified. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
The key question, of course, is why the victim was still on the track | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
when the train approached, but this was a crossing that | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
We used to have animals cross there as well. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
You have to phone and stuff and cross and you have to wait. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
And he's done it all his life, and I've been there when he's | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
crossed and chatted to him before he's crossed. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
Sort of normal, everyday thing, really. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
In 2014, a motorcyclist was killed on the crossing and there have been | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
And now, after yesterday's tragedy, there are calls for the crossing | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
I just feel it's a rather dangerous crossing. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
The line is on a bend either side and you can only see the trains | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
And by the time their whistle has gone or their horn, | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
With the line closed today, replacement buses were laid | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
on for passengers between Gloucester and Swindon, so disruption for many | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
but necessary for the investigators to find out why someone | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Steve Knibbs, BBC Points West, Frampton Mansell. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
The Army are due to carry out a controlled explosion tonight | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
after World War Two incendiaries were found in Trowbridge. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
They were found on a building site near the John of Gaunt School. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Builders found what looked like glass bottles, and several | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
A former Royal Marine from Somerset who shot an injured Afghan insurgent | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
must wait to hear if he's won an appeal against his | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Senior Appeal Court judges are considering Sergeant | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
His lawyers say he was suffering from a mental illness in 2011 | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
and that fresh psychiatric evidence would have given him a defence | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Bristol is bidding to become the national testbed | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
for a technology that should end patchy phone signals and slow | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Scientists at Bristol University are working on the system known as 5G. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
They hope to receive a share of ?1 billion from the Government. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Oh, I've got a tiny bit, a tiny bit of coverage. | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
She might only live a mile from the centre of Bristol, | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
but artist Ruth Jacobs is in what they call a not-spot. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Making phone calls is only possible at the top of the stairs. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
I try to phone people and then the signal just cuts out because it | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
looks like I've got coverage but really I haven't. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
As soon as I try to use it, it just breaks up and disappears | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
so then I have to walk all around the house and try and get back | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
to people and it's a bit unprofessional, really. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
When it comes to mobile signal, Britain languishes | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
We're behind Estonia, Peru and Albania, in 54th place | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
So how far have we really moved on from those trendy days | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
when phones were almost the size of bricks? | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
The Government's desperate not to slip into the digital | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
doldrums, so it wants to develop super-fast 5G. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
If you're struggling to know your 4G from your 5G, | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
In the beginning, the early-80s, there was the first | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
generation of mobile phones - 1G for short. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Then along came 2G, with added text messaging. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
In 2003, the arrival of 3G integrated the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Now the talk is of 5G - ultra-fast, ultra-reliable | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
and ultra-capable of linking lots of different networks together. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
They're already working on developing 5G in this Bristol lab. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Now they're in talks with Government about becoming the national testbed. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
It would mean a share of a billion pounds. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
A lot of us in Bristol we have wonderful connectivity. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
In your home you have all your teenagers on YouTube | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and yourself actually streaming real-time iPlayer and then you get | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
out, you go into your car and you can't get the 4G | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
or equivalent 3G service, so 5G is going to stop all this. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
As well as eliminating not-spots, 5G would make a whole | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
The virtual will soon become reality, and Bristol wants to lead | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
A little earlier, I spoke to our technology correspondent, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones, and asked him if 5G was worth | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Well, there's been an enormous amount of hype, not just in Britain | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
but around the world, about the prospect of 5G. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
The promise is of not just faster networks, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
although that's part of it, but networks with far more capacity | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
And crucially, people are looking forward to an era when everything | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
is connected to the Internet, the so-called Internet of things, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
from your car to the lamp post to the bus stop, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
everything being connected and communicating via the Internet. | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
And the theory is that we will need 5G to cope with all the flood | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
We keep hearing that the UK is far behind in the network speeds. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Well, I think the's a slight exaggeration here. | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
There's anxiety across Europe, I think it's fair to say, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
that with the roll-out of 3G and then 4G, Europe got | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
a bit left behind China, Korea and the United States | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
So there's a great urgency across Europe to do it better this | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
time, to put lots of money, as we're seeing, into research | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
and to keep up with our rivals around the world. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
But one word of caution - I'm hearing voices lately saying | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
that 5G is somewhat overhyped, questions about whether we really | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
need a lot more speed and a lot more capacity and that we would be better | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
off concentrating on 4G, which is already being rolled out, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
and making sure that that is a comprehensive | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
network with no gaps, that you can get connected wherever | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Well, you've been around the technology block. | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Well, I'm always looking forward to better connectivity. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
We all are getting used to being connected all the time. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
I'm walking down the street, listening to a radio programme | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
on my phone and it cuts out because the network isn't good | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
enough, but that is about filling in the 4G network. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Yes, we will go to 5G eventually, but I do sometimes get a bit | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
suspicious when there's so much hype around a technology. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
There's lot of money be made by people researching into it, | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
about whether it's completely necessary. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
I do think that there's a lot of demand from consumers, | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
I certainly hear it, that never mind your 5G, | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
some of us could do with a bit of 3G, let alone 4G! | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones, thank you very much. | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
A nursery has started bringing children to spend part of their day | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
with elderly people in a nearby care home in Bristol. | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
The children spend a few hours chatting and playing | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
with the residents at the home in Bedminster. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
It's an arrangement which the nursery believes | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
They hope it'll be tried out in other care homes | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
We will see out the rest of the week on a noticeably colder note and | :09:26. | :09:50. | |
tomorrow will bring a markedly colder feel compared to the first | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
part of the week. We will find a lot of cloud around for many of you | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
during the course of tomorrow. But it would be a dry day. As it will be | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
the night. Ambient temperatures by first light tomorrow. Below | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
freezing. If we add on what will not be a particularly strong breeze by | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
7am, that is how it will feel. Markedly cold day. That will | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
continue to be the case with an increasing cloud across eastern | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
areas, the best of any sunshine further westwards. The mixed zone in | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
between those two extremes. The chance of one or two light snow | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
flurries coming across from the east at times but they will not amount to | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
much. Temperatures tomorrow is not likely to get much about three or | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
four Celsius for most of you and as I mentioned, add on the breeze and | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
it will feel bitterly cold. That will remain the case through into | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Friday. A very similar day on Friday. We will increase the chance | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
of snow flurries and snow showers overnight meant | :11:04. | :11:03. | |
cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you can see from | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
the picture, there was a lot of cloud feeding in and that pegged | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
temperatures down into single figures, because there is | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
increasingly cold air heading in this direction on | :11:44. | :11:44. |