18/10/2016 Spotlight

Good evening welcome to Spotlight - tonight, the changing face

As local demand far outstrips supply, there's a call to thousands

of potential young workers to join a growing industry.

I have been working out for six weeks, and it has been great. I have

really enjoyed it. I am acttally doing proper carpentry. I thought I

would just be sweeping up, but I am actually learning a trade.

Also tonight - thieves smash a car into a shop front.

They made off with thousands of pounds worth of goods

after the raid in the early hours of this morning.

And a frosty reception - the campaigners trying to think out

of the box for a way to save this public service.

Or should I say, would you like to be?

The housing crisis in the South West appears to be deepening,

with a call today for more skilled people to join the industry.

A building summit in Plymouth has been hearing how carpenters,

bricklayers and architects `re among the trades desperately

needed if the demand for new homes is to be met.

It's predicted that construction work in the wider south-2est

It's predicted that construction work in the wider south-west

will increase by 4.4% - the highest in England.

26,000 new jobs will be cre`ted over the next four years

to reach a total of 257,000, the highest it's ever been.

Our Business Corrspondent C`rys Edwards has been to the building

Lewis Mayes is 16 and working as an apprentice carpenter and shhvered,

the new town near Plymouth, where 5000 new homes are being buhlt. It

is his dream job. I'm actually doing proper c`rpentry.

I thought I would just be sweeping up, getting materials for pdople I

am working with, but I'm actually doing carpentry, so I'm acttally

learning. But there are not enough workers

like Lewis in the constructhon industry. The average age and sites

is now 55. Decorator Clifford Hill, now in his 50s, says younger blood

is needed. We are going to retire, so the

younger generation need to keep them there were coming in, and it is

really important, because if we all retire and there is nobody following

us, well, it would be no go, wouldn't it?

There is increasing pressurd to build more and more homes lhke here

at Shefford, to help solve the housing crisis, but as houshng

demand grows, so too does the skills shortage in the construction

industry here in the South West Today, a building summit has been

held in Plymouth to address the challenges facing the industry, and

how best to attract new recruits. Along with major house-building at

sure third and Cranbrook, there are road infrastructure project in

Cornwall and the upcoming Hhnckly nuclear-power station. It is

estimated there will be arotnd a quarter of a million jobs in the

industry by 2020, 20 6000 of them knew, the highest it has evdr been.

A few years ago, we have thd austerity period, and peopld left

the area, they have left thd construction industry, and now we

are trying to get people back into it, and that is becoming more and

more difficult. We have a delivery target that we

need to meet the government and local housing targets to provide,

and if there are not enough people that are around to build those

homes, we are delayed and ghving those homes of the communitx.

We have lots of apprenticeships in our books, not apprenticeshhps, but

jobs in the city. Among the solutions of this job shop

to encourage recruits of all ages and well as apprenticeship schemes

and higher wages for skilled workers.

Now you want to tap on that stop-macro but with demand far

outstripping supply, a tough challenge lies ahead.

With me now is leafed Harry from the construction industry trainhng

board. Why have we got such a shortage of the skills?

We can see it as a shortage, but I like to see it as a huge

opportunity. We have accused number of construction and infrastructure

projects going on in the region and it speaks really strongly to the

wealth of skills we have got in the region already. We're hoping to

bring new people into the industry. One of the things that is worth

making is, the 6000 or so jobs we will need every year for thd next

five years, 2500 of those whll perhaps be nontraditional b`ck

office jobs, including IT, project management, etc. So if therd are

people out there with those skills, consider the construction industry

as a future prospect. The report mentioned that a lot of

people were laid off from the construction industry during the

downturn. Why would anyone want to come into an industry that has those

peaks and troughs in such a way It is a very good point. We have had

a report just today which totalled about sustainability, what we are

doing is building a much more robust industry. If you look at thd pipe

line of work coming, we havd got around 38,000 houses in Cornwall to

build, and we have already talked about Shefford, and the project at

Hinckly is a long-term projdct. We have a long pipeline of work in the

south-west, and there is no doubt that that will require investment.

A massive pipeline, and it seems like a massive shortage, so where

will all be people come frol to fill all these jobs?

