:00:00. > :00:17.A soldier from Wiltshire's trapped by an amateur detective posing
:00:18. > :00:34.How these students managed to dupe the world's press.
:00:35. > :00:40.And in stark contrast to today, many districts will stay to ride
:00:41. > :00:44.tomorrow. Details at the end of the programme.
:00:45. > :00:48.A soldier from Wiltshire has admitted attempting to meet
:00:49. > :00:50.a child after being trapped by a vigilante detective.
:00:51. > :00:51.Samuel Dallow thought he had been chatting
:00:52. > :00:54.to a 14-year-old girl online, but it was all a set up.
:00:55. > :00:57.It's the latest case to use evidence gathered by groups calling
:00:58. > :01:01.But as Lee Madan reports, their work has been heavily
:01:02. > :01:08.Private Sam Dallow says he was waiting for a friend,
:01:09. > :01:10.but really he was waiting for what he thought
:01:11. > :01:14.was a 14-year-old girl he'd been chatting to online.
:01:15. > :01:17.That girl was actually Shane Brannigan, a vigilante
:01:18. > :01:22.He poses as underage girls on the internet then tricks
:01:23. > :01:27.paedophiles into meeting him before handing them over to the police.
:01:28. > :01:35.This meeting at a train station was all streamed live on Facebook
:01:36. > :01:38.and uploaded elsewhere on the internet.
:01:39. > :01:41.It was from inside his room here at Tidworth Barracks that
:01:42. > :01:46.Samuel Dallow sent the explicit messages online to Shane Brannigan,
:01:47. > :01:51.As part of his work as a vigilante detective, Shane Brannigan printed
:01:52. > :01:56.those messages off and handed them over to police alongside the video
:01:57. > :02:01.It's that evidence that's today led Dallow to admit the offence
:02:02. > :02:05.of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
:02:06. > :02:09.Dallow will be back in court on June 8th for sentencing.
:02:10. > :02:12.The judge told him that maximum credit will be shown
:02:13. > :02:16.for admitting the offence, but to expect a custodial sentence.
:02:17. > :02:19.This is the latest case to use evidence gathered
:02:20. > :02:24.There's now at least 15 of these groups in Britain.
:02:25. > :02:27.The vigilantes say they're helping out police forces,
:02:28. > :02:31.whose budgets they say are at breaking point,
:02:32. > :02:33.by doing the detective work detectives are unable
:02:34. > :02:38.They've got no money, resources, no funding.
:02:39. > :02:41.There isn't enough people in the teams to do this sort of stuff.
:02:42. > :02:45.Leave it to people like me who care about the investigation.
:02:46. > :02:48.But the police are critical of these amateur detectives.
:02:49. > :02:51.They say they can jeopardise ongoing investigations,
:02:52. > :02:54.giving paedophiles a chance to destroy evidence.
:02:55. > :02:57.And their actions can have other consequences.
:02:58. > :03:00.This sting by paedophile hunters in Essex caused this mass brawl
:03:01. > :03:04.outside a shopping centre on Easter Sunday, when
:03:05. > :03:09.I believe they are vigilantes, they are taking the law
:03:10. > :03:13.into their own hands and they are taking, in my view,
:03:14. > :03:17.risks that are simply not acceptable and the risks that they are posing
:03:18. > :03:20.to children are simply inappropriate.
:03:21. > :03:22.As tonight Samuel Dallow contemplates his future,
:03:23. > :03:30.the debate about paedophile hunters and their work continues.
:03:31. > :03:34.Earlier, I asked the legal expert Joshua Rozenberg if this case
:03:35. > :03:38.encouraged other people to take the law into their own hands.
:03:39. > :03:41.I don't think we want to encourage people to take the law
:03:42. > :03:43.into their own hands, but obviously people will look
:03:44. > :03:47.at this and see this was evidence gathered by a private individual,
:03:48. > :03:50.doing what he thought was in the public interest,
:03:51. > :03:54.but nevertheless not a police officer, a detective or anybody
:03:55. > :03:57.else, not even a public body, but an individual.
