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The death of a school girl — was she a victim of cyber bullying? Her | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
family believe she was driven to take her own life. Good evening. The | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
death of Izzy Dix has prompted a petition calling for tighter | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
controls of social media sites. Tonight we'll hear from some of her | :00:25. | :00:39. | |
friends. It is ridiculous, it should not be happening. They were just | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
jealous. Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for action | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
to be taken against cyber bullying and for the social media website | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Ask.fm to be closed down. It follows the death last month of Brixham | :00:49. | :01:01. | |
schoolgirl Izzy Dix. Her family believe she took her own life. Our | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
South Devon reporter John Ayres has more. Close friends of Izzy Dix are | :01:13. | :01:25. | |
having to come to terms with her death. They say she was bullied, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
especially online through social media. Izzy was getting huge amounts | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
of hate. It should not be happening. They were just jealous of | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
her and it just shows how people are so insecure about themselves and | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
they think hitting other people down will help them. It won't. The | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
campaign is targeting the Ask.fm website where people can post | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
comments anonymously. Many people find these sites are addictive. You | :01:59. | :02:12. | |
check your phone first thing in the morning and last thing at night, it | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
is everywhere you go. You will be getting so many compliments, but | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
when you say thank you, being polite, then you will get hate, | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
like, why didn't you say you are not pretty? That makes you feel really | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
insecure about yourself and makes your self esteem low. The campaign | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
has the full support of Izzy's mother. I don't think it's all bad. | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
They communicate with their friends and they enjoyed chatting, but where | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
it goes wrong is when someone dislikes someone, they use these. If | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
they were properly monitored, these websites, then I don't think it | :03:12. | :03:23. | |
would be half as bad. In response, the Ask.fm website made a statement. | :03:23. | :03:34. | |
Izzy was probably the most beautiful and intelligent person I have met. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
She was so easy to talk to and really funny. You could tell her | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
anything. She was a really lovely person. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to Caimin Collins from the organisation | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
BeatBullying. I asked him what he would like social media sites to do | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
to safeguard the youngsters using them. Websites like Ask.fm have said | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
they are putting more resources into moderating the websites and making | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
them safer for young people, but it is difficult to see if that is | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
having an effect and if young people are safer on these sites right now. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
We eagerly await more developments from Ask.fm to find out what | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
safeguards they are putting in place. They need to make it easier | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
for young people to report abuse and the need to act on the reports for | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
Gregor and they are now. Some people would ask why people don't just stop | :04:35. | :04:47. | |
using the websites. It is not that simple. One young girl who came to | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
us for help set, people asked why she kept going back to the site. Her | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
response was that if she was interested in what one person | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
thought of her, she was interested in what everyone else thought Opera. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
We urge just human, we are interested in what people think of | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
us. And even more so, as teenagers. It is up to adults to meet the | :05:11. | :05:22. | |
websites safe. What precautions can teenagers take and what precautions | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
should parents be taking? First of all, young people can know that they | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
can get help from organisations like ours and they can immediately report | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the abuse. We suggest they record every incident and build—up that | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
profile, so they record when it happens, what the website is. As | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
parents, it is really important to discuss this with your children. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Bring up the subject in the right context, in a quiet place. A lot of | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
parents might not know what is happening. Either changes in | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
behaviour that might indicate cyber bullying? Sometimes there are signs. | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
If you are children with draw and become isolated or if their | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
behaviour becomes very erratic and they start reacting to things in a | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
very aggressive or uncharacteristic way, that can also be an | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
indication. Sometimes there are no indications, but those are things | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
parents can the doubtful. A multi—million pound scheme to save | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
parts of Lyme Regis falling into the sea is underway. Coastal erosion is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
a major problem in the area and earlier this year, a landslip | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
dislodged thousands of tonnes of earth and rock. £19.5 million is | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
being spent to protect homes, roads and infrastructure. Hamish Marshall | :06:50. | :07:02. | |
is in Lyme. We can look back into the town. This | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
scheme is the final phase of something that has been going on for | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
