17/02/2014 Spotlight

That is all from the BBC News At widespread band of

Further delays on the line ` the latest storms set back the repair

work on the region's main rail link. Good evening.

We'll be live in Dawlish to find out what effect the bad

slowed up. Also tonight: Fresh concerns about

parents of children who died. The Cornish family looking for

answers And police and the RSPCA target

organised gangs using dogs for illegal hunting.

Network Rail says the storm which hit the South West on Friday could

delay repairs night's storm has caused further

heavy damage here. For steel have held up well, but the sea wall

has been destroyed further, survey have to put in more containers. This

work would take two more weeks. They say that

using buses and studied trains. Many are resigned to it.

been through this before. In Germany, there was the ash and fog.

It is not great, but we will take it It is not great, but we will

work will take another two weeks. The storm on Friday night made

damage to the containers that they had put in to protect

moving closer and closer to Easter, and that might have a

Easter is the time when everything kicks off for

tracked. It is a competition we are in two where there is a limited

amount of helped by the problems that we have

just had. The region's tourism industry

desperate to tell fictive `` visitors that they

from Truro to help those travelling to Bristol and London. This track at

they hope that trains will be running in time for Easter, again

just to businesses that have flooded, but those who have lost

reporter has been to Looe in Cornwall where traders

the news as a short`term boost, but say more must be done to prevent

flooding in future. Looe saw dozens

and medium`sized businesses recover. The waters have gone down and

are used to flooding in places such as Looe, it is an occupational

hazard, like to see done?

like to see done? they can, with sandbags and much of

the equipment is above It he says that he would welcome

investment in solving the problem in the long

bay, Plymouth has got one and other places have got defence systems, but

we have nothing here. The water just come straight in and that is

it and hope that the best. Money will be administered by local

councils and it is hoped that the each local authority will be

announced before the end of the month.

And we'll be returning to the weather story at the

damaged areas of the South West. Two families from Cornwall who lost

children after heart surgery have come forward to express

Daddy's little boy. This is the only video

who are still searching for answers as to why. They say that his

operation the, so that by the time he was

considered, his condition had deteriorated.

Nobody said it was urgent hospital. It was not until a day

before he had the operation, they a couple of days, but he said it was

surprised that it took 12 days by the hospital that in the first

operation and implant had been moved `` had moved itself, so he had to be

operated on again. He which is why other urgent people

were treated first. Another daughter last July which was 11 days

old. They say that they I don't know what I should be doing.

Nobody has explained this to me. You think that you should have more

support? their patients, but I have heard

nothing. The hospital said that they had

written to the heard back yet. Last week, the NHS

announced an inquiry. In his review, they will

recent survey shows that 98% of parents feel that

These families hope that the new inquiry will get

what happened. Well, earlier I

independent Patient's Advocate. Her baby daughter died after surgery at

Bristol more than 20 years ago. I asked her what she thought of the

latest I think the concerns that I listen

to on Friday shopping. shocking. It was suggested that the

parents had a review, that they meet with Ian Kennedy

again to look into the situation? He can

in 2010. So he knows comic he has in 2010. So he knows comic he

experience and he the issues. `` he knows the issues. He is persevering

and I think he is one of who are still looking for answers? I

think the parents would be well served by speaking to the

around. He left in 2007, which was a turning point. For

based on all the evidence. Thank you.

investigation. Police here. The crackdown on

poaching. This is one of the number of addresses across

three here. Also on the back garden, we have a dear's head, legs of dear,

hindquarters, all chopped we have a dear's head, legs of dear,

kept in really miserable conditions. A person is arrested, and the dogs

are inspected for injuries. new trend.

It seems to be groups of young lads who are becoming not organised but

are forming gangs that go out and roam the countryside at night. They

have this purpose in mind, to just patch.

We were a good 30 or 40% down on this time last

deer seem to have gone. That age group will be missing in two

crackdown continues. And you can see Scott's full report

on largest geographical areas of any

hospice in the UK ` over 800 The hospice looks after around 3,000

patients and family members each year and that costs more

giving so generously. All this

reports on the work of the hospice, and possibly change

reporter, Andrea Ormsby. Hello,

a regular visit for this family. a regular visit

be lucky if I see another year and a half stop Colin and his wife are

The fact that we know that they are there, my wife can call them. They

will not say that because I know that I do not have to

get hold of a doctor, whilst the hospice are there all the time. It

is a lifeline for us. It is not just a lifeline

Hospice helps me as well and takes me through the journey with the

patients. hospice and feel much more confident

and supported. And Stephen Roberts, the Chief

Executive of North Devon Hospice, has a city back round. We need to

make that a priority and make it happen in 2014.

the generosity of the community. People think that we

by the NHS, they help with some of our running costs.

raised by the community every year. The me, to consistently achieve that

every year is absolutely amazing. 30 years with generosity is amazing. He

says that he cannot take this generosity for

million is spent on hospice care every day, and note ``

series, Andrea will be reporting from the bedded unit at Deer Park in

Barnstaple. from the school. Hello, I am Harry

and I play forward. Along with one from a college in Taunton.

forward. They will

few months as part of the squad in Shropshire, repairing for

international tournaments in and Spain later this year. But why

is hockey so popular and we have four local National League

sides, two ladies teams and Exeter University team for the man and

another hockey club. They another hockey club. They are all in

national leagues. It drives these players forward,

England players are from one club. I am trying to keep out of the way of

the hockey ball. A campaign is under way to grow

poppies across the UK to mark the quarter of a million seeds.

A quarter of a million seeds in that one pack. You can see how small they

are, This man is one of a team that is

growing poppies in one. My father was gassed in the

First World War, and I saw how he At the moment, this garden is bad,

but it is those poppies in full bloom.

All this week of how the weather has affected you.

His journey begins in Lamorna Cove looks like a bomb had hit it.

Such is the constant battle with the sea.

today more waves hit this outdoor pool in Penzance. It

terrible is storms, so no. It is not 40 degrees below zero!

Heading east, this causeway was getting a

the storm. They make a

stop the swell. Six boats sank, including Mark's recovered, he is

cutting it up. If I had been their quarter of an

hour earlier, I would have been trying to save it, which would have

been They brought tales of disaster, but

Mark has a new boat. A