05/03/2012 Spotlight

Can the death of Carole Cross be linked to the camel that water

poisoning? An inquest resumes. Good evening, a neuropathologist said

the incident and her death could possibly be lent, we will be live

with the inquest will be taking place. Or so, a man who died from

asbestos related incidents of he and others were exposed on a

nuclear plant. When I was in hospital the Chapa

the next bed, where he worked I was a Contractor. This happened on a

couple of occasions. A near-perfect pasty, the

competition to find the best in the world. -- and the perfect pasty.

Calls tonight for the people of Camelford who drank water at the

time of Britain's worst poisoning instant to have their brains scan.

Suggesting has come into an inquest... Our reporter has been in

Taunton all day and joins us from the inquest.

Back on 7th July, 1988 when a catastrophic amount of aluminium

sulphate was dumped into the wrong water tank in Camelford. The

burning question ever since then has been did all that aluminium

have any effect on people's health? Was it linked or did it cause

Carole Cross's death? To under four years ago, 20 tonnes

of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water

supply in Camelford. 20,000 people were affected. 59-year-old Carole

Cross lived in Camelford at the time and died 16 years later. She

had a rare form of Alzheimer's and have levels of aluminium in her

brain that experts say were beyond belief. Today, neuropathologist

professor James Nichol said the population of Camelford should be

tested. There is now in the just -- last few years, brain scans have

been able to identify levels in living people and it is quite

expensive and only at the moment used as a research tool but it

could certainly be technically possible to survey a proportion of

the population. The world's leading and the money and expect Professor

Chris Exley said if you drank the poisoned water back in 1988, there

is still something you can do -- the world's leading aluminium

expert. They can drink silicon rich mineral-water as an you need to

drink one litre a day. It is highly likely you will excrete aluminium

from your body which means if you do that for many months, your

aluminium content of your body will be reduced. For about three weeks,

the South West Water Authority told people that the water was safe to

drink. The inquest heard that the authority only ever took three

samples of water. There's been much criticism about the lack of

evidence and data in this case. No health study was ever carried out.

Most of the evidence in this inquest has already been heard. It

was adjourned 15 months ago for the south-west water authority to

gather evidence. It should have speakers next Wednesday and week

will then have the long awaited government report with all its

recommendations for. Workers involved in the

construction of the Hinkley A Nuclear Power Station in Somerset

have lodged a compensation case after some workers contracted a

deadly disease. One of the men said he was shocked to discover how many

of his former colleagues have been affected. Our reporter has this to

Tory. When he was building Hinkley A, Ian

Maxwell had no idea that the asbestos he was working with was

potentially deadly. He was diagnosed with a terminal condition

caused by their asbestos in May. You have to knock the insulation

out to get to the equipment. diseases caused by breathing in

tiny fibres of asbestos. They can become lodged in the lining of the

lung and can take up to 60 years for symptoms to develop. Records he

obtained from the West Somerset coroner showed that 92 people had

died of the disease in the past decade and he was shocked to

recognise several former colleagues. I think it is 9 or 10 who I have

found who are former contemporaries of mine who worked at Hinkley Point.

I am also aware of a number of contractors. When I was in hospital,

in the next bed to make wherever you worked, I was a contractor at

Hinkley Point and this happened on several occasions. But the dangers

of asbestos were known about for decades before he worked at Hinkley.

Records obtained show regulations as far back as 1931, highlighting

the need to wear protective masks. Yet this was denied to workers at

Hinkley. Today a meeting of farmers affected was given. I think that

more senior people probably did even if they'd did not know they

should have done. In Mr Maxwell's case, liability has already been

accepted but a formal settlement may not arrive until after his

death but he hoped the publicity around today's event will help

others in their fight for Many doctors in Devon and Cornwall

believe the proposed break-up of the Peninsula Medical School will

be a disaster. GPs say there has been no consultation to create

separate medical schools at Exeter and Plymouth universities. They and

Plymouth Hospitals Trust say this but will damage the quality of

teaching and research. Our correspondent joins us now. Can you

remind us of the background. Plymouth Peninsula Medical School

was set up as a partnership with students being given... Now it is

the Plymouth Hospitals Trust of medicine and dentistry but it has a

strong reputation for teaching and research. But in January it was

suddenly announced the college would be split. A medical school

for Exeter University and a dental and medical school for Plymouth

University. Now the body that represents GPs across Devon is

saying there was no consultation about this and it will surely be

damaging for students, patients, research and the economy. What we

really want is to have a successful peninsula... Medical school at

least for the teaching even if the research interests have to be

separated. And I think the patient will benefit from having a United

Medical School across the peninsula. What do the universities say?

