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No white Christmas yet but the weather is making its presence felt | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
from destruction to disruption and there are still hours to go. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Good evening. The wind and the rain began to hit Cornwall this morning. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The difficult conditions ` set to continue until midnight. As rivers | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
burst their banks, the clock ticks for travellers trying to get away. I | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
am going up to the Midlands to see family. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
A care home in Cornwall closers. The owners of the Holywell Bay Nursing | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
home have gone into voluntary liquidation. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
And a prominent figure in the South West's Chinese community is fined | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
for employing illegal waiters. High winds and torrential rain have | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
battered the South West causing widespread disruption and | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
forecasters say there are still some hours before calmer conditions | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
arrive. A severe flood warning remains in place in Weymouth | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
tonight. Meanwhile many people trying to get away for Christmas say | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
it's been a day of frustration and confusion. A vast number of train | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
services have been affected and there have been problems on the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
roads. Thousands of homes have been without power. Spotlight's Andrea | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Ormsby is at Plymouth railway station for us tonight. Andrea. It | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
is still raining and windy out here. It is, now but earlier it was chaos | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
here. Every train in and out via has been laid the services tonight will | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
be let also. The weather has taken its toll on the south`west today. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
Bearing the brunt of the storm. The south`west has been hit hardest | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
today by high winds and heavy rain. The weather has caused havoc for the | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
transport network forcing ferry crossings between Plymouth to be | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
cancelled. The problems have been on the railways. The tree blocked the | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
line between Taunton and Tiverton. Flooding and single `` signal | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
problems have affected branch line services. A 50 mph speed limit means | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
delays across`the`board. Going up to the Midlands to see family. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Hopefully the train will get their OK. Will keep up with travel | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
updates. And hoping I will get home without the trains stopping. We have | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
decided to get the earliest train we can. The wind is much stronger. It | :02:47. | :02:59. | |
is better than snow. Here is an idea of how strong the wind has been. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
This is the roof of a garage at the back of this pub. It happened at | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
8:30am when the roof blew off. It went into the middle of the road. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
The owner was shocked to start with. We had to block everything up. It is | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
closed today. Market Street will be closed until safety issues are | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
resolved. On the roads, drivers are being warned to take extra care with | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
a lot of surface water making conditions has stores in places. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
There are flood warnings across the region and one severe flood warning | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
in Weymouth. More than 3000 are without electricity in Cornwall and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Devon. Western Power says the cuts have been caused by 94 separate | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
incidents or relating to the weather. I have been out in this | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
weather all day today and have driven the length of Devon. In | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
heavily, the wind was so strong I could not stand up. On the roads, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
there is plenty of surface water. Don't go out unless you have to and | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
if you go out, go with extra care. You can check your BBC website where | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
you live and your local radio station. BBC Radio Devon and | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Cornwall have got special programmes to keep you across all the latest | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
travel information. A care home in Cornwall is to close, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
and families of the 30 residents there say they have just a few days | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
to find them somewhere new to live. Newport Care Limited, which owns the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Holywell Bay Nursing Home near Newquay, is going into voluntary | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
liquidation. NHS Kernow and Cornwall Council say they are working with | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the families to find alternative homes. | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
Many of the residents of the Holywell Bay Nursing Home suffer | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
from dementia and have complex needs. Their families were told just | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
last Friday that the home would be closing and they would need to find | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
new accommodation for their loved ones. Families believe they have one | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
week to make the move. It is beyond cruel. I don't know how it came to | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
be so close to Christmas. There must have been signs and somebody must | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
have known the situation and yet it was only on Friday that we knew | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
about it. Then it was 11 days notice. There are two weekends and | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
Christmas week, of course. This lady is concerned about her 89`year`old | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
father who has vascular dementia. Today they were at the area for a | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
meeting with authorities. I was reassured and the plans that they | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
have been able to implement and the measures they are putting in place | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
are satisfactory. They are clearing up a huge mess that Newport have put | :06:06. | :06:17. | |
them in. Newport Care Limited will not allow filming. They referred all | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
questions to the insolvency firm handling the liquidation. In a | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
statement it said: Relatives say they have been told | :06:25. | :06:55. | |
