:00:11. > :00:17.A plan to ease the strain on the NHS.
:00:18. > :00:20.A new scheme is up and running to reduce the growing
:00:21. > :00:30.The artwork celebrating the hope given by organ donation.
:00:31. > :00:36.Tomorrow bring another mild story. That's effectively where the
:00:37. > :00:44.similarities end. The details at the end of the programme.
:00:45. > :00:47.A new scheme to try and prevent so called "bed blocking" is up
:00:48. > :00:52.The local NHS has paid for places in a care home so dementia patients
:00:53. > :00:54.who are physically fit can move out of hospital wards.
:00:55. > :00:57.It will help people like Iris Sibley who was stuck at the BRI
:00:58. > :01:00.for a record six months because there was no suitable care
:01:01. > :01:05.Here's our Health Correspondent Matthew Hill.
:01:06. > :01:06.Hello, Mum. Hello, John!
:01:07. > :01:08.How are you today? I'm fine.
:01:09. > :01:12.John Sibley visits his 89-year-old mother Iris every day.
:01:13. > :01:16.She now lives in a comfortable care home which can cater
:01:17. > :01:19.But last summer, it was very different.
:01:20. > :01:21.Declared medically fit to leave the BRI within a month,
:01:22. > :01:25.yet six months later, she was still there,
:01:26. > :01:34.It's not until you get caught up in the whole system and situation
:01:35. > :01:37.that you realise that the system is, in fact, broken.
:01:38. > :01:40.So to fix it, the local NHS has paid for ten dementia
:01:41. > :01:43.Patients like Pat Tottle can have their needs assessed
:01:44. > :01:49.here for up to 28 days, instead of on a hospital ward.
:01:50. > :01:53.The 83-year-old had to spend two weeks in Southmead
:01:54. > :01:55.after a fall at home, and with the right support,
:01:56. > :02:02.Because she'd been in a bed for 13 days, her muscle had all gone.
:02:03. > :02:06.So she had to have a zimmer frame and she did not
:02:07. > :02:11.Her coordination was not good with eating.
:02:12. > :02:17.I feel I'm back at home again. I am not quite there yet, but...
:02:18. > :02:20.This is very much a home from home with all sorts
:02:21. > :02:22.of objects lying around to trigger childhood memories.
:02:23. > :02:27.It's also a lot cheaper than staying in hospital, about ?995 a week.
:02:28. > :02:29.In hospital, it would be more than twice as much.
:02:30. > :02:35.The scheme has already saved hundreds of thousands of pounds.
:02:36. > :02:37.I think this is a really positive start.
:02:38. > :02:43.There are many more people in hospitals with dementia
:02:44. > :02:46.than ten beds can solve, but actually, if this project
:02:47. > :02:50.is rolled out and it is researched thoroughly and we can see that
:02:51. > :02:57.people's outcomes have improved then it has got to be a good thing.
:02:58. > :03:00.The man in charge of the BRI, where Iris Sibley had to languish
:03:01. > :03:03.in bed, says lessons have now been learned.
:03:04. > :03:08.Any patient who has waited longer than four weeks after they're
:03:09. > :03:10.meant to be discharged, we're going to have a named
:03:11. > :03:12.individual in our integrated discharge service who is
:03:13. > :03:17.We will have an appointment system for care homes so we can see
:03:18. > :03:19.in a real-time basis where the capacity is in care homes,
:03:20. > :03:25.what places have been offered, where the bottlenecks are.
:03:26. > :03:32.Fine. Absolutely fine.
:03:33. > :03:34.And the sooner patients like her are discharged to more
:03:35. > :03:41.homely surroundings, the better they will do.
:03:42. > :03:44.An unannounced inspection of Eastwood Park Women's prison
:03:45. > :03:47.in Gloucestershire has found growing levels of violence and
:03:48. > :03:52.There are 400 inmates there, 100 more than at the last
:03:53. > :03:59.More than 75% of the population reported some form of mental health
:04:00. > :04:03.problem and there were three suicides last year.
:04:04. > :04:05.Inspectors did find Eastwood Park to be "well-led"
:04:06. > :04:12.Tonight the Ministry of Justice said the prison is "committed to learning
:04:13. > :04:14.lessons from the tragic deaths" and they're currently
:04:15. > :04:19.Plans for fast, regular trains between Portishead
:04:20. > :04:28.The cost of upgrading the old freight line for passenger
:04:29. > :04:32.There's now a slower, compromise option under
:04:33. > :04:33.consideration as our Political Correspondent
:04:34. > :04:43.It's badly off track - the projected cost for improving
:04:44. > :04:48.local lines around Bristol has soared from ?58 to ?175 million.
:04:49. > :04:50.The extra money can't be found so officials are warning
:04:51. > :04:59.It's certainly a compromise from what we originally intended,
:05:00. > :05:03.but unfortunately the cost pressures mean we must reduce the scope
:05:04. > :05:09.of the project in order to deliver a passenger service.
:05:10. > :05:11.Called MetroWest Phase 1, it includes upgrades and half hourly
:05:12. > :05:14.trains for the Severn Beach line as well as to Keynsham
:05:15. > :05:19.But reopening the Portishead line for passenger services is proving
:05:20. > :05:24.It's presently used for slow freight trains, but enabling it to take
:05:25. > :05:29.faster passenger services every half hour is hugely challenging.
:05:30. > :05:31.This area near Ashton Gate shows how complex public transport
:05:32. > :05:37.A bridge is being completed to take the city's new Metrobus.
