30/08/2011 Spotlight

To get a note we had to get him out of the tent and get some fresh air

into him, and as Tony said, one of the Goebbels was completely flat

out. They contacted the emergency

services, and the family of five, that is two adults and three

children, were all taken to hospital. The Fire Service says

they used a portable barbecue incise their tent, which is

incredibly dangerous. By be queues are no different, it

is charcoal and gives of carbon dioxide. -- barbecues are no

different, it gives of carbon monoxide. They were at that stage

where they would unconscious and falling into a state of not being

able to assist themselves. That is the danger.

We were refused permission on to the side. Although the road is

Cornwall's largest campsite. Barbecuing is an integral part of

the holiday. Down from Redditch, this family camps a lot.

In most campsites there are designated barbecue areas. Here it

is pretty relaxed. They are not a fire hazard in

themselves, so they are away from Kent's, off the ground, there is no

other restriction on barbecues. -- The owner says they intend to issue

new guidelines to campers. A Plymouth based Royal Marine has

died while on foot patrol in Afghanistan. The Royal Marine, from

42 Commando, was killed by a roadside bomb in the Nahr-e Saraj

district of Helmand Province. He is the sixth member of the unit based

at Bickleigh Barrracks to die during this tour of duty. His

family has been told. Police say a woman in her sixties

has drowned in the Isles of Scilly. She was pulled from the water at St

Martins this lunchtime. The family of the woman, who was a visitor,

has been informed. New figures out today show the

region's housing crisis is deepening with fewer people owning

their own home. More than 317,000 people are on social housing

waiting lists in the South West. But only those in the most

desperate of circumstances have a realistic chance of being allocated

a home. Average rents in the private sector are forecast to

increase by 18.9% in the region over the next five years, fuelled

by high demand and a shortage of properties. The problem is

exacerbated by second homes and higher than average property prices.

The proud owner of a new house, but it is not really owned or even

rented - this is a council house. It is quite disappointing, really,

to think you are not going to get a foot on the ladder and are probably

going to be in housing association housing for ever, probably. They

are lovely, we love and might house and are grateful for it, but it is

disappointing we might never worn our born. -- we might never owned a

They this is our House, our little lounge, we have a carpet that is

not very good for our little boy who is trying to walk, and he might

follow over and hit his head. They say they feel hopeless and

they are not alone. The National Housing Association says the South

West is in crisis. There are not enough homes being built in Devon

and Cornwall to meet the need. There are also specific issues

relevant to rural areas. House prices in rural areas tend to be

much house at -- ten to be much higher. There are more second

In these areas. I think we will see a steady

increase in the market for the next 18 months, and by that time the

economy will right itself, paprika the in the West Country if not

actually, and the market will improve in that latter part of 2012.

They it is a market this family will probably never be part of.

Earlier I put the points raised in that report to Brian Moore, an

independent housing consultant. I began by asking him what he thought

the answer was to the housing crisis.

There is no easy answer. The fact is, here we are in 2011 and a

society has given a generation so many expectations about home-owning.

Things have changed very rapidly. People's expectations, however, are

still up there. People go on more foreign holidays than ever before,

people have cars, we are not as poor as a generation ago. We have

expectations, driven perhaps falsely by Government short-

sightedness in telling people they will get something from --

something tomorrow and they should aim for the stars. Frankly, the

penny has dropped, there is no simple answer apart from people

taking a deep breath and not -- realising they're not going to get

a house. If they do that, what do they do

instead? There are huge pressures in the rent market, so that is a

difficulty for young people. That is the double whammy. The rent

sector is the only way to sort this out, so small landlords should be

given incentives to take tenants for longer so. The Labour

Government stopped all the things Margaret Thatcher did and

deregulated it. Rents are extraordinary -- extraordinarily

high. Why should someone want to move into a rented house when they

could move into a housing association home? It is very much

the emperor's new clothes, and if the king is not needed, he is

certainly running around in his smalls. The big challenge of the

21st century is not the war, not anything, not disease, it is

housing and expectation. The Government says it is trying to

ease the situation by changing planning regulations so that house

-- builders can build more homes. We could build homes, but how can

things happen like that in Devon? We were talking ten years ago there

was an enormous thing going to happen. Ten years later, it has

been downgraded, lest things happening, and this concept of

affordable housing - what is affordable? Something affordable to

you may not be to me. Quite frankly, I would prefer a our problems today

would be housing rather than being invaded or a dreadful disease.

