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Fears for rural snow-hit communities as Devon's road | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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gritting operation is scaled back. Absolutely diabolical. We live in a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
rural community and there are lots of elderly people in the area. How | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
can the carers look after them in the winter? | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Good evening and welcome to Spotlight. We'll be live at a | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
gritting depot with more on that in just a moment. Also tonight: Save | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
our High Streets. Cornish campaigners head to Westminster to | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
lobby the government and Mary Queen of shops. | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
A lifeline for Argyle as Plymouth City Council agree to buy Home Park. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Absolutely delighted. The council have done the right thing. The | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
words were very sobering and summed everything up. Today is a historic | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
moment for the city of Plymouth. And the former Torquay taxi driver | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
who's been mummified in the name of science. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Rural communities in Devon have said they are being abandoned to | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
the winter weather after the county council announced cuts to its | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
gritting service. 80 miles of roads will now no longer be treated when | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
severe weather is forecast. People living in isolated villages have | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
reacted with anger and concern. Our Home Affairs correspondent Simon | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Hall joins us now from a gritting depot in Kingsteignton near Newton | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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The weather is undoubtedly getting colder. This is the first outing | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
this year for my trusty outside broadcast jacket. Not quite time | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
for the gritters yet, but that moment will surely come. They are | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
already on standby. What we have is an argument about which roads in | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Devon should be gritted and more importantly, when. The South West | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
has suffered three severe winters in a row, with widespread transport | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
disruption. Now in Devon because the County Council has to save | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
money as part of the Government austerity measures, there are fears | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
that many communities could suffer even more this winter. 80 miles of | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
road are being removed from the primary gritting network. That | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
means they will no longer be treated when Severe weather is | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
forecast. Instead they are likely to be gritted only when the bad | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
weather has already struck. Preferred on Dartmoor is one | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
village to be removed from the primary gritting network. The | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
village is relatively high up on the more. This is the road in and I | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
can vouch for its steepness. I can see why local people are concerned | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
they may be cut off. Amanda has a young daughter and relies on the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
road to get her to school and herself to work. We are doing our | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
bit for a community, however it does not seem the council want to | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
do their bit to support us and keep the village moving during the | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
winter. It is absolutely disgraceful. I children will not be | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
able to go to school. There are lots of elderly people in the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
village that will not be able to get their medication and their | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
carers to come out. There is just no end and the list goes on and on. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Devon County Council so that all A roads and B roads will be in a | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
primary gritting network when bad weather is forecast, as will all | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
major villages. They have included routes to major schools and train | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
stations. This service was previously provided so it is | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
regrettable, but we are still covering them as part of the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
secondary route network so we do not expect them to be cut off. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
There are concerns that the communities will not be treated the | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
way they used to be. Sadly we have to make resources stretch as far as | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
we can. We want to offer the best service possible but we have to be | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
fair across the county. All of this depends on that great British | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
imponderable, the weather. But long-range forecasts are already | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
predicting a harsh winter. Villages are not prepared to wait for the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
bad weather and all that could mean for them. They are already getting | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
together and beginning a campaign to fight any cutbacks to their | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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gritting services. They want them preserved exactly the way they are. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Simon, thank you. We'd like your views on that story. You can email | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
us on the usual address or contact us on Twitter. And tomorrow on | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Spotlight we'll be looking at the problem of potholes on our roads. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
So let us know about your problem roads. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
A second family has highlighted serious concerns about a Plymouth | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
care agency and the way social services dealt with the matter. An | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
investigation found 88 year old George Waterfield had been | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
subjected to institutional abuse by carers at 1st Call Homecare five | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
years ago. His family contacted Spotlight after we reported claims | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
last week of inadequate care by the agency. Our health correspondent | :05:02. | :05:11. | |
Sally Mountjoy reports. George Waterfield was a retired | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
