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A total of 40 years in prison for the gang who flooded the streets of

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Exeter with class A drugs. Good evening.

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Police say information provided by the public helped to bring the men

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to justice. Also on Spotlight tonight: million

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pounds in compensation for young adults who suffered at the hands of

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their carers. Police offer a reward of thousands

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as four rare birds are deliberately poisoned. Within Devon there are no

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more than 20 pairs say to these four birds this is a significant

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part of the population. And crowds gather in the streets as the Tour

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It will be beamed all over the UK and the rest of the world and put

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The ringleaders of a criminal gang who a judge said "flooded the

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streets of Exeter" with heroin and crack cocaine were today jailed.

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The police have praised residents in the city, saying information

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they provided was critical in bringing the men to justice. Our

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home affairs correspondent Simon Hall reports from Exeter Crown

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Court. A in a park in the centre of Exeter

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in the middle of the day drug addict's cluster around a dealer in

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a feeding frenzy as the judge The gang would direct addict to

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public places to be sold crack cocaine and heroin but in a brazen

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behaviour was their undoing. Local people monitored the dealing and

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gave the information to the police who set up a covert surveillance

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operation. This is a core bedrock of local policing, working with

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partners and the public to resolve an issue. We don't want drugs in

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Exeter, we wanted to be a safe place and in the main it is. But

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where we identify a problem we will target it and we will be knocking

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on their door. He's playing fields have now been retaken by the

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community after they were blighted by the gang's crimes. One local

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resident told me the difference that had made. It is great. It is

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lovely to come down here and be amongst all the different levels

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and areas of the people who live around you. Everybody is here from

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the tiniest child to the oldest resident, it is excellent. The gang

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were highly organised criminals, they brought drugs from Manchester

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to Devon and burst deed of supplying them all day, every day.

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They said mobile phone text messages to adult -- addict when

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you drugs were available. -- messages to addict when new drugs

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were available. The sentence reflects the serious criminality

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these people were involved in. scale of their operation saw a

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total of 45 people arrested. Passing sentence, the judge said

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this was a very substantial criminal operation which succeeded

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in flooding the streets of Exeter with Class A drugs. None of the

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gang showed any reaction as they were taken down to the cells.

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Around �8 million compensation has been paid to a group of adults with

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learning disabilities at the centre of a care abuse scandal in Cornwall.

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165 claimants took action over their treatment at the Budock

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Hospital near Falmouth over a period of years. The home was shut

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in 2007. Our Cornwall reporter David George has been following

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events and I asked him what happened at the home.

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These claims relate to 165 young adults with learning disabilities.

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Many of whom lived at the Budock Hospital. This was an assessment

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unit which was closed down after this was discovered in 2006. This

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abuse went back for 20 years and included physical assault,

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emotional and verbal abuse, and a failure to carry out that care and

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assessment and this afternoon the High Court has awarded those young

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people a total of �8 million in compensation for that abuse.

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Were it has been the reaction? -- what has been. We had this

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statement from the body that now is responsible for these young people

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and it says the services provided by our predecessor, the corn mill -

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- Cornel partnership NHS Trust, did not reach the standards we expected

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-- Cornwall. We cannot undo the things that happened but providing

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financial compensation is part of our commitment to doing things

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right. Since 2006 we have done a great deal to improve the services

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provided in Cornwall for people with learning disabilities.

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Any reaction from the families? Not individually, but from Mencap

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and Cornwall and their representative. He agrees there

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services have improved and says the money and compensation will be used

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to do ordinary things, things those families who hadn't been able to do

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before because of their financial situation such are simply going on

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holiday. And there'll be much more on this

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story with reaction from families on BBC Radio Cornwall tomorrow

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morning. Wildlife experts say they're deeply

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shocked after four very rare goshawks were found poisoned in a

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wood near Exeter. There are only 20 breeding pairs in Devon. The Royal

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Society for the Protection of Birds says it's offering a reward of

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�1,000 to find out who killed them. Greg Wade reports.

