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very much again at the Emirates Stadium. Natalie Perks. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
More than 140,000 people have signed a petition started by a Devon man | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
calling for changes to the way mortgages are approved. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Self-employed roofer Jamie Pogson wants mortgage lenders to make | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
payment of rent count as proof an individual can meet | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
The number of people supporting his call means it | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
John Henderson has been to meet him. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
The kitchen, even a toy one, is the heart of any home. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
But getting on the property ladder is frighteningly expensive. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
After ten years, Jamie Podson is a fully paid-up member | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
I've averaged it out for about ?450 a month. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Because I've been in sort of smaller houses, big houses. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
But I've averaged it out over ?450 a month. | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
It's working around the sort of 80 grand region. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
So it's quite a lot of money to sort of throw away and I could be halfway | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
But soon, Jamie's quest for home ownership will come here, | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
The Plymouth roofer started this petition, making paying rent enough | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
proof that you are able to meet mortgage payments. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
It's received over 130,000 signatures, meaning it will have | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
If the law does change, then a lot of people will be able | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Because I know people who pay their rent on time but they can't | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
But whether the debate will actually change anything is a moot point. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Banks and building societies tightened up mortgage applications | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
In a statement, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says that | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
while regular payment of rent may be a helpful indicator, | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
it cannot be used in isolation as a landing risk assessment. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Other factors include the size of deposit, | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
the valuation and condition of the property, the borrower's | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
employment record, the reliability of their income and their credit | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
record and given that the average house price in the UK is over | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
?200,000, some say that cautious approach is on the money. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Nobody has a right to be given a mortgage. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
You may have a basis upon which to complain about | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
the reasons which were refused, but you're not enforcing a right | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
by groaning about the fact that you weren't lent money. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
So now, Jamie will have to sit it out in his rented home, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Johnny Morris, a Labour councillor major Nazi salute after conservative | :02:34. | :03:06. | |
members voted to end the debate. Tonight, Mr Morris to apologise | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
unreservedly, confirmed he'd been suspended from the Labour group for | :03:09. | :03:09. | |
suspended from the Labour group for three months. | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
The Isles of Scilly Council has agreed measures | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
to tackle a financial shortfall revealed today. | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
At a meeting, ?600,000 of savings were outlined. | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
Council tax will be increased by just under 5%, but the budget | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
for next year will still carry a deficit. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
I think most councils in the country would be champing at the bit | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
to get a ?309,000 deficit, however, the cap is obviously | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
greater than that but this is what we've got to do. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
A lot of decisions have got to be made and sadly, | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
we're the ones who've got to make them. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
I don't think for any councils anywhere in the country this | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
Our Political Editor Martyn Oates is at Westminster and has been | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
speaking to the MP for the Isles of Scilly. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
We hear a lot about the worsening financial problems facing rural | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Derek Thomas, the St Ives MP, whose constituency includes | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
the Isles of Scilly, says the council of the Isles | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
of Scilly faces all of those challenges and many more thanks | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
to its geography and its small population. | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
But it's worth remembering that most of the rural councils who say | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
they're in really dire straits tend to be district councils, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
so with relatively limited responsibilities. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
The council of the Isles of Scilly, though, is a unitary authority, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
with all the extra duties and responsibilities that come | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
In the past, there have been debates and disagreement as to whether even | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
somewhere the size of Torbay with a population of more | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
than 130,000 is really big enough to be viable as a unitary. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
The council of the Isles of Scilly, though, is a long-standing unitary, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
though with a population of just over 2,000 people. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
When I go over there, I'm conscious that nearly | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Everything I see, touch, or feel, or use is | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
And the case we've been making to the government is just that, | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
that they have significant responsibility that other | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
They have a real challenge to meet those, and the government needs | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
to recognise those as slightly different to maybe Cornwall Council, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
What the council needs the government and I need | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
the government to do is to move much more quickly and to recognise that | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
while it's a small community, their needs are urgent | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
and they are pressing and they must be resolved quickly. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Mr Thomas has raised this issue in the comments and privately | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Mr Thomas has raised this issue in the Commons and privately | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