:03:58. > :04:01.And if this has led to a conviction, well I suppose it will encourage
:04:02. > :04:04.Whether we think that's a good thing or not,
:04:05. > :04:06.given the difficulties that the police have with resources
:04:07. > :04:10.But obviously, it does have consequences, particularly
:04:11. > :04:16.As I say, it might well be that Private Dalow could have challenged
:04:17. > :04:21.the evidence at chosen to do so. When does this become entrapment?
:04:22. > :04:24.If the crime would have been committed anyway,
:04:25. > :04:31.the courts generally say that's fine.
:04:32. > :04:34.If they're actually trying to entrap somebody into committing an offence
:04:35. > :04:37.that they wouldn't have committed in the first place, then
:04:38. > :04:39.the courts say it's not fair. From a legal point of
:04:40. > :04:44.I think it is worrying because we rely on the police.
:04:45. > :04:46.The police are subject to all sorts of restrictions.
:04:47. > :04:48.There are limits to what they can do.
:04:49. > :04:51.If they arrest somebody, they have to read them their rights and so on.
:04:52. > :04:54.If you have a member of the public simply acting as a policeman
:04:55. > :04:58.and trying to capture people who this individual thinks have
:04:59. > :05:00.committed criminal offences, there are no protections,
:05:01. > :05:03.and we don't know where it's going to end.
:05:04. > :05:08.Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been criticised for discussing
:05:09. > :05:12.alcohol during a visit to a Sikh temple in Bristol.
:05:13. > :05:15.He mentioned the whisky trade in India during a visit
:05:16. > :05:20.One member of the congregation said it was outrageous.
:05:21. > :05:24.Mr Johnson said he was making an important point about
:05:25. > :05:31.A new housing development in Bristol has been pulled
:05:32. > :05:34.from the market because it hasn't got planning permission.
:05:35. > :05:38.Four-bedroom homes have been built on the site in Bridgwater Road.
:05:39. > :05:41.The developer, Highridge Homes, only had permission
:05:42. > :05:54.Some local residents have now asked for action to be taken.
:05:55. > :06:00.I got in touch with enforcement, and we were told it would be action
:06:01. > :06:04.within ten days. It transpired that no action was taken.
:06:05. > :06:06.Bristol City Council says the development is unauthorised.
:06:07. > :06:08.A bid for retrospective planning permission has been submitted
:06:09. > :06:10.and will be considered in the summer.
:06:11. > :06:14.It's a video of a Gloucestershire student getting a first
:06:15. > :06:16.after finishing his assignment in a nightclub.
:06:17. > :06:18.The footage made news around the world.
:06:19. > :06:21.But it turns out the film and the story were entirely fake.
:06:22. > :06:26.University students created it as part of a project.
:06:27. > :06:30.Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.
:06:31. > :06:33.It started as a project to create a comedy video to see how far it
:06:34. > :06:36.could spread online, and it soon went viral.
:06:37. > :06:38.Not long after, the Press Association, a well-respected,
:06:39. > :06:42.trusted source, contacted the students, who decided to then
:06:43. > :06:48.PA then published a story, which was picked up by several news
:06:49. > :06:50.organisations online, including the BBC local
:06:51. > :06:57.A university student filmed working on an essay in a nightclub has
:06:58. > :06:59.revealed he got a first for the assignment.
:07:00. > :07:03.It shows a lack of diligence in regards of the press,
:07:04. > :07:06.and just kind of makes you question what is real and fake
:07:07. > :07:11.I think people should be a bit wiser when they open the newspapers.
:07:12. > :07:14.I'm a little bit shocked in terms of, they haven't
:07:15. > :07:20.Like, they've literally taken everything on face value.
:07:21. > :07:23.They were just a group of students going to make a video viral.
:07:24. > :07:26.We never thought how easy it would be to do it.
:07:27. > :07:28.I call the fake news the enemy of the people.