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In the wild know when praise on them, but on some forestry

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commission they have become prey to their only foe, humans. Across the

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UK there are 400 of the protected goshawks. To lose four is a big

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loss. The people like to this are beneath contempt in our opinion --

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the people who do this. But they are not above the law. This area is

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a wildlife reserve where there is is striving community of rare and

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protected animals -- a thriving. The RSPB cannot reveal the location

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of the poisoned birds because they are prone to disturbance. There are

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a very sensitive species and there may be egg thieves and people want

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to go -- persecute these birds so we cannot reveal the sensitive

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breeding location. There are clues as to who the perpetrators could be.

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These have been poisoned with her a better side -- with a pesticide. It

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is quite commonly used to target birds of prey in other parts of the

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country. It is a crime under the Wildlife and Countryside Act to

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kill protected species and the police are keen to hear from

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anybody who has information about the offence. This is the single

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largest incident of poisoning I have had to deal with. The RSPB is

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so shocked at the goshawks demise they are offering �1,000 reward for

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information about the deaths. A soldier from 1st Battalion The

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Rifles has been killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. The Ministry

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of Defence said he died from a gunshot wound when he was in the

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Nar e Saraj district of Helmand Province yesterday. His next of kin

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have been informed. A man from Cornwall who runs a charity which

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recycles furniture and helps people in need furnish their homes,

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mounted a roof top protest today. Owen Braines climbed onto the roof

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of County hall in Truro and stayed there for ten hours. He says his

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project Eco Logic is a good example of the Big Society in action, but

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needs more funding to keep going. The council says it's offered Mr

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Braines some financial help, but it was refused. I'm joined now by our

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Political Editor Martyn Oates. lot of people feel the public

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sector spending cuts are falling disproportionately on them.

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Ironically at a time when people expect charities to do more rather

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than less for society, and that chance with the idea of the big

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society, and also with the grim reality that lot of services the

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state previously provided are being withdrawn and the financial

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pressures. Abbott the charities concerned to the Deputy Prime

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Minister when I met him in Newquay this morning. Yes, there is a

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dilemma. Local authorities are having to make savings and they are

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the people who often give money to local charities and voluntary

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groups to then in turn help the elderly, young children, people

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with disabilities, fund rubble. My experience is some local

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authorities have been much better than others at making sure whether

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I making savings they are back office costs, administration,

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bureaucracy and the AX doesn't fall on voluntary groups who are so

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important to us now. So is that in putting the figure at local

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authority? Yes, effectively. There is the big ideological theme for

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this government, but at the same time it is devolving a lot less

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money to local authorities. Some critics would say this is a

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poisoned chalice. Hearing given -- government ministers cutting waste

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to save services infuriates many people, even those who belong to

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the coalition parties because they say there isn't much more to be

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done. The public are being consulted on plans for a huge

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offshore windfarm off the north Devon coast. The company behind the

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proposals to create the Atlantic Array claims the windfarm could

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generate up to 40% of the South West's electricity. Our Environment

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Correspondent Adrian Campbell reports. These are the kind of wind

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turbines they want a place in the Bristol Channel. It would cover an

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area than nearby Lundy. It would cover a larger area than the Isle

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of Wight. But the developers claim it could provide up to 40% of the

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south-west's electricity needs with 188 -- with between 188 and 417

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turbines. This onshore wind farm is the largest in England but this

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promises and been very different. By most people's standards the new

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wind farm in North Devon is pretty large. But the one planned off the

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coast is much larger Again, it would have hundreds of wind

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turbines. That has concerned one local politician. We are being sold

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a story of renewable energy, economic benefits for North Devon,

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the reality is the main economic benefits are going to go to South

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Wales. The main environmental impact will be on North Devon and I

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think when people begin to realise that there will be significant

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resistance to these proposals. company which wants to build it

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says it is hoping to persuade people it is a good idea before it

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submits his planning application next year. This is a real

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opportunity for the public to come and meet the project team to learn

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about the wind farm proposals and to provide their feedback. So we

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can take account of that feedback. The company says there will be

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benefits for North Devon from the Atlantic A rate and it is hoping to

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persuade people it is a good idea before it submits his planning

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application next year. -- its planning application for from

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striving to be the best, to the gnomes already world record holders.

