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end of the week? No. Had Russia heading our way and wet and windy | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
again. That is The South West hit by the full force | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
of nature from the coast of Dorset to the ravaged rail line in Dawlish. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
It has caused damage to buildings and sent huge waves crashing into | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
West Cornwall. Good evening. On Spotlight tonight, we'll report on | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
the damage left in the wake of this latest storm. This is the scene live | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
in Kingsand in Cornwall where there are renewed concerns about the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
safety of this historic building. Also tonight. Going nowhere. The | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
crew of a cargo ship are stuck in port after the vessel was detained | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
over safety concerns. Love letters straight from the heart. How to pen | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
the perfect Valentine's message. The South West has again been | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
battered by winds of more than 80 miles per hour, affecting homes and | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
businesses already damaged by previous storms. On Berry Head in | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
South Devon, gusts of 85 miles per hour were recorded. The gales | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
brought down trees, power lines and roof tiles causing road closures in | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
many places A number of flood warnings and flood alerts were in | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
place for coasts and rivers. In Porthleven in Cornwall, the wind was | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
strong enough to lift the backs of cars. In Lyme Regis, the Cobb was | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
battered by high waves. In Dawlish, work to repair the rail line was | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
severely hampered. Some South West attractions including Dartmoor Zoo | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
and Haldon Forest were closed because of the weather and transport | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
links such as the Tamar Bridge were also affected. In a moment we'll be | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
reporting from some of the worst`hit areas, but first live to our | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
reporter Janine Jansen. You can see the famous clock tower | :01:44. | :01:58. | |
behind me being battered by the storms. Engineers have placed | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
special props around the foundations to stop it getting further damage. | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
They have removed a balcony off the top because it about hanging on by | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
just one bolt. The committee are holding a meeting tonight to decide | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
what to do about the tower. David Cameron promised to talk to English | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Heritage and they are coming here tomorrow to assess the damage done | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
to the tower to seek what could be done to repeal it `` repair it. The | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
highest wind recorded was 85 mph at Berry Head. We have had the power | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
lines down. Western Power say more than 8000 homes are currently | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
without power. We have had flying tiles off the roofs in Torquay. Many | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
roads have been closed. We had a fire Tavistock in the substation. It | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
also affected the traffic lights. The next morning is plummeting | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
temperatures and ice. If we have not had enough problems, tomorrow | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
morning, drivers are being warned to beware of ice. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
In West Cornwall, the coast has been battered by winds gusting up to 80 | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
miles an hour. The waves have been hitting ports and harbours already | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
damaged by weeks of storms. Eleanor Parkinson reports from Land's End. | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
The recent storms have generated some of the most spectacular | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
pictures of the last few weeks. People were out again with their | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
cameras to capture those shots. It is fantastic to watch. If we can | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
stand still long enough! We have lived here 25 years. The coastguards | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
have recorded that Harry Kane force winds have been recorded out to sea. | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
`` Harry Kane `` hurricane force winds. Part of this historic pier | :04:20. | :04:35. | |
has been washed away. Devastating. We used to fish off it as kids. We | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
have had damaged periodically which we tried to maintain that this is | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
way beyond anything we can do. This is what happened to the beach cafe | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
after waves crashed over the roof. It took the roof down. We have | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
cleaned up now but it is a mess. At high tide, the waves get even | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
bigger. This is just a prelate for another storm on Friday. `` a | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
prelude. Once again, the south coast of | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Cornwall, Devon and Dorset bore the brunt of the high winds and huge | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
waves. It his several communities still clearing up the damage from | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
last week's storms. `` it hit. This was the scene this morning as winds | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
began to whip in from the Atlantic. He winds are gusting at around 80 | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
mph. Despite warnings to stay away from the rough seas, people still | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
took risks. Conditions were quite challenging to reporting. They are | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
predicting guests have up to 80 mph. In Plymouth, businesses affected by | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the large waves last week were now boarded up. The front features took | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
