:00:10. > :00:16.the cannabis users who want the right to grow their own,
:00:17. > :00:21.Anti-drugs campaigners aren't convinced.
:00:22. > :00:26.Why Bristol wants to be the first city in the UK
:00:27. > :00:36.And the Easter period is looking largely dry but tomorrow will bring
:00:37. > :00:40.a bit afraid. The details later. Cannabis users in Bristol
:00:41. > :00:45.are demanding the right saying what's sold on the streets
:00:46. > :00:50.is too strong and dangerous. Bristol Cannabis Club will go
:00:51. > :00:53.on the march this weekend - calling for a greater tolerance
:00:54. > :00:55.of their illegal habit. Tonight the government told us
:00:56. > :00:58.drugs can have a devastating impact and that communities
:00:59. > :01:03.must be protected. who could be jailed for five years
:01:04. > :01:10.for his Class B cannabis habit. Nonetheless -
:01:11. > :01:13.he now wants his cannabis club Saying drug dealers
:01:14. > :01:19.have flooded Bristol's streets with overly powerful cannabis -
:01:20. > :01:22.known as "skunk". Things are added to it,
:01:23. > :01:25.like spice, glass, silica, other compounds
:01:26. > :01:29.to give it a higher effect and these
:01:30. > :01:32.are very detrimental to health They also want a cannabis
:01:33. > :01:37.cafe in Bristol, in the same way
:01:38. > :01:39.users of alcohol have pubs. "Good for them",
:01:40. > :01:43.says this former govt advisor who's long argued
:01:44. > :01:46.that banning cannabis leads pointing out - 100 million Americans
:01:47. > :01:54.now have access to legal cannabis. Skunk and spice are problems
:01:55. > :01:58.caused by prohibition. People who don't have
:01:59. > :02:00.prohibition don't have problems
:02:01. > :02:02.with these drugs. The dealers will always use
:02:03. > :02:08.the strongest drugs cannabis is the nation's
:02:09. > :02:14.favorite illegal drug, But trendy anti-prohibtion arguments
:02:15. > :02:20.come with a health warning - that cannabis is a gateway drug
:02:21. > :02:26.to Class A substances and causes a risk of psychosis
:02:27. > :02:30.in vulnerable people. It's going to cause harm
:02:31. > :02:33.to your mental health especially if there is underlying
:02:34. > :02:37.mental health issues. If you start using a substance that
:02:38. > :02:41.changes your mental health, Anyone found with
:02:42. > :02:48.a small amount of cannabis is usually only given
:02:49. > :02:51.a police caution first. Last year in Bristol
:02:52. > :02:54.the police carried out 2,800 So - there is no tolerance
:02:55. > :03:00.of those who grow the drug. It looks as if the Cannabis Club
:03:01. > :03:04.has a long way to march Well, earlier I spoke
:03:05. > :03:13.to David Raynes from the National Drug
:03:14. > :03:15.Prevention Alliance. I asked him what he made
:03:16. > :03:19.of the Bristol Cannabis Club's idea? This initiative in Bristol is just
:03:20. > :03:23.a flash in the pan again, we get Amsterdam has had shops selling
:03:24. > :03:31.cannabis for years but In the Netherlands,
:03:32. > :03:35.they are very concerned They have been concerned about that
:03:36. > :03:43.and that is causing a lot of harm. This is what this club are saying,
:03:44. > :03:47.that they are being forced to go to dealers who, in turn,
:03:48. > :03:59.give them stronger cannabis
:04:00. > :04:01.then in turn you can call it a gateway drug.