Exeter say there are many who support this change and it will be

in the best interests of patients and students enabling the

universities to invest what they like in their own schools. Plymouth

so they want to continue working with the NHS but now accept that

there is more to do too freely engage colleagues in the health

service. Devon GPs are not the only ones to criticise this, are they?

Me aye, hospital consultants at Derriford want the whole thing

scrapped and others say they can't accept that the quality of medical

and dental teaching and biomedical Research in the peninsula will be

advantage by the split so there is quite a lot of work to convince

people. Spotlight has learnt that the Home

Office has approved a new Chief Constable for Devon & Cornwall

Police. Shaun Sawyer, the current deputy, will take over when Stephen

Otter leaves at the end of this week but it will only be a

temporary appointment and that is Shaun Sawyer takes over at a time

of unprecedented change. Devon & Cornwall Police are adapting to the

loss of 700 officers under budget cuts. A new Police and Crime

Commissioner to oversee running the force will be elected in November

which means he is likely to be in charge on a temporary basis for one

year. It is unfortunate that there is a massive change within the

constabulary and my members look for strong leadership. I am not

shame that he will provide that but it will always be better to be a

substantive Chief Constable. chairman of the police authority

which the Commissioner will replace told me of his concerns at such a

long temporary appointment. I am delighted that he will be appointed

because he has excellent experience, leading on a whole range of things

with the police. It would have been better in the perfect world to have

been able to appoint a permanent Chief Constable but the rules do

not permit that at the moment. Shaun Sawyer takes over when the

current Chief Constable Stephen Otter leaves on Friday. The Home

Office told us that police and crime commissioners will give the

public an unprecedented say in how their areas are policed. To allow

the commission has to take full advantage of this, we believe Chief

Constables should be appointed only Talks have been taking place today

looking out they decisions made in the immediate aftermath of the

collapse of the flood wall in Bridgwater. Engineers have spent

the past two months shoring up the road and river wall which cracked

during heavy rain last year. People living nearby had to leave their

homes over Christmas. A man has been arrested after a

cash box was snatched from a security guard in Plymouth. It

happened in Devonport Road in Stoke on Friday morning. Police say a 33-

year-old man from London was arrested and released on bail until

mid-May. Work is under way to replace five

wards at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. By Michael be 112 single

rooms with on suite facilities in the New Jubilee Building -- there

will be 112 single rooms. Enforcement cameras have been

installed around them have to stop motorists from using the city's bus

lanes. This it -- the city council says it is to make the roads safer.

They will be used to monitor safety and then fixed penalties will be

introduced. It is St Piran's Day at the end of

the day and we will see how Cornwall has been celebrating.

Before that, a celebration of the county's national dish but he makes

the best parties in the world? -- who makes the best pasties in the

world? And to a ferry on the Fowey amid dramatic surroundings of a

cave, a musical countdown to the A disabled woman from North Devon

is busy training for a ground- breaking performance for the

Cultural Olympiad later this year. Sue Austin, a student at the

University of Plymouth, is thought to be the first underwater acrobat

in the world he performs in a wheelchair.

Sue Austin first had the idea of underwater acrobatics after a

diving trip to Egypt. In 2005, I started diving and I started

realising that the associations that with scuba gear allows you to

extend your range of emotions with wheelchairs -- range of emotions

that wheelchairs allow. What happens if I try to do the same

thing together? It has taken nearly two years to develop her wheelchair.