another hit. The flags outside the Met office in Exeter gave the | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
forecasters inside a measure of how powerful the storm was. Waves and | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
stay whole in the sea wall at Dawlish. Despite the extreme | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
weather, work to reconnect the south`west carried on. | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
Further along the coast, there were dramatic scenes as the historic Cobb | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
in Lyme Regis was overwhelmed by mountainous seas. It attracted | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
scores of spectators to the Dorset resort. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
On the edge of Dartmoor, people are adjusting to the idea that one of | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
the options for a future alternative inland railway would go through | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Oakhampton and Tavistock. Network Rail told us they have already done | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
an outline study of this. This is a peaceful time capsule and a home. It | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
came as a little bit of a shock to us having been told it would not be | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
used again. Not everyone in the area feels the same. It was cut in half | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
when the line came in. The farmhouse is within 20 metres which will be | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
very intrusive. The long`term prospect of bringing trains back | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
here hinges on ringing trains from Plymouth to Tavistock. I think the | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
route would be a fantastic idea. I would hope this has gone up by about | :07:51. | :08:02. | |
20% in terms of probability. That is even now a campaign by the Liberal | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Democrats to restore links to North Cornwall. Dawlish fears it could be | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
the beginning of the end for the coast route. The roads would not be | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
able to take the influx of traffic. We will just disappear off the face | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
of the earth. Many people are determined the coastal route should | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
never be lost. I wanted to see what the other options are. That is more | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
long`term foot up in the immediate term, we have to do the repair and | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
look at the long`term resilience. They may be other engineering things | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
we could do to help that particular vulnerable bit. The length of track | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
which started this will soon be lost to view. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
The issue of rail services in the South West was raised by no fewer | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
than four of the region's MPs at Prime Minister's Questions this | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
lunchtime. Our Political Editor Martyn Oates joins us now. There was | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
one announcement that people have been pressing for? Labour MPs have | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
been demanding confirmation of a payment for a rail upgrade in the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
region. They say it was promised after the storm damage last year | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
which had not been delivered. Liberal Democrat MPs from the region | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
joined them. In terms of the specific question he asked, we are | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
finding ?51 million to fund ten projects to improve resilience to | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
flooding . The Government describes all of this money as being for the | :09:57. | :10:09. | |
South West. Meanwhile, the play minister was tantalising people in | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
the far South West with faster trains. I understand his concern. | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
The gap created IP Dawlish disaster will take time to deal with. Above | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
and beyond that, I know what he and people in Plymouth went is a | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
timetable to getting a three hour service to Plymouth. We have a | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
longer term programme and we are looking at rail alternatives. | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
Speaking generally, the Labour leader ask the play minister whether | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
if money is no object in the flood relief exercise, the will be making | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
500 environment agency staff redundant? My question is a simple | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
one. Given the promised yesterday to make sure we have a resilient | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
country for the future and spend whatever it takes, is he committing | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
now to reconsider these redundancies and reconsider the amount of money | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
we spend on flood defences? The play minister had nothing to say that the | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Prime Minister had nothing to say on that. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
The Prime Minister has said money is no object when it comes to helping | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
people affected by the storms. BBC Radio Devon's Bill Buckley will | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
interview David Cameron tomorrow at midday. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
As Somerset residents battle to protect their homes from the latest | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
bad weather, hundreds of farmers on the Levels are still fighting to | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
save their livelihoods. Spotlight took wildlife expert Mike Dilger to | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
meet some of them. In the Valley behind, this is a farm with field | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
upon field of nothing but water. This is higher than it has ever been | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
recorded. You have some high land and you have been able to take your | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
cattle further afield. You are one of the lucky ones. The farm | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
buildings are high and that is great. We have been able to take | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
