03/04/2017 Points West

The family of a woman murdered 30 years ago visit the scene,

The mystery man who's using the cover of night

And rain on the way, effectively the only rain we will have this week.

Details at the end of the programme. The police are re-examining evidence

to try solve the murder of a woman Helen Fleet was stabbed

and strangled in woodland. Now her family have been back

to the scene of the killing Our Home Affairs Correspondent,

Charlotte Callen, has She was very tall and regal

and she was a very bright lady. She loved everybody and there

was nothing mean about her. The pain of losing Helen

haunts her family and coming to the woods today has been

an emotional journey, We just really hope somebody

will look into their conscience and come forward because there

is still family who loved her and we do still actually

want to know what happened. Her murder in these peaceful woods

still hangs over the place. For people in Weston,

this is a crime they Helen had taken her

two dogs for a walk. Helen's friend, who was also

walking in the woods, She had been brutally beaten,

stabbed and then strangled. Police are yet to discover

a motive for her death. They wanted to trace two young men

seen running away from the woods. Yes, anyone in the woods on the 28th

of March between 10.45am and 12.30pm Police have never traced

these two young men, who would now be in their 40s,

despite interviewing over But we do have exhibits that we can

look to do further DNA Helen's family, who still live

in Somerset, hope they could Charlotte Callen, BBC Points West,

in Weston-super-Mare. Doctor Jane Monckton-Smith

is a criminologist and Thank you for speaking to us, I know

you are having a few problems with your earpiece but bear with us. It

had been a long time, are you hopeful for a case like this to be

solved? Even though it was 30 years ago there is every chance things can

change and with the developments we have seen in DNA, it is quite

possible, yes. I guess not depend on the police officers at the time

preserving the -- a lot depends. Yes, as it was said in your report,

they do have exhibits and things from the scene they could possibly

now get a DNA sample from because these days they can get it from much

smaller samples and even when they have degraded over time. What do you

think makes a police force is decide what case to re-examining? I don't

think any case that is a cold case is about closed, they are always

ready to open a case and especially if they think, something like an

anniversary like this, it might make people think they can speak. And

that depends on people coming forward as well? It can do. It has

been a long time but this person did something very memorable and from

some of the things that have been said, there may have been another

person that. There is possibly someone out there with knowledge of

what happened. I guess with technology and advances in DNA, a

lot of criminals must sleep unsteadily. I think so. Certainly

you have to not only keep yourself off the DNA database but the rest of

your family because they can do familial tracking with DNA. Doctor

Jane Monckton-Smith, thank you very much for speaking to us.

A foodbank in Bristol says it is dealing with a huge rise

in demand for its services, and in December ran out

The Bristol North West foodbank is not the only one

One charity said it helped 30,000 people in the West from spring

And of those, more than a third were children.

A bit embarrassed to begin with but it was all right once I was there.

Abbey Wylde is a single mother of two.

She's been referred to her local foodbank in Lawrence Weston

To collect a three-day emergency food parcel.

It's finding a job, like I said, to fit around the hours of school,

And benefits aren't enough to cover the bills?

This week I'm struggling to afford bills at the moment.

According to the Trussell Trust, almost a third of referals

to foodbanks in the UK are because of benefit delays,

In six years these volunteers in north-west Bristol have

helped more than 18,000 people, and rising.

People are on such low wages, they have problems

When the children have holidays from school,

they don't get any free meals so they, you know, they come

They have become so well established,

There is also a fuel banks and debt advice.

So that's just a really lovely smooth white sauce.

And cookery courses for those on low incomes who are learning it's

So foodbanks are growing and diversifying but a rise

in handouts remains a potential embarrasment for politicians.

Both left and right have accused the Trussell Trust of overstating

These volunteers say they're simply meeting a demand.

People are saying before they would have stolen things,

they would have been begging off their neighbours.

Local agencies were saying, social workers were saying

they were buying things for people out of their own pockets

Volunteers limit handouts to ensure no one becomes overly

But no one here thinks the queue for their food

Scott Ellis, BBC Points West, Avonmouth.

Now, if you're obsessed with the correct use

There's a man who goes out in the dead night

in Bristol, putting right those punctuation wrongs.

He's the Banksy of bad punctuation, roaming the streets

I've been doing it for quite a lot of years now.

I do think it's a cause worth pursuing.

At home he makes sticky punctuation marks.

I'm trying to match the colour of the apostrophe that's

He's even invented a tool which he calls his apostrophiser,

Look at that, that's worked perfectly.

By day he is a highly qualified professional.

Only his family know what he gets up to after dark.

I have felt extremely nervous, the heart has been stumping.

He started his campaign 13 years ago.

This was the first sign he tackled, Amy's Nail's.

Elsewhere he's added them, leaving his mark all over Bristol.

There will be some people, maybe the owners of these shops

who say, hang on a minute, you haven't got permission,

What you're doing is a crime, it's vandalism.

I'd say to them, it's more of a crime to have the apostrophes

There's one sign he's been desperate to correct for years.

This is just wrong, it's not meant to be like this,

But using a purpose-built trestle, he climbs up, cuts a piece of yellow

sticky back plastic to size and covers the rogue apostrophe.

It's good to see people still caring about English grammar, isn't it?

It does make my heart swell slightly when I see the correct apostrophe.

Before we leave you, congratulations to our colleague Ali, she admitted

to listeners that she could not swim so multiple medal winner Stephanie

Millward stepped in to teach her and in less than an hour she completed

her first half lengths. Well done. There's more news on the BBC website

and on your local BBC radio But for now I'll say goodnight

and leave you with Ian Thank you and good evening. Tomorrow

the weather is dictated by what is going on tonight which is rain

pushing eastwards and by the morning the legacy of it as it clears will

be a lot of cloud initially and secondly a bit of uncertainty as to

how the last of the rain gets out more eastern parts of our area. A

good chance many of you will see it brightening up in the afternoon. The

main routes eastwards from very fragmented, some in Bristol and some

past Bath and more to follow. Temperatures around eight or nine

Celsius. Into tomorrow, the cloud base will have lowered to give us

some murky conditions, some light and patchy rain particularly out

towards the East in Wiltshire and Dorset and there is some oscillation

about how it might clear or not over the morning. It might linger longer

but brightening up from the West through the day with temperatures

around is remaining settled. It will feel

fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in

across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh

Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop

but the temperatures will also drop. Some rain to go with the cloud. It

is moving its way from west to east. Drying up in not an island and

eventually it will dry up in most of Scotland. The fresher Atlantic air

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