:04:02. > :04:03.They want to stop that. There is a lot of strong
:04:04. > :04:05.cannabis in the marketplace but that's actually the product
:04:06. > :04:07.of consumer demand. Because they are
:04:08. > :04:10.growing their own here. Well, they would probably
:04:11. > :04:12.grow strong cannabis. Strong cannabis is what
:04:13. > :04:13.consumers seem to want. And if you look at the websites
:04:14. > :04:17.of people who are using cannabis, that's what they've
:04:18. > :04:19.demanded and that's what originally the strong cannabis that came
:04:20. > :04:20.into the Netherlands, then came onto the UK,
:04:21. > :04:23.there's a long history to this. Strong cannabis started
:04:24. > :04:25.in the US, actually. So, do you think we'll ever see
:04:26. > :04:28.a day when cannabis is I mean, you've got about
:04:29. > :04:32.300 and something members of We had a constituency
:04:33. > :04:39.parliamentary candidate in Bristol in 2010 who stood,
:04:40. > :04:42.got 340-odd votes out of 55,000 There is only 14 MPs turned up
:04:43. > :04:46.to a debate about it. A co-pilot from
:04:47. > :04:55.Wiltshire who believed he'd been poisoned
:04:56. > :04:56.by contaminated cockpit air died from an unintentional overdose
:04:57. > :05:01.of sedatives, a coroner has ruled. Richard Westgate, died in 2012
:05:02. > :05:04.after moving to Holland to seek help from a specialist clinic
:05:05. > :05:07.for his symptoms which he thought Richard Westgate's family
:05:08. > :05:13.have waited for years They've always claimed that his poor
:05:14. > :05:18.health before his death was a result of breathing in low-level
:05:19. > :05:20.contaminated cabin fumes Richard Westgate,
:05:21. > :05:25.who was 43, died in 2012. He'd been suffering
:05:26. > :05:28.a series of health issues that affected his nervous system,
:05:29. > :05:33.including severe pain in his head. The coroner said that the issue
:05:34. > :05:36.of cabin fumes was beyond The narrative conclusion
:05:37. > :05:41.said that Mr Westgate who worked for BA was suffering
:05:42. > :05:43.from depression and anxiety. He concluded Mr Westgate had taken
:05:44. > :05:46.some sleeping pills accidentally and had not intended
:05:47. > :05:52.to kill himself. But, afterwards, Richard Westgate's
:05:53. > :05:55.family said they still believed We know there are more sick
:05:56. > :06:03.passengers and crew and we hope today will encourage the millions
:06:04. > :06:07.who fly to ask questions to ensure something is done to make sure
:06:08. > :06:14.others don't suffer like our son. The vast majority of airlines use
:06:15. > :06:17.a system that feeds in cabin air The airline industry maintains
:06:18. > :06:24.it is a safe system. Campaigners say the air also sucks
:06:25. > :06:27.in organophosphates from the engine British Airways has already said
:06:28. > :06:37.that they wouldn't fly jets if they thought cabin
:06:38. > :06:39.air was dangerous. The campaigners and families,
:06:40. > :06:43.like those of Richard Westgate, don't agree and these
:06:44. > :06:47.are differences that will continue. Campaigners have been meeting
:06:48. > :06:49.Bristol's Mayor tonight to put forward their case to make the city
:06:50. > :06:53.the first in the UK to ban They want the Mayor to follow
:06:54. > :07:00.the lead from cities like Grenoble Here's our Home Affairs
:07:01. > :07:06.Correspondent Charlotte Callen. Adverts are everywhere,
:07:07. > :07:10.on our roads and streets. To some, it's a financially
:07:11. > :07:14.appealing part of our global world while others see it
:07:15. > :07:18.as an invasion of our public spaces. It's costly for the
:07:19. > :07:25.advertising companies. Going by the title "brandalism"
:07:26. > :07:29.and under the disguise of being official employees,
:07:30. > :07:32.they say they'll risk prosecution to take on the advertisers
:07:33. > :07:36.in brush-to-wall combat. Filmed here by the Bristol Cable
:07:37. > :07:39.on Bristol streets What we wanted to do,
:07:40. > :07:44.by replacing all this corporate advertising with artwork is to say,
:07:45. > :07:49.what different type Scroll back through the years,
:07:50. > :07:52.these artworks are by Banksy, the vandal, the rebel
:07:53. > :07:55.on Bristol streets. What he does is also illegal
