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Staff suspended and a ward closed amid concerns over the care of a | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
patient. Good evening. We will be live at | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Also tonight... 80 people out of | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
work - shock at this milk processing plant as it goes into | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
administration. The anonymous victims of domestic | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
violence and why more needs to be done to protect men. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
And fighting to be able to have children - the cancer patient told | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
she cannot have a ovary bike. makes me angry, because it is my | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
tissue, and I don't see why I have to fight so hard to have it back. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
First tonight, the Royal Cornwall Hospital has confirmed a ward has | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
been closed and staff have been suspended from duty while they | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
investigate allegations concerning a patient's clear at -- care. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
A spokesperson said the Wheal Agar ward award has been closed while | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
they explore the matter fully. What have a hospital said to be? The | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
hospital has refused to be quite -- declined to accept our invitation | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
to take part tonight, but they have eschewed this statement - we are | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
currently investigating an allegation about a specific | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
patient's care on one of our awards. As a matter of routine we take | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
every concern raised seriously and are exploring the matter fully, and | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
we can confirm staff have been suspended. This, they say, is a | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
mutual -- neutral act. The spokesman confirmed it will be an | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
internal investigation and police were not involved. Tonight the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Department of Health have told the BBC the police have been informed. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
The spokesman went on to say this was a single complaint involving a | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
single patient. He would not confirm how many staff had been | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
suspended but said the award had been closed since the weekend, and | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
this was because of the suspension of the staff. -- the ward had been | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
closed. There will be concern in Cornwall among patients and patient | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
groups, what has been the reaction so far? The we spoke to health | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
campaigners in Cornwall and they said they do not rule anything | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
about it and are extremely concerned. We also heard from the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
union that represents many of the staff, Unison. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
We have been advised that a safeguarding issue has been raised, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
and as a result of that the trust has initiated an investigation, as | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
you would expect, and in order to facilitate the investigation they | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
have decided to close Wheal Agar ward for a short period. We're | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
never happy when wards are closed because that causes a great deal of | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
stress and anxiety for staff and inconveniences patient. All of the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
staff are there to provide high- quality care for patients in the | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
hospital. We wanted to be concluded -- we want it to be concluded | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
quickly, so hopefully we will see an end to this very soon. | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
Tonight, the hospital is insisting this ward closure is temporary and | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
they will issue a further and fuller statement once they have | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
established the fact. -- facts. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
More than 80 staff at a dairy -- milk processing plant or the edge | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
of Plymouth have lost their jobs. The FarmRight, including Quadra | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Foods and the language puts it -- language Business Park, went into | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
administration today. The staff were not coming into work, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
but coming into less -- learn they had lost their jobs. But Ms | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
gritters were appointed yesterday for four organisations that make up | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
the FarmRight group, including Quadra Foods. The company packs | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
pasteurised milk approaches. For these workers today, hearing they | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
had had to collect their cards was a shock. | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
I am gutted. Literally. I can't say anything. What can you say? There | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
is nothing to say, really. Everyone in this company has bills to pay, a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
mortgage, families. If you miss a payment with the bank, they don't | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
say, you can pay next year. I have been working here over two years, | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
and I came in one day and don't have a job. I am shocked. I could | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
not believe it. Administrators say the company needed cash come and | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
that is tough to find in the current climate. This is a big | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
facility, a lot of very expensive equipment, and that needs profit | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
and turnover to be able to service those depths, and the business has | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
not reached the level of turnover and profitability it needed to pay | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
its way. The business here in Plympton is still trading, and | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
administrators say they are keeping a Stilton staff while they look for | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
possible buyers. Coming as this does the day before new jobs | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
figures are released, this is yet another blow for a struggling South | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
West economy. A man found guilty of killing two | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
drug dealers has been jailed for life and told he will self despite | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
serve at least 35 years. Thomas Haigh shot dead Brett Flournoy and | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
David Griffiths in Cornwall. The jury acquitted his fellow defendant, | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Ross Stone -- Ross Stone, of both murders, but he was given a | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
sentence for burying the bodies on his land. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
The murder took place at this remote farmhouse. Thomas Haigh | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
worked as a driver and debt enforcer for the two men, Brett | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Flournoy, a boxer for -- from Merseyside, and his colleague, | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
David Griffiths. Thomas Haigh feared the mission to Brazil on a | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
drugs run would be too dangerous that he was being sent on. The | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
judge was told Thomas Haigh was an arrogant man who got out of his | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
debt -- depth in the underworld. The judge said the two were bad men, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
but did not deserve to be killed. Trading in drugs, he said, does not | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
carry the death penalty. Yesterday, Ross Stone was cleared of murder | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
but today was sentenced to five years in jail for obstructing a | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
coroner. He had burned and buried the bodies of the men on his land. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Today the families of the dead men spoke about the impact of the | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
murder. We had to accept the horrific way David was taken from | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
