03/04/2017

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:00:00. > :00:19.The family of a woman murdered 30 years ago visit the scene,

:00:20. > :00:26.The mystery man who's using the cover of night

:00:27. > :00:36.And rain on the way, effectively the only rain we will have this week.

:00:37. > :00:39.Details at the end of the programme. The police are re-examining evidence

:00:40. > :00:44.to try solve the murder of a woman Helen Fleet was stabbed

:00:45. > :00:49.and strangled in woodland. Now her family have been back

:00:50. > :00:52.to the scene of the killing Our Home Affairs Correspondent,

:00:53. > :00:55.Charlotte Callen, has She was very tall and regal

:00:56. > :01:03.and she was a very bright lady. She loved everybody and there

:01:04. > :01:08.was nothing mean about her. The pain of losing Helen

:01:09. > :01:17.haunts her family and coming to the woods today has been

:01:18. > :01:19.an emotional journey, We just really hope somebody

:01:20. > :01:27.will look into their conscience and come forward because there

:01:28. > :01:30.is still family who loved her and we do still actually

:01:31. > :01:32.want to know what happened. Her murder in these peaceful woods

:01:33. > :01:35.still hangs over the place. For people in Weston,

:01:36. > :01:37.this is a crime they Helen had taken her

:01:38. > :01:49.two dogs for a walk. Helen's friend, who was also

:01:50. > :01:54.walking in the woods, She had been brutally beaten,

:01:55. > :02:00.stabbed and then strangled. Police are yet to discover

:02:01. > :02:05.a motive for her death. They wanted to trace two young men

:02:06. > :02:12.seen running away from the woods. Yes, anyone in the woods on the 28th

:02:13. > :02:15.of March between 10.45am and 12.30pm Police have never traced

:02:16. > :02:20.these two young men, who would now be in their 40s,

:02:21. > :02:22.despite interviewing over But we do have exhibits that we can

:02:23. > :02:34.look to do further DNA Helen's family, who still live

:02:35. > :02:39.in Somerset, hope they could Charlotte Callen, BBC Points West,

:02:40. > :02:47.in Weston-super-Mare. Doctor Jane Monckton-Smith

:02:48. > :02:59.is a criminologist and Thank you for speaking to us, I know

:03:00. > :03:03.you are having a few problems with your earpiece but bear with us. It

:03:04. > :03:08.had been a long time, are you hopeful for a case like this to be

:03:09. > :03:13.solved? Even though it was 30 years ago there is every chance things can

:03:14. > :03:18.change and with the developments we have seen in DNA, it is quite

:03:19. > :03:26.possible, yes. I guess not depend on the police officers at the time

:03:27. > :03:30.preserving the -- a lot depends. Yes, as it was said in your report,

:03:31. > :03:36.they do have exhibits and things from the scene they could possibly

:03:37. > :03:40.now get a DNA sample from because these days they can get it from much

:03:41. > :03:45.smaller samples and even when they have degraded over time. What do you

:03:46. > :03:53.think makes a police force is decide what case to re-examining? I don't

:03:54. > :03:58.think any case that is a cold case is about closed, they are always

:03:59. > :04:04.ready to open a case and especially if they think, something like an

:04:05. > :04:08.anniversary like this, it might make people think they can speak. And

:04:09. > :04:15.that depends on people coming forward as well? It can do. It has

:04:16. > :04:19.been a long time but this person did something very memorable and from

:04:20. > :04:23.some of the things that have been said, there may have been another

:04:24. > :04:28.person that. There is possibly someone out there with knowledge of

:04:29. > :04:31.what happened. I guess with technology and advances in DNA, a

:04:32. > :04:39.lot of criminals must sleep unsteadily. I think so. Certainly

:04:40. > :04:44.you have to not only keep yourself off the DNA database but the rest of

:04:45. > :04:47.your family because they can do familial tracking with DNA. Doctor

:04:48. > :04:51.Jane Monckton-Smith, thank you very much for speaking to us.

:04:52. > :04:54.A foodbank in Bristol says it is dealing with a huge rise

:04:55. > :04:56.in demand for its services, and in December ran out

:04:57. > :05:01.The Bristol North West foodbank is not the only one

:05:02. > :05:07.One charity said it helped 30,000 people in the West from spring

:05:08. > :05:11.And of those, more than a third were children.

:05:12. > :05:18.A bit embarrassed to begin with but it was all right once I was there.

:05:19. > :05:21.Abbey Wylde is a single mother of two.

:05:22. > :05:23.She's been referred to her local foodbank in Lawrence Weston

:05:24. > :05:30.To collect a three-day emergency food parcel.

:05:31. > :05:37.It's finding a job, like I said, to fit around the hours of school,

:05:38. > :05:40.And benefits aren't enough to cover the bills?

:05:41. > :05:46.This week I'm struggling to afford bills at the moment.

:05:47. > :05:51.According to the Trussell Trust, almost a third of referals

:05:52. > :05:54.to foodbanks in the UK are because of benefit delays,

:05:55. > :06:00.In six years these volunteers in north-west Bristol have

:06:01. > :06:04.helped more than 18,000 people, and rising.

