:00:08. > :00:11.The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was in the West today
:00:12. > :00:14.on a crucial mission - to drum up support ahead
:00:15. > :00:19.With a vast majority of seats are held by Conservatives,
:00:20. > :00:22.there's a lot of work for him to do here.
:00:23. > :00:25.Our Political Editor, Paul Barltrop, has more.
:00:26. > :00:28.He's a hit with many Labour members, especially
:00:29. > :00:34.I was born in Chippenham, and my parents lived
:00:35. > :00:36.in Devizes, and it's lovely to be home.
:00:37. > :00:43.We're 72 hours into this election campaign.
:00:44. > :00:49.We're 72 hours into the opportunity of our lifetime to challenge
:00:50. > :00:55.the inequality and injustice that exists in Britain today.
:00:56. > :00:58.Swindon was the first stop of the day - a crucial swing seat.
:00:59. > :01:00.If he's to be PM, he needs to win here.
:01:01. > :01:04.But on the streets, it was hard to find fans.
:01:05. > :01:06.I haven't got a lot of confidence in him, really.
:01:07. > :01:09.I wouldn't vote for Labour in a million years with him as leader.
:01:10. > :01:13.He may have a lot of good intentions, but I'm not sure
:01:14. > :01:16.whether the way he presents himself is someone that I would
:01:17. > :01:22.Four Labour councillors in the Forest of Dean have
:01:23. > :01:30.All that I was faced with on the street and confronted
:01:31. > :01:33.on the street was, as long as Corbyn is in his current position,
:01:34. > :01:44.It's all well and good to be an idealist, to be a romantic,
:01:45. > :01:47.but unless you're actually in power, you can do absolutely nothing.
:01:48. > :01:51.In Bristol, Jeremy Corbyn joined youngsters at a children's centre.
:01:52. > :02:03.Today, Labour wanted the focus to be on problems in education.
:02:04. > :02:08.So it wasn't easy getting him to talk about his departed councillors.
:02:09. > :02:12.This is a party absolutely determined to take the fight
:02:13. > :02:15.to the Tories about inequality and injustice in this country.
:02:16. > :02:19.That's the message, and that's the unity of our party now.
:02:20. > :02:20.No message for your councillors, though?
:02:21. > :02:24.My message to them is - come back, get on the streets, join in.
:02:25. > :02:26.Do you really want another Tory government?
:02:27. > :02:29.Jeremy Corbyn knows he's got a lot of work to do.
:02:30. > :02:31.This has been a brief visit here today.
:02:32. > :02:34.But the Labour leader's promising to be back in the West plenty more
:02:35. > :02:40.Paul Barltrop, BBC Points West, Bristol.
:02:41. > :02:42.Avon and Somerset Police call-handlers have been
:02:43. > :02:43.given new training, following an independent
:02:44. > :02:47.investigation into contact with a young man before
:02:48. > :02:53.Robert Cox was attacked in Bristol four years ago at a home
:02:54. > :02:57.Another resident, Derek Hancock, called the police three times
:02:58. > :03:02.The Independent Police Complaints Commission has recommended new ways
:03:03. > :03:06.of linking different incidents and highlighting calls
:03:07. > :03:13.Some teachers have claimed they're expecting pupils to turn up
:03:14. > :03:16.malnourished when the school gates open next week, as a growing number
:03:17. > :03:20.of children are going hungry in the school holidays.
:03:21. > :03:23.Charities say they've set up lunch clubs in cities like Bristol
:03:24. > :03:26.and Bath to make sure young people still get fed when the school
:03:27. > :03:33.But demand is now so great that some have a waiting list.
:03:34. > :03:36.We would like the Government to listen to us, listen
:03:37. > :03:39.to the statistics, listen to the surveys we've been doing,
:03:40. > :03:41.listen to the charities who are filling those gaps
:03:42. > :03:45.in society which they have allowed to arise.
:03:46. > :03:47.The Government claims it has a number of initiatives underway
:03:48. > :03:53.History will be be made this weekend as Bristol's former
:03:54. > :03:56.High Sheriff Peaches Golding officially takes up the role
:03:57. > :04:01.Peaches Golding will become the first black woman in the country
:04:02. > :04:03.to hold the ceremonial title, which involves representing
:04:04. > :04:13.Talking me through her family history - Peaches Golding
:04:14. > :04:21.I am delighted that the Queen has appointed me to the role.