We hope it will be a combin`tion of new entrants, returners, because a

lot of people, as you say, went from the industry. But there are people

out there who are switching industries. We recently supported a

project with South Devon College, and people from other walks of life

have come across, from teaching perhaps, or the Armed Forces. So

there are people out there who want to come across. One thing wd need to

get across to people is that construction is a very dynalic

industry, that progression routes are extraordinary. If you work hard,

you can really, really get on, and it is a very innovative, modern

industry. It is not all muddy boots, but we still need 500 bricklayers!

Thank you Ray much for joinhng us. A ram raid took place in thd early

hours of this morning as thheves drove a car into the window

of a department store in Tiverton. Devon and Cornwall police h`ve

launched an investigation. The raiders wearing balaclavas

managed to steal thousands of pounds' worth of perfumes before

fleeing the scene. It was business as usual at

Banbury's this afternoon, whth the repair is well underway. But it was

a very different picture here earlier in the day after a group

wearing balaclavas used a c`r to ram open the doors on Gulf Stredt. The

thieves made off with vast quantities of perfumes, leaving the

same vehicle they used for the ram raid.

To be woken at 5:30am to soleone saying you have been ram rahded

that is not normal. Glass everywhere, stark, perfume

everywhere. The police were there, and they have sealed it all off We

weren't allowed to walk into the area because the crime scend was

sealed, so, yes, absolutely horrendous.

And for shoppers, it was also a distressing sight.

I just can't believe it. It is like everything... Everything is

changing. You don't expect ht to happen on your doorstep.

Very surprised, absolutely. Yes They're often things thrown at

Windows, but nothing like that. That is what I presumed it was.

It is shocking, but not tot`lly surprising. It was bound to happen

somewhere, sometime, becausd that's the way things are.

Well, Devon and Cornwall police are appealing for any witnesses to come

forward, anybody who might have seen what happened here in the e`rly

hours of this morning on Gold Street, or anyone who, throtghout

the day, has been offered any perfumes to buy, has found that the

discarded boxes, or indeed, found any balaclavas.

Healthcare services in Devon were described as being

at crisis point today as MPs from across the county attacked

The plans are part of the strategy to tackle a ?100 million annual

overspend at Devon's largest Clinical Commissioning Group.

Our Politial Editor Martyn Oates joins us now from Westminstdr where

It was Annemarie Morris, thd Newton Abbott MP, who describe things as

being at crisis point. She `nd other colleagues also said that a

fundamental problem is that Devon does not receive enough funding to

reflect the challenges of providing health care in rural areas. The West

Devon MP Geoffrey Cox agreed. He is particularly concerned with the

threat to key services at North Devon District Hospital, described

the present level of funding is wholly inadequate. When it came to

the health minister Philip Dunne to reply, he certainly conceded the

level of challenge facing Ddvon I absolutely recognise that the

region is facing difficultids, and NHS staff across the region are

working hard to provide good care to patients, but services are not

keeping pace with the changhng needs of local people and it is bdcoming

increasingly difficult to m`ke sure local people have access to

consistently high quality c`re that is affordable and sustainable.

I am joined by these Devon LP who tabled today byes debate. It struck

me that the minister had a lot to say about the problem, not so much

about his potential solutions? In all fairness, he was in `

difficult position, because a lot of this is out to consultation, so he

could not come down on one side or the other. Positively, he dhd say

that the issue was being addressed, and came up with some figurds. But

we have a problem in Devon, and it was good to see so many of Devon's

MPs coming together, raising similar points, and raising their own

constituency points. Geoffrey Cox and others werd right

to say, weren't they, that the fundamental question is fin`ncial,

and while this is about showing to tackle this massive deficit, it will

be a pity desperate cost-cutting process which will ultimately damage

patient care? I think it is about allocathon of

resources. We are where we `re. NHS England Astro next 8 billion, the

government gave in 10 billion, and the Prime Minister has ruled out any

more money for the NHS, so we have to make do with what we havd. But we

are going through a process of change, and I think what cale out

today is how united we were in wanting to see a genuine,

21st-century National Health Service with a fully integrated sochal care

system, and that is what we are concerned about.

On the issue of you being united, you another MPs will be intdrested

in venture cuts in your constituencies your neighbotring MP

said you should stand together and say, we are opposing all of these

cuts. We are being picked up one by one.

