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That is all from the BBC News at 6.00pm. So goodbye from me and | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
to a festival was blown out of by O'Hara came. The Board masters | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Festival is worth millions to the local economy but was cut short by | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
weather. Also tonight, the crime costing | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Devon and Cornwall millions of pounds. Theft of tools is up by a | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
third. A Plymouth rugby referee in benefit | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
fraud charges in court. Why Cornwall students may be lagging | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
behind in A`level results. And the very Happy villagers of | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
North Devon becoming internet stars. The organisers of one | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
of the region's biggest festivals are counting their costs tonight | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
after it had to be abandoned The five`day Boardmasters music | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
and surf event attracts 30,000 people every day to Newquay | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
and brings in around ?30 million But winds blew down tents and | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
rain left campsites waterlogged. Organisers felt it was too | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
dangerous to carry on. Take more than 20,000 campers, the | :01:22. | :01:33. | |
tail end of her regain, and this is what you get, wet, windy and blown | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
out of business. The final day of the Boardmasters festival, which | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
should have been yesterday, cancelled. Today the Lee Rigby was | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
well under way and those who had stayed on despite the conditions | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
were wet, dirty and do it but have made the best of it. We sort of made | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
our own music. Hanging about. We were all in a two`man pop`up tent, | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
not waterproof but also it was a disaster. We went out in the data in | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Newquay, came back, loads of tents lying around, so we got empty water | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
cannons and started running away. We had a laugh. The organisers say that | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
safety was of absolute priority. A festival spokesperson told the BBC | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
that part of the big top tent had collapsed on Sunday morning. Before | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
the arena was open, that was, and nobody was hurt. Today the PR | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
company brought back from that slightly, simply saying they had | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
issues with the Maverick stage, one of the smaller tents in the arena. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
But for some local businesses, an unexpected boost. The visitors | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
provide a boost in business every year and although the festival was | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
cancelled, the people and therefore the trade were already here. More | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
people, I guess, people not being at the festival and they were in the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
pubs and businesses. In general, how important festivals like this? 100% | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
important. Things like these makers and give us a chance to keep people | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
employed. It was disappointing for the who had hoped to play. The | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
headline is said... Today organisers said that safety | :03:18. | :03:34. | |
had to be the primary concern. The director of Boardmasters said people | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
had been given refunds in proportion to the type and dredging of the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
ticket they had bought. It is obviously devastating for us and | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
devastating for the people who have come to see the headline last night. | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Boardmasters are asking people to keep checking their website for the | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
latest refund information. Rural crime in Devon and Cornwall | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
is up by more than a third. The latest figures from a UK`wide | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
survey show it cost the two counties The most common items targeted | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
by thieves were tools, Stolen from under his nose, David's | :04:10. | :04:27. | |
brand`new utility farm vehicle was locked but thieves still took it in | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
the middle of the night. This replacement, like the original, cost | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
?14,000. They are real professionals and they are quite brazen and not | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
worried what lengths they go to to get the kit they want. From tractors | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
to quad bikes, the cost of rural crime is up across much of the South | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
West according to an F U Neutral. It was ?1.1 million in Devon and | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Cornwall in 2013, up 35% on the previous year. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
But it felt in Dorset over the same period. Insurers say some areas are | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
being hit hard with criminal gangs shifting their attention from other | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
areas to the West Country. The big concern is we are seeing a lot of | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
organised crime, thieves who will take a tractor worth ?50,000, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
whisked across the Channel, sell it on in Eastern Europe, or if they are | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
livestock thieves, taking 100 or more sheep at once. Police say crime | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
overall is down and that alongside tackling countryside issues such as | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
domestic abuse and violent crime, they are dealing with property | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
theft. We have got a whole network of people through watch schemes. We | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
have got farm, boat and horse watches. We encourage the use of | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Crimestoppers. We take the issue very seriously. People are also | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
being urged to make sure their property is secure. | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
One of England's top rugby referees claimed hundreds of pounds | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
A court has heard that David Rose, from Plymouth, | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