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Underground, overground, rising up from the earth and coming down from

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the skies there is a natural water cycle. But that doesn't mean it's

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always in the right place at the right time. We need to not only

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collect rainfall in reservoirs but sometimes move millions of litres

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around the system. In the second part of his series David Braine

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looks at the secret world of water. These tunnels are part of a complex

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modern distribution system allowing water to be moved between

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reservoirs and by closely monitoring the demand ensure that

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when we turn on the tap we get clean, plentiful drinking water. We

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pay a high price for this. The highest water bills in the country.

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But where does the water come from, and how is it treated? For most of

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the south-west the water is stored in reservoirs and uses gravity to

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pump it to towns and cities. The huge concrete dam was constructed

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in 1979 to create a reservoir. This was at the time one of the largest

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engineering project in Britain. Reservoirs rely on rainfall, but

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like this year we do get too dry spells and that is where the pump

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storage system comes into place. take the water from here and the

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strict conditions and we can pump up to 150 million litres of water

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each day. That is the equivalent of pumping 80 Olympic-sized swimming

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pools into the reservoir every day. Our energy charges of the order of

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�10,000 each day. When we do need to use the pump storage scheme he

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would frequently be used for six or seven weeks. Taking water out of

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the river is strictly controlled by the Environment Agency. The flow of

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water must be maintained to allow fish and other wildlife to thrive

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throughout the year. This reservoir is currently 55% fall. Even with

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that level it is holding millions of litres of water. In order to

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keep the river flow going it has to release some of that water and this

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flow is the release of that at 288 litres of water every second. The

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south-west of England uses 450 million litres of water per day.

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Each source of water is different and has to be treated to give the

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same taste and quality in the nearby treatment works. These

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tunnels are part of a complex process of moving water across the

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south-west. Based on most reservoirs on the surface. Next

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week we stay underground. Dorset doesn't have any of those surface

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reservoirs, all of its water comes from underground.

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More where they later in the programme. -- weather. Now when I

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was at school, a house point was a sign you had pleased the teacher, I

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had the ability to lose them as well. But pupils at a school in

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Torquay will be receiving medals. Westlands School is one of the

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first in the country to roll out a new learning programme inspired by

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the Olympics. Lessons got off to a flying start thanks to a visit by a

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double Olympic medallist, as Ed Goodridge reports. He already had

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two Olympic medals for sailing and if they handed them out for signing

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autographs he is on course for a gold. The Exmouth based Olympian is

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the star attraction for pupils at this Torquay school. This programme

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is called be the best you can be and we want every student to be the

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best they can and get success through learning and life and they

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are enormously excited. You have only got to see the queue behind me

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because right down the corridor they are coming here to get

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signatures, it is something very special to have an Olympian and we

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are delighted to welcome him to our school. He was here to help launch

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a new education programme at the school. It is part of the Olympic

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legacy which aims to inspire young people to do great things. The key

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thing of the legacy is not only to inspire people into sport, but it

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is also to use sport as a vehicle to inspire people in whatever it is

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they are interested in in life. Have you whether wiggle around your

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neck because it is so heavy? -- how do you manage to wear the medal

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around your neck. Yes, it is. I enjoyed coming into schools and

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when you see and hear what they are inspired by the it is really

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motivating. Be pupils will receive their own medals on completing the

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programme. Bears are produced by the Royal Mint and not likely to

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contain silver but with a little Arabic stardust sprinkled around AD

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one day their dreams will be an Olympic reality too. -- a little

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Olympic stardust. Some of the biggest names in professional

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cycling have been racing through Devon today. Stage five of the Tour

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of Britain cycle race set off from Exeter this morning. Thousands

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turned out to watch and there was success for Plymouth rider Jon

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Tiernan-Locke. John Danks reports. This was the man many had come to

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see. Mark Cavendish, British Olympic gold medallist and multiple

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stage win of the Tour de France, one of the big names racing today.

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The race began at Exeter's Cathedral Square. The 112 mile

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route took them out of the city and on to Dartmoor. They were on to a

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man to climb and sprint section before reaching the finish line in

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Exmouth. This is the first year Devon has hosted an entire stage of

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the Tour of Britain but could a one-day course into Cornwall?

