23/07/2014 Spotlight

between a band of heavy and thundery showers and it will be notably

fresher with The Teenager Who Fears

He May Take His Own Life. The Specialist Psychiatric Care

He Needs. Good evening. Joe Dodd has

already attempted suicide. He's now concerned for his own

safety and for those around him. I am either going to go too far and

kill myself or I am going to end up damaging myself are hurting

someone. I do not know what I am doing.

Also tonight, their numbers are up. 15 supermarket workers celebrate

after scooping almost ?250,000 each on the Lottery.

And tackling the problem of hungry seagulls in the city.

How one council is planning to clamp down.

A 17`year`old from Somerset says he fears he may kill himself

if he doesn't get the psychiatric help he needs.

Joe Dodd and his family have been pushing for specialist

inpatient care after a suicide attempt and dangerous behaviour,

but they say the local NHS refuses to give it.

With one in ten 5`to`16`year`olds having a psychiatric condition,

Spotlight's Matthew Hill has been asking if more can be done

I cannot carry on the way that I am living. I have scars they are and

all over my legs. Covered in scars from years of self harm, Joe Dodd is

a very disturbed teenager who tried to kill himself in February. I

didn't get help for that. What sort of thing do you see? Bad people that

hurt me when I was young, and I hear people telling me today. He was

sectioned under the Mental Health Act. His mother says he was sent

back to her a month later with no support. Jane says she was not

surprised when he ended up on the roof of a high building two weeks

ago. I was brought down here and I phoned him on the top of that

building there. He was cutting his arms again. I phoned the police, the

ambulance, they came and sorted him out and detained him under the

Mental Health Act. His conditions include post`traumatic stress

disorder, which stems from the time he was taken into care as a

12`year`old because of his challenging behaviour. It started in

May 2012 when he disclosed about having trauma at the care home. He

needs psychiatric help, and they are just saying that he has not got a

treatable mental health illness. I believe that PTSD is treatable, and

if he does not get help for it he has not got a future. A letter from

another psychiatrist says: Another letter from a child

psychiatrist warns it is highly unlikely that he will recover in the

setting of the family home. I will either go too far and kill myself or

end up hurting myself `` hurting someone. I do not know what I am

doing. In a statement, the Child and

Adolescent Mental Health Service, responsible for Joe's care,

says while they can't comment on the case, it is sometimes not

in the patient's best interests to be admitted as an inpatient,

and they can be supported with a package of

treatment in the community. Meanwhile vulnerable people

living in sheltered housing in Devon fear they'll

lose support from wardens because of cutbacks

by the County Council. The wardens help people live

independently in their own homes. But it's costing the County Council

?4 million a year, a sum it says should be the responsibility

of housing providers. David has mental health problems. He

recently moved into this sheltered housing scheme to get more support.

They look after your financial needs, contact with the outside

world. So it alarms me that I have just moved into the property and

that is going to be removed. Funding cuts mean his support worker and

others like may not have a job after next March. The most important thing

is enabling them to stay in their own home. Helping with things like

correspondence, bills, financial things like that, and also social

inclusion, helping them join clubs are things they want to do, going to

church, things like that. The County Council pays up to ?4 million a year

towards the services. Even though it is actually the landlord's

responsibility. The council says government funding cuts mean they

cannot continue to pay for the services. The council wants to focus

the money on directly supporting people with eligible social care

needs instead. I understand the financial reason why they are taking

the funding away. But it only costs ?500 a year per person in this

property. If we end up going into care, you are looking at ?600 a

week. I don't understand how they can work out the budgets. The

company that runs this scheme is consulting over the summer with

tenants to see what services they can provide when the County Council

funding runs out next March. The alarm services they all have which

provides 24`hour will remain. But other support services we will cease

to have funding for. We want to engage with residents to find out

the real priorities so we can remodel the service. For residents

like David, it remains a difficult time. It is giving me a lot of

anxiety because if it is removed, I am going to have to try and deal

with the outside world on my own. Police investigating

the death of a man found on a Cornish beach in February

say a Crimewatch appeal hasn't yet produced

any major new leads. Alan Jeal, seen here on CCTV

on the day he died, was found with multiple injuries and a sock

in his mouth on Perranporth beach. His case featured

on Crimewatch last night. The programme received

about 20 calls. Detectives were hoping

for information about what happened to the 64`year`old the night

before his body was found. We have had a number of phone calls

last night as a result of the appeal, what unfortunately they do

not pinpoint the information that we really need, information of what

Alan was doing after 10:30pm on Tuesday the 24th of February. They

either missing errors of what had happened to him after he was last

seen on CCTV and when he was found the next day at 2pm on the beach.

