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Welcome to BBC Points West on this Monday evening. Thanks for joining us. I'm David Gston. Our main story tonight. Were you awake for it? Young and old unite behind England for the match that they'll talk about for years to come.
"It's definitely coming home. I'm going home. It's coming home." Good English.
"Everybody was screaming on their feet and jumping up and down. It was really nice." We're with the fans who say it was worth every moment of lost sleep.
And don't take a nap now because there are plenty of other stories. D-Day for the new section of the A417. A small part is opened, but there are frustrating delays. An inquest opens into the death of a woman who was found dead after a relationship with a man who had a criminal past. And sewing the seeds of success. The children selling fruit and veg that they grew at school.
Good evening. World Cup fever has well and truly hit the West after England's victory in the early hours sold them into the quarterfinals. For many, it's led to a blureyed day at work. More on that later. But first, our cameras joined fans gathered at pubs and fan zones. Here's Damian Derek with the story of the night.
2,000 m above sea level. Back here in Bristol and Chenham, they were just holding their breath. That's until Jude Bellingham got the opener.
"Worth staying up for. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jude Bellingham is smashing it and we're so proud of him."
"I think we're doing great. Yeah, really pleasantly surprised so far. I think we'll go on the second half and win this."
England had to do it the hardwarded a spot kick and Captain Kane was precise with his penalty.
"THE REFEREE GOES TO HIS WHISTLE."
"It's definitely coming out of It's coming home."
"Incredible. England won."
"IT'S COMING HOME."
"IT'S COMING HOME. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID."
"I didn't miss this one. School trip in the morning, but we keep that quiet."
"WE DONE IT."
"WE'RE THERE."
"Next stop, Norway on Saturday." Damian Derek, BBC Points West.
Well, there has been one penalty, trying to stay awake, especially for those who had to work or child care with little or no sleep. The result meant it was all worthwhile, but that doesn't mean it's been easy. Cherald Dennis has been finding out how you've been coping.
"There's nothing like a loud splash park to help wake you up after a long night. I've not slept since about 2:00 this morning."
"I've had a couple of hours."
"How have you got the couple of hours?"
"I'm good at going to sleep."
"And I'm not."
"How was it?"
"Yeah, it was a good night. Really good. Very, very, very good."
"How old are you?"
"Six."
"You're six and you stayed up pretty much all night."
"See?"
"Yes."
"Has this woken you up and helped you or has this made you feel worse?"
"Um, it's woken me up a little bit."
Some fans didn't quite last the distance. "I think it was half 12 when they said it was delayed kick off until an extra hour. So I decided I had to go to sleep."
Usual Monday morning routines continued for those who did manage to see the midnight hours. "Like an hangover without no alcohol. I had to get up this morning at half 7 cuz it was delivery day."
Others didn't need to clock on. "Hooked it off."
"World Cup sabatical."
"And you've lost your voice."
"Yeah, a little bit. it will come back hopefully for the next game."
And then there are those serving caffeine in need of it as much as their customers. "I started work at 7:00 this morning after going to bed at about 5:00 a.m. I was very tired when I first got up uh once I got into work and got some caffeine in me. I perked up a bit."
"I was so tired, but I got to see where they scored a goal and then they scored another one like 10 seconds after. It was really good."
For fans struggling, it's early to bed tonight. Cheryl Dennis, BBC Points West, Swindon.
Yes, please do get some rest later. Of course, staying awake didn't appeal to everyone. And hundreds of children in Malsbury got a good night's sleep before heading into school to watch the match before lessons started. Our correspondent Fiona Lamden, who also didn't know the score, join them.
It's just after 700 a.m. and this is a very unusual start to the school day.
None of us at this primary school in Momsbury know the result. We've had our phones off. We haven't listened to the radio or watched the television, but we've had an amazing night's sleep.
"When I went to bed last night, I had to put earplugs in my ears cuz my dad watched it and he keeps on like screaming cuz I knew that would be a goal." And then in the 36th minute, Jude Bellingham scores. And 98 seconds later, I was getting toast. And then everyone started jumping up and down. I didn't know it was happening.
