10/05/2014 Spotlight

Good evening. More than 50 teenagers direction.

Good evening. More than 50 teenagers taking part in the annual Ten Tors

challenge have had to be taken off Dartmoor during difficult weather

conditions. The route has been changed for the first time in 30

years to make it safer. Spotlight's Emma Thomasson has spent the day

there. They've spent months preparing for

this moment and you can almost taste the excitement in the air. More than

2000 teenagers heading off onto Dartmoor with either 35, 45 or even

55 miles ahead of them. It is really insane. A bit wet and windy. You get

used to it. It is a good challenge. And the main challenge turned out to

be the weather. Although the sun made a brief appearance at the

start, wet and windy conditions meant that more than 50 teenagers

had to be airlifted off the moor with minor injuries. The helicopter,

of course, is the easiest and quickest way of doing business. We

have the Dartmoor mountain rescue teams who can help those who can

help themselves. If it's a lower`limb injury that does not need

an evacuation, life or limb type, then they will walk them or stretch

of them to the nearest vehicle. ``stretcher them. Or indeed go to

hospital as they need to. The route has been changed for the first time

in 30 years to make it safer. Walkers now do not have to cross as

many rivers. The checkpoints are also closer to roads to help get

them out if there are any problems. This has been the biggest leg. The

rest should be easier. From the weather, the worst of the weather

has been this morning, so hopefully it will start to clear up a bit.

This has been a really hard day with all the weather but it's going all

right. Walking as a team, so it should be pretty good and hopefully

finish with a good time tomorrow. Conor was one of the first to make

it back today. He took part in the Jubilee Challenge, a shorter route

for younger people with special, physical or educational needs.

So how was it? It was very bumpy, but overall it was very good indeed.

And you had, obviously, the added bonus of all of that horizontal rain

and wind. Yes, yes, that was extremely pleasurable. Let's hope

that the weather is little more kind to the teenagers still out there.

They have to set up camp at dusk and then they can head back first thing

tomorrow morning. A ?1.5 million project to underpin a

number of houses following the collapse of a mine in a Cornish

village has been completed. Part of a street in Troon, near Camborne,

fell into an underground shaft which used to supply water to residents

last year. The old mine adit has now been cleared and work has been

carried out to deal with the problems of flooding and subsidence

in the area. One of the main roads through Devon

was closed for around half an hour this afternoon after a cow escaped

onto the carriageway. The animal, which had come from a nearby farm,

ran onto the A38 at Ivybridge. Traffic was stopped until the cow

was eventually herded down a bank. In sport, Devon event rider Mary

King had a disappointing ride around the influential cross country course

at the Badminton Horse Trials today. The newly designed course caused a

huge number of problems. Mary and Imperial Cavalier survived this

scary moment through the owl hole fence, but a little further on, the

17`year`old horse stopped at the Mirage Pond and Mary took the

decision to retire. In the rugby, the Exeter Chiefs

brought the curtain down on their Premiership campaign with a 23`13

win at the Newcastle Falcons. Gloucester's defeat at Worcester

means that the Chiefs finish the season in eighth. Well, it's been an

extremely blustery day. Let's take a look at the weather forecast now

with Holly. Good evening. Today has brought

showers and winds, we're seeing the worst of the winds at the moment. We

have the Met Office yellow weather warning in force for winds.

Especially on the coast and hills. Making unpleasant conditions for the

ten tours. Those winds are rattling through some heavy and thundery

showers. But they should stop the temperatures from dropping away too

far. So we start tomorrow with showers from the word go. Again,

they have been pushed through with some strong winds. Those winds not

quite as strong as today and gradually I think that they should

lose their intensity. But the heavy showers from Monday, thereafter

though turn dryer and brighter. Well, that's all from the Saturday

team here at Spotlight, the next bulletin will be 6.45pm tomorrow

evening with Julia Peet. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, good

Good evening. We have seen plenty of showers scattered across the country

today. There will be drier and brighter spells in between. Low

pressure is sitting across the country, with some tightly packed

isobars to the south. That indicates some strong winds. They will

continue throughout the night, going up to gale force at times. The main

focus of the wettest weather across parts of West Wales is this rain. It

will not be a particularly cold start to Sunday. Showers, not

everywhere, some of us will see drier weather weather window of

sunshine around, but be prepared for those showers if you're stepping out

in the morning. Throughout the day on Sunday, a bit of an improvement

across parts of south-west England