stock from other farmers as well. Water may be the immediate problem | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
but nobody knows what condition the sign will be in when it is gone. We | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
have never seen our land like that. Tony Davis 's whole world is | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
underwater. If we do not have a good spring and summer, we will struggle. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
It makes you wonder about giving up farming. You put your heart and soul | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
into it and at the end of the day, it breaks you. Tony thinks it might | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
be two months before he can return to his farm for top it may take | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
longer to find out the quality of the site. We have been hearing about | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
the weather damage across the region. There were dramatic scenes | :13:30. | :13:43. | |
at the Cobb in Lyme Regis. High winds and heavy seas. The Cobb | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
bearing the brunt of the latest battering. Whether there are storms, | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
there are storm tourists. This woman came to see the spectacle from North | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
Devon. In a way, it is frightening. Even for residents, this is | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
something else. I have never seen it in the 26 years I have been living | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
here. It is like white sea horses. The sea defences standing strong and | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
the Cobb is removable. `` immovable. It is April and structure. The | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
engineering behind it is incredible. It deflects the waves | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
and sends them rolling off along its length and minimises the damage. The | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
harbour is quite calm. I think the wind has died down just a bit. They | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
see is bubbling behind me so that is still plenty for the storm tourists | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
to enjoy. The temptation is to get too close. Never a good idea. But | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
there was someone who could not resist the Ely were of the waves. `` | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
the lure of the waves. As long as I can back in one piece, that is OK. | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
Sea defences new and old are being fully tested once again. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
The crew of a cargo ship are stuck in a Cornish port after the Maritime | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
and Coastguard Agency detained their vessel over safety and welfare | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
concerns. Express One was towed into Fowey after suffering engine | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
failure. When immigration officials went on board, they were so shocked | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
at the conditions, they called in safety inspectors. The 7000 tonne | :15:47. | :15:59. | |
livestock carrier is alongside number five dock. It is usually | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
occupied by China Clay ships. The MCA said deficiencies including | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
emergency training and fire detection system and substandard | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
clue accommodation put up the harbour master is responsible for | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
the safety of vessels in the port. The shortcomings for the queue are | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
specifically no heating and no heart water `` hot water. It is not clean. | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
I am delighted the MCA and UK government is taking this tough | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
stance to make sure the standards are set so that they are safe to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
transit around our coastline and that it is a fit standard for the | :16:54. | :17:10. | |
queue. `` clue. `` crew. It was only when inspectors went on board but | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
they discovered the conditions the people working in. The mission has | :17:17. | :17:32. | |
provided them with warm clothing and wireless papers to make sure they | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
can contact family so that they know they are safe. We have given them | :17:39. | :17:50. | |
sweets and cake. We did contact the owners and they did not want to make | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
a comment. We do understand that work is underway to repair the | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
engines. In a statement to the BBC, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
said it would be prevented from sailing and would be `` would | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
continue to be detained and it could take a week. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Tomorrow, Torquay Council is due to vote on a package of cuts aimed at | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
saving ?22 million. One of its most controversial plans is to scrap the | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
area's mobile library service. Users say it will hurt the vulnerable and | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
isolated. The council says losing the service will be regrettable but | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
it is preferable to cutting opening hours at mainstream libraries. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Services to help homeless people and drug addicts are also at risk from | :18:38. | :18:54. | |
Torbay's cuts. Mark is a recovering drink and drug addict. He came to | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the project to sort his life out. It provided him with a roof over his | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
head. I had a problem which was ongoing for years. I wanted a chance | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
to get help and to sort my life out. The council has to make millions of | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
pounds of cuts. The project was set to lose the lot. The council has | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
revised its plans. The director is planning to make up some of the | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
shortfall with his own salary. We will operate at full capacity and | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
have the same staff. We can do that on 15% cuts. The council has found | :19:39. | :19:50. | |
?135,000 to support another project in the short`term . Without support | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
this, it is feared vulnerable people will end up requiring emergency care | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