bank worker. In his late eighties, he had dementia and other heart | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
conditions. He lived on the top floor of his daughter's house but | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
had visits from agency carers supplied by 1st Call Homecare four | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
times per day. But the family grew increasingly worried about the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
behaviour of some of the carers. Using a hoist dangerously, cutting | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
short the care visits, and worse. One of the main complaints was that | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
they took photographs of my father on the commode, undressed. They | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
also used abusive language in front of him. In general, the standard of | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
care that they gave him was very poor and we were absolutely | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
appalled. We felt very guilty because my father was cared for | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
with in our home. An investigation concluded that most of the issues | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
raised by the family constitution did institutional abuse. Two | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Kerridge resigned and two were dismissed as a result and the | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
family pursued a negligence claim which settled out of court. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
George's care was transferred to a new agency, after which his family | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
and GP said that his condition improved. Brenda called Spotlight | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
following our report last week on Patricia Finn. She was left with | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
infected sores after inadequate care by 1st Call Homecare. They | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
were concerned. The social services investigation was not conducted | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
immediately. I was very upset to think that after all we had been | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
through in the hope of changing things so that nobody else would | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
suffer, that somebody else was in exactly the same situation, albeit | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
five years down the line. She had also complained about social | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
services. An independent review found their monitoring of the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
agency was not effective and they have failed in their duty of care. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
1st Call Homecare has declined to comment on either complaint. | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
Plymouth city council says they worked with the family in 2006 to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion and a rigorous | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
investigate any -- they rigorously investigate any cases of this | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
nature. A delegation of business leaders | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
from Cornwall have been in London today calling for the Government to | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
do more to save the High Street. The traders from Falmouth say many | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
small shopkeepers are struggling and they should be helped with cuts | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
in VAT and business rates. And today they were given some advice | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
from the retail guru Mary Portas. Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
reports. This is the scene in many towns across the South West. Empty | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
shops, boarded up, waiting for tenants. Many of the existing | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
traders say this will not happen without more help from the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Government. This coffee shop in Falmouth has been here for 27 years. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
It is popular with local people and visitors but its owner says that | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
local business rates are just too high. Business rates are grossly | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
unfair. I don't care what the arguments of. For small businesses | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
it is grossly unfair and they ought to be cut. If there is one tangible | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
way the Government could do anything, local rates, if they were | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
dropped by 30%, that would be directly back into the pockets of | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
businesses to invest in their business and help them survive. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Many traders would like cuts in VAT and business rates along with | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
cheaper car parking. Today denigration from Falmouth travelled | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
to London to lobby the Government. -- a delegation. And there to meet | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
them was the shop guru Mary Portas, with a brief to reverse the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
fortunes of the ailing high streets. It is really tapping into the | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
social needs of those consumers. It will not just be about retail and | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
the future of our high streets. It is about creating community-driven | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
places. People want to get together and meet, what will enable them to | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
do that? So if the ball is in the consumer's Court, what do shoppers | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
want from their High Street? More independent shops, but I do not | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
then that is realistic. Probably good chains. There has to be a good | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
mixture of local shops and things that are interesting specifically | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
to that town. The bigger companies play their role as well, and also | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
events like the Oyster Festival, that is also important. Many agree | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
that the High Street will have to change but can only do so if they | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
get support from the Government. A short time ago I put some of the | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
points raised in the film to Our Political Editor Martyn Oates. I | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
asked if the Government was likely to consider any of these demands. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
As the delegation acknowledges, not all of these are in the gift of | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
central Government. For instance, cheaper and free parking. That is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
very much a local authority area. In the South West, some parking | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
charges have been frozen, reduced and even scrapped. I don't need to | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
tell you that generally the drift as being in the opposite direction, | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
which was happening even before councils were strapped for cash as | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