Society is better, but society needs to realise you cannot always

get what you want. A big policing operation is

underway tonight to try and prevent any violence as Exeter City play

Plymouth Argyle in a local football derby. Devon and Cornwall Police

have brought in extra officers in an attempt to keep order.

It is hoped the match will go ahead without any unrest. But it is the

force's second big test in a fortnight, and police are not

taking any risks. Our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall reports

from Exeter, where the match takes place.

Sporting rivalries can sometimes turns sour. And the sun deck this -

- Exeter of football games have a history of trouble, so the police

are bringing in extra force to keep order.

The policing we have for this event is mindful of the previous

background and I have significant resources available to make sure

the event passes peacefully. There is a lot of preparation, and

particularly it is an all-ticket game. Anyone who comes here will be

known to add a Plymouth Argyle's Club or two ours. That has worked

before, there is no reason it should not work well this evening.

The game is not expected to be a sell-out, but police have still

given it a category C security rating - the highest.

We want everybody to behave themselves,, to St James's Park and

have a good evening, see a good evening of football and go home

safely with no problems. A to be fair to Exeter, it is usually

trouble the other way around, Exeter do not have history of

causing trouble in Plymouth, it is usually the other way around.

Another high-profile match last week, when Liverpool saw a similar

sized policing operation that passed off peacefully.

The police say they have -- their intelligence has assessed tonight's

much as having a low risk of disorder, but they are taking no

chances. We will be live at St James's Park

for a preview of that much later in the programme and there will be

full commentary on BBC Radio Devon. A new monitoring system to warn

bathers about sewage spills has resulted in nearly 50 alerts on

south west beaches this summer. The computerised system - said to be

the first in Europe - sends alerts which can be viewed on websites and

received as text messages. Hamish Marshall reports.

The New Alert system shows raw sewage has spilled into the water

here at Crantock beach near Newquay since the scheme began in June. --

six times since the scheme began. The nearby treat what works over

flowers during heavy wet weather causing combined flows 2 one to the

beach. We will take this information to

the Government and lobby them to say, this is not good enough that

you can have sewage coming out onto some of our best beaches ten times

a year in the breeding season. Raw sewage can cause bathers to

suffer from infections, gastroenteritis, or worse.

I come here surfing quite a lot, and you cannot really see the nasty

bugs, to what would be a good idea. The new system has been installed

at 24 locations in Cornwall and Devon.

The system is showing us exactly what we and other experts will have

seen, which is when there is a storm there will be shorter

durations were water quality is affected, and that is what is

happening. So is it West Water says it will

wait until the end of the seething to judge the system.

-- South West Water. -- end of the season.

An unusual project is underway in the south west to track down bats.

Healthy bats indicate a healthy environment, but it is thought

their colonies are under pressure from OUR modern lives. Until now we

have known very little about where they are thriving. Spotlight's

Environment Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports.

Bats are an important indicator of how well our environment is coping.

They are elusive creatures, and tracking them is not easy, but it

is amazing what you can learn about individual species by listening to

the sounds they make as they you -- as they used echo location to

navigate the landscape. This is a graphical representation

of the sounds. This is an echo locating at 45 kilohertz, so I know

Bedrich Hopkinson has his own bat Mobile and locater. It is all part

of a project to map but Habitat's. We can mount this like this on to a

vehicle, it has a very strong suction cup, and that is connected

to the device in the vehicle recording any echo location calls

as we drive around. He is working with maps and data

provided from the Devon biodiversity centre.