:05:38. > :05:43.Underneath it runs the line that goes all way to Portishead,
:05:44. > :05:47.and to take two trains an hour, this level crossing would have to be
:05:48. > :05:53.To provide a more frequent service, virtually the whole freight track
:05:54. > :06:05.Just the physical access into the gorge is hugely
:06:06. > :06:10.Instead, they'll settle for the cheaper option, meaning
:06:11. > :06:13.Not good news for Portishead residents frustrated
:06:14. > :06:30.That's not many from Portishead, is it?
:06:31. > :06:34.It's a shame it is only one an hour, but it is better than nothing.
:06:35. > :06:37.It sounds very disappointing and I doubt if it will ever be
:06:38. > :06:40.Reopening it for passengers is a long way down the line.
:06:41. > :06:44.An art installation celebrating organ donation has been unveiled
:06:45. > :06:46.at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
:06:47. > :06:49.The heart is made up of 1,000 messages from people who have both
:06:50. > :06:51.given and been given the gift of life.
:06:52. > :06:55.Simon was very fun-loving. He adored his children.
:06:56. > :07:01.He didn't get much time to be a father, unfortunately.
:07:02. > :07:04.A decade ago Kerry Mills' life changed forever.
:07:05. > :07:06.Her husband, Simon, went out on his motorbike
:07:07. > :07:17.Yeah, just devastated. I knew life would never be the same.
:07:18. > :07:20.At the height of her grief, Kerry made a decision that meant two
:07:21. > :07:28.I realised that if they were poorly and they needed an organ,
:07:29. > :07:31.then I know Simon and I would have been so grateful for anyone
:07:32. > :07:33.who would have given us the opportunity.
:07:34. > :07:35.For this family, a message in the centre of this
:07:36. > :07:37.new heart-shaped mural at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
:07:38. > :07:39.is a reminder of someone who will always be close
:07:40. > :07:48.Each of the 1,000 small tags on this memorial
:07:49. > :07:51.They are messages from organ donors families,
:07:52. > :07:53.from the recipients of donors, all a lasting reminder of
:07:54. > :08:02.There are 91 people in Gloucestershire today
:08:03. > :08:06.Three people die every day in the UK just waiting.
:08:07. > :08:09.The other messages on the tags are memories of loved ones and thank
:08:10. > :08:14.33 years ago, I received a heart from a young man that I had no idea
:08:15. > :08:25.existed and his family generously gave me a constructive life.
:08:26. > :08:27.This golden heart featuring 1,000 thank yous is an ongoing appeal
:08:28. > :08:30.for people to keep making that life-saving decision
:08:31. > :08:41.A security guard had to be rescued from his own van
:08:42. > :08:46.An engineer helped free the man who had become trapped and police
:08:47. > :08:50.were called to the Lloyds Bank in Cinderford as a precaution.
:08:51. > :08:52.The security firm G4S says the safety of their member of staff,
:08:53. > :08:57.the money and the van were not compromised.
:08:58. > :09:07.The vehicle has been returned to a depot for checks.
:09:08. > :09:16.Courtney Cox has been visiting Thornbury castle to trace her roots.
:09:17. > :09:22.She is a distant relative of the Barkley family. The actress was
:09:23. > :09:25.given access to manuscripts dating back to the 14th century.
:09:26. > :09:29.There's more news on the BBC Website and of course on your local
:09:30. > :09:33.We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.25am.
:09:34. > :09:42.But for now I'll leave you with Ian who has the forecast.
:09:43. > :09:48.Good evening. Well, let's take you through the expectations for
:09:49. > :09:55.tomorrow. Today, the West Country was bathed in sunshine, tomorrow we
:09:56. > :10:02.will be under a veil of cloud. But there maybe pockets of brightness
:10:03. > :10:05.develop. The cloud could be giving some patchy outbreaks of drizzle.
:10:06. > :10:10.Like today all of that will be underpinned by a mild story. Through
:10:11. > :10:13.the rest of tonight, cloud will be steadily tending to thicken up from
:10:14. > :10:16.the south-west. That's signalling the approach of a warm front.
:10:17. > :10:20.Temperatures around seven or eight Celsius and by the early hours we
:10:21. > :10:23.will start to get drizzle feeding into some western and south-western
:10:24. > :10:27.areas and you will see there from the map how that tends to ease its
:10:28. > :10:31.way further north-east wards through tomorrow morning and that cloud
:10:32. > :10:34.tending to lower with it and we will find through the course of the day
:10:35. > :10:39.that many of you will be under a lot of cloud. So a difference really
:10:40. > :10:43.compared to today. That said, as I mentioned, there will be area that
:10:44. > :10:47.may see something brighter, probably in random fashion through the course
:10:48. > :10:51.of the afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow 11 to 13 Celsius. So there
:10:52. > :10:55.could be some spots getting higher than that. Certainly if you had the
:10:56. > :10:59.sun come out anywhere. Saturday, a very similar story. It is looking
:11:00. > :11:03.dry. Decent enough day. Again a mild one as well. Cooler on Sunday. We
:11:04. > :11:03.will have periods of rain moving from
:11:04. > :11:10.day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain.
:11:11. > :11:17.Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5
:11:18. > :11:20.Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled
:11:21. > :11:25.weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset
:11:26. > :11:28.captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have
:11:29. > :11:31.had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the
:11:32. > :11:35.remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across
:11:36. > :11:38.the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across
:11:39. > :11:42.Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some
:11:43. > :11:45.outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and
:11:46. > :11:49.the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest temperatures. We are
:11:50. > :11:53.likely to see frost across eastern parts of Scotland by Friday morning.
:11:54. > :11:57.The west of Scotland will see the cloud moving in, bringing spots of
:11:58. > :12:01.light, drizzly rain. A similar picture for Northern Ireland. Fairly
:12:02. > :12:05.cloudy and grey. A bit of hill fog here and there. Into the north of
:12:06. > :12:06.England as well.