:00:08. > :00:15.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:16. > :00:17.Welcome to the late news from the West.
:00:18. > :00:20.Women in the West are to take part in a world first,
:00:21. > :00:23.the trial of a machine that scans for breast cancer,
:00:24. > :00:26.It's the same technology used to detect landmines and it's taken
:00:27. > :00:30.Our health correspondent Matthew Hill reports.
:00:31. > :00:39.I was very tender in certain parts face having a mammogram.
:00:40. > :00:44.I was very tender in certain parts of my body for years because I had
:00:45. > :00:48.mastitis. It is the way that they say you may experience some
:00:49. > :00:52.discomfort! Tell the truth, painful, isn't it?
:00:53. > :00:54.But thanks to this machine developed by a Bristol firm
:00:55. > :01:00.she has now been able to have a lump checked out.
:01:01. > :01:02.Maria, as it's known, has got transmitters and receivers
:01:03. > :01:15.When I went to Cheltenham, they say, you need a mammogram and I said No,
:01:16. > :01:20.I know about this radar thing. Oh, we have that here! And I had such a
:01:21. > :01:23.laugh. If you want someone to do something you've got to give them a
:01:24. > :01:26.good time and they've got to want to go back!
:01:27. > :01:29.And believe it or not, Maria has been built on techniques
:01:30. > :01:32.similar to ground penetrating radar, used to find landmines.
:01:33. > :01:39.The problem is that one in five cancers are not detected through
:01:40. > :01:43.mammograms. And they also use radiation so for young women in
:01:44. > :01:47.particular they have to come back year on year. Doctors have to
:01:48. > :01:54.consider whether it is worth putting them through that.
:01:55. > :01:57.A new study has shown this radio wave technology to be just
:01:58. > :02:00.as accurate and now doctors are about to start a second clinical
:02:01. > :02:03.trial to find out if it could be even safer for younger women.
:02:04. > :02:06.It could save lives eventually because one of the difficulties of
:02:07. > :02:10.mammograms when you are younger, they tend to be dense and they hide
:02:11. > :02:14.lesions. This is different, density does not matter so in a young
:02:15. > :02:18.patient with dense tissue this machine picks up as well as it would
:02:19. > :02:25.do if the patient did not have such dense tissue. Brilliant, painless,
:02:26. > :02:29.it's safe. It's like having a good meal in a restaurant, I would go
:02:30. > :02:38.back. Melanie is encouraging other women to take part in this new
:02:39. > :02:41.clinical trial, where it is also hoped that doctors can find out how
:02:42. > :02:47.well patients are responding to chemotherapy.
:02:48. > :02:50.Matthew Hill, BBC Points West, Cheltenham.
:02:51. > :02:52.The family of a young man who's been missing for almost two
:02:53. > :02:54.weeks say they're baffled by his disappearance.
:02:55. > :02:56.Lewis Ball vanished after leaving a waterside nightclub in Bristol
:02:57. > :02:59.Police divers have been searching there again today.
:03:00. > :03:02.But Lewis' brother Alex says CCTV footage may show him heading
:03:03. > :03:14.They've been nicknamed The Lady and The Tramp.
:03:15. > :03:18.more than 40 years ago, he was sleeping rough
:03:19. > :03:23.The pair, who are both 89 years old, became firm friends.
:03:24. > :03:24.This weekend they're getting married.
:03:25. > :03:28.There was a little lawn there, wasn't there?
:03:29. > :03:31.And there was a seat there for people to sit on.
:03:32. > :03:36.Back on the street where they first met.
:03:37. > :03:42.Appropriate then that it began here in a bookshop.
:03:43. > :03:46.That was my lounge and that was my bedroom up here.
:03:47. > :03:49.Joan ran the little shop in the centre of
:03:50. > :03:55.And one day in 1975 she saw Ken through
:03:56. > :04:06.That was the bin where I used to go and
:04:07. > :04:10.So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea that day and sketched
:04:11. > :04:13.He was a shy man who had suffered a head injury
:04:14. > :04:18.He'd developed schizophrenia and ended up sleeping
:04:19. > :04:26.He always looked as if he didn't belong in the streets, he was
:04:27. > :04:28.gentlemanly, and he spoke very nicely.