"It's absolutely great. The atmosphere is um fantastic. Um everyone's cheering, everyone's excited, and it's I don't really want to say this in front of my parents, but it's better than watching it with them."
"That's why we're doing it. You know, we we're here for them to have fun, have an experience."
And finally, it was over. "It was absolutely incredible seeing England play so well and two goals in under a minute. Absolutely crazy."
"Dude Benning, man of the match."
"I'm absolutely buzzing. I don't understand how they pulled through that match. They're so resilient. I admire him so much and I can't wait to see the next game."
"It might actually be coming home."
"IT'S COMING HOME."
"IT'S COMING." FA LAMDEN, BBC Points West.
Well, it's what it's all about, isn't it? Bringing people together. And over the next few days, as you start to think of your plans for the next match on Saturday night, do let us know if you're doing anything exciting. And who knows, we might come and join you whether you like it or not. It could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it. Well, you're watching Points West here on BBC 1. You're looking fine. You don't need any sleep. Uh there's lots more still to come, including standby for more warm temperatures. I'll be asking just how hot it's going to get and the scheme to help young people that's costing taxpayers $4,000 each.
First, the opening of a small section of the region's biggest road building project, the A417 missing link in the Cotsworlds has led to disruption and delays. National Highways had warned of narrow lanes and 40 mph limits as construction work continues ahead of the full opening early next year. Scott Ellis has the details.
Drivers and vehicles allowed early this morning onto a 1.7 mile section of Glostisher's missing link. The new road opens fully in February next year and is costing close to half a billion pounds. It'll replace what is now the old A417. With construction work ongoing, drivers had been warned of delays and by midm morning, many were fed up.
"Took me an hour to get to school today. It normally takes 15 minutes. I think it was because the the road is down to one lane and a big lorry broke down and just caused mayhem."
"Have you been a bit delayed?"
"Um, it added a 20 minutes onto my journey, but it just hasn't been very well signposted or managed."
National Highways is asking drivers to plan their journeys and to be aware of speed limits and new junctions as they continue to build the full dual carriageway that replaces the old road. "It's a temporary solution where uh the people are driving on one single lane with 40 mph. Uh, but it's no different from what they had last week. Actually, once we uh do and complete the works on the new A17, you will have a free flowing road instead."
The missing link has been 30 years in the planning and promises swifter, safer journeys and economic benefits for the area. As well as opening part of the missing link today, they're also closing a road or part of it. It's the A417. And this will become eventually air balloon way. It'll be a greenway for walkers, cyclists, and horse riders.
There are many who are glad to see the back of the old single lane A417. "It's notorious for all the wrong reasons. So really bad accident record. You know, it's very dangerous. Everyone in the area knows about it. people avoid it because of how bad it was in terms of congestion. So, I'm very happy to say it's closed."
Today's opening of a limited section of the missing link had been delayed by a week. The recent hot temperatures meaning the ashfelt took longer to set. Scott Ellis, BBC points west at the missing link.
The fiance of a woman who died in a crash near Royal Wooden Basset says he's hugely upset and still in shock. Barbara Melany who ran a pet shop in Cricade was killed in the collision last Tuesday. Pat Mah has been her partner for 48 years. He told us she was loved by so many people. "She was the sort of person who would go out of her way to help anybody. Um she was a agony aunt for the BS that were having problems with their girlfriends. Um people with dog problems. um just the sort of person that you could ask anything of and she would always be happy to help. Always smiling, cheeky, um just a nice person, you know."
A 43 year old man's been charged with Barbara Melan's murder as well as other offenses including dangerous driving and failing to stop at an accident. Two men who fired a pistol at a moving car in Yovil have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Junior Redford and James McInness were found guilty of attempted murder and firearms offenses following the shooting in Buffer's Park Trading Estate last October. The two people in the car they targeted escaped uninjured.
There's further disruption this week for pupils at Hannam Woods Academy in SAS Glostershare. Nine teachers there are on strike again. It's over issues including being asked to teach outside their specialist areas and school discipline. It's the latest in a series of strikes which have been called at short notice. Today the school declined to comment.
