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Little Lottie, who was top of the UK transplant list, has received a | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
new liver. Her parents say it couldn't have come sooner. Jury | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
operation and, once they have looked a tired old liver, it was a | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
real mess. She is really lucky to have had this opportunity and we | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
are blessed to have had that. Good evening. The operation was | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
carried out overnight after a live donor came forward. We'll have the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
latest on Lottie's condition. Also on Spotlight, he said he was | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
raising money for Help for Heroes. Tonight Matthew Brown is starting a | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
16-month jail sentence for fraud. And uncovering the past - find out | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
what archaeologists discovered on A five-week-old baby from Torquay | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
who was so ill she was placed at the top of the UK transplant list | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
has been given a new liver. Lottie Bryon-Edmond underwent a long and | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
complex operation overnight in Birmingham after a donor came | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
forward. Her parents told Spotlight today that the potentially life- | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
saving operation couldn't have come a moment sooner. David Gregory | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
reports from Birmingham Children's Hospital. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Lottie spent 5.5 hours in surgery and is recovering in intensive care | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
at Birmingham Children's Hospital. She had been on the super urgent | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
transplant this for almost two weeks and time was running out. | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
During the operation, once they had looked at her old liver, it was a | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
mess. She is lucky to have had this window of opportunity and we feel | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
really blessed. She seems to have peaked at exactly the right day and | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
five weeks of up and down and a heck of a roller-coaster and on the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
day that the liver became available she seemed to be in her prime. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
of the complications for such tiny babies is that they are very small. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Lottie is one of the smallest and never have a transplant here at the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Birmingham Children's Hospital. waited nearly two weeks on the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
super urgent transplant list because she needed her very small | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
liver. These livers in not become available very often. For her | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
parents that reinforces the eight importance of registering as a | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
doughnut. Abuse led recently? Sleep, that slipping from the dim | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
and distant past. He can probably tell them we have not had an awful | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
lot of sleep. The next few days will be critical but her parents | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
say for a -- Lottie is nothing if not a fighter. Joining me now is | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
Lottie's Uncle, Mark McCoy. Harry she at the moment? She is | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
doing remarkably well. She is in the 14th power of the crucial first | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
16. She is working very hard, so hard that a hospital had to take | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
extra data. The next 24 hours are critical. We know we know for sure | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
that she is going to be OK? By and no doctor but I think the most | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
dangerous period is coming to an end in the next few hours. In the | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
next 24 hours we will see what the prognosis is. It is looking better | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
by the hour at the moment. This must have been an incredibly | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
emotional time for the whole family. Yes, especially with Chris and duly | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
been away. I cannot imagine what it was like for them, they are now in | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
the 6th week of living in hospital, hand to mouth. As Chris described, | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
a roller-coaster of emotions with things changing by the minute. And | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
then, finally, to receive the news that there was hope at last and | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
eight liver was available, was beyond comprehension. I know you | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
have complied -- campaigned tirelessly to help find a donor for | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
Lottie. Whether you have found or can you not going to stop. | :04:18. | :04:26. | |
decided some time ago that this was not just about Lottie. It is more | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
than Lottie. Lottie was at the top of the super critical list. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Somebody else is now. And the pain in drifts back Chris Ng had been | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
through is clearly something that we want to try preventing Shum | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
shape or form. If that means encouraging donors, then that is | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
something we intend to continue. What are you going to do? | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Personally, I decided I am going to attempt to swim the Channel. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Whether I will do that were not, I don't know, but uncertainty could | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
to try. We are going to continue campaigning and try to raise | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
awareness. There are about 90% of people who say they would receive a | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
transplant but only about 20% who was signed up. Clearly, if you are | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
willing to receive one, my simplistic view is you should be | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
willing to donate one. Lots of love unlike you and the family and two | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Lottie. A man who masqueraded as a war hero and claimed to be raising | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
money for wounded soldiers has been jailed for 16 months for fraud. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Matthew Brown was arrested in Cornwall, where he had told people | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
he was half way through a mammoth charity walk for Help for Heroes, | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
