Browse content similar to 08/03/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Police doctor Reg Bunting groped new recruits during examinations. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Tonight it's claimed that opportunities to | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
The plan to turn Bridgwater and Taunton college | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Will it stop the brain drain from the county? | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
I have the weather and spring is in the air for the next few days. Find | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
out how warm you will be and when it changes. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Dr Reg Bunting worked for Avon and Somerset police for three | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Now an investigation has found police missed several significant | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
chances to intervene when concerns were raised about his | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
The force could now face legal action over claims. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
Dickon Hooper has spoken to one Dr Bunting's victims. | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
John was a police officer with Avon and Somerset. | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
But he was on the front line more than 20 years. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
None more so than the police doctor, surely? | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Doctor Reg Bunting was a GP whose medical career | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
But he's been accused of groping, fondling and even reportedly sexual | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
assault, mainly on new recruits like John who says he was groped. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
I thought, this wasn't right, but what do you do? | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
He knew that we needed to get through the medical. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
He had the power to abuse his position and do what he wants. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
I don't think anyone would have complained | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
because it was a hard job to get into. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
An independent report commissioned by Avon and Somerset Police found 44 | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
cases where Bunting's medical examinations fell below a common | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
And that police had missed three chances to intervene | :02:01. | :02:12. | |
Little if anything was done and the police watchdog | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
In their response, Avon and Somerset Police acknowledged | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
They also said that had Doctor Bunting been alive, | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
there was enough evidence to interview him under caution. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
And they apologised, praising those like John | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
A couple of the other victims I've spoken to say they haven't been well | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
One said they felt they had been treated as a nuisance | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
In the initial stages they assumed it was a group of injured officers | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
The way police treat their own officers, there's not one mention | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
The report does make a number of recommendations which police | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
But for John and others, this is a painful chapter | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
A firm has been fined 600-thousand pounds after a sub-contractor hit | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
an 11-thousand volt cable whilst working in Gloucester. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Steven Brown, from Swindon, suffered serious burns when he dug | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
Today Amey LG Ltd admitted breaching health and safety legislation | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
The first steps have been taken tonight towards creating | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
Bridgwater and Taunton College has launched what it's calling | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
The educational landscape in Somerset is being redrawn. | :03:42. | :03:54. | |
Their own promotional video is nothing if not dramatic. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
But what exactly is going to change here? | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
All these students are already studying for a degree. | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
Though right now this isn't a university. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
The courses are accredited elsewhere, sometimes | :04:16. | :04:16. | |
In future, their degrees certificates could be branded | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Somerset University, but will that matter? | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
I think it does because I think then we can go on and we have | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
From today, all 1,000 students on degree courses at Taunton | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
and Bridgwater Colleges, which merged last summer, | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
The college insists this is more than just a name change. | :04:41. | :04:52. | |
For one thing they plan to launch, new degree courses from nuclear | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
We won't be offering traditional history degrees and geography | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
This is very much about a sharp focus on industry and the type | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
So it won't be in the traditional university format. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
One of the aims is to prevent a brain drain of higher education | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
One of the big challenges for employers is trying to find | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the right talent and we have over 2,000 people living to go | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
to universities across the region and nationally, Plymouth, | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
It could take years before the college achieves | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
There are many hoops to jump through yet. | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
But it is now a declared aim, part of a campaign to persuade more | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
higher education students to study locally. | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
16 years ago the University of Gloucestershire went | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
I asked David James - who is a professor there - | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Having a university in a town or city is an incredibly important | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
thing. Universities historically have always been very connected with | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
their locality, clearly universities are also big employers and the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
influence of having a university influence of having a university | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
relates to the economic welfare of the surrounding area. Any advice for | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
the University Centre of Somerset? Think ahead. Think beyond achieving | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
university title and thing towards the plan, the next five years after | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
that because opportunities do open up, it opens up all sorts of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
interesting possibilities that you may not have imagined and it is good | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
to give those for thought. What is it like for local students to have a | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
university in place whether you live because certain places suffer from a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
brain drain? Absolutely. Increasingly students want to study | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
locally. We know the costs of going away to study are far greater than | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
studying in your home environment. If you have a university in your | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
home town or city or in commuting distance, that can clearly keep the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
costs just downed more towards tuition than the overall | :07:29. | :07:29. | |
maintenance. Many thanks. A footballer has spoken out | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
about the horrific racial abuse Leroy Rosenior played | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
at a number of clubs, including some in the west | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
during the '80s and '90s. Here's our sports editor | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Alistair Durden . Leroy joined for West Ham before | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
joining Bristol City but as a black footballer in the 1980s he says | :07:52. | :08:01. | |
he faced racism on a daily basis. It got so bad at one point | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
that his family stopped I dealt with racist tributes | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
and bananas and monkey chants At a Leeds United game we were 1-0 | :08:10. | :08:22. | |
down and one of the black players on the pitch went to get the ball | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
and the whole of the Leeds stand Other players would you this | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
and that and you could see players getting visibly upset like I did it | :08:32. | :08:49. | |
if I said I wasn't happy I would be labelled with one as a problem | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
who couldn't be integrated in to the side so I | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
had to keep quiet. During his time as player coach | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
at Gloucester City he says he was refused entry | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
into an opposition boardroom full Leroy was one of the country's | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
first black managers Clubs wanted a big black strong | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
striker and we went captains or leaders of people | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
who could organise, people didn't perceive you to be able to do that | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
and because of that we have never had any black managers | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
and when I was a manager Now successful football pundit, | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Leroy still campaigns to break down racism and the game and things | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
are improving he says That is it from us. We are back in | :09:36. | :09:48. | |
breakfast tomorrow. I say good night. Sara has forecast. Less than | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
two weeks from the spring equinox so when breaks in the cloud, it feels | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
quite springlike. Today there was a lot of cloud but some breaks here | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
and there and temperatures in the low teens. Tonight, the cloud will | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
slide off towards the south and east and some patchy rain or drizzle | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
starting to pull away. By tomorrow morning, some cloud around but we | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
should be generally dry. Nine or 10 Celsius. Start with the cloud but it | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
is improving picture through the morning, the wind breaks, the cloud | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
in the north and by the afternoon good spells of sunshine filtering in | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
with light wind and staying dry. 13 or 14 Celsius, a good few degrees | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
above average. Tomorrow night, a week feature running in from the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
south and west, an area of high pressure safe fizzling out all the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
time. There will be more cloud in the forecast for Friday, light rain | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
or drizzle at times. outlook, staying mild and Nick has | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
the bigger picture across the UK. | :11:01. | :11:05. |