24/02/2017 Spotlight

Good evening. for the news where you are.

The family of a Cornish teenager with mental health problems have

been told she may have to be treated outside England, as there are no

Recently, the Prime Minister pledged to bring an end to young people

being sent out of their local area for treatment.

It is a picture of youthful exuberance, but it does not

The 17-year-old is currently staying at an NHS unit in Somerset.

To visit her daughter, mother Marie must make a 300 mile

return trip from their home in St Ives.

That journey could become greater still.

I have been told by CAMHS that they have tried

to contact everyone in England and there is nowhere

for her in England, and that they are looking

to take her out of the country, basically, to either

But even then, they haven't said there is a unit there or any help

there that will be any different to what is offered where she is now.

Over the years, we have heard from several families whose children

have been sent for treatment hundreds of miles away,

whether to Norfolk, Buckinghamshire or Kent.

Nearly two years ago, the Government acknowledged

the system was totally dysfunctional and pledged more than ?1

The Prime Minister has pledged to stop the practice of sending

young people out of the local area for treatment.

Later this year, we will bring forward a new green paper

on children and young people's mental health transform services

These measures will build on the work we are already doing

to put a stop to the untold misery of hundreds of children being sent

halfway across the country to access mental health services.

The Prime Minister has promised that by 2021,

no child will be sent away from their local area to be

treated for a general mental health condition.

But that is little comfort now for Sasha and Marie.

NHS England said it was reviewing its children and adolescent

mental health services, or CAMHS, to secure a more

balanced distribution of beds across the country.

The spokesperson said it plans to

eliminate inappropriate out of area placements.

Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has confirmed this evening

that it is on the highest level of alert.

The escalation to level four status this morning means

that services are unable to cope with demand.

There is also increased potential for patient care

Cars have been impounded and drivers arrested in a major operation

against illegal motoring in the south west.

Devon and Cornwall, and Dorset police are running an operation,

named Allied Wolf, to try and combat dangerous driving.

Here's our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall.

Using computerised registration plate monitoring linked to a series

of databases, operation Allied Wolf scoured Exeter with its

When was the insurance due? Have you got your driving licence with you?

The result, a ?300 fine and six penalty points.

It is very serious, uninsured drivers are something like 10-12

times more likely to be involved in a serious or fatal collision. So it

saw was driving without insurance, with a series of cars seized.

There have been concerns that the well-publicised cut in the number of

traffic officers could have encouraged some motorists to flout

the law. This operation is partly designed to reverse that impression.

The police say operation Allied Wolf will be regularly repeated in other

A teenager from Dartmoor, who died while serving

as a volunteer in Army canteens in France during the First World

War, has finally had her name added to her village war memorial.

John Danks has Kitty Trevelyan's story.

It is 1916, and on the battlefields of Europe, history is being written.

But only recently are we discovering the stories of people

like Kate Trevelyan, who left Dartmoor

She joined the Voluntary Detachment Service,

I think she would be working in the mobile canteens,

serving tea and buns and that sort of thing.

They were on top of cliffs, and massive gales of wind coming in.

The tented hospitals were blown down on a regular

basis, and I should think it was fairly uncomfortable.

She caught measles, and then she got pneumonia,

Sue's campaign has led to Kitty's name being added to the war memorial

The house she lived in was just up the road, and you can

It is about writing a wrong, really, honouring someone whose name should

have been on that memorial many years ago.

She was such a mighty girl, you know, and she should not be

forgotten, and well, none of them should.

A memorial service for Kitty will be held on the green

After that stormy seas of yesterday After that stormy seas of yesterday

today has been more pleasant. A good deal of sunshine. It is only for one

cloudy, becoming quite windy again. cloudy, becoming quite windy again.

It will be mild but that is also patchy rain in the forecast. The

area of high pressure has moved out of the way for Saturday and Sunday.

A couple of France on Saturday will bring widespread as persistent rain.

We are between whether France on Sunday. By the time we get to Monday

and Tuesday it is cold here, right conditions, a mix of sunshine and

showers. The fair cover of cloud tonight. By the end of the night it

will be rather cloudy and temperatures starting today at 5

degrees as the minimum. For most of us tomorrow is quite a legally day.

Patchy drizzle as possible. More persistent and widespread rain later

in the day. Some bright weather around first thing on Sunday

morning, then again more cloud arriving later in the day. As we

move into next week it is cooler with a mix of sunshine and showers.

There is more news and weather at 20 past five tomorrow on BBC One. Good

night. few days it is that the stay miles.

Outbreaks of rain at times particularly as we head into Monday.

A much calmer day today after the nasty storm yesterday. Let's look at

your pictures, tranquil from Hampshire, on the edge of the new

Forest. Nice cumulus clouds from Hartlepool. Still a bit stormy, that

sea. We are starting to get more pictures of bass coming