22/01/2017 Points West

Farmers in the West say they're hopeful a new way of tackling

rural crime will help protect their livelihoods.

Farm machinery and livestock are regularly stolen in our area.

Now though, with the help of a new text message service,

police hope to catch more of those responsible.

Sunday morning - but there's no rest for Rob Walrond,

These ewes have lambed early - and he's keeping a close eye on them

- especially after what happened here a year and a half ago.

The sheep that were stolen were worth some ?14,000 -

it's a bitter pill to swallow - but Rob's not alone.

Farmers living and working in this area say they have noticed a

dramatic rise in recent years in the number of animals going missing.

Within two or three hours of us being told about the number, there

was already a case. Now though the police are fighting

back - via technology We have launched this system on

Tuesday where the farmers and rural community context does. The text

messages are coming through a lot quicker and it's something we can

respond to. Most farmers are going around with mobile phones anyway so

they can send details in quickly. Whilst protecting

livestock and machinery from criminals will always be

challenging, it's hoped that this modern initiative will be

a significant step in the age-old Police are becoming increasingly

concerned for the welfare of a missing 24 year old man

from Weston super Mare. Deacon Wilkins left Motion nightclub

in Bristol in the early hours of last Saturday, and

hasn t been seen since. Today police released this CCTV

image showing the clothes A bike ride was held

in Gloucester this afternoon in memory of Zac Evans,

the nineteen year old who was killed in a machete attack outside a pub

in Tuffley two years ago. The route took friends

and family past Zac's final resting place,

and ended at the spot where he died. Zac's mother wanted her son to be

remembered, and to raise awareness about the danger of weapons

on our streets. The MP for Bristol East has signed

a letter to the Prime Minister Kerry McCarthy is one of dozens

of Labour MPs to write directly to Theresa May to advise

against taking the UK out of the single market with no

new trade deal. She told today's Sunday Politics

West programme that if MPs get the right to vote on triggering

article 50 - she doubts she'd give her support

without further safeguards. I think unless the reason may come

forward with clarity, unless she explained how on earth she feels she

can get this deal on the table... He said he expected all Labour MPs to

support it. I'm aware of that. Finally our congratulations

tonight to newly-weds Marlene Robinson-Franklin and Ronnie

Franklin. The couple, who are 79

and 85 and from Uley in Gloucestershire tied

the knot on Saturday. with Marlene wearing a bright

pink gingham dress. You can see their story in full

on Points West tomorrow evening! We have submitted starting to form

and simple, with temperatures dropping rapidly, it's going to be

freezing fog. Further west, we will see some clear spells but quite a

bit of cloud, hit and miss whether you get a frost and would you get

that fog. If you miss wake up to the fore, it will be slow to clear. Away

from the pub, some decent spells of sunshine and whether you keep the

cloud or not will effect if you keep the temperatures. Where you get the

sunshine, we could see spotted in sunshine, we could see spotted in

eight or 9 degrees, staying largely settled as we head through the week.

Largely dry with some brightness on Tuesday and the breeze will pick up

towards the end of the week and it turned milder.

Good evening. If you are dreading the trudge back to work in the

morning I'm not going to help matters. There is the prospect of

nasty, freezing fog over the next couple of days. Quite localised but

tricky out there on the roads. Disruption possible. Check out your

BBC local radio station, go online for the latest updates where you

are. The fog thickening up as I subpoenaing, particularly across

southern parts of the UK. There are warnings in force with some patches

of fog elsewhere, too. A cold one, needless to say. Some places already

well below freezing. Where you have cloud cover, hovering just above.

Some showers around, too, coming out of the cloud. So ice around first

thing in the morning. Let's concentrate on the fog. It includes

the London area, some of the airports could