20 years. In a battle against the elements, where it has looked as | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
though the town may lose. The Jurassic Coast is well—known for | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
land and land falls, but some people 's houses have been in real danger | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
of being affected. Lyme Regis has been at the forefront of coastal | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
erosion. There have been regular landslips here and each time houses | :07:32. | :07:44. | |
and roads get closer to the edge. Malcolm lives on the edge, but he | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
doesn't fear his house will slip into the seat soon. But part of his | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
garden might, which means part of it is currently out of action. All | :07:55. | :08:08. | |
these trees will call. They say they will work on it, but not in our | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
lifetime. We have also lost vegetable patches. But on the hall, | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
it is a good scheme. But we have put up with a lot of disruption. This | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
scheme to protect up to 500 properties is gathering pace. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Experts say the work to keep the sea at bay and strengthen the land and | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
protect Lyme Regis by more than 50 years. It has been susceptible to | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
problems ever since it was built. The harbours have been damaged, the | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
sea walls are being damaged and housing has been lost. In the 1960s, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
a lot of housing in the middle of the town was lost. The strengthen | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
sea wall will run for nearly 400 metres. Further up, 2500 of these | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
pipes will be filled with concrete to help them stop soil movement. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
When you come to see level you get an idea of the scale of the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
operation. Look at the size of the new sea wall and how much of the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
cliff side will have to be shored up. The work will continue through | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
the winter and it should be finished by next summer. Looking at what work | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
they have been doing today, it is fascinating to see that both also | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
have been dug down so that instruments can go down 30 metres to | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
detect if the land underneath has moved by as little as one | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
millimetre. That is how seriously they look to see what the chances of | :09:46. | :10:03. | |
the earth moving arm. A massive scheme for Lyme Regis and it is | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
coming to a conclusion. It should be finished next summer. | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
A shipping company has been fined £15,000 after one of its tankers | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
polluted a 20—mile stretch of the sea off Cornwall. The company was | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
prosecuted by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which used a | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
photograph taken from a satellite as their evidence. Eleanor Parkinson | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
reports. The tanker was making its way around | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Land's End when a satellite used to detect pollution photographed it | :10:37. | :10:52. | |
trailing a pollution slip behind it. The Maritime and coastguard agency | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
say the satellite image clearly showed the bezel to be within the | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
exclusion zone. At one stage, it was nine miles offshore. The company | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
eventually admitted they had broken the law and today they were fined | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
£15,000. This is the satellite image tracking the vessel. The black line | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
is the pollution, which stretches some 20 miles. This is the first | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
time satellite imagery has been used in this way as evidence. It is | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
another tool in our armoury and hopefully we can use it again in the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
near future. Hopefully people would do it once they know we are using | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
satellite, but if they do, we will catch them. The company said there | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
was no evidence that divers did Palm oil could cause any harm to the | :11:48. | :12:01. | |
environment. The Maritime and coastguard agency says this case | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
shows that satellite technology is very useful in the fight against | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
Marine pollution. The BBC has learnt that the project | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley point in Somerset has | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
been pushed back by two years. Yesterday the Government hinted that | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
it was just weeks away from announcing a deal on energy prices, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
which would finally pave the way for the building to begin. But, as our | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Somerset correspondent Clinton Rogers reports, there are still | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
significant obstacles in the way of Hinkley C finally producing | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
electricity. I remembered the energy company EDF telling us that we would | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
be boiling kettles with nuclear power by 2017. This picture tells a | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
different story. Construction work ground to a halt to months ago. | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
Constant delays in negotiating a price for new nuclear electricity, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
known as the strike price, were to blame. Locally, frustration is | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
boiling over into anger. We know the government is trying to protect the | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
consumer, but that is extremely frustrating for all those waiting | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
for the work to happen. Businesses have had to lay off employees. EDF | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
have laid off employees. We have staff in our officers who have been | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
employed for the Hinkley point project and are now kicking their | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
heels. Now it seems a breakthrough is near, thanks in part to talks | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