Propeller unit, this is what drives it with the aid of the Bawtry

driving it through the water. By will put this on. -- the aid of the

battery. Armchair diving at its best! With every dive, she is

learning how much the wheelchair can do. It is a much more acrobatic

version of a chair, it is much harder to control. I have got the

issue that I am always having the chair kicking up into the loop

which is brilliant for filming but it makes it very difficult to

control. And you can see more of her incredible underwater ballet on

St Piran's Day is being celebrated in Cornwall today, but over the

weekend, the county's national dish was celebrated. Pasty makers from

all over the world descended on the county. 102 pasties were entered

into the championship at the Eden Project. The Cornish pasty has come

a long way. One she a cheap lunch for miners, it is an edible icon,

boasting European protection alongside the likes of champagne or

DUP today, it gets its first ever World Championship. It has an

extraordinary status. I can't put my finger on it. I have been eating

them for nearly 60 years. It is so much better than a Paris. There is

something in been able to pick it up and eat it were ever you are.

Behind the scenes, the judges apart -- marking each pasty out of 100,

looking for texture and taste and the crimping on the side. You have

got everything you need to eat and if you want to be on the go, you

can pick up a pasty and that his lunch down. Cornwall is special and

to have a pasty as the world recognised food is great.

ingredients are simple. It is working men's third. There are so

many different ways of putting it together. That is what gives it its

mystery and makes it so difficult to create. As in any competition,

there has to be a winner. The prize for best traditional Cornish pasty

by an amateur went to this man who had gone home clearly unaware of

his prowess. The title of best professional pasty maker went to

Graeme Cornish. It is a brilliant then you and it raises the profile

of the past. It is good for local farming. It will get people are

eating more pasties. Away from the awards, the lunchtime queues and

happy faces suggest the future of the pasty is unsafe, if slightly

messy, hands. We would all like to be a judge

would and with? They would have a run for their money of my anti-

market had entered! Another busy weekend in the world

of sport. There was another superb when for the Exeter Chiefs. At a

sun-drenched Sandy Park, they beat Sale Sharks the G7 to 12, scoring

five tries a long way courtesy of Phil Dollman, Richard Baxter, Nic

Sestaret and Matt Jess and a penalty try. Sale son was staring

at an 18. Hole at the turnaround. Exeter claims only the second try

scoring bonus point of the season. The win sees the cheats in fifth

place in the Premiership but the next game two weeks away at

Gloucester. Football, and a mixed bag of

results for our sights on Saturday. Torquay beat their rivals in League

Two, but Exeter and Plymouth are fighting against the drop. All eyes

were on the return of last season's top scorer. He almost got off to a

perfect start. It was his strike partner who did the damage as he

barged his way through to give it City-based 16 men are needed. This

dolly in the second half sold them go one place up of the drop zone.

Yeovil have leapfrogged city after coming from behind to beat

Brentford. Andy Williams was on song, scoring twice in the second

half, moving them at three points clear of the drop zone. Also moving

in the right direction would Torquay United. They go one of the

best away results of the season. This colt sold them come away with

a 1-0 win to go fifth in League Two. Plymouth Argyle are back in the

drop zone. Joe Martin's shot condemn them to a 1-0 loss. They

have now won just twice since the turn of the year and the threat of

relegation continues to haunt them. They can make amends for the loss

with the game against Wimbledon tomorrow. Exeter go to mid-table

Bradford, while your full face a tough trip to high-flying MK Dons.