they are now. What about cutting VAT by 50% for retell and | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
hospitality businesses? Labour is calling for temporary reductions in | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
VAT but they are not going as far as the Falmouth delegation would | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
like them too and they are not in Government. The coalition which is | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
in Government is adamant that they are not prepared to deviate from | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
the deficit reduction programme. In order to be able to do that, they | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
say they cannot afford tax cuts, including cuts in VAT. What is | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
interesting is the suggestion from the Falmouth group that local | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
businesses should have more say in a way that business rates are spent. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
At the moment is as rates are collected locally which are then | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
sent to local Government which is then redistributed back to local | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
authorities, which has happened since the 1980s. This Government | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
has said they will change that system to allow local authorities | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
to keep the business rate revenue collected in their areas. I think | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
when that happens, Cornish businesses will be knocking on the | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
door of County Hall rather than Parliament if they want more of the | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
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Save in the way that money is spent locally. -- more of a say. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
A taxi driver from South Devon has agreed to help scientists try to | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
find out how the ancient Egyptians preserved some of their greatest | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Pharoahs. Alan Billis, who had terminal lung cancer, agreed that | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
following his death he would be mummified. The results are being | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
made public in a TV documentary. Hamish Marshall has more and joins | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
me now. How did this come about? the was diagnosed with lung cancer, | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Alan Billis saw an advert to take part in a documentary programme. He | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
was accepted, and the deal was that you had to leave your body to | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
science, allowing it to be mummified. Unfortunately he passed | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
away earlier this year, but before he died, he and his wife told | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
documentary-makers about the plans. People have been leaving their | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
bodies to science for years. It will not go away, so you have to | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
get on with it. He just said that he had phoned up about being | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
mummified. I said, you what? Yes, I phoned up about being mummified. I | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
thought, here he goes again! It is just the sort of thing you would | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
expect him to do! He then passed away. What happened next. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
family backed the move and they said looking back, this took his | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
mind of his condition. His body was they've been boils, a solution of | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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night from found in Egypt river beds. -- his body was dissolved in | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
a solution. It was then wrapped in fabric and could last for several | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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millennia. Thank you. Around 60 jobs could be created in | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
St Columb in Cornwall with the planned expansion of Pall Newquay. | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
The project has just secured more than �1.4 million of European | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Development funding. A spokesman for the company said the expansion | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
will position the site as a world leader in producing medical | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
products. A dentist from North Devon who was | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
jailed after faking his own death for the insurance money has had his | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
sentence cut. He called himself Emmanouil Parisis when he was based | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
in Barnstaple. His wife claimed he'd been killed in a car accident. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
But he'd changed his name and moved to Scotland. The Appeal Court cut | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
his sentence from five to three years. | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Police say they are becoming increasingly concerned about the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
problem of human trafficking in the South West. Officers have told | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Spotlight that there are undoubtedly people who have been | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
trafficked in the region. But because many people aren't keen to | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
talk about their experiences they say they still don't know the exact | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
scale of the problem. Spotlight's Simon Clemison reports. The idea | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
that a person might be forced to work in the agriculture, sex or | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
service industries, having been bought or sold and transported | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
around the globe, sounds as I k it as it is alarming. But cases in the | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
South West are not unheard of. -- sounds archaic. Modern slavery is | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
by its very nature hidden from view. Victims can be too frightened to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
come forward and some do not realise they are even victims. The | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
police are looking at a new investigation but they do not know | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
the scale yet. If we look at human trafficking for sexual exploitation, | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
we have investigated two cases. Undoubtedly it is happening for | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
work exploitation. It is known that there are numerous farm and | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
international workers in Cornwall and across Devon. And there will be | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
unscrupulous persons seeking to exploit them. You enter THIS thin | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
grey and misty areas of the economy. -- human trafficking exists in grey | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
and misty areas. The police are trying to make sure they are well | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