was claiming jobseekers' allowance at the same time he was being paid | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
hundreds of pounds for taking charge of Premiership matches. | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
David Rose is usually used to applying the laws of rugby. Today he | :06:18. | :06:30. | |
paid the price for breaking the laws of the land. In February 2013 he | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
applied for jobseeker's allowance. He was paid ?712 but at the time, he | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
was still refereeing top`flight rugby matches, including teams like | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Bath, Gloucester, and the Exeter Chiefs. For each of these games he | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
was paid ?696. His defence was that this was a genuine mistake. He | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
believed that because he's rugby commitments took up less than 16 | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
hours per week he was still eligible for benefit but the prosecution said | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
the money he earned while claiming well exceeded the ?71 limit. The | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
money has been paid back. Passing sentence of a 12 month conditional | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
discharge, ?700 in costs, the judge said it puzzled him why Rose did not | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
think he had to disclose that he was earning money. Rose, just eight men | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
to have refereed 100 Premiership matches was still agile as he jogged | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
away from court this morning. He is still banned. It is not known | :07:40. | :07:51. | |
whether that will be lifted. When that will be lifted. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
As thousands of young people wait for their A`level results this week, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
the latest figures show students from some parts | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
of the region are lagging behind the rest of the country and are less | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Now efforts are under way in Cornwall to try to get more of them | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
aiming for the top universities, as Tamsin Melville reports. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
This summer she's swapped dreaming spires | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Former community college pupil Beth is studying medicine at Oxford | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
and wants more pupils like her to follow. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
People don't really think about it or think it is all people | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
who have gone to private school, and that is not true. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
Anyone can go and you are definitely not at a disadvantage for having | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
The year Beth went to Oxford, 2011, the figures for state pupils going | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
to Oxbridge are so low they do not register in Government figures. | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
`` Cornwall pupils from state schools going to Oxbridge. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
But not all agree this is a useful measurement. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Eerily quiet at this St Austell A`level centre, it will be a very | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
different scene on Thursday, when 400 students collect their results. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
For many, staying relatively close to home is a conscious choice. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Students from state schools in Cornwall make positive decisions | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
about their future and they are fortunate in geographic | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
terms with universities to have a vast array of choice relatively | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Figures show in Cornwall last year, the percentage of state`funded | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
students getting the top grades, two As and a B or higher, in core | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
subjects like English, lagged behind the national average of 12%. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
It is similar in Plymouth and Dorset, with Devon, | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Various reasons are offered for Cornish students' results | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
We live in a peninsula so we are a long way from everywhere. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
We also have fantastic local provision available to us, | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
which is great, and we know we come from a deprived area where HE might | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
not be have been as valued as it is now amongst families in Cornwall. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
To get more students aiming as high as Beth, a team is working in, which | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
includes the council, teachers, business leaders and parents. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
It is hoped this year's results will reflect this. | :09:53. | :10:07. | |
The only flight simulator in the South West that is open to the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
public has started training pilots for the airline industry. It also | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
aims to help the one in six people who have a fear of flying. He is | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
only nine but John Arthur is at the controls of a passenger jet. The | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
primary school pupil is flying at 300 knots at 10,000 feet. What is it | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
feel like? Like being in an aeroplane. He is piloting the South | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
West's only public flights in the later, identical to a 737 800. Its | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
anger is this industrial unit. Upstairs there are more flights | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
immolate us. There is also a small cabin section. I am waiting for a | :11:00. | :11:09. | |
gym tonic and ice. This is a serious enterprise that has received EU | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
financial support. It has been brought together by a commercial | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
pilot with a background in training but aside from helping pilots with | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
extra courses, the simulator could also help those with a fear of | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
flying. That is one in six people, and the idea is to get them into the | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
cockpit. The person gets to fly the actual aircraft. What that does is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
give them the opportunity to actually make the noises, see how | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
the aircraft flies, do the things which frighten them themselves, in a | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
totally safe environment. So as well as helping those with a fear of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