Britain's best junior surfers are preparing for next month's World

Championships in Panama. They have... They are trying to raise

money for the trip as the various funding bodies do not recognise

surfing as the sport. A beautiful day at the beach, but the surf

conditions were challenging. For the newly selected girls surf team

it is all part of the training. After a tough selection process

through the winter, they have been chosen to compete in the 2012 World

Junior surfing games in Panama next month. I am really excited. I have

trained hard. It has been hard because all the girls we are

competing against at a high standard. We have been pushing are

limits. 12 youngsters are going to Panama, eight boys and four girls,

competing at under 18 and Under 16 level. They are all from the South

West and make up one of the best junior teams in the history of

British surfing. It has been a long and hard winter for them. Where

they are going, they will be in shorts and sunshine, they have had

to put it on the line to get a place in the team. They have worked

hard and had a fantastic attitude. I am delighted for those who have

been picked. It has been great. just 14, p on the night is regarded

as one of the top talents for her age. I am scared to be surfing in

some of the best people in the world. Hopefully, our team will

come in the top 10. We have a really good team and we have a good

chance. With the game's just weeks away, it is a time for building

fitness and consistency in the hope of beating in the best the world

has to offer. Good luck to them. Plymouth's Mayflower Centre has

staged its last event before it will be demolished. It hosted a

roller derby which is one of the fastest-growing UK Sports. It is an

all-female full contact tracking played on quad skates. Player's

speed skate well trying to knock their opponents down. The event

raised funds for victims of domestic violence and said farewell

to the Mayflower Centre, which is making way for the light centre.

Well done to the Plymouth Raiders for the North-East double. They

beat Newcastle and then Dereham and a reminder that our football

programme Late Kick-Off is on at 11:05pm tonight.

The first nationwide countdown event to the London 2012 Olympics

has seen a variety of live musical events taking place across the

region this weekend. As well as concerts and workshops, Music

Nation has involved performances in some unusual locations. From the

dramatic and impressive, it to the farm and inspirational. Live music

could be heard all over the region this weekend, literally from

sunrise to sunset. In Plymouth Pavillions, the BBC Concert

Orchestra joined forces with the Devon and Cornwall family

orchestras and choruses with special -- with special guest Seth

Lakeman. Having three orchestras together creates an epic sound. It

is wonderful to see all ages and the themes that have been chosen...

It is a fabulous event. Many bans, musical groups, choirs and

orchestras were part of Music Nation to help celebrate the UK's

light music community, Cultural Olympiad and the countdown to

London 2012. As a family it is fantastic. You mention the Olympics,

it was a great way of connecting children to what is happening in

London. He makes them feel they are part of the Olympics as well.

idea was to engage as many people as possible with live music, even

those crossing or on the banks of the Fowey.

Last week we had some good temperatures, but this week it will

feel like spring in the sunshine. Good evening. Winter is back

tonight, because we will see if frost. We will see temperatures

below freezing overnight. This week is mainly fine and dry, towards the

end of the week quite a lot of cloud around. There is rain which

will arrive tomorrow night and early on Wednesday. There will be

an improvement on Wednesday afternoon. You can make out the

outline of the UK here. This cloud was the wet weather yesterday and

it is moving away. This cloud will bring patchy rain tomorrow evening

and tomorrow night. Although it is weaker, it will be around for a

good part of the day tomorrow. We will see those weather fronts

tomorrow night. On Wednesday, it will be wet and windy, before it

improves in the afternoon. You can see a large part of the South West

of England has been bailed -- based in sunshine today. It was fine, dry

and clear. Asked if old breeze today, at which makes us feel a bit

chilly today. Temperatures a lot lower than last week, but in the

sunshine it felt very pleasant indeed. In the wind, it feels just

that much warmer. We will have a frosty start tomorrow, but plenty

of sunshine. A clear sky tonight will lead to a lot of frost. By the

morning, we could see temperatures of two or three degrees below

freezing. The frost will appear at the end of the night. The blue here

demonstrates why we are likely to see the frost. Looking at tomorrow,

a fine day, with plenty of sunshine to start. Gradually, it will cloud

over and by the end of the afternoon into the evening, a hint

of some patchy rain arriving across the eyes of silly and West Cornwall.

Temperatures up to ten degrees. A very light we -- winds. Also some

rain here later in the day. Times of high water,. Coastal waters

forecast that the winds are likely to be from the South West. For the

Channel Islands, a cold start, then fine dry and sunny. For all of us,

lighter winds tomorrow will make it feel warmer. We will see some rain

on Wednesday morning, becoming windy again through the day. The

changing climate, European regulation and pressure from

supermarkets are all challenges facing one of the region's biggest

industries, farming. Tomorrow on the programme in the latest in a

series of interviews with prominent figures in the South West, will be

talking to the regional director of the National Farmers' Union.

Melanie Squires is the planned badger cull will also be a major

challenge. It is a very big challenge. It is the impact of TB

on the industry. We need to eradicate that disease from the

cattle population and wildlife as well. That is Melanie Squires and