with the Community Secretary Sajid Javid. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
He said Mr Javid accepts that the Scillies is a special case. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
And he says that officials from Mr Javid's department have been | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
in the Scillies over the past fortnight. | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
He said he is hopeful the government will come up with some kind of plan | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
to provide extra assistance to the Scillies before the end | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
But that is, of course, is just a few weeks away. | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
Contaminated silt dredged from Devonport Dockyard will be | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
dumped further out to sea instead of close to shore at Whitsand Bay | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Silt waste, which potentially carries zinc, mercury and lead, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
will be dumped at a site known as Plymouth Deep. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Fishermen say they fear it'll affect their livelihoods | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
but environmental campaigners are pleased. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Today is a great day, because we set out to try to get | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
the dumping in the bay stopped, and that's exactly what's been | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
happening now with the designation of a new dump site. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
If it has to go in the water, surely taking it further out | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Flybe wants to increase the number of women working | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
Currently only 10% of the workforce at the Exeter-based airline | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
The company has been talking to local schoolchildren in a bid | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
to get more girls to consider it as a career. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Now, if you want to do it, I'm sure you will do it very well. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
I see you have a uniform on the aircraft. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
The Flybe new Chief Executive, began her career as an | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
aviation engineer before working her way up. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Today, she's meeting pupils from nearby Cranbrook high school, | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
keen to encourage more girls into this traditionally male profession. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
We are supporting diversity in the workforce, to create | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Today, 31% of our workforce is female, but we are | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
still only 10% of female pilots or female engineers and we're | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
trying to do everything to push that further. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Charlotte grew up in Exmouth and recently completed | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
I've always been mechanically minded and from a young | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
age, working on some sort of machinery or engines or anything, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
it's been a passion of mine and | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
that's what I've wanted to do, so I thought, why not start | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
There was a time when women working in the aviation | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
industry could only hope to beat cabin crew but that is now changing | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Emma and Charlotte are just some of the women working there at Flybe's | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
They are still a relative minority but the company says they are hoping | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
These are some of Flybe's current engineering apprentices. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
There are currently seven girls out of the 109 on the | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
There are currently seven girls out of the 409 on the | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
So this top set of rivets here, at the counter sinks. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
So has today's physics inspired tomorrow's workers? | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
I found it really interesting and exciting and | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
I think that when I'm older, I think that being a pilot would be | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
There are now more job opportunities for | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Tomorrow, to mark International women's Day, Flybe is | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
It's newsworthy now, but the hope is that | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Onto Football now and Plymouth Argyle were unable to stop their run | :08:51. | :09:03. | |
of Tuesday night match defeats - that's despite changing | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
to an all-white kit in the hope the players would be more | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
They lost 3-0 at home to Blackpool, their third | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Time now to take a look at the weather and David's | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
If you're living high up, you know how misty and murky. Hill for is | :09:17. | :09:35. | |
becoming extensive. Tomorrow, damp and misty but at | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
least it's mild and temperatures are on the rise. A weather friends | :09:38. | :09:58. | |
across as tomorrow, quite a breezy day so we end up with a fairly | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
miserable day, outbreaks of rain, windy conditions, less windy, | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
brighter on Thursday, same sort of thing on Friday with winds from the | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
south. Hopefully a few breaks in the low cloud. But we have an extensive | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
this sheet of clouds tonight. Behind it, plenty of drizzle or light rain | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
in the wind, blustery winds from the south-west and as I | :10:12. | :10:23. | |
mentioned, a lot of low clouds, both the risk of coastal land hill fog | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
and temperatures no lower than between 27-10d. Tomorrow morning, | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
damp start, not much chance brightness tomorrow. Grey, overcast, | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
rain off and on. Thursday a little bit brighter, most of the rain down | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
here in the south, southern parts of Cornwall, south of Devon, North | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Somerset, parts of Dorset, late sunshine and it stays mild into | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
Andy Breare will be back just before 6.30am tomorrow morning | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
with the latest news from around the South West. | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
But from everyone here on the Spotlight late | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
rain on Saturday. The national picture now from Nick Miller. | :10:53. | :11:08. | |
It looks like next week high pressure will become a player again | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
in our weather, settling things down for some of us for a time but until | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
then it is low-pressure, rain moving across the UK overnight but not wet | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
all the time. Many of us at a fine day today, this was at you from West | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern England and Northern Ireland will | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
farewell tomorrow, after this frontal system has pushed on through | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
the UK with rain. But as it does, it introduces milder air so for the | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
rest of the week we | :11:38. | :11:39. |