Things are hotting up again over the next few days as we prepare for a third heat wave in only six weeks. So just how warm are things likely to be? Sara is here with me now. Uh Sara, good evening to you. There's been an Amber Alert now.
"I know you almost don't want to see me here on the sofa with you, do you? Because we know what I mean."
"I always do. Whatever the weather,"
"but we've, you know, we've gone up a category today because we've been looking at this heat wave since last week knowing it was coming. We knew we'd get into the sort of high 20s, low30s this week, but today the UK Health Security Agency have pushed it up into an Amber heat health alert. And the reason for that is because we now know that is going to be severe and it's going to be prolonged. not perhaps as severe as the last one, but it does continue to next week. So, the warning starts Wednesday morning and runs all the way until the end of Sunday evening. I'll remind you this is not a Met Office warning. This is a heat health alert. It means that those that are more vulnerable are looked after, younger, elderly with underlying health problems. They're the problems uh areas that we could sort of see."
"So, how hot will it actually feel? How uncomfortable?"
"Well, it's not as humid as last time, and that is a really good thing. If you remember, we had that heat uh wave at the end of May and then the one at the end of June was very severe up 37° that high humidity that we saw. You know, some people enjoyed it, lots of people didn't. And it only lasted about four or five days, that one. This one is lower in temperature and lower in humidity. Low30s is what we're looking at. We saw 30° today, but it looks like we could have 10 days or more where we're 10° above average for the time of year. It won't be as hot at night. We won't have all those tropical nights and as I say it's not as humid."
"but it's early summer isn't it? I mean we're we've got weeks to go."
"Yeah. Quite. You know the whole of summer is June, July and August in meteorolog meteorological terms and it means that we still have a good six or seven weeks where we could see yet more heat waves watch this space."
"Yeah. Do you like it?"
"No, not for me."
"Not really. No. Today today's been nice, but that's about it."
"Thank you. We'll see you later with the forecast. Thank you very much."
The inquest into the death of a woman from Western Super Mayor has heard she died from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping tablets in the home of a convicted sex offender. Kelly Fyers died in a flat in Minehead owned by Richard Scatchard who had convictions relating to drugging and sexually assaulting women. I should warn you a lot of uh graphic details were heard today. Rachel Stonehouse from our investigations team was there. Good evening to you, Rachel.
"Evening, David. It's now almost 3 years since Kelly's Kelly died, and her family, seen here arriving at the coroner's court this morning, have wanted answers to how she died ever since then. And crucially, what they really want to know is how Richard Scatard was being monitored by both the probation and the police since his release from prison in 2013. He'd previously been convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women. He met Kelly in 2022 and knew her for about a year until she died. Here's a look back at their relationship and exactly what happened."
Kelly Fair's children have wanted answers to how their mom died for the last 3 years. They spoke to us previously about what she was like. "She was very loving, would talk to anyone. Um she was very very trusting. Uh, very, very, very happy, always smiling, um, very hardworking, never had a bad word to say about anyone or about anything to be honest."
Kelly and Richard Scatard met through a dating app in 2022 and had been together for about a year. Kelly had been planning to end the relationship, but she didn't get chance. This turned out to be her last meal on the 14th of October, 2023. Kelly died that night with alcohol and sleeping tablets in her system. Police attended the scene, but didn't take Scatchard for questioning. The next day, he went missing. He was then declared a wanted man and a danger to women. And days later, it was revealed he was a convicted sex offender who was given four life sentences in 2000 after drugging and indecently assaulting multiple women. He was released in 2013 by the parole board with conditions for probation and police to monitor him. After Kelly's death, despite multiple police searches, 6 months went by before Scat's body was discovered at a caravan park in Watch It, less than 10 miles from where he went missing by a member of the public. And for Kelly's family, they've been waiting for answers since then.
Firstly, today at the inquest, we heard more about Kelly and exactly what she was like as a person, how she was friendly, kind, caring, and very bubbly, but also how she was incredibly trusting and always saw the best in people. We heard from her daughter and some of her friends who she worked with. And they also said that Kelly had raised concerns about her relationship with Richard Scatchard, that he could be controlling at times, and that he'd get angry. Several of them also reported that she turned up to work with a black eye and varying accounts of exactly what had happened. Kelly had also confided in some of them about some of Scatard's more unusual requests and just how uncomfortable they made her feel.