He makes a fair point. Of course, his constituency of Tiverton is

protected as far of Tiverton is protected as Pharoah the beds are

concerned, but we don't want to get into a Dutch auction between

different parts of Devon, as big as best we can in one voice. These

community hospitals are much loved by local people, they are ststained

by local people and financed by local people very often, and I

believe they have a role 21st-century. What that rold is

remains to be seen, but we lust get over, if you remove beds from a

Community Hospital, it ceasds to have a a role.

That is not true. The conversation runs for another

few months. I doubt this is the last time it will be discussed in this

place. Now, when did you last use ` phone

box? The mobile phone has meant fewer

and fewer people are using call boxes and BT has decided to pull

the plug on hundreds The problem is there are sthll huge

areas of the south-west with a poor mobile phone signal,

and in those areas, locals and visitors are very reluctant

to have the phone box removdd. Jenny Kumah has been to one such

community on Dartmoor. For these walkers, payphones on

Dartmoor are a necessary part of the landscape.

You may well end up with a flat battery and not be able to get a

signal or something like th`t, so I think having them, if only to make

emergency calls, if nothing else. There are lots dotted around, some

are overgrown, not maintain, and obviously, I see the other side when

the telephone company want to cut costs, but I think if there is any

way of funding them, then they should remain.

According to BT, payphone usage has dropped 90% over the last ddcade.

But it is easy to miss this payphone here at Badger's Halt on Dartmoor.

Through here is another of the boxes that is threatened with closure

Making our way through the foliage here. So the figures show that this

has been used a couple of dozen times maybe in the past 12 lonths.

Why do you think phone boxes like this one across the more nedd to be

protected? This is situated in a vallex, and we

have very high sides to the valley, so there is no mobile signal. This

might be someone's only chance of getting emergency services here if

they needed it. BT says it will not take aw`y a

service in a remote location if the local authority objects. Thd company

is also giving communities the chance to adopt a kiosk as `n

alternative to removal. Here in Belle Stone, that idea has

received a ringing endorsemdnt. A local group has raised funds to put

life-saving equipment in thhs key -esque.

We pre-empted the fact that BT may want to finish with it, as ht was

not used at all, so we wantdd to hang onto our phone box, and make it

look a bit more attractive, and used for a very good, life-saving

equipment. Some good news today for thhs

Dartmoor community in post-bridge. They were threatened with the loss

of this phone, but BT has confirmed it will keep it. The firm h`s even

been persuaded to give it a lick of paint too.

Now, as phoneboxes on Dartmoor are under threat, it's prob`bly

a good time to be sure you don't need to call for help -

by learning the way to navigate the countryside safely.

The skill of map-reading and its faithful companion, the compass

Can you read a map? A little bit. Probably not `s well

as I should. But thanks to GPS technologx

and mobiles, does anyone re`lly use Well, map-reading and navig`tion

workshops are taking place on Dartmoor from today,

to coincide with Clare Woodling put the postcode

in her sat nav and headed The volunteers were Dartmoor search

and rescue do a year of trahning in map reading and other skills before

they are safe to go out looking for lost Ramblers.

There appears to be somewhat of a complacent attitude to map reading

nowadays. There is a great reliance on electrical devices. In b`d

weather, they become affectdd by the damp, and of course, they are

battery-powered, and the batteries only last so long, and if the

battery fails for whatever reason, you inadvertently drop the device in

a bog, they could find themselves in danger, yes.

A place like Dartmoor can bd unforgiving. As the days get

shorter, the evenings come sooner and the weather closes in.

Visibility can drop quickly. This group is taking part in a bdginners'

map session. If you want a good finding some treasure, you can use a

map. The task today is to venturd off the

beaten track using a one -. : 2 ,000 map and a compass.

This particular map is plastic coated, and has been through a fair

few Bogdan rainstorms over the last few years, and it basically still

works. There are many things you can pick up on a paper or lamin`ted map

that you just can't do on a GPS so I think it gives people a sdnse of

space and a sense of place, really. You can get a whole overview of the

area. Lessons are taking place to coincide

with National Map Reading Wdek. It is a very important life skill,

and is reviving it from my childhood, long time ago. And also,

it is a very lovely contrast to my daily work. It is nice to gdt out in

the fresh air and have fun. So when it comes to satellite

navigation, acting we rely on them too much.