but the charity never received a penny. Eleanor Parkinson reports. | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
The first time that Matthew Brown came to the attention of the people | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
of Cornwall was when he began to give interviews to the media | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
claiming he was a war veteran and was on a charity walk around the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
coastline of Britain raising money for wounded soldiers. He gave | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
visited he -- into view to rage at Cornwall in which he said he was a | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
former helicopter pilot. -- Radio Cornwall. And explosion had come of | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
Pumphrey guys had gone down in it. I managed to line the helicopter in | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
heavy gunfire. I had a profile view of him and when he turned around I | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
realised his left arm had been completely blown off. Mr Brown | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
managed to convince everyone that he met that he was a war hero. The | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
owner of this hotel in court -- talkie was so impressed that he | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
gave him free accommodation and meals and donated more than �200. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
We were appalled to find out that someone had defrauded so many | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
people, not just ourselves. So, it left Rotherham at pace in the mouth. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
When Matthew Brown was arrested, the police urged his belongings and | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
they penned a crib sheet about military equipment which they | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
believed he used to give credence to his story. But his story was a | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
lie. He was not a war hero, he was a linguist and translator from | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Inverness in Scotland and he had convictions for fought elsewhere in | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
the country. Help For Heroes raises money for the rehabilitation of | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
wounded soldiers. Today this at the fact that someone chose to take | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
fraudulent Lee funds for the a new use is unforgivable. They say it | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
undermines the work done by thousands of committed fundraisers | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
across the UK. The judge described Matthew Brown's crime as unpleasant | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
and mean-spirited. He was jailed for 16 months but is likely to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
serve just half of the sentence. Two people have been arrested in | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Devon on suspicion of incitement to riot, following postings on social | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
networking sites. The 54-year old woman and 24-year-old man, both | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
from Buckfastleigh, are in police custody. Meanwhile, Devon and | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Cornwall police say they're not expecting any trouble on the | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
streets this weekend. BUT there will be high visibility patrols in | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
our towns and cities and up to 200 extra special constables are being | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
drafted in. The Plymouth man who shot the polar | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
bear which killed a schoolboy and injured four others on a Norweigen | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
island is having major surgery today. Mike Reid has tweeted that | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
he can't breathe, eat or talk, and is having the operation at | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
Derriford Hospital to fix a broken jaw, fractured skull and eye socket. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Business experts say the accident which closed the M5 southbound for | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
around six hours this morning cost the region �1 million an hour. The | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
motorway was closed between Tiverton and Wellington after a car | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
towing a boat overturned, spilling a large amount of fuel. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Health chiefs in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are encouraging | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
parents to use the summer break to make sure their children have the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
MMR vaccine. It's because of higher than usual levels of measles | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
recorded in the county. Symptoms include a fever, coughing and | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
distinctive red-brown spots on the skin. The Government insists the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
MMR vaccine is safe with a proven track record, but latest figures | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
released for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly show that just 88% of | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
local children were vaccinated before their second birthday. By | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
the time they reach their fifth birthday, only 84% have received | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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their second MMR vaccination, which is needed to give maximum immunity. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Do earlier I asked Cornwall's director of public health why she | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
was encouraging children to -- parents to have their children | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
vaccinated. We think this is a wonderful opportunity to take | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
advantage of the school break and people to pop along to the doctors | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
and get their children immunised if they have not had their first of | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
second MMR immunisations. We have a lot of measles circulating in the | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
community. It is particularly prevalent in mainland Europe but we | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
also seem more cases in England and Wales Fisher and last. We would | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
really like people to get their children immunised are they have | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
got done so already. What you think there is still there reluctance | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
among some parents to have the MMR? I think there has been bad press in | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the past about the MMR back sing. All that research is that was done | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
has been put to rest. It is very clear that the research was flawed | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
and that the MMR vaccine is incredibly safety fuse. I have had | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