the home will shut next week. There is also concern for the future of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
the 40 staff and carers who relatives have praised for their | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
dedication. A leading figure in the south west's | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Chinese community has been ordered by a judge to pay ?50,000 for | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
employing illegal waiters. Martin Li who's a former Chairman of the Devon | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
and Cornwall Chinese Association has run a number of restaurants in East | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Devon. He was charged after raids by UK Border Agency Staff. Hamish | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
Marshall reports. Martin Li left court after being fined ?50,000 | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
after employing what his barrister said were two illegal workers who | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
flip `` slipped through the net. He is one of the most high`profile | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
businessman in the region and owns this restaurant and others in Exeter | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
and Exmouth. The court was told of raids on his restaurants. In 2006 | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
and 2007. There, they found two members of staff who were not | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
permitted to work in the UK. When he was interviewed, he refused to | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
comment and at his trial, he pleaded not guilty. Martin Li has often | :08:02. | :08:11. | |
acted as a spokesman for the Chinese community as multicultural events. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
After a previous raid, he told us that his community was being | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
unfairly targeted by the UK border agency. We feel very strongly about | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
the raid in the Chinese restaurant and takeaway which was very | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
heavy`handed. He asked to pay ?20,000 for the benefits he begged | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
`` gained from employing illegal staff and he was fined ?10,000 each | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
worker. The judge told him, for years you have been a reputable | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
businessman doing business to a high standard. I accept these cases slip | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
through the net but they are very serious slips and that the fines | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
have to be substantial. The UK border agency and a special unit of | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Devon and Cornwall police incorporated on the case. The | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
outcome shows that it is the responsibility of the employer to | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
check an individual 's entitlement to taking employment in the UK. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Those checks are clearly laid down on the Home Office website for | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
employers with certain documentation that they must check and accord to | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
prove they are entitled to work. He has three months to pay his fines. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
An investigation into an incident at a special school in Devon in which | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
police officers used a taser on three teenage boys with complex | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
learning difficulties, is to be supervised by the Independent Police | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Complaints Commission. Officers were called to Chelfham Senior School, | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
near Plymouth, on December first following reports of an alleged | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
assault on a teacher. The boys, all aged 14 or 15, were later charged | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
with affray. Fares on most train services in the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
south west are to go up by just over 3%. First Great Western says all its | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
fares will rise on Janaury first. Earlier this month the Chancellor | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
took the industry by surprise, capping the average increase to the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
rate of inflation. There are calls for tougher fines | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
for anyone whose pet attacks a guide dog after a recent incident in the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Mid Devon village of Uffculme. While there are laws requiring owners to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
keep their dogs under control, its claimed they don't go far enough. | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
Tilly is still shaken up to revisit the spot where she and her guide dog | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
were ambushed. They were walking in Uffculme when a dog leapt out of an | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
open window and attacked her German Shepherd. It was horrendous because | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
you know your dog is being hurt and you can't do a thing about it. After | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
the police, we went to the vet and she was peppered all over with bytes | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
and she had a bite on her chest. Quinn was so traumatised by the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
attack she has had to be retired from service. In the short`term, her | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
husband, Tony, has assumed the role. You have to be able look ahead for | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
curbs and broken pavements and branches overhead kneeling down, | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
anything that `` anything like that that might impede a blind person. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Trouble is my mind wanders off to other things. I am not as good as a | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
guide dog. Nationally, ten guide dogs and reportedly attacked leading | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
to calls for a change in the law. Tilly now has the support her local | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
MP, seen here on the left, in pushing for tougher financial | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
penalties for anyone whose pet attacks a guide dog. Dogs that are | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
not under control and have a tendency to be aggressive, if they | :11:59. | :12:09. | |
do attack, then I think there should be certain measures to stop it | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
happening again. Quinn has been re`homed with family friends but | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
every time a guide dog is retired as a result of an attack, it costs the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
charity ?50,000 to replace. If you've just joined us ` welcome | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
to Spotlight from the BBC. Still to come on our last full programme | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
before Christmas. We've reported on them all year but | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
a foodbank brings a special Christmas gift. God bless these | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
guys. The kids love it as more because they have their little hats | :12:46. | :12:46. | |
on. And from the new to the old ` a | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