This morning, we heard from the coroner more about the postmortem examination. That was done just after Kelly died and found that it was a mixture of alcohol and the sleeping tablets in her system which she died from. Then later this afternoon, we heard from the probation service about exactly how Richard Scatchard was being monitored. He was convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women and was then released from prison in 2013. He moved to Minehead in 2020 and he was initially assessed as being of medium risk. But we also learned that Scatard had actually breached two of his license conditions. Firstly, that he was using dating apps and he hadn't told his probation officer. and secondly that he was also deleting his search history. Tomorrow we'll hear more from the police as the inquest continues.
Thank you, Rachel. A building has been damaged in the center of Bath today after it was hit by a lorry. The vehicle demolished a wall in James Street West at 8 this morning. A section of the roof of a Greek street food restaurant fell onto the road. Uh, nobody was injured.
Hundreds of patients and staff had to leave the Bristol Royal Infirmary earlier today after a small fire broke out. Emergency crews were called around 11 this morning with police closing a number of roads. Firefighters arrived to find the fire already extinguished and cleared smoke from the building. Nobody was hurt.
A scheme to get young people into education, employment, or training ended up costing the equivalent of £40,000. On each of those, it actually helped. It's run by the West of England Combined Authority, and the mayor admits the results really aren't all right. Hannah Miller has more.
Brandon was unemployed for around 4 months and trying to find work as a carpenter. "It was a mental battle where it's like I don't think this is going to work and I don't really know which other route to take and it was kind of like demoralizing myself like losing motivation. But then he was referred here a company called Volunteer Itself which works with young people to fix up community spaces. After a two-week workplacement as part of the youth guarantee scheme, bosses were so impressed they offered Brandon a paid permanent job."
"How much has it changed your life?"
"Massive to be here now and looking back about where I've gone, what I've done, what I've been through. It's just a it's like a relief and like so grateful."
As well as a work taster. The youth guarantee scheme offers one-to-one coaching, CV preparation, and a bus pass. But is it really working? In its first year, the West of England Youth Guarantee Trailblazer spent5 million and worked with 300 people. Of those, 126 went on to education, employment, or training. In essence, we're saying per success story, it cost £40,000. Is that all right? No. No, it's really not all right. But I am confident that we've had enough of of a sort of time gap to be able to pull some of that back, redesign, and go again for the second year.
The mayor's announced the scheme will now work more closely with voluntary organizations as she tries to get a thousand young people into work in the next year, almost 10 times the number so far. There's no doubting the impact a stable job can have on a young life, but this youth guarantee has a long way to go before it can truly be called a trailblazer. Hannah Miller, BBC Points West, Bristol.
And if that's wet your appetite, you can hear more and find out what Kia Star's right-hand man Darren Jones thinks about it all by tuning into this week's Politics West. It's available on the i Player whenever you fancy. It was a very fiery program uh this Sunday uh so well worth a watch. We also talked about paying to use parks in Bristol. So that's on the eye player anytime you like.
Now let's look at some of the stories on the BBC News website this evening, shall we? Here we go. Patients are worried about getting their prescriptions because of a national shortage of some medicines. Pearl, who lives in Bath, has been without her drugs for Parkinson's for weeks. Pharmacists want immediate improvements. A family cat called Baby has been killed by two dogs on the streets of Kahn. Both dogs were on leads. Baby's owner is heartbroken and the police are investigating under the dangerous dogs laws. And Jock, the gorilla at Bristol Zoo, may have died, but it's not the end of his story. Scientists have frozen his reproductive tissues, and they could help keep his species alive. And you can find all those stories and so much more on the BBC News website and BBC News app.
Children in Straoud have been growing and selling their own fruit and veg. Archway School and Cash's Green Primary set up stores at the Shambles Market. It's all to help teach them a better understanding of what they eat. Here's our clusters reporter Steve Nibs.