:06:05. > :06:06.People are on such low wages, they have problems

:06:07. > :06:09.When the children have holidays from school,

:06:10. > :06:12.they don't get any free meals so they, you know, they come

:06:13. > :06:16.They have become so well established,

:06:17. > :06:23.There is also a fuel banks and debt advice.

:06:24. > :06:25.So that's just a really lovely smooth white sauce.

:06:26. > :06:28.And cookery courses for those on low incomes who are learning it's

:06:29. > :06:35.So foodbanks are growing and diversifying but a rise

:06:36. > :06:39.in handouts remains a potential embarrasment for politicians.

:06:40. > :06:41.Both left and right have accused the Trussell Trust of overstating

:06:42. > :06:50.These volunteers say they're simply meeting a demand.

:06:51. > :06:52.People are saying before they would have stolen things,

:06:53. > :06:56.they would have been begging off their neighbours.

:06:57. > :06:58.Local agencies were saying, social workers were saying

:06:59. > :07:01.they were buying things for people out of their own pockets

:07:02. > :07:04.Volunteers limit handouts to ensure no one becomes overly

:07:05. > :07:10.But no one here thinks the queue for their food

:07:11. > :07:17.Scott Ellis, BBC Points West, Avonmouth.

:07:18. > :07:19.Now, if you're obsessed with the correct use

:07:20. > :07:24.There's a man who goes out in the dead night

:07:25. > :07:25.in Bristol, putting right those punctuation wrongs.

:07:26. > :07:35.He's the Banksy of bad punctuation, roaming the streets

:07:36. > :07:43.I've been doing it for quite a lot of years now.

:07:44. > :07:46.I do think it's a cause worth pursuing.

:07:47. > :07:50.At home he makes sticky punctuation marks.

:07:51. > :07:52.I'm trying to match the colour of the apostrophe that's

:07:53. > :07:57.He's even invented a tool which he calls his apostrophiser,

:07:58. > :08:03.Look at that, that's worked perfectly.

:08:04. > :08:05.By day he is a highly qualified professional.

:08:06. > :08:09.Only his family know what he gets up to after dark.

:08:10. > :08:13.I have felt extremely nervous, the heart has been stumping.

:08:14. > :08:22.He started his campaign 13 years ago.

:08:23. > :08:24.This was the first sign he tackled, Amy's Nail's.

:08:25. > :08:29.Elsewhere he's added them, leaving his mark all over Bristol.

:08:30. > :08:32.There will be some people, maybe the owners of these shops

:08:33. > :08:34.who say, hang on a minute, you haven't got permission,

:08:35. > :08:38.What you're doing is a crime, it's vandalism.

:08:39. > :08:43.I'd say to them, it's more of a crime to have the apostrophes

:08:44. > :08:47.There's one sign he's been desperate to correct for years.

:08:48. > :08:56.This is just wrong, it's not meant to be like this,

:08:57. > :09:08.But using a purpose-built trestle, he climbs up, cuts a piece of yellow

:09:09. > :09:12.sticky back plastic to size and covers the rogue apostrophe.

:09:13. > :09:18.It's good to see people still caring about English grammar, isn't it?

:09:19. > :09:27.It does make my heart swell slightly when I see the correct apostrophe.

:09:28. > :09:40.Before we leave you, congratulations to our colleague Ali, she admitted

:09:41. > :09:43.to listeners that she could not swim so multiple medal winner Stephanie

:09:44. > :09:46.Millward stepped in to teach her and in less than an hour she completed

:09:47. > :09:48.her first half lengths. Well done. There's more news on the BBC website

:09:49. > :09:52.and on your local BBC radio But for now I'll say goodnight

:09:53. > :10:04.and leave you with Ian Thank you and good evening. Tomorrow

:10:05. > :10:09.the weather is dictated by what is going on tonight which is rain

:10:10. > :10:14.pushing eastwards and by the morning the legacy of it as it clears will

:10:15. > :10:19.be a lot of cloud initially and secondly a bit of uncertainty as to

:10:20. > :10:24.how the last of the rain gets out more eastern parts of our area. A

:10:25. > :10:30.good chance many of you will see it brightening up in the afternoon. The

:10:31. > :10:35.main routes eastwards from very fragmented, some in Bristol and some

:10:36. > :10:39.past Bath and more to follow. Temperatures around eight or nine

:10:40. > :10:45.Celsius. Into tomorrow, the cloud base will have lowered to give us

:10:46. > :10:50.some murky conditions, some light and patchy rain particularly out

:10:51. > :10:55.towards the East in Wiltshire and Dorset and there is some oscillation

:10:56. > :10:58.about how it might clear or not over the morning. It might linger longer

:10:59. > :11:02.but brightening up from the West through the day with temperatures

:11:03. > :11:03.around is remaining settled. It will feel

:11:04. > :11:15.fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in

:11:16. > :11:20.across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh

:11:21. > :11:26.Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop

:11:27. > :11:31.but the temperatures will also drop. Some rain to go with the cloud. It

:11:32. > :11:36.is moving its way from west to east. Drying up in not an island and

:11:37. > :11:44.eventually it will dry up in most of Scotland. The fresher Atlantic air

:11:45. > :11:45.is following on behind. In major towns and cities it will be five, 6