When it comes to phones, people will use those and lose reception, and

when the weather comes down really quickly around here, if you can t

back that up, you could be hn trouble.

Do you know where we are on a map? Yes, I will show you here.

We're just south of Princetown. And now, to dispel any myths about

female map reading, and going to navigate myself and our crew back to

base. Have you seen any sign of hdr since?

No! I have not either! With the aid of a map, we h`ve moved

across the studio, for a very good reason.

Would you know what to do if someone collapsed

Well, by the end of today, it's hoped more than 100,000 people

will have learnt resuscitathon skills as part of

The British Heart Foundation alongside the Red Cross,

Ambulance Trusts and other organisations have been vishting

thousands of schools to teach these valuable skills.

At Stoke Damerel College, 300 students received

So we've invited two of thel along with their trainers

That will take their total to 302 trained.

You are a first aid, you ard a head teacher, and we have Jason `nd

Stella here. Will you show hs exactly what you have learnt today,

because I learnt in Guides lany many years ago, and I think

techniques might have changdd a little bit.

OK, so put him or her on thd desk and show is what you have to do and

August through it. OK, so first, you would havd to make

sure that it is clear, and ht it is a safe surrounding, and then you

would need to call for help and call for an ambulance. Then, to check if

they are awake or not, you would have to shake them gently, not too

hard so you break their necks, to shake them gently to see if they are

awake. If not, you would have to do 30 compressions on the chest, and

then lift their head up to open their airway, hold their noses and

push their chin down, and then do two rescue breaths, and then you

should keep doing that until help comes.

How hard do you push? You would have to push until it

comes down about five or six centimetres, and sometimes ` long

will break, but that is a good sign. Is there a rhythm to it?

Yes, you can do it to songs Staying Alive, and there are a few other

songs as well. You won't remember that!

We do, don't we! Sherry, how was that as a

demonstration? Brilliant. We would check the area

first were dangerous, but yds, she has done it very well.

Martin, as headteacher, what is your view on everybody in schools, and

this being part of the currhculum? I know there have been calls for it to

be part of education. At our school, we think health is

very important to young people, and learning these techniques and

methods, so Stella and Jason and their colleagues today, learning to

do this really important work, and we include health as part of that.

We have Sherry on hand so wd will hope to train every single student

at least once a year in this technique, and indeed, staff. The

British Heart Foundation told is that unfortunately, the most likely

person you will do this on someone you know very well, so having the

girls as young people is very important, and like you mentioned

learning in the Girl Guides, it stays with you for years. I have had

to do an update today to make sure I knew there would know the ndw

technique, because it has bden many years since I was trained.

Jason, what did you think of the training today?

I thought it was brilliant, you can use it to help anyone, really.

What did you know about it beforehand?

That you have to push down on the chest.

So you knew a little bit about it, but you actually learn the skill

today. Do you feel more confident? Are a lot more confident.

I remember, we used to do it on a doll called Annie, and I was quite

scared of that! These are all quite modern `nd new.

And it is not just something that should be in education, but in work

as well. We have first aid hs here at Spotlight, but maybe everyone

should learn something as ilportant as this.

You could save a life, so it is important to learn the skills. You

never know when you'll come across something.

Perhaps you could do another training session here, Sherry!

That's a good idea! All the crew have to stay afterwards to learn.

A great idea. Let's hope it is rolled out to more schools `nd

indeed, becomes part of the actual everyday learning, so it just

becomes commonplace for everyone to learn. Well done.

It was an excellent demonstration. I want to know, what do you think of

the programme far? Rubbish! Hankies in which are coming. We all

appreciate it. Well done. -, thank you very much for coming.

Well, that's one important technique for saving lives,

but elsewhere in the south-west today, youngsters have been

challenged to come up with technology which could

save the lives of thousands of people.

They has just six hours to develop their ideas

and then demonstrate them at a technology fair in Exeter.

John Henderson went to Sandx Park to see what they came up with.

It might not look it, but this could be a life-saver.

It looks quite delicate. Yes. It is a prototype.

It was better this morning, but things keep falling off it.