us but also had to endure six weeks of worrying and looking for David. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
To find he was murdered, burnt and buried was too much to comprehend. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
The loss has and will continue to have a continuing impact on the | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
Brett's three sons, Reece, Callum and Brett, only six months. He will | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
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This is a statistic which may surprise you - one-in-three might | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
victims of domestic violence is male. A Cornish organisation which | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
supports men affected by violence has been awarded Lottery funding to | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
continue working. Our correspondent has been to meet | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
one of the victims. His name has been changed to protect his | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
identity. David suffered years of abuse at | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
the hands of his female partner, until one night when she was | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
pregnant with their first child she attacked him with a claw hammer. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
I would not allow her to drink alcohol. She wanted to get herself | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
a bottle, I would not allow it. It pushed her into attacking me with a | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
hammer, resulting in a 5.5 inch groove down my head. I bled | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
profusely, ended up in hospital, 13 Staples to hold the injuries | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
together. After the attacks, David's par there was arrested and | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
sent to prison. He said he was helped through his | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
trauma through Cornwall's This doomed project. | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
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Esteem was great, without them I would have run myself ragged. -- | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
Cornwall's esteemed project. Out of three victims, one victim | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
will be a man. Meals are accounting for 35-40% of domestic abuse. -- | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
men are counting. We group has just been awarded | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
money from the Big Lottery Fund to continue its work, including | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
launching a much-needed meal only refuge in the South West. -- men- | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
only. The Lottery Fund will allow the | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
group to continue its work for a further two years. With one in six | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
men are expected to endure some form of domestic violence during | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
their lifetime, it work is clearly vital. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
And if you have been affected by domestic violence, you can find out | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
what to get help by going to the Cornwall Page of the BBC website. | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
At Devon woman who has been battling to get her frozen ovary | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
after it was removed after she underwent chemotherapy. She has now | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
recovered and wanted to start a family. Changes to legislation | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
means she cannot currently have her ovary returned. | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
28-year-old Kate all of it is fighting to have a child. At 16 she | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. -- 28-year-old Kate all | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
over. She had a tumour the size of a melon and her right shoulder | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
blade was removed. Doctors told her that therapy would make a infertile | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
so she had a ovary removed and frozen. | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
By our I was told when I had the procedure done that if I wanted it | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
back they would contact -- I would contact them and they would get the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
ball rolling. But the loss of their changed and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
they have stopped the procedure. Nobody -- the laws have changed and | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
they have stopped the procedure. No one in this country is having it | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
done. A in a statement, the Leeds | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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It makes me angry, because it is my tissue, and I don't see why I have | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
to fight so hard to have it back. It is thought around 12 women | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
outside the UK have given birth through this pioneering method. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Leeds hospital says as Senate at -- as soon as it is in a position to | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
proceed with treatment it will be in touch. If she gets her all that | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
-- or ovary bike, she could be the first in this country to have a | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
baby using this experimental to think. | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
The bourse -- the boss of the Eden Project has an exclusive interview | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
coming up later in the programme. The also, of the view from Bampton | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
- we will find out what shoppers think about the drop in inflation. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
And it is that time of here when the flower counting happens across | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
all of the National Trust's properties. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
The founder and chief executive of the Eden Project in Cornwall has | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
revealed radical plans to tackle fuel poverty in the county. Tim | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Smit wants to see a corporate have set up to the people struggling | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
with energy bills. In the first of a new series of interviews with | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
prominent figures in the region, he told me about his anger over the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
cuts in subsidies for geothermal power and plans for a new kind of | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
bank at the Eden Project. He explained his ideas to deal with | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
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We are talking about Cornwall together. Our supply chain has | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
agreed to be a buying co-operative. Most people in fuel poverty have | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
the problem they are charged a lot for their energy. We're talking | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
about trying to use that buying power to create a membership | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
organisation so everyone in fuel poverty can take the cost out. It | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
will be hugely important. A lot of people who end up in hospital are | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
people who live in damp houses. Let me break this down. You say | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
someone in fuel poverty can buy into the buying power of Eden, the | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
health service and get cheaper electricity. This is what you want | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
to do. The councillors behind it. The officers have been working hard. | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
When will it happen? That is a question you should be asking. The | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
trial is going on now. We're trying to make a presentation to the | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
council. It is not to get approval. It is to find out whether we have | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
missed something, some legislation to deal with. We might be able to | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
get it launched for next autumn. You have made a bed to have the | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
green investment bank here. What will that mean for it be done? | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
be clear, the green investment bank is charged with investing �3 | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
billion and the Aryan rates of return across social enterprises | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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and high end speculative. The story began when the chief executive | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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spoke to us about the green investment bank. We had the most | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