happening in China. The energy secretary has been in Beijing, | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
beating businesses who are potential investors. The word is that the | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
Minister is ready to make an announcement on the strike price | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
within weeks. Even if investors come in and work starts again next | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
spring, the best case scenario is completion by 2022. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Investigations are continuing after it took 60 fire fighters to | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
extinguish a blaze at a popular shopping centre on St Ives sea front | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
last night. Cornwall Fire and Rescue say it started because of an | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
electrical fault in a ground floor shop. Neighbouring flats and | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
restaurants were smoke—logged and six people were treated at the | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
scene. Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service say the nature of the | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
properties in St Ives means any blaze requires a significant | :14:37. | :14:49. | |
response. While the fire itself was small and contained, it was the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
amount of smoke going through adjacent premises that concerns us. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Saint Ives is a beautiful town, but it is also a town that has problems | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
be don't get a virus stopped quickly. So we threw a lot of people | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
at it, they worked hard and the results are very pleasing. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Next we'll meet the Royal Marine whose bravery in Afghanistan has | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
been recognised Also still ahead. The Cornish para—triathlete who's | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
heading for the Rio Olympics. And a literary view from the lower | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
decks of how the Navy fought against German e—boats. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
A Somerset Royal Marine has been awarded the Military Cross for | :15:25. | :15:37. | |
bravery under fire in Afghanistan. Marine Craig Buchanan was serving | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
with 40 Commando in Helmand Province last year when his patrol was | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
attacked by a rogue Afghan policeman. The courageous | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
26—year—old put himself between his comrades and the assailant. Our | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
defence reporter Scott Bingham has the story. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Royal Marines Craig you can and was one of more than 100 military | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
personnel honoured yesterday. He was part of an eight man patrol in | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
Helmand Province in October 2012. They were working with the Afghan | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
police, when a rogue member suddenly opened fire, killing two of his | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
colleagues and wounding a third. I don't know why it happened or how it | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
happened, but it is the way it came down. He was able to shoot the | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
assailant dead. His military Cross citation rate... | :16:33. | :16:46. | |
I don't think it has sunk in yet. I really appreciate the honour. Also | :16:46. | :17:06. | |
note was his commander. He received a distinguished service order for | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
his inspiration and courageous leadership during an intense spell | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
of combat in Afghanistan. Time for the sport and Dave's here | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
looking at the first of this season's Devon football derbies. | :17:19. | :17:32. | |
At St James Park, Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle renew their rivalry | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
which, last December, ended in a draw at City with Argyle gaining the | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
honours at Home Park. It's the 61st Devon derby tomorrow when Exeter | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
City and Plymouth Argyle renew their rivalry at St James Park. City have | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
won 15 of those with Argyle coming out on top 25 times. But who'll win | :17:46. | :18:03. | |
this one? What does playing against Plymouth mean? It means a lot. | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
Everyone knows what it means to everyone around the city. It is not | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
a big city, so I am hoping there will be a lot of fans turning up to | :18:15. | :18:30. | |
cheer is on. One player knows how important it is to the players and | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
fans. Because I'm from Plymouth, people think it means more to me | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
than it does to the other players. But we are all professional | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
footballers and they are fully aware of what it means to the fans and the | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
city. No special treatment. Elsewhere, Yeovil town seek an away | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
win against Middlesbrough. Torquay United look to emulate an impressive | :19:00. | :19:09. | |
debut when your city come. The weekend's rugby kicks off this | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
evening with the Cornish Pirates looking to improve their fourth | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
position in the Championship by beating Moseley in Penzance. At | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Brickfields, Plymouth Albion could move into the top four if they | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
overcome London Scottish. It's another testing Sunday date for | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership. After last week's home loss to | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Leicester, their forwards hope to set up the platform for success at | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
Kingsholm, the home of Gloucester. A 22—year—old Cornish woman is | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
targeting a gold medal in the very first Olympic para—triathlon at the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
2016 Games in Rio. Melissa Reid, from Mount Hawke, is already the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
world aquathon and para—triathlon champion. She's totally blind in one | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
eye and has peripheral vision in the other. | :19:51. | :20:03. | |
It consists of 1000 metres runner and a five kilometre run. It was two | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
days before the triathlon, so we swam in the Serpentine and run the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