The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Many of the South West competitors will be involved as they take part

in the parade into the stadium behind their nation's flag.

Spotlight's Hamish Marshall reports from Glasgow

on how the athletes are settling in before the action gets underway.

Ahead of tonight's Opening Ceremony, the village has been filling up.

Each nation making it a home from home. The athletes seem to be

settling in well. I have got Falklands, Trinidad. I saw Bradley

Wiggins. Any selfie 's? Not yet. Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah, Usain

Bolt, lots of famous people are on my list. The Commonwealth Games is

such an iconic event, so I am extremely proud to be here

representing England and have what I think is a great England team with

me as well. The hub of the village is the dining hall. 400,000 athletes

plus all the support staff, 20,000 meals a day will be served catering

for all tastes. We have recipes and authentic chefs cooking all the

different curries from around India and Southeast Asia, they can have

lots of traditional Scottish food. Like pudding and white pudding,

haggis. No deep fried Mars bar as yet. Team England is the biggest,

there has been huge investment in sports science, physiotherapy and

recovery equipment. The athletes are moving towards the limits of human

performance. This type of area is what delivers that, making sure the

athlete stays well and injury free. If a problem happens, treat them

early and get them back to the field of play. We can move people from off

the podium and onto the podium. But we can move them from bronze to gold

as well. The athletes are here, the venues are ready on the waiting is

almost over. An estimated 1.5 billion people will be watching the

20th Commonwealth Games. Earlier I asked Hamish which local

names we should be looking out for Some of the marquee names, Joe Pavey

in the 5000 metres. Then proud `` Ben Road. And Tom Daley, he has come

out to deny reports that he will retire after these games. He has

tweeted to say, see you in Glasgow. It is not just the big names. Some

of the lesser names are getting their day in the sunshine. Natalie

is defending the Bulls championship. And Sammy, Sophie at 22 is the

youngest member of the England bowling team. You are in Glasgow,

but not all of the competitors are there? The diving is taking place in

Edinburgh, 40 miles away. Matthew Dixon and the other divers are

taking their diving there. That is in the pool that hosted the 1970 and

1986 games. And the shooter, Rory, he is in Carnoustie for his event.

And obviously the Opening Ceremony tonight. One to watch? I hope so. I

have seen some of the rehearsals, it looks pretty good. I cannot give you

any more details. Tune in on BBC One tonight. Some of the bowlers are not

going to make it, because they are on the green at 8:45am tomorrow

morning. The Commonwealth Games are very close to getting underway now.

Thank you very much for joining us. Archaeologists have got until the

end of the week to dig up artefacts from the site of

a planned wind farm in North Devon. A team of experts are working

in fields at Batsworthy unearthing what they believe is

a medieval farming settlement. before the bulldozers come and

prepare the site for the turbines. We will meet the 15 supermarket

workers who have scooped almost ?250,000 each on the National

Lottery. Also still to come? The war correspondent

sampling life in the trenches. Kate Adie opens a new

World War One exhibition. And just peachy, the first ever

Loquats have fruited at this How would you spend nearly

a quarter of a million pounds? That's the enviable position

these night shift workers find themselves in after winning

almost ?4 million on the lottery. Well, we've been doing our sums and

we reckon they could buy themselves 100,000 pasties, or almost 50,000

cream teas, or maybe just under you could buy back

Plymouth Argyle's captain. So how will members of the syndicate

at a branch of Tesco in Plymouth be spending their winnings?

Scott Bingham has been to meet them. The odds certainly stacked up

through this bunch of bubbly supermarket workers from Plymouth.