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only slight drawback is the further south west we go, the more we go

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into a cul-de-sac and can pose a problem intensive transfers but we

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will do our best to get into Cornwall as well. We have got

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�175,000 in this, it is very important year, a final opportunity

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people in Devon can watch this event, the final time they will be

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able to see these riders before they took part in the Olympic Games

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next year, a big year. -- take part. This was Devon's day in the sun and

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the crowds were loving it. I watch the start in Exeter. Then came

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straight here and got a place here. We have travelled down, really

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enjoyed it. The stage was won by a stray remark Renshaw and Mark

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Cavendish was just behind. There was success for the Plymouth rider

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who picked up the king of the mountains journey for winning every

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kind on the race. Couldn't be better. Good to win it in any

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county, but to be in Devon and do it it is great. It moves up to

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Somerset tomorrow for staged takes -- six from Taunton to Wells.

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Plymouth Argyle's footballers have agreed to another wage deferral,

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this time for 11 days up to September the 26th. After

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threatening to go on strike a fortnight ago, unless they received

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part of their overdue wages, the players have signed a waiver on

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their next payments. But there's no threat of them sitting out this

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weekends match at Southend United. It is affecting us, I don't care

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what people say. I'm not looking for an excuse, there is no excuse

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for losing games, but it is true it is worrying. It is lighter weight

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on your shoulder every day. You look at the boys and you can see

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they haven't got a happy face of a 21-year-old footballer. That is why

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we want it sorted as soon as possible. Cheese platters, backward

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spelling and underwater juggling. They're all disciplines that have

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got the region listed in the latest Guinness Book of World Records.

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We're also famous for the world's largest collection of pixies and

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gnomes, and John Ayres has been to see them.

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Hidden in the countryside north Devon are some very special people.

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This is the gnome Reserve. According to the record's there are

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2042 of them, although the number is constantly growing. It was

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started by an act in and her family but you have to wonder why. -- Anne

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Atkins. The reason I like gnomes is because you have got all the

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butterflies and birds in nature which you can draw on, and then you

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have got imagination as well. But the two together and you have a

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wonderful world, I think. But they have got to be shared with

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everybody so 33 years ago we started. Siegfried was the first

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and since then this would has batted more and more gnomes who all

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appeared to be enjoying themselves fishing, sunbathing, climbing, oh

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look, known park. The visitors appeared to be enjoying it so what

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is it about there? Their cheeky little faces. My daughter like the

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ones around the corner that had their bottoms out. Cheeky

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characters, I think that is what cities. This record is for the

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combination of names and Pixies. Without sounding daft, what is the

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difference? Gnomes are as ancient as the hills and junk as a child.

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Pixies are entirely young. -- young as a child. A pixie wouldn't have a

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beard. They have got little round faces, childlike faces. I like them

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both. More than 2000 Names is quite a record to beat and with the

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number is growing every day the sky is the limit -- gnomes.

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There you go, all you need to know about Pixies and gnomes. Do you

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need the hat or is that optional? Spotlight is live tomorrow from the

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Americas Cup down in Plymouth. What The wind is picking up. It doesn't

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mean rather a blustery be turned in store. There could be some sharp

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showers around. At the moment we have a mass of cloud out in the

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Atlantic. That will be heading our way overnight. There is a change in

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our weather at turning more unsettled from tonight onwards.

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There is the weather system bringing back cloud towards us. By

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lunchtime tomorrow but whether friend has moved through but by

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lunchtime on Saturday there is a low-pressure system -- that a

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weather front has moved three. Earlier on a closer look at the

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satellite picture shows we did have some card at times but some bright

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or sunny spells. -- cloud at times. Our cameraman was at Teignmouth

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earlier run. A very light winds today. It will pick up over the

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coming days. Fairly dusty at times. Nowhere near as strong as last

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weekend. It will certainly be noticeable compared with today's

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very light breeze. We will see some heavy showers over the coming days.

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Overnight it starts off on a Trinant. We will see increasing

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amount of cloud through the first part of the night and the risk of

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some showery outbreaks. Temperatures much milder than last

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night. Tomorrow starts off on a cloudy note. We could see a few

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sharp showers in the middle part of the day. It doesn't look like they

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will tend to stay along the north coast. Many of us seeing a dry day,

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Brennan up into the afternoon. -- Brighton in up. -- it will brighten

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up. Here is the forecast for the Do picking up a little bit for the

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Here is the outlook into the weekend. Saturday, heavy showers.

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