:04:29. > :04:30.I mean, he does look a bit scruffy now!
:04:31. > :04:33.Joan invited Ken to move into her family home and she helped
:04:34. > :04:38.Over the years he became part of the household,
:04:39. > :04:44.Although Joan's relationship with Ken was purely
:04:45. > :04:47.platonic, her husband would sometimes be jealous.
:04:48. > :04:49.But as the decades passed, the three of them became
:04:50. > :04:57.Then in 1983 Joan's husband Norman died.
:04:58. > :05:06.# How lonely life can be as shadows follow me...
:05:07. > :05:15.Ken and Joan are back to marry, 42 years after that first cup
:05:16. > :05:18.How much of a difference has Joan made to your life?
:05:19. > :05:28.When I was on the street it was terrible.
:05:29. > :05:31.It was Joan who proposed to Ken, with the full support
:05:32. > :05:35.And I thought, well, I suppose I could, and I said,
:05:36. > :05:46.What does the future hold in store for you now?
:05:47. > :05:48.Well, there won't be babies, and there won't be a white
:05:49. > :05:59.Jon Kay, BBC Points West, Gloucestershire.
:06:00. > :06:06.I think that is what you call it love, actually! We wish them the
:06:07. > :06:08.very best for tomorrow and for their life together.
:06:09. > :06:14.Now rugby, and Gloucester beat champions Saracens tonight 31-23.
:06:15. > :06:19.Tom Marshall drove over after 17 minutes for their first try.
:06:20. > :06:21.Jeremy Rush extended their lead on 49 minutes.
:06:22. > :06:24.England's head coach Eddie Jones was there
:06:25. > :06:27.to keep an eye on the talent, and he wasn't disappointed,
:06:28. > :06:30.as Richard Hibbard's try in the last few minutes gave Gloucester a famous
:06:31. > :06:42.For the most part, the weekend will be
:06:43. > :06:44.held under dry conditions, both Saturday and Sunday.
:06:45. > :06:46.There will be a little bit of light rain at
:06:47. > :06:49.times, noticeably as we get towards the tail end of Saturday
:06:50. > :06:52.evening and overnight into first light on Sunday, again a little bit
:06:53. > :06:55.A fair amount of cloud around through
:06:56. > :06:58.the course of the weekend, but for all of us it
:06:59. > :07:01.about 4-6 Celsius, a lot of
:07:02. > :07:04.cloud around, some of that low cloud as well, some foggy conditions
:07:05. > :07:07.perhaps, parts of Dorset, other southern districts, and there might
:07:08. > :07:10.be a little bit of rain at times creeping into some western areas,
:07:11. > :07:13.By tomorrow morning, as I mentioned, quite
:07:14. > :07:14.a bit of low cloud around and
:07:15. > :07:17.extensive cloud, I suspect, for many of us, but the trend through
:07:18. > :07:19.lunchtime into the afternoon is for some of that
:07:20. > :07:23.A bit more in the way of brightness around,
:07:24. > :07:28.remaining dry as well, and
:07:29. > :07:31.by the evening a little bit more in the way of light, patchy rain
:07:32. > :07:34.part of next week, we could see 16 Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit
:07:35. > :07:50.with the National output. We have turned things around in the
:07:51. > :07:56.space of a week, with a more springlike feel out there. Some
:07:57. > :08:03.places may get as high as 17 Celsius on Monday. That is the exception,
:08:04. > :08:06.and most of us won't see that. Plenty of cloud throughout this
:08:07. > :08:10.weekend. It is already producing some outbreaks of rain in western
:08:11. > :08:16.and northern parts overnight will stop not amounting to too much,
:08:17. > :08:24.affecting western Scotland later in the night. Early rain in Northern
:08:25. > :08:25.Ireland looks to pull away quite quickly in the morning, spreading
:08:26. > :08:27.south