environmentally friendly building in Europe. We thought it would be | :15:51. | :16:00. | |
great if we could come together. We were acting as Cornish champions. I | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
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thought it would be fantastically important. You have ready-made | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
partners to the green investment bank. If it is rolled out across | :16:18. | :16:28. | |
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the country, because I am passionate about geothermal. There | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
is a granite ridge and if we can plumb its heat, you can generate 10 | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
% of energy needs in Britain. That is a big and powerful business. | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
support or geothermal seems to have drained away. You have permission | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
here from the council and suddenly, the financial support from | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
government has vanished. It is a disgrace, it is a betrayal of | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
British technological power. It had to leave to go to France and | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
Germany where it is profitable now. Profitable. This is not Heck | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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technology. We can produce 10 % of Britain's energy needs. That will | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
drive us into the dung heap of mediocrity. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
In response, the government has told us we want to see deep | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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geothermal energy reach its potential. You can see that they | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
all 40 minute interview with the Tim Smit when he talks about | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Cornish independence on BBC spotlight Facebook page. | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
Some good news for householders. The annual rate of inflation has | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
fallen to its lowest level for Libya. It is well above the rate of | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
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average earnings are increasing by. Lovers in here and money is in the | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
towel. Valentine's Day is a boost for business at this cafe. Today's | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
inflation figures are heartening. The rate is down in and Hopley | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
people have more money to spend. That will help us. The underlying | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
costs are so expensive that we are absorbing the 20 % VAT increase | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
from last year. Across the road, at the pictures, the inflation rate is | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
seen as that an increase in recovery. They will be able to come | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
in and afford local produce. inflation figures may be good but | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
here, other factors may take the shine off. Inflation is going down | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
but the cost of fuel is going up. For a businesses, this is not | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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helpful. Bampton has kept its head above choppy waters. It has a loyal | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
rural following. Shoppers here notice they have more money in | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
their wallets. I would never buy at the supermarket. You have less in | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
your trolley. I have not noticed it. Petrol is expensive but we got -- | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
do not use our car. It must be good news but I have not noticed any | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
difference. I do not have more money in my pocket. I am on a | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
pension. With inflation due to continue falling, East me start | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
noticing the difference. Plymouth Albion have suffered a | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
blow ahead of the Championship relegation play-offs. Their Tongan | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
centre Keni Fisilau has been banned for the rest of the season. He was | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
handed an 18-week suspension by the RFU after he made a dangerous | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
tackle in the match at London Scottish last month. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Exeter City hope to follow up their win against Sheffield Wednesday, | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
this time at Notts County. Yeovil Town can't afford to lose at | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
relegation rivals Wycombe Wanderers. Torquay United could go joint-top | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
of League 2 if they win at Cheltenham Town. Plymouth Argyle | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
aim to move out of the bottom two by defeating Barnet at Home Park. | :21:16. | :21:26. | |
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There's coverage on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Somerset. It is that time | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
of year when the National Trust properties are counting flowers. | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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It appears the cold snap has not caused damage. | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
Has spring sprung? Perhaps this could be a year of two Springs. | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
This is their head Gardner. The estate sprawls out for miles. The | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
house here is in 1000 acres of land. 30 are devoted to the gardens. This | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
morning, on the three members of staff were counting the flowers. | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
Sense 2006, staff here and other properties have carried out a | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
flower audit. We have just stopped counting. There are 240 plants in | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
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flower. That is compared to 142 last year. Is that because of the | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
weather? Yes. We had a mild January. We had a mini spring in January. | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
Temperatures then went down. With temperatures rising, we have more | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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enceinte plants. With the results and, the National Trust says 1745 | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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plants have been recorded in bloom. In Devon, Salton came top. | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
The relatively mild spell may bring We have had some good temperatures | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
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today. It will turn colder in the second half of the week. We should | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
be frost-free by the end of the week. The cloud will be stubborn to | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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shift. Temperatures should not fall because of that cloud cover. The | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
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cloud will float around for the next few days. This weather front | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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will signify the change. There will be some rain on Friday night and | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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into Saturday. The cloud is almost heavy enough for some drizzle. The | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
winds temperatures no more than four or five. A lot of that cloud | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
will be stubborn to shift. There will be some brightness later in | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
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the day. There maybe the odd light shower. For most of us, the breeze | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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will make it feel on the cooler side. Some dry weather although | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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cloudy. The south coast fears about better tomorrow. Here is the | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
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forecast for the week ahead. The cloud is starting to be thicker. On | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
Saturday, we could have a lot of wet weather. On Sunday, we see | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
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colder weather coming in. On Saturday Night and Sunday, Frost is | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
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possible. An investigation is underway into | :27:17. | :27:22. |