14/04/2017 Points West

Good evening. on the BBC News Channel.

People travelling on the M4 motorway in the West were stuck in their cars

for hours this afternoon, after a gas tanker caught

The road had to be closed in both directions,

meaning long delays for those trying to get away for the Easter Weekend.

The last thing anyone wanted on one of the busiest days

Miles of tailbacks and motorists going nowhere fast.

A tanker carrying compressed gas caught fire at around 12:30pm,

completely shutting the M4 between Chippenham and Bath.

Dozens of people got out of their car because it was

a particular spectacular sight, as you can imagine.

This was before any of the emergency vehicles got there, any

People were having a good look until the police came past

on the hard shoulder screaming out of the window, get back in your

Another driver told the BBC she had been stuck in traffic for two hours,

just a quarter of a mile away from the tanker.

I took a wander down and realised it was a fuel tanker.

Naturally, I just straightaway walked back to my car.

Literally stationary for two and a half hours.

Not one single inch of movement at all.

One lane is still shut this evening but traffic is now moving.

A family being sought by Australian detectives investigating the murder

of a Bristol toddler, say they're making contact with local police.

It comes after officers in New South Wales charged

a man with the murder of Cheryl Grimmer in 1970.

They wanted to speak again to the Goodyear family,

who now live in Nottinghamshire, but at the time lived

The RSPCA is warning people not to use glue traps to catch pests

The birds are being cared for at West Hatch Wildlife Centre.

This one was unable to move its wings when it was found,

and was exhausted from trying to get free.

His primary wing feathers were stuck into his own flanks here.

He'd got quite a few feathers missing on his legs here as well.

Without us intervening and actually washing the glue off,

there's no way he would have ever flown again.

He would have basically just slowly starved to death

Young homeless people in Bristol can now renovate derelict council houses

which they can then rent for next to nothing.

The city council is doing up its old properties,

while giving young apprentices the skills they need to find work.

18-year-old Sophie has been through tough times.

She found herself homeless after troubles with her family.

Now a pilot scheme has given her somewhere to live

Yeah, painting and decorating, that's what I want to do.

The council provides once-derelict homes for free.

A charity supplies the funding to do them up.

A local college does the training, and young people end up

with new skills and a place to live for a peppercorn rent.

What happened here is that the ceiling came down

completely and there was damp everywhere on the walls.

For those behind the project, it's one way of tackling the rising

numbers of young people caught up in the housing crisis.

So, Bristol predicts there is going to be over 700 young

people homeless this year, but that really hides the people

who are sofa-surfing or living in other difficult circumstances

where they don't come to the forefront.

So the predictions are that it's getting worse

and actually it's getting worse cos people can't afford anywhere to live

We need newer, cheaper housing options.

So far, this approach is small scale.

They are currently renovating two homes in Bristol.

But, having proved it can work, they are now looking for many more.

I think if there are properties that need to be brought back into use,

then we are more than happy to get behind them and provide funding

for projects like this that help to get young homeless people

back into employment, but also bring old empty housing

It's an idea, then, that could spread and

generation rent needs every help to carry on living in Bristol.

After 90 years performing at shows and events,

the Royal Signals White Helmets team is being disbanded.

They're famous for their death-defying stunts,

feats of balance, and acrobatics on motorbikes.

The army is keen to move with the times,

and so the display team, based at Blandford Forum in Dorset,

Chippenham Town have been crowned league champions,

They won the Southern Premier title because second place

Leamington didn't beat Biggleswade this afternoon.

The Bluebirds will now play at their highest ever level.

That's almost it from us on this Good Friday night.

I'll now leave you with Sarah Falmer who has our Easter forecast.

Hello, and a very good evening to you.

We've some outbreaks of rain in store through the course of tonight.

The rain will tend to be patchy in nature and light

By the early hours, I suspect most of us will start to be drying out.

A cloudy start to the day for Saturday.

Any remnants of the wet weather easing away and we are in for a dry

afternoon with bright and sunny intervals at times.

To the remainder of the bank holiday weekend, Easter Sunday looks

to start on rather a cloudy note with outbreaks of rain

One or two showers possible on Monday, and it looks

like we will see some frost to start the day on Tuesday.

Your national forecast is coming up next.

Good evening. I don't think everybody was a happy bunny today

with the weather. We had some rain. Some of it