We will go up to the side and I will show you some more areas...

All kinds of bats over 1,200 acres will be monitored with the help of

volunteers. Ian has high hopes for the results.

A very rare bat which has declined very severely from the loss of

woodland has been found on the Somerset side and we will hope to

identify it on the Devon side if possible.

By finding aware of the bats live it is hoped wildlife corridors

could be developed in the future. Time for the sport now, and

Natalie's here with a round up starting with on the pitch matters

in tonight's football derby. It may only be the first round of

the Football League Trophy, but it gives an opportunity to rekindle

Devon rivalry between Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle. Good evening.

Last season, the clubs met three times with City coming out on top

2-1. Dave Gibbins is there for us this evening.

Plymouth Argyle are no rock bottom with a huge gap between these two.

Good Plymouth stand any chance at all tonight? -- du Plymouth Hoe?

On paper they shouldn't. They are lower than a standard League One

side now, and that they are still waiting for their first win in

League two and the a bottom of the Football League. However, this is a

cup competition, it may only be the first round, but why not tonight,

they can do it? Plymouth obviously have their

worries of the pitch, is there any worries on that deal being done

tonight? Not as we speak. Ostensibly, the

deal was not signed but it was agreed last Friday at teatime. We

are waiting for the eyes to be dotted, but I can tell you that a

few hundred Plymouth Argyle fans are set to come here to sing James

Park, what does that tell you about the first round competition?

Meanwhile Torquay United will look to carry on their excellent away

form when they go to Cheltenham in the same Trophy this evening. The

Gulls are unbeaten on the road this season. Yeovil go through to the

next round. With just ten days to go until the

start of the America's Cup World series in Plymouth preparations

have been gathering pace in the city over the weekend. The first

racing boats have been unloaded as teams get ready to take part in the

international sailing event. John Gently does it - the French team

watch as the whole of their boat is lifted from the container ship. It

is an anxious time as the crew discover if the report has survived

the journey. Went on board the ship, checked

that the board had, of the cradles inside the container ship OK, than

to get up to the frame without the framework it had been supported on

and to get onto the sea and brought it ashore. Here she is, safe and

sound. This week, all eight teams will be

ready for the competitions. It is going very well, we are on

schedule. A couple of setbacks with heavy rain, but nothing to worry

about. We have all the containers set up, and we are pretty much

working with the TV compound. And the television unit will be

responsible for capturing images like these, which people will be

able to view on the big screen in the city centre.

The first races will take place since -- in Plymouth Sound on

Saturday. The young Exeter golfer Harrison

Greenberry has won another major competition. The 17 year old's just

back from Spain with the victorious Great Britain and Ireland Team who

won the Jacques Leglise Trophy. They beat Continental Europe and

Harrison won both his singles and his foursomes to achieve a 100%

winning record. Two weeks ago he won the British Amateur Golf

Championship for Boys. Former Plymouth Albion star Dan

Ward Smith has announced he is retiring from professional rugby

because of a back injury. The 33- year-old Number 8 from Launceston

was at Albion for six years and scored nearly 100 tries for them.

The Rugby Players Association said it was a huge shame that Dan was

unable to fulfill his international potential because of injury and it

was a cruel blow that another serious injury has now ended his

career. A ceremony has taken place to

officially open Bodmin's new tennis courts which, for the first time,

are free to the public. The Beacon scheme was paid for jointly by

Cornwall Council and the Lawn Tennis Association. It is hoped it

will encourage local people to use the Dragon centre's new facilities.

The focus of my presidency which started this year is to ensure we

get more people playing all over the country at every location.

