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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
The building industry says thousands of new construction workers | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
are needed in the South West if the region's to meet | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
A building summit says carpdnters, bricklayers and architects `re some | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
It's predicted that construction work in the wider South West | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
will increase by 4.4% - the highest in England. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
26,000 new jobs will be cre`ted over the next four years to reach | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
a total of 257,000 - the highest it's ever been. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Our business correspondent Carys Edwards reports. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Lewis Mayes is 16 and working as an apprentice carpenter | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
at Sherford, the new town near Plymouth, where 5000 | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
I thought I would just be sweeping up, getting materials for the people | :00:55. | :01:07. | |
I'm working with, but I'm actually doing carpentry, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
But there are not enough workers like Lewis in | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Decorator Clifford Hill, now in his 50s, says younger | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
We're going to retire, so the younger generation | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
need to keep coming in, and it is really important, | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
because if we all retire and there is nobody following us, | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
well, it would be no go, wouldn't it? | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
There's increasing pressure to build more and more homes | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
like here at Sherford, to help solve the housing crisis, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
but as housing demand grows, so too does the skills shortage | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
in the construction industrx here in the South West. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Today, a building summit has been held in Plymouth to address | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
the challenges facing the industry, and how best | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Along with major house-building at Sherford and Cranbrook, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
there are road infrastructure projects in Cornwall | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
and the upcoming Hinkley nuclear power station. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
It's estimated there will bd around a quarter of a million jobs | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
in the industry by 2020, 26,000 of them new, | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
A few years ago, we had the austerity period, | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
and people left the area, they have left the construction | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
industry, and now we are trxing to get people back into it, | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
and that is becoming more and more difficult. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
We have a delivery target that we need to meet | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
for the government and local housing targets to provide, | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
and if there are not enough people to build those homes, | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
we are delayed in giving those homes to the community. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
We have lots of apprenticeships on our books, not | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
just apprenticeships, but jobs in the city. | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
Among the solutions is this job shop, to encourage recruits | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
of all ages as well as more apprenticeship schemes and higher | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
But with demand far outstripping supply, | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
Leif Tarry is from the Construction Industry Training Board. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
He says there are huge opportunities for people wanting a career | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
We have around 6000 jobs that we expect to need everx year | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
in the next five years across the south-west. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
Key areas would be around 500 new bricklayers. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
We're expecting to build around 30-35,000 houses in Cornwall. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
I think the really interesthng area is of those 6000 about 2500 will be | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
back office technical jobs, IT jobs, really interesting | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
jobs that perhaps aren't always associated with | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
Not just the things people imagine, hands-on jobs. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Absolutely and one of the mdssages we want to get out to peopld | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
who want to join the industry, or returners, or parents, | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
teachers, is to say this is a dynamic, forward-looking | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
industry with huge variety, huge potential. | :03:54. | :03:54. | |
You mentioned looking for the next five years. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Of course for lots of peopld there's a degree of uncertainty | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
Can you understand how that may put some people off? | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Absolutely, we've had some tough economic times over | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
What we know in the south-wdst is we've got a really | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
The plans for housing in Cornwall stretch over 20 years, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Obviously we have Hinkley on our doorstep and that's | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
a long-term project, and thdre are other infrastructure projects. | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
We expect some news about railways fairly soon. | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
So there's a lot of long-term work to be done down here. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
I think as an industry we have a good, robust | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
forward-looking balance, if you like, of work coming forward. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
We heard from some very young people at the beginning of their | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Should they feel optimistic for the next few decades? | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Absolutely, I think if you come into construction and you'vd got | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
the right attitude, the sky is genuinely unlimited. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
I met a man today, a similar age to me admittedly, but he had | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
come in as a bricklayer and he was managing a ?200 lillion | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
project and that's what construction can bring to people. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
It's not all muddy boots - there's a lot more to it. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
And we want to see a lot more women into the industry as well. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
That's another area for growth, I guess. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
It sounds like there's lots to talk about. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Health care services in Devon have been described | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
as being at crisis point, as MPs attacked proposals | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
It's part of a strategy to tackle a ?100 million annual | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
overspend at Devon's largest Clinical Commissioning Group. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Concerns were raised in a parliamentary debate. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
The government acknowledged Devon faces difficulties, but said | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
services aren't keeping pacd with the changing needs | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Here's our political editor, Martyn Oates. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
It was Anne Marie Morris, the Newton Abbot MP, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
who described health care in Devon as being at breaking point today. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
