10/03/2017 Points West

Police in Bristol are urging people not to turn a blind eye to crime

after finding children living in squalid conditions

In some cases tests show the youngsters have the same levels

The search for illegal drugs in Bristol.

Much of the dealing goes on behind closed doors, meaning police rely

But in some neighbourhoods there's a problem.

People are probably scared to come forward if they knew

someone who is doing it, that someone might come

after them or something, I would have thought.

They wouldn't want to come get involved because of comebacks.

Do think there would be comebacks if you talked to the police?

Well, if anybody knew who grassed them up or anything, yeah.

It's just people's, close-knit community,

they just keep themselves to themselves and let everybody get

I could grass on one person who's selling but then no matter

what it is going to carry on, isn't it?

But during their work police find children living

Here they were executing a drugs warrant.

Is this where a child was supposed to have been sleeping?

Officers used their powers to remove the children.

No drugs were found, but the parents pleaded guilty to neglect.

In another case illegal drugs were found stored in a sweet jar

PC Ben Jeffries has seen many other cases of children condemned

to appalling conditions by drug-dealing parents.

And when you see young children crawling around on floors,

uncapped needles, foil which has been used to smoke drugs,

it's just, yeah, if you could see that you would be

In this raid a child was found in a house

It's nasty to an adult, heaven knows what it would do

Tell me about that case we discussed...

The police safeguarding team say young lives are at risk.

They are living in an environment which is giving them the same amount

of drugs in their system that you would find in your average,

Tests of hair samples have given worrying results.

This anti-drugs campaigner hopes there will be a change

in the neighbourhood where she's lived all her life for the sake

They are caught in a cycle of what goes on within that households.

And that is what the community have got to try and stop.

The force would encourage the public to come forward with information.

It's been announced how much each council will get for adult social

care as part of the chancellor's Budget announcement this week.

Somerset and Gloucestershire get the biggest share,

they'll both receive more than ?21 million over

Bristol receives 17 million and Bath and North East Somerset 5.8 million.

Tourists in Bath could face a nightly charge

Around a million visitors stay overnight each year.

Councillors want to introduce the tax to help plug a ?37 million

But they stress the plan is in its very earliest stages,

they'd also need the government to change the law.

It was built in Somerset and it's seen action around the world.

But this month, the Lynx helicopter will be retired after four decades

Today one of the last flew into Yeovilton

Our Somerset Correspondent Clinton Rogers saw the homecoming.

We're off to witness a piece of naval aviation history...

This is Yeovilton information, Delta...

This is the very last flight home from the last mission

After 41 years, the helicopter they call

"the sports car of the sky" is being retired.

I've been in the Navy for 16 years and flying this

wonderful aircraft for, you know, 13 years.

It has just been an absolute pleasure.

It proved its combat skills in the Falklands, and in the Gulf.

It's chased drug traffickers in the Caribbean, pirates

in Somalia, and it's even had Royalty in the driving seat.

But in two weeks' time it'll become a museum piece.

I have to say it is rather sad to think that at the end of this

But on the other hand, it's a real privilege to be flying

one of the last Lynx on one of its last flights.

And so today a Lynx came home after nine months away,

patrolling the North Atlantic, Mediterraean and Pacific Oceans.

For the families, a moment to capture for posterity,

and for some it clearly couldn't come a moment too soon.

It's been a tough deployment, emotionally, especially missing

this one, and the wife, it's been difficult.

It feels like a relief because I didn't know

So, as one aircraft moves into the history books,

the new kid on the block takes to the skies.

By next month all Navy Lynx will be replaced by new Wildcats,

Former England football goalkeeper and Dancing On Ice star David Seaman

has given his backing to a figure skating couple from Swindon.

Zoe Jones and Chris Boyadji are Britain's number

one pair and are off to the World Championships

They don't have a full time coach, so David and his wife,

who's a professional skater, are helping them in

Points West has bulletins across the weekend, but I'll leave

you with Ian Fergusson who has the weather forecast.

The weekend is going to be split between a dry day on Saturday.

It looks a pretty pleasant affair actually, albeit with varying

amounts of cloud around, sometimes quite extensive

Conversely as we head through into Sunday,

this is where we will see some wet weather about.

In the morning some of that quite heavy initially and as the day wears

on it will tend to become more fragmentary, with drier phases too,

and that bit cooler compared to the mild conditions of Saturday.

Temperatures tonight will settle at around

As we head through towards first light tomorrow it should be

And the tricky element of the forecast isgoing to be

the balance between cloud cover versus pockets of brighter weather.

There is a fair chance actually as you come further south-eastwards

that it brightens up quite significantly as we get

Into the evening one or two spots of rain starting to appear

and a cold front arriving in from the West and that will start

to deliver more rain overnight into early Sunday.

Temperatures tomorrow getting up to 13 or 14 and it's looking

Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures

rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud

didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at

around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.

Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain

will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the

early hours of Saturday. It will be mild. Temperatures six to ten

degrees. Frost-free to start off your weekend. Saturday will be a

decent day to many parts of the country. There will be sunshine to