:07:56. > :07:58.but now his works sell for millions. He also wants advertising banned,
:07:59. > :08:00.replaced by public art spaces. Bristol has a real opportunity to be
:08:01. > :08:07.the UK leader in creating a different type of visual realm
:08:08. > :08:13.for the city. Here in Bristol's Bearpit, one
:08:14. > :08:17.of the city's most public spaces. They know which side
:08:18. > :08:21.of the debate they fall on. This is a communal space
:08:22. > :08:24.where nobody is criminalised They turned down ?40,000 worth
:08:25. > :08:30.of advertising to keep their plinth What Bristol must do
:08:31. > :08:37.is create an example Bristol is a city that often dares
:08:38. > :08:42.to be different, to think radically. You just have to look
:08:43. > :08:46.at its culture of street art, But whether the city could really
:08:47. > :08:51.go advertising free, well, that will be down
:08:52. > :08:54.to its Mayor to decide. A ban is already a reality
:08:55. > :08:58.in Sao Paulo in Brazil But for now, Bristol
:08:59. > :09:04.being ad-free remains a dream A woman from Somerset is on track
:09:05. > :09:11.to swim seven ocean channels around Beth French overcame ME as a child
:09:12. > :09:19.and she's now on track She's already completed three
:09:20. > :09:26.of the swims - in California, Hawaii and most recently
:09:27. > :09:29.the Cook Strait in New Zealand. She has four to go, finishing
:09:30. > :09:45.with the English Channel. incredible achievement. That's it
:09:46. > :09:50.from as tonight. More news on the BBC website and local radio stations
:09:51. > :09:54.where you are. With you throughout the Easter weekend but for now, good
:09:55. > :10:03.night and happy Easter. I'll leave with Ian with the forecast.
:10:04. > :10:09.Now, Good Friday is going to see a fair amount of dry weather,
:10:10. > :10:11.at least initially, but will then start to become prone
:10:12. > :10:13.to some outbreaks of mostly patchy or showery rain.
:10:14. > :10:16.A lot of that will be fairly light in nature,
:10:17. > :10:18.late afternoon, into the evening, the odd moderate burst as well.
:10:19. > :10:23.Through the rest of the night, it's looking, effectively, a dry picture.
:10:24. > :10:25.Temperatures generally in a range of about 4-8 Celsius.
:10:26. > :10:28.As we get through into tomorrow morning, there might be the odd spot
:10:29. > :10:30.of rain somewhere but, generally, looking drive
:10:31. > :10:34.Quite a lot of cloud around, rather breezy day, as we head
:10:35. > :10:36.through the afternoon into the evening with the approach
:10:37. > :10:39.of this cold front that'll start to up the chances of seeing that
:10:40. > :10:43.You can see the very fragmentary look to it.
:10:44. > :10:46.Yes, they'll be the odd moderate burst, but much of it very light
:10:47. > :10:48.as we continue through the course of the evening itself.
:10:49. > :10:50.Temperatures tomorrow continuing a clean, really, of decent days,
:10:51. > :10:52.getting up to 13-15 C, pleasant enough, certainly
:10:53. > :10:56.As we get through into Saturday, any early spots of rain disappearing,
:10:57. > :10:58.the day then looking dry, settled, probably brightening
:10:59. > :11:02.Chilly start to Sunday that, again, a decent day.
:11:03. > :11:06.spot of light rain from that cloud. We will keep you updated. Now with
:11:07. > :11:11.the National Outlook, Tomasz Schafernaker.
:11:12. > :11:17.Good evening. It's not exactly cracking whether this Easter. I
:11:18. > :11:22.think the main message is there's going to be a lot of dry weather,
:11:23. > :11:26.just a little bit of rain from time to time. Not so bad overall across
:11:27. > :11:30.most of the UK, wherever you are hopping to and from. From today we
:11:31. > :11:35.have a fair bit of cloud around. We had some cloud around earlier on
:11:36. > :11:39.today. It's going to stick around through the course of the night. A
:11:40. > :11:42.few spits and spots of rain here and there towards the south, clearer
:11:43. > :11:49.skies, may be turning quite chilly here. Overall it's a quiet night.
:11:50. > :11:51.Good Friday itself starts off pretty good with some brightness around.
:11:52. > :11:55.Through the second half of the day what we will see is this where the
:11:56. > :11:58.front sliding in, bringing some thicker cloud and bits and pieces of
:11:59. > :12:00.rain. Let's