my daughter vaccinated and I would encourage other people to do the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
same. What is wrong with letting children have the that Manfred, get | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
it out of the way you move on. A lot of people would say that is how | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
they did it when they were a child. We do have vaccines that protect | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
people. For the majority of people measles is a minor illness but for | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
some people and lead to complications for infections and | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
other things and very occasionally it can lead to inflammation of the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
brain. That can lead to death. That is very rare but it can be an | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
unpleasant disease for children. Should we can avoid them having to | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
suffer these will this is there nothing we should take that | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
opportunity. Felicity Owen, talking to me earlier. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
We've got all the sport still to come. Exeter City draw a big name | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
in the second round of the League Cup - Liverpool are on their way. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
And the transformation of a run- down Plymouth Park is almost | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
complete - we'll give you a guided tour. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
People are starting to move into one of the latest affordable homes | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
projects in Cornwall. The new estate is in St Ives, where the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
average cost of a house is �205,000, almost �40,000 above the UK average. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Ten properties on the new development are for sale at prices | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
well below the market rate - the remaining 44 homes are available to | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
rent - a small number when you consider there are 20,000 people on | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
the housing waiting list in Cornwall. John Henderson reports. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Jumping for joy. Six-year-old Sofia outside her new home. The two- | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
bedroom house is one of 54 in a brand new estate. We do feel like | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
we have won the lottery, to be honest. Being in St Ives, the wages | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
of prey low compared to other areas and are up against it to get a | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
mortgage and buy a house. family have only been in for two | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
weeks. Chef Gary has lived in St Ives all his life - his local | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
connection meant the family didn't have long on the housing waiting | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
list. But many others in Cornwall aren't so lucky: -20,000 people are | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
on the housing register. This �5 million development has 44 | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
properties to rent. Those at the sharp end say more has to be done. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
There were nearly 500 households who expressed an interest. That | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
goes to show that within a town like St Ives, which has high house | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
prices, relatively low wages, there is a lot of pressure for affordable | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
homes. And in a district where the average cost of a house is �205,000, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the new development offers a small number the chance to get on the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
housing ladder. James and Samantha have brought one of the ten shared | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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ownership homes on the estate. They pay a mix of mortgage and rent. | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
Rent which is affordable in in St Ives. We have a house and her | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
garden so we are very pleased. owners and tenants are moving in to | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
a much-needed housing estate in Cornwall. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Olympic officials say Weymouth and Portland has passed its last major | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
test ahead of next year's games. The two-week long sailing dress | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
rehearsal is coming to an end this weekend. Experts and competitors | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
from all over the world say the venue is in great shape. | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
Spotlight's Hamish Marshall reports. It's all about preparation. The | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
sailors have been getting used to Dorset's Olympic waters, and the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
Olympic organisers have been seeing if their plans to cope with | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
competitors from around 70 countries translate to reality. | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
Issues have arisen like coping with weather delays and the exact layout | :14:22. | :14:31. | |
of the venue. But the man in charge told me solutions have been found. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
It is things like a maximum volume you can get on a radio, they are | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
set at the base level and for us on the water we need more. So the | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
engine is one I could change a group and it was better and could | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
try it with a different setting and there we think we have perfect | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
radio. It is that kind of detail. The ten Olympic sailing disciplines | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
have been alternating over the five courses. Today's women's 470 medal | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
race was on the one closest to Weymouth. It is not a spectator | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
does gaining his peers, the people who lay out the courses are | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
learning as well. Some spectators have used the Nothe Gardens. This | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
will be ticket0only next year - and the sport is trying to make it | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
easier for them to follow. Competitors believe these waters | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
provide a good test. You get such a wide variety of conditions and then | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
it always seems to be windy. The forecast is for Twell and somehow | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
it manages to build a 25 knots. a put courses in several different | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
places in the venue's and it has been great. This was the first | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Olympic venue to be ready - and after two weeks here, those who | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