flying, the singer letters are letting pupils see the practical | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
side of maths and computers. `` the simulators. It is all drip feeding | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
so they get a lot of information and it just builds as they regress | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
through their school career. Lots of promise, then, for an aviation | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
business that has taken off but is staying in Devon. | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
A suspected outbreak of norovirus is being investigated at a popular | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Tests are being carried out after at least 50 guests and staff | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
at the River Dart Country Park fell ill over the weekend. | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
A swimming lake was drained as a precaution. | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
The park said it was doing everything it could to find | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
the source of the problem and was working closely with health | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
Plymouth University insists its board of governors is united | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
behind the review that's led to the chief executive being suspended. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
It follows reports of a disagreement among governors | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
over the decision to place Professor Wendy Purcell on leave. | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
No reason for her suspension has been given, | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
Petrol stations across Plymouth should have unleaded fuel back | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
on sale by midnight, after a slip`up at a storage depot | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
told some stations to stop selling unleaded because of fears | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Spotlight's David George has been to investigate. | :13:10. | :14:04. | |
This is the Owl, a 70`foot ketch built in 1909 of | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Details of her month`long voyage in July 1914 are a chilling glimpse | :14:07. | :15:34. | |
after the end of the trip but just days after the start | :15:35. | :15:54. | |
He says, "We were lucky to get clear of Germany when we did, and I look | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
back upon my holiday not only as an enjoyable time, but the events | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
which have since occurred have added a special interest to it." | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
These are people going about their ordinary lives | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
in a very ordinary way, by our standards quite luxurious | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
and privileged but nonetheless without any idea at all of what was | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
about to happen throughout Europe and the whole world. | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
It is all a bit reminiscent of the plot of this book, The Riddle Of The | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Sands, that story of yachting and spying on the German coast in the | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
In fact, the book inspired many yachtsmen to make a similar voyage. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
While here at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, they would love to know | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Celebrations are being held tonight as the region welcomes home | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
its medal winning lawn bowlers from the Commonwealth Games. | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
Four bowlers, all from the Kings Club in Torquay, are showing off the | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
And Spotlight's Dave Gibbins is in Torquay for us tonight | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
wrote it. I have never been amongst so many medals. Look at this for an | :16:46. | :16:57. | |
array of medals. Sophie, gold medal. And her brother, Sam, that is his | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
bronze. Natalie, two silver medals and her fiance with another silver. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
How about that? Sam cannot be with us because he's just playing there, | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
on the right`hand side. Sam! Congratulations on your bronze! He | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
is playing club bowls tonight. For here, the Kings club, in Torquay. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Look at all be spent in for review. What is it like to be back? So nice | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
to see everybody and get a nice welcome back. It is brilliant. Did | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
you expect everything like this? We need we did well the whole club | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
would be behind us and they have been. You won a gold medal so you | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
are very proud. Clinking and clanking here, Natalie, two silver | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
is. What about this? Unbelievable. We are members of a really | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
supportive club and having them behind us all the way has been | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
fantastic and to bring home medals for all of us has been an incredible | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
achievement and one we are proud of. It has been pretty amazing. You | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
have just won the national title as well, singles, you have just come | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
back. You will want a great big cupboard for all your medals. A lot | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
of the time you just keep them in the cupboard. It is unbelievable to | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
win the singles as well over the weekend. A bit of a whirlwind. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Pleased to be home now and we are relaxing for a couple of days before | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
the pairs. James, your Commonwealth Games debut. How does it feel to be | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
the seals `` silver medal winner? Very proud. All four offers from | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
this club, for all of us to bring something home is fantastic. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Somebody tells me that you two are taking a year out from your success. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Can you confirm that on Spotlight? I think we can. We have informed the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
relevant authorities. We are getting married next year so we want some | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
time off to have a nice honeymoon. We have achieved something that we | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
could only have dreamt of when we started bowling, and it will be nice | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
to have a bit of a break. Well done. Congratulations on not only the | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
medals but the wedding. Back to you. Congratulations. Staying with | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
sport... It was an | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