cared for. We are trying to get people from different nationalities | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
on there. Farmers are putting the advice into practice and officers | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
carry out checks. Farmers take their employment responsibilities | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
very seriously. In a region like the South West where horticulture | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
and agriculture are massive sectors, all of our members will be using | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
licenced providers. The Home Office renewed its efforts in the summer, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
targeting source countries and raising awareness among victims. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Often it is a problem which cannot be seen and about which so much is | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
unknown. Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
major step closer to securing its future tonight after the City | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Council voted unanimously to buy back Home Park. The deal was | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
greeted with cheers from dozens of fans who'd packed out the council | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
chamber for the crucial vote. This was one of the last major hurdles | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
in the way of Devon businessman James Brent taking over the club. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Scott Bingham has been at the meeting and joins me now. What | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
happened this afternoon? I don't think this decision came as a | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
surprise to anybody. I think everybody was confident going into | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
this extraordinary meeting that the outcome would go their way. Them | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
and objections and the vote was carried unanimously. -- there were | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
no objections. This was a bonus, but it was really just a rubber- | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
stamping exercise. But the fans packed out the public gallery and | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
they were delighted all the same. It is a huge piece of the jigsaw. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
But there are still hurdles to overcome. We have to agree with the | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
football creditors and James Brent has to negotiate the fees before | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
the deal is closed. There is still some way to go. What of the actual | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
details of the deal? All too often with these issues there is a | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
conflict between the heart and the head. Some do not want to see the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
club saved but for once the figures make financial sense. The council | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
will buy back Home Park for �1.6 million, which is �1.1 million less | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
than the �2.7 million they received when they sold it to the club five | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
years ago. The club will pay the council are guaranteed rent of | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
�135,000 per year to lease the ground. The deal preserves the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
Football Club and also brings �10 million to the local economy every | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
year. I'm delighted that it is being voted for by every member of | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
the council. I know people get emotional when it comes to football | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
and I do as well. I bigoted the right decision for the city, the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
club, the economy and everything that goes with it. -- I think it is | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
the right decision. How much more has to be done to finalise James | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Brent's take-over? There are still hurdles to be overcome. They | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
include approval from the Football League and agreement still to be | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
finalised with the creditors. James Brent said he was grateful to the | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Council for the decision. He is urging everybody to get behind the | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
clock and complete the deal within 48 hours so they can look forward | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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to the game at the weekend. As a nation we get through the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
equivalent of 125 pieces each a year and 3 million packets a day | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
are produced in Devon. We're talking about chewing gum. Exactly | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
100 years ago the American firm Wrigley's made London its first | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
port of call but as Johnny Rutherford found out, when the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
company expanded the workers voted to move to the South West. Remember | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
this? The marketing may have changed with the Times, but the gum | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
and its ingredients are basically the same. In 100 years it has made | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
some mark on history, including being the first item to be bought | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
with a barcode and being given to soldiers on the front line. They | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
even chewed gum in the First World War. It was an important part of | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
the ration pack in the trenches. It continued into the Second World War, | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
when the demand on to income increased so that it was not | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
produced for the general public and was only sent to the troops to | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
support them during the Second World War. The UK branch of the | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
American company started production in 1911 in London. In 1970 been | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
moved out of the city, giving their employees the chance to vote for | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
their new location. They voted for the South West and this Plymouth | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
side. Thousands chew gum but some do not know what to do with it when | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
they have finished. Put it in the bin or down the drain? Rabbit up in | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
paper in my bag. Or put it in my pocket usually, in the bottom of my | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
jacket. Horrible, really! It is no hardship. There are rubbish bins | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
everywhere. I don't understand why people put it on the floor. Those | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
people would say they put it in a rubbish bin, but I can walk some | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
distance just by stepping on chewing-gum him in Plymouth. | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
here in Plymouth. That is quite something to clear up. It also | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
takes a bite out of the �2.8 million annual street cleaning | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