same route as we did in the triathlon. | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
Miller said trains in Falmouth. On this occasion, she was tethered to | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
Becky Walters. When we first moved down, I couldn't swim. But being by | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
the sea, you don't have a choice, you have to learn to swim. Because | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
of my eyesight, I can't drive, there are no buses, so the only way to get | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
around was to cycle. This race will burst onto the Olympic scene for the | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
first time in the next Olympics and Melissa is determined to make the | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
most of it. If I can say number one, I will be guaranteed a place, but | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
there are no guarantees in life. It all depends on whether she can | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
attract the financial backing. Because I have to have a guide with | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
me and we have to take the tandem apart and put it back together, it | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
usually costs £10,000 a year just for the travel and accommodation. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
That doesn't include the training. Plymouth Raiders have two | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
opportunities this weekend to net their first win of the new | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
basketball season. Tonight at Sheffield Sharks and on Sunday | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
afternoon, it's former champions Newcastle Eagles at the Pavilions. | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
A wartime memoir's being launched at the Appledore Book Festival this | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
weekend. The author from South Molton in Devon hopes it'll redress | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
some of the glory given to German e—boats and show how well the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
British Navy coped with them. 89—year—old Tony Chapman says his | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
book is unusual because it's not written by an officer, but by | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
someone from the lower decks. Spotlight's North Devon reporter | :22:00. | :22:19. | |
Andrea Ormsby has been to meet him. Tony was utterly convinced with the | :22:19. | :22:35. | |
Royal Navy. The other e—boat had shaped up to ram as and we got in | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
first, full speed. I didn't know, because the skipper didn't have time | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
to ring down and tell me he was going to do it. It was in the height | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
of the battle, so the impact knocked me out for some time. Now 70 years | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
since that battle, Tony's wartime memoirs are being published. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
Probably the main advantage is that it is written by a lower deck person | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
rather than an officer. And there are not a lot of books written by | :23:14. | :23:25. | |
the common man. Friend and agent Tony Martin has been a common force. | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
The Navy, after a pure start, develop taxis to contain the e—boats | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
and took the water them. It was a bloody and brutal battle, but they | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
contain them what you could call inferior equipment, in terms of | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
speed and seagoing capability. It was simply a question of sticking it | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
out stoically in the uncertain hope all would be well. Tony's book is | :23:57. | :24:09. | |
being launched on Sunday. Photographs taken by BBC Radio Devon | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
listeners will feature in a new calendar launched tonight. The | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
images have been chosen from more than a thousand pictures submitted | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
as part of a competition raising money for the Give A Gift Appeal for | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
the Devon Community Foundation as part of the radio station's 30th | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
birthday celebrations. You can find out how to get a calendar by | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
visiting the BBC Radio Devon Facebook page. | :24:27. | :24:38. | |
David has a rather nice picture behind him. Lovely blue sky. Do you | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
have good news? We do have good news. Incidentally, | :24:40. | :24:56. | |
we have had some lovely pictures sent in. As we head into the | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
weekend, it is calmer and mainly drive. There will be colder nights, | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
which is not a bad thing and also morning mist, but apart from that, | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
there is a fine weather. It is likely to be at this time of year. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
There is a fair amount of cloud as we head out into the Atlantic. The | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
main ring bearing cloud is across the other side of the Channel, | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
across France. France has seen tremendous downpours. This is midday | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
on Saturday and by midday on Sunday, it is moving across southern parts | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
of Britain and is here to stay, because even by the middle of next | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
week, we have high—pressure across southern Britain. Most of the rain | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
to the north of us. There are some showers. Some clear skies tonight | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
and is not the visibility problems we have seen recently. Colder night | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
for all of us and why we will see light showers in the morning, there | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
is enough sun to get the temperatures up. For much of the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
data model, it is fine and drive. Cloudy at times. Sunny spells is a | :26:22. | :26:34. | |
good way to describe it. We should see temperatures get it up to about | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
17 or 18 degrees. Lighter winds than we have seen today. | :26:38. | :27:15. | |
Sunday is more cloudy and there may be more of Bob first thing on Sunday | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
morning, but it should clear. Writer on Monday and rather cloudy, but | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
still try on Tuesday. Much cooler in the night—time. Have a nice weekend. | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
That's all from us. We will be back again on Monday at | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
630 a.m.. | :27:44. | :27:46. |