inauspicious start to the new football season for the South West's | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
senior clubs. Only Exeter City came out of the weekend with any reward. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
Our commentators on BBC Somerset and BBC Radio Devon describe the drama | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
from day one of the campaign. He lobs it over the goalkeeper | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
and the first goal Chris Wills made the decision | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
to come out of his goal and he Forrester has an empty goal | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
and he's played the ball That might be game, | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
set and match for Doncaster. It looks like we've got | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
a little bit of work to do. Wallace, five yards away, decides to | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
come infield, inside the penalty We have come into the game | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
a little vulnerable this week with issues, and embargo and illness | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
and what have you, and to come away Adam Cunnington has | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the ball placed and the ball is And the ball is stabbed in | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
by Cambridge United, who take As for Torquay United, a 3`1 defeat | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
at last season's play`off finalists Gateshead indicate they have | :20:49. | :20:58. | |
a formidable job on their hands if they're to challenge for honours | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
in the football Conference. After the dramatic weather at the | :21:02. | :21:15. | |
weekend, let's see what this week has in store. | :21:16. | :21:27. | |
better as the week progresses. But for the moment Wendy with showers. | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
Quite rough sea conditions. That curl of cloud across the top of | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Scotland is the remnants of the hurricane rain. We are under the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
influence of it but we are furthest away from it. The weather will | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
improve first first. There are showers rotating around that area of | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
pressure. More to come. There could be some quite sharp showers. By | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Wednesday, the showers starting to die down. North West wind. Wind | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
coming from a cold direction so do not expect temperatures to be too | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
high. Ordinarily, the showers would fade away overnight but I do not | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
think that will happen tonight. The showers will keep on going. Some | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
with the risk of thunder to come. Still quite windy conditions, | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
especially along the coastline and along the coast of the Moors, too. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Enough clear skies to get those temperatures down quite low. Quite a | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
cold start to the day tomorrow. Also a showery day. The showers will come | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and go throughout. No real spell of weather where it remains basically | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
dry. If you are lucky, you may see one or two and the rest of the day | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
is fine and dry but otherwise the showers could be frequently blown in | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
by the breeze. In terms of temperatures, they are not too high | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
tomorrow. Up to 17 or 18 for most of us. 19 in sheltered inland parts. | :23:01. | :23:14. | |
Elsewhere showers quite frequent and where they do occur, the | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
temperatures drop quite smartly. Hopefully there will be some lengthy | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
spells of sunshine in between the showers. Blustery wind making it | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
feel on the cool side. The next couple of days, the tides | :23:29. | :23:44. | |
are high. Spring tides unusually so. Several flood alerts for the coasts. | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
North and South coast. Those alerts continue into tomorrow and | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Wednesday. The combination of strong wind, of the high tides and also of | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
the low`pressure living a risk of coastal flooding. Big waves for | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
surfers, too. Especially on the North coast. Some quite tricky | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
conditions out at sea. Visibility reduced in those | :24:09. | :24:21. | |
showers, though. Here is the forecast as we head towards the end | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
of the week. Quieter in terms of strength of wind. Probably the best | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
day will be Wednesday. It does get quieter and somewhat, by the time we | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
get to Friday. Something to be happy about. `` quieter and somewhat more | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
calm. Now, if you need a bit | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
a cheering up tonight, we may well It's something which has become | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
a bit of an internet craze, and the latest version comes | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
from a community in North Devon. Residents | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
in Petrockstowe have made their own version of the Happy video | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
by Pharrell Williams, to encourage Spotlight's John Ayres has | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
been been taking a look. No doubt it is a catchy tune and as | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
a result, community groups up and down the country have been recording | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
their own version of Happy. We are up for anything in this village. It | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
is wonderful. There is so much to do. You would never be lonely here. | :25:22. | :25:30. | |
We want to get everybody here and let everybody know how amazing it | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
is. Not everyone realises what a happy community we have got and | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
therefore I felt that the PDA using the song would really showcase our | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
village in its best light. Action! There is even a website where all | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the different versions made by different groups will be uploaded. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Is it something anyone can do? Yes, anyone can do it, even you. HE | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
MINDS. `` MINES. Who were all those people? ! Just | :26:10. | :27:25. | |
time to say good night. Thank you for joining us. We will leave you | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
with those happy people. | :27:28. | :27:31. |