13/08/2014 Spotlight

Visitors have been told to leave the River Dart Country Park

We'll hear from some of thel and the park's managers.

Shocking the world of athletics with European gold, Devon's Jo P`vey

celebrates seeing off rivals nearly half her age. It's funny re`lly to

try for so many years and now do it when I'm 40. I should have learned a

few things a long time ago. Never mind! Hazardous conditions

from the sea tell us they owe their lives to

they hadn't turned up when they do I think it would have been curtains.

A busy holiday park packed with hundreds

of visitors has had to closd after a suspected outbreak of norovirus.

700 people staying at the River Dart Country Park

It follows nearly 100 cases of the sickness and diarrhoda bug

It will remain shut until ndxt Monday for deep cleaning.

Visitors have been promised full refunds.

Spotlight's Hamish Marshall has the latest.

Moving day, for some it means an early end to their summer holiday,

for others a rapid change of plan. This group from Exeter were due to

stay all week. But now, thehr holiday's over. We're all going

go home. It's too late to fhnd anywhere else. The kids are

We're upset about having to leave. We

have enjoy the rest of the holiday at home. Not

eight`year`old Mimi is unwell overnight. It started with

violently sick. Then tired `nd resting and then waking you up

was brought onto the site bx someone and it's now spread.

had it under control. But the cases have been mounting.

catch this virus and the uncertainty that

thorough deep clean and re`open on With 7 Monday.

infection to spread. It's spread from person to person.

someone goes to the toilet `nd perhaps doesn't wash their

touch the door handle, the next person coming in, touches the

they're the next case. Les `nd his family are packing

Somerset but hope to be back when the site re`opens. I

taking control of the situation and I think

morning, this place turned from a camp site full with

beginning as the deep clean is under way to try to get this

A 40`year`old mother of two from East Devon is the pridd

of the South West tonight, `fter winning gold in the 10,000 letres

Jo Pavey beat off runners ndarly half her age to claim

If you happen to be a mum two of children, maybe one of them less

than a year old, you'll fully understand how demanding life can

be. Imagine trying to juggld that with being an athlete in her 40s as

well. That's Jo Pavey who won in the European Championships.

COMMENTATOR: This is it, her whole career has been about this loment.

It's gold for Jo Pavey. She is the champion. I can't believe I can t

believe it. Thanks to everyone supporting me. Thanks to evdrybody

that's helped me. I can't bdlieve it. I'm speechless really. Just

really thrilled. Following the athletics at home is her chhldhood

coach Tony White. He knew b`ck then she would be a star. As a tdenager,

she was beating the boys and girls in older age groups. Now at 40,

she's outrunning the young ones I thought it was incredible that she

just ran the last lap the speed she did and ran away from girls half her

age. It doesn't make could just do that to youngsters

like that. I mean, and the girl that to win it. So, that was absolutely

marvellous, in past, but gold in the Europdan

Championships funny really to try for so lany

years and now do it when I Let me introduce

for a rare double Let me introduce you to Tonx, you

saw him in a minute ago, of course, you're 95% blind but still coaching

here, and a BBC unsung hero. You were training Jo hn her

teenage years. You knew she would be a star, didn't you? Yeah, as soon as

the young coach that had her 11, 12`year`old and he brought her

to me. And he said, he thought I had more knowledge to take Jo. He said,

I can't deal with her, somebody more experienced to put her

on the right lines. I took her from then onwards. She was 13. After you

good for her age group and for the girls. That's right.

say, what are we doing having a 13`year`old in with us?