:04:22. > :04:23.And for me, that's the important thing.
:04:24. > :04:28.Although Bristol didn't get a Lord Lieutenant until 1996,
:04:29. > :04:32.the post was first created elsewhere, way back in the 1540s.
:04:33. > :04:35.And has never been held by a black woman before
:04:36. > :04:41.The role is to effectively be the Queen's local representative.
:04:42. > :04:47.It means being involved in civic matters and social matters,
:04:48. > :04:54.Peaches was Bristol's High Sheriff in 2010.
:04:55. > :04:57.She is the daughter of an American civil rights campaigner who made
:04:58. > :05:08.And at the time, the people on the bus believed that he had
:05:09. > :05:11.to sit at the back of the bus because he was black.
:05:12. > :05:13.And actually it turned very, very ugly.
:05:14. > :05:17.And of course he was correct, and won that suit.
:05:18. > :05:19.Peaches says watching her father question injustice from a young age
:05:20. > :05:26.Lord Lieutenants have to retire on their 75th birthday.
:05:27. > :05:29.It means Peaches will have 12 years in the role,
:05:30. > :05:39.He's 75, is from Bristol and has now become the oldest person
:05:40. > :05:43.in the UK to complete the world's toughest marathon.
:05:44. > :05:47.David Excell ran the 250-kilometre Marathon des Sables,
:05:48. > :05:50.raising more than ?20,000 for the Bristol Area Stroke
:05:51. > :05:55.The six-day challenge involves running in 50 degree heat
:05:56. > :06:06.through sand dunes in the foothills of Morocco's Atlas Mountains.
:06:07. > :06:14.And some swallows flew over my head, and they were on their way to the
:06:15. > :06:19.UK. I think they were trying to tell me that it was time for me to go
:06:20. > :06:20.back to the UK. I tried to drop out but the doctors said, no, you go
:06:21. > :06:25.one. -- you go on. And that's where I must
:06:26. > :06:28.wish you a good night. The weekend of course
:06:29. > :06:30.is just round the corner, and Ian can tell us what the weather
:06:31. > :06:33.will be up to. We're in for a weekend which will be
:06:34. > :06:40.dominated once again by a lot of dry That said, during the first part
:06:41. > :06:43.of Saturday, as a weak front comes down across,
:06:44. > :06:46.there will be a thickening A few spots of rain about,
:06:47. > :06:49.the odd light shower. And through the afternoon
:06:50. > :06:51.we can see that cloud tending to break up,
:06:52. > :06:53.fairly warm weather where Sunday is then looking
:06:54. > :06:57.another dry and fine day. Through the course of tonight,
:06:58. > :07:00.with varying amounts of cloud around, temperatures settling
:07:01. > :07:01.at about 8-10dC. As we head through into first
:07:02. > :07:03.light tomorrow, some early brightness around,
:07:04. > :07:05.but always competing with that cloud You'll see the sign there
:07:06. > :07:09.for a little bit of light rain on that weak front before it tends
:07:10. > :07:12.to fragment over the top of the West Country
:07:13. > :07:15.during the rest of the day. And in doing so, it will allow more
:07:16. > :07:18.in the way of some pockets of brighter and sunnier weather
:07:19. > :07:20.to develop through the course Temperatures tomorrow
:07:21. > :07:23.should safely nudge up Where the sunshine is
:07:24. > :07:26.out, most definitely. Turning colder, though,
:07:27. > :07:34.as we head into next week. marathon. Here is the outlook for
:07:35. > :07:35.the weather for the next few days and Helen Willetts has the National
:07:36. > :07:49.forecast. While unusual to see snow in May, it
:07:50. > :07:53.will be a shock to the system. We've seen some interesting contrast. 19
:07:54. > :07:58.degrees cost is in Scotland in the sunshine today. In the sunshine only
:07:59. > :08:03.11. The differences we are behind a cold weather front. Seeing a stepped
:08:04. > :08:09.down in temperatures. The cold air filtering sound so there will be a
:08:10. > :08:11.widespread ground frost across the country. The week weather front
:08:12. > :08:18.still with us so we could cheat patchy mist and fog. The best chance
:08:19. > :08:22.of seeing the meteor shower overnight will be in those clear
:08:23. > :08:26.skies further north. A better chance for south overnight. We start
:08:27. > :08:27.Saturday morning with the line of cloud, the