11/04/2017 Points West

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The mother who wants to put the brakes on speeding drivers

The challenge to play a piece of music to save the life

A few light showers possible tomorrow. If you see them, you will

be in the majority because it will be mostly dry. Details later in the

Families living on an estate in Weston-super-Mare are calling

for a clamp down on speeding drivers, saying their streets

The campaign is being lead by the mother of a teenager

who was knocked off his bike by a driver who then drove away.

Like, it feels like the pain when I got hit by the car.

Mitchell is still in pain nearly five weeks after being hit

Someone left this 14-year-old boy for dead and the damage

That's going to stay with me for life.

I have flashbacks, nightmares, memories of it.

And I even have the sensations when I got hit.

I get the feelings of when I got hit, like vibrations.

Mitchell's mother showed us where her son crawled

to the kerbside on March 7th, his shin bone sticking out

She's launched a petition for safer roads on the Oldmixon Estate and

You get the speeding boys and they're doing 40

There's a lot of kids that play and they're pretty good,

good as gold, they watch the road, but, to be honest with you,

Amid the calls for more speed bumps and traffic calming measures

like these on the Bournville estate, North Somerset Council is saying it

has to wait for the police report into the accident.

Then they can be sure about what caused the accident

and what action should be taken in future.

Normally, these kinds of measures are only brought in on roads

which are proved to be dangerous in the long-term.

Yes, but why wait until an accident happens because somebody

So we don't want to wait until that happens, do we?

But without the report, the council can't start to assess

if setting up speed bumps or a 20-zone here would

The fact that Mitchell was crossing a rode at night on a bicycle

from between parked cars will also form part of the police

What is clearly inexcusable is driving off and Mitchell has

a message for the person at the wheel.

Just take yourself in and own up cos it's going to make matters

Road safety campaigners say it's time for tougher sentences

If they catch the driver now, unless he's tried to get

rid of the evidence, he can only be charged

with failure to stop and that's a summary offence.

It's a maximum six months in prison, but only 1% of drivers convicted

The police are also appealing for the driver

The Chief Executive of Gloucestershire County Council

has been named the most expensive public servant in the South West.

A survey by the Tax Payers' Alliance says over ?300,000

was spent on Peter Bungard, here on the right,

The County Council said almost ?200,000 was from a one-off pension

contribution it paid after Mr Bungard reduced

Doctors in Bristol are urging patients to consider all options

before going to emergency departments for treatment

The Bristol CCG says figures show around a quarter of people who go

to their local A could instead be treated more quickly

by a different service, leaving emergency departments

Well, earlier I spoke to Dr Peter Goyer from Bristol

Clinical Commissioning Group, and I asked why they were expecting

The Easter period is always a pressured time because there

are four consecutive days when normal general

We do have the out of hours service who provide general practice 24/7,

but it is not the same and doesn't have the same capacity.

And so, this weekend is always more pressured.

What are the knock-on effects if the A does become over busy?

Knock-on effects is that consultant doctors are spending more time

with patients who have a lower level of need that can be managed

elsewhere which means that it often takes longer to see a patients

elsewhere which means that it often takes longer to see a patient

Clearly they are prioritised by their need but patients who spend

longer in the A departments will spend longer in hospital

and that knocks on to problems across the system over

So could it create a backlog and we could see another winter crisis?

I don't think we'll see a winter crisis because we know

that the level of illness at the present time is lower,

but it would put big pressure on the system.

I don't see us going to escalation in the way that we did before.

Some people might argue why not take on extra staff?

It's really clear that there are some very skilled

locums but in general, if you know your own department,

if you work in a team, if you know the equipment,

the people, you're much more effective.

There are plans to get senior staff in and link the staff over this

period of time but locums don't necessarily help.

You're asking patients to go and see pharmacists.

Do they have the medical history of people?

They don't have the medical history, but what they're looking

at is supporting patients who have the simplest level of need.

They have an extended training and additional training

around minor illness, so simple things like

conjunctivitis, looking at rashes, coughs, colds, many of the things

That means the out of hours service can concentrate

on many of the illnesses where patients often

First thing is to talk to family, talk to family,

get the best advice from them, then I'd talk to pharmacy.

But also, through 111, patients can be assessed

and their need looked at carefully to see where it can be better

provided and often that's not in the A department.

Musicians from around the world are taking part in a unique online

challenge to help save the life of a Somerset trombonist.

Stephen Sykes is suffering from a blood cancer

which isn't responding to conventional treatment.

His doctors say he needs an expensive drug which isn't

available on the NHS, so musicians are

And I hope that you make your own video of your own acrobat challenge.

..to the Band of the Scots Guards.

Playing a piece of music called The Acrobat on line and then

And all to raise money for this man - a talented trombonist himself now

seriously ill with Hodgkins Lymphoma.

In fact, they have all been really good.

that it is making my hair fall out now(!)

Someone was playing a carrot and a red pepper.

Then we had a family from Wincanton in the garden

with their grandchildren and I think they were playing watering cans.

The Acrobat Challenge, which aims to raise ?90,000

for radical cancer treatment, was the idea of another trombonist

from Cambridgeshire who just wanted to do something to help.

And wanting to aim it at trombonists and thinking about the internet

The Acrobat is a really famous trombone solo so it just popped

into my head and it sounded good, the Acrobat challenge.

And apparently the tune is so simple anyone can do it.

Forest Green Rovers face an important match tonight

as they look to gain their first ever promotion into

They take on Tranmere Rovers who are directly above them in second.

A win would go a long way to confirming their place in the end

There's more news on the BBC Website and of course on your local

But for now I'll say goodnight and leave you with Ian

Thanks very much. Hello, everybody. The forecast for tomorrow, there

will be some key differences to today. Primarily, a breezy day and

also for the most part, cloudy one as well. Some sunnier phases but

later through the afternoon that cloud tending to thicken up from the

north as a weak front arrives and that introduces a few light showers

but not many of them, so a very small amount of rain where you

happen to get that through tomorrow. At the moment, the moon shining

brightly once again. Temperatures will drop 5-7 for most. By the tail

end of the night, the breeze will have picked up. The odd spot of

light rain. Most areas will start dry and should remain that way as we

progress through the rest of the morning and into a good part of the

afternoon. The cloud will thicken into Gloucestershire through the

afternoon. A few showers southwards. None of those will be particularly

dramatic by any means and most of you will miss them entirely.

Temperatures tomorrow, 11-14. rain but it will be brighter later.

On Sunday, on the cool side for East itself.

Good evening. Grace of all it -- it is greatest of all in Scotland. A

weather front is on the move. The rain edging down into south-western

parts of Scotland and northern Ireland. Much of England and Wales

will have a dry note but not quite as Chile to start tomorrow. Let's

deal with the wet weather first thing tomorrow. It will be a damp

start for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Heaviest rain on the hills

towards the coast and east of the Pennines, not too much rain at all.

Southern parts of England and Wales, some more cloud with sunny spells.

Most places dry with an isolated shower or two. The weather front

edges into the Midlands and Wales and East