And finally, congratulations to St Just Cricket Club who have made it

through to the National Club 20/20 finals after beating Valley End

yesterday by five wickets. They will take on Ealing in the last

four next month with the winners facing either Kendal or Chester-le-

Now he has become quite a talking point in his home town of Yeovil

since he featured on a national TV documentary. Ken Andre is the

martial arts expert who dresses in Ninja robes to patrol the streets

of the town by day and night. Reaction to what he does has been

mixed. So, Clinton Rogers has been out on

the streets with him to see what drives the man who lives in the

And move through the shadows and help people.

A warrior for just causes, or a vigilante? Neat Shadow. We may not

have seen him, but he has been working in the shadows of Yeovil

for years, he says to keep the streets safer.

Ken Andre is a father of two, by day as security guard. Being a

ninja is, he says, his passion. What does his wife think?

It is great he is out there in his kept doing what he does.

You do not think it is odd? And no. I would not be with him if

I thought he was odd. It is not just at night time that

Ken assumes the role of ninja shadow. During the day he can be

found patrolling the areas where he thinks trouble will flare up. There

have been concentrations. This is the area yobs would using

BB guns to shoot swans. And you stepped in? What did you

I got as close as I could to give a growl...

What? Are a gravel. -- I gave a growl.

Today, police stopped and to check what they thought was a samurai

sword. In fact, it is a stick made of form.

He is quite a decent sort of chap, not breaking the law.

Main due, the formal -- however, the formal police view is they

would leave the job to them. Members of the public are

suspicious. I look at anyone with a samurai

sword with a little suspicion! Make no mistake, Ken thinks he is

providing an important public service, breaking up trouble when

he can and calling the police when necessary.

There will be people saying, you are a vigilante, it is wrong, back

off. I am not a vigilante, I do not go

looking for crime. If I see someone getting beaten up in the street, I

am not going to just walk by. And with a torn mind -- with that

in mind, A shadow will be back on the streets of Yeovil tonight.

And what would you think? Someone was saying earlier it would

frighten them if he jumped from the shadow was! But I suppose he is

trying to make people feel safe. -- if he jumped from the shadows at.

It will be dry, and each day it gets a little warmer. For the rest

of the week, brighter and a little warmer, temperatures up to 22

Celsius on Saturday, making up for some called back air for the past

five days. -- some cold air. There is a weak weather front coming in

from the north, introducing quite a lot of cloud. Today, the best of

the sunshine across parts of Cornwall. With a high pressure

still there there will be more breaks in the cloud. By the

afternoon, more cloud back. By Thursday, very little change, this

is a weather front that will bring some change, or probably coming in

overnight on Saturday into Sunday. Until then, dry weather to be had.

Earlier today, hardly a breath of wind. In the Tavistock Balloon

Fiesta, they managed to get one balloon up, and the reason for that

was there was hardly any wind. The fiesta starts this weekend, and it

is always spectacular to see tens of these balloons lifting up across

the sky. It is a nice way to see the countryside, especially when

the burner is not going, because it is very quiet. There are already

holds developing in the cloud, and it does become largely clear

overnight tonight. And quite chilly. A few places tonight will be well

into single figures, seven Celsius. For the rest of us, nine or ten

Celsius the minimum temperature. A bit of a breeze tonight that will

stir the air and prevent too much of a fall in temperatures. Tomorrow

morning, sunshine and gradually clouding over. A risk of showers

through the seven injured -- Severn estuary, but for many a dry day

with sunny spells, and temperatures higher than today, up to 18 or 19

Celsius. I keen easterly breeze developing along the south coast

holding temperatures down. They Isles of Scilly will have sunshine

again tomorrow. With Akim its easterly breeze it will feel cool

with 18 Celsius. -- with a keen easterly breeze. We have spring

tides at the moment, so there is a flood alert on the north Devon

coast, quite high tide, but to come only at Lynmouth, at 10.4 metre

The coastal waters forecast has winds east or north-easterly, four,

occasionally five, affair with good Temperatures are on the rise, the

average is below 20 Celsius. By the end of the week we are up to 22

Celsius, so an improving story up to the weekend, possibly with some

patchy rain. We will bring you the result of the