"Put them in there. It's fair to say it's been a good morning's trade so far."
"Potatoes are definitely our best seller cuz one person came in and bought like one of the whole supplies of the potatoes."
But it's not just the spuds. It's cabbages, basil, broad beans, charred lettuce. So much more. "Have you tried eating any of it?"
"Yes, I've eaten some of the mustard and chard before now."
"Favorite thing was probably the potatoes and the chard because it was really fun to look after and harvest them."
And that's the key. All of the produce on sale here has been grown by the students themselves back at school. Alongside the hard work and also the fun of growing the fruit in veg, there's an important byproduct, food education.
"If kids get good food education, they're twice as likely to eat their five a day. Um, and they've got that knowledge for the rest of their life. They know they can put a seed in a pot or in the ground and they can produce food. And that's just a real powerful thing."
This project has been working in schools across the UK for the last 15 years and it's run by the charity school food matters. They say it's not just about the fun and understanding of growing and selling. But at the end of the day, this teaches vital life skills, which also perhaps includes not letting the teachers anywhere near the produce.
"We grew this tiny carrots and it was like no other carrots, just one single carrot and it was like 4 cm. was tiny and our teacher at first tea last night so I found that quite funny."
Steve Nibs, BBC Points West Straoud.
Well, I don't know about you, but I like tiny carrots. Um, let's uh move on to the weather forecast again. We've heard all about that hot weather uh coming our way. Uh let's have some more detail. Hi, again.
"I mean, as you said, you know, in some ways it is nice. Today's been a beautiful day, but 30° is 10 degrees above average for the time of year, and that's what we've got to today. Beautiful blue skies, though, and we had a little bit of heat haze here and there, you know, a little bit of high clouds. It's not completely unbroken blue skies. Uh, but it has been, as I say, very, very warm indeed. And so, I've really just taken a quick look in the last few minutes at what we saw in terms of top temperatures today. I think this will end up being pretty much the top of the shops. So, 25 at Bristol Airport, but other than that, high high 20s up to 30°. As I say, that's 10 degrees above average for the time of year. Here is the big picture. High pressure once again in control of our weather. It's keeping frontal systems at bay. It's starting to draw up some ever warmer air. So, as we go through the next few days, we start to drag that up. Not from the southeast this time. The last heat wave, we sort of brought the air from over there. If you remember, this one's sort of coming more southerntherly, southwesterly. But you can see as it brushes past the Iberian Peninsula where it's 40° in the next few days, we start to just import that towards us. And because because we've got higher pressure, there are no frontal systems to break any of that down. Now, overnight tonight, and I think this is a crucial thing to say about this heat wave, it's not quite as warm at night as the last one we saw. So, even though it has been 30°, we'll start tomorrow morning around 14 or 15 Celsius. And of course, like I said to David earlier, we don't have that extreme humidity either. There is some haze though around in the mornings especially at the coast that tends to burn back and then the rest of the day tomorrow dry with lots and lots of sunshine and again those temperatures will be up well above average for the time of year. So that's going to be day two for us of the heat wave. If you remember for us the heat wave is when we have three days in a row of 26 or 27 degrees or more. And we're not just going to have three days of it this time but here's day two then for tomorrow up again high 20s or even low30s. Now, here is the outlook for the coming days, and these are your daytime temperatures. So, as you can see, and this is inland temperatures, so it won't be quite as warm as this at the coast, but we'll still be high 20s there. We're up in the low to mid30s Celsius as we go through the next few days. But it looks like this well could be the picture right the way through until at least the middle of next week. And then let's look at the nighttime temperatures. Last time, of course, the last heat wave, we saw those temperatures four nights in a row of at least 20 Celsius, which gave us four tropical nights. This week, we could well just about get one or two inland in some places at the end of this week, but mostly it's a little bit cooler and a little bit more easy to sleep, which I certainly will enjoy."
Yeah. Well, we didn't get much sleep last night, did we? I feel a bit jetlagged today, not really thinking straight. Uh just as well then the late news is on even later than usual. I'll see you after the football whenever that is. But for now from all of us here, thank you so much for watching. See you soon. Bye-bye.