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Good evening. That is all of the | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
Families of children with disabilities in the West say | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
they'll lose a vital lifeline if local respite centres | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Four short-break centres in Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire might have | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Dozens of families would be affected. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Now a campaign's begun to keep them open. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Hey, all right young man, what you doing? | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
Gary Howe and his son Shay are close. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
A single parent, Gary's been his sole carer for years. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
They found support here, at Beaumonds, an overnight respite | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
centre for young people with disabilities in Bath. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
Shay's been coming every week for 12 years. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
He gets to socialise with friends giving Gary a break and valuable | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Without them I would have really struggled, there is no denying that. | :01:02. | :01:24. | |
People say to me that I do a fantastic job and | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
that a lot of people would walk away, while that was never going to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
But it would have been extremely difficult. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
But Beaumonds could soon close - | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
along with three similar centres in Melksham, Chippenham and | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Swindon, all run by the charity Quarriers. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Staff face redundancy but their concern | :01:44. | :01:44. | |
the families - their lives will be changed so completely. | :01:45. | :02:10. | |
The Scottish charity said they can no longer afford to run the centres. | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
Gary and other families have met with their local MP | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
in their campaign to keep Beaumonds open. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Now nearly 21, Shay will soon be too old for the respite centre. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
But Gary says it's vital other families continue to get the same | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Madeleine Ware, BBC Points West, Bath. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
The M5 remains closed southbound in Gloucestershire this evening | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
following a lorry fire earlier today. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Motorists have faced hours of delays after a truck carrying hay bales | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
caught light between junctions 13 for Stroud and 14 for | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
The road will probably remain closed through the night | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The northbound carriageway has now reopened. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
After nearly a week of disruption for commuters the line | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
between Westbury and Castle Cary has now been reopened. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Buses had to replace trains after services from the West | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
to London were severely disrupted when a freight train | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
Network Rail is investigating the cause of the incident. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
It was a disappointing defeat for Bath away | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
The home side ran in eight tries to hammer Bath at Allianz Park. | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
Bath could only manage a first-half try through Anthony Watson | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
as they suffered their third straight defeat. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
It's been a glorious Mothering Sunday. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Our cameraman John Samuels filmed these lovely pictures | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
at Stanton Drew stone circle in Somerset. | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
A beautiful day to mark the first day of British Summer Time. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
With the forecast now here's Bee Tucker. | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
We have had a beautiful day to day but skies are already clear. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Temperatures are starting to drop. It will be quite cold. The blues | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
will keep us from having a frost that temperatures will get close to | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
freezing. Some mist forming at times. A chilly start to the day | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
tomorrow. Tomorrow another beautiful day, dry and plate, a lot of | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
sunshine. Cloud thing in and out at times. It will feel warmer tomorrow. | :04:31. | :04:43. | |
Thereafter we will see more and their way of showers. Some of the | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
showers could be heavy with the risk of thunder. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
That's all from the Points West team on this Sunday evening. | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
We're back in Breakfast tomorrow morning. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Hello there, it's not often that we have the best of the weather at the | :04:58. | :05:12. | |
weekend. But, that seems to be the case | :05:13. | :05:13. |