fresh sound to Christmas before we hear our final carol. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Onto the sport and Dave's here with the final round`up before Christmas. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
First, football how did Yeovil get on Dave ` good news? I'm afraid not. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
Yeovil Town failed to stretch their unbeaten run in the Championship | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
following a one goal loss to Blackburn Rovers at Huish Park. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Jordan Rhodes struck in the second half to keep the Glovers next`to`the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
bottom of the standings. Again, they can count themselves unlucky after | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
they twice hit the framework, leaving their manager a little | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
frustrated. We are not too disappointed. We are | :13:27. | :13:39. | |
not devastated. We are disappointed to have lost a point. They are still | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
learning and we will keep going. In League Two, Aaron Downes gave | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
Torquay United tail`to`tail victories to take them out of the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
relegation spots. This one at Dagenham and Redbridge with the | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
centre`back scoring just after half`time. The Gulls now look for a | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
hat`trick in Boxing Day's home duel with Bristol Rovers. There was a | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
pick`me`up for Plymouth Argyle at Home Park against Bury. Keelan | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Lavery and Reuben Reid gave the Pilgrims a 2`1 winning result, the | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
perfect tonic ahead of Boxing Day's test at second`placed Oxford. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
Exeter City's home form let them down again as leaders Chesterfield | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
beat them two`nil on Friday night to leave them five points adrift of the | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
play`off pack. There are moments when they out | :14:17. | :14:31. | |
powered us. It doesn't happen too often but we have to make it doesn't | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
happen going forward as often as it has done in the last week or two. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Exeter Chiefs have gone up to fifth in rugby's Premiership with a | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
hard`fought 16`3 win over Newcastle Falcons at Sandy Park. After three | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Gareth Steenson penalties put the Chiefs 9`0 ahead, the only try came | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
from scrum half Haydn Thomas. He danced his way over to end Exeter's | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
run of five defeats in a row in league and cup and set them up for | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Harlequins at Twickenham next Saturday. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Penzance and Newlyn's Olympic and World Championship rower Helen | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Glover could be reunited with her Olympic pairs partner Heather | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Stanning from Yeovil. They won Britain's first gold medal at the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
2012 London Games. Since then, Heather returned to her Army post | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
and Polly Swann stepped into her shoes to achieve more success with | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Helen. But Glover found herself taking on more responsibility and | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
now Stanning is back training full`time. Whether I wrote with | :15:23. | :15:34. | |
Helen again or not, we will wait and see. `` whether I ride. She is a | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
fantastic athlete and she definitely brings the best out of me. I am | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
looking forward to training with her again. All it remains for me to say | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
is have a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year. | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Good luck to all our teams over the festive period. Now a family from | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Cornwall whose triplets were born thirteen weeks prematurely have | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
recently celebrated their fifth birthdays. Parents Sam and Andrew | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Paciuszko from Truro were warned their children only had a thirty per | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
cent chance of survival. Well they defied the odds and the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
triplets are proving to be quite a handful for mum and dad. John Danks | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
reports. At birth, they were tiny and fighting for life. Now, five | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
years on, they are big and absolutely full of it. Harry, Martha | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
and EV weighed around ?2 when they were born. Due to a lack of beds, | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
they spent weeks apart receiving specialist treatment at three | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
different hospitals. They had a whole host of medical problems. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Thanks to the medical staff, they are all here to tell the tale all | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
fit and fighting well, other than coughs and colds. We filmed them | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
after they were allowed home. I remember the first night with them | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
being here. Two of them were still on oxygen so we were paranoid of | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
what to do. We were doing things on our own for the first time. It was a | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
bit scary. We revisited them again on their first birthday. Mum and dad | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
now fully in the swing of childcare. It is a constant round of feeding, | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
sterilising, changing. It is endless. They wouldn't have it any | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
other way and now with the children attending schools, the normality of | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
family life is something they cherish. Part of it seems a distant | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
memory. Five years has flown past. I am so grateful for the help that we | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
had. We are really lucky. It is hard work but, yes, we came out the lucky | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
side of it. Now their birthdays or out of the way, they are turning | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
their attention to that other special day in the calendar. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
More than 200 families in Cornwall who are struggling to buy food this | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Christmas will get a free Christmas meal this year, thanks to a local | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
charity. The food bank in Camborne is delivering a turkey, mince pies | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
and Christmas pudding to people who can't afford food or presents. | :18:20. | :18:20. | |
Eleanor Parkinson reports. Volunteers have been busy for | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
several weeks putting together the perfect Christmas meal. This year | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
they are helping more than 200 farmers who they say of facing a | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
