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Good evening. for the news where you are. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Torbay's planners have tonight agreed a controversial plan | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
for a hotel, flats and a car park on one of Torquay's | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
The scheme will include an 11-storey building and the regeneration | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
But objectors say it will ruin the site and are already | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Well, Spotlight's John Ayres was there tonight | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
This decision is hugely controversial. Such was the passion | :00:32. | :00:45. | |
behind this that almost 200 people turned up to watch. The planning | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
officer described this as one of the most difficult decisions she has | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
been involved in. Why is it so controversial? The plan is to put an | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
11 story building right on the side of Torquay harbour for a hotel and | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
flats and a car park and it will see the rejuvenation of the Edwardian | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
pavilion which currently is closed. The default position for this | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
because it's in a conservation area would be to say no, but you can | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
approve an application like this when it is for the greater public | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
good and that being jobs and a boost to the economy. The developers have | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
been involved in this process with the planners for a very long time | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
and so there was great relief from them when it was approved this | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
evening. I think it was a very | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
thorough process. I have been to a lot of planning | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
meetings in my lifetime and I have not seen one like that before | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
with so many people. With half and half in the room, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
you're never going to please everybody in this process | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
and I think the important thing now is to try and deliver | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
what we have said we would do. The protesters are very unhappy | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
about this. They turned up in force tonight and had a little | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
demonstration ahead of the meeting outside here. The reason they are so | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
unhappy is they do not believe the benefits are there, they do not | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
believe the jobs will be of value but in the end the plan was voted | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
6-4 so it did go through this evening. | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
A Labour city councillor from Plymouth says he apologises | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
unreservedly for making a Nazi salute during a council | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Councillor Johnny Morris made the gesture during a debate | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
He told Spotlight that he'd been angry about the debate being closed | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
down and let that anger get the better of him | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
with an "inappropriate and offensive gesture". | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
The motion to raise council tax by almost 4.5% was later passed. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
Cornwall is to push ahead with a controversial bid | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
for European Capital of Culture in 2023, despite critics branding | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Senior councillors were voting for the second time today | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
after calls for further scrutiny of the proposals. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Cornwall's likely to be competing alongside Leeds, | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Dundee and Milton Keynes for the title at a cost | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
The Liverpudlians launched in style when they won it | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
Now Cornwall is eyeing up this price. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
With Truro at the heart of it, there will be a Cornwall-wide bid | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
to become the European Capital of Culture 2023. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
We are coming out of the EU, but all but one senior counsellor | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
today gave the nod for the bid to go ahead at a cost of up to ?336,000 | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Given that we have just voted to come out of Europe to now | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
want to be European Capital of Culture seems, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
Yes, it would be a lovely idea, but I think it's an awful lot | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
of money and we really need to think, do we need to spend | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
I think there is enough in Cornwall of different types of culture | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Supporters point to the success of cultural projects like last | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
summer's Man Engine and say if this bid goes all the way, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the Cornish economy could get a boost of up to ?100 million. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
The creative industries are one of our fastest growing sectors, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
so supporting this is supporting that sector and supporting growth | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
The competition for the crown is likely to include Leeds, | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Critics are branding it a waste of money when budgets are so tight | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
and question whether post-Brexit the UK will even get its turn. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Conservative opposition to the idea is coming from both | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Had we stayed in the European Union we would be in a completely | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
different position, but this is part of our renegotiation | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
as we leave the European Union, we don't know if it's | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
going to survive, the government has made that clear. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
And we could possibly create another competition | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
post-Brexit into which Cornwall could contribute, it's just | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
that this competition we're too late, we're not organised | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
When Liverpool's year ended, organisers insisted there | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
Those behind Cornwall's ambitions argue even taking part in this first | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Fredrik Lindegren put the successful bid together for Umea, in Sweden, | :05:25. | :05:37. | |
which was the European Capital of Culture in 2014. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
If you look at it from a cultural, political point of view, | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
I would say it is definitely worth it if you have an united agenda | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
There is always a possibility not to do it, but if you do it, | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
then do it together and do it with your own city and region | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
as the grounds for what you are trying to accomplish. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
What sort of benefits have you experienced as a result | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
If you look at it from a tourist perspective, you can see a high | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
increase in overnight stays at hotels, you can see | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
an increase of investments, private investments in the city, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
but for me, working as head of the culture department, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
I would say that the most important is the awareness of how | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
investments in culture actually can make a difference | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
What do you make of a British county bidding for the title | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
of European Capital of Culture when we are working to leave the EU? | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Well, of course it's a little bit puzzling, | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
but I think that the strongest connections we have in Europe | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
is within the culture field, so your decision, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
despite your decisions, I think it's very wise to continue | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
to cooperate on a cultural level that will help us to unite further | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
A man has appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
in connection with an alleged attack on a special police constable | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
at the city's railway station on Saturday. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
23-year-old Jonathan Feasey from East Taphouse, near Liskeard, | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
has been charged with causing actual bodily harm. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
He was granted unconditional bail and ordered to appear | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
before magistrates again on the 20th of March. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Doctors in Cornwall are launching a new scheme to stop people | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
with long-term medical conditions becoming addicted | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Contracts between the GPs and their patients will be drawn up | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
It comes after clinicians noticed a rise in patients being admitted | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
to the Royal Cornwall Hospital after overuse of painkillers. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
What we began to notice was that many of the patients with long-term | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
painful conditions were displaying the same kind of features in how | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
they presented and how their lives were as I had seen when working | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
in a drug addiction service and that was a real concern. | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
The work of a forgotten poet from Devon, born | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
nearly 200 years ago, is being revived | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
Edward Capern was a postman and he won plaudits | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
from the Prime Minister and all the big literary | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Liz Shakespeare is now publishing two new books about him - | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
a novel about his life and a selection of his poems. | :08:38. | :08:49. | |
Winter is not quite finished with us yet. There is more forced to come. | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
Certainly quite a cold night tonight and shower was around which gives us | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
the risk of ice and some frost first thing tomorrow. The week ahead is a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
real mishmash. Lots happening, lots of changeable weather. It will | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
remain windy and cold. Showers and some sunshine but also the risk of | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
some frost around, certainly overnight tonight. One line of | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
showers clears southwards, another one approaches. Once that goes | :09:23. | :09:30. | |
through, some perhaps more persistent rain along the south | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
coast on Wednesday and then after that we get slightly less cold air | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
for a time, but once we get rid of the first batch of wet weather, | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
cooler conditions arrive from the north-west. Just about everything | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
over the next 24 hours. Wintry showers through the night to come. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
The chance of some ice forming on untreated roads and pavements even | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
though temperatures may be a couple of degrees above freezing. Tomorrow | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
morning some sunshine, isolated showers then a line of perhaps more | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
frequent showers, some more persistent rain. That will please | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
past replaced by sunshine. Briscoe winds and eight or 9 degrees will be | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
the maximum. Thursday may well start of bright and drive but later on | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
that day we will see a range settling in. Thursday probably the | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
driest, more much whether on Friday. Temperatures up into double figures | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
them they start to lower. Next weekend it will be quite cold, | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
showers around and the continued risk of seeing some overnight frost. | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
Stay warm. Have a good night. More news and weather from the spot 19 | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
tomorrow morning. Have a good evening. | :10:54. | :10:55. |