The 15 strong syndicate, also including three men and three other

women who decided not to go public, checked out with a jackpot of just

under ?3.7 million. It was especially emotional for the

syndicate leader, who lost her husband David to cancer earlier this

year. My first thought was of my husband, and that he is not here

with me to enjoy it. But he has done this for me. He had a little word

with the Lord above and said let's do something. He is watching over

me. What will they do with their share of just over ?250,000 each. I

want to pay my mortgage. What about you guys? I do not know. Get a

bungalow for my mum. Most of the group has voted to carry on stacking

shelves at the supermarket. The atmosphere in the staff room, when

we are on our break, laughing all the time. It is nice to enjoy

people's company like that. We do joke. The next time your late`night

shopping, the smiles may not just be because they love their job so much.

What a lovely group! Enjoy your winnings.

Former war correspondent Kate Adie officially opened a new

World War One trench exhibition in Dorset today.

The Keep Military Museum in Dorchester built the bunker

with money from a Heritage Lottery grant.

The exhibition will change as the centenary of the war passes

Spotlight's Andrea Ormsby has been to have a look.

100 years since the start of the Great War. History brought alive

here at the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester. This is not a sprint, it

is a marathon. This will change dramatically over the next four

years, it will reflect what was going on in the war. At the moment

we're looking at 1914, the early battles, we will go on through

Gallipoli in 1915, the Battle of the Gallipoli in 1915, the Battle of the

Somme in 1916, up to the armistice in 1918. To tell the stories of

Devon and such soldiers. With a sword used in the First World War,

Kate Adie did the honours. I declare the exhibition open! Met would have

come `` men would have come in their thousands to enlist. They would have

been outside queueing. Women beyond them would have been going, where

are they going? What is going to happen, probably cheering them on.

There was extraordinary enthusiasm in those early days. They passed

through military buildings here. And here is the story of what happened.

8000 of them did not come back. It does matter. It brings history

home, write to our own homes here in this area. As part of the

exhibition, letters from local soldiers to their sweethearts. I

suppose it is all settled for us to go to war. But still I can go with a

good heart knowing that I have left someone behind who will pray and

think of me. This woman find this letter to her and after she died.

She had kept them all those years. I just felt they had to go somewhere

so I brought them in. I am very surprised how it has all turned out.

I think this will be this time. I remain yours until death. He was

killed shortly afterwards, one of the first deaths of The Great War.

has arrived at Newquay Zoo all the way from Vietnam.

will be taking part in a globally important breeding programme.

The animals are hunted for their meat in Vietnam `

After travelling more than 6000 miles from his native Vietnam, Bao

arrived in Cornwall fast asleep. Newquay Zoo will be his home for the

foreseeable future, where it is hoped he will breed with others

already here. It is important because the species is considered

vulnerable to extinction. They are quite rare in the wild because of

deforestation and bushmen trade over there, illegal hunting. They are

very scarce. We are trying to rescue and rehabilitate them. This animal

is bread in a national park in Vietnam, and they are coming over

here. He has come over here to increase the gene pool of them being

kept in captivity. He will be kept in quarantine for four months.

Newquay Zoo has been coordinating the breeding programme here in the

UK. But protecting the species relies on more than increasing

numbers. Work is going on in Vietnam that might one day enable these to

be returned to the wild. The centre we run over there is not only for

breeding animals and letting them out into the wild, but it is also

educational. Hopefully it will encourage the indigenous people to

look after their own wildlife. The mammals are making good progress.

The population is this a zoo is slowly climbing. `` at this zoo.

Now with temperatures in the upper 70s you could easily

imagine yourself in the south west of France rather than England.

Well, it's not only us humans basking in the sunshine this week.

In Dorset some unusual fruits have made a rare appearance `

A fruit from the Far East growing in Dorset. It is this, a loquat. Thanks

to the warm summer, something more than just leaves and flowers are

growing. It is a citrus fruit about the size of a golf ball. It grows

throughout Egypt through to Palestine and Afghanistan. Very

rarely do you see it set foot in this country. Planting at the garden

started in 1765. The weather has produced quite a few highlights to

go with the loquat. You have got the valley with the rhododendrons. That

fades out, then you have the Victorian garden with borders and

grasses. Subtropical planting. By late summer, you have got what we

called the jungle, bananas, its transports you to another world. It

is not only unusual fruit enjoying the subtropical sunshine in Dorset.