bleak Christmas. We have put the level at 200 and we have 227 but we | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
could have done 500. It is a big problem but as you can see, we can't | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
do any more. Each box will include the things that we all enjoyed. | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
Actions `` a Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and chocolate is. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Donations were still rolling in. 200 Christmas puddings from a local | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
company. Meals were complete with a Christmas turkey. We plan what we | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
are going to eat and the nice things that we are going to do and for some | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
families, that not possible. People ought to be able to worry a little | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
less and enjoy themselves a little bit more. Chris and his family will | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
be getting a meal. He is unemployed and a single parent. God bless these | :19:41. | :19:54. | |
guys. They wear Christmas hats and it is bringing a smile to my | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
children's faces. 60,000 people in the country will be relying on food | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
banks over the festive period. This food bank will be doing all it can | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
to make sure no one in their area goes hungry this Christmas. | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
For every top ten Christmas songs, there is a poll of the worse. If | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
you're not a fan of the Christmas tape in shopping centres, maybe we | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
can bring you some chair. Well children at Broadclyst Primary | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
School near Exeter have been in good voice singing a new Christmas song | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
which has been written by a local composer. Johnny Rutherford has been | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
along to hear the latest festive tune. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
# Gather round, tonight is the night. New music for new voices. The | :20:41. | :20:55. | |
song has been written by local composers from Exeter. I was | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
thinking about my grandchildren and wanted to write a song for them at | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Christmas. I got together with Hannah and we wrote this little | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
tune. The children loved it, they sang it at their school and the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
schools have now taken it on. What is refreshing is they have | :21:15. | :21:35. | |
thought about the lyrics. It is really exciting and we are thinking | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
about what is happening but we are also thinking about people that | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
don't get what we get on Christmas Day. It is part of joining hands to | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
sing for love and peace. We should enjoy the time that we get to spend | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
with our family. That so many other Christmas songs that are cheesy and | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
all of the carols that come out so it has been a gift to put this into | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
the carol concert programmes. You might hear more of this song in a | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
future as touted as an American publishing house has signed it up. | :22:23. | :22:34. | |
Good evening. We have seen the wet and windy weather across the region | :22:35. | :22:48. | |
today. There is still some heavy rain to come for a time tonight but | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
it should ease off for tomorrow morning. Let us have a look at the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
radar. You can see the rain across the region. It has eased for parts | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
of the region. We will see some more wet weather over the next few hours. | :23:05. | :23:17. | |
There is still a potential for strong gusts of wind as you go | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
through tonight. We have weather warnings for the wind. There will be | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
a lot of water still on the road tonight if you're concerned about | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
flooding. Keep an eye on the Environment Agency website. They | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
have a flood warning map. He is the deep area of low pressure that has | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
brought us this wet and windy weather. Some active weather fronts | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
in there and we will see another weather front pushing that rain in | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
for a time this evening. It is clear to the east by tomorrow lunchtime. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
The wind will not be as strong. There is some showers for tomorrow | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
but there would be some bright weather in between. For Christmas | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Day, the wind is much lighter. Some cooler weather for the middle part | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
of the week or so. Tonight, still some heavy bursts of rain to come | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
for a time. There is still some showers into the early evening. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
There is some stronger wind but overall the breeze should ease | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
tomorrow morning. We have clearer skies and temperatures will drop to | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
five Celsius for inland. Tomorrow morning, we will have some dry and | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
bright weather. The winds are blustery with the showers. There is | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
the risk of some hail and some of the showers will turn to sleet over | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
the higher ground of the region. Overall, the wind not as strong as | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
today and a cooler field to tomorrow. Temperatures around seven | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
Celsius. For the Isles of Scilly, Strom `` some strong winds here with | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
some blustery showers. Some bright spells in between. | :24:58. | :25:16. | |
Out at sea, we have some squally showers and these winds are coming | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
from the south`west. Unsettled weather is staying with us. For | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
Christmas Day, we have some cooler temperatures and some sleet showers | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
across the moors. Boxing Day, again a mixture of sunshine and showers. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Friday, we are looking at some wet and windy weather. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
Well that's it from us on the last full length Spotlight programme of | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
2013, but before we go tonight we have another of the carols sung by | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
choirs from our four counties. We leave you this evening with the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
University of Exeter Chapel Choir singing one of the traditional | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
favourites, O Little Town of Bethlehem. Goodnight. | :26:01. | :26:07. |