21/04/2017 Points West

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was in the West today

on a crucial mission - to drum up support ahead

With a vast majority of seats are held by Conservatives,

there's a lot of work for him to do here.

Our Political Editor, Paul Barltrop, has more.

He's a hit with many Labour members, especially

I was born in Chippenham, and my parents lived

in Devizes, and it's lovely to be home.

We're 72 hours into this election campaign.

We're 72 hours into the opportunity of our lifetime to challenge

the inequality and injustice that exists in Britain today.

Swindon was the first stop of the day - a crucial swing seat.

If he's to be PM, he needs to win here.

But on the streets, it was hard to find fans.

I haven't got a lot of confidence in him, really.

I wouldn't vote for Labour in a million years with him as leader.

He may have a lot of good intentions, but I'm not sure

whether the way he presents himself is someone that I would

Four Labour councillors in the Forest of Dean have

All that I was faced with on the street and confronted

on the street was, as long as Corbyn is in his current position,

It's all well and good to be an idealist, to be a romantic,

but unless you're actually in power, you can do absolutely nothing.

In Bristol, Jeremy Corbyn joined youngsters at a children's centre.

Today, Labour wanted the focus to be on problems in education.

So it wasn't easy getting him to talk about his departed councillors.

This is a party absolutely determined to take the fight

to the Tories about inequality and injustice in this country.

That's the message, and that's the unity of our party now.

No message for your councillors, though?

My message to them is - come back, get on the streets, join in.

Do you really want another Tory government?

Jeremy Corbyn knows he's got a lot of work to do.

This has been a brief visit here today.

But the Labour leader's promising to be back in the West plenty more

Paul Barltrop, BBC Points West, Bristol.

Avon and Somerset Police call-handlers have been

given new training, following an independent

investigation into contact with a young man before

Robert Cox was attacked in Bristol four years ago at a home

Another resident, Derek Hancock, called the police three times

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has recommended new ways

of linking different incidents and highlighting calls

Some teachers have claimed they're expecting pupils to turn up

malnourished when the school gates open next week, as a growing number

of children are going hungry in the school holidays.

Charities say they've set up lunch clubs in cities like Bristol

and Bath to make sure young people still get fed when the school

But demand is now so great that some have a waiting list.

We would like the Government to listen to us, listen

to the statistics, listen to the surveys we've been doing,

listen to the charities who are filling those gaps

in society which they have allowed to arise.

The Government claims it has a number of initiatives underway

History will be be made this weekend as Bristol's former

High Sheriff Peaches Golding officially takes up the role

Peaches Golding will become the first black woman in the country

to hold the ceremonial title, which involves representing

Talking me through her family history - Peaches Golding

I am delighted that the Queen has appointed me to the role.

And for me, that's the important thing.

Although Bristol didn't get a Lord Lieutenant until 1996,

the post was first created elsewhere, way back in the 1540s.

And has never been held by a black woman before

The role is to effectively be the Queen's local representative.

It means being involved in civic matters and social matters,

Peaches was Bristol's High Sheriff in 2010.

She is the daughter of an American civil rights campaigner who made

And at the time, the people on the bus believed that he had

to sit at the back of the bus because he was black.

And actually it turned very, very ugly.

And of course he was correct, and won that suit.

Peaches says watching her father question injustice from a young age

Lord Lieutenants have to retire on their 75th birthday.

It means Peaches will have 12 years in the role,

He's 75, is from Bristol and has now become the oldest person

in the UK to complete the world's toughest marathon.

David Excell ran the 250-kilometre Marathon des Sables,

raising more than ?20,000 for the Bristol Area Stroke

The six-day challenge involves running in 50 degree heat

through sand dunes in the foothills of Morocco's Atlas Mountains.

And some swallows flew over my head, and they were on their way to the

UK. I think they were trying to tell me that it was time for me to go

back to the UK. I tried to drop out but the doctors said, no, you go

one. -- you go on. And that's where I must

wish you a good night. The weekend of course

is just round the corner, and Ian can tell us what the weather

will be up to. We're in for a weekend which will be

dominated once again by a lot of dry That said, during the first part

of Saturday, as a weak front comes down across,

there will be a thickening A few spots of rain about,

the odd light shower. And through the afternoon

we can see that cloud tending to break up,

fairly warm weather where Sunday is then looking

another dry and fine day. Through the course of tonight,

with varying amounts of cloud around, temperatures settling

at about 8-10dC. As we head through into first

light tomorrow, some early brightness around,

but always competing with that cloud You'll see the sign there

for a little bit of light rain on that weak front before it tends

to fragment over the top of the West Country

during the rest of the day. And in doing so, it will allow more

in the way of some pockets of brighter and sunnier weather

to develop through the course Temperatures tomorrow

should safely nudge up Where the sunshine is

out, most definitely. Turning colder, though,

as we head into next week. marathon. Here is the outlook for

the weather for the next few days and Helen Willetts has the National

forecast. While unusual to see snow in May, it

will be a shock to the system. We've seen some interesting contrast. 19

degrees cost is in Scotland in the sunshine today. In the sunshine only

11. The differences we are behind a cold weather front. Seeing a stepped

down in temperatures. The cold air filtering sound so there will be a

widespread ground frost across the country. The week weather front

still with us so we could cheat patchy mist and fog. The best chance

of seeing the meteor shower overnight will be in those clear

skies further north. A better chance for south overnight. We start

Saturday morning with the line of cloud, the