14, I had to put her with the under 17 boys. She was just too good. Just

that enables her to do this at 0 and a mother of two as well?

athletic life. She couldn't really do a lot

eight years of non`hard work, which she's now

to come. Can she do it in that as well? If her

hopefully, very free to run on in the 5 k and maybe do the

executive. A leaked official document reveals there has been a

business correspondent, Neil Gallacher, has seen the doctment and

What is this document? It's from the regulator and it's a prelimhnary

account of their findings, from when they came down to the university in

mid`June having heard that the board chief executive and what thhs tells

us for the first time is th`t the regulator, amongst other thhngs had

been given concerns, contacted with chairman of Tell us governors. More

about the chairman. He is a retired senior judge from Plymouth, William

Taylor. The report reveals that he had been contacted

from somebody in the university of ill temper on his part and of his

being overcontrolling with governing body committees. It says thdre was

insufficient evidence for them to investigate the claims

they add that the claims were made in

review. This is a break down in his personal

Purcell? Yeah, she is the vhce Chancellor in academic speak.

document says matters appear to have been exacerbated by this brdak down

the vice Chancellor and the chairman, to the detriment

university. It's in the intdrest of all parties that this is resolved

Purcell. Why has she been stspended? We don't know.

said. Wendy Purcell hasn't commented. I can tell you that I

allegation of criminality or gross misconduct. That's all

can tell you that I underst`nd that Wendy Purcell does

her day`to`day role. What comments have there been from

several channels today without success. The only comment that we

have had was on Monday, before this united in our agreement that the

current process must be allowed to University." That process bding the

investigation into they are insisting has to bd carried

out. All of this terribly rise and rise of the university

They've decisive action from the unhversity

to respond measures are necessary to m`ke sure

the university is well run from point onwards. As the Times higher

education said this degree of university and that was before they

knew about this. story, clueing a time line of events

and further analysis on the BBC Devon website.

Two families, pulled from the sea in a rescue off the Cornish co`st, have

told us they owe their lives to the lifeguards. The RNLI says this

week's high spring tides and strong winds have created hazardous

conditions. More than 60 swhmmers have had to be rescued from one

Cornish beach alone. Spotlight's Eleanor Parkinson reports.

These two families are regular visitors to the beach. Last night

they were caught newspaper ` drama which they say could have them their

lives. They body board but found themselves

dragged out It just took us off the bank, over

towards the rocks in a against No, nothing it? . I'm not

small. I'm absolutely helpless and Max, my son,

who's ten, was Guards who had just gone off duty.

How orphan. If they hadn't turndd up

when they did, the most treacherous dangerous

conditions I've here. It was a struggle to get the

casualties back to shore RNLI say over the last thred days 60

people have been pulled changed shape during the winter

storms. A sex`offender from Somerset, who

enticed girls as young as nhne with the offer of singing lessons, has

been jailed for four years. Sixty`two`year`old Paul Francis from

Yeovil was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court after pleading guilty to

child sex offences. He handdd out hand`written invitations to girls on

their way to school. The cotrt heard he had previous child abuse

convictions, but at the timd of his latest crimes, he was not on the Sex

Offenders Register and was not being 250 new jobs are to be created with

the expansion of two meat f`ctories in Cornwall. Tulip Ltd plans to

spend ?16 million turning shtes in Bugle and Redruth into the largest

de`boning facilities in the UK. The continuing closure of Longreach

House in Redruth for repairs means 44 people with mental health issues

are now having to be treated outside Cornwall. Families say the shortage

of beds is unacceptable. The war hero, Edmund 'Tommy' Purser

from Exeter, who took the ldad landing craft ashore at Sword beach

on D Day, has died aged 95. Some of Plymouth argyle were head for

suffered a direct hit. He'd been Plymouth argyle were head for the

exit in the first half against Leyton Orient, one division higher

than their hosts. They deserved a 2`0 lead until Rubin Reid scored the

first of his two goals. Reid, who looks lean andage Lyle, aftdr

noticeably losing weight, shrugged off his marker to equalise `nd

Jumping out of a plane at 12,00 the tie into extra time.

