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The fate of private school in North Devon remains unclear this evening | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
following two emergency meetings held for parents and staff. Parents | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
of pupils at St Michael's near Barnstaple received letters earlier | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
this week telling them that the school was in financial | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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difficulties. This woman has an 11 year-old son at St Michael's. She | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
arrived at the school after getting a letter saying there would be a | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
special meeting for staff and parents. I feel like I am in | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
mourning. I really do. This is such a family environment for the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
children, parents, grandparents, everything. St Michael's is a co- | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
educational day school overlooking the Taw Valley. It also has a | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
popular nursery. A representative from the NUT said numbers and the | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
main school have been falling. essentially we are faced with here | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
is the complete closure of the school. It is not a question of | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
individual redundancies and things of that sort. In that sense, for | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
the school community, the staff as well as the parents and pupils, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
there is only one word, catastrophe. After two hours parents left the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
meeting, many were hopeful the school could be this good, others | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
were angry. It is a wonderful school. I think on the whole it is | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
going to be very positive and I think we will be OK. Other schools | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
are offering places for pupils. are here principally to help | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
children and families who are in a real crisis at the moment and who | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
are anxiously looking for a place for their children for next week. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
That is why I am here. St Michael's motto is, where bright futures | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
begin, now its future is in the balance. The MoD has named the | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Royal Marine who died in Afghanistan three days before | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Christmas. Captain Tom Jennings was fatally injured in a bomb blast in | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
Kabul. They said he was a true leader and archetypal Royal Marine, | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
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he was devoted to his wife and their two sons. New rules on cage | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
sizes are being introduced on the 1st January after which hens will | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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have to be housed in a particular size of age. These chickens were | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
ought to be the last which will ever live in the old style battery | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
cages. People were queuing up to offer them new homes when they were | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
released. Battery chickens need a home. I thought, OK. It feels | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
absolutely wonderful. I could not be more happy that this is the last | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
day we will be taking hens out of those tiny cages. While it is good | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
news for the chickens many are concerned that other European | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
farmers will not be adopting the rules. Foreign egg products will be | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
coming in. �400 billion has been spent to upgrade in the UK and it | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
is not happening in the rest of Europe. -- 400 million. This is the | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
first time the have been outside and seen delight and freezing cold | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
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rain! On the whole, it should still be a happy day for them. New | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
scanners are being introduced on roads in the south-west to reduce | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the time roads are closed after crashes. E T D laser equipment | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
makes images of the whole crash site so that investigators do not | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
have to take photographs individually of the scene. -- the | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
3D lasers. It is a massive Christmas present. There will be a | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
big cheer from so many people. We estimate that for every hour that | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the M5 is closed by a serious accident it costs the local economy | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
about �1 million. It is fantastic to see that the police now look as | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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if they are going to be able to get this bit of kit. Now we are looking | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
back at these stories of the Year which inspired you and made you | :05:13. | :05:23. | |
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smile. What were thought to be Britain's last battery chickens | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
left their site today. The British hen welfare trust today collected | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
the last hen's housed in old-style This car has rolled 200 ft down a | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
cliff and hangs precariously 300 ft above the sea. What is even more | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
incredible is that the woman inside this car has had to wait 18 hours | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
to be rescued. There will be many fond memories of HMS Cornwall but | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
for the fighting 99 as she is known, the fighting is over. I could feel | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
me sinking and then was just waste deep in mud. Things had gone badly | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
wrong after cockle hunting. needed to be pulled to safety by | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
coastguards. I put her on the board and she rode back in, from that | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
point I realised I had a surfing dog. It has been six years since St | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
Denis was first suggested as the site for Cornwall's waste generator. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
-- incinerator. He took the vital call from supporters and the High | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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Court. We've done it! Yes! My home was going to be ruined by it. Now | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
they have passed it I have got my home back. -- now they have quashed | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
it. Emily Lewis Clark was no lone striker here, her whole team were | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
right behind her. Their goal was to overturn a rule that would force | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Emily out of the team when she turned 11. I am so happy that I can | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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carry on playing football. Time now for the weather with Emily. Some | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
wet weather on its way for tonight. There is a weather system currently | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
over the Atlantic which is moving very quickly and will bring rain | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
foremost a buzz by tomorrow morning. This evening it will cloud over | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
with rain arriving during the second half of the night. It will | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
feel milder as time goes on. There will still be brisk west to north- | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
westerly winds. Tomorrow will have generally lighter rain at first, it | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
will turn heavy for a time tomorrow morning and staying wet pretty much | :07:38. | :07:44. |