:07:29. > :07:32.Of course, fake news isn't new, as we know, and this
:07:33. > :07:36.But the Press Association said they spoke to the students
:07:37. > :07:38.and acted in good faith, saying "We are confident
:07:39. > :07:41.that our hecking procedure is as rigorous as any in the media
:07:42. > :07:44.business, but if two people separately maintain at length that
:07:45. > :07:47.something is correct when it isn't, it highlights what a
:07:48. > :07:53.Were the students right to mislead the press in that way?
:07:54. > :07:56.We don't condone any student or any members of staff,
:07:57. > :07:59.or anybody at this university, deliberately misleading the press.
:08:00. > :08:02.What the Press Association didn't do was to contact our press office
:08:03. > :08:05.at the University of Gloucestershire and talk to us about the story.
:08:06. > :08:10.Had they done that, we very clearly would have explained the situation.
:08:11. > :08:15.This is a second time the film production course
:08:16. > :08:18.has fooled the press, and in this era of the internet,
:08:19. > :08:20.it seems that not believing everything you read or see may
:08:21. > :08:30.I'm telling you the truth, it is all staged.
:08:31. > :08:34.The heavy rain didn't stop people turning out to watch Antiques road
:08:35. > :08:39.It's been 20 years since the programme was last
:08:40. > :08:44.This time around 3000 people came out to show
:08:45. > :08:49.One man had been to see the show 200 times.
:08:50. > :09:01.Another had even come from New Zealand to get his vase valued.
:09:02. > :09:09.We watch the programme quite a lot. We enjoy it. I thought, I'd like to
:09:10. > :09:17.come. This morning we've had a deactivated by from 19 30. It is now
:09:18. > :09:20.used as a doorstop. It will not go bang, I can promise you that.
:09:21. > :09:23.If you missed today's filming, the programme will be
:09:24. > :09:28.There's more news from around the region on the BBC News website,
:09:29. > :09:30.and of course on your local BBC Radio Stations where you are.
:09:31. > :09:33.We're back with you in Breakfast tomorrow from 6.30am.
:09:34. > :09:35.But for now I'll say goodnight and leave with Ian,
:09:36. > :09:48.To date we have made some further inroads into the deficit of rain
:09:49. > :09:54.fell but has been building up over many weeks. The forecast for
:09:55. > :10:00.tomorrow is that tomorrow we will struggle to see much rain at all in
:10:01. > :10:04.a good number of districts. The Bobby shallows around, particularly
:10:05. > :10:08.in the afternoon. One of two of those will be moderate, but many
:10:09. > :10:13.heirs will stay completely dry, and a good deal brighter as well. It one
:10:14. > :10:24.day compared to the one we have just had. For the course of tonight, the
:10:25. > :10:27.skies will continue to generally clear. It will be a killer night
:10:28. > :10:33.compared to the last two, perhaps as low as about five Celsius in the
:10:34. > :10:37.countryside. Tomorrow, the legacy of those clear skies will be a good
:10:38. > :10:43.deal of sunshine. It is looking like dry conditions well prevail. And to
:10:44. > :10:46.the afternoon, we will see jabber is building up. Preferentially perhaps
:10:47. > :10:51.a crosspatch of Somerset and some of those stretching out across the
:10:52. > :10:55.north-east and in to watch. There might be one to elsewhere, but I
:10:56. > :11:00.think between those are good number of people remaining drives through
:11:01. > :11:01.the day. With light winds, edible feel pleasantly warm, temperatures
:11:02. > :11:03.getting up to 16 showers. But it will be a bit
:11:04. > :11:17.warmer. Before today, many gardeners were
:11:18. > :11:21.crying out for rain. Some of the those garden may now be water
:11:22. > :11:26.logged. And Lincolnshire was one of wettest places with 40 millimetres.
:11:27. > :11:33.That is nearly a month's worth of rain in 24 hours. Some difficult
:11:34. > :11:38.travelling conditions. Some parts of north-west England stayed dry. This
:11:39. > :11:44.was the main rain-maker. It is pulling away. Tomorrow a day
:11:45. > :11:48.sunshine and showers and that freshing feeling air will filter
:11:49. > :11:49.into those parts that were muggy today. It