:00:00. > :00:15.Our headlines tonight: Weeks away from freedom.
:00:16. > :00:23.As his supporters celebrate we hear from a comrade
:00:24. > :00:33.When you're surrounded by absolute lunacy a little bit of lunacy
:00:34. > :00:35.probably seem so bad. The workers repairing the tallest
:00:36. > :00:42.pylons outside London Spring showers, but there will be
:00:43. > :00:48.some warmth to. There were scenes of celebration
:00:49. > :00:52.in London today, as the former Royal marine Alexander Blackman was told
:00:53. > :00:57.he could be freed in a few weeks. His original murder conviction
:00:58. > :01:00.for killing a wounded Taliban already spent in prison
:01:01. > :01:18.he could soon back We are overjoyed at
:01:19. > :01:22.the judge's decision sentence, such that he can be
:01:23. > :01:25.released imminently. This is the moment we
:01:26. > :01:27.have all been fighting It is hard to believe that this
:01:28. > :01:31.day is finally here. The point is he was placed under
:01:32. > :01:33.circumstances that no-one back here All the mitigating circumstances
:01:34. > :01:37.that weren't fully heard in the first case has now been
:01:38. > :01:44.heard along with his mental illness that was agreed by three top
:01:45. > :01:47.psychiatrists and the right But although a judge said today that
:01:48. > :01:59.Alexander Blackman's responsibility was diminished,
:02:00. > :02:01.he said he still retained a "substantial responsibility
:02:02. > :02:03.for the deliberate killing". In the past even some senior
:02:04. > :02:05.military figures have said Others have said it is impossible
:02:06. > :02:10.to judge decisions made Clinton Rogers has spoken
:02:11. > :02:13.to one of Blackman's colleagues, who was with him
:02:14. > :02:15.when the killing took place. Rob Driscoll was a Sergeant
:02:16. > :02:19.with the Royal Marines on the same He has undergone years
:02:20. > :02:22.of counselling since. He says the horrors about
:02:23. > :02:28.Afghanistan will probably never Through my career, I have seen some
:02:29. > :02:32.pretty horrific things. But I hadn't seen them use body
:02:33. > :02:35.parts as bait, I haven't heard or A real hatred built
:02:36. > :02:42.up inside me for the insurgency and the people that were
:02:43. > :02:44.prepared to use these techniques Do you think that is the background
:02:45. > :02:50.against which Alexander I think it is certainly
:02:51. > :02:56.a contributing factor. There is no way that we can argue it
:02:57. > :02:59.it wouldn't have affected I think we are
:03:00. > :03:05.surrounded by absolute lunacy, a little bit of lunacy
:03:06. > :03:09.doesn't seem so bad. Rob Driscoll says he
:03:10. > :03:11.still supports Alexander He acknowledges that what Blackman
:03:12. > :03:22.did on the battlefield, captured on helmet cameras,
:03:23. > :03:25.may have been illegal, but militarily, he made the right
:03:26. > :03:27.decision in not summoning help for the wounded
:03:28. > :03:32.Taliban fighter. If he hadn't have done
:03:33. > :03:34.what he did, then I would be walking out of the main gate
:03:35. > :03:38.with eight or nine guys and that would have meant me rolling those
:03:39. > :03:40.dice and potentially not coming back
:03:41. > :03:42.with all the guys I walked Earlier I spoke to Lord Ashdown
:03:43. > :03:51.and asked if he understood I've not seen anything like
:03:52. > :04:11.what Sergeant Blackman saw, but I I have given evidence three
:04:12. > :04:15.times in front of the For actions against
:04:16. > :04:17.international law. Unless you have that
:04:18. > :04:19.law asserted and tested in a court,
:04:20. > :04:21.you can't have Nuremberg, you can't bring walk
:04:22. > :04:32.on No one is saying that
:04:33. > :04:35.sudden Blackman is. The soldier goes into
:04:36. > :04:43.someone else's country If the soldier in the process
:04:44. > :05:01.of a battle does not uphold If the enemy is in your site, you
:05:02. > :05:06.must do everything you can to kill If the enemy is in your power,
:05:07. > :05:11.you have to do everything you can to I remember you saying that,
:05:12. > :05:15.but the truth is that he did break the Geneva Convention
:05:16. > :05:17.and he has admitted that. I remember you saying that,
:05:18. > :05:21.but the truth is that he did break the Geneva Convention
:05:22. > :05:23.and he has admitted that. The people he is fighting
:05:24. > :05:25.against, the Taliban and so-called IES, couldn't care less
:05:26. > :05:27.about the Geneva Convention. With the enemies
:05:28. > :05:31.that we need to fight. It does not mean that
:05:32. > :05:34.you do not follow it. I remember saying to slobber
:05:35. > :05:37.than the loss of itch -- a It does not mean that
:05:38. > :05:40.you do not follow it. In the end, the court has decided
:05:41. > :05:43.on that decision needs to be In the end, the court has decided
:05:44. > :05:48.on that decision needs to be There were mitigating circumstances
:05:49. > :05:52.and that is where the We should be celebrating
:05:53. > :06:00.with Claire Blackman. A security guard who was arrested
:06:01. > :06:02.on suspicion of manslaughter after tackling a suspected
:06:03. > :06:04.shoplifter will face Kieren Church died when the glass
:06:05. > :06:13.bottles he was hiding smashed as he was apprehended
:06:14. > :06:16.by the security guard at The Shires The police have issued a fresh
:06:17. > :06:20.appeal for information in an unsolved case of a woman
:06:21. > :06:26.who was murdered 30 years ago today. 66-year-old Helen Fleet
:06:27. > :06:29.was found in woodland She was last seen alive that morning
:06:30. > :06:34.when she parked her car near Worlebury Woods