The kookaburras are flourishing as well. We have built a free flying

area. 15 years, we have had them. The sound of the laughing kookaburra

echoes through the valley and transports you into another world.

It has been the warmest week of the year so far, unusual for this

garden. They've long been seen

as both a symbol of the seaside and the curse of those enjoying

an outside plate of chips. across our coastal towns

and villages. Over the years Spotlight

has reported on many different approaches to

tackling the problem. And today Plymouth City Council

joined the fray. John Henderson joins us

from the city's Barbican. A lovely evening down here. They are

is one of the birds in question, quite big, aren't they? It is feared

to say that we are undoubtedly a continental cafe culture in this

part of the world. We love to sit outside eating and drinking full top

but there is a risk with that, and today Plymouth City Council decided

it is time to get tough and act. Seagulls. For those enjoying a snack

and the sun, they are a pest. The seagulls drink out of my copy cup

and everything. They try to pack food off the table. They grabbed

food out of people's hands! They are disgusting creatures. Such is the

problem in Plymouth, the City Council is taking action. If we can

remove the food sooner than later, that will deter the seagulls. Also,

replacing eggs with false eggs. So that they do not hatch. Eventually

the seagulls will move onto another area where can breed. Cafes in the

city are a common target for these herring gulls. Trying to clear up

the leftovers before the birds do is important. We do a lot to keep the

tables free from the birds trying to swoop down. But it will draw

attention to the fact that there is a problem, an obvious problem in the

city. For new visitors coming into the city, they need to be made aware

of the fact that there is an issue with seagulls when they are eating

outside. That will only help matters. The campaign asks people

not to feed the birds or drop litter, especially food. The problem

is worse between April and August when the goals have chicks to

protect and more people are eating outside.

So far no problems down here with seagulls this evening, but the City

Council is also planning to bring in birds of prey to deal with what it

thinks is a serious problem. I am joined by the owners of this cafe.

How big a problem are seagulls in this part? In the summer they are

quite a big problem, if people did not feed them they would be much

less of a problem. Adrian, what do you think? Is it heavy`handed

thinking about finding people to feed the seagulls? It seems a bit

over the top to me. I would favour signs urging people not to feed

them. Occasionally we do get problems with people feeding them.

If you do not feed them there is no problem. We will leave you to it, it

is a lovely evening down here, and so far no dive`bombing from the

seagulls. Thank you very much indeed, John. A

scorcher again today. It has been even hotter today.

The heat stays with us. Slightly cooler Celtic Park in Glasgow for

the start of the Commonwealth Games. Clear blue skies, 20 degrees. It is

a lovely evening to enjoy that. We have got that on BBC television as

well. The close of the western side of Ireland is not worth worrying

about `` that line of cloud. We see showers develop overnight tonight,

some of them around tomorrow, just for one day. By the time we get to

Friday, high pressure comes back. Plenty of showers across the near

continent, largely dry for us. A little bit of colour appearing

across Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Showers that are moving

towards us overnight. This is the fine weather we have seen today, we

had glorious blue skies. More cloud around, appearing through the

afternoon. Very little in the way of breeze, it has been a very warm day.

Described as hot for most of us. The best place to be, in the water,

staying cool. For the next couple of days, a small risk of showers, cloud

bubbling up in the distance could be the cloud we develop over the next

24 hours. Some of that will come overnight, the odd rumble of thunder

possible tonight. Most of us try a clear skies, another warm night as

well, overnight temperatures of 17, 18 degrees. Tomorrow, the risk of a

few showers moving through Cornwall. In the afternoon, showers developing

across parts of Devon especially. One or two of those could be

thundery. They are very isolated, for most of us tomorrow it is

another dry, fine and warm day. 25, 28 degrees tomorrow. Showers turning

up in the Isles of Scilly after lunch time. Times of high water, up

to about one foot for most of the beaches. The outlook is for us to

remain dry and warm as we head into the weekend. The chance perhaps the

show. Have a good evening. The late news is that 11:25pm after

the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games on BBC One. We

are back with you at 6:30am tomorrow morning. Good night.

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