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