travel the world following the sport have been impressed. It is | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
fantastic, the best sailing venue I have seen in my career. I have been | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
talking with other sailors from other teams and they say the same. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
While transport, access to Portland, and the influx of spectators cannot | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
be really tested at this event - the organisers says things bode | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
well. Time for the sport now and tonight, | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Dave's at St James Park, Exeter, as they start preparing for the visit | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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of Liverpool, no less, in the Exeter City have a big day to look | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
forward to later this month. Premiership big boys Liverpool are | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
coming to St James Park in the second round of the Football League | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
Cup. It is all-ticket. The draw has paired City at home with the former | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
European champions on Tuesday, August 23rd. Earlier, Director of | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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Football Steve Perryman told me what it means to the club. It means | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
the chance to progress. We're always looking at ways to push this | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
club forward. It takes money to do that. And, of course, Liverpool, we | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
would assume, would be a free app - - full house. A lot of interest in | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
the game and TV coverage, hopefully. So young people in Exeter can feel | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
proud of the team again. It just put us out to a wider audience and | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
gives us some credibility that we need to make that progress that is | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
of these here by looking at the training ground. We need to keep | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
that going to be a regular team in division one that is pushing | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
towards the championship. What are you expecting on the night itself | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
in terms of a contest? We have just played The Oval and the two clubs | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
get on particularly well together. It was a nice football evening. One | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
of us had to win and progress and frankly it was asked. But we're | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
more sorry for Yeovil Town now, the fact they have not got that glamour | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
tie. It is going to beat some stress, sunbirds, some passion, | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
some tension, a lot of quality. You see the red shirts of Liverpool and | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
that badge running about on St James' Park, that is not a bad | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
thing. Our players will have a chance to stretch themselves and | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
prove themselves against a high quality player. I think it is going | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
to make for a great evening, good television, and a chance for Exeter | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
City, again, to put itself in front of the public can show how the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
progress is coming on here. Exeter City aim to continue their | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
unbeaten start to the new football season when Milton Keynes Dons come | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
to St James Park tomorrow. Yeovil Town try to get off the mark in | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
League One against Oldham Athletic at Huish Park. The big match in | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
League Two is at the Memorial Stadium, where Bristol Rovers | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
manager Paul Buckle renews acquaintances with Torquay United | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
after leaving them in May. Peter Reid has been instilling more | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
tactical nous into his Plymouth Argyle fledglings as they face | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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Rotherham United at Home Park. Best of luck to try rich city who | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
start their new conference South Seas and tomorrow after their 5th | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
promotion in six seasons. Top-class cricket comes to Exmouth on Sunday, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
when Gloucestershire and the part- time side Unicorns meet in the Pro | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
40 League. The teams occupy the bottom two places in group C, but | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Devon officials are just happy that the resort has been chosen to host | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
the match. It starts at 1.45pm. Finally, tonight's speedway sees | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Plymouth Devils try to gain a Premier League double over | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
Leicester Lions at the St Boniface Arena. The Devils, bottom of the | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
table, won by a single point at Leicester, who are next-to-the- | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
bottom. That does it from me, back to you | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
knew you'd two. Archaeologists have just uncovered a Bronze age burial | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
chamber known as a cist on Dartmoor. It's the first time a team has done | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
this for over a century. As Greg Wade reports, experts are hopeful | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
the find will provide a snapshot of life in ancient Britain. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
The high moor. A bleak and mostly deserted place. But 4,000 years ago, | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the climate and the population would have been very different. Now | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
a site of antiquity is getting the scientific once over. Stone cists | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
were often burial chambers or coffins, sometimes with a | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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collection of funeral artefacts. until recently there were not any | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
known monuments up here. Below us there are obviously stone circles. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
This was really an unexpected find this hike up. It's not just about | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
digging for finds. Investigating the stone box's surrounding's are | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
equally important. I'm here to take environmental samples so I can use | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