Jumping out of a plane at 12,00 feet, these images captured on the

helmet camera of Maddy Heath`Kelly. This is something the 26`ye`r`old

from Exeter has done almost 600 times. Her next challenge ` to break

a world record. The record hs formation skydive with betwden 20

to 130 female sky divers from all over the world. It will be the

largest formation with multhple shapes, so we jump out and build one

shape, all let go and then build another shape. It

two shapes to be the new record But Maddy

this jump. When I got offerdd a place in the record,

was diagnosed with dementia. I decided to use

money for Alzheimer's Society at the same time.

with dementia following a stroke. She's been moved by

that anybody would think to put the two

right, I'm going to California and I'm fundraising at

think good for her, you know, she's really doing well.

Now, how handy are you with a hammer? Probably not as good as a

group of men who descended on Devon today from all over the world. They

were here for the first day of an international Blacksmiths Fdstival.

We sent our reporter Heidi Davey along to Westpoint to have ` go

When I came into work today, this wasn't one of the jobs I thought I'd

end up doing. I have my gloves on, my safety glasses and my apron and

Don is here to teach me all I need to know. What's the plan?

what we're going to do, I'vd heard you need a coat

coat at home, so the mission is we convert this iron here

finished item there. We havd to make that into a square? Square.

sounds simple enough, but I'm not sure it is. Straight

motion. That's it. All the way to the end. Turn it over now.

your one you prepared earlidr. We need to turn it over there. Just

over the end. Hit it. I sneaky break from my masterclass

with Don to see what else happening around the show. Ht wasn't

long before we came across the contingent. There's not manx big

festivals like this. So, currently studying, but it's a

really important might be a profession you think you

associate with male. But at the festival there are

several ladies it's done. Wendy is one of them

You've been long? Longer than I'd dare to say,

30 How due years. First get into it? environmental biology. I cotldn t

find a job. Six months later I loved it and stayed with Now it s

it. her hook are getting on. Hit it

What, down? Yeah, go on. Have a Oh, I'd give you an eight. That s

not bad for a first effort. Not bad After all that hard work, I think

I've earned a well deserved massage. Thousands of people are getting

ready for round two of a pyrotechnic battle in the skies off Plylouth's

waterfront tonight. Blitz Fhreworks won the first stage of the British

Fireworks Championships last night. Simon Clemison watched the displays

which this evening's compethtors The hats and coats say Novelber but

then again, so does the sky. This is no Bonfire Night party, thotgh. This

is serious competition. Hundred s of kilograms of explosives battling it

out to find a winner. Some of these fireworks are home grown. Not that

you'd want to attempt this hn the back garden. The crowds havd

gathered in their thousands. Up until now they've been eating and

drinking. We've heard them laughing and joking. Now the only two sounds

emerging are oohhh and aahhh. If you look in the air you can see why A

different view, from the he`dland looking back. Splimth at its best

worth millions to the local economy. It's been amazing. They've got

better and better. They havd. This is the best so far. The best thing

for me it's free and it's jtst a down and just enjoy the firdworks.

What fireworks? It's just special. Look

at it, it's just amazing. again. Showering gold on thhs city,

for a second night. Extraordinary. Every year you think

they can't get better, but they do. Beautiful clear skies which help.

How is it looking for tonight? frequent showers and the ring of

thunder. What's happening is just to the south, there's a lump of cloud.

That's heading towards us. Ht's bringing slightly colder air. It

moves through Ireland overnhght But it gets to us by the middle of the

day. By this evening, tomorrow, it's slap bang across the

south`west of England. a lot of showers and a lot of cloud

and feeling cooler too. Friday, that will have gone. Friday

is a largely today. There have been showdrs

dotted around. Most of thosd view of a little bit of blud sky and

the big clouds. here and there. A different scene

for the north of Devon and perh`ps

through the Bristol Channel. Tomorrow, a cloudy start and a day

with showers. heavy. Some of them will have some

thunder mixed in, the afternoon, they begin to move

away, as that whole area of towards the end of the afternoon.

Temperatures from the North West means some of

our coastal locations, not afternoon, we should see late

sunshine. Friday is a reasonable day. So is Saturday.

All change on Sunday, though. That is all from us tonight. We are

going out with a bang this dvening. We leave you with more of

Fireworks Championships in Plymouth. From all of us here, good nhght