She and others of her colle`gues also said one of the fundamdntal | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
problems is that the governlent simply doesn't provide enough | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
funding for somewhere like Devon to recognise the particular | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
challenges of providing health care in a highly rural area. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Her colleagues Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox said | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
that very rural hospitals like North Devon District won't be | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
sustainable going forward unless the government changds | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
the funding formula and givds them special treatment. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
He described the present levels of funding as wholly inadeqtate | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
As you'd expect, many MPs today were particularly keen to stave off | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
cuts in their own constituencies, but there was a warning | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
from the Tiverton and Honiton MP Neil Parish, who said that rather | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
than a falling out amongst themselves as to where the cuts | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
should fall, and possibly rhsking each of them being picked off | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
in turn, they should all stand together and oppose | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Mobile phones mean fewer people are using call boxes and BT has | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
decided to pull the plug on hundreds of them across the region. | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
The problem is there are sthll many areas with a poor | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Jenny Kumah has been to one community on Dartmoor. | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
For these walkers, payphones on Dartmoor are a necessary | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
You may well end up with a flat battery and not be able to get | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
a signal or something like that so I think having them is vdry good, | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
if only to make emergency calls, if nothing else. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
There are lots dotted around, some are overgrown, not maintained, | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
and obviously, I see the other side when the telephone company | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
want to cut costs, but I thhnk if there is any way of fundhng them, | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
According to BT, payphone usage has dropped 90% over the last ddcade. | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
But it's easy to miss this payphone here at Badger's Holt on Dartmoor. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
Through here is another of the boxes that's threatened with clostre. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Making our way through the foliage here. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
So the figures show that thhs has been used a couple of dozen times | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Why do you think phone boxes like this one across the moor | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
This is situated in a vallex, and we have very high | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
sides to the valley, so there's no mobile signal. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
This might be someone's onlx chance of getting emergency servicds | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
BT says it will not take aw`y a service in a remote locathon | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
The company is also giving communities the chance to adopt | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
a kiosk as an alternative to removal. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Here in Belstone, that idea has received a ringing endorsemdnt. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
A local group has raised funds to put life-saving | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
We pre-empted the fact that BT may want to finish with it, | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
as it wasn't used at all, so we wanted to hang onto otr phone | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
box, and make it look a bit more attractive, and used for very good, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Some good news today for thhs Dartmoor community in Postbridge. | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
They were threatened with the loss of this phone, but BT has | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The firm has even been perstaded to give it a lick of paint too. | :08:53. | :09:04. | |
Some football news now - and Taunton Town have made history | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
tonight by qualifying for the first time in 35 years for the first | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The Peacocks beat Hemel Hempstead 1-0 to secure their place. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
But it wasn't to be for Torpuay - the Gulls went down | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Both games were replays after draws at the weekend. | :09:17. | :09:27. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Good evening. We've had lovdly | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
pictures of sunsets, more to come for the next few nights bec`use we | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
have high pressure coming otr way, settling things down and thdre is a | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
great deal of rain in the forecast. Winds easing for tomorrow. @nother | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
cold start. The chance of p`ssing showers but most of the day for most | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
of us is dry. This is the area of high pressure. It settles across | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
western Britain by lunchtimd tomorrow. It moves closer bx the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
middle of the day on Thursd`y. Still there really by the middle of the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
day on Friday. Whilst most of the weather action is across western | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Scotland and Ireland, for others, we will have cold nights and | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
potentially some frosty mornings from Thursday morning onwards. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
There's a few showers possible overnight tonight, but they are | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
fairly isolated. Most of thd night is dry. There's a fair amount of | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
clear sky. There will be a breeze, just enough to stare the air so | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
temperatures should not fall below 5-6dC. Chilly, bright start | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
tomorrow. The showers will turn up, they'll be light and fleeting. The | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
winds won't be as strong as they have been, mainly from the 04 | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Northwest and 12-13 will be the top temperature. Those are the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
temperatures we can expect for the rest of this week. Cold at night | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
with the risk of frost and ` keen easterly wind developing by the | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
weekend. Good night. That's all from us | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
here in the south west. From everybody on the late team - | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
have a good night. Good evening. As you've just seen | :10:56. | :11:11. | |
from your local outlook, not a huge amount changes over the next few | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
days. The weather patterns will be blocked again. What is driving that? | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
It's a deep area of low pressure, the remnants of hurricane Nicole in | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
the Atlantic. That's heading towards Greenland. Set to pile up the snow | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
here, metres of it in the next few days. It's dragging a lot of warm | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
air into the North Atlantic on the Eastern flank. What that does is | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
build this, high pressure. That s not going to move a great deal over | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
the next few days. To the east, low pressure in place. That means | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Eastern England always prone for further showers through the rest of | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
this week. For the rest of the UK, largely dry, some sunny days, but | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
also rather cool nights | :11:50. | :11:50. |