them for radiocarbon dating and we can understand the age of the | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
monument and to take environmental samples so that we can reconstruct | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
environment and think about the kind of landscape these people were | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
walking around and engaging with. They are finding out what the | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
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environment and climate was life in these Bronze Age. Buried in the | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
ancient peat are micro fossils or plant life, which can then be | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
carbon-dated. Lifting the cap stone for the first time. Those bronze | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
age stones weigh a tonne. They're now pretty sure it's a burial site, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
as they've just found cremated bones and some jewellery. It's time | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
to head back to the labs and analyse those peat samples. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
A fountain dedicated to Admiral Sir Charles Napier, who campaigned to | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
improve the lot of the sailor, has been switched on as part of a major | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
restoration of a Victorian Park in Plymouth. It was the final stage of | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
a �5 million scheme to improve Devonport Park and encourage more | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
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people to use it. Springing into life once more. This | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
fountain is dedicated to the memory of Sir Charles Napier. The Admiral | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
was known as the sailor's champion. They held him in such high regard, | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
they donated a day's wages each back in 1863 to remember him. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
a rare fountains, in terracotta. It was made somewhere in the Midlands | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
originally and it is actually in reasonable condition. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
regeneration of Devonport Park has been some five years in the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
planning. It's cost �5.3 million. A large portion of that money has | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
come from a lottery grant - the largest such award in our region,. | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
Plymouth City Council says bigger projects are on the way. We have | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
got Central Park, at the next 10 years we have �12 million to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
refurbish that. We are committed to our parks. This is an ongoing | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
project for stock It's not just money. It's taken hundreds of | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
volunteers many hours to transform the park. Mike Gallagher is one of | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
them. There were no real facilities, no public toilets, no caffeine. It | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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has all changed. The children's play area is amazing. We believe | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
this is Blitz damage from Plymouth city centre but nobody can be | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
certain where it came from. There are lots of pieces of sculpture | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
like that lying around in seven Polly that have been put here | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
during the war. It's gone from a no-go area to a sanctuary. It is a | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
way better part and when we were little. He you feel like you want | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
it for him it rather than debating as it looked at on the outside. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
is a park to inspire all ages. Time to check out the weather | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
We have struggled today to find much in the way of sunshine. Most | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of the more land today has been shrouded in low cloud and mist. | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
There are some breaks now and into the weekend it has turned quite a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
bit brighter. We lose a lot of the low cloud and fog and things | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
improve. Sunday should be the best day of the two. There is a lot of | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
cloud covering the United Kingdom right now. Another lump of cloud is | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
falling in behind. Between the two we have had some sunshine but I | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
think the whole lot will move through later on tonight as a band | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
of cloud and patchy rain. As that moves away we introduce slightly | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
fresher air, slightly cleaner, so less of the mist and low cloud. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
This complication is that bump developing on the weather system | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
which may bring more cloud across the Channel Islands and into Dorset | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
through the day tomorrow, giving a risk of further outbreaks of rain. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
It is well gone by the time we get to Sunday when we have a week ridge | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
of high pressure and should see some sunshine. This is the story | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
for this evening. A lot of cloud covering most of western Britain. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
In the last few hours we have had a few breaks to a low some late | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
sunshine. Very quickly, that will fill in as the cloud roles in | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
tonight. Also a return of the hill fog. Then ring for a time by the | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
time we get to dawn tomorrow. Wins will be moderate and overnight | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
temperatures similar to the last few nights. Still quite humid air. | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
It will be cooler by tomorrow night. Tomorrow we have a lot of cloud. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Some caps from time to time, allowing some sunshine. | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Temperatures not as high as they have been but 20 degrees possible. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
But there is a risk of some of that patchy rain spreading to the | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Channel Islands. For the Isles of Scilly, it will brighten up quite | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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Certain continues into the weekend at New Quay. The coastal forecast | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
has wind from the south or South West. Brighter conditions for | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
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