budget. Our number one focus Clovelly is resolving the issue of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
chewing gum on the pavement and working hard with scientists to | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
make it easier to remove from the pavement. The Queen visited the | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
factory last year. I wonder if she chews gum. | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
I bet she does not! I remember some of those adverts. At last one was | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
before my time. Earlier we heard about Plymouth | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
City Council planning to buy Home Park to help save Argyle. Well, how | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
would you like to buy Smeaton's Tower or Devonport Dockyard? The | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
good news is you won't have to touch any of your savings! Yes, | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
they're some of the landmarks up for sale in the latest version of a | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
well-known board game. Emma Ruminski's been finding out which | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
streets fair best in the city's version of the property buying game | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
Monopoly. If you live or work in a city of | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
perm if you will be familiar with its familiar landmarks, like | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Smeaton's Tower behind me. Now the tourist attractions and familiar | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
places will be part of a new board game. The expensive places are the | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
blue squares. In London it would be Mayfair and Park Lane, but in the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
Plymouth version it is Devonport dockyard. Do you think that would | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
be one of the most expensive places? Not in Plymouth, no. | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
really. The present over their where the law is used to be. | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
hoedown is the most expensive square, but the second is Devonport | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
dockyard. Really! At the cheapest end we have the Merchant House and | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
the Elizabethan house. Which should be the cheapest squares? Exeter. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
are talking about Plymouth. Where would you put the cheapest space on | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
the board for Plymouth? Primark. It is the cheapest place and we are | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
lucky to have it! Where do you think the cheapest street would be? | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
This one. The council might pay �1.6 million for Home Park, but in | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
Monopoly it is worth just 160. is cheap. Why will buy it! The rent | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
for Home Park would only be �12. They can't afford it, can they? | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Those are the land Barnes were voted for by the public but some | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
were paid for by advertisers. -- most of the landmarks were voted | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
for. That that is why not everybody agrees. I don't know why this is | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
not featured on the Monopoly board. Union Street would have been a | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
brown square. I would pay not to go! Some places have been made more | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
conspicuous by their absence. There is no Plymouth airport and Union | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
Street does not feature. The people of Plymouth were on form. | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
Let's hope David is on form with It is cold and that will stay for | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
the next couple of nights. Well into single figures. Tomorrow night | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
we have the risk of frost. Tomorrow night before it gets dark, sunshine | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
and showers. In the afternoon the showers will die away and we should | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
see some pleasant, late sunshine to end the day. Lots of cloud on the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
satellite picture. It gave us some wet weather which has now moved | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
into France and behind we have a mixture of sunshine and showers. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
This evening and overnight with the North West winds we will get some | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
showers going until dawn. In the afternoon they become very isolated. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
By Thursday, high pressure moves across southern Britain, meaning | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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that it should be fine. Clear skies on Thursday night. Slightly warmer | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
hair will head away by the weekend. We have had quite a few showers | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
dotted around today. There are some this evening, which will continue | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
into the night. This was earlier today in Devon where we had some | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
glorious sunshine. Quite autumnal today. But temperatures have been | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
well down. Brisk north-westerly winds have made it feel quite cold. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
The autumn leaves are changing colour and everything is looking | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
rosy in terms of fine weather and sunshine. After dark, with clear | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
skies, we will see quite a lot of cold weather. That will happen | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
tonight as the skies continued to clear, it's particularly across | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
sheltered parts of East Devon, Dorset and Devon. The showers will | :26:04. | :26:12. | |
keep ongoing, not so many but a few to come overnight. Temperatures | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
will be down to possibly three degrees in Somerset but no lower | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
than six for most of us. There are quite frequent showers on offer in | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
the morning and in the middle of the day they are quite widespread. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
In the afternoon they fade away and to end the day there should be | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
sunshine. Temperatures struggling tomorrow, 11 possibly 12, with | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
north-westerly winds and the possibility of frost tomorrow night. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Scattered showers in the morning and then sunny spells for the | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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Full rest of the week there is a lot of dry weather. Later in the | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
day we will see some patchy rain on Saturday, coming down from the | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
North West. But Thursday and Friday will be mainly dry with suddenly | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
winds, and temperatures recovering a bit. -- southerly winds. | :27:29. | :27:34. |