:06:35. > :06:37.to take her dogs for a walk. Her body was found by another dog
:06:38. > :06:40.walker and it sparked a major police investigation,
:06:41. > :06:49.but no-one was ever charged. This the view from the top
:06:50. > :06:57.of one of the two pylons They are some of the tallest
:06:58. > :07:01.in Britain and today workers have been right to the top to replace
:07:02. > :07:04.vital parts that haven't been Shrouded by a thick fog this
:07:05. > :07:11.morning, this pylon has helped keep the South West's light switches
:07:12. > :07:14.working since the late 1950s. And is so tall the top is often lost
:07:15. > :07:19.among the low cloud. They call these river crossing
:07:20. > :07:21.towers or pylons to you and me, and what we've
:07:22. > :07:24.got here in the west is the second-highest pair
:07:25. > :07:29.anywhere in Great Britain. And through pretty dense fog
:07:30. > :07:31.here this morning, you can see the one over there
:07:32. > :07:33.and that is carrying longest span anywhere
:07:34. > :07:36.in the UK, actually. Over a mile of wires
:07:37. > :07:41.going through the air. And over the side,
:07:42. > :07:43.the Chepstow side, 500 feet up to the top,
:07:44. > :07:47.you might just be able to make up the yellow jackets
:07:48. > :07:49.of the people carrying out Those insulated as they are changing
:07:50. > :07:53.haven't been switched since This is what it
:07:54. > :08:09.looks like when you work Carrying 275,000 volts
:08:10. > :08:17.across the river severn, you can see the Severn
:08:18. > :08:20.bridge in the background. Filmed over half an hour,
:08:21. > :08:22.this shows the view up the tallest pylon in the UK anywhere outside
:08:23. > :08:24.London. They connect the whole country
:08:25. > :08:27.to the power stations and you have got the grid network around
:08:28. > :08:29.the whole country supplying power so they can divert power
:08:30. > :08:31.all over the country. And the distribution networks,
:08:32. > :08:33.the country your door. The insulators they're replacing
:08:34. > :08:36.were last changed in 1969. As you can see, health
:08:37. > :08:37.and safety procedures The new ones should be fitted this
:08:38. > :08:47.week and keep the electricity A huge team of builders
:08:48. > :08:54.and volunteers turned up to transform a home
:08:55. > :08:58.in Bristol today. electricians and carpenters are now
:08:59. > :09:02.working on the house for At the moment his parents face
:09:03. > :09:06.a five-hour round trip In about ten days their house
:09:07. > :09:11.should be ready for him People in Bath have been
:09:12. > :09:26.among some of the first in the country to get their hands
:09:27. > :09:29.on the new pound coin. The 12-sided coin came
:09:30. > :09:32.into circulation today and the city was one of the few places to receive
:09:33. > :09:34.them on launch day. 80,000 were released in Bath
:09:35. > :09:37.and were immediately snapped up by people who wanted to keep them
:09:38. > :09:39.as collectors items. by people who wanted to keep them
:09:40. > :09:42.as collector's items. And that's the news
:09:43. > :09:44.from across the west tonight - we're back tomorrow but now
:09:45. > :09:47.I will say goodnight and leave you with Sara who's here with me
:09:48. > :10:03.in the studio. We saw some fog and thing this
:10:04. > :10:07.morning. It will remain unsettled tomorrow morning. It is difficult to
:10:08. > :10:12.say exactly where we will see wet and dry weather. You can see right
:10:13. > :10:16.across us is the dividing line between much wetter weather out west
:10:17. > :10:19.the next few days and more dry weather out east. Take some of the
:10:20. > :10:24.graphic you're about to see with a pinch of salt. We have had some rain
:10:25. > :10:30.in the evening skirting its way through the rest of the night. There
:10:31. > :10:34.will be rain going into wheels via the Bristol Channel but most of us
:10:35. > :10:39.will be dry in the morning. It will be pretty gloomy to start tomorrow.
:10:40. > :10:44.We will keep close to a good part of the day and again looking at any wet
:10:45. > :10:48.weather out towards the West. You might see some showers out east
:10:49. > :10:52.towards the channel that was visible have dry weather tomorrow.
:10:53. > :10:56.Temperatures like today in the mid teens. Warmer still for Thursday. We
:10:57. > :11:03.will get a nice southerly drawer they are all the way up from the
:11:04. > :11:04.Azores. We could have some showers out towards the east so it
:11:05. > :11:09.of year. This stay tuned for the national weather forecasts with John
:11:10. > :11:13.Hammond. Good evening. Your parents might
:11:14. > :11:17.have told you once that life 's not fair and they were right. He is the
:11:18. > :11:20.proof. Over the next few days some of us will enjoy some lovely
:11:21. > :11:24.sunshine, temperatures in the low 20s. It will feel like early summer.
:11:25. > :11:30.For others, quite a lot of rain around and it will feel like late
:11:31. > :11:33.March. This is showers earlier on today and dampness this evening in
:11:34. > :11:37.the West Country and Wales. That is heading north eastwards. A different
:11:38. > :11:41.sort of night. A lot of cloud around, quite damp and misty in
:11:42. > :11:46.places. Cloud cover will prevent temperatures falling much at all. A
:11:47. > :11:49.much milder my than we have seen recently. Except for the North of
:11:50. > :11:54.Scotland, but elsewhere in double figures. It will be a Graeme Murty
:11:55. > :11:57.start of the day for most of us, not much in the way of sunshine. As we
:11:58. > :11:58.head through the morning some heavy