And 3D printer is on a low spec It is a water barrel, crankdd up

with a solar powered motor, designed by students from Newton Abbot for

places like this. It can carry up to 50 litres at a

time, and it is all assisted by solar panels, so it makes c`rrying

that quantity of water an awful lot easier. You can do it fast `nd using

less energy. You pull on this and this whll turn

the potentiometer, which will convert the data into metres.

Alerting people to sudden changes in sea levels.

It is like an early warning system, so you can prepare for a tstnami

that is coming, or prepare for flooding or something like that

A trio of 13-year-olds from Great Torrington developed the sm`rt boy.

Shall we see if it floats tde yes. You have done it! It is brilliant!

It works. The ideas were showcased at a tech

fair. We like to believe that it hs its

own little reservoir, in whhch it can store its own water.

The team from Plymouth Colldge Of Arts think they are onto a winner

with their water purification device.

We hope to use it in countrhes such as Ecuador, Indonesia, Tanz`nia

anywhere with a water probldm that also has quite a humid clim`te as

well. It might be early prototypes, but some of the region's yotngsters

have clear designs for the future. Some very talented and enthtsiastic

youngsters, we have met tod`y, on the reports and here in the studio

as well. Let's see what the weather is doing tonight. David is here with

the forecast. Good evening. We have got Orton

coming our way, and it is the sort of autumn many of us quite like dry

but a bit cold, the risk of some mist and fog, as well as thd risk of

some frost, which we have not seen much of the season. Tomorrow, mostly

fine, early mist and quite chilly to start. Still the chance of ` few

showers, but a lot of the d`y will be fine and dry with a lot lore in

the way of sunshine. Cloud will continue to melt away as we move

through the rest of this wedk. At the moment, the cloud you sde across

the eastern half of Britain, that's an area of low pressure, beginning

to slowly creep away from us. What replaces it is this area of high

pressure, which moves right across western Britain in the next 24 hours

or so. Perhaps we by the tile it gets in, but it will featurd for us,

not just for tomorrow, but for Thursday and Friday. The we`ther

fronts staying either side of the British Isles. A closer look at the

satellite picture shows you the showers we have seen earlier today.

A great rash of showers early this morning, but now isolated and quite

liked. Good spells of sunshhne in between. This was earlier today

with the view across to the team Valley from Holden Hill. Certainly,

Orton beginning to show. Thd colours are starting to come out, the leaves

beginning to show. -- autumn beginning. Its like we're wdll into

the season, there were many of the trees at the moment, the le`ves are

still there because we have not had low enough temperatures, and also,

the winter and relatively lhght We will see the showers continte

overnight, and they will be very isolated, so lengthy clear skies in

between those showers, which will allow temperatures to tumbld away to

quite low figures. In towns abilities, we could expect `round

6-7 degrees, but in the countryside, particularly over the moors, we

could see those down as low as -5 degrees. So cold and bright start

the day tomorrow. Cloud will come and go, so it won't be sunshine all

the way, but by the afternoon, there will be spells of sunshine `nd also

a light showers. Wind is not as strong as today, mainly frol the

north, and butchers a shade warmer. We have had 13 today, we max get

13-14 tomorrow. Perhaps feeling a bit warmer, because the winds are

not so strong. The Isles of Scilly, the cloud will come and go, patchy

cloud and sunny spells about sums it up. Mainly dry. Here are yotr times

of high water. Mine had at 0916 and Penzance at 07 26. For the surfers,

still choppy along the north coast. The conditions are quite good the

day after, so Thursday's servlets very promising. Light winds and a

fairly big swell coming up the Atlantic, generated by a big area of

low pressure, means the conditions on Thursday could be quite big and

also clean. That is the coastal waters forecast, Northwest four

occasionally five, mainly f`ir with generally good visibility. @nd the

dry the rest of this week. Subtle changes in the wind direction, quite

a windy day on Saturday, but we will have to watch out from Wedndsday

night onwards, because therd will be more and more frost.

Good evening. Thank you, David. Taunton Town and Torquay ard both

in action this evening hoping to qualify for the First

round of the FA Cup. Both drew at the weekend,

so tonight, Taunton travel to Hemel Hempstead, with Torquay

at Woking for their replays. Kick-offs are at 7.45,

with coverage on BBC Radio Devon The results in our late news at

10:30 p.m.. From all of us `nd Spotlight, whatever you are doing,

have a good evening. Good nhght