in accident and emergency departments. We need to reach them | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
before they become ill. Local church groups held a vigil about the cats. | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
Torbay Council has so far not commented but long`term, logics will | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
have to find money from elsewhere to survive. That project. `` projects | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
will have to find money. Some sports news and Yeovil Town, | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
along with Torquay United, remain in serious trouble after last night's | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
football. At Huish Park, Joe Ralls put the Somerset team ahead against | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
fellow Championship strugglers Millwall, only for Ian Holloway's | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
side to wipe that out and earn a 1`1 draw. The result keeps Yeovil bottom | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
of the table. Torquay stay next`to`the`bottom of League Two | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
following a 2`1 home defeat to the club just below them, Northampton. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Two goals in the first 16 minutes put United on the back foot from | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
which they never fully recovered, despite replying just before | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
half`time. How romantic are you? Have you ever | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
written a love letter to your sweetheart? I am not telling you. Or | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
has modern technology such as Facebook, Twitter and texting | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
changed how you communicate your love for someone? Well, with just | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
enough time to get a card in the post for this Friday's Valentine's | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
Day, Johnny Rutherford has been getting top tips on how to write the | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
perfect love letter. Dear Anna, how I long for your debt | :21:26. | :21:50. | |
was `` such `` touch. I have been practising writing a special letter | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
for my life `` wife. We are here to talk about love and how to express | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
it and get it. This is a class to learn how to write a love letter. It | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
is a one`off evening lecture at Exeter University. Doing something | :22:10. | :22:23. | |
like this makes you come across as an old romantic but I want to write | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
a meaningful letter. The letter means you, not all these other | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
people. It means going for it and putting down how you feel on paper. | :22:40. | :22:51. | |
Since meeting you, I can only smile. That technology can also be | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
romantic. We use a lot more images in digital culture. You can express | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
what literally cannot be expressed. Everyone else in the world is just | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
in black and white. Even now, in this digital age, the pack things | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
away for later also letters provide the ability to do that. Have to hold | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
onto. We may begin to lose the edge to send valentines that we will | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
never lose the urge to receive them. `` but we will never lose the urge. | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
Lovely stuff. We can return now to our top story. Western Power | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
distribution have told us 5000 homes are without power cut Devon, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
Somerset and Cornwall. David is here with the forecast. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
The winds are beginning to drop. Tomorrow is a quieter day and we | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
should see a few showers dotted around. The possibility of some snow | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
on higher ground. We will not see the strength of wind we saw today. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
The highest gust was that Eddie head. `` at Berry Head. They are now | :24:14. | :24:26. | |
lower and continue to drop. We still have the saturated ground and more | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
rain. It is likely to return in the form of showers tomorrow for top | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Friday will bring in a new area of low pressure. The curl of cloud here | :24:40. | :24:51. | |
is a lovely book of cloud. The highest winds are between Ireland | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
and the South of Scotland. That pressure will move out of the way. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Notice how much further apart the isobars are for midday tomorrow. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Another area of low pressure races in from the Atlantic to bring more | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
of the same. More rain, wind and gusts of wind could be up to 70 mph | :25:14. | :25:29. | |
on Friday. That is the rain we saw earlier today. It is now gone. Those | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
showers could be heavy throughout the night. They will turn | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
increasingly wintry. High areas could wake up to a dusting of snow | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
tomorrow morning. Most likely over Exmoor and Dartmoor. A cold night to | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
come with overnight temperatures along the coastline at four or five | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
Celsius. Inland, closer to serial Celsius. `` 0 Celsius. S have a look | :26:10. | :26:22. | |
at the forecast for tomorrow. We have some sunshine and a few | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
scattered showers. Wrap up warm there is a cold wind tomorrow. | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
Temperatures struggling up to six or seven Celsius. With the wind chill, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
it will feel colder. Quite a list read they for the Isles of Scilly. | :26:38. | :26:55. | |
Surfing conditions will be hundreds that horrendous tomorrow. `` | :26:56. | :27:11. | |
horrendous tomorrow. For the coastal waters forecast, this is easier on | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
the eye. Very rough but the policing `` that decreasing. Saturday will be | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
a windy and blustery day. Next week, a lot less stormy. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Snow and ice. That is all we need! We will be back with an update after